Newsletter 19 february 2015

Newsletter 19 february 2015

• 1.
  Absences Please text yourchild’s absence to 0272542430 State: Name, Room Name Reason for absence. Term 1—2015 No.2 P R I N C I P A L ’ S R A M B L E Next Newsletter: 05 March 2015 Remember: School Hours: 8:45 am to 2:45pmOur Mission: Developing Confident, Resourceful Life-Long Learners. WHAT’ S HAPPENING: February 24 Mtg re Road 3pm at School March 2 Sthn Zone Athletics 4 Postponement Day Sthn Zone Athletics 5 Public Health Nurse Vis- it 17 Duffy Theatre 18,19,20 School Swim- ming 24,25,26 School Swim- ming 31/3,01,02/4 School Swimming 28 Sthld Athletics Updating School Records sheet. Please make any changes and return to school. It is important that we have the most up to date phone numbers, contacts etc for students. Focus : Key Competency Managing Self Value : You: Meaning Only YOU can be responsi- ble and show respect in being a good citizen Kia Ora, Talofa and Welcome We are now heading into Week 5 - not long now until Athletics at Surrey Park - watch out for some notices next week with all the details and asking for parent support with the running. It is great to see all our students wearing their uniforms - but this is a GREAT BIG RE- MINDER to name all items of clothing. The school does not have a lost property box (after removing the lost property box last year - there were only two tops and some socks left at the office:)). Our Senior Students, called “Tidy Kiwis”, - go out after lunch and do a sweep around the playing field for anything items of clothing and take it to its owner. This has been working very well. Staff keep reminding children to put any clothing they take off in their school bags and zip them up. Sun Safety : Staff are asking students to keep their sunhats in their school bags - school does not own them and therefore ask that students be responsible for their own property - ie, keep their hat in their bag (the new hats are much smaller and easier to fit in bags) and bring it to and from school daily. Under our sun safe procedures, children are to wear the School Sunhat when outside during Terms 1 and 4 - and the saying is : “no hat no play - sit under the veranda”. School Work : Staff have spent the first three weeks really getting to know their clas- ses and establishing routines and expectations. It is really important that these founda- tions are in place to ensure good on-task learning can occur. During this time lots of reading and math mileage has been occurring - mileage includes revisiting books and games that are familiar to students. Over the next two weeks teachers will be determin- ing math, reading and writing groups to move forward in our students learning. Meet and Greet : This has been a great opportunity for the whole school to start the day together with a song or two. It also has helped all the students get to know all our new staff and alert them to any daily school notices. Lateness : from Week 5 - I will start to check out the lateness on our recording system - please remember the bell for school to start rings at 8:45am - all students should be at school before this time, ie 8:40 at the latest. It could be as simple as leaving home five minutes earlier. Entering School Grounds - I have been asked if it is ok for students to be in the school grounds before 8:30am - the answer is yes - the only thing is that we do not take “parental” responsibility for students until 8:30 and the doors of the school are not open until 8:30am. Car Park - I have had lots of parents talk to me about the “driving” of some of our par- ents in the carpark - to me it is about being a courteous driver, checking your surround- ings before leaving a park or backing out of a park, parking across in the playing field and walking to collect your child. Thank you to those who are doing this, it does save a lot of congestion. Also thanks to those parents who just stagger their time to collect their child(ren), ie. they wait until 3:00pm when there are less vehicles around. School Garden: Tomorrow the students will have some vegetables from the garden for sale. We are asking for a gold coin for anything purchased and it is hoped that we will be able to buy more plants to grow. So watch out for from 8.30am. Bags of Potatoes / Peas / Marrow, cauliflower, broccoli, radishes, and Kale Until next newsletter Kia Kaha Andrea and Staff - Live a Little - Laugh a Lot:):):) TISBURY
• 2.
  COMMUNITY NOTICES: Southland A& P Show—Saturday 7 March 2015 Heritage Harvest Festival 28th/29thMarch Held at Apari- ma College, Leader St Riverton Elles Road Bible Chapel—Boys Rally 2015 Contact Shel- don Hutton 216 9511 or 027 308 9020 Children’s Day at the Fire Station Sunday 1st March 11.00am Jed St, Invercargill Family Bike Day Sunday 11 February 12.00pm Queens Park bank Rotunda Family Works—various programmes available, contact 211 8200 Page 2 Tisbury School’s Assemblies Fridays: 11.30am All Welcome 2015 TERM DATES Term 1: 29 January –02 April Term 2: 20 April—3 July Term 3 :20 July -25 September Term 4 :12 October—TBA Thursday Canteen Dates Term 1 26 Feb—Subway 5 March—Sausage Sizzle 12 March—Pita Pit 19 March—Cherillo’s 26 March—Subway 2 April—Sausage Sizzle No Noodles at school Tisbury Kids Can Do Any- thing – Watch Us Try! Sunhats compulsory Term 1 & 4 Please remember to have a spare set of clothes in your child’s school bag for emer- gencies. (especially the younger students). There is a growing number of students who are losing items of uniform, please check your child has there own polar fleece, sunhat etc. Archie—sunhat Jim– polar fleece x 2 size 8 Luke—polar fleece size 6 Parents desperate to have returned Students harvesting the garden today. We would like to invite parents and teachers to a meeting at the school to discuss improving the safety of school traffic and reducing the speed limit around the school. 3pm Tuesday 24th February 2015 in the library. School Traffic Basic Principal of Good Parenting: Establish and Set Rules. If you don’t manage your child’s behav- iour when they are young, they will have a hard time learning how to man- age themselves when they are older and you aren’t around. Any time of the day or night, you should always be able to answer these three questions: Where is my child? Who is with my child? What is my child doing? The rules your child has learned from you are going to shape the rules they apply to themselves. Vegetables for Sale—gold coin donation tomorrow 8.30am