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Stuart Park Primary Update
Term 2 Week 4
From the Principal ...
NAPLAN Schedule of Events
This week the Minister for Education, Lauren Moss, visited our
school to wish our students in Years 3 and 5 all the best for
NAPLAN. Students in Year 3 Slidders were able to showcase
their skills navigating the practice test site and answering May 11th to 21st
questions about the test. Naplan Weeks
For the next two weeks, our students will be completing Monday, May 17th
NAPLAN tests. These include; a writing task, conventions of School Council meeting
language, reading and numeracy. For the first time, these
tests will be completed online with the exception of the Year 3 May 26th and 27th
students completing the writing task in booklets. School Photo Days
To prepare and support our students, teachers have completed Wednesday, May 26th
practice sessions to give our students exposure to the testing Preschool Wheel-a-thon
platform and a chance to navigate the online tools in a realistic
environment. You can support your child by reminding them to Friday, May 28th
simply do their best on the day and by ensuring that they have Whole School Assembly
a good night sleep and have a healthy breakfast at home.
Monday, June 14th
From a school perspective we look forward to receiving Queen’s Birthday Public
the results as the data obtained helps to inform our future Holiday
planning and teaching.
Tuesday, June 22nd
If you would like to view an example of a NAPLAN Online Stuart Park Arts Festival
assessment please visit the Public Demonstration Site at
https://nap.edu.au/online-assessment/public-demonstration-
site
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Mother’s Day Plant Sale - Thank you!
Our Mother’s Day Plant Sale was a huge success! We raised $1490.00. Thank you to all who came
along and purchased some plants. Well done to the Year 4 students and their teachers for preparing
and planting the seedlings. Thanks to the Fundraising Team from our School Council for assisting with
the running of the stall. The biggest thank you goes to the Best Gardener in Darwin, Mr. Neville! Our
amazing plant sale would not have been possible without your guidance, knowledge, dedication and
hard work. Thanks a million Mr. Neville!
Uniform
At Stuart Park it is compulsory to
wear the correct uniform each day.
This consists of a shirt and shorts or
a dress. We are a Sun Safe School
and all students need to wear a wide
brimmed hat each day.
Students are required to wear closed
in shoes to school. Sneakers are
preferred especially when it comes to
running around at recess and lunch
and participating in PE lessons.
Homework at our School
Several years ago there were questions about what Homework should look like
and why do we do it. At Stuart Park School we researched effective approaches to
Homework and came up with the following:
Transition to Year 4 – no set regular written work but there is reading and
learning work such as spelling words, sounds, letters, maths tables.
Years 5 and 6 - Written work that follows work being done in class and checks for
understanding and learning work.
When deciding on this approach we used quite a bit of the research work of John
Hattie. Hattie has ranked many of the things schools and teachers do to promote
student learning. He did this through many thousands of studies. Homework
ranked 87th, quite low, in its effect on student learning.
We know it can cause grief at home and school and now we know that its
impact on improving learning outcomes is not great. The studies do show that
impact does increase as the year levels get higher so preparing our students for
increased homework in middle school and high school is a good idea.
There are a lot of interventions that schools can make that enhance student
learning. The challenge is to concentrate on those that make the biggest
difference.
QUESTACON - Foldable Flight
During last week the Year 5 and 6 students were treated to a
very exciting virtual lesson through Zoom from Questacon in
Canberra. The lesson explored the engineering and physics
of flight by constructing their own paper aeroplanes. The
students investigated two different types of paper planes,
darts and gliders, and how various design features such as
wing size, shape and angle, can affect the stability and drag.
The presenters we had were excellent and displayed
enthusiasm in what they were teaching. They encouraged
the students to try different ways to alter their plane so it flew
faster or longer. Lots of fun was had by all students!
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School Photo Day – Coming Soon!
Stuart Park Primary School
SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHS WILL BE TAKEN ON:
Wednesday 26th May and
Thursday 27th May 2021
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School photo days are coming up very soon. Group and portrait photographs can be
purchased by following the link above. If you are not able to pay online, there are
envelops available in the school office.
Important Information:
• School photos purchased online DO NOT require envelopes returned to
school*
• Don’t forget to order your sibling photos now
• Late fees/additional charges will be applied for purchases after photo
day
• Photos will be returned to your school for distribution approximately six weeks
after photos are taken
*Sibling photographs must be ordered either online or by order envelope prior to the
day of photography. The cut-off date for sibling photos is 24/05/2021. A photograph
will not be taken without an order. Sibling photographs only apply to children enrolled
at the school.
*Please do not send students to school with oversized hair accessories as it casts a
shadow in the photo.
Wednesday 26th - All Classes and individual photos except Transition Maia, Year 4
Williams, 5 Berger, 5 Watt and 6 Ildiko, will be taken on this day. Some sibling
photos will be taken on this day also.
Thursday 27th – Transition Maia, Year 4 Williams, 5 Berger, 5 Watt and 6 Ildiko
class and individual photos, preschool photos, Year 6 Graduation photo, sibling and
sibling with preschoolers, House Captains, School Leaders and SRC will be taken on
this day.
Save the Date!
Stuart Park Arts Festival
We are bringing back the Stuart Park Art
Festival this Dry Season! Keep an eye out for
more information in Term two.
If you are interested in helping to sponsor
this event, please contact Mr Marshall at
alastair.marshall@education.nt.gov.au
or ring the front office on 89977333
Dry Season Reminders
The weather is cooling down and we are
finding that many students are forgetting
the importance of drinking water. Please
ensure that your child brings their water
bottle to school each day so that they
can stay hydrated.
New Sign In/Out iPad
If you send your child to school with We are very excited about our new
Sign in/Out iPad system in the office.
a jumper or jacket on cool mornings, If you need to collect your child early,
please make sure it is labelled with please contact the office and we will
their name. If they are found in the lost organize for them to be in the office at
property box and are named, we can the appropriate time. You will use the
then return them to their classrooms. iPad to sign them out.
Visitors to the school will need to use
the iPad to sign in.
The late arrival procedure for children
remains the same. They need to
collect a yellow card from the office.
1 Hite are collecting plastic bottle tops!
This term we are learning about the impacts that plastic is
having on our environment.
Many people are recycling by putting things in their recycling
bin but it is often not able to be recycled because it hasn’t been
cleaned or prepared properly. Removing the lids from bottles
and rinsing them before placing in the recycling bin is really
important as they are two different types of plastic and they are
processed in different ways.
Our class will be reusing bottle tops to make some art pieces
this term and we need your help to collect them.
Could you please help our environment by recycling plastic
bottles properly and bringing your clean plastic bottle tops to Parking Issues
school for our class? There will be a box out the front of Room
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10 in EC for your child to place clean bottle tops in.
Thank you for helping us and the environment! seem to be getting
better and therefore
making the roads around
our school safer, a few
issues continue. The City
Council will pay regular
visits in the mornings and
afternoons to check for
illegal parking. Please
drive and park safely
around our school.
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