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Dear Parents/Carers and Grandparents,
25TH FEB 2015 Week 5 Term 1
IMPORTANT DATES
3/4M Meet & Greet—Thurs 26 Feb
Whole School Assembly—Fri 27
Life Education Healthy Harold—
Mon 2—Thurs 3 Mar
5/6R Meet & Greet—Tue 3 Mar
1/N Meet & Greet—Thurs 5 Mar
Early Years Assembly—Fri 6 Mar
5/6W Meet & Greet—Tue 10 Mar
Current Enrolment = 340
Whole School Attendance = 85.3%
Recently we have been discussing resilience through the school newsletter and
in classes. Resilience is about bouncing back when something does not go your
way. Many students find it difficult to cope with the “downs” in life including
when they are told “no” by a teacher, or their friends don’t want to play with
them because they are not playing fair. However we all need to learn to be
resilient and it does take time for children to learn this skill. Children develop
resilience with help from supportive adults, initially through their experiences
in coping with small stresses . When the bigger stresses come along, even
though at first they might feel quite distressed, children can draw on what they
have learned about helping themselves to cope and feel better. Looking to
others for support is an effective way of coping. Children need to be able to
trust that the world is safe and there are caring people to help them; believe in
their ability to do things for themselves and achieve their goals; feel good
about themselves and feel valued by their teachers and parents; have a
positive outlook on life and believe that things generally turn out well; and
have the ability to manage their feelings, thoughts and behaviours. Speaking to
our students in a positive and calm manner is important at Gray Primary
School as we believe this enhances their self-esteem and their resilience.
Our Year 5/6 leaders attended a Student Leadership Conference yesterday and
were complimented for their excellent manners and behaviour. During the very
wet Friday last week our students were extremely well-behaved even though
they could not play outside during recess or lunch time. Thank you students.
School Dental Clinic Number
New number on 8922 6466
Absences contact number
8932 1700
Gray Primary School
22 Victoria Drive, Gray
Phone 89321700
Fax: 89321007
Email: [email protected]
www.www.grayprimary.nt.edu.au
Congratulations to Zissa Taylor and Raymond Bosman who have been selected
as very worthy school captains. Also congratulations to the following House
Captains—Bilingida—Serevi Tom and Daniel Akers; Yuengi—Jason Baird and
Sapphire Kavea-Davis; Guth Guth—Alissa Telleron and Letoya McCoy and
Kulamingi—Kelsy-Lee Beyer and Skye Nguyen. I am sure these students will
serve as very responsible and caring student leaders. They will be awarded
their badges at assembly this week and will then share a morning tea with their
parents.
Have a wonderful week
Sue Beynon, Principal and Sharon Chin, Assistant Principal
Library News
Welcome to another fantastic year of reading as we all know in order to get better we need to read
every day. My name is Miss Karen and I am very excited to be the Library assistant for the next six
months while Mrs. Fisher is on leave. One of the things that is different this year is that I would like to
develop Gray Primary students to visit the Library more often for this reason borrowing limits have been
reduced in class visits so they can be organized and change their books in their own lunch hours. For
those who love reading this will be a very simple task. To encourage Gray primary students to practice
their reading and enjoy our Library we have a
Caught reading Competition
I will catch students enjoying books during Library Lunch hours on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
If you are caught your name will go into the ticket box for your chance to win a canteen voucher at
Assembly. At the end of the term all names go into the draw to win a book pack.
To make the Library Monster happy please return your
overdue books from last year. Students in Library
lessons last week learnt again how to care for their
books and knew that if they lost or damaged a book
that it would cost $10.00 to buy another.
No students will be allowed to take books home until
the Library Monster is happy so please come and see
me. Payment can be made at the Front Office or
Library. Thank You
Meet & Greet
An opportunity for
Parents of Primary
School children to
visit classrooms and
“Meet the Teachers”.
3/4M
Rm 20
Thurs 26 Feb
5/6R
Rm 17
Tue 3 Mar
1N
Rm 9
Thurs 5 Mar
5/6W
Rm 16
Tue 10 Mar
3/4P
Rm 22
Thurs 12 Mar
3/4B
Rm 21
Thurs 19 Mar
Grow Well
Live Well
Palmerston Working Together
for the wellbeing of children
and young people
In 2014 representatives from community and government agencies
met to talk about how they could
work together more effectively to
improve the wellbeing of
Palmerston children and young
people. They also formed a
leadership group to drive the
project.
The leadership group currently includes representatives from Good
Beginnings Australia, Child Australia, The Smith Family, Early Childhood Australia, Headspace Darwin,
Anglicare, Red Cross, NT Family and
Schools Together Program (FAST
NT), City of Palmerston, the NT Department of Education and Palmerston City Schools. Many other organisations have expressed interest
and support for this project.
We want to understand what
‘wellbeing’ looks like for children
and young people in Palmerston.
Then we can share this infomation
and work together to create a community where children and young
people grow and live well. If we
know what influences young people’s wellbeing in Palmerston we
can improve services, advocate for
programs and influence decision
makers.
HAVE YOU CONSIDERED SCHOOL COUNCIL?
Learning with Respect, Pride and Teamwork
We would like to invite you to come along and be a
part of our great School Community
A date for your diary
AGM - 11th March 2015
6:00pm - Gray Family Centre
We look forward to welcoming you - Gray Primary School Council
We would like members of the
Palmerston community to
contribute their knowledge and
experience of Palmerston and their
ideas about the future wellbeing of
the community, as part of the leadership group.
If you live in Palmerston and want
to be part of this project to ensure
children and young people grow
well and live well in Palmerston, get
touch with us. We’d love to hear
from you. You can email
[email protected]
for more information, or you can
contact Laura Bachman, Good Beginnings State Manager (SA/NT) on
0419 803 068.
School House Captains
BILINGIDA – SEREVI TOM AND DANIEL AKERS
YUENGI – JASON BAIRD AND
SAPPHIRE KAVEA-DAVIS
GUTH GUTH – ALISSA TELLERON AND
LETOYA MCCOY
KULAMINGI – KELSY-LEE BEYER AND
SKYE NGUYEN
SRC 2015
Australian Citizenship:
Rose-Maree Goninon/Bang Tran
School Captains:
Zissa Taylor & Raymond Bosman
5/6 WPorche Cahill & Kingsley Alley
5/6RAbigail Tidalgo & Izaiah Aukino
4/5 MAlissa McMah &
Mia Senge-Henda
3/4 MDamon McCoy & Nina Dean
3/4 B–
Kaiden Allwood &
Sarita Armstrong
3/4P –
Patrick Tidalgo &
Mataira Aukino
BEST
ATTENDANCE
AWARD
from week 1-3
having
98.32%
We understand there is a lack of car
parks for parents picking up their
children after school. The School
Council has a project with the
Department of Education to extend
our car park next to the soccer oval.
We are expecting this project to go
ahead this year. In the meantime we
ask parents to observe the laws and
not park on the footpaths around the
school. Parents can park in the limited
spaces in the Preschool car park or the
school car park. Parents can also park
in the church grounds opposite the
school, on the street or in the Gray
Community Hall car park providing the
hall does not have a function on in the
hall at the same time. The space in
front of the school is not a “kiss and
go” so this can be used for short term
parking.
Please be assured car park space is on
the agenda of the School Council and
we will continue to lobby for this to be
addressed.