Edendale newsletter

Rosemary Vivien Principal • Edendale Primary School, 419 Sandringham Road, Sandringham, Auckland 1025

Telephone: 09 846 6340 • Facsimile: 09 846 3997 • Email: [email protected] or [email protected] •

Website: http://www.edendale.school.nz/

Edendale News

THE EDENDALE EXPERIENCE: THINKING, LEARNING, CREATING

15 May 2013

Next issue: 29 May 2013

Message from the Principal

Kia ora, Kia orana, Namaste, Talofa lava, Malo e lelei, Ni hao ma, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Asalam alikum!

Welcome Welcome to all new families who have recently enrolled students at Edendale. We do hope that you

enjoy being a part of our school community and we look forward to getting to know you all better.

Welcome also to Jeremy Hantler our new music teacher, Jeremy is also the new release teacher for

Rooms 27 and 28. You can read a little more about him on the next page. Also Welcome to

Nikita Tapora who is our new Year 0 teacher in Room 22. Amanda Will joins us next week as release

teacher for Rooms 2 and 3. Jackie Howard will join us next term (or earlier if possible) as our

part-time specialist Maths teacher. We look forward to welcoming both Amanda and Jackie to our staff.

School Donations and Activity Fees

Thank you to all parents and caregivers who have contributed donations and activity fees to date. We

very much appreciate your support for the additional programmes we provide at Edendale. Please

consider making a donation if you have not already done so. A reminder that activity fees are

compulsory. To date, school-wide, 40% of families have contributed a donation and 60% have paid

the activity fee. Thank you for your continued support! We will give an update on these figures later in

the term.

Food Revolution Day - Friday 17 May All classes are participating in the Food Revolution Day tomorrow, supported by the Garden-to-Table

Trust and led by Jamie Oliver, who has recently introduced Garden-to-Table programmes to UK schools.

The aim of the day is to promote healthy homemade foods. TVNZ will be sending their ‘Breakfast’ crew

to our kitchen classroom to film Room 28 enjoying their pyjama party breakfast and also a group of Year

5-6 students cooking healthy frittatas and muffins for the staff and for their team. The students are very

excited about their participation in this programme.

Rosemary Vivien, Principal

BOARD OF TRUSTEES ELECTION

PRESENTATIONS, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

THURSDAY 23 MAY - 7:00 -8:00PM VENUE: SCHOOL HALL

Ten candidates have been nominated for our next Board of Trustees. All parents/

caregivers are invited and encouraged to attend this meeting to hear our candidates speak about ways in which they can contribute as your representatives for the

governance of Edendale School for the next three years. Do join us for this very

important meeting. A crèche will be available in the staffroom.

Please read our candidate statements which will be mailed out along with voting forms early next week. There will be an opportunity to ask questions of each

candidate after they speak. We look forward to seeing you all at the meeting!




School Information • Programmes • Awards

ICAS Computer Skills Competition Students who are sitting the Computer Skills Exam on Tuesday 21st May will need to have a ruler,

eraser, and a 2B or B pencil. These are available before school at the school office.

Music Room News Jeremy Hantler is our new music teacher. He has a First Class honours degree in Jazz

Performance drumming, a Diploma in Primary Teaching, and is passionate about fostering

creativity in our children. Mr Hantler has recently completed Level 1 Orff Training, a University

affiliated professional development course inspired by the research and teaching style of Carl Orff.

This approach aims to re-connect music with speech, dance, drama, and visual arts; while

encouraging children to rehearse, compose, and perform at all stages of musical literacy. It is a

fun way to engage children with the music curriculum, and gives them access to many mediums

they can use to express themselves.

If you are interested in helping out with the music programme with materials/home workshop/

instrumental skills/great ideas – please don’t hesitate to email him at [email protected].

Update of contact details

It is important that the office has correct details so we are able to contact you if your child is unwell and

correspondence can be sent to the correct address.

Please phone the school by 8.30am if your child is absent from school. Phone 846 6340 and push 1 for

the absentee line. Please leave your child’s full name, room number and reason for absence.

For change of pickup arrangements for school, please contact the office by telephone before 2pm.

Please do not text the school, as phones are not monitored for incoming text messages.

Garden to Table

With autumn upon us we are in the process of planting our winter and spring crops,

broccoli, peas, spinach and silverbeet, cabbage and broad beans. We still have plenty of

root crops and herbs to get us through our cooking sessions with some unusual crops

such asyakon, celeriac, Jerusalem and salsify to try! Jodie has been teaching the children about different plant families (eg leafy greens, legumes, fruit,

root crops, tubers) these are plants that are grouped together that have similar needs like water, soil

pH and sun. In the kitchen we have been baking feijoa, apple and banana crumble using up the feijoas from

our orchard and Sarah’s garden, and our frozen bananas from the orchard, the perfect dish for the

cooler days! Our focus has been on bread, its origins and what part yeast plays in the making of bread, we learnt

about proving and kneading and the results were delicious carrot and sunflower seed bread rolls. We are wanting to plant potatoes in the green house, if you have any spare clean 10 litre plastic paint

pots we would appreciate them you can leave by our Garden to table shed. We still have spaces available Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday for volunteers, if you are interested in

any of the days we would love to hear from you, please contact [email protected]

Sarah and Jodie

We’re 104 years old on 29 May!

We celebrate our 104th birthday in two weeks time! All teams are planning fun activities for students

during one learning block of the day, including talking about what school was like in ‘the old days’. I’m

going to bring some ‘Janet and John’ reading books and stamps to share with Year 0-1 students, from

my early school days at Model Country, Epsom (now Kohia Terrace School). You might like to talk with

your own children about your schooling from your primary school years!




School Information • Programmes • Notices

News from Edendale’s PTA Movie Night Update!

Movie Night will be held at the Capitol, Balmoral on Sunday 19th May. The movie we will be a

pre-screening of the NZ movie ‘Shopping’ – A fabulous movie that has had great reviews! ‘Shopping’

won the Grand Prix at the Berlin film festival! Tickets are $20 – this includes a glass of bubbles and a

sweet treat. Start time 7:15pm.

There will be raffles, silent auctions and spot prizes on the night. There are many fantastic items to win

and bid on! Tickets are sale on NOW in the morning and afternoon every day outside Room 9.

Bids on the silent auctions can also be made there. You can bid on the auctions even if you cannot make

the Movie Night!! Bidding on the auction can also be done at the Movie Night. Tickets are limited so get

your tickets NOW! Can you help us?

Are you a caterer or baker? If you are and you can help us please email the PTA at

[email protected] Fotoman

Thank you to everyone who participated in this fundraiser. New Entertainment book for 2013/2014!

This book is filled with a huge range of discount vouchers for dining, travel and recreation. Books cost

only $65.00 with $13.00 from each sale going to the school. You can order now online

at: https://www.entertainmentbook.co.nz/orderbooks/991b27 or at the school office. Quiz Night

Will be held on Friday 28th June. We will be having auctions on the night so if you have any items or

services to contribute please email us or leave it at the office for us. We NEED Parent Class Reps!!!

We currently only have class reps for: Rooms 1, 3, 4, 9, 12, 15, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27. So we need reps

for: Rooms 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 16, 19, 23, 26, 28. If you would like to be a class rep for your child’s

class please let the teacher know so they can forward your details on to the PTA or you can email us

directly at [email protected]

The Parent Rep may be required to: pass on PTA information to parents/care givers and teacher,

promote fundraisers, inform PTA liaison of any suggestions, ideas or feedback from parents/care givers

or teacher organise with class teacher fundraising projects (e.g. collecting items for a raffle). Attending

PTA meetings is not required. If you have any questions about this please email us. PTA Meeting

The next PTA meeting will be held in the meeting room Thursday 16 May 7:00pm. Edendale PTA

Can you help out in our orchard? A group of parents who meet on Wednesday’s at 2.00pm to weed, mulch, prune, etc. in the

orchard would love more help; If you are able to come along and assist please contact

Fiona Paul:021 1742974 or 620 9498 [email protected]

Edendale Playground Taonga Winners (Positive Behaviour Tickets)

The following students were recently spotted and have sports equipment for their class for the next

fortnight :

Taonga Winner: Stella—Rm7

Keeping our grounds clean and tidy: Stella—Rm7, Romi—Rm18, Keira—Rm20, Lima—Rm6

Helping others: Ana-Hera—Rm28

Our next school assembly will be held on Monday 27 May at 10:00am

mailto:[email protected]




Board of Trustees

Next meeting will be held in the Meeting Room

Tuesday 28 May 2013 at 7:15pm

All welcome to attend

Edendale PTA

Next meeting will be held in the Meeting Room

Thursday 16 May at 7:00pm

All welcome to attend

School Information • Tuakana Stories and Art • Advertisements

School Calendar 2013

Term 2: 6 May—12 July

Term 3: 29 July—27 September

Term 4: 14 October—20 December

Public Holidays falling on school days: Monday 3 June—Queen’s Birthday

Monday 28 October—Labour Day

Tuakana Team Self Portraits

Last term the Tuakana Team focused on Self-portraits during Visual Art.

Here are some examples of art the students created.

Zakariya—Rm27

Tara—Rm24 Tamasa—Rm23

Lois—Rm28 Amos—Rm26

Srijan—Rm25

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