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Larrakeyah Primary School is a member of the Darwin City
Schools and in partnership with Darwin Middle School, Darwin
High School, Northern Territory Open Education Centre,
Ludmilla Primary School, Stuart Park Primary School and Parap
Primary School.
Newsletter, Wednesday 3rd June, Term 2 2020
Dear Parents and Guardians,
Thank you to our school community for supporting our teachers with
professional development. Last Friday 29 May, teachers were involved in a
whole school professional development day and focussed on focus areas
of improvement in the school’s Annual School Improvement Plan 2020 as
well as 21st century learning. This is important professional development for
continuous school improvement. It was a highly successful day for our
teaching staff.
Larrakeyah Primary has high expectations, high standards and high
achievement. Over the years, our school has been identified in NAPLAN
testing as a school performing better than the national average. This is in all
areas of literacy and numeracy. Our school improvement agenda this year
focusses on Writing, Mathematics and using data to inform teaching. We
have teaching expectations specific to our school which include explicit
teaching, high expectations, engaged learning, an intentionally inviting
environment and implementing Visible Learning.
Myself and the Assistant Principals, Mr Collister and Mrs Guse, spend regular
time in classrooms observing lessons. This not only allows us to observe
teaching and learning across the school, but enables us to give feedback
to teachers. Teacher feedback is important so that we can continually
improve the quality of teaching to improve student learning outcomes.
Teachers also observe and give feedback to their colleagues. We believe
that if we want improvement in learning outcomes then we need to
regularly analyse and improve upon our teaching practices as well.
This year we continue to focus on 21st century learning and the essential
skills that students need for the future – creativity, collaboration,
communication and critical thinking. We refer to these skills as the 4 C’s and
teachers also focus on these skills in their teaching. We are conscious of
preparing our students well for the future workforce.
Regards,
Fathma Mauger
Principal
ABSENCES
To ensure we keep our
Attendance
Records correct please contact
our Front Office if your child/
children are absent.
You can contact us on 89813211.
Alternatively, you can notify us via
our website or our Skool Bag
App.
Larrakeyah
Primary School App
The Larrakeyah Primary School
app is available to download. If
you prefer using the school
website, please check the Skool
Bag console in the For Parents
section for latest news.
Friday 5th June
Dress Up Day
(Favourite Sport/ Player)
Monday 8th June
Queens Birthday
(Public Holiday)
Friday 26th June
End of Term 2
Tuesday 21st July
Resume Term 3
Dates to Remember
Proud Sponsor of
Larrakeyah Primary School.
We love to showcase the
Visible Learning, Math Focus and
Writing Focus activities our students
engage in every week. Now, we're
featuring these articles on our
website. To read the latest class
updates, and access previous
articles, visit our News section in the
Website.
https://larrakeyahprimary.com.au/
blog
Lost Property
The Lost and Found box is
overflowing, If you have lost lunch
boxes, water bottles, jackets and
hats please come have a look.
Water Bottles
Students are required to bring a
water bottle to school. Water
bubblers can be used for filling
bottles but not for direct drinking
from taps.
School Banking
School Banking has been suspended
till further notice
House Shirts
The new Sports House shirts are proving to be extremely popular and
are a real hit with the students and school community. It is great to see
so much support for the school houses and everyone showing school
pride. The students look great in the new Sports House shirts and all the
feedback we have received is very positive. As they are so popular we
are running low on some sizes and some have become unavailable.
We are putting another order of shirts into our supplier and we will let
you all know as soon as they arrive. If you are interested in buying a
House shirt they are available for purchase at the front office for $35.
We have designed the shirts from the students ideas and design’s from
2019. They can be worn for the entire day your child has PE and for any
of the Sports Carnival Days. The new House Sports shirts are not an
official part of the school uniform so they cannot be worn on any other
days or on school excursions. If your child is wearing their House Shirt on
a non PE day, they will be required to ‘borrow’ a standard school shirt
from the front office for the day.
Please see below for your child’s class PE day.
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
4/5 Smart
3Lawler
1 Mattiazzo
2 Jentz
Tr Bostock
4 Spruhan
Tr/Yr1 Billows
3 Marschall
1 Church
1/2 Zikos (Year 1’s)
5 Korfias
3/4 Matthews
4 Mamouzellos
6 Searle
Tr Soltesz
2 Dowling
6 Perryman
3 McManus
5 Rutherford
1/2 Zikos (Year 2’s)
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Defence School Mentor
Dry season is here and how delightful it is. With the easing of COVID19 restrictions
the social calendars are starting to fill up, and with sports returning in the next few
weeks so will peoples busy schedules. Sports are a great way to teach children a
variety of skills, both physical and emotional, including making friends, teamwork,
confidence and resilience. Involvement incorporates the whole family into the
community. Easiest way to find a sport for your child is to Google it as there are so
many sports and hobbies in our local Darwin/Palmerston areas. From Scouts,
swimming and basketball to circus there is something for everyone.
Remember the NT Govt. also have the $100 sports vouchers to help with fees.
Talking social events, DCO are running various webinars and virtual events from
cake decorating to coffee catch ups, relationships and travelling bears.
See www.defence.gov.au/DCO or checkout https://www.eventbrite.com.au/o/
defence-community-organisation-darwin-15240233051 to register for upcoming
DCO events.
Tiger Tribe is the 5 RAR social group for partners and spouses of current serving 5
RAR members. Their June Activities are Morning tea is at Eva Cafe, Botanic
Garden, 10-11am, 4 Jun 20 and Tiger Tribe at Cullen Bay- grab fish and chips and
watch the sunset, 5pm onwards, 20 Jun 20.
Volunteering is a positive tool for wellbeing and give us a sense of value within our
village. The TopEnder Tri-Service Magazine are always looking for new members
to help with ideas, magazine layout and being part of a fantastic Defence
Community. The magazine is created by Defence families for Defence families.
If you are interested please contact Denna at [email protected]
As we are approaching the middle of the year for those considering applying of
Defence’s Education Assistance Scheme Tutoring it is only available to those in
the first 18months of a posting. So if your child is having any difficulties with their
education due to relocation/posting please see https://www.defence.gov.au/
DCO/_Master/documents/Factsheets/Education-assistance-tutor.pdf to see if you
are eligible for the Education Assistance Tutoring Scheme.
Walking Bus - Beep! Beep! We have up to 8 excited kids for classroom pick up on
Monday, Tuesdays & Wednesdays for the walk to the Defence Gate at home
time. Please email me if you would like your student to join in. This has helped
improve our social distancing efforts by helping reduce parents at classrooms and
improved student independence while having a bit of fun. So meet us at the
gate.
Let me know if you have a partner away on service, training or deployment so I
can support your child with Absent from Home support at school.
You can also register for family absent support by registering with Defence Family
Helpline 1800 624 608 and order a bear and book pack for the kids.
Jodie Murdoch – DSM 89813211 [email protected]