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Humpty Doo Primary School - Newsletter Learning for Life Inclusion - Honesty - Personal Best - Respect - Responsibility Week 4, Term 4 - 3 November 2017 What’s On Friday 3 November Halloween Disco Thursday 9 November REACH Saturday 25 November Preschool Open Day Monday 4 December 2018 Step Up program School Council Meeting Wednesday 6 December Preschool Graduation Friday 8 December Year 6 Graduation Tuesday 12 December End of Year Awards Ceremony Wednesday 13 December Reports Home Attendance: 89.74% All student absences must be notified. If your child is away please notify the office 89881255 On your School Stream App, SMS: 0438 246 300 or @[email protected] Principal’s News Congratulaons Ms Kaitlin, our wonderful Preschool Assistant. Kaitlin was nominated for Support Person of the Year for the NT and was well supported at the awards evening with a large cohort of Humpty Doo staff. We appreciate everything you do Ms Kaitlin! Preschool will be holding their open morning on Saturday 25 November. Please come along if your child will be enrolling or commencing in 2018. Places are almost at capacity for preschool enrolment in 2018. Look out for the final fundraiser, the Christmas raffle, to be drawn at the preschool graduaon assembly on 6 December. Our Step Up program for the whole school will be held on the morning of Monday 4 December. This provides our students with an opportunity to get to know their new class and teacher for 2018, being familiar with a new space and new faces will assist our students at the commencement of the school year. It also establishes expectaons and rounes. Although we work hard to reduce changes to class composions there are usually some unforeseen changes between December and January and this will be explained to students on Step Up day. The Working Bee was a success on Friday aſternoon with many families remaining behind aſter the school bell to chip in and keep our Lilyman Garden looking well-loved. Thank you to all who donated their me. End of Year assessments commenced at the beginning of this term with our PAT (progressive achievement test) in Mathemacs and English. The results have been extremely posive showing consistent growth right across the school from year one to year six. Data from these assessments will be used by teachers to develop targeted learning opportunies and as a way to triangulate achievement data. Semester Two reports will be sent home in week 10 this term. Teachers will connue to be in contact with families regarding results so there are no surprises within these reports. Please contact your teacher to discuss your child’s progress and results. Aendance has a direct impact on student achievement and our data clearly demonstrates that students with inconsistent aendance or aendance below 80% have lower school achievement results than their peers. Please support your child to come to school every day. See you at the disco tonight! Ali Brady
