NEWSLETTER
22
JULY, 2010
Look
at our Year 6 Guitar Group
They
are working very hard to learn their music.
Term
Dates 2011
Term 1 Tuesday 1 February to Friday 15 April
Term 2 Monday 2 May to Friday 15 July
Term 3 Monday 1 August to Friday 7 October
Term 4 Tuesday 25 October to Friday 16 December
Term Dates:
Last Day of Term 3 Friday September 24th
Term 4 begins on Monday 11th
October
Last Day for 2010 Thursday 16th
December
Dear Parents/Caregivers,
E ng` m`t`waka huri no ate motu, piki mai kake mai r`
A special welcome to Term 3.
We loved
seeing all of our children return to school so happy and positive.
We have a
very exciting term planned, as well as it being a very important term for
children’s learning.
A big
welcome to all of our new pupils this term. We hope you enjoy being at
We also
welcome Miss Jenni Edmonds who is our new teacher in Room 12. Jenni has come to
us from
Our biggest
event this term is our Regent Theatre Concert on Thursday 9 September. We will keep you posted about what is
happening but we hope you put a circle around 9th September on your
calendar. We introduced the concert to the children in assembly this week so
you might like to ask them what the theme is for their team.
Consultation:
Wow….we
were blown away with all of the responses we got last term to our
questionnaire. Thank you so much for all of your replies. We will feed these
back to you over the next few newsletters.
Congratulations
to Cathy and Jodi, who were the winners of our consultation lucky draw. Some
comments:
Board of Trustees News
This week
the Board of Trustees met for July. I am so thrilled with our new Board. I want
you to know they are such a hard working and professional group who make good
decisions based on what is best for our children. One of our topics for this
week’s meeting was our whole Education
Outside The Classroom programme. We read through all of your ideas. It
seems there is overwhelming support to keep a camp for our senior pupils.
Here are a
few comments:
·
Day
Tramp or walk to a local park (Year 1/2)
·
Day
excursions – museum, parks, tramps, farms, local businesses (Year 3/4)
·
The
camp this year at El Rancho was most enjoyable.
There were activities that our child wouldn’t normally do at home. He talked about it for days! (Year5/6)
Our next
step is to draft a plan for a programme that meets the needs of all age groups
and that builds on each set of experiences. We will send this draft out to you
when we have it developed (in August).
Mrs Olivers Class of
the week for June 29th
Room 17 For a whole two terms of amazing learning. I am very proud of you!
Room 22 For being amazing learners.
I am very proud of you.
Newsletters:
Your
feedback told us that you generally found these to be very useful. All but one
or two people appreciate the information and that they keep you in touch with
us. Some suggestions you also made we have already picked up on. We will keep
including dates of term events so we give you more notice and you can plan
around these .
We also
have had several of you mention the possibility of emailing them to you. We are
talking to our technicians about this but in the meantime our newsletters are
also put onto our website. (minus the photos).
They usually appear the day after they are sent home.
Student Achievement and Reports:
We will be
sending home a report to you to show you where your child’s learning is at . We
will also send an explanation about these as they are a new report form based
around National Standards. The reports
will come home on 12th August.
Parent /Teacher/ Child Conferences and Sharing
Books: The week
after reports come home to you we will be holding our very important
conferences with you. Part of this is to share with you your child’s Sharing
Book. These are such a wonderful part of our learning at
·
The Sharing books are one of the loveliest
gifts CNS gives our family. Thank you
·
Our child loves to bring home the
Sharing Book and share it with the rest of the family.
Of course
you are very welcome at any time of the year to make an appointment to come and
talk with your child’s teacher about their learning.
Coming Events:
|
27th
July |
Seedlings
Programme starts at 1.45p.m. |
|
29th
July |
Sausage/Cheeseburger
Lunch |
|
3rd
August |
PTA
meeting in the staffroom at 7.00p.m. – All welcome, come and help the
committee plan future fundraising events for the school. |
|
12th
|
Written
Reports go home |
|
13th
|
Mathex |
|
18th
|
Parent/teacher/
Child Conference Afternoon (NOTE: Children will go home at 12.30 on that day) |
|
19th
|
Parent/Teacher/Child
Conference Evening |
|
24th
|
Board of
Trustees Monthly Meeting 7.45p.m. |
|
September 9th |
School
Concert at the Regent Theatre on Broadway Ticket booking information soon. |
|
13th |
Book Week
Start |
|
24th |
Last day
Term 3 |
School Assemblies: These are held each Tuesday at 9.00 in our
school hall. These are a special time for us as we have the whole school
together to celebrate WISE learners. You are very welcome to join us at our
assemblies.
|
Week 2 |
Te
Arawaru |
Week 7 |
Wharite |
|
Week 3 |
Wharite |
Week 8 |
Matanginui |
|
Week 4 |
Matanginui |
Week 9 |
Maharahara |
|
Week 5 |
Maharahara |
Week 10 |
The Arts |
|
Week 6 |
Te
Arawaru |
|
|
Community Notices:
Inline Hockey:
Junior Social League. Want to play inline hockey?
Then come along to Bell Hall,
Cost: $5 per session. Please come along at 4.45pm to
get ready so that you can begin skating at 5pm.
Please bring along your own skates (any inline skate
will do).
We will provide protective gear and sticks. No
experience needed, we will provide coaching.
Further information phone: Carol Webb 06-3297870
Toolbox Parenting Groups - the
middle years (6-12).
These middle years are your window of opportunity to teach skills and build
memories. The course covers:
- building character and self-esteem
- emotional intelligence
- discipline
- trust and increasing responsibility
- creating traditions and memories
- capitalising on the tween years.
For more information or to book go to www.theparentingplace.co.nz email
PalmerstonNthTBX@parentsinc.org.nz or phone 06 3593665
The
Makino’s water temperature is back to where it should be.
And to show our customers our appreciation we’re
putting the inflatable up on Sunday 25th July from 1-3pm for FREE
(admission costs only).
So come on down to the Makino this weekend and enjoy
the beautiful water!
Junior Indoor Sports
Palmerston Indoor Sports Arena is running Junior Indoor Netball/Soccer
competitions. All ages are catered
for. To register as a team or
individually please contact us on 3562543 or call in at
All Star Cheerleaders is running free trial classes in your area for
American Style Cheerleading. Held on
Wednesdays at Arena Manawatu 5 – 10 years 4.30 – 6.00p.m. and 11 years + 7.30 –
9.00p.m. Everyone is welcome no experience necessary. For more information call 0800 CHEERLEADER or
www.allstarcheerleaders.co.nz
Manawatu Showgrounds skating
club
offers inline speed skating lessons every Wednesday in term time from 5.30 –
6.30p.m. at Bell Hall in
Pacific Study Support Programme For children begins
again 26th July at
Parent Line Manawatu: Term 3 programme
includes Blended Families, What Pushes Your Buttons, Anger Change. For more information phone 08004326459.
Itchy Kids:Support for parents of children
with eczema the contact is Sarah Hartley
0273337385 or www.itchykids.org.nz