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TAKE PRIDE NEWSLETTER
TERM 2—2019
Classroom Fun! Take a peak inside to see what our amazing students have been up to this term.
Halls Creek Superstars! Girls from Oz were back in town this term! Turn to page 15 to find out more!
AHEAD: Sports Carnival! HCDHS is gearing up for our annual Sports Carnival. See the poster on the back of the newsletter to find out all the dates!
Student Gymkhana This term our students competed in a HCDHS Gymkhana event. Turn to page 13 to see the results!
Turn over to the back page for important dates to
note!
PRINCIPALS MESSAGE—MR ELIOT MONEY
Term Two has seen our town and school hit with one of the worst flu seasons ever.
Although the school was hit hard during the flu season we have achieved some amazing results both in classrooms and outside classrooms.
This term saw our school have the highest number of NAPLAN and OLNA completions ever. This proves that students are willing to give it a go and are confident in their skills to do these national testing. The school staff are eager to see if the last two years of consistent teaching practices has worked. From looking in all classes and the student engagement in lessons I feel we are really doing some great work building our students into confident and competent learners.
Feedback from the Kimberley School’s Project management suggests we are making sig-nificant progress with our teaching and learning outcomes in classes.
The School has now broadened out the Macqlit throughout the school to continue to im-prove reading and literacy standards in the school.
I have seen the AIEO staff really embrace these classes as the teachers of this program and I have seen significant improvement in the students participating.
A massive thanks must go out to the Academies this term with Tom, Kade, Mike, Jaimon, Mel and Siobhan running a super packed program for our students. They have represent-ed Halls Creek DHS in every town in the Kimberley with all feedback from providers being super positive. It is well known that Halls Creek DHS students are the most polite, engag-ing and respectful students in the region.
For me though our NAIDOC celebration was the best event. I love the coming together of our parents and partnerships to really celebrate what is great about our town and our school. The colour run at the end was a fantastic way to finish an awesome event. Thanks to our Aboriginal Staff for organizing the event.
This term we say adios but not goodbye to a few staff. From the secondary school is Miss Michelle Proctor heads off to a new adventure in Perth, as is Mr Tom Gamble.
Miss Sheila Walsh who has been our Early years and SAER deputy is off on a new adven-ture. I thank you all for the commitment and hard work you have put into Halls Creek DHS and wish you all the best for the future.
I’ll leave you with a few selfies.
Have a safe and happy holiday. See you all in Term 3!!!
$$$ Mr Money $$$
The NAIDOC colour run. (above)
TAFE week with the Hospitality Cert 1/2 group (above)
SECONDARY SCHOOL—MISS CAROLINE
The High School has had an exciting Term Two with our Senior School stu-dents having two weeks of TAFE. They have completed units in either the Automotive Course, or the Hospitality Course and have shown fantastic work ethic and dedication during these blocks.
The whole High School has been busy training for Kimberley Cup, making sure they are ready before the big competition in Week 10. 39 students have been selected to attend this year's Kimberley Cup and both staff and students are excited for the week's events.
Follow the Dream after school tutoring has also started this term with ten students attending tuition on Monday and Thursday afternoons.
Two of our High School students have been selected to attend training for the North West Netball team at a specialist camp in Port Hedland. A fan-tastic achievement by these two young women!
Girls from Oz were here at Halls Creek District High School, bringing with them ten students from all over Australia who are part of the Australian Girls Choir. Our students enjoyed showing these young women their town and enjoyed performing at Cathedral Gorge in Purnululu National Park. They also did a fantastic performance at the Kimberley Moon Festival! Our young female students are looking forward to their next chance to perform with the Girls from Oz organisation.
PRE-PRIMARY ICT
Room 19 have been learning how to log on and off the computers by entering in their own
user name and password, using the keyboard and mouse to find learning games, as well as
identifying and locating the upper case letters in the game Keyboard Zoo.
Wellbeing Journal: One of the tools I’ve been using in some one-on-one sessions with a student this Term has been a wellbeing journal. This bright and colourful resource covers a range of topics to pro-mote social and emotional learning and wellbeing, including:
Identifying and celebrating strengths,
Positive self-esteem,
Practising gratitude,
Mindfulness strategies,
Resilience
The student completes the activity, whether that be writing, drawing, colouring or craft, and discusses the points raised. There are wellbeing journals covering all primary school ages, from Pre-Primary to Year 6, and will be used as appropriate for one-on-one pastoral care sessions with students.
Zones of Regulation:
Another fantastic resource I’ve been using with another Primary School student is the Zones of Regulation curriculum. The rationale is to help students learn how to regulate and control big feelings. There are five different coloured ‘zones’, linked with different feelings:
Blue Zone includes feeling weak, tired, hungry, slack or bored,
Green Zone includes feeling happy, calm and ready to learn,
Yellow Zone includes starting to feel worried, silly, frustrat-ed and stressed. A person in Yellow Zone is starting to lose some control of their emotions.
Red Zone describes when a person is not in control of their bodies and is feeling anger, rage, explosive behaviours or terror.
The goal with the Zones of Regulation is to help the student identity what they are feeling and use strategies to assist them in getting to the Green Zone, which is the best space for being ready to learn at school. Strategies to help calm big feelings include breathing exercises and sensory activities.
MR JEROME—SCHOOL CHAPLAIN
The student I’ve been working with has ‘check in’ at the start of each day and we talk about what he’s feeling by using four different coloured cards to represent the four zones. In this case, each card has a picture of a football of the same colour and de-scribes the feelings in that zone. Accompanying the check in, is a personal case full of sensory items, including a fidget spinner, straws for blowing, pompoms, chewing rub-ber and feathers, for the student to play with while we talk. In some one-on-one ses-sions, we have cut out faces showing different feelings and stuck them on four coloured pieces of paper and drawn pictures of what the student looks like in each zone. As a result of this intervention and positive reinforcement from his Teacher, this particular student has seen a remarkable improvement in his ability to stay in class and engage in learning.
PATHS Class: The Year 5 students in Room 4 have had the opportunity to learn about from the PATHS
curriculum this Term about feelings, using the five characters from the ‘Inside Out’ movie – Joy, An-ger, Sadness, Disgust and Fear. Highlights from the Term included:
Focusing on Anger, what it looks like, sounds like and feels like in our bodies, and strategies to calm us down when we feel wild.
Being reminded in our lesson on sadness that sometimes being sad is ok,
Reading a storybook in our lesson on fear that talked about a girl who had a ‘big bag’ of worries and how she dealt with them. Students the identi-fied three worries they have and picked a strategy to deal with them.
BUSHRANGERS
The Bushranger cadets have been involved in a lot of outdoor experience during this term. They
have been on lots of walks and cooked meals for themselves on Trangia stoves. They have had to
negotiate their way through the country using a map and a GPS. They have also learnt to use the
position of the sun and the lie of the land to chart a course through the terrain.
A camp to Wolfe Ck Crater was organised in wk 6 but coincided with the coldest weather this
year and no students brought forms back to attend it, so the camp did not go ahead. There is a
Regional Bushrangers camp planned for the 26-30 th August. I am hoping the students will show
enough enthusiasm to make this camp a success.
During the course of this term the Bushrangers have walked to China Wall from the Bore road,
walked to Caroline Pool from a different point on the bore road, walked to Policeman’s Camp
and beyond, set up tents as if for an overnight camp and cooked various meals, cleaned up alu-
minium cans to tidy an area in town and surveyed tourists at a campground.
SECONDARY SCIENCE
The High School students have been getting into Physics this term. We have been looking
at energy and forces and how they are all around us. We’ve been racing some paper
planes, experimenting with dominos, building simple electric circuits, playing with light,
magnets and measuring forces. Here are some pictures of our fabulous future scientists in
action.
ROOM 7
This term in Room 7 we have been com-
pleted lots of fun and exciting learning ac-
tivities. In English we created our own
character and setting to write our very own
narrative story. We have also been learning
about different Australian animals and
writing reports on them. In Mathematics
we have had fun measuring things
(including ourselves), making graphs (we
even got to eat the skittles at the end) and
learning about 2D and 3D shapes. In Art we
have been learning about colours, lines,
shapes, textures, patterns and symmetry,
as well as looking at and making our very
own Indigenous art pieces. We were even
lucky enough to have SciTech come and
show us some amazing science tricks! Take
a look at some of the fantastic work we
have completed throughout Term Two!
YEAR 6
Year Sixes from Rooms One
and Two continue to work
well together at Halls creek
DHS. We have recently em-
barked on an art project which in-
cludes visiting the Art Centre to
learn about different styles of art
and use what we see and who we
meet as inspiration to create our
own art pieces.
Here is a sneak peak of our art-
works in their beginning stag-
es. You will have to visit our art
exhibition in week ten to see
our complet-
ed master-
pieces. We
hope you en-
joy!
GYMKHANA
The riders competed in six different events Bending, Flags, Figure of Eight, Keyhole, Apple
in a Bucket and Barrel races.
OVERALL RESULTS
LED SECTION PLACE
Arizona Bedford 1st
Ali-Mae Johnstone 2nd
Amos Dolby 3rd
Honey and Chaz = 4th
BEGINNER SECTION
Augustine Tremlett 1st
Yolaynah Dolby 2nd
Darren and Luke = 3rd
INTERMEDIATE SECTION
Emyliarn Bedford-McGinty 1st
Amahlenah Bedford 2nd
Brenda Bedford 3rd
ADVANCED SECTION
Brooke Taylor 1st
Ashleigh Johnstone 2nd
Brenda Bedford 3rd
KINDY
The cooler weather has meant the Kindy mob have been able to go out ‘On Country’ with Nanna Valma. We have been learning Jaru when out at Caroline Pool. We re-enacted Rus-sian Jack on our trip to Shire Park and learnt about Jack Jugarie. Banjo Bore is always a favourite with Johnie cake cooked on the fire, rock painting and exploring. We are looking forward to more adventures next Term!
KINDILINK
We have had an action packed term. We have been engaging with Learning Games every session and enjoying cooking, art, singing and stories. Out most exciting news is a collab-orative art project with the families. Parents and children decided to paint a snake on the outdoor verandah with each family given a section to design and paint. We can’t wait to see the finished product! Next term we start our school transition program so if you have a lilun who is turning four in the second half of this year (or first half of next year) come down to the Parent and Child centre and join in the fun.
GIRLS FROM OZ
The Girls from Oz team celebrated 10 years of working Halls Creek with a jammed pack week at
the beginning of this term.
This visit was extra special because not only did the usual g-oz team come along with a film crew,
but they also brought ten girls from different capital cities around Australia to visit Halls Creek and
get to know our girls on their country.
On Tuesday the girls performed at a special stakeholder’s event in the Performing Arts Centre and
were incredibly proud of their efforts afterwards.
On Wednesday we took the 10 AGC girls and 8 girls from HCDHS out to Purnululu National Park
and camped at Goweda Block. Whilst there the girls were welcomed onto country, participated in
a smoking ceremony, sung at the beautiful Cathedral Gorge and camped under the stars. A very
big thank you to Bethany Drill, her dad Warren and grandmother Shirley for allowing us to stay at
their block and show us around. We would also like to thank the Clontarf Academy and Shooting
Stars for providing us with vehicles for the trip!
After returning on Thursday it was all steam ahead and the girls performed for the second time
this week at Shire Park. The girls used this as a practice run for their big performance on the
weekend.
On Friday, 24 girls (AGC and HCDHS) travelled to Kununurra to perform at the Kimberley Moon
Experience which is part of the Ord Valley Muster. The highlight of the camp was seeing the girls
perform in front of 3000 people and they could not have been more amazing! They sung with
confidence and were praised by all who saw the girls afterwards.
Our girls are continuing to go from strength to strength in the Performing Arts and they are show-
ing, not only us at school but everyone in the wider Kimberley region, that Halls Creek has some
amazing talent!
ROOM 19
Too Many Cheeky Dogs
I (Miss Cara) went to the Aboriginal Early Childhood Conference last week in Sydney and met
the amazing Dion Beasely and Johanna Bell. Dion is a deaf artist who suffers from muscle
dystrophy and Johanna is an author; together they create children’s books. When I returned,
I was telling the children about them as we have read one of their books before. The chil-
dren had so many questions and were interested in finding out more! We read ‘Too Many
Cheeky Dogs’ and looked closely at how Dion draws his cheeky dogs. Check out some of our
Dion inspired cheeky dog drawings-they’re pretty deadly!
The kids in Room 19 used their strong fingers to squeeze and mould their bird sculptures.
Clay provides opportunity to be creative and learn about texture, shape and form whilst also
having lots of fun!!
ROOM 20
LANGUAGES AND CULTURE
It has been a great term in Language and Culture lessons. The students have been work-
ing hard to learn words and phrases associated with cooking goanna and making damp-
er. All classes have been really engaged in the lessons presented and all students enjoy
the lesson content. To help with learning language, the students sing songs, and do raps
and rhymes. One song we have learned this term is Moorlayirra Wawanyi Joonba and
this is sung to the tune of Baby Shark.
Moorlayirra Wawanyi Joonba
Gambayingga loorroobbiri x 3
wawanyi x 1
Gambayingga doowirra x 3
wawanyi x 1
Gambayingga garrijga x 3
wawanyi x 1
Gambayingga wawoo x 3
wawanyi x 1
Gambayingga thiriga x 3
wawanyi x 1
Gambayingga woobooyoo x 3
wawanyi x 1
Yaadi ngabnga maa x 3
Wawanyi x 1
Ask your child to teach you the song and we are both sure that you will have some fun.
Next term, we will continue with our cooking theme and we are planning to have some
on- country excursions during the term to continue our learning.
Willa for now
Shooting Stars Halls Creek Starlets girls competed at the North West
Netball Championships in Broome. We had a great campaign for our first
time at the champs with many people commending the girls on the
efforts and sportswomanship.
Netball WA - North West have invited two
athletes from our playing group to a spe-
cialist camp in Port Hedland in a couple of
weeks. These two will compete against
other athletes to secure a spot in the
North West Netball team that will later
play in Perth.
This is a fantastic opportunity for our girls
to be noticed in talent pathways by scouts. Congratulations Nikayah Scott and
Darrilyn Calwyn on their selections. Both ladies played both ends of the court
and really showed leadership with their young
team. Tremendous job
Halls Creek Shooting Stars Starlet primary schools girls have participated
in the Garnduwa Docker Shields in Kununurra playing Netball against
Kununurra and Wyndham. The Starlets girls were outstanding by winning
5 and lost 2 games making them coming third on the ladder.
Big Congratulation on all girls that’s got selected to attend both Senior and
Primary Camps due to their best behaviour and very good attendance
with 80% and above.
SHOOTING STARS
CLONTARF
Big River Cup Fitzroy Crossing During term 2 week 8, the years 7-9 travelled to Fitzroy Crossing to compete in the big river cup against academies from Karratha, Broome, Derby, Fitzroy Crossing and Kununurra. Although finishing the carnival with a 2-2 record and missing out on playing in the grand final and coming runner up in the tug of war against a much larger Broome outfit these young men showed great sportsmanship and Clontarf spirit throughout the entire carnival. Jai lighting won the cowboys carnival MVP and Couben Malay and Braiden Till both tak-ing home the Clontarf spirit award. Highlights of the camp were a game of friendly footy down in the shallow waters of Fitzroy River, cricket match on the banks of Geiki gorge and all you can eat buffet at the Fitzroy River lodge
CLONTARF
Dockers Shield Week 9 term 2 was a week the 5-6’s have waited all term for. With a select number of boys who showed great classroom engagement and a high attend-ance during the term travelling up to Kununurra to compete in the Dockers shield. Having lost one game by 2 points to eventual carnival winners Kununurra shrub bulls the day was filled with laughter and smiles from both staff and students. Camping out at Lake Argyle was cold but enjoyable for these young men. Ryan Jinderah won carnival MVP and both Richard Brad-shaw and Craig Dempsey Jnr both winning the spirit award. Even though the entire excursion was full of highlights the best were screamer practise on both staff member Kade and Je-rome, fish feeding, croc spotting and jumping of the roof of the boat on the lake argyle tour and dinner at lake argyles restaurant while few of the academy joined the hokey pokey dance circle with a few of the campers
