TRANSITION to YEAR 2
ISSUE
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7th April 2017
Upcoming Events
Friday 7th April
End of Term 1
Tuesday 18th April
Term 2 Commences
Wednesday 19th &
Thursday 20th April
Preschool/Junior School/
Middle School Parent
Teacher Discussions
3-6pm
Tuesday 25th April
ANZAC Day Public
Holiday
Monday 1st May
May Day Public Holiday
From the Head of Junior
School Transition to Year 2
Congratulations to all our
learners and teachers on an
incredible Term 1! Our
Transition to Year 2 students
have been engaged in so
many great learning
experiences. I have loved spending time in
our classrooms sharing in their learning and
watching their skills develop over the term.
This week we held our first Student
Representative Council (SRC) meeting, and
Every child is on their own journey and we
there are already so many exciting ideas
love celebrating with them each success
being discussed. We are really looking
along the way. Please take the time to speak forward to sharing our plans with you early
with your child about what they are proud of next term, and providing opportunities for all
this term and congratulate them on their
students to contribute to building student
amazing efforts. Sincere thanks to our
initiatives within the school.
teachers for their tireless work in developing
their learning programs to cater for every
Grandparent’s Day was celebrated with
individual child. We are looking forward to a open classrooms and shared morning tea in
continuing year of amazing learning.
our Pre-Transition and Transition classes
Class 1A performed their Assembly Item, ‘Maths Rap’, last Friday.
THOUGHT
FOR THE WEEK
The starting point of all achievement is desire. ~ Napoleon Hill
Transition to Year 2 Report
this week. We had an awesome
attendance of families and special
friends. I love that our children invited
so many ‘honorary’ grandparents as
living away from family is so often the
case, and having multigenerational
relationships enrich our children’s lives
in so many ways.
On our first day of Term 2, we
welcome Ms Louise Fanning back
from maternity leave. Ms Louise will be
returning to our Early Years Program
as our Preschool 1 and 2 Teacher. Ms
Kristy is preparing for her own
gorgeous new arrival.
A huge congratulations to Mrs
Johnson and her husband Ben, on the
safe arrival of their beautiful baby girl,
Honour Sierra, born on Wednesday
5th April. Our whole school community
sends them our love and best wishes
at this incredible time in their lives.
We hope that your family enjoys a
restful and re-energizing one week
break! Have a wonderful Easter long
weekend, and we look forward to
seeing you all in Term 2!
From the Principal/CEO
Visit by International
Education Agents
On Tuesday our school
hosted a visit by eleven
international education
agents from different
countries in Asia, Europe, and South
America. Their visit to Darwin was part
of an initiative by the NT
Government’s StudyNT that promotes
the Northern Territory to international
students. While in Darwin they visited
Charles Darwin University,
International House (at CDU),
Unilodge (Casuarina), the
International College of Advanced
Education, NAVITAS Language
College, and The Essington School
Darwin. A number of our Transition,
Junior School, and Middle School
students enjoyed welcoming the
agents. Our Middle School students
provided a welcome dance from our
Chinese Lion to the sound of our
Chinese drums and cymbals. The
agents were very interested in our
programs, and were very impressed
by our students’ performance on
national and international
assessments. We look forward to
Super Stars of The Week
Congratulations to this week’s Super
Stars:
 Transition: Aisha Smith
 Year 1:
Brooke Weatherald
 Year 2:
Ami Sakabe
Merit Awards
Congratulations to this week’s Merit
Awardees:
Transition
TC: Shian Withanage, Zoe
Akkermans
TD: Sy Mcquillan, Vincent Hiroti
TE: Sophia Nemarich, William
Pengelly
Year 1
1A: Connor Charles, Alessia
Handford
1B: Jaslyn Gonsalves, Mudiwa
Muchinguri
1C: Oliver Houben
Year 2
2A: David Rodriguez-Malave, Isaac
Kim, Jasper Gardiner
2B: Johanna Apresto, Walter Currie
2C: Kaylee Mendham, Mattia Douin
2D: Matilda Waugh, Mitchell Hocking
Specialist Awards
 ICT: Allegra Di Somma, Savannah
Weinert
 Art: Hiroto Kabayashi, Isacc
Campbell, Arata Miura, Class 1C
 Indonesian: Aarika Gurung, Sy
McQuillan, Alannah Read, Amber
Overall, Takumi Shoji
 EAL: Hiroto Kobayashi
Birthday Wishes! W/E 09/04/2017
We wish a Happy Birthday to the
following students who celebrated their
birthdays this week:
Bridie Goodluck
Dylan Kildare
Harley Smart
Kilarni Whiting
We also wish a Happy Birthday to the
following students who will celebrate
their birthdays next week:
Christina Prouzos
Alessia Handford
Sahrah Hancock
Leeroy Mugabe
Renee Schultz
Acting Head of Junior School:
Transition to Year 2
students from overseas joining our
school in coming years.
will continue during the April school
holiday break. The completed Studio
will feature a floating wooden floor,
Work Commences on New Dance/
mirrors, bars, and an instant replay
Drama Studio
video system for immediate feedback
Work commenced last week on the
for our Dance students. We look
refurbishment of our old office area off forward to the completion of this
Rossiter Street into a Dance/Drama
project during Term 2.
Studio. The first stage of demolition
Our International Education Agent visitors enjoyed the Lion Dance welcome.
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Principal/CEO Report
Year 4 and 5 Camps
This last week of Term 1 saw the
commencement of our Outdoor
Education Camp program. Year 4 and
5 students travelled to Batchelor for
their program of outdoor activities.
Thank you to Spencer Harvey and
supervising teachers for making these
Camps possible. We look forward to
photos and stories in the Bulletin in
Week 1 Term 2.
Middle School Camps Commence
Week One Term 2
In the first week of Term 2, our Year 8s
have their Outdoor Education Camp
from Wednesday 19th to Friday 21st
April.
Interschool Debating Success
Congratulations to our Year 9
Debating Team, Mia Hardcastle,
Harvey Stiller-Wojkowski, and Otto
Blum, who have made their way to the
Interschool Debating Competition. We
wish them all the best in the Finals in
early Term 2. Thank you to Middle
School Learning Extension
Coordinator, Jo Masters, for her
organisation of our interschool
debating teams and her support of our
students.
THE ANNUAL GENERAL M
MEETING
EETING
of The Essington School Darwin Ltd.
will be held on Friday 28th April
at 6.30pm in the Library on the
main campus.
Details can be found on the school’s
website in the ‘Our Parents’ section
CYBERSAFETY
Named Pavers
For information on cybersafety, prepared by the
Please support our fundraising for our
Australian Federal Police through their Think U
Building Fund – and record your child
Know program, see www.thinkuknow.org.au.
or families part in our school
This site provides information and tips for parents.
community permanently – by
The CyberReport Team of the Office of the
Our Year 6 and Year 7 students also
purchasing a named paver. These
Children’s eSafety Commissioner can also assist
have their Outdoor Education Camps
named pavers can have your child or
and follow up concerns: www.esafety.gov.au.
early in Term 4: Year 6s in two groups family (or business name) on them.
from Wednesday 10th to Friday 12th
You will see previously ordered pavers
May; and Year 7s from the 29th May to in the walkway off Rossiter Street and Drop Off, Pick Up and Road Safety
2nd June (at Lake Bennett).
in front of our Canteen.
Darwin City Council and NT Police will
be enforcing the Kiss and Go Drop Off
NAPLAN 2017 Assessment Early
Order forms for named pavers to be
zones between 7-8.30 am, and 2.30Term 2
placed in the new section in front of
3.30 pm. At these times the Kiss and
Our Year 3, 5, 7 and 9 students will be the Canteen are currently being taken. Go Zones are not available for parking.
completing their five literacy and
The purchase of a named paver
numeracy NAPLAN assessments early supports our Building Fund fundraising All Preschool Students
in Term 2 (Week 4). These national
appeal for this year. We require a large Pink parking lines have been painted
assessments provide us with a
order of these pavers so we only do
in the Rossiter Street carpark for the
significant amount of data, and assist
them once every year or two. We
use of Preschool parents only.
us to plan extension and support
encourage families to collect an order
programs, and set future goals. We
form from one of our Reception Desks David Cannon
are keen to have a 100% attendance
and place their order by the end of
Principal/CEO
rate for our NAPLAN assessments.
April so we can order a new batch.
This will allow us to have this batch
A Second Series of Our Children’s
back and installed for Term 3 this year.
Picture Story Books
In August 2016, we launched our set
of ten children’s picture story books
written by our students in Years 4, 5,
and 6. These story books featured
everyday native animals found around
Darwin and familiar to our children.
The series has been a great success
with local bookshops and national
book distributors in Adelaide and
Brisbane selling these books. In Term
2, our Writer in Residence and editor
of our children’s picture story books,
Joanne van Os, will begin to work with
another group of our students on our
second series of books. Some of the
animals in last year’s series will make
another appearance, and some new
animals will be included. We look
forward to working with our Writer in
Residence, Joanne van Os, and
illustrator, Joan Andropov, on this
second series.
Class 1A preparing to perform their Assembly Item, ‘Maths Rap’, last Friday.
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General Notices
Our Middle School Dancers are participating in a weekend
of Dance Workshops and social activities from 7th-9th April.
DANCE FITNESS resumes Week 1 of
Junior School Dancers and families are most welcome to
next term.
join in the following social events:
th
 Friday 7 April from 3.30pm Wave Pool and Dinner at
Permission notes have been emailed to all
the Waterfront/Wharf.
parents detailing all rehearsals and shows

Sunday 9th April from 5.00pm BYO dinner at Sunset
for the 2017 Dance Showcase, ‘Coming
Park, Nightcliff.
Home’. They are also available on EduKite
or from the Junior School Reception Desk.
Please complete the notes and return as soon as possible. Please note that Junior School students will need to be
supervised by parents. We hope you can come and join us
for some relaxation and fun.
The Monday Dance Fitness class are also invited to
perform at the Nightcliff Seabreeze Festival on Saturday
6th May at 5pm. Please save this date, and further details Lisa Svara
Dance Teacher
will be provided shortly.
Dance Notices
Student Achievements in Sport
Pratt Boys – Palmerston Tennis Open
The Tennis Palmerston Open was held
last weekend 2nd-3rd April.
Congratulation to Lincoln (Year 4B) and
Myles (Year 1A) Pratt who represented
their club extremely well at the event.
Lincoln won the Green Ball Doubles and
was runner up in the U/10 Boys Singles Final, with that
match lasting a gruelling one and a half hours. Myles won
the Red Ball Singles and Doubles, rounding out a great
weekend for the brothers. Well done boys!
If your child has any great sporting achievements
throughout the year, please email
[email protected] and this will be
acknowledged in the Bulletin and on occasions at
Assembly. Photos are most welcome.
Angela Foley
Director of Sport
XBOX ONE RAFFLE
We are raffling off an Xbox One with bonus games and controller
which was donated by the Media Animation Team, who won it at the
ACMI Awards last year. All money raised will go towards resources for
the Media Dept.
Tickets are $3 each or 2 for $5 and are on
sale in both our Reception Desks
at the main campus.
Drawn 28th April, Week 2 Term 2
I CE S KATI NG
7th to 17th April
Foskey Pavilion
Darwin Showgrounds
A temporary rink set up for the school holidays
with friendly staff on the rink to help skaters of all levels.
For session times and bookings: Facebook: search Darwin Ice Skating,
or www.eventbrite.com.au, search Darwin Ice Skating.
Further information: [email protected] or
Phone: 0431 053 968.