March 2010 - Gawa Christian School Website
March 2010 - Gawa Christian School Website
March 2010 - Gawa Christian School Website
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When he has brought out all his own, he goes on<br />
ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because<br />
they know his voice. John 10:4<br />
|unhi \ayi \uli bitjandhiyiny<br />
dhawa=maramany nhan\uwuy \ayi \unhi<br />
warrakan’nhany, ga \ayipiny \uli ga \unhi<br />
marrtji \urru\un, ga walalnydja \uli marrtji<br />
malthunna nhan\u, bili walalawuynydja \unhi<br />
warrakan’tja mala mar\gi muka nhan\u<br />
rirrakaywuny. Djon 10:4<br />
Gäwa<br />
When this newsletter hits the stands we<br />
will be on our much anticipated school<br />
adventure in Melbourne! The excitement<br />
has built over many months. We have<br />
packed our winter woolies ready for the<br />
Melbourne weather! The students are in<br />
for many surprises including circus skills<br />
workshops, horse riding, AFL footy match,<br />
the Melbourne Zoo and other activities.<br />
We have planned a special dinner as well<br />
so that we can catch up with our many<br />
sponsors. This is sure to be a great<br />
evening! Please pray for our students as<br />
we travel together to Victoria – and<br />
continue to keep all the students of <strong>Gawa</strong><br />
<strong>Christian</strong> <strong>School</strong> in your hearts.<br />
Blessings, Lara Hvala<br />
Mayawa Class<br />
This term Mayawa class has been reading<br />
“Dear Zoo” by Rod Campbell. We have<br />
looked at lots of different animals from<br />
zoos and why some would not make very<br />
good pets! We have also created our own<br />
pages for the book using animals we can<br />
find at <strong>Gawa</strong>, such as crocodiles,<br />
wallabies and turtles. In craft time we<br />
have made different animals from the<br />
book such as “Jumpy frogs and naughty<br />
monkeys”.<br />
By Elsie Marshall<br />
Computer Skills<br />
news <strong>March</strong><br />
In Damala class we have been studying a<br />
Warramiri story: Borum ga |atha [iltjiwuy<br />
(Fruits and Food of the bush).<br />
This story about finding fruits<br />
to eat was told to Kathy<br />
Guthadjaka and she turned it<br />
into a great book for students years ago. It<br />
has been wonderful to have Gotha to read<br />
the story, teach the special Warramiri terms<br />
Language &<br />
Culture<br />
<strong>2010</strong><br />
Guthadjaka pointing out edible<br />
fruits and berries to the students<br />
and practice our Yol\u spelling in class. But the best part was actually getting<br />
outside and gathering up the fruits to eat–<br />
Guthadjaka took the class on a field trip into<br />
the jungle to find all the delicious fruits in<br />
season.<br />
By Ben Van Gelderen<br />
Berry stained tongues!<br />
Literacy Support<br />
Gomoru and Basma developing<br />
their chopstick skills<br />
This term I have had the pleasure of working with most of the<br />
children in the school for literacy support. The Damala class<br />
have been introduced to a wonderful story called “Tikki Tikki<br />
Tembo” and the Mayawa class have enjoyed reading “Possum<br />
Magic”. Last week the children cooked<br />
fried rice and ate with chop sticks for the<br />
first time. The Mayawa class have been<br />
cooking Anzac biscuits as they travelled<br />
around Australia like the characters –<br />
Hush and Grandma Poss - from “Possum Magic”. Whilst we always<br />
try to make our classes fun and interactive the children are also Lara and Djungbirrwirr<br />
learning to write their own stories modelled on the class text; are<br />
excited about being able to read the class text with their peers and are becoming more<br />
and more confident to ‘give everything a go’! Well done everyone.<br />
By Lara Hvala<br />
This term the Damala class has been using the laptop<br />
computers each week to improve our ICT skills. During<br />
the week we draft and edit a story and then, on<br />
Thursday afternoons, we type it up and learn how to<br />
change sizes, fonts and make headings and tables. If we finish early it is great fun to use<br />
other programs on the computer to practice our spelling, maths and listen to our<br />
favourite songs!<br />
By Ben Van Gelderen
Mark and Bungadi in the garden<br />
I had the opportunity to fly<br />
to Darwin last week and<br />
spend time with the<br />
Executive team of NT<br />
<strong>Christian</strong> <strong>School</strong>s and other<br />
NTCSA principals from across the<br />
territory. Whist our schools differ in so<br />
many ways – it is always wonderful to<br />
share our<br />
visions, joys<br />
Part of a and ideas<br />
with each<br />
bigger other. Our<br />
school is one<br />
picture of the most<br />
remote in<br />
the territory<br />
and it is great to have the support and<br />
prayers from the leaders in each school<br />
and the dedicated staff from our Darwin<br />
office. It is such a blessing to be part of<br />
God’s great plans for <strong>Christian</strong> Education<br />
in the Northern Territory. Please pray for<br />
the leaders in all our<br />
schools as they<br />
continue to serve<br />
their communities in<br />
which they reside.<br />
God is certainly doing<br />
great things!<br />
Books in Homes<br />
<strong>School</strong> Pride & Gardening<br />
The wet season has been a fantastic time in our school garden and green house. The children<br />
have enjoyed planting seeds and new trees in our green house and around the school.<br />
It has been great to see the speed of growth amongst the plants (unfortunately the weeds<br />
grow just as fast). We have been planting bok choy, corn, spinach and plenty of parsley. It<br />
will be great to start using some of these foods for the kids lunches. Kevin from Marrara has<br />
also helped us choose some plants to create shade around the new school. After all the work<br />
is done the children love to spray each other with water and have a shower under the mist<br />
sprays. A cool way to end the day!<br />
By Mark Hvala<br />
Community Dinner<br />
Amala Yothu Centre<br />
All the students at <strong>Gawa</strong> love reading books and there were many smiles last week when<br />
we gave out books to everyone! New picture books were distributed to all kids through<br />
the “Books in homes” program. This<br />
wonderful program allows every child a<br />
selection of books that they can take<br />
home to keep. We gave out books at<br />
our assembly and the children took<br />
them home in the library bags supplied.<br />
Thank you to all the volunteers in<br />
Sydney who are associated with this<br />
fabulous program!<br />
We always like to celebrate together as a community and<br />
give thanks to the Lord for the great things He has done in<br />
<strong>Gawa</strong>. On Saturday night<br />
we had a pizza night with<br />
staff, students and<br />
community members and<br />
it was a great chance to<br />
get together and reflect<br />
Van Gelderen Family<br />
upon the joys of the past<br />
year. We also had a slide show to acknowledge and<br />
thank the Van Gelderen family for their contributions<br />
Bungudul, Guwaninywaniny & NinyNiny over the past year.<br />
Playtime with Gawutjurrwuy (Daphne) is always fun! The children enjoy<br />
story time, free play, counting activities, fruit time, art activities and<br />
playing in the cubby house. This week the children and mums painted life<br />
size drawings of the children. This activity was lots of fun for everyone<br />
and the paintings are beautiful. It is great to see the smiles on the<br />
children’s faces as I walk past the Amala Yothu Centre each day. They are Gawutjurrwuy<br />
excited to learn and it was great to welcome new mums into the group this week. We<br />
also thank God for the enthusiasm and love<br />
Gawutjurrwuy shares with each of the kids!<br />
Hannah, Katinka and Lachlan<br />
Prayer and Praise<br />
We give thanks for the strong and<br />
supportive Indigenous women in our<br />
community. Continue to pray for them -<br />
as they take on many roles within the<br />
school, their families and their<br />
communities.<br />
Newsletter articles- <strong>Gawa</strong> <strong>Christian</strong> <strong>School</strong> Staff<br />
Photos- Salome Moes and Lara Hvala<br />
Newsletter design and layout- Salome Moes<br />
Editor- Lara Hvala<br />
<strong>Gawa</strong> <strong>Christian</strong> <strong>School</strong>, PMB 257 Elcho Island via Winnellie 0822 Northern Territory phone: 08 8987 9239 email: gawa@ntcsa.nt.edu.au