SANDERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL “NEWS & VIEWS” MIDDLE SCHOOL … Building the Future ”News and Views” Page 1 SANDERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL PO Box 189 KARAMA NT 0813 Matthews Road

SANDERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL … Building the Future ”News and Views” Page 1

SANDERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL

PO Box 189 KARAMA NT 0813

Matthews Road

WULAGI NT 0812

Ph: 08 8927 8899 Fax: 08 8927 2127

Email:

sanderson.middle@ ntschools.net

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Principal Liz Veel

School Council

Chairperson Robin Lawrence

Volume 4 June 2015

Dear Parents, Carers and Students

On 3 June three students were successful in applying to be Principal for a Day: Minyone Batende (year 9), Ruben Morgado (year 8) and Nikayla Price (Year 7). Thankyou to these students for assisting me in looking at some school change agendas through the eyes of students.

The Student Principals Minyone and Nikayla, have written the Principal’s message below for this newsletter:

Minyone Battende: Year 9 Principal for a Day On the 3 July, 2015, we became the Principals of Sanderson Middle School, replacing Ms Veel, but only for the day. We walked around the school with Ms Veel and saw what the students were learning in class. We talked to students about their opinions on how to improve our school, and they had some good ideas. We talked to Paul Wyatt about the Neighbourhood Activity Centre that they are going to have at Sanderson next year and we collaborated on ideas about some of the activities. After recess we MC’d the assembly and we asked students about their ideas for school improvements. Students came up with some good ideas and some pretty ridiculous ideas as well, like swimming pools. We had the privilege of listening to the NT Music School rehearsing; we heard four songs, and they were all really great. We had a meeting with the Principal and two SRC members about our new shirt designs and how we could fix problems at the school. I thought being a Principal was the hardest job that people would do. It was fun and we learnt a lot about what a Principal does. We had a good chat with Ms Veel about some ideas, which Nikayla and I thought we needed to implement to improve our school.

Nikayla Price: Year 7 Principal for a Day Being Principal for the day was extremely fun and also exhausting, I wonder how Ms. Veel does it! Overall it was a fun day and a great experience to participate in. I was scared about talking in front of the whole school assembly, but in the end it wasn’t as scary as I thought it was going to be. We discussed some topics which Minyone and I thought needed improvement and we came up with several ideas. At first it was a bit scary talking to students and teachers in their classes, but eventually I grew comfortable and by the end it was easy. I hope that one day I’ll get to do it again! Thank you Ms Veel we had a great time. I hope we can do it again.

Ms Veel: Minyone and Nikayla did an outstanding job on the day and I look forward to running Principal for a Day again in 2016. I would like to wish all a great Semester break. School resumes for students again on 21 July.

SANDERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL “NEWS & VIEWS”

MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL

RESPECT

FAIR GO

COMPASSION

INTEGRITY

Our next School Council meeting is Monday 13 July in the staffroom at 6.00pm.

All welcome to attend

SCHOOL COUNCIL NEWS


GOOD STANDING

Refer to the schools website for further information http://web.ntschools.net/w/sms

2015 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

CONGRATULATIONS to the following students who received Good Standing

Certificates for 2015 at the week 6 Assembly. These students have earned credit from teachers in regard to positive student achievement, improvement in work and excellent effort in demonstrating the behaviours of our values.

Monday 13 July School Council Meeting 6.00pm

Tuesday 21 July School Resumes 8.00am

Monday 27 July Whole School Assembly 9.15 to 10.00am

Ianne Harte Afidchao Elleshya Kuhn Illia Sheshyn

Mikael Boag Naw Hta So Gay Lin Takira Stapleton

Ebony East Kayllah Motlop Samantha Stevenson

Alanna Eberl Caleb Niki Amy Yates

Carla Estella Tyrone Nona Jack Thomas

Lakesha Grant Xyrie Cailyn Pasuquin Ponloue Yin

Ngoc Ho Nikayla Price Deegan York

Shaun Juwanmandadige Panuphong Saengkai

Aaliyah Kopp Ryndyl Samson

Thu Bui Nhat Ton

Belinda Lay Elizabeth Tshibangu

Tan Thai

Thu Bui

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STUDENT PRINCIPAL FOR A DAY

For those of you who don’t know, on 3 June 2015 we had two student Principals for the day at Sanderson Middle School, who replaced our Principal Liz Veel (only for the day though.) They were Minyone Batende from Year 9 and Nikayla Price from Year 7. the Year 8. The student Principal, Ruben Morgado was sick on the day unfortunately. Throughout the day they helped accomplish many tasks to uphold our beautiful school reputation. They discussed and brought up issues within our school society that needed to be dealt with or fixed and had the privilege of seeing performances by the NT music school. They also had the opportunity to see many students hard at work during class time. Ebony Hollemans, SRC President said “As the President of the School Representative Council (SRC) I think they did an outstanding job. They met and exceeded the standard set for them and therefore represented the student body in a successful manner. Lena Burkala, SRC Vice-President said “I think they did a fantastic job of being role models and therefore set a great standard for other students at Sanderson Middle School.”

Extract from

NT News 2 June 2015


YOUNG ACHIEVER OF THE YEAR

NEW UNIFORM COMPETITION

Congratulations to our very own Jackson Thomas. Jackson was awarded the NT

Government Young Carers Award, NT Young Achiever Awards. Jackson cares for

his eldest sister who is waiting for a

heart transplant, his Mum who has

been diagnosed with Parkinson’s

disease, and also provides

emotional support for his other

autistic sister who lives in a group

home. He helps his mother with

shopping and assists his eldest

sister with chores around the home.

He has been involved in a turtle re-

lease program with the Parks and

Wildlife Department and volunteered

at Crocodylus Park. Jackson is an active member of the 1st Darwin Sea Scouts,

helping with fund raising, beach clean ups and the Patch community garden

Congratulations to the winners of the New Uniform Competition.

Ashanti Berry PCG 82

Whitney Ahmat PCG 72

Ashanti and Whitney won tickets to Bass in the Grass.

These designs will be used as inspiration for the school’s new uniform.

Whitney Ashanti


OUTDOOR EDUCATION CAMP

From the 19 to 22 of May 26 students attended the

year 9 Outdoor Education camp at Kakadu

National Park. The camp consisted of a 3 day and

2 night stay at Kakadu National Park where

student’s learnt how to overcome challenges and

work together through a range of leadership

activities.

Students visited the rock art of Ubirr and Nourlangie and got up close and

personal with Kakadu’s native animals by participating in a sunset Yellow Water

Cruise. They also undertook bushwalks and learnt how to cook on outdoor cook-

ing stoves.

‘The view from the top of Ubirr was breathtaking’ – Han Nguyen

‘I learnt that my calves and agility will never match that of Mr Rolfe’s, the camp

was awesome.’ Wade Derksen

‘It was a great experience. It helped us learn how to work

together whilst also be independent. I would definitely do it

again.’ Ebony Hollemans

What have we been doing in in Outdoor Education in 2015?

Navigation Orienteering First Aid with St John First Aid Risk Management Minimal Impact Camping Mentoring Wulagi Primary students Community Service activities at the Wulagi Primary

School and Sanderson Garden


DUKE OF EDINBURGH AWARD 2015

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award is a self-development program for young people aged between 14 to 25, that encourages participants to engage in activities that promote physical health and mental well-being. It is an opportunity for youth to create unforgettable memories, experience adventure, have fun and challenge themselves. It is an international award and worldwide there are almost 310, 000 new entrants every year, with over 635, 000 currently participating. At Sanderson Middle School we value the ability of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award to empower youth and encourage leadership. The award recog-nises the importance of goal setting, hard work and time management. It encour-ages the development of behaviours that we believe encompasses well-rounded citizens. At Sanderson we offer students a range of opportunities to meet the re-quirements of the award and support students in their endeavour to meet the crite-ria set by the Duke of Edinburgh. The program recognises that a young person’s life education includes academic and non-academic activities and leads to recogni-tion of non-academic activities that contribute towards personal development. It counts towards the Northern Territory Certificate of Education (NTCET). This year we have had 14 students participate in the Duke of Edinburgh Award. An award ceremony for all Bronze and Silver participants will be held at Parliament House in early August.

NORTHERN TERRITORY MUSIC SCHOOL


SPORTS DAY

On 29 May we had an awesome Sports Day! It was a great day where we all did

heaps of fun physical activities and competed against each other. Some of the things we did were field events like, Javelin, Long Jump, Discus, Shot Put and High jump. If you didn’t like those types of event you could do novelty fun games like the Longest Kick, Tyre Relay, Egg and Spoon Relay and Tug of War. The Egg and Spoon Race was really funny because we used ping pong balls instead of eggs and it was really hard to run with them on a spoon against the wind. They kept falling off, slowing everyone down. The Tug of war competitions were pretty amazing as the girls won all tug of war matches!!!

It was a great day with heaps of running. There were a lot of heats for the 100m sprint where we all saw some really really fast runners!! The best relay was the teachers competing against the year 9 boys in the relay. Wayne, Chance, Zane and Wade all raced against, Miss Crossfield, Mr White, Mrs Pacey and Cameron from Clontarf. Mr White was REALLY fast! The year 9 boys won but

Ms Davy said that’s just because the teachers let them win! Red House were the winners of the day, but blue were amazing and should have won! Green and Yellow Houses were fan-tastic too!!

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR AGE CHAMPIONS Aged Champion for the Boys 12 year and under TOM BARA

Aged Champion for the Girls 12 year and under ELISA NIKI Aged Champion for the Boys 13 years ACK BINIAT

Aged Champion for the Girls 13 years MARIAMA MANSARAY

Aged Champion for the Boys 14 years and over WAYNE BILSTON

Aged Champion for the Girls 14 years and over EBONY HOLLEMANS


NAIDOC DAY

On 5 June Sanderson Middle School students celebrated NAIDOC in a day-long expression of the school’s Indigenous Language and Culture course. NAIDOC Week celebrations are usually held across Australia each year during the July school holidays, to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Our NAIDOC day was a great opportunity to participate in a range of Indigenous activities and to support our local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community. Indigenous artists from our local community supported our Indigenous Language and Culture classes to deliver workshops to the entire school in playing the Yidaki, Torres Strait Islander dance, Yolngu Dance, Aboriginal painting and Indigenous Sports and a taste of kangaroo and damper. Sanderson Middle School is proud to support this day, as approximately 35% of our students are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. We are also proud that we have 8 staff who are Indigenous. The day ended with a fantastic range of performances, including a professional yidaki (didgeridoo) artist, Torres Strait Islander and Yolngu dances and a song from our school choir.


NEW NEIGHBOURHOOD ACTIVITY CENTRE

PLANNED FOR SANDERSON IN 2016

Last month an all-inclusive community program was launched by the Minister for Youth Territorians, Senior’s policy and Multicultural Affairs Peter Styles. Allocated in the 2015 budget, the Northern Territory Government has announced $1.2 million to establish as Neighbourhood Activity Centre in the Northern Suburbs at the Sanderson Middle School. The Sanderson Neighbourhood Activity Centre will be a whole-of-community initiative that will encourage greater engagement between young people, senior Territorians and the broader multicultural community in the northern suburbs of Darwin. Commencing in 2016, the Sanderson NAC will offer a range of activities after school hours and on weekends facilitated by experienced volunteer experts and hosts. The local business community along with community groups, government agencies and non-government organisa-tions will be encouraged to participate to help fuel capacity to the activities that will be on offer. Funding for the project will be administerd by the Sanderson Middle School Council with a Director and support staff appointed to facilitate the administration of the centre, coordinate vol-unteers to run and host activities and to coordinate and manage the consumables and re-source’s that will be required. Starting in term 3 this year the Sanderson NAC will undertake a series of consultations with the identified target groups to ascertain ideas for activities, scope for volunteers and the resources required to run activities sustainably. Community consultations will take place at the school, local shopping centres and parks and will also include information workshops after hours at the Sanderson Middle School. Initial conversations have already commenced regarding the framework to develop the centre which includes the establishment of an advisory committee to represent stakeholder groups from right across the spectrum of government, community and the private sector. Initial activity ideas range from computing and gaming, dance and theatre performance shows, homework club, a Saturday morning café and mini market, non-traditional sports and development of the vacant block on the corner of Matthews Road and Patterson Street for educational and recreational space. If you are interested in getting involved with the Sanderson Neighbourhood Activity Centre or would like to join the SMS School Council please contact the Director Paul Wyatt on 0407 454131 or email [email protected]

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SANDERSON SHINES

On 11 June Sanderson Middle School was proud to

host our extremely successful community event

‘Sanderson Shines’. Sanderson absolutely shone

with a huge turn out of people, a delicious array of

mouth watering international food and an excellent

evening of entertainment from many of SMS and Pri-

mary school students and the NT Music School band.

Our student Master of Ceremonies did an

excellent job of keeping the performances on track.

Thank you Ebony Hollemans and Jane Lodiong.

The Sanderson School Senior band, the Sanderson

Rock Band and the Sanderson Choir turned on

amazing performances. The Sanderson Dancers

were inspiring and their excellent performances

were a result of long hours of practice under the guidance of Mrs Jenny

McCullough and Ms Robyn Gleeson. Karama Primary School and Wulagi

Primary School also brought over their student

band members. How fabulous that these young

artists will be joining the Sanderson Middle School

band when they arrive at Middle School. The

Malak Primary dancing troupe were also colourful

and entertaining.

A big highlight of the night was the combined

student drumming performance led by Shabba, a

talented West African musician. Many thanks to the

Smith Family for bringing Shabba to us.

An ex student of

Sanderson, Liam Stansfield sang 2 amazing songs

and brought a professional sound.

The Administrator of the NT, His Honour the Hon-

ourable John Hardy OAM and his wife attended.

They were amazed by the talent of our students

and the positive energy. of our school community.


SANDERSON SHINES


SANDERSON SHINES

A big thank you

to all our

supporters of

Sanderson Shines

Lord Mayor Katrina Fong Lim and Alderman Justine Glover

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