jingili school community newsletter

JINGILI SCHOOL COMMUNITY
NEWSLETTER
Telephone: 89851555 | Facsimile: 8985 3213 | Email: jingili.school@ntschools.net
Address: Knowles Street Jingili NT 0810 | Mail: GPO Box 40600 Casuarina NT 0811
Thursday 28 May 2015 | Week 7 ~ Term 2
Dear Parents/Carers
I’m pleased to announce that we have a new Canteen Manager– Kylie Wilkie who is Alana and
Lucus’s Mum and she is very excited to be taking over the canteen in Semester 2. Kylie is keen to
continue the tradition of wholesome, healthy food that our canteen is well known for. We look
forward to welcoming Kylie next term and give a big thank-you to Jane Fryar who has been very
helpful in sharing her wisdom of 4 1/2 years of running the Jingili canteen with Kylie.
Today was our Fun Run and I’d like to thank Mrs Grills and the SRC for their great organisation of
this important event. As you know, all money raised from this event goes towards offsetting the cost
of our swimming program which is programmed for Term 4 this year. Thanks to families and friends
for supporting the Fun Run through sponsorship and thanks to our students for showing lots of
stamina as they persevered with the run and other physical activities.
We are getting increasingly concerned about the number of children coming late to school.
Yesterday 46 children were late in the primary school and this equates to 15% of our
students. When children arrive late and take time to settle as they invariably do, valuable
learning time is lost. If children are late on a regular basis this can start to have a detrimental effect
on their learning. Good habits start in pre-school so please make every effort to have your children
here on time and ready to learn.
On Tuesday students from years 4/5 Chellew and 4/5 Morgan/Stephen attended the National Sorry
Day event at the Jingili Watergardens. Children had the opportunity to learn about the stolen
generation and the impact it had on their lives, their families and the community. You will find some
photos and interesting recounts written by some of the children in this newsletter. Thanks to our
AIEW, Ms Narelle Rosas for organizing this valuable excursion.
Next week I will be away for 4 days as I go back to school to attend a leadership course. I leave the
school in the very capable hands of Mrs Armstrong. I will be back at school on Friday 5th June.
Kind Regards
Carin Symonds
(Principal)
Diary Dates 2015
SkoolBag App
Jingili Primary School now has a free
school app. You can download it onto
your smart phone, ipad or tablet by
typing Jingili Primary School into the
search bar at the app store. We hope
lots of you will sign up.
We now have 108 users.
NITS ARE NOT COOL!
Holiday Break - 20 June - 21 July 2015
* Please check weekly as dates are subject to change *
USEFUL PHONE NUMBERS
Darwin Dental Clinic - 8922 6466
Jingili School Canteen - 8948 6225
After School Care & Vacation Care - 0417 894 042
Please check your child’s hair
REGULARLY
and help keep Jingili a
NIT-FREE SCHOOL
Please ensure your child’s
hair is tied back and wash
your child’s hat regularly. This
helps to minimise the spread
of Nits. For more information
on how to prevent Head lice
go to
www.nt.gov.au/health
ATTENDANCE PERCENTAGE - WEEK 6
LATES
100
98
96
94
92
90
88
86
84
82
80
Friday 22 May - Thursday 28 May
Friday - 31
Monday - 40
Tuesday - 42
Wednesday - 46
Thursday - 41
*Ideally we would like to improve each
week as a whole school
PRESCHOOL NEWS
The Preschool children participated in the national simultaneous story time reading of The
Brothers Quibble’ by Aaron Blabey on Wednesday 27th May. It is a great story and we
have had several requests for an encore reading.
Preparations for the Dinner Dance are underway and tickets are now on sale. The Jingili
Preschool ‘Dragonfly Ball’ will be held on the evening of Friday 12th June at 5.15. This is our
major fund raising event for the year! Please keep this night free as it is an exciting
evening for the whole family. This year the Dinner Dance will be held in our beautiful
garden, around the boat area. Children can dress in their favourite outfit or party
costume. Tickets cost $5.00 for each Preschool child and this includes dinner, dessert and
a drink. Preschool children will sit down at the ‘VIP’ tables for a formal dinner. Please note
that the formal dinner is provided for Preschool children ONLY. Parents and siblings can
share in the ‘bring and share’ picnic for a gold coin donation.
The Dinner Dance will be followed by a silent auction with some great items up for grabs
to the highest bidders. We will also be auctioning artworks which have been collaboratively
created by each Preschool group. We hope everyone will be able to attend!
A reminder that children can borrow a book from the Preschool library from 8.15 to 8.30
every morning, except Fridays. Our rate of borrowing has reduced in recent weeks, so
please provide your child with a named library bag, plastic bag or pillow slip so they can
participate. Accessing the Preschool library helps to strengthen the links between
Preschool and home and to foster a love of books and reading.
A few parents have raised concerns regarding our ice cups. We try to use only 100 percent
fruit juice but we rely on donations from parents. If we don’t have donations of juice then
we sometimes use cordial as this is all we have. We would greatly appreciate donations of
fruit juice each week and a few parent helpers to make the ice cups on Mondays and to
sell them on Wednesdays. We hope we can continue to sell ice cups at Preschool as this
raises much needed funds for World Vision. Thank you for your support.
Have a great week!
The Preschool Team
Numeracy
Helping your child learn Maths at home
Thank you for supporting your child’s learning at home.
Below are some ideas of how you can support your child’s maths learning at home.
Maths at our house: watching sport together
Distances, times, scores… sport is filled with numbers! Whether you are watching sport on TV,
reading the sports pages in the newspaper, or checking scores on the internet there are lots of
opportunities to explore the results and statistics together with your child. Research shows that
when children are working in maths contexts that interest them, they do better. Sport is a way to
put some maths thinking and practice into a time you spend together.
Keeping a Scrapbook
Many children like to follow a team or a player and they will collect clippings and photos and
print off information from the internet about their sports heroes. It is a worthwhile thing to
encourage this as it can support both their literacy and mathematics learning.
Large scrapbooks, newspapers, and glue sticks are reasonably priced and are the only things
you need to start a Sport Maths Book.
Encourage your child to find and clip out tables, graphs and charts about standings, results and
other information. Ask them to explain what the numbers mean and what they can figure out
from the graphs.
Children can research their favourite players’ stats like birthdates, ages, weights, heights,
personal bests, or season results. Encourage them to compare players and teams mathematically.
Who is older? By how how much? If he started playing when he was 19 how long has he been
playing?
What does this mean: 78% success as goal shoot?
How many points will they need to get to the top of the table?
If the world record is 23.5 m how much further does she need to throw to beat that record?
What can you tell about this cricketer from the wagon wheel graph?
Look at the weightlifters' results. What is the difference between the first and last place?
Merit and Citizenship Awards
Week 4 Term 2
Class
Merit
Citizenship
T - Boatwright
Javier Jones
Eirini Kostopoulos
T/1 - Sachs
Hannah Rose
Samuel Middleton
T/1 - Rioli
Eulaia Van Den Hoek
Tahia Szyc
1/2 - Smith
Charlotte Williams
Caelan Chapman
1/2 - Nathanael
Harrison Boatwright
Veronica Godinho
2/3 - Tracy
Ry Clemments
Kodi Hosking
3 - Stimson
Torray-Che Bloomer
Cayden Narkle
3/4 - Devriadis
Sophie Kerr
Christopher Kostas
4/5 - Chellew
Grace Highman
Chloe Littler
4/5 - Morgan/Stephen
Hayley Kerr
Jayden Boase
5/6 - Grills
Mia Grose
Kateena Norris
5/6 - Dixon
Ningali Ward
Thomai Devriadis
Pen Licence
Sophie Kerr
Izaiah Tabora
Evie dejager
Brendon Hatton
Tiarna Shilling
Alyiah Rivas
Working Bee
A big thank you to all of our garden and kitchen volunteers who came and donated
their time and energy on Friday and Saturday. Friday afternoon we had a sausage
sizzle and market table to encourage some family and friend support to the garden
and kitchen program. Thank you for all donations. Saturday morning we gathered
nice and early to get some big jobs done around the garden. We achieved a huge
amount and are grateful for all the energy and effort in the garden from our tireless
volunteers. We managed to load, move and unload about 15 trailer loads of mulch to
cover the path ways, log circle, chook pen and add to our garden. We moved some
very heavy core filled besser blocks to create new garden beds in the chook pen,
elevate new (trough) herb beds and the sink to rinse and clean in. There was
weeding, digging, raking and plenty of chatting and laughing too. Everybody got
involved from toddlers to a visiting Gran!!
A special thanks to:
Kari and Hireworks for organising and supplying the Dingo which
moved our mulch into trailers.
Glenys, Dion, and Zac for picking up and unloading 2 and a half
tons of bessa blocks donated by Bunnings.
Trish for setting up and running the BBQ and market table.
Phil and Zac for being in charge of the dingo and trailers and
keeping the kids entertained and the mulch rolling.
Families that were involved in making our garden more
productive and pretty:
Helen, Tahlia and Nerida
Darian Duffy
Mel, Hunter and Bella Russell
Zac, Geordie, Billy and Jan O'Toole
Bridie, Savannah and Cylus
Glenys, Dion, Henry and Will
Jodi, Phil, Lucy and Hannah Rose
Trish Hammond
Kari Taylor
Jingili School Sports Carnival 2015
Daytime / Evening Program
Wednesday 17th June 2015
Thursday 18th June 2015
8:20-8:35am
In classroom
8:35-8:45am
Everyone to meet in Assembly Area in House Groups
for chants.
8:45-10:20am
Preschool – Year 2 walk to Early Childhood area to
start tabloid activities.
8:45-12:45pm
Year 3 – 6 – Track and Field Events by year of birth.
Long Jump +Over under tunnel ball, Shot Put,
High Jump, Discus,400 Run & 800 Run + Cheering
in houses
8:30until completed
Year 3-6 only - Track and Field
Events continuation
4:30-7:00
Whole School
Twilight Sport at Marrara
Stadium (Program below)
Twilight Sport Evening Program Thursday 18th June 2015
4.30 pm for a 5.00pm START of EVENTS
Age
Distance
Sprints
We’ll have girls then boys races for each age group
10 Years Old
200m Girls/Boys
11 Years Old
200m Girls/Boys
12 Year Old
200m Girls/Boys
Pre-School
25m Girls/Boys
5 Year Olds
25m Girls/Boys
6 Year Olds
50m Girls/Boys
7 Year Olds
50m Girls/Boys
8 Year Olds
75m Girls/Boys
9 Year Olds
75m Girls/Boys
10 Year Olds
100m Girls/Boys
11 Year Olds
100m Girls/Boys
12 Year Olds
100m Girls/Boys
Relays
Teams of 4 from each house
8 Years Old
50m Mixed
9 Years Old
50m Mixed
5 Years Old
25m Mixed
6 Years Old
25m Mixed
7 Years Old
25m Mixed
10 Years Old
50m Mixed
11 Years Old
50m Mixed
12 Year Old
50m Mixed
Don’t forget there will be delicious food and cold drinks for sale at the Twilight Sports Carnival so bring along the whole
family and have your dinner while watching the sprints and relays. Please listen to PA system as calls to students will
be communicated throughout the program. Please note that this program is maybe subject to change.
Reflection of “Sorry Day”
“Sorry Day Report”
I understand that “Sorry Day” is about when Kevin Rudd said sorry to
the people who had their kids taken away from them.
I think it was mean to take the kids off their parents. Today when I went
to the Jingili Watergardens I thought of the kids, mums and dads who
went through that tough time. I felt sad and happy! Sad, because the
people didn’t get to grow up with their mum and dads and happy
because it was a fun time to remember we are sorry.
Emily Ludlow
Today we got to experience another culture. I listen to Dreamtime
stories from aboriginal people. It is so good that the government have
not taken away the aboriginal kids anymore. Altogether, I had lots of
fun and I learnt lots of new things. I met heaps of people who told me
about the Stolen Generation and how they got taken away from their
family and friends. I felt sad for them and sorry.
Austin Wilson
Reflection of “Sorry Day”
Today we went to the Jingili Watergardens. I got to speak to an Elder,
a man who told me he was taken away from his family when he was 8
years old. We also got to watch a cultural dance by O’Loughlin
College. I learnt that Kevin Rudd gave a “sorry” speech to the
aboriginal people in 2008.
My favourite part was talking to the elders. I will always remember the
Stolen Generations. It’s good that we stopped taking the children
away from their families.
Declan Wait
Today I went to the amazing, wonderful and awesome Jingili
Watergardens. I loved the day and it was great and I’m disgusted that
we took little children from their parents in the past. I think we should
not have done that to people and it’s really good that we are saying
sorry to those people and now I’m saying the Day was GREAT! We
got to watch plays, hear songs, release balloons, eat sausages and
have our face painted. Some of us got to have a photo and I’m sure
I’m going to be on TV.
We also made hands for the people and I’m going to say this again,
“we shouldn’t take children from their families”. I think the show of
hands says sorry too! The people of the Stolen Generation really had
something sad happen to what they care about. This helps me learn
about them. My favourite thing today was getting to gather around with
people and listen to the very important speeches about Sorry Day.
Grace Highman
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Reflection of “Sorry Day”
“Sorry Day Report”
Today I went to Jingili Watergardens. It was “Sorry Day”! 26th of May
2015. I felt a rush of care and sadness. I definitely understood the
things that the Aboriginal people felt. I couldn’t imagine being taken
away from my parents and family, but all these people had put up with
it.
Chloe and I sat down to watch the culture celebrations of aboriginals.
They all danced and sang. It was lovely, we watched the balloons released to the sky and we listened to the speeches that aboriginal elders spoke about.
While I was at the Watergardens and asked an Elder politely if she
would like to tell me a story of the “Stolen Generation”. She spoke
about being taken away and she remembered screaming and trying to
pull away from the hand connected to a suit, she was about 6 years
old.
All in all I had a great time, I had lots of giggles and enjoyed playing
Frisbee and tip.
Evie de Jager
“Sorry Day Report”
I understand that “Sorry Day” is about when Kevin Rudd said sorry to
the people who had their kids taken away from them.
I think it was mean to take the kids off their parents. Today when I
went to the Jingili Watergardens I thought of the kids, mums and dads
who went through that tough time. I felt sad and happy! Sad, because
the people didn’t get to grow up with their mum and dads and happy
because it was a fun time to remember we are sorry.
Emily Ludlow
Stephanie Alexander
Kitchen Garden Program Supporters
Supporters of the Jingili Chooks