NORFOLK ISLAND CENTRAL SCHOOL

AUWAS SKUUL NYUUSAUWAS SKUUL NYUUSAUWAS SKUUL NYUUS Volume No. 27 Week 6(B) 17th August

Principal’s Report

Week 5 turned out to be another great week at NICS! Our

debating team performing out of their skins again and we

wished Sam Cribb all the best as he headed off to Fiji to

compete in the Pacific-Oceania Championship for tennis.

Sam is the perfect ambassador for the Island and for his

school. He was chosen to represent in Fiji because of his

great tennis skills but he is also recognised here at Norfolk

Island Central School for his polite and respectful

disposition and great leadership.

Our Partnerships for Learning Program was in full flight

last week because of the generosity of two of our great

Local Heroes. Jimbo Tavener and Matty Bigg worked with

our senior students to complete the garden beds at the

school. As Matt told the students it is the soil composition

that is the ‘secret’ to great gardening success. Deb

Johnson is leading the Stephanie Alexander Team at NICS.

Thanks to all who have given their time and energy to

getting our gardens to this stage of completion.

If you see our Year 12 students out and about please wish

them luck as they continue with their Trial Exams.

General Capabilities -Literacy

Introduction

In the Australian Curriculum, students become literate as

they develop the knowledge, skills and dispositions to

interpret and use language confidently for learning and

communicating in and out of school and for participating

effectively in society. Literacy involves students in listening

to, reading, viewing, speaking, writing and creating oral,

print, visual and digital texts, and using and modifying

language for different purposes in a range of contexts.

The Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for

Young Australians (MCEETYA 2008) recognises literacy as

an essential skill for students in becoming successful

learners and as a foundation for success in all learning

areas. Success in any learning area depends on being able

to use the significant, identifiable and distinctive literacy

that is important for learning and representative of the

content of that learning area.

Scope of the Literacy capability

Literacy encompasses the knowledge and skills students

need to access, understand, analyse and evaluate

information, make meaning, express thoughts and

emotions, present ideas and opinions, interact with

others and participate in activities at school and in

their lives beyond school.

Becoming literate is not simply about knowledge and

skills. Certain behaviours and dispositions assist

students to become effective learners who are

confident and motivated to use their literacy skills

broadly. Many of these behaviours and dispositions

are also identified and supported in other general

capabilities. They include students managing their

own learning to be self-sufficient; working

harmoniously with others; being open to ideas,

opinions and texts from and about diverse cultures;

returning to tasks to improve and enhance their work;

and being prepared to question the meanings and

assumptions in texts.

Literacy across the curriculum

Literacy presents those aspects of the Language and

Literacy strands of the English curriculum that should

also be applied in all other learning areas. It is not a

separate component of the Australian Curriculum and

does not contain new content.

While much of the explicit teaching of literacy occurs

in the English learning area, it is strengthened, made

specific and extended in other learning areas as

students engage in a range of learning activities with

significant literacy demands. These literacy-rich

situations are a part of learning in all curriculum areas.

Paying attention to the literacy demands of each learning

area ensures that students’ literacy development is

strengthened so that it supports subject-based learning.

We will be celebrating National Literacy and Numeracy

Week at NICS during the week 31st August – 6th September

2015.

Regards

Michelle Nicholson

Principal

School Photo’s

School Photos will be taken Tuesday 1st,

Wednesday 2nd & Thursday 3rd of Septem-

ber. Please find attached order form and

return to the front office by

Friday 28th August.

News from the Uniform Shop The School Uniform Shop is open on Friday afternoons

from 2.45pm to 3.30pm. For any urgent inquiries

please phone Sam Quintal on 50354 or Karen Buffett

on 55702. Cheese Burger Cheese Burger Cheese Burger --- $5$5$5

K -2 News

Literacy & Numeracy Week- 31st August – 6th September

The NICS Community is excited to celebrate the importance of literacy and

numeracy, the foundations of learning, within the school and with teachers, students and

parents. There will be a range of activities for literacy and numeracy that K-10 students will

participate in during the week.

Book Week Celebrations: “Books light up our world”

In conjunction with Literacy and Numeracy Week, K-6 will be celebrating Book Week during

week 8 on Wednesday 2nd September. The theme this year is “Books light up our world”.

Students are asked to bring in their favourite book that “lights up their

world”. They will be working on an art activity to be displayed in the

library, reading books in their peer support groups and illustrating books

through chalk graffiti art.

BANYAN PARK PLAYCENTRE INC

“Auwas letl salan gwen groe en lern thru pliehen.”

The younger group managed to dodge the raindrops and get into the playground for their outdoor activi-ties. They enjoy the sandpit and most have learnt the skill of facing away from others while digging, to prevent the sand going into another child’s face.

They also plan to plant some snow peas.

They have also enjoyed the experience of painting on silver paper.

Card games eg snap and memory have been played in small groups to focus on turn-taking and concentration.

The older group have been busy potting-up strawberries, chives and mint for the Spring Fair.

It’s amazing what can be done with only a broomstick and ball. The older group had a great deal of fun kicking a ball onto a piece of shade-cloth that was suspended above their heads and sweeping it off with the broom. Great coordi-nation was required.

Examining fabric, feathers and dragon fly wings through the microscope has also been a most interesting activity. Us-ing the tweezers to place the samples under the eye-piece required excellent eye/hand coordination.

banyanpark@ni.net.nf 22415

Garden Ready for Planting

On Tuesday under the watchful eye of Year 5 and 6, the last piece of the Stephanie Alexander

Garden was put into place when Matt Bigg from ‘Bigg Fresh’ and Jimbo from ‘Island Industries’

delivered the 24 tonnes of soil mixture that Matt had made. Three Construction students, Kez,

Lucian and Levi filled the garden beds with soil from the truck.

With the garden beds now ready for planting, we would like to thank everyone from students,

teachers and community members who helped us to arrive at this point with this gardening

project. We certainly could not have achieved this fantastic result without a team effort.

Year 9 2016 Parent and Student Information Evening

Subject Selection for 2016/Board of Studies

Thursday, 20th August, 2015

All parents and students are warmly invited to attend this important meeting

Where: Room 17/18

Time: 5.30pm – 6.15pm

Agenda:

Information and Questions for Electives

Submission of Elective choices

Staff will be available to answer any questions you may have regarding 2015 subject

selections.

Round 1 Year 7/8 Premier’s Debating

On Friday the Year 7/8 team of first speaker Ella Langusch, second speaker Milli Clark,

third speaker Sophie Ellem and team adviser, Harrison Hayes debated against Nambucca

Heads High School via Video Conference. The topic was that School uniforms should be

abolished. Our team was the negative and argued very effectively that uniforms should

NOT be abolished. Each speaker presented an articulate and well-composed argument

and were quite confident that they had won the debate. However, the adjudicator was not

convinced by our arguments and therefore awarded the debate to Nambucca Heads. Our

next debate is on Tuesday against Dorrigo High School and the final debate in our zone is

on Wednesday against another Nambucca Heads team. Please congratulate the students

when you see them as they certainly performed very impressively.

LC Most deadliest Animals in the World

Match the name to the picture.

Picture Name

Brown Bear

Scorpion

Dart Frog

Red Back Spider

Pie Ingredients

Year 11 will be making pies next Friday (21st) for the Lenny-lympics Pie eating competition.

If you would like to donate ingredients to the making of the pies (flour, butter, eggs, sugar,

coconut etc) that would be greatly appreciated. If you would like to contribute please drop

items off into the front office.

Thanks

Year 11