Issue 1107 18th June 2015 Issue 1152 11th August 2016

Dear Readers of TAN, Hope you are all having a lovely week and taking advantage of this amazing weather.

Senior students need to be keeping their work ethics up for both internal assessments, and the start of studying for externals. Have a great weekend! Rearne Officer, Head Student

School Hours It is really important that students learn to be punctual. School starts at 8.50am for Junior students and 8.40am for Seniors and Middle School. Teachers are becoming concerned at the number of students who are arriving after these times. Lateness is recorded daily on the

school’s digital attendance register and letters are sent out to parents when students are habitually late.

Please encourage your child/children to be punctual for school so they can gain the greatest benefit from the

teaching/learning time.

School Uniform Price Increase We have received notification from NZUniforms that many of our current uniform items will increase in price from the 1st September 2016. Most of the increases are between $2 - $5, so it might be advantageous to order your child’s

summer requirements prior to that date. www.nzuniforms.com

Home & School Meeting Friday, 12th August at 3.15pm in the School

Staff Room.

SNOW CLUB RAFFLE Tickets are available, and prizes are on display at the Office. Please buy a ticket! All Snow Club

members benefit from the proceeds!

POINT 6 SOCKS Kirsty and Simon Williamson

from POINT 6 are offering all

Twizel Snow Club members a

great discount on Point 6 socks. These

socks are Performance Merino Wool

socks for Outdoors, Skiing, Active Life,

Snowboarding, etc and are available at a

discount of 20%!

Go see Katie and the team at

Wake Skate and Snow in Market Place.

"Crunch Munch Scrumdiddlyunch The Remarkables Food Project”

Home & School are selling a beautifully presented Children’s Recipe book on behalf of Remarkables Primary School.

All recipes in this book were submitted by students, and judged by the students for inclusion. There are some very yummy and easy to make recipes in this book for all ages. The price of the recipe book is $35, with 20% of this going to TAS

H&S. This would make a fantastic Christmas present! If you would like to order a copy, please use the sign-up sheet at Reception. All orders must be received

by Thursday 1st September 2016.

NZQA Fees for 2016 Fees are due on Wednesday 31st August 2016 to the

School Office. Students had their account detail handed out last week. If you have a Community

Card please call into the Office and complete a form for a reduction in the fee payable. Any questions,

please contact Neil Potter.

Holly, Blossom-Kate, and Lily with their Olympic

‘Moments in Time’. Name: Mireia Belmonte OK, so it’s freestyle right? Yeah, freestyle alright. All 200 metres! Take a deep breath. “Aaahaa”. I can see so many people, and all my opponents getting ready. I wonder how - keep my mind on winning. I hear the loud buzz of cheering and chattering from the crowd, with a faint ripple of the warm water. I think I can taste fear, wait, no, that’s just spit and a little bit of my breakfast. Haha. SWIMMING! I think in my head; I need to focus. I smell the distinct smell of the pools….salty chlorine and hot chips coming from the crowd (how annoying!) I feel the warm sweat dripping down my forehead and the cold water on the swimming block around my feet. Suddenly..”On your marks, get set, GO” And we thunder down the pool. By Blossom-Kate Garbutt

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Iceskating Poems by Room 5 Butt-breaking, sore, and aching, Are only a few ways of saying my day. Helmets and skates, and flimsy gloves, I heard too much of these words, I may be going insane. Falling, laughing, with some crying, And very cold, but I pushed through And fell hard… Very hard… Billy Garbutt

I was racing fast I hurt my knee. I got a hot chocolate, resting. I had lunch laughing.

I skated on slippery ice... Slowing down!

OFFICIAL SECTION

Kia Ora and Welcome to TAN What a chilly week we have had; great for iceskating, and at least we have the snowy hills and blue skies that make August such a great month in the Mackenzie Country.

On Monday we had adviser Nicky Tempero from Core Education working with teachers on digital technologies.

Rooms 4 and 5 got their iceskating trip away on Tuesday, in cold clear conditions and enjoyed tubing and skating at the Tekapo rink. I have heard the students were very well behaved and the parent support fantastic. Slightly more students seemed to enjoy tubing more, but the number skating said they felt they learned more over the course of the day.

Also on Tuesday we got the first of the class skiing trips away, with around twenty M3 to Year 13 students getting a full day on the slopes, including lessons. A bonus was seeing some of the best skiers in the world busy training, as the American World Cup team is up there at the moment, including current World Cup Slalom champion Mikayla Shiffrin.

Wednesday saw a group of Year 7 and 8 students go to Timaru after school for the Aoraki Maths competition. The Year 7s were 6

th out of about 20 teams, while the Year 8s were a bit

further down the track in quite intense competition, dominated by Ashburton Intermediate this year. Thanks to Miss McLennan and Mr White for driving them down and back – getting back after 10pm at night makes for a long day! A similar effort will be involved this evening, with Mr and Mrs Potter accompanying the Year 9s and 10s to their competition. Best wishes to them!

Yesterday we had the official School Photo day. Most of the photos were taken in the MPR, as it was too cold outside at our normal place at the entrance to school. The exceptions were the House and Whole School photos taken outside – this time using a drone instead of a photographer on the school roof.

Coming Events: On Monday six Italian students, aged 11 to 16, arrive for two lots of three day stints at school as our guests. They are ski racers, out in New Zealand with their coach, but have said they would like to experience some NZ culture and learn what our schools are like. We are looking at completing requirements to host International Students over longer terms, so this is an opportunity to see what it is like and evaluate how we can best mutually benefit from the experience.

11th August Aoraki Maths Y9/10 17th August M1/M2 Class Skiing 26th August Teacher Only Day 31st August Room 9 Class Ski Day 5-9

th September Common Exam week

23rd

September Last day of Term.

Ka kite ano,

William Feasey, Principal

STAR STUDENTS

Week 4 Term 3

Room 7 Shree Fabulous work during her first week at school! Room 8 Everett Sharing amazing work with class. Ka pai Room 9 Miller Super effort in all learning areas. Room 13 Isabella A great positive attitude for the start of Term Three. Room 4 Grace Always showing respect to others. Room 5 Daniel Consistent, quiet, diligent work in class. Also in pic: Jaxon Absent last week

Twizel Football Wants You!! Register your interest for SOCCER SCHOOL

October to November (8 weeks) Tuesdays 5-6pm

Boys & Girls 5-17 yrs Welcome

Email your child’s name and age to twizelfoot-

ball@gmail.com

Or Call/text Megan on 0211 245 405

It’s not only the children who love the Ice Skating trips!

Some were crying but most were laughing! Some fell hard And some were told “Slow the heck down!” Some had hot chocolates and some had chips, And some were freezing to bits! Some were learning And some were racing, And some were watching people fall on the slippery ice, Laughing! laughing!

Monique van der Westhuizen

Corey Jones