Myross Bush School Newsletter from the Principal
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APR 9
2014
Akotoa have started using the SOLO stages to help them learn in the workshops. This photo shows a group of students working towards a workshop goal of 'Adding and Subtracting tenths and hundredths.' The students sit at the station that best fits their understanding. Some are at unistructural because they know one thing - so they are working with materials. Others on the far side are learning at the multistructural station and working with the equations in word problems. This helps all of the group learn at their own pace and at the place that suits them.
Assembly Friday 11 April - This is the final student led assembly for Term 1 and will be hosted by Miro. Wednesday 16 April - This is our final community assembly for Term 1. Our Easter Raffle will be announced and then the rest of the assembly will be used to acknowledge Della's time and contribution to the life of our school since she began in 2003 as a first year teacher! You are all invited to share in this celebration and farewell for Della. Afternoon disco - Thursday 17 April This runs after lunch on the last day of term (1.30 - 2.30) in the Activity Centre and is being run by our school council as an end of term celebration! Keep an eye out for the information flyer. Community Night - Parents social night out Our Friends of the School group is organising a social night out for our parent community. Saturday 17 May, Myross Bush Hall, 7.30pm, live band! - see the back page of the newsletter for further details. Zone Representative Event Our school has 16 children who will be representing our school this Friday at the Southern Zone swimming sports that are being held at Gorge Road. Paula Stewart will be travelling with the team for the day. We wish them all the best in their chosen events. Southland Primary School Swim Champs These are scheduled to be held at Splash Palace on Saturday April 12.
School Donation A huge thank you to the 47% of families who have already paid their school donation for 2014. This voluntary support is one way that all our families can actively support our school in delivering the best possible learning opportunities for all our children. Our school makes a conscious effort to keep this request realistic and has therefore kept it at the same level as the previous few years. The donation request is totally separate from your school account which is an itemised account of actual costs incurred, including sports fees. If you would like to discuss any aspect of this donation then please make the effort to talk to any board member, or myself, about it. School Accounts Term 1 accounts are due. Please make a concerted effort to pay these as quickly as possible as they are for costs that the school has already incurred to provide the teaching and learning programmes that we have. School makes every effort to keep these accounts realistic and to make the use of our schools operational grant go as far as possible before any request for payment is passed onto you.Your support with the payment of these accounts is much appreciated. School website and Facebook Our website (http://myrossbush.ultranet.school.nz/Home/) and Facebook pages have the latest and most up to date information on school life. All sports notices are listed on the website under sports news page. All updates on daily events are posted on our Facebook wall. Please make a point of bookmarking these pages on your phone and/or home computer to keep in touch with what is happening. Regards Tim Lovelock
Kia tu Pakari
From strong foundations we grow and stand tall together
School Notices: Aviary Food Wrap Fundraiser: Will be held at the beginning of next term. Forms will be sent home Week 1 or 2. Library: Overdue library slips have been given today to children with overdue books. Please make an effort to get these back to school as soon as possible so that children can choose some new books to take for the holidays. Lost Property: It's surprising how many articles of clothing, footwear, drink bottles and snack boxes are already filling the lost property box. Please check this - it is all on display every Assembly and you can check it any time. Kerr Bush Trip: Monday the 14th April Meeting at school at 11am. All welcome to come and see the growth of the trees we have planted, do some weeding and walk the track. Packed lunch and drink, (no heat-ups) gumboots or a change of footwear and jacket required. Look out for further information coming home later this week! della@myrossbush.school.nz School Calendar Dates: All events can be viewed from the website http://myrossbush.ultranet.school.nz/ WebSpace/45/
Sports Notices: Southland Primary School Athletics Results: Well done to all our athletes who competed on Saturday 22nd March These children were placed in the top of their events. Congratulations on being in the top of your event in Southland. Will Stodart - 2nd in 10 Boys Discus, 3rd in Shot Put Sarah Hay - 2nd in 7 Girls 100m Hannah Symon - 3rd in 9 Girls 800m Riley Smith - 8 boys 1st= 60m, 1st 100m & 1st in Long Jump Relay Teams: 8G 3rd overall: Naomi Hanning, Lily Symon 8B 3rd overall: Riley Smith 9B 3rd overall: Thomas Lemin, Adam Stevens, Ollie Polaschek Southern Zone Swimming Champs: Friday 11th April @ Gorge Road Please email Paula asap if you are available to take a car. We will be leaving
school at 8.45am (not 8.55am as stated in notice sent last week). Good luck to our team: Jackson Herrick, Danja Jamieson, Lucy McKee, Ella Wylie, Eilish McLeod, Tarrah Shirley, Charlotte Herrick, Hunter Cairns, Liam Devery, Magnus Jamieson, Mathew Speight, Addiysn Marshal, Nic Brown, Fletcher Blomfield. Southland Junior Swimming Champs: Saturday 12th April @ Splash Palace Good luck to our team competing this Saturday: Hunter Cairns, Danja Jamieson Magnus Jamieson, Lucy McKee, Robson McKee, Lauryn Fleming, Charlotte Herrick, Jackson Herrick. Please make sure you are there 30 minutes before your event. Debbie Herrick will be your Team Manager for the day. Touch: MB Jets v Waverley Park Won 8-0 POD Josh Lawson MB v St Theresas Won 5-4 POD Ricky Smith and great try by Riley MB Stags v Donovan Flyers Won 11-0 POD Jabari Stewart and Cooper McDonald NOTE: All sports notices are available on our website http://myrossbush.ultranet.school.nz/ WebSpace/45/
Community: Free Horse Manure: No grain. Back your trailer in to the heap. If you have a trailer and want us to drop it off for us to fill then pick it up, give me a ring. Ph Irene 2304860 Baby Sitters Available: • Katie Grant, ex Myross Bush Student Year 10 at Southland Girls High, lives in district and enjoys children. Please contact me on 2304343 or 0278246366 • Anna Roberts, ex Myross Bush Pupil, 15 years old, experienced and good with children. Phone 2304912 • Morgan Shepherd, ex pupil lives in Myross Bush area and has a full drivers license. Mobile: 0273074992 Home: 2304230 Makarewa Playcentre: Cheese Rolls $6.50 doz or $22 for 4 doz. White or wholemeal.Delivery Sat 10 May. Contact Deryn
Friends of the School: Easter Raffle: URGENT - Easter Raffle Cards, money and grocery items due in THIS FRIDAY 11 April. Thank you to the families that have already done your bit and sold and returned your raffle tickets but we still have heaps to come back in. We will be making up the hampers this weekend so we need those grocery donation items in by Friday too. Your help with this is very much appreciated. If anyone has some old baskets suitable to make up the hampers we would very much appreciate if you could drop them to the office by Friday too. Many thanks to everyone who has put in the extra effort this year.
School Dates: Apr 11 School Account payments due Apr 11 Raffle cards, money and grocery items due in Apr 11 Zone Swimming Sports Gorge Road Apr 11 Assembly 2.15pm Miro (5) Apr 12 Sthld Jnr Swimming Champs Apr 14 Kerr Bush visit 11am start Apr 16 Community Assembly to farewell Della and Easter Raffle drawn Apr 17 End of Tm1 May 5 Tm 2 begins May 17 FOS night out - details next page
Michelle Fraser Entertainment Book: Books were issued today. These must come back to school if they are not required. If you would like more, please send money with envelope. All inquiries to Kathryn McCorkindale 0211955655
May 19/20 Young Leaders to Dunedin (Y6) July 4 End of Tm 2 July 21 Tm 3 begins Sept 26 Tm 3 ends Oct 13 Tm 4 begins Dec 17 Tm 4 ends
MIRO 5 (Mrs Godby) & RATA 4 (Mrs Aurik) We have really enjoyed our swimming lessons. The children have all made great progress. It is often a good idea to follow up with some more swimming in the holidays to maintain the progress made so far. Miro is taking assembly this week and the children are all very excited about it. You will find the script with what they have to say in their homework books. It would be helpful if you can practise this each night so that by Friday the children can all confidently read their parts. The children are looking forward to seeing you all there so if you can come and support them that would be great. This week will be the last week for spelling and maths basic facts flash cards testing for the term as we have a short week next week and next weeks assembly is on Wednesday.
KOWHAI 2 (Mrs Kahukura) & RIMU 3 (Miss Burton) Yesterday was our last day for swimming and we look forward to highlighting our achievements in pink. It is always exciting to see the progress that has been made through practice and persistence. We look forward to showcasing these skills at our school swimming sports today. This week Kawaka have started learning a new skill. We have set our goals and talked about the habits of mind that we will use to help us reach these. We have linked resources on our Ultranet page for children to continue practicing these at home. Have a great week, Keri and Kiri.
TOTARA 7 (Mrs Carr) & KAURI 8 (Mr Herring) • The goal setting inquiry is lots of fun as we get to do knitting or juggling and we are learning lots about how to use the Habits of Mind to achieve our goals. Thomas Lemin. • I feel good when I can get a pink circle for my goals on my learning pathway, it means I have evidence that I have achieved a goal. Emma Henderson. • I think the learning pathways are fun and help us learn because of all the activity links on them, they help us to understand, practise and share our skills. Jayden Haywood. • I am enjoying school swimming because we are doing dives off the board, I am looking forward to the School House Swimming day. Ella Wylie Certificates: Emma Henderson, Amy Marwick, Adam Stevens, Thomas Lemin.
from the classroom
MATAI 9 (Mrs Polaschek & Mrs Lemin) A great big welcome to Liam Kerslake and his family who made an awesome start to his school days in Matai this week. Swimming has finished and we are all so proud of how much progress we have made over the last 10 lessons. We got there by being brave about trying new things, and by practising, practising, practising! These are strategies we can use with any new goal we set for ourselves. We are continuing to talk about fractions in maths this week - Do you know the symbol for a half? Did you know we ALL have our own calendars that we can write on now? They help us learn about the days and months, as well as how to write and sequence numbers. We are also very proud that we won our first tidiest classroom award last week! Good job caring for your environment. We are sending the sunhats home today, please wash them and return to school, thank you. Certificates were awarded to Charlee O'Conner for making good choices and Amelia Young for great progress in maths.
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