Myross Bush School Newsletter Find out more at www.myrossbush.school.nz
AUG 28
from the Principal
2013
KapaHaka group The photo above says it all - a great representation of all our year groups from across the school. Della, Kiri and Amy did a great job together in leading and supporting our children as they took the opportunity to perform and enjoy the Civic Polyfest experience. Thank you to them and all our parents on the day who supported our children as they enjoyed that wonderful cultural performance. Create and Refine In case you didn't get to our assembly last Friday it was one with a difference! It kicked off with a bang by our Kapahaka group repeating their performance from the Polyfest festival and then led into a sharing time for our senior school that was based on our Term 3 Inquiry focus - Create and Refine. All four workshop elements were on display - from painting, to sketching, to clay, through to animation! While the children shared their 'creations' with some of our parents they also talked about and shared some of their refinement that had gone into creating the end product. This is a process that we are continuing to work on with our production coming up in the last week, Week 9, of this term. Community consultation Last week I linked our community consultation survey summary off our website. It makes for interesting reading and I hope that you have all taken the chance to browse through it. It gives a very positive snapshot into the life of
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our school and reinforces the work that our staff do for our children every day. That summary is shared with, and discussed specifically, at our schools next board meeting. It helps gives a wider context to the reflection that the leadership team of myself, Mark and Evelyn provide to the Board from our formal performance appraisal process that we run across our school with our teaching staff. I can unequivocally say that our school has a staff who consistently put a lot of time and effort, both together and independently, into what we do for each and every child at our school. While it is the job they have chosen to pursue, it is for our teachers, a vocation rather than a job. Our teachers are passionate about the learning they facilitate for each and every child as they work together to create that atmosphere of possibilities throughout our school. This, unfortunately, can not be taken for granted and it is days like yesterday, where the leadership team get to sit and discuss together with different teachers the thinking and collaboration that goes into each and every day, which remind us of that. Yesterday was a discussion day of 'planning checks' and yet it was so much more than that. It was a stimulating, invigorating and inspiring afternoon. Personally, and collectively (I think I can speak for Mark and Evelyn also), I felt like we finished the day on a real high. We have a school that works very hard to give each and every child the opportunities to realise the potential that their learning can reveal.
During the interview round we had 96 responses for our survey. A quick summary of the results showed: • 100% agreed that our school is a safe and happy place. • 100% agreed that we have effective educational leadership in our school. • 100% agreed that our teachers provide stimulating and challenging environments for our children. • 100% agreed that our staff are easily approachable. • 93% agreed that our report and interview process provided helpful information about your child's progress. • 97% agreed that our school provides sufficient challenge and opportunity across a range of sporting and cultural activities. • 94% agreed that you are well informed about the life of school through notices, school newsletter, class blogs, school website and facebook page. • 35% liked that we have no school uniform, 45% wanted to investigate school uniform options and 20% were not bothered either way! If any of those points caught your interest then please go to our newsletter page on the website and browse the full breakdown of stats and comments made during that process. Enjoy! Regards Tim Lovelock Principal
From strong foundations we grow and stand tall together
Congratulations to the “Sportsmanship & Fair Play cup” recipients (Hot Shots team members) who collected the cup from Netball Southland prize giving last Saturday
Community Sport Southland: is running a campaign to collect as much unused sports gear as we can, so that we can redistribute it to schools, clubs and community organisations in need. It’s called Pass It On – and that’s what we’re encouraging Southlanders to do! We would really appreciate any support you could offer the campaign. Myross Bush School is a ‘drop off point’ for people to donate their equipment, that would be simply fantastic!
Friends of the School School Notices Absences - please help us: If your child is absent from school, please inform the school office before 8.40 am by phoning, emailing, sending a note or message with another member of the family. Where a child is absent for more than one day, it is important that parents inform the school office each morning of the absence. If your child is taken from school for an appointment, please ensure the class teacher is advised before your child leaves. Pick up & Bus after school: If you need to change after school pick up details for that day, please email before 12pm as emails after that time may not be cleared. To be sure we receive it, a phone call is good. School Account Term 3: Accounts were sent home today and are due for payment by Monday 20 September 2013. Cash, cheque to the office or internet to 12 3154 0118275 01. Please use the account number as your reference and include your family name. Please note that the account lists debits and credits from 25 February 2013 so that you can see what has been paid and what is to be paid. The amount to be paid is showing as Amount Owing just above the
Remittance Advice. Please phone the office if you need to clarify your account. For Sale: Size 6 new polo shirt $35. Available from the office. Preschoolers: We are currently updating our projected roll list and ask that if we could be advised of any in zone or siblings of current pupils born 2012 and 2013 be notified to Irene at the office by phone or email. Thank you for your help. office@myrossbush.school.nz Lost: Desperately looking for one wedding ring, silver with rose gold band. Lost at school last Friday. We’d love to see it if you’ve seen it. Thank you. Well done to: Jessica Fairbairn and Georgia Donaldson who represented Myross Bush in the speech competitions yesterday in Bluff.
Sports Hockey MB Missiles v Salford Won 1-0 POD Caleb Deverey MB Matrix v Ascot Lost 2-0 POD Magnus Jamieson MB Movers v Makarewa Lost 3-0 POD Liam Devery MB Magic v Woodlands Lost 5-0 POD Whole Team MB Machines Bye
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School Disco Friday 6th Sept 2013, at the Myross Bush Hall. 6-8pm - no preschoolers please, only Myross Bush present students. Theme is KIWIANA. Prizes for best costume, and awesome dance moves!! Come dressed as your favourite Kiwi icon or personality, and dance to the tunes of the awesome DJ Matt!! Entry $2, icecream tubs, small packet chips, and fizz $1 each, glow bracelets 5 for $1 and fingerlights .50c each. Parent help required - please phone Andrea on 2304402 or email aandaburnett@xtra.co.nz Or if you prefer to have some quiet time while the kids are partying - the Book Fair will be on at the school.
Scholastic Book Fair Sept 2 - 6 This is a good opportunity to view and purchase from a great range of books for your home library or birthday & xmas presents. This is a fundraiser for the school library, a percentage of total sales is returned to the library in the way of new books. Classes will be visiting the book fair on Monday & Tuesday. The school community is able to view the books on Thursday 5th & Friday 6th 8.30-9.30am & 2.30-3.30pm and also Friday night 6.15-7.45pm while the disco is on. A flyer has been included with todays newsletter.
Week 5 Term 3
RIMU 3 (Mrs Godby) We are having a change in our daily morning news. The children's news days will stay the same, however, we will now be focussing on retelling a story they have read. It would be great if they can come prepared with a book that they know. This can be one from home or one that they have read in class. We will be using the structure of a five finger retell where the children talk about the characters, setting, beginning, middle and end of the story. Regards Jade Lanauze.
RATA 4 (Mrs Aurik) This week we are beginning our class dance for production. We are all really excited to get started. The children have really been enjoying the 'make a pair of dancing shoes' action stations. At this action station the children have made a range of shoes which they have then tested to see if they meet the purpose. Miss Withington and Mrs Aurik
MIRO 5 (Mrs Kahukura) Kapahaka, What a fantastic performance from our students and I was very proud of them all. Thank you for the donations of boxes, we now have enough. Have a great week. Kiri • Kapahaka was fun. Charlotte • I was nervous but very excited. Liam Devery • I liked Kapahaka but I was a little bit nervous at the start. Lily Symon • I liked the skirt and the top that you got to wear for Kapa Haka. Amelia McIntosh
MANUKA 6 (Mrs Carr) Thank you for all the terrific parent support and feedback with regard to Kapahaka, I am once again humbled by this wonderful community. As we continue to grow we will have to do some fundraising to have enough uniforms for everyone next year! We all enjoyed the Polyfest experience, here are some reflections... • It was really fun being a Kaea (Leader) and really fun performing with everyone on stage. Lucy McKee. • The uniforms all looked really great. Kapahaka is cool, I had a lot of fun and I enjoyed it. Ashley Phillips. • Kapahaka was fun, I liked being able to wear a Pounamu from Mrs Carr because I was a leader. Millie McKenzie. • It was my first year in Kapahaka and I really enjoyed it, I loved being on stage and I really want to do it again next year. Lydia Horton. TOTARA 7 (Miss Duncan) • I'm looking forward to the production practices. I'm excited to be a Sneetch that already has a star! Our production has a really good theme about fitting in and including others. Olivia C. • I am enjoying scripting a play in my action stations at the moment. We are working in a group planning a play called The Witch and the Wolf. It's going to have a narrator and a witch, a wolf, a serpent and a prince. It's a story about how every perceives the witch to be evil when she isn't. Jemmimah. • I enjoyed my art elective, which was painting. We did our art about Hunderwasser and how he didn't use straight lines and built his buildings around trees and the environment. It was great to show off our work in the activity centre last Friday. Katie J. KOWHAI 2 (Mr Herring) We are all really proud of Jessica and Georgia this week for representing our school at the Speech Competition at Bluff yesterday. They competed against other Year 5 and 6 students and spoke on 'Boring Speeches' and 'Why we should have a school uniform!' Well done, girls. I'm sure our inquiry on 'Create and Refine' helped you be very persuasive. It was also great to see so many parents at our Senior Arts Explosion on Friday. We hope you had a good chat with some students about how they refined their art work and made them look so amazing! We are really excited about starting our production practices yesterday. This week starts the 5 week journey to our Production performance in week 9! See you there.
Carpark drainage improvements started today. There was a large audience of potential digger drivers!
from the classroom
KAURI 8 (Mrs Polaschek & Mrs Lemin) We are so excited to begin the production. Lots of the Kauri Kids have parts in the choir or the dance, and we are all excited to begin thinking about our class Sneeches dance! Do you know how confusing 'd and b' can be? We are working on ways to remember which one is which. We are learning to be great at retelling the stories we have read. Ask your child to try the 5 fingered retell, with characters, setting, the beginning, middle and end, when they read to you after school!
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calendar
Updated 28 August 2013
FOS CHALK orders and money due in at the office by 12pm Friday
Term 4 begins
6 Fri (Midday) Y5/6 Interschool Rugby match against Makarewa at MB. Supporters welcome
(Dec 19 Term 4 ends)
6 Fri School Disco 6-8pm 11 Wed
18 Fri
Pet Day Planning Meeting 7pm - details later
Year 6 camp Market Day fundraising Family Bonfire Night details later (please note change of date)
16 Mon
28 Mon
BOT Meeting
Labour Day
20 Fri
29 Oct - 1 Nov
School Account Term 3 payments due
Year 6 Borland Camp
26 Sept Thur Production - details later 27 Sept Fri
Don’t forget...
Last day Term 3 • CHALK orders due in at the office by 12pm this Fri day • that you can check all term dates on the school ca lendar on the website