Term 2 22nd May 2019 Learning for the future

Ahuwhenua – Manaakitia – Manamotuhake – Manawanui - Hiranga

Kia ora, Talofa lava, Malo e lelei, Kia orana, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Malo ni, Bula, Greetings…

Welcome… Week 4, Term 2!

Home and School Disco This Friday 24th May is our Matariki Star disco. Tickets can be purchased at our school office at $3.00 per student and pre-sales are essential. The disco is at Kamo Intermediate School from 6pm to 8pm. Students must be signed in and signed out. The theme is ‘Glow like a Star’ and glow products are available for sale starting at 50 cent with items for sale listed below. Treats will also be available on the night. Thank you to the parents who are supporting this event. Remember, don't go racing around for a special outfit – normal clothes are fine and if they have a star or stars on, that's a bonus; however, all our students are STARS!! Children having fun is what this night is about!

Lost Property Just a reminder we only hold lost property for a few weeks then we move it on. If it is named it gets to its rightful owner! The Warehouse sells fabric marker pens starting at $3.99. Support Staff Day Last Thursday 16th May was National Support Staff Day. This refers to the office staff, our caretaker and the teacher aides. We truly have a great team of people who support the school so well. The teachers put on a great morning tea and we thanked them with a strong bright gerbera – bright, strong and colourful like the special people they are!! These people work so hard for so little. They love all our students and everyone in the team contributes. We openly want to express how much we adore these members of staff!!

Item Cost

Tri colour Bracelets 50 cents

Glow stick Bracelets with connectors 2 for .50 cents

Glowstick glasses $2.00

Flashing eyeball rings $2.00

Glowsticks - mixed colours $1.50

Flashing LED Disco Ties $4.00

Squishy flashing Smiley Face Balls $2.50

LED butterfly glasses $3.00

LED Spiderkid glasses $3.00

Flashing Jelly Star necklaces $2.00

Fibre optic Lite Hair Extension clips $4.00

Flashing puffer balls $2.50

Batkid glasses $3.00

Restorative Practice Kamo Primary School is at the early stages of Restorative Practice, as we are just one term into it. To quote the Ministry of Education, “Restorative Practice is a relational approach to school life grounded in beliefs about equality, dignity, mana and the potential of all people. The Positive Behaviour for Learning (PB4L) Restorative Practice model focuses on building and maintaining positive, respectful relationships across the school community and offers school staff best-practice tools and techniques to restore relationships when things go wrong. By building and maintaining positive, respectful relationships within a school, staff to staff, staff to student and student to student, issues are more easily managed. PB4L Restorative Practice is based on a set of best practice tools and techniques to support a consistent and sustainable approach to managing positive, respectful relationships within the school.” We still have much to learn but I would like to share with you three definitions we are working with…

When someone does or says something that hurts you BUT they didn’t mean to… that's an accident

When someone does or says something that hurts you and they meant to… that's being unkind

When someone keeps on doing or saying things that hurt you ON PURPOSE even when you’ve asked them to stop…

that's bullying

Packaging in Lunchboxes – ‘Litter Less’ Lunches We are asking that you talk with your child when you pack lunchboxes and reinforce and remind them you want any containers they bring from home to come back home with them. I have noticed of late that many end up in our school rubbish bins. It would be great as well if you could teach them what is recyclable and what needs to go in the rubbish bin. It is very hard for teachers to check off every lunchbox every day. They are skimming and scanning to see that food is eaten but support from home would be great! The ultimate would be to have litter free lunchboxes and some parents comment to us they would like us to teach their children about this at school and we do try. However, it comes back to who is shopping and packing the lunchboxes and the school has no control over that. Yoghurt containers, chip wrappers, muesli bar wrappers, plastic sandwich bags and squeezies are all destined for the rubbish bins and ending up as landfill, or possibly in nearby waterways endangering marine life. If they are binned at home prior to leaving there is less chance they will be put somewhere they don’t belong or in any bin or place around the school. We would love your support as we strive to educate for change, but we definitely know home would be a great teacher on this! Important Strike Day On Wednesday 29th May school will not be open for teaching and learning instruction, as teachers will be striking. If you feel strongly about our cause you are welcome to join us. Details will be announced soon. No doubt you are aware from media releases that secondary teachers will join primary teachers for this strike at midday. The Kidzone After School Care programme has offered their services to parents on the 29th May. Please contact them should you require care for your child/ren.

Sally Wilson – Principal

Nominations for Kamo Primary School Board of Trustees close at Noon on Friday 24th May 2019. Who can become a trustee? Parents, caregivers and people from the wider community can be nominated for election to a school board. If you would like to become part of Kamo Primary Schools Board of Trustees please get your nomination forms accompanied by a candidate statement (up to 400 words) in by noon on Friday May 24th. If you would like to find out more information on becoming a Board of Trustees member please do not hesitate to contact myself or Sally Wilson, Principal. Denise Batten Returning Officer

SCHOOL NOTICES Stationery - Activities contributions/School DonationBank a/c number is 12 3093 0156736 01 - Please put child’s name and a reference: eg activities contribution/donation Contribution Fee $14.00 per childSchool Donations 1 child $60.00 Family $90.00Eftpos available

Room12/20 would love any empty boxes (cereal, crackers etc) .

WPSSA Winter Sports - Many thanks to all the parent helpers who are giving their time to support and manage our school sports teams on the 5th June. We couldn’t do it without you.

Team Gym Taster Classes Monday 27th May & Monday 10th June

5-6pm Juniors 6-7pm Seniors

Do you like to tumble? Do you like display gymnastics? Do you like moving to music?

Come along and try Team Gym

Team Gym is a new Nationally run programme that WAGS will offer in Term 2. Team Gym is a competitive display gymnastics programme for teams of 6 – 12 gymnasts. Great for older gymnasts

who were competitive but may not want to train more than once per week. This is an opportunity to compete at a National level.

Who Can Do Team Gym? Boys and Girls Ages 8 through to adult Gymnastic Experience: Not needed

Cost: $5

Open to anyone 8 years and older including ex gymnasts and even adults whether they have previous gym experience or not.

It's an inclusive sport which has competitions and includes a floor routine, tumble component and spring.

Come along and try it out. Register with the Wags office if you are interested.

Whangarei Academy of Gymnastics Trigg Sports Arena

25 Park Ave Kensington

Chocolate The wrapper is crunchy like some crisps. It is like a black balloon. It is melting in my mouth and on my tongue. It tastes like a piece of blackberry. The wrapper is crunchy like an apple. Isla Elliot Room 16

Chocolate The wrapper crunches in my hand. It sounds like paper ripping apart. It looks like a mine-craft brick. It sounds flappy in my ear. It melts on my wet tongue slowly. It’s crunchy in my mouth. Mason Leeuwenburg Room 16

Chocolate The wrapper makes a crunchy noise and when I ripped it open it crunched even louder. When I put it on my tongue it melts and gets wetter and it drips around my chin. Jai Silulu-Etherington Room 16

Chocolate The wrapper clicks like my mums jaw. It looks like a mine-craft cube. It’s like a swing breaking. It is dissolving in my mouth. Ryder Dolan-Woods Room 16

Pop in and see the friendly staff at Davids

Pharmacy. Right next door to Savemart.

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Family & Friends of Kamo Primary SchoolJoin my referral club and help your school receive $500!*

The referral needs to be recorded on the listing at the time of the listing not retrospectively.

*The $500 Payment is made when the commission ispaid to the agent.

Do you know of someone wanting to sell their house? Refer them to me.

When I sell their home your school will receive a $500 donation!

Property Whangarei Ltd Licensed Agent 2008 MREINZ

If you are a parent, staff member or member of the school community and you draw down a new ASB home loan of $250,000 or more, ASB will donate to your chosen participating school:

asb.co.nz/schoolbanking

$500

Supporting success in your school.

How to claim this offerMention this offer to your ASB banker when you apply for your new home loan.

Your new home loan application must be received, approved and then documented in a facility agreement, between 1 July 2018 and 30 June 2019.

Visit www.asb.co.nz/promotions/supporting-success-in-your-school for more information and eligibility criteria.

Once your loan is fully drawn down, ASB will donate $500 to your chosen participating school.

Lending criteria and terms apply to home loans. Fees may apply. Eligibility criteria: documentation of the facility agreement must be done by 30 June 2019; mention of this promotion must take place during the home loan application process to ensure eligibility. Only applicable to loans which are secured by residential owner-occupied property with a minimum of 20% equity required; excludes lending through brokers; Limited to one donation per customer. Donation will be made to chosen school on complete draw down of the home loan. For full eligibility criteria, exclusions and further details see https://www.asb.co.nz/promotions/supporting-success-in-your-school.html ASB Bank Limited 56140 12436 0718

School Start Times Please remember that children should not be entering the school grounds before 8.00am .

After 8.15am is preferable.