Lorraine Hodgson, Principal, Message

Families and friends,

An exciting few weeks for Nemarluk School community. We signed

our Sister School Memorandum of Understanding in Aileu, Timor

Leste. Aileu is 2 hours up the mountains from Dili—map below. We

have worked for 18 months to get this organised and the future for

both schools is exciting as students and teachers connect. EBC

Aileu Vila School is attached to a Resource Center for Inclusive

Education that supports teachers to include students with disability in

education as is Timor Leste’s policy. Photos on the next page.

Thank you to Maria Albion: Principal NT English Language School in Dili, Kevin Gillan:

Director International Partnerships, Francisco Filipe: Timor Leste Consul General in

Darwin, and Tina Dasilva-Cruz at Konnekto. Without your help this would not have

come together for the benefit of both schools.

Secondly, we had a wonderful Harmony Day evening. Great to see everyone who

came considering the storm just before. Thanks to staff for their organising over term 1.

We launched our Super Plane playground crowd funding project : please share this link

and help us raise the $100,000 we need to complete this inclusive playground. Here it

is—https://www.chuffed.org/project/taking-to-the-sky.

to the following students who celebrated

their special day recently.

Molyun L (04 Mar), Morgan P (07 Mar), Sanjai K (10 Mar),

Samuel M (12 Mar), Courtney B-B (13 Mar), Kaarthig (15 Mar),

Vlad D (16 Mar), Laura M-W (21 Mar), Owen C (22 Mar).

CALENDAR

Mid-Semester break Monday 10 April—Friday 14 April

Easter Holidays 14 April—17 April

CONTENTS

School News 1

Sister School 2

Harmony Day 2017 3

Camp Quality Disco 4

Alawa Term 1 5

Nightcliff RFDS Visit 6

School/Community News 7

Community News 8

Community News 9

School/Community News 10

https://www.chuffed.org/

project/taking-to-the-sky

PLEASE SHARE AND HELP

Whole School Assembly

Friday 31 March 8.45am

10 AUGUST 2016 WEEK 9 - TERM 2

SAFE RESPECTFUL LEARNERS WORKING TOGETHER TO ACHIEVE THEIR BEST

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WEEK 9 TERM 1

Visiting Nemarluk

School?

Please sign in as you pass

through the office foyer

When:

Classroom drop

offs, pickups,

visits

Any time you wish

to go beyond the

office

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Lorraine and Virg visited Timor Leste 6-8 March. The purpose was to develop and sign a Memorandum

of Understanding (MOU) between our school , Aileu Vila EBC school and the Resource Centre of

Inclusive Education. The MOU sets out our partnership as sister schools as we seek to connect students

and teachers in both schools. It was signed by the Director of the school: Tumas Gunda, Primary School

Coordinator: Joao Mesquito, RCIE Coordinator: Lourenco Mendonca, District Education Office: Filipe

Amaral Dos Santos, and Nemarluk School Principal: Lorraine Hodgson. A group of students with

disability were part of the process and gave a speech to say thanks you. We shared lunch to celebrate

our partnership. Thank you Gerio Patricio, SenaiNT, for amazing job of translating text, speeches and

conversation.

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On Friday 17 March Nemarluk School had their annual Harmony Day celebration

and shared dinner. It was great to see so many families come out on the night

and enjoy a wide variety of performances from students and the Indonesian

Consulate Women's Group. Thank you to the families who brought food and

stayed to enjoy the school grounds. A beautiful evening was had by all.

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On Friday 10 March Nemarluk held a school disco to raise money for Camp Quality. All students had a wonderful time and the school

raised $196.00!

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Term 1

The Alawa Class has four new students

this year who have settled into their new

school quickly. Students have enjoyed

going to the farm, investigations and

buddy class. We are excited that four of

our students have already received an

Alawa Honour Award, from the Principal!

We have been working hard behind the

scenes on our literacy, numeracy and

topic goals. We hope you like our photos.

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Visit to the Royal Flying Doctor

Service (RFDS) The Nightcliff class visited the RFDS on Darwin waterfront as part of our “Sense of Place” task. The staff made us feel very welcome and all the students were engaged in the story telling through holographs and 3D technology. The students really enjoyed exploring the RFDS display plane and taking turns to be captain, co-pilot, doctor, nurse and patient.

Riley at the controls.

Watching the Bombing of Darwin film. The platform shakes!

Antonia with the radio equipment. The RFDS is exciting to visit!

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Whole School Positive Behaviour Support—WSPBS

The Nemarluk Gold Award and trophy is given to the student who earns the most number of tokens

each fortnight for following the three school rules:-

The top 10 students who have claimed tokens for showing

these behaviours for this fortnight are:-

1. Denilson S

2. Lachlan G

3. Graham L

4. Ayden McK

5. Keira B

6. Hunter G-V

7. Courtney B-B

8. Olivia G

9. Isobel N

10. Jacob G

Congratulations to all of you and

well done!

I am a Learner, I am safe, I am respectful

Hi, my name is

Grant the green ant.

I am the school mascot.

“I am a learner

I am safe,

I am respectful”

Nemarluk Gold Award.

Awarded to

Denilson S

Who received award nominations in all

three categories:

Congratulations

you are a respected Nemarluk student.

73 students were nominated for the awards **

Ice skating fun these school holidays! A temporary ice skating rink will be set up at the Foskey Pavilion, Darwin Showgrounds, (1 Tate Place, Winnellie), from 7 April to 17 April 2017. Friendly staff will be on the rink to help skaters of all levels.

For session times and bookings, go onto Facebook and search for Darwin Ice Skating, or go to Eventbrite at www.eventbrite.com.au, and search for Darwin Ice Skating.

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Join us at the

2017 PossABILITIES Expo

6th April 2pm to 6:30pm

Hosted by Henbury School

11 Henbury Avenue TIWI

89977077

“A community event promoting services,

organisations and opportunities for

people with a disAbility”

Visit over 30 interactive stalls “prizes to be won”

Get along to one of our “BREAKOUT SESSIONS”

4:00pm – Support for Individuals and Family in the Community

ADAS team leader Lorraine Gibbs and Darwin Community Legal Services Community

Solicitor Tamara Spence

4:30pm – Community Pathways Programs Post School

Jody Rinehart, DRAKE; Dannielle Kruse, Life Without Barriers; Carpentaria Disability

Services

5:00pm – Employment and Education Post School

Tony Burns, HPA – Helping people Achieve; Trudie Clark, DSDS – Darwin Skills

Development Scheme

Trish Mellor, CDU – Charles Darwin University

5:30pm – What does the National Disability Insurance Scheme mean for you?

Tegan Kissane – NDIA – National Disability Insurance Agency

6:00pm – What financial support is available to you?

Barbara Quick, CENTRELINK

Henbury Café & Beverage Trailer Open

Hot and cold drinks and food from our menu $2.00 each

BBQ Dinner

Raising money for the “Rising Stars Basketball Competition” $1.50 sausages and $2.00 soft drinks

Entertainment on the stage

from 2pm

Try a Skill in our Enterprise Education

work spaces from 3pm to 4pm

Classrooms Open from 4:30pm to

5:30pm

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Senior Students collect, count and tally coins for

Nemarluk’s sponsored child in Ethiopia.

We need your help!

This term, a total of $52.60 was raised!

Please send in all your spare change to help us

reach our terms goal of $100.

Thank you everyone for saving your coins. Keep

them coming via your child’s

communication book or by popping into the

school office