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Dear parents and families On Monday our Indian community treated the whole school to a delightful celebration of Diwali, with some wonderful dancing, lights, music, ceremony and story telling. Thank you so much to our students, families and staff for sharing this special time with us. On Tuesday I visited all our cultural groups, who are getting their performances ready for our Home School ‘Culture Fest’ in two weeks’ time. I visited the Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga, India, Japan and Iraq, all in about twenty minutes, not to mention the home-gown Kiwiana group and three Kapa haka groups! School Boards are elected for three years at a time – that’s about 24 full Board Meetings, three conferences, and probably a few committee meetings. This cycle also includes three full audits, three annual budgets, three strategic plans, three annual reports, and at least one ERO visit. We are coming to the end of the current BOT cycle. Board Elections will take place in April. If you are interested in trusteeship, then you are welcome to come along to a Board meeting to observe and find out what goes on. Our next meeting will be Thursday 19th November at 6:30 pm. This Board has also overseen the construction of one school hall/administration building and six new relocatable classrooms. That’s quite a lot of responsibility, eh? Even more amazing to think they had to fight hard to make all these things happen at all. Next time round the Board will have to oversee the building of a completely new school, and the safe demolition of the old school. But the biggest battle has already been won. This week I heard that the ‘ROI’ (Register of Interest) for construction companies to tender for building the new school has now been listed on ‘GETS’ (Government Electronic Tender Site). It is now officially confirmed. After all these years fighting I still can’t really believe it. Ka kite Paul Wright (Principal)

Principal’s Message PB4L for the Week

Integrity Use my time wisely.

Parents and Whanau: What does Integrity look like in your

house: before school, after school, before bedtime?

(Send the answers in to the o ff ice and we wi l l share some of your ideas in our ARISE assembly)

Mufti Day

Thursday 12 N ovember 2015

Gold Coin Donation

Theme: A ll Blacks

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Year 8 Awards Ceremony Graduation Dinner and Dance

Clayton Park School will officially graduate our Year 8 students and present trophies and prizes on Thursday 10 December. We welcome all families of our Year 8 students.

Awards Ceremony

Thursday 10 December 2015 Where: In the Hall 1.45 pm to 3.00 pm

Graduation Dinner and Dance

Thursday 10 December 2015

Where: In the Wharemahi 6.00pm to 9.00pm Thank you very much to the following families who have returned sponsorship money to 'give back’ to the school and support our Awards Ceremony:

Alex Parker, Phoebe Scott, Jarryd McCamish, Summah Fairburn

As well, a giant THANK YOU to the following companies who have also chosen to sponsor our students:

(sponsored our All Round Excellence trophy, prizes and also gifted a number of quality stationery items

and gift packs).

(sponsored a number of trophies and prizes).

We are very grateful to our sponsors and we look forward to sharing these awards with our students.

Book Fair

We are holding our Book Fair in Week 7.

Parents will be able to visit on

HSP night as well.

It will be held in the library from 23-27 November.

Items start from $1. Everyone who buys a book will go into the draw to win the cost of

their book back.

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Teacher Notices HATS: Bring your hats to School, the warmer weather means we have to be sun smart. ATHLETICS: An A thletic s Fun day will be held next week. The whole sc hool will be involved and students will c ompete in their House groups. Events planned: sprints, discus, shotput, high jump, long jump, bean bag throw, relays and tug of war. FREE BREAKFAST: • Everyday there will be a breakfast

club for the whole school in the hall. • Every Friday Maori Enrichment will be

having a free breakfast for the members of Maori Enrichment.

MOBILE PHONE APPEAL for Clayton Park School is still on. Bring those old mobile phones in and the school will receive points where we can redeem rewards from Swapkit. PORTFOLIOS: Please return portfolios to school as soon as you can. HOLIDAY READING PACKS: There are still a number of holiday reading packs (books loaned to students to read over the holidays) that have not been returned. If you have these books at home, please return them to school. NEXT YEAR! Next year we start back on Tuesday 2 February not the 1st of Feb because that is Aucklands Anniversary. And we totally missed that with our magnets this year but don’t worry, we’ll have new magnets for next year with the

Home School Partnership Cultural Festival

Wednesday 25 November Cultural  groups  gather  on  Tuesdays  to  plan  and  prepare  the  activities  and  items  that  they  will  present  in  Week  7.    Here  is  how  some  of  the  groups  are  going:     Japanese Culture Group The Japanese culture group has been busily learning a high energy soranbushi fishing dance as well as a song for the early summer star festival of Tanabata. We will be performing these and showing our Tanabata decorations. We will be selling Japanese food too – gyudon beef and rice-bowl, kara-age fried chicken and Japanese style curry. Looking forward to seeing you there – yoroshiku onegaishimasu! Samoan Culture Group In our Samoan cultural group we have been learning an awesome sasa. It has been really difficult but our Samoan tutor Ina, makes it really fun for us. We are learning to be disciplined in our actions, timing and also trying to keep up with all sorts of different movements with our hands. Our Team 1 and 2 students have been learning a range of samoan songs with Ese and they cannot wait to share these with everyone on our Home School Partnership Night. NZ/Kiwi Culture Group The students in this group are working together to present a performance about our great Kiwi lifestyle. Can all children participating in the NZ/Kiwi culture group please bring gumboots to Room 13 to practice in for their performance at the Culture Festival on Wednesday 25th November. Thanks very much. Maori Culture Group We have three groups who will be sharing what they have learned these past weeks. The students are split into junior, middle and senior groups. As with all our other culture groups, we will be having a kai stall at our Home School Partnership night. It will be awesome.

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Ela (Team 4) On Thursday the 29th of October, the Athletics Team went to Jellicoe Park to attend the athletics event that was happening. The team that went were Lee, Ela, Joseph, Gabrielle, Chance, Te Rongopai, DJ, Tayla C, Snehal, Sarona and Victoria. These people tried really hard and did their best in all the events. The students that did these events were amazing and some of them qualified through to Counties Zone. The girls in 100m (Ela, Sarona, Gabrielle, Te Rongopai and Victoria) were awesome. Ela came 2nd, Gabrielle came 3rd and Victoria also came 3rd. The boys in 100m that qualified were Lee, Chance and DJ. Lee came 1st in everything, this boy is a legend! In 200m Ela made it to Counties Zone. For long jump Lee and Chance qualified for Counties Zone. In discus, Tayla C made it to Counties Zone. We all had an amazing day there. We’d like to thank Jeb for helping us out,

Student Work Riley (Team 1) I like the fireworks. I like the golden fireworks. Saysha (Team 1) The fireworks exploded. It went “Boom”, with colours.

Paityn (Team 1) I went to the butterfly creek on Sunday to watch the butterflies. They were beautiful

Xavier (Team 2) It was a quarter to one in the afternoon. It’s nice and balmy ut there. I’m feeling adventurous. Man! I want to be skinny. I can hear an owl saying hoot hoot. I smell something fishy. Why is a cat in a trash can? That’s disgusting! Dad, why is there something gooey in your shoe. Dad bragged about blowing the biggest bubble in the whole wide world and it splatted on his shoe. Then a spider crept on my Dad’s shoe and the spider got stuck in the bubble gum.

Student Work

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Puzzle

How many words can you find? Each word must contain the central M and no letter can be used twice. Can you find the nine letter word?

Excellent: 63 words. Good: 48 words. Average: 35 words.

House Sports Played Tuesdays to Fridays

Morning Tea – Team 3

Lunch – Team 4

Come along and support the teams that are trying to win points for your House.

This week’s sport is:

Volleyball

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