Term 1 Week 7 Wednesday March 15th 2017

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Nightcliff

Primary Newsletter

Address: Cunjevoi Crescent

Nightcliff 0810

Email:

nightcliff.ps@ntschools.net Ph: 89 488 488

Fax: 89 488 499 Website: www.nightcliffprimary.nt.edu.au

Dear Parents and Guardians

Last Friday our student leaders received their school leadership badges at our celebration assembly. This was a proud moment for those who were elected and I am sure they will be wonderful representatives of their fellow students. Student leadership is quite simply what it sounds like; leadership on a student level. Why is this an important characteristic for a school to have? because schools, whether small or large, have similar attributes to those of a village or community.

As a school community there are hundreds of students, all from different backgrounds, with different beliefs, different values, and different personalities all coming together with different focuses in life. Students share goals and beliefs, the most important goal is to be accepted and to be confident individuals when discussing what is important to them as they progress through their school life. I know our newly elected leaders are a highly effective group of individuals and I look forward to working with them over the coming months. Congratulations everyone!

National Ride2School Day will happen Friday, 17th March.

Once again, we're inviting all family members and students to re-live the fun of riding to school by joining in the celebrations. The Nightcliff hub of schools, The Essington School, St Paul’s, Nightcliff Middle and Nightcliff Primary School have worked together to promote this special event. It would be great if we could have as many students as possible participating in this wonderful activity.

To capture this special event we will have photographers and a special photography drone operated by a professional company who will capture photos of the activity around the school and the Nightcliff schools precinct. (No photographs of students will be used without media permission) The photographs and video will be used by the school in promoting our active and safe travel to school program.

The drone will operate from a non-student area at the front of the school and the following guidelines apply for students and staff whilst the drone is in operation.

1. Do not approach or distract the drone pilot while the drone is in flight. Stay outside the markers. 2. Do not approach or distract the drone pilot while the drone is taking off and landing. Stay outside the markers. 3. Do not throw/kick anything in the direction of the drone. 4. If, in the unlikely event, the drone is forced into a landing outside the designated area - do not approach while the propellers are moving. 5. Try not to wave and jump about in front of the drone while we are filming - the footage looks better if you act naturally.

Congratulations to Mr. Hauser’s class on a wonderful performance at our last assembly. Gurrumul was very excited that our students were dancing to his music and most impressed that our students were learning about the importance of Indigenous culture and how music connects with his life and country. This has been very popular on Gurrumul’s Facebook page and also thank you to Michael Hohnen of Skinnyfish Music for supporting this. As always, if you are in the school grounds please drop in and say hello.

Best Wishes Graham Chadwick

Principal.

Honesty Caring Respect Inclusion Responsibility

Transition Cleanthous/Witte Henry Archbold Excellent focus and being a good contributor to

class discussion

Transiton Ruane Lily Dingle For working co-operatively with her peers and

demonstrating good leadership skills

Transition Maxsted Richelle Shridhar For her enthusiastic attitude

across all learning areas.

Transition Moore Blyanna Malinao For her growing confidence both inside

and outside the classroom

1 Dunbar Alaysha Baral Being an engaged and enthusiastic

learner.

1 Fowler Brooklyn Wake Always being a caring, inclusive and respectful member of the class. Great work Brooklyn!

1 Folley Finley Myer Paran Great improvement in your reading

comprehension and PM reading level

1/2 Hite Dayvon Petterson Completing all 300 sight words.

2 Bryson Oliver Archbold Using your knowledge of place value when

solving 3 digit addition problems.

2 Fereday Mariya Abhilash Hard work and enthusiasm in Maths.

2/3 Slack-Smith Samritha Bharanidharan Her huge improvement in reading so far this

year.

4 Patterson Allynna Batnag Great character development in

narrative writing. 4/5 Chan Harriet Cox Being a mature and responsible class

member who works well in all areas.

Science Clancy Pritchard For confidently explaining and

(3 Costelloe) demonstrating how we get day and night.

Andreas Karanikolas For drawing a detailed labelled

(4 Paterson) diagram of his soil profile.

Jessica Thomson For graphing and explaining results on ( 6 Hauser) earthquakes in Australia compared to our

neighbouring countries.

NEST Jaiden Flaherty Showing great leadership skills and directing

fellow students away from a Frilly .

Prime Maths - 1/2 Hite

Learning all about 10 using different combinations. We even made combinations using ourselves!

NPS Student Leadership 2017

School Captains Eirin Mahs-Gore (Female) Skev Politis-Stoddart (Male)

Vice School Captains Balraaj Singh Chahil (Male) Bessie Cox (Female)

House Captains

SRC

Fit Frilly Leaders

Flinders Tasman Stuart Gregory

House Captains:

Deepshikha Banjade (F)

Harry Niblock (M)

House Captains:

Liliana Mangohig (F)

Lewis Robbins (M)

House Captains:

Sommer Krake (F)

Damon Krake (M)

House Captains:

Chrissie Taylor (F)

Nikitas Nicholas (M)

Vice Captains:

Geordie Race (M)

Angie Packwood (F)

Vice Captains:

Travis McDougall (M)

Lucy Hebblethwaite (F)

Vice Captains:

Ayrton Bradbury (M)

Eva Hohnen (F)

Vice Captains:

Howard Lapdez (M)

Anila Shyju (F)

Class Male Female

3 Slack-Smith Rory Dingle Chesca Metica

3 Costelloe Bailey Young Alice Cotter

3 Mihailou Angus Packwood Anelia Lovelle

4/5 Chan William Innes Harriet Cox

4 Patterson Andreas Karanikolas Charli Penrose

4 Magee Gabriel Perry Maliya Loveard

5/6 More Bill Cotter Scarlett Young

5 Barnett Angus Robbins Selena Marotti 6 Hauser Richard Petterson Jessica Thompson

6 Kokkinomagoulos Lindsay Balaam Bless Pitago

4/5 Chan 4 Magee 4 Patterson

Marcus Mariotti Riley Kearney

Kheexia Labay

James Jo

Poppy Goat Antonios Iliou

Arinjay Kakria

Augustin (Gus) Mullany

Divyata Pandey

Nazmus Saquib

Allynna Batnag

Kayla Watkins

Leon Zammit Sophie Kuswadi

March

Every Friday Banking - Bendigo bank. 14th,15th & 16th March Darwin Region AFL Trials 10 - 12 Years Friday 17th March National Ride 2 School Day. Friday 17th March National Day of Action - Bullying NO WAY! Friday 17th March Early Years Rad Safety Assembly. Tuesday 21st March Harmony Day. Friday 24th March Harmony Day Assembly hosted by 3 Costelloe & 2/3 Slack - Smith.

1. Harold Niblock (House Captain)

2. Angie Packwood ((House VC)

3. Harriet Matthiesson

4. Kai Ehrenbrandtner

5. Lucy Hebblethwaite (House VC)

6. Mia Diggens

7. Zhanae Williams

8. Jaida lucev ECO Warriors

9. Anaa Sarmast

10. Themelina Vlamos

11. Lucas Gabriel

12. Chrysi Kaloudis

13. Cillian Hayes

14. Eva Hohnen (House VC)

15. Scarlett Young (SRC)

Our NPS Tigers have backed up their undefeated 2016 AFLNT Inter-School Premiership with another undefeated premiership at the Darwin region School AFL Gala Day last Wednesday at TIO Stadium. Our students competed in Pool A, the top pool of the competition and all performed outstandingly against all of their opponents. One student performance stood out at the competition was that of Vice Captain Lewis Robbins who kicked 5 goals at the lightning competition which included a 3 goal haul against Larrakeyah PS. Another key feature of the carnival was our new compulsory NPS school sport rule of all students having to wear Head Guards and Mouth Guards. NPS has now become the first school in the Northern Territory to enforce this rule and we have drawn praise from officials at AFLNT, Darwin Region Schools and two AFLW Crows players who were present on the day. As a school we purchased our own set of head guards and have arranged for students to receive free mouth guards from the NT Government. Our Nightcliff Primary School Sports program believes in Safe, Successful Students and these students last Wednesday were: Damon Krake (Captain), Lewis Robbins (Vice Captain), Christopher Pascoe, Balraaj Singh Chahil, Daniel Amoko,, Nikitas Karanikolas, Alexander James, Travis McDougall, Geordie Race, Pierre Kwana, Leon Zammit, Jack Hewett, Rhys McIntyre, Angus Robbins and William Innes. Mathew Ryan

NPS HPE Teacher & Sporting Schools Coordinator

2016 AFLNT School Ambassador of the year

Accredited Level 1 AFL Youth Coach

Free Wildlife Encounter at Casuarina Library!

Saturday 18th March at 2pm

Bush Tales and Ark Aid would like to invite you to a free wildlife encounter and interactive learning experience for the whole family. This fun and interactive show offers a unique opportunity to learn about Australia's fascinating animals and their threatened habitats. Come along to Casuarina Library to meet some amazing wildlife and learn how YOU can help take care of your backyard buddies!

Go Tigers!!! ROAR!!!

Nightcliff University Tigers Hockey Club

Family Fun Day

Tigers are holding a family fun day on 19th March from 3 to 6pm at

the Nightcliff Sports Club.

Juniors, seniors, new and interested players, social

members, friends and family all welcome. We will be having a sausage sizzle and there will be lots of fun

activities foe everyone to enjoy. Refreshments will be available to

purchase. If you are new to Darwin or returning to hockey from a break,

come down and meet the committee, Coaches Managers and

players. For more details, follow us on facebook or Instagram

or visit our website: http://www.tigershockeyclub.com/