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Marty Isaksen
Principal
Nightcliff Middle School
Principal’s Report
Important Dates
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End of term 3
29th Sept
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Start of Term 4
9th Oct
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Professional Learning
Day (Pupil Free)
10 Nov
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Presentation Night
6 Dec
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Graduation Dinner Yr 9
6 Dec
Breakfast club
Wednesday and Friday
mornings 7.45am sharp.
The menu offers
cereal, toast, pancakes,
Pauls milk and occasion-
ally bacon and eggs.
Food is kindly donated
by Foodbank. Thankyou
Lana, Adam and for vol-
unteering their time to
prepare food and super-
vise and to Karen Strong
from Parmalat for sup-
pling the milk and juice .
Term 3 Week 10 2017
It has been a busy term for staff and students at Nightcliff Middle School.
They have been involved in the Robocup, Skills 2021, Tournament of Minds,
the BEAT festival, interschool sports, year level camps and last week the
swimming carnival. Although the attendance was down at the swimming
carnival, the students enjoyed a day where participation and support for all
competitors came to the fore. I am sure next term will be just as busy.
It is a timely reminder as the weather warms up that we all need to slip, slop,
slap. What is equally as important is that the students drink water throughout
the day. There has been an increase of students arriving at the front office
complaining of headaches and this can be reduced by ensuring they drink an
adequate amount of water. It also helps them with their concentration in
class.
Our school funding is linked to attendance. We understand there are a
variety of reasons why students are unable to attend on any particular day,
but one way you can help us not lose funding is by notifying the school if
your child is away. Please call 8983 7677, text message to 0410856534 or
email: [email protected].
It is important that the students make the most of the week break to recharge
their batteries for the last ten weeks of the year. I know it will be over very
quickly and before long we will be attending the presentation assembly and
Nightcliff Middle School
Swimming Carnival
KAKADU
531
ARAFURA
372
ULURU
399
Age Champions
Year 7 Boys – Josiah Sheridan Year 7 Girl – Brodhi Turner
Year 8 Boys – Putu Sullivan Year 8 Girls – Maddy Schofield
Year 9 Boys - Joseph Haritos Year 9 Girls—Rebecca Williams
Term 3 Week 10 2017
Year 7 News
In English, students completed their unit of work on Ned Kelly with a whole-class mock trial where the students played the roles of prosecution, defence and jury to determine whether Ned Kelly was innocent or guilty. In Maths, students have been studying fractions, decimals, percentages and ratio. In Humanities, students have been working on an assessment task that requires them to produce an information pamphlet on a topic studied this term. Students have chosen to investigate such things as the Australian Consumer Law, consumer scams and the types of bank interest. In Science, students have spent the last three weeks completing an individual investigation into a group of organisms (plants, animals or fungi) of their choice. They have researched, surveyed, classified, described and produced
dichotomous keys for their organisms.
Year 8 News
Year 9 News
In Year 9 Business and Economics this term, a small group of students participated in the $20 Boss program. The National Australia Bank loaned $20 to each student who applied and they can then use this to run a small business for the term. Georgia Schofield, Cayl Dela Pena and Joseph Haritos ran a very successful stall selling
Many of our year 9 students participated in a range of activities such as; camp, The Beat, Lego League, Tournament of Minds, Robotics, Nightcliff’s Got Talent to name a few. It has been a busy term with transition visits from a range of senior schools and enrolments now need to be completed and returned to the front office or the chosen senior school. Term 4 is already beginning to look busy with VET continuing, the end of year awards ceremony and our graduation dinner on 6
th Dec, 2017 at Tracy Village Social and Sports Club. Payment towards the graduation dinner
can be made during the term. I trust you all have a safe and pleasant break.
In Media this term we have been focussed on photography and how images can tell stories. Each student looked at a different photographic subject ranging from life at school, flowers and even toy cars. We experimented on the effects of different coloured light and shadows on smaller objects. The photos were taken by: Tiarnee, Aiza, James and Miss Alm.
Year 8 have been working hard to finish all of their assignments before the end of term. In English, students have been working on their persuasive essay and debating over whether or not parents should be monitoring their teenager’s internet usage. In Humanities, the students have been completing an investigation on Australian business issues and concerns. For example, the classification of movies and video games, online scams and the mining booms. In Maths, they have been busy working on linear equations, translation, volume, rotation, refection and reduction. Finally in Science, students have been using sustainable housing kits to complete practicals.
Thank you to all of the parents/guardians who attended parent teacher interviews. It was a productive evening and a pleasure to meet you all. Finally, well done to all
Media
Gold Certificates
Congratulations to the
following students:
Congratulations to the following students:
Bronze Certificates
Shenoah Cooper
Sarah Brotherton
Patrick Brewster
Shaqaeq Ruhani
Shadaye Sailor-Quall
Lora Bambra
Shynarrah Senge
Tamsyn Tapper
Thomas Grose
Palak Yodha
Josh Nethercott
Luke Mustey
Tianke Viljoen
ICAS– English Competition
Congratulations to the following students Peter Kalidonis Credit Zepher Davis High Distinction Liam Harwood Credit Ananyaa Devanathan Participation Raquel Samson Participation
Nightcliff Middle School
Interschool Chess Competition An Interschool Chess Competition was held at Darwin Middle School in Week 9 of Term 2 (apologies that the report on this is so late!). Participating schools were Nightcliff Middle School, Darwin Middle School and The Essington School. Six NMS students participated; Jacob Bond, Liam Harwood, Manoj Rajkumar, Tiger Tucker, Julius Fowlestone and Grifith Moses. All students did their best and played great games, but it was Tiger and Manoj that made it through to the knockout round. Tiger was unfortunately knocked out in the first game, but Manoj managed to play his way, game after game, into the final. After a nerve-wracking final against a very talented Essington student, Manoj managed to prevail and win the game. Congratulations Manoj, we are all very proud of you! All students demonstrated exemplary behaviour on the day and were model representatives for NMS.
Achievement Awards
Congratulations to the following students:
Year 7 Mikes Magoulias
Year 8 Fraser Beard
Year 9 Jasmine Jenkins
This term Year 9 student, Joseph Haritos, entered the NT Government Anzac
Spirit History prize. The successful NT student will receive a free flight to Europe
to visit historical sites significant in World War I. Joseph is currently a shortlisted
candidate and will hopefully be jetting off to France next year! His entry focussed
on the people of Villiers-Bretonneau, a small French town that was overrun by the
Germans during the Battle of the Somme and the relationship that continues
today between the two countries.
Good luck, Joseph!
Congratulations
Congratulations to Dominic
Sloane for making reserves for
NT Touch Football, Lawn Bowls
NT team and also NT Royal Surf
Life Saving.
Good luck in your future
endeavours!
If there are any other students that have made a team outside of school activities,
please let the school know, so we can acknowledge their success.
Term 3 Week 10 2017
Thomas Grose is heading down
south to represent the NT in
Squash Championships.
Good Luck Thomas!
Clontarf Awards
Taj Clements - 97% Attendance for Term 3
Riley Brown Hood– Leadership and Role Model
Joseph Taylor– Leadership and Role Model
Aviva and Milla Damjanovic
had an excellent win in the
NT Athletics Champion-
ships. Between them, they
won 5 gold,1 silver and 1
bronze medals.
They have been selected to
represent the NT in the Na-
tionals in Adelaide.
Congratulations and good
luck girls!!
Congratulations to Nicholas
Stefanidakis for making the NT
Soccer team.
Good Luck Nicholas
Clontarf
We would like to also take the opportunity to welcome Aiden Yelland to our Clontarf team here at Nightcliff Middle School. Aiden has recently arrived from Melbourne and will replace Brad who recently moved to Casuarina Secondary College. Aiden comes from a teaching background and began with us at the start of week 8.
Nightcliff Middle School
Farewell Brad, Welcome Aiden
Lunch Time Basketball Tournament
Firstly, Clontarf would like to thank everyone for being involved in the inaugural lunch time basketball tournament. The tournament consisted of twelve teams, was a three player a side format, and played over an eight week block. A spe-cial mention must go out to the members of team Stingrays who lifted the trophy after some stellar performances throughout. Members of the highest finishing two teams then merged together to play against NMS staff. Students flocked to the school gym to watch this highly anticipated event. They watched a few staff members wind back the clock and put their skills on display. Everyone would agree the atmosphere was electric, with the final result being a draw at 17 all. Having to decide who would take home the trophy, staff or students — they had a paper, scissors, rock play off. The trophy went to the staff! Looking forward to another round of lunch time basketball next term.
The BEAT Well done to the talented Nightcliff
Dance Team for their beautiful perfor-mance at the Beat production.
The hard work paid off!
The Beat Choir
Term 3 Week 10 2017
Nightcliff’s Got Talent Show On Wednesday of week 10 we held the finals of Nightcliff's Got Talent, our first ever whole school talent show! Across Term 3, students participated in auditions for teacher judges and rehearsed for a month in the lead up to the finals. There were 4 finalists who performed from across grades 7 to 9:
1. Isaac Smalley, who performed an original song; 2. Amelia and Bodhi, who sang a duet; 3. The Flipping Ninjas who performed an acrobatics routine; 4. The Vibes rock band performing a pop song.
There was also a surprise mystery performance from the Fully Sick Band- a band made entirely of teachers!! (Who we have heard were the people’s choice award winners…) Congratulations to Isaac for winning the Nightcliff’s Got Talent competition, and Amelia and Bodhi for being runners up. We look forward to seeing even more performers auditioning next term!
Well done to the choir for their amazing
performance. Looking forward to singing again
next year.
Students Absent from School
If your child is going to be away from school we ask that parents notify the school for the time
they will be absent.
Please call 89837677 , text message to 0410856534
or email : [email protected] Medical certificate for absences from school
of three days or more Updates to the Attendance and Participation policy, and the Attendance Recording and Reporting guidelines, have been made to clarify that schools must advise parents they need to provide a medical certificate, where their child is absent from school for a period exceeding three days.
The Attendance and Participation policy and guidelines are available on the Department of Education policies website. For more information on enrolment and attendance, contact: 8944 9273 or [email protected]
Term 3 Week 10, 2017
VET 2018
Reminder for year 9 students wanting to do
VET in Year 10. Enrolments must be
completed and
submitted to your chosen Senior School.
Senior School enrolments must be
completed and handed to either the front
office or your chosen
Senior School by the end of term 3
Multiplication by 11 is easy! To multiply by a 2-digit number add the two digits and place the sum in between!
25 x 11 = 275 31 x 11 = 341
57 x 11 = 627 <-- you need to carry the 1! What about a 3-digit number? Can you figure out what's going on here?
253 x 11 = 2783 117 x 11 = 1287 532 x 11 = 5852 267 x 11=2937
MATHS CORNER
by Miss Lenny
MULTIPLICATION BY 11
Presentation Suggestions:
Do examples! What you notice is that multiplication by 11 can be
done quickly with numbers of any length by starting with the first and
last digits (they remain the same, unless there is a carry) and then
inserting the sums of adjacent pairs of digits sequentially in between.
For example, 253 x 11 begins with a 2 (like 253 does), then the next
digit is 2+5=7, the next digit is 5+3=8, and the last digit is 3 (like 253
has). So the product is 2783. Remember to carry if necessary. So
267 x 11 starts with a 2 (like 267 does), the next digit is 2+6=8, the
next digit is 6+7=13 (oops! carry the 1 back to the previous digit,
leaving a 3 in this place), then the last digit is 7 (just like 267 has).
Thus the product is 2937.
