Email: admin.malak@ntschools.net

Ph: 89977600 Principal: Lorraine Evans

Malak Matters

Term 1 – Week 3 – 14/02/2018

DALAY – Monsoon Season

Dear Families

I have a giant award hanging outside my office – awarded to the whole

school at our first assembly – for: “The Most Bucket-Filling Start to a

School Year.” The idea comes from a whole school text we use at

Malak Primary called Have You Filled a Bucket Today? This heart-

warming book encourages positive behaviour by using the idea of an

invisible bucket to show children how easy and rewarding it is to

express kindness, appreciation, and love by filling buckets. The

bucket-filling start has been achieved through calm and busy

classrooms, students trying hard and showing persistence, playtimes

that are happy and safe and beautiful manners and connectedness. Our

students feel welcomed and welcome others. My bucket is brimming

over!

Thank you to the families who braved the wet weather to come and

meet our teachers and visit the classrooms last night at our annual

Meet and Greet, it was great to see you. Thank you to our local

member Ms. Ngaree Ah Kit for supplying the sausages for our

sausage sizzle – we love having a Malak alumni supporting our

school community so well. For our new families, the Meet and Greet

is an opportunity to put a face to a name, hear about the planned

curriculum and see the baseline data walls and student goals in our

key learning areas for each student. If you would like to discuss

your child’s progress and learning in detail, you are invited to make

a time through the front office so that you and your child’s teacher

can have a focused and private conversation.

While I am issuing invitations, a big opportunity is coming up for

any parents wishing to play an active role in our school with our

School Council meeting to be held next Tuesday 20th February at

5.30pm in the conference room at Malak School. This is a chance

to hear a little bit more about our school and what 2018 holds for our

school community. Everyone is welcome to come along – even if

you’d just like to listen before deciding to commit to being a

member of Council. We will also be holding our Annual General

Meeting on Tuesday 13th March at 5.30pm, it would be great to

see lots of family members there at the meeting.

Important dates to

remember:

Playgroup Friday after assembly

9:00 to 10:30 at the

Preschool.

All welcome

February

Tue 13 to Fri-16 Life Education – Happy

Heathy Harold

Tue 20 School Council meeting

5:30 pm conference room

March

Tue 13

Annual General

Meeting Malak

School council

5:30 pm Conference

Room

Wed 21 to Fri 23

Harmony Day

Celebrations

Malak School – ‘Learning For Life’

Along with our Writing goals for 2018, some of our extra programs have begun and more will come

online in coming weeks. Drop Everything and Read has commenced for every student; Chess Club in

the library at recess is underway as well; our School Choir has met once already and the eligible Year

5’s and 6’s are very excited about being part of the BEAT this year. This week saw the arrival of a

very large truck from Life Education – providing state of the art learning for every student across our

school. This amazing opportunity was only possible due to the generosity of a sponsor – who paid for

our school community to access the program. We are very grateful to Suzy from Life Education and

our sponsor Hyundai Help for Kids.

Our Sanderson Region Sports Program has begun for students in Years 3 to 6. Years 3 to 4 will

participate in skill lessons and an intraschool competition; Years 5 to 6 will participate in skills

sessions and intra and interschool competitions with Anula, Wulagi, Karama and Manunda Terrace

students. Our first sports are AFL and Netball – and it was great to see students sharing their learning

on the playground.

Have a great term, enjoy the monsoon as it comes and goes – the students have been very patient

when wet weather lunch has to be implemented; more bucket filling! Please don’t hesitate to contact

us for any further information, to congratulate us or with any concerns or ideas.

Kind regards

Lorraine Evans

Principal Malak Primary School

Life Education NT – Healthy Harold

Life Education NT offers schools and young people an interactive health and drug education program

that is age appropriate, in line with National School Curriculum and supports teachers to deliver

quality health education in the classroom.

Sessions are held in the Mobile Learning Centre and are designed to be hands on and child centred.

Students discover the wonders of the body and how best to care for their physical, social and

emotional well-being. Teacher resources are available pre and post visit with access to our online

resources and follow up workbooks. Parents are encouraged to visit our Parent Hub via

www.lifeeducation.org.au.

This year we have been fortunate to receive sponsorship through Life Education and Hyundai Help

for Kids. They will be at Malak School in Week 3 from the 13/2/18.

We would like to show our appreciation of this support

by giving a gold coin donation from each student.

Please send $1 or $2

with your child to school by the 23/2/18.

Malak School – ‘Learning For Life’

Contact Details It is most important to keep your contact information up-to-date to enable the

school to be able to contact you in the case of emergency. If you have changed

phone numbers or address please advise the school of your new contact details

as soon as possible.

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CHANGE TO RECESS AND LUNCH EATING TIMES

Please be advised that there will be a slight change to recess and lunch eating times in 2018. Students will continue to have the same recess and lunch supervised play times but will eat their food in class after their break. As recess will be slightly later we are encouraging families to participate in Crunch & Sip in the morning. This is a short 5-10 minute break where students can have a drink of water and a fruit or veggie snack. Some ideas include carrots, cherry tomatoes, grapes, apples, bananas and celery. Choose something easy to eat that isn’t messy. There are plenty of ideas and helpful tips on the below website; www.healthykids.com.au/crunchsip-healthy-snack-ideas

BACK TO SCHOOL PAYMENT SCHEME

Just a reminder to all families if you haven’t used your Back to School Voucher please come into the Front Office to utilize A.S.A.P. Vouchers need to be completed by 13 April.

Malak School – ‘Learning For Life’

Congratulations to Pre Green for the best attendance in Week 1

Congratulations to Pre Yellow for the best attendance in Week 2 Term 1

Class % Week 1 % Week 2 % Term Av.

Pre Green 100.00 87.76 93.75

Pre Yellow 90.74 96.30 93.33

T1/ Brown 73.56 85.39 79.55

T1/ Rigby 79.52 77.11 78.77

1/2 Chitturi 91.79 94.90 93.30

1/2 Lucky 81.28 89.33 85.04

2/3 Day 80.90 90.41 85.19

3/4 McNair 85.71 91.43 88.57

4/5 Fowler 85.98 94.81 90.25

4/5 Kmon 80.21 81.52 80.85

5/6 Clark 89.09 92.96 90.93

5/6 Kingham 82.52 92.27 87.08

Indigenous 77.68 82.98 79.83

MPS total 86.44 89.46 87.71

Due to unforeseen circumstances the canteen will be closed until

further notice

We are sorry for the inconvenience

Malak School – ‘Learning For Life’

CLASS

AWARD STUDENT

CLASS AWARD STUDENT

PRE

SCHOOL

Literacy Zandah Langelaan 3/4

MCNAIR

Literacy Nina Gikopoulos

Numeracy Fernandito Da Silva Numeracy Jack Stapleton

YCDI Keith Drennan YCDI Yeemiao Yeo

Positive

Behaviour

Jaonas Sloane Positive

Behaviour

Sean Jumburra

4/5

FOWLER

Literacy Naieema

Hampton

Numeracy Feiloaki Newman

YCDI Mason Waikato

Positive

Behaviour

Joseph Wesley

T/1

BROWN

Literacy Jazmin Tooke 4/5

KMON

Literacy Francis Baird

Numeracy Alexis Gibb Numeracy Andrew Kelly

YCDI Isabella Drewett YCDI Daniella Ferreira

de Araujo

Positive

Behaviour

Eileen McDinny Positive

Behaviour

Tatiyana Malibirr

T/1

RIGBY

Literacy Lucy Santomingo 5/6

CLARK

Literacy Devon Vong

Numeracy Savannah Cooper Numeracy Aaron

Chittendon-

Forrester

YCDI Natalina Lay YCDI Ricky Noble

Positive

Behaviour

Adin Thein Positive

Behaviour

Rita Lopes

1/2

CHITTURI

Literacy Annabeth Spillett 5/6

KINGHAM

Literacy Bernice Ortiz

Numeracy Yeezhan Yeo Numeracy Christine

Nishimwe

YCDI Maurice Seden YCDI Eli Rivers

Positive

Behaviour

Mayundo Emedi Positive

Behaviour

Shyanne AhMat

1/2

LUCKY

Literacy Mandy Jong

Numeracy Chaniqua Sloane

YCDI Noor Kashif

Positive

Behaviour

Kira-Lee Handley

2/3 DAY Literacy Calvin Cooper

Numeracy Felismina Pereira

YCDI Larina Hampton

Positive

Behaviour

Lilly King

Merit Awards Week 2 Term 1

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Malak School – ‘Learning For Life’

T/1 Rigby

We are a class of enthusiastic learners and we are getting to know our new classroom and classmates. We are finding out where to find the things we need and where things belong. Our learning outcomes are:

Learning to share with our friends

While we are sharing we are also learning to sort shapes, numbers and letters.

We are learning that we pack up quickly and quietly.

Malak School – ‘Learning For Life’