Wednesday 4 June 2008, Week 8 Term 2 Contact us: Telephone 8927 1655, Facsimile 8945 2193

email wanguri.prim@ntschools.net , http://www.schools.nt.edu.au/wangusch/

Dear Families

I hope you are all well and enjoying our wonderful weather. We have a number of fantastic community events happening soon. But before I talk about them, I would like to congratulate the Preschool staff and parents for their highly successful Preschool Lawn sale last Saturday. A lot of work went into preparation and this year Mrs Carter produced even more plants than last year! It’s a credit to

Mrs Grant, the Preschool team and parents for the positive atmosphere and their fantastic fundraising efforts.

Today the Northern Cluster Principal’s group met to plan the teams strategic direction and associated professional learning for staff in the Northern Suburbs over the next eighteen months. It was great to have the team meet in our new conference room yesterday. All the

Principals were very complementary about our office upgrade.

Thursday will be great with the Musica Viva annual performance commencing at 9 am. Students are familiar with many of the songs thanks to our Music Teacher, Mrs Kath Whitson. Parents are most welcome to join us.

Next week is an especially busy week. Our newly formed choir lead by Ms Emily Kuhn will perform at the Lyons Official Opening Celebration on Tuesday 10 June. Entertainment starts at 5.30 pm at the Lyons Garamanak Park. Our choir is the first to perform. Later on in the evening Jessica Mauboy performs.

The next night, Wednesday 11 June, is Disco night at Wanguri School! Times are found within the newsletter. On Thursday 12 June Sports Day activities commence with the field events for Years 3/4 Gawa, 4/5 Dorman, 5/6 Gilligan and 5/6 Kuhn. More details of the field events and sports day will be in next weeks newsletter.

Kind regards Jenny Robinson

Wanguri Primary School Newsletter

Personal Best

STUDENT OF THE WEEKSTUDENT OF THE WEEKSTUDENT OF THE WEEKSTUDENT OF THE WEEK

Working towards “Personal Best” through: Showing RespectShowing RespectShowing RespectShowing Respect

STAFF CLASS STUDENT REASON

Mrs Robinson Principal Richard Zanco Kay For making good choices in the play ground

Ms Leah Assistant Principal Kimmy Lee For being a kind and cooperative student

Mrs Grant Preschool Bambini Harrison Hill For always being willing to lend a hand and help his friends

Mrs Grant Preschool Enfants Steele Martin For settling well into Preschool and learning to follow our routines

Ms Stagg Preschool Djamarrkuli

Davis Zweck For being such a wonderful respectful student in the Preschool

Ms Stagg Preschool Pethi Maria Lelekis For always having wonderful manners at Preschool

Ms Jan T/1 Jesse Sellers For showing nice manners to others and caring about people when they are sad.

Mrs Perry T/1 Joe Edwards For working hard on his addition equations

Ms Giannasca T/1 Miah Wallace For always helping her peers in the classroom

Mrs Neve T/1 Telita Kellner For always showing respect to her friends and teachers

Mrs Baldock 2/3 Keely Oliver For ensuring everyone is included and listened to in group work

Mr Glover 2/3 Flora Radecki For enjoying the challenges of Mathematics

Ms Gawa 3/4 Sara Suliman, Lorn May and

Bob Al-Tai

For showing respect to peers and teachers during class time and play time. Well done everyone!

Mrs Dorman 4/5 Niamh Marah

For always displaying a positive outlook towards learning and being a super respectful member of our class

Ms Kuhn 5/6 Taliesha Peckham

For showing respect to teachers and students

Ms Gilligan 5/6 Jarrod West For showing respect by cooperating & working well with his peers

Mrs Humphrey/Ms Heraud

Special Needs Tahlia Griffin For always using her manners when speaking to adults

Big Oscar T/1 Giannasca

Oscar Junior T/1 Perry

Next Finance Meeting 11 June

Finance meetings are held on the 2nd Wednesday of every month

Next School Council Meeting 23 July

6:30pm - Staffroom School Council is every 3rd Wednesday of the month

Dates to Remember

Week

Date Event

Term 2

8 All week 5/6 6/6

Book Fair Musica Viva - Whole school performance, 9 -10am Assembly

9 9/6 10/6 11/6 12/6

Queens Birthday Holiday Lyons Community event, Our choir singing Blue Light Disco Sports Day Field Events, 8.45am

10 19/6 20/6

Sports Day - 12 noon start to school Sports Day Assembly, 2.15pm Last day of Term 2

Term 3 Week

Date Event

1 22/7 25/7

Students resume Term 3 Darwin Show Holiday

2 28/7 Assembly

3 4/8 Picnic Day Holiday

4 11/8 Assembly

5 21/8 Year 6 Canberra Excursion

NT School Sports coming events

This Friday the Northern Suburbs Cluster is holding a Touch Football

Gala day at Fannie Bay. A team of Wanguri students will be attending

with the assistance of Daniel Paolucci , Annemarie Heraud and Miss

Leah.

Preschool News The Preschool’s annual Lawn Sale was held last Saturday. A big thank you to all the preschool/school families that do-nated time and goods. It was a huge success, raising $2330.00. WELL DONE! Thanks must also go to Denis Marah, Wynyard Lum, Helen Humphreys, Emma Fitzsimons, Melanie Mitchell, Elice Crisp, Olga Dalrymple, Guy Glover, Robyn Nowland & Leanne Phillips for their

fantastic help with selling our second hand school furniture.

Bluelight Disco

When: Next Wednesday 11 June

Where: Wanguri Primary School

Times: 5.30pm - 6.30pm Transition to Year 3

6.45pm - 8.15pm Year 4 to 6

Entry $2.00

Food & Drinks will be available

Persisting

Managing

Impulsivity

Thinking

Flexibly

Metacognition

Striving for

Accuracy

Questioning &

Problem Posing

Applying Past

Knowledge to

New Situations

Thinking and

Communicating

with Clarity &

Precision

Gathering Data

through all

Senses

Creating,

Imagining and

Innovating

Responding with

Wonderment &

Awe

Taking Responsi-

ble Risks

Finding Humour

Thinking Inter-

dependently

Remaining Open

to Continuous

Learning

In last week’s newsletter I discussed teaching Habits of Mind and how it

explicitly supports students’ identify productive mental habits that, along with

attitudes and perceptions, form the backdrop of the learning process.

The dispositions identified are called habits because it is important to increase

the frequency with which students display them, just as it is important to

encourage students to develop good study and/or listening habits.

The habits of mind fall into three general categories: critical thinking, creative

thinking, and self regulated thinking.

If you have mental habits that exemplify critical thinking, you tend to

� Be accurate and seek accuracy

� Be clear and seek clarity

� Maintain an open mind

� Restrain impulsivity

� Take a position when the situation warrants it

� Respond appropriately to others’ feelings and level of knowledge

If you have mental habits that exemplify creative thinking, you tend to

� Persevere

� Push the limits of your knowledge and abilities

� Generate, trust, and maintain your own standard of evaluation

� Generate new ways of viewing a situation that are outside the boundaries of

standard conversations

If you have mental habits that exemplify self-regulated thinking, you tend

to

� Monitor your own thinking

� Plan appropriately

� Identify and use necessary resources

� Respond appropriately to feedback

� Evaluate the effectiveness of your actions

There are many approaches that can help students develop and use productive

habits of mind in the classroom. I am hoping that by providing some

information that this may assist quality conversations about how your child

may be effective and successful across all aspects of their lives.

We need your recycling

5/6 Gilligan are going to be doing some design & technology in class

and would like: ♦ Magazines

♦ Boxes, paper towel/gladwrap rolls

♦ Bottle tops, lids ♦ Wrappers

♦ Twisty ties, string, wool And the list goes on, so if you have anything that the students could use to build, it would be greatly

appreciated.

Quiz night The Year 6 students that are travelling to

Canberra in August are holding a quiz night, please support them in helping keep the costs down by

supporting this event.

When: Saturday 19 July Where: Casuarina Club Time: 7pm for 7.30 start

Cost: $5.00 per person (Adult or child) Tickets are now on sale in the school front office - get in

quick they are selling fast

There will be a door prize, cash prizes to the top 3 groups and other games during the evening so come along for a fun evening.

T/1 Perry need your

help T/1 Perry are collecting can ring pulls, they would greatly appreciate any you could bring/send in to help their

collection.