Issue 1107 18th June 2015 Issue 1143 26th May 2016

CONGRATULATIONS!! to Taane Whetu, Des Bentin, Santana Rapana-King, and Christine Joubert who have been selected to compete at the National Area Schools Tournament in Dunedin in the July Holidays. Jayde Officer was also selected but will not be attending due to other commitments. There is a big cost involved for these students to attend the tournament, so they are going to be doing various fundraising events throughout the rest of the term. The first one is a Lotto Bonus Ball Competition; for details and tickets please see one of the students before Wednesday. Let’s get behind these students and help them with their fundraising efforts! Brendon Ferguson, HOD Outdoor Education

World Smokefree Day Cupcake/Biscuit Design Competition

This year to promote awareness of World Smokefree Day, which is on 31st May, the WAVE students have

organised a cupcake/muffin/biscuit design competition. We would like you to design a non-smoking message or

symbol on top of your food creation. There are entry forms available from either Mrs O’Carroll

or the Office, and the competition will be judged on Monday 30th May, with some great prizes to be won. Parents, this is a great opportunity to get creative with

your kids over the weekend. Gold coin donation for anyone who would like to

consume the creations after they have been judged!

No Climbing Wall session after school tomorrow but back to normal hours from

next Friday. (3.15 - 4.30pm, all school age children welcome. Every under-12 child must be accompanied by

an over-12, to belay, or learn to belay. $4.00 per person, per session).

Cheese Rolls Are Back!! Get your orders in now…..

$6 for a bag of 10 cheese rolls

$20 for four bags of 10 cheese rolls! Choice of white or brown bread. Orders are being taken

by Twizel Volts and Twizel Tussocks players, and also

at the School Office. Orders, with payment, must be

made by Thursday 9th June. The rolls will be made and

delivered on Sunday 26th June.

Maths Fun Night A Maths Fun night for parents who wish to support their child’s learning in maths will

be held at school on Thursday 9th June from 6.15 - 7.30pm.

Please note that we have carefully avoided basketball nights! This session will focus on learning at Stages 4 & 5 (learning about numbers up to 100 and up to 9999

and related problem-solving). These students will mostly be in Rooms 9, 13, 4 and 5. Please feel free to

ask your child’s teacher which stage your child is working at.

Parents of children who are not yet working at these stages are also warmly invited to attend.

The focus will be on practical and fun ways you can support your child, and on helping adults to understand how maths is taught these days.

We invite you to bring your children who are working at these levels. Come and do some maths together -

We promise a fun and informative evening!

~ HOME & SCHOOL FUNDRAISER ~

50 Plastic Pegs for $5.00 Please pay at the

Office. Thank you for your support.

Last week Carol Butel, the Maths Adviser, was in Room 15 demon-strating scaffolding techniques for teachers to use when teaching

division. The variety of equipment and games helps consolidate the learning and these students enjoyed the demonstration.

An Adventure ~ by Taylah Marsh, Room 9 In the weekend me and my dad and sister went on an

adventure to see the enormous waves. Some were enormous! And some were just BIG. Some were middle sized waves and little waves, some even wet the car. Me and dad

went outside the car. I got wet and dad got wet too. Dad and I got pushed over then we got back into the car and went to a lake that looked like a waterfall but it was very scary because

it crashed at the bottom. There was a tree in the middle of the lake, it was funny, very funny. We carried on then we saw a flood. The lake had too much water in it, but it was shallow

so we could drive through. Then we got out of the car. I walked through the water. Dad came with me. Then the water rose up. We could not get back across the water so we had to take our shoes and socks off and walk across the water. Then we got back in the car and drove home and had a cookie and

a milo. It was an exciting day.

OFFICIAL SECTION

Kia Ora and Welcome to TAN A very special welcome to Jaxon Shaw, who started school yesterday in Room 7.

On Monday we had nine seniors attend the Careers Expo in Timaru. Although it was a bit smaller than usual (Aoraki Polytechnic is busy reorganising as Ara) the students found the range of advice about industries valuable. We received some good feedback from Trish Terpstra, HR training adviser at Oceania Dairy, which speaks to the kind of qualities we hold dear. “As an exhibitor at yesterday’s Careers Expo, I would like to express how impressed the team at Oceania Dairy were with the behaviour of all of the students we were in contact with from your school. They were friendly, respectful and very polite, a great representation of your school and its values”.

Board of Trustees nominations closed last Friday at noon, and the Returning Officer by then had received six nominations for the three places. It is great that we have this level of interest in providing good governance for the school, and I would like to thank the people who allowed their names to be put forward for doing so. They are:

Scott Aronsen Debra Hunter Jen Purdie Nyree Schaar Sarah Sutherland Jason Swain

The voting forms have been posted to all those on the parent roll. Look after them, as the Returning Officer tells me you cannot get another one if you lose it! Voting closes at noon on Friday, 3rd June. As our Board now operates staggered election cycles, there will be another election in eighteen months time for two places.

We have had Paul O’Reilly the soccer man, from South Canterbury Soccer, here for three days this week taking different groups of students from New Entrants up to Year 6, and a group of the weekend soccer players after school. It is good for our children to practice a variety of different skills from different sports, and it was great to see some adults watching as well to pick up some ideas and different drills.

I have appointed Mr Chris Heaphy as a part time school counsellor for the remainder of the year. Mr Heaphy has an M. Ed in Counselling, and a long career in Guidance and Outdoor Education around Christchurch. Currently he does two days a week counselling at Linwood High School in Christchurch, but lives in Oamaru, so we are fortunate he has agreed to come up here once a fortnight to be available for our students and staff to work with.

Year 11-13 students are off to Huxley Lodge this afternoon on our own leadership course, returning tomorrow afternoon. The aim is to develop communication and group work skills together, using the outdoors and activities around Huxley. There will also be assessment for some unit standards associated with participating in a group.

Coming Events:

May 26 - 27th Y11-13 Leadership Camp June 3rd BOT Election voting closes June 6th Queen’s Birthday holiday June 14-16th Three Way Conferences July 4th School Production week July 8th End of Term Two July 25th Term Three begins

FOUND: Silver chain with cat charm

greenstone shepherd’s whistle

silver chain bracelet with key pendant

pair of pearl-drop ear-rings

Small pink zip top bag

Items may be claimed from the School Office.

Ka kite ano,

William Feasey, Principal

STAR STUDENTS

Week 3 Term 2

Room 7 William Great progress in all areas Room 8 Isla Showing respect & caring for everyone Room 9 Oliver Much better listening Room 13 Jayden For being a respectful class member Room 4 . Nell Respectful, trustworthy, & caring Room 5 Corey Making good decisions & showing respect to everyone in the class