Newsletter 25 september 2014

Newsletter 25 september 2014

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  Absences Please textyour child’s absence to 0272542430 State: Name, Room Number Reason for absence. Term 3—2014 No.15 P R I N C I P A L ’ S R A M B L E Next News le t te r : 16 October 2014 Remembe r : School Hour s : 8:45 am to 2:45pm Our Mi s s ion: Developing Conf ident , Resourceful Li fe -Long Learner s . WHAT’ S HAPPENING: September 26 Last Day of Term October 13 Start of Term 4 17 School Disco—Players 22 BOT Meeting 24 School Photos Quote of the Week Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. Found black Active digital watch. Parent picked up from Kapa Haka group that went to marae. Contact the office. Could all library books please be returned tomorrow, or check over the holidays for any. Overdue notices have been sent home. Thanks Focus : Key Competency Participating & Contributing Value : Striving Meaning: ―Aiming high to succeed‖ Kia Ora, Talofa and Hi to the end the last week of Term 3. Spring has come and it has been fantastic to see the mornings lighter and the evenings getting longer :):):) A BIG thank you to all the parents who came along and supported the school bi-annual “Book Fair” - staff enjoyed “making bugs” in the afternoons and it was a great way to end the term with students in their houses working and helping each other. Some photos of the Grand Bug Parade appear on the next page. Sing Out - 2014 - Thank you Miss Butson for working with the children in the choir - they sound-ed fantastic last week at the Sing Out Choir Festival. Gym Festival - Well done to Mrs Watt for getting the Girls Gym team ready - they also looked great and participated very well in their events. School Carpark - It is getting better in the afternoons - just remember - if we all use it properly, no leaving your vehicles in the drop off zone and keep moving up the parks as the one in front becomes vacant, then we will have a great flowing carpark. Thanks to the parents who are park-ing across the road in the field - this makes a big difference to the number of cars flowing through the entrance. School Garden: In the holidays, the garden will be fenced and bark chips will be laid. All in time for planting after the holidays. School Uniforms - Please, please ensure your child’s clothes are named. We all try to take care with clothing but no responsibility if things get lost. I know that, specifically the Junior Teachers all have got buckets inside the classrooms for students to put jackets and tops, rather than on the pegs outside. But this only works if the children put them in the buckets. Children are reminded often - but we still get items left lying on the ground outside. EDUCATION OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM - TERM 4: Year 6’s - are off to Camp Cromwell - doing all those exciting things, biking, canoeing, sailing. Years 1 to 5: “Shipwrecks” is the theme and the plan is: Wednesday, 29 October : inter-house cooperative game competition. Thursday, 30 October : inter-house school trip to Greenpoint Walk to view some old wrecks and then to the Bluff Museum to see some relics from boats. Friday, 31 October - Shipwreck Art Morning with a Shipwreck shared lunch. The cost: Year 1-4’s $6.00 per student. The school has offset this cost by paying for the buses. We would appreciate if you could pay this cost as soon as possible in Term 4. A reminder will come out during the first week of school - cost covers: Museum Entry, Beach Education (28th Novem-ber) and food for shared lunch. Year 5’s: $10 per student. On the Thursday night - they will be having a sleepover at school and will be having breakfast the next morning, going home after lunch on the Friday - cost co-vers: the above, plus food for supper and breakfast. Staff will also require parent help on all three days - but particularly on the trip to Bluff - a notice will come out during week two asking for helpers - so please calendar these dates. We hope you all have a great two weeks holiday - enjoy the spring weather and the staff look forward to seeing you all on Monday, 13 October for the last term of 2014 (which, by the way, is 9 weeks in duration!!!). Kia Kaha Andrea and Staff Power is knowledge, knowledge is power - direct your energies into positive powers. TISBURY
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  Certificate Winners Page2 Cherillo’s Term 4 Dates 6 November 4 December Tisbury School’s Assemblies MONDAYS : 2:15pm All Welcome 2014 TERM DATES Term 1: 28 January –17 April Term 2: 5 May—4 July Term 3 :21 July 26 September Term 4 :13 October—12 December 12.30pm Sausage Sizzle Term 3 Dates 16 October 20 November Tisbury Kids Can Do Any-thing – Watch Us Try! Gymnastics Team Waituna Lagoon Visit ABSENTEES: It is very important to explain why your child is absent from school: There are two main ways staff can record an absence: 1) justified - due to illness, a medical appoint-ment, or a breavement in the family and 2) un-justified - is everything else. When we are not advised that it is due to illness - we mark the student as unjustified and when this percent-age gets below 80% we are legally obliged to advise the Ministry of Education’s Attendance Service. Please help us help you. We sold $1033 from the Book Fair so this gave us a credit of $310 to purchase books for the library. These students chose the books. A BIG thank you to all parents who supported our Book Fair.