Alawa Primary School Newsletter

Welcome back to Term 3!

I hope everyone managed to make the most of the fabulous dry season weather and relax, go adventuring, spend time with family and friends, even go travelling. I took 2 weeks off and certainly made the most of the more relaxed pace of life and catching up with people and all those chores that build up over term time.

We are all back on deck and ready for a  focused and productive term at school. Class teachers will be emailing home letters outlining their focus areas for the term within the next week.

Special events coming up include:

• Performing arts program [starting next week] which will culminate in our annual community performance night on 1st September
• Year 3/4 Camp for 2 days 8th and 9th September
• Student Led Conferences 13th & 14th September

Reports

As the majority of you are aware reports were emailed home in the last week of term. We do apologize for the technical issues where some appeared not to get through. If you did not receive your child's report please contact the front office and we will ensure this gets to you ASAP. If you have any concerns or queries about the reports please make contact with your child's class teacher.

Children will all be reviewing their data from last term and identifying their learning goals within the next few weeks and developing action plans for achieving these. Please take the time to ask them about this at home.

Attendance

Our attendance continues to be of concern - too many students missing time off school when not unwell. Please see information further in the newsletter about this and we seriously ask that all families consider anytime off school for reasons other than illness as this does impact the learning opportunities for your child.

Have a terrific week and enjoy the extra day off this Friday

Cheers

Sandy Cartwright [Principal]

To our Alawa school community,

I hope you have all had a very restful break and are now ready for Term 3. This is usually the term where students have a very clear understanding of expectations and routines in the classroom and all students can hit the ground running. I am looking forward to seeing some wonderful learning, with Dance, Art and Inquiry opportunities in all classes.

Music: Our music lessons will resume this Friday. It was terrific to see our students playing a variety of instruments in a mini performance in front of some classes on the Friday of last term. The timetable will remain the same as last term.

Playgroup will begin again next week. Maria does a wonderful job organising these sessions and the children enjoy visits to the farm, cooking and exploring the playground in the Preschool area. We hope to see families that intend to start their children at Alawa next year take this opportunity to familiarise themselves with this space and begin to form friendships.

Professional learning: All staff were involved in our Professional Learning Day on Monday. We appreciate the support of our whole school community to allow us the opportunity to have these days. They are crucial in allowing us to collaborate together and further develop our knowledge and skills around delivering quality Curriculum here at Alawa.

I am looking forward to a fantastic term with some terrific events that our teachers and volunteers will be organising.

Kind regards

Gen Donohue [Assistant Principal] 

Our Year 3 and 3/4 classes have a larger number of students [27 and 25]. We would really appreciate some extra support in listening to our students read regularly in the classroom supporting their literacy skill development.

If you are able to pop in regularly and volunteer for 30mins a day please let the front office know and we will get back in touch to confirm.

• Monday & Wednesdays - 8:30-9am  Year 3/4 Bernardino
• Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday- 8:30-9am Year 3 Block

*Please note all volunteers are required to hold an ochre card when working with children. A copy of our volunteer policy can be found HERE

Tickets are selling fast for our Deckchair cinema fundraising night!!

Tickets will sell out for this popular movie night so jump online and get your family pass now for only $40 [2 adults 2 children]

If you are a fantastic baker and would like to help out with either donating or selling on the night we will also be holding a sweet stall to help raise funds. Please contact Ms Tamra if you are able to help out - 8997 7666.

https://www.deckchaircinema.com/movie/minions-the-rise-of-gru

Muster is held at Alawa after each recess and lunch break - this gives us an opportunity for everyone to settle from playtime, share any celebrations and work on consistency of messages and expectation.

Each week we allocate class points during Muster time recognising those students who were ready and waiting to go back to class calmly and quietly after break times. The winning class from each 3 weeks will receive ice-blocks from Ms Cartwright and get to choose 5 songs that will play before our bells for the following 3 weeks.

The class with the most points in Week 10 of Term 2 was....Year 3 Block with 153 points!!!

Winner for Week 10 is 3 Block with 153 points.

Winner for Term 2....also 3 Block with 1137 points!!!

Students at Alawa receive raffle tickets [house points] for their attitude and behaviour in the playground and out the front of the school at the end of the day. These are then counted on a Friday along with the points for students in full uniform, wearing house shirts etc.  At the end of each term we also include the points earnt through the recycling project and water bottle checks.

In Week 10 of Term 2 Manton was ahead of Finnis and Goyder with 6287 points!!! 

In the lead for the year we still have Finnis with 60075 points!!!

Welcome to Term 3, I hope you and your family had a wonderful break. Book Club Issue 5 is heading home with students this week. If you have missed getting one you can head online and view and order from the catalogue on the Book Club LOOP site scholastic.com.au/LOOP. In this Issue there is a very exciting offer to help you grow your home library or stock up on Christmas Gift options.

Place your Issue 5 order on LOOP to select up to 3 FREE BOOKS. To qualify all you have to do is spend over $30 and you can select 1 FREE book, or spend over $50 and you can select 2 FREE books or over $70 and you can select 3 FREE titles from a special online list. The list will display after you create your order and head to the checkout. See www.scholastic.com.au/LOOP for more information

Books that won’t break the budget in Issue 5, 2022 include:

The Wildest Book Week Ever! $3

Zoo House by Heath McKenzie $3

The Underdogs by Tracey West $3

Michaela Mason’s Big List of Camp Worries by Alexa Moses $3

200 Minutes of Danger by Jack Heath $3

Orders are due back by Thursday the 4th of August. You can view the catalogue and order online through the Scholastic Bookclub website at scholastic.com.au/LOOP, download the LOOP app From Google Play or from the App Store or return your order form and payment to the office. Spare catalogues will be available at the office if you miss out.

Miss Sacha [Library and ICT Manager]

Welcome back to Term 3. It is always so lovely to come back to school after the break and see all of the smiling faces and feel the excitement the students have to be back at school.

Yesterday I spent part of my day visiting classrooms and reconnecting with the Defence students. I loved hearing about what everyone did over the break and what they are looking forward to this term, the Whole School Performance is a hot favourite.

As we all know June/July is the time that Posting Orders start to filter out. If you know that your family is leaving us at the end of this year onto a new location if you could let the school or myself know that would be appreciated. This way I can begin to support your child through the preparation of the move. I also have some handy info sheets on how to support children through a posting. If you would like copies please let me know. Also remember that the DMFS website has some great posting info and tips too. 

Katie Wedel [Defence School Mentor] 

The Sport Voucher Scheme supports active Territory families with the cost of getting involved in sports, active recreation and cultural activities. Every child living in the NT, from Transition to Year 12, who is enrolled in an NT school or registered for home-schooling is eligible for the scheme. In urban areas, school-enrolled students can apply for a $100 Sport Voucher twice per year (January and July). 

The objectives of the Scheme are to:

• increase participation of school-enrolled children in sport and active recreation. and cultural activities;
• support the delivery of the Department's focus on increasing activity in school-enrolled children living in the NT; and
• help change the physical activity behaviours of children in the NT

To apply visit: 22/23 Sport Voucher Scheme | Search | GrantsNT Administration

Our Mission - is to provide the Alawa School community with delicious healthy meals and snacks and to create meaningful links to our kitchen garden program. We will do our best to ensure we order the same products as advertised but occasionally have to change due to stock availability.

Cafe Specials Weeks 1-5

LUNCHTIME SPECIALS:

Available every day lunch only:

- mini beef burgers  $3.50

- spaghetti bolognaise small serve $3.50 or large serve $5.50 /Gluten Free Spaghetti $6.50 [Wed and Thu only]

Wednesday – Homemade Pork dumplings -  $5.50

Thursday – Chicken and Jackfruit Curry - Large size $5.50, Small $3.50

Friday – Homemade Roast Pork rolls- One size $5.50

A reminder that our school Cafe is open Wednesday to Friday ONLY. Closed on Monday and Tuesdays. 

Order online at www.quickcliq.com.au