Alawa Primary School

Friday fun with learning in soooooo many ways at Alawa......

Our very enterprising students from Year 1 Robinson took absolute care to spread out all the coins and money notes they had been exploring in Maths this week. Their challenge was to work out exactly how much they had by sorting into matching coins, notes etc and then adding this together. All up they reconciled their coins and notes to advise they had $656.

Our older students had a fab time with Mr Horigan as Special Guest Kitchen Teacher today - yummy home made pies were enjoyed by all.

STEM Room fun and learning at Alawa.....
Over the past few weeks the students form 3/4 Gardner have had their turn designing, making and evaluating in the STEM Room. They shared their finished Darwin Landmarks with Ms Cartwright today and she was super impressed with their attention to detail, their creative thinking and innovative ideas for new landmarks, events and attractions for the Darwin area. Budding entrepreneurs for sure!

ATTENTION 5/6 Parents- The Happy Campers are on their way home!
After a quick stopover in Adelaide River for lunch, the campers have hit the road and are expected to be back at school between 3:15 - 3:30pm.

The happy campers arrived at the Katherine Outback Experience this afternoon, eager to make the most of their time there. Tom Curtain's show was a hit, as was the homemade pizza dinner. After a few rounds of spotlight, [an Alawa camp favourite], it is time for showers and bed, ready for another big day tomorrow.

Our Alawa cherubs really enjoyed their time with the students from CSC. Thanks for including us in your program.

⭐SRC Fundraiser⭐

As part of their efforts to raise funds for Project Flying Fox, Alawa Primary SRC presents- PJ Day!!!!
When: Wednesday 19th June 2024
Cost: Gold coin donation
What: Come to school dressed in your best pyjamas!! Remember though- all outfits MUST be SunSmart.

With much excitement from both students and staff and a busy morning packing the bus's, our 5/6 students and teachers are off on their camp to Katherine.
A few days planned of jam packed fun and adventure! I'm sure everyone will have the best time. Travel safe campers, and we look forward to hearing all about your camp on your return.

⭐COME WORK WITH US!!!⭐

Alawa Primary School has a 6 month full time job opportunity available starting Semester 2 2024.

Position is classed as AO2 100%- Hours 8:00am - 4:21pm Monday - Friday.
Starting Monday 15th July and is a mix of both Classroom support and Office Administration duties.

If interested in knowing more about the position or would like to see a Job Description, please call the school on (08) 8997 7666 or email [email protected].

On Thursday all Year 6 students went to Dripstone Middle School for an Orientation day.
Students experienced different core and elective subjects, and mingled with students from other primary schools. They also had the opportunity to try out the famous Dripstone canteen, which was a hit! They left feeling excited and keen to learn more about middle school.

Drum roll please... the winning House for Sports Day 2024, with 1285 points, is... Manton, congratulations.
A huge congratulations to our Age Champions and Runners Up.
Alawa staff were beyond excited to take home the Alawa Cup this year, crossing the finish line of the egg & spoon race in front of the parent team, marines, & student team.
Thank you to our parent volunteers and the US Marines who helped today. These events wouldn't be possible without the support of our community.
Well done to all of the students who competed today and gave it their all. The team spirit, encouragement and sportsmanship was commendable.

The oval is a sea of colour with Sports Day in full swing. So much excitement, cheering, team spirit and sportsmanship. Stay tuned as we announce the winning House for the day and Age Champions later this afternoon.

What fun we had at our Preschool Sports Day today!
Preschool ran a race on the big oval with the Primary Year students cheering them on. We then moved to the quadrangle for a hopper and sack race and modified javelin throw.
Preschool Blue will also race on Friday at the school Sports Day at approximately 9am, Preschool Red are invited to come along to race, but must be under parent supervision while in attendance.

Last night was the MasterChef competition for the 5/6’s in the Alawa Kitchen. With the secret ingredient being flour, the teams used their creativity and skills to create fantastic dishes. We had momos, pancakes, burritos, noodles and pasta. Well done to the winning team of Jax, Jaxon, Alex and Kade for their amazing basil, fetta and garlic handmade pasta. Big thanks to the guest judges, Brooke, Halle, Mrs Barnett and Am Vou from Oh My Gosh Café.

The excitement is building for our annual Sports Day which is happening this week. The events are split over two days- Wednesday 5th June & Friday 7th June. Please see below for further details of the two days.

Alawa students continue to shine!
Fab well done to Ms Eleanor and Ms Matilda on their recent efforts with their Irish Dancing. Both girls shone in their performances and were recognised with awards. We are all super proud of you both!

The Early Years classes were thrilled to have a visit from Hector the Road Safety Cat this week. Hector shared his key messages about crossing the road safely, and the importance of wearing seat belts and helmets.
Students then had a road safety lesson later in the day with the Road Safety Team.

⭐PLAYGROUP ⭐

Don't forget playgroup is on again this Friday in the Preschool. 9:30 - 11:30am. All welcome! 😄

Check out what the play-groupers got up to last week!
Wow, What a busy playgroup we had on Friday! We have been seeing new faces every week. It was our farm visit this week and there was a whole tribe of us so I’m sure the farm animals were wondering who the noisy herd was that were heading their way but we were welcomed to the flock when we visited the chickens with our little bucket of seeds! The playgroupers (and chickens) were so excited for the handfuls of food to be sprinkled around and the little hands held out for happy beaks to peck, peck, peck! Then we went around to visit all of our farm friends to say ‘hello’ before heading back to the pre-school room for some outside play!

We had so much fun outside, playing on the slides, climbing and balancing like monkeys do, and making delicious sand pies in the sandpit for our parents and grandparents to eat! Yum yum! We went racing on the bike track and had a great time with the barnyard animals too. And of course we love getting to see our friends at pre-school, that always brightens our day!
This week we will do some cooking. Looking forward to seeing you there.
Miss Erin.

Year 4/5 Chamberlain have recently spent time in the STEM room creating museum artefacts . Students were given the task of choosing an Australian individual, group or event and researching how they impacted the growth and development of Australia. Using their research they then designed and created a museum artefact to depict their chosen person or event. At the end of their time in the STEM room 4/5 Chamberlain took Ms Cartwright on a tour of their museum and presented their work.

Congrats Georgie on being selected in the Darwin Region Cricket team!

Congrats Leonitas on being selected in your 2nd Darwin Region team for this year!

With Sports Day only 2 weeks away, Year 3 Nguyen took the opportunity as today's assembly hosts, to inspire us with persuasive texts about why Sports Day is the best day of the school year.
We were also treated to a special performance by the Senior Choir.
Congratulations to the Honour Award recipients and a big congratulations to our Honour Distinction Award recipient and Principal for the Day Miss Layla.

Today is the last day to nominate for the Teaching in the the Territory Excellence Awards. Have you nominated your favourite Alawa teacher?

📣Final chance to nominate for the Teaching in the Territory Excellence Awards!📣

These awards are an opportunity to recognise and celebrate the fantastic contributions of teachers, specialist teachers, early childhood educators, principals, leaders and support staff who are making a difference in the lives of NT students! ✨

To submit a nomination and for more details on categories and guidelines, head to https://teachingintheterritoryawards.nt.gov.au/.

Nominations close this Friday 24 May 2024. 📅

Today in preschool one of our mums visited with some special friends of hers. Thea's mum, Mary is an Entomologist, insect scientist. Students were captivated as they learnt about insects and had the opportunity to interact with the special guests, including stick insects, thrips, meal worm and native bees as well as a taste test of their bush honey.

Today, Alawa students joined children from all over Australia in the 24th annual National Simultaneous Storytime. Each year a picture book written and illustrated by an Australian author and illustrator is selected and read in libraries, schools, childcare centres and many other places around Australia. This year's book was Bowerbird Blues by Aura Parker. In the lead up to today classes have been participating in activities focused around the book and its theme.

Are you nominating any of the fabulous team from from Alawa School? Final few days to recognise the efforts to support and nurture your child.

📣Final chance to nominate for the Teaching in the Territory Excellence Awards!📣

These awards are an opportunity to recognise and celebrate the fantastic contributions of teachers, specialist teachers, early childhood educators, principals, leaders and support staff who are making a difference in the lives of NT students! ✨

To submit a nomination and for more details on categories and guidelines, head to https://teachingintheterritoryawards.nt.gov.au/.

Nominations close this Friday 24 May 2024. 📅

On Friday Alawa Primary School said an emotional farewell to Miss Yenni. At muster the students took the opportunity to thank Miss Yenni, who has been our Canteen Manager for many years, each week ensuring that there is delicious, nutritious food served to our students (everyone loves Miss Yenni's spaghetti bolognaise). Miss Yenni has also put in many hours of her time volunteering at Alawa over the years and as we all know nobody puts a raffle prize together like Yenni does. Thank you Miss Yenni, you will be missed.

Today 32 students from Years 4, 5 & 6 were excited to travel to Marrara and the The Gardens for AFL & Tennis Gala day.
A great day was had at the AFL gala day. All students displayed exceptional sportsmanship and played each game in great spirits. Students quickly improved throughout the day picking up key fundamental skills. A big thank you to Peter Fulton and Joey Frawley for their help keeping the students hydrated on a hot day.
Our tennis stars joined other schools in the Darwin region for Red Ball Tennis. Our students showed great sportsmanship and resilience as we had some of our students join a team with students from Wagaman. Alawa won their division and brought home the winners flag. A big thank you to Sam Jenner who volunteered to help for the day, it is amazing to see the Alawa parents and community get involved and help the school and students on days like these.
It was a wonderful day, and we should all be proud of the way the students represented the school.