Nemarluk School Newsletter...Nemarluk School Newsletter Dear families, Term 3 is nearly ‘done’ and it has been a challenge some days with many staff members sick as well as students

CONTENTS

Principal’s News 1

Sailability & Gymnastics

2 2

Horseriding & Orienteering

3 3

T-Ball & Come ‘n Try

4 4

Disability Awareness Week, Fundraising, & Nemarluk Gold Award

5 5 5

Community News 6

Nemarluk School Newsletter

Dear families,

Term 3 is nearly ‘done’ and it has been a challenge some days

with many staff members sick as well as students sick. Please

consider keeping your child at home if they are not well. Viruses

and other shared illness spread very quickly in a school.

In our school this can have disastrous effects on some medically

fragile students.

One of our longest serving staff members is taking a long break from work to

do her most important job now—take care of her health. We will miss

Elaine Gould’s wisdom, skills to work with the most challenging children and

humour. We will keep close tabs on her and continue to share our smiles.

Michele Copland is heading back to Victoria after a term helping us fill a staff

vacancy. Michele’s knowledge and experience has been gratefully valued.

Thank you—best wishes for your continued retirement! Until next time!

Lorraine

Anastasious K & Honor J (3 Sept), Samuel H & Alana N (9 Sept), Heidi G-V (21 Sept), Dominic P (24 Sept), Leo J (25 Sept), Nicole C (29 Sept), Tiara-Clair M &

Fiona R (3 Oct), Charleze R & Kane S (4 Oct), Ethan H (5 Oct) &

Fatima E-C (6 Oct)

Happy Birthday to the following students whose special day celebrations are happening around this time -

PO Box 39729, Winnel l ie 0821 Northern Terr i tory

Ph: 08 8985 0400 Fax: 08 8985 0499

admin.nemar luk@ntschools .net

http: //www.nemar lukschool .com.au

Pr incipa l : Lorra ine Hodgson

Principal’s News

I am a learner

I am safe

I am respectful

Term 3, 20 September, 2013

Dates to Remember Friday 20 September

Student Free Day—whole staff PD day. Thursday 26 September

School Assembly - 8.45am Friday 27 September

Last day of term 3. Monday 7 October

Term 4 commences Monday 14 October

School Council Meeting

A specialist school for children

with intellectual disability.

IMPORTANT INSERTS

Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on students with disability’ - an agreed initiative by all governments to collect data on school students

with disability. This has never been done before. It should produce more

accurate information on the needs of this group of students. Please read

the information sheet and consider giving consent for this to happen.

Return the consent form to the office by Friday 27 September.

Newsletter survey: Please complete the survey about this

newsletter. We want to make sure it meets the needs of families,

community members and supporters. Any comments, ideas ,

suggestions are valued. Please return by Friday 27 September .

Page 2 School News School Newsletter

A big THANK YOU to Total Recreation for all the

great activities they have organized for us this term!!


School Sports Orienteering Championships—Casuarina Coastal Reserve



Hi, my name is

Grant the green

ant. I am the

school mascot.

Whole School Positive Behaviour Support - WSPBS

Nemarluk Gold Award

The Nemarluk Gold Award and trophy is given to the student who earns the most number of tokens each fortnight for following the three school rules:-

The top 10 students who have claimed tokens for showing these behaviours for this fortnight are:-

1. Alex A

2. Daniel R

3. Thomas H

4. Nicole C

5. William B-B

6. Pearl M & Elijah F-A

7. Emily E & Ethan L-G

8. Brandon K

9. Nadia K

10. Brian F

Congratulations to all of you and well done!

I am a learner, I am safe, I am respectful

Nemarluk Gold Award.

Awarded to

Alex Abbott

Who received award nominations in all

three categories:

Congratulations Alex

you are a respected Nemarluk student

*** 26 students were nominated for the awards ***

I am a learner

I am safe

I am respectful

Nadia and Emily from Ludmilla 1 helped staff out at the Disability Awareness Week BBQ at the Deckchair Cinema. The girls served up sausages, chicken satays and veggie burgers and helped raise $270.00 for Nemarluk School!! They also stayed and watched the movie “Soul Surfer”.

Thank you to all who supported the F a t h e r ’ s Day Raffle with donations and the purchase of tickets - as well all the great ticket sellers!! The winner of the first prize hamper was one of our wonderful SESOs, Gabby Woodward.

A total of $621.00 was raised by the raffle and this will go towards the running of the 3 Nemarluk buses, which are so valuable for our community access programs. This includes transition programs, shopping, sporting events and other excursions.

Get ready now, as we plan our huge Christmas Raffle. We would appreciate your support with donations for this also. Please start sending in items for the raffle in November, as tickets will need to go out in November as well. The raffle will be drawn on the last day of school - Thursday 12th December.

Special Needs Transport—Useful numbers: If your child does not require transport in the morning, please

contact your child’s transport provider AND ring school.

Buslink Tel: 8947 0577 Metro Minibus Tel: 8932 5577 Nemarluk School Tel: 8985 0400

Page 6 Community News School Newsletter

Basic Day: Monday, 16 Sept

Time: 4.30 - 6pm

Meet: Nightcliff Middle School, Aralia Street entrance

Intermediate Day: Monday, 23 Sept

Time: 4.30 - 6.30pm

Meet: Nightcliff Middle School, Aralia Street entrance

Join us for these practical cycling

workshops that include:

• bike set up & safety

• bike handling skills

• safe riding methods

• tips for group riding practice

To find out more or to register

contact the Healthy Darwin team on phone 8930 0300 or

[email protected]

www.darwin.nt.gov.au

HealthyDarwin

Twitter: @cityofdarwin

This initiative has been funded by the Australian Government

The Royal Life Saving Society Australia NT Branch is conducting their Sunday lifesaving program. This is a program full of fun, fitness and life saving skills for ages 5 years and up. The program will run for 6 weeks from Sunday 13th October to Sunday 17th November 2013.

For bookings or further information please contact RLSSA - NT on 8981 5036 or e-mail: [email protected]

Bike Skills Free Cycling Workshops

It’s never too late to learn to ride or maybe it’s been a while and you

want to brush up on your skills

A big Thanks to

KJS Entertainment for the $415

donation from the “Light it Up Blue”

Disco

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Nemarluk School Newsletter...Nemarluk School Newsletter Dear families, Term 3 is nearly ‘done’ and it has been a challenge some days with many staff members sick as well as students