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5 April 2017 Number 10
Banks Avenue School Learning today to succeed tomorrow
Kia mau ngā akoranga, kia tau ai āpōpō
N E W S L E T T E R
Phone: 03 385 4163, fax: 03 385 6581 email: [email protected], website: www.banksave.school.nz
Thursday 6 April Scholastic Book Club orders due back to school
Thursday 6 April North East Zone Swimming Sports at Selwyn Aquatics Centre
Friday 7 April ‘Give a Little HEART’ Mufti Day – gold coin donation
Friday 7 April School Assembly – 2:00pm in the Library
Monday 10 April Junior and Senior Cross Country – postponement day 12/4
Tuesday 11 April Team Kahikatea walk to Woodham Park 12:00 – 3:00pm
Wednesday 12 April Last day Term 1 – children dismissed at 3:00pm
Thursday 13 April TEACHER ONLY DAY
Friday 14 April Good Friday – school closed for the Term 1 holidays
Monday 1 May Term 2 begins
Banks Avenue School trip / event postponements and or cancellations will only be heard on
NEWSTALK ZB 1098AM and CLASSIC HITS and viewed on our website: www.banksave.school.nz
SCHOOLGEN LINK: http://schoolgen.co.nz/schoolgen-schools/banks-avenue-school-christchurch
If your child is absent from school, for any reason, please let our school office know using one of the following
options: Phone: 385 4163 / option 3 text 027 422 8032 email: [email protected]
Or notify us via our website: http://www.banksave.school.nz/absences.html or via our Tiqbiz app: www.tiqbiz.com
If your child arrives at school after 9:00 am they must check in at the office. This saves a lot of phone calls for
unexplained absences in order to ensure the safety of all our children
Dear Parents and Whānau
Ngā mihi mahana ki a koutou – a warm welcome to
you all.
Five, four, three, two, one, holidays! Yes we have five
school days left until we break for the April holidays.
School is officially closed on Thursday 13 April for a
Teacher Only Day and will resume on Monday
1 May. This is the last newsletter this term. There will
be no newsletter next Wednesday. Have a safe and
relaxing holiday; recharge your batteries in
preparation for Term 2.
Health and Safety Police Vetting Health and Safety is always a top priority for us at
school and as part of maintaining a safe environment
we try to be vigilant in who has access to our students
in school time or on school outings. If you are a parent
who is regularly at school, e.g., helping at discovery
each week, then you will be police vetted. Please
don’t be upset about this as it is standard practice.
Once a parent has been police vetted it will be valid
for the remainder of the school year.
Strangulation Every now and again unsafe practices among students
sweep through a school as a fad. The current one
involves children strangling themselves, blocking
their own airways to the point where they nearly pass
out. This is incredibly dangerous as it is restricting air
to the brain. Teachers have spoken to children about
the dangers but we ask that you as parents also have a
serious conversation with your children. Your child
will hopefully not be involved, however, they can
keep their eyes open and let teachers know if they see
anyone doing this. We will contact parents of any
children involved in this behaviour.
How do you plan for quality family time? Families are ever more busy with parents working full
time. It can be difficult to spend quality time together.
When my two daughters were younger (now they’re
29 and 25) we introduced family night. Every Tuesday
was our family night. We each needed to avoid
booking anything else into our agendas on a Tuesday.
Each week we planned something different to do as a
family and we made it a technology free evening.
Often we would play a board game or do a jigsaw
puzzle, sometimes we baked, once I even took them
Hi, kia ora, Guten Tag, Namaste, Kon-nichiwa . .
, konnichiwa.
line dancing (truthfully that was not the most
successful of our family nights). Family nights were
honestly the highlight of the week. No sooner was one
over and Merc and Paris would be asking what we
were doing the following week. Quality time together
as a family is priceless. How do you plan for family
time? Your child’s success or lack of success in education does not indicate what kind of parent you are but having a child that is teachable, respectful, a great classmate, mentally tough, resilient and tries their best is a direct reflection of your parenting.
School values Congratulations to these children who have earned
25 HEART tokens in the following values Excellence: Sarah H, Maddison K; Aroha: Joshua C, Bella L, Nation R, Dallys R. Congratulations to these two children who have
earned 50 HEART tokens so therefore have earned
our first HEART wristbands. This is an awesome
effort - tino pai rawa atu- excellent. Excellence: Loleannah M and Lucas B.
New Sandpit Toys Aren’t these great? Many thanks to the PTA for
funding the purchase of some new sandpit toys.
Children can spend hours in the sandpit playing so I
know they will love these.
Health Consultation It is a legal requirement that we consult with our
school community every two years on our health
curriculum, in particular the sexuality component of
it. Here is a link to the survey which sits on our school
website. http://www.banksave.school.nz/health-
consultation-2017.html If you would like to complete
a paper version call into the office. This consultation
closes on Wednesday 12 April.
Maori Vocab Quiz Can you mix and match the Māori word with the
correct definition? On the back page there is a table of
words and meanings.
Swimming Last week Team Kahikatea finished their annual
swimming lessons. For two weeks our tamariki had
been packed onto buses and taken to AquaGym for a
thirty minute swimming lesson. This was exhausting
work as you can see by the picture of Lizzie sleeping
on the bus on the way home. Thanks to the teachers
for all the extra work you put into organising this
event.
PTA- many thanks On Saturday our PTA ladies and a few other parents
spent several hours at Bunnings selling sausages as a
fundraiser. Many thanks ladies for all of your efforts.
We really do appreciate all that you do! Sausage Sizzle - Wednesday 12 April (See PTA for more information)
Iwi son
awa food
Koha prestige, reputation
tama gathering or meeting
hui mountain
kai gift, present
mana prayer
mahi tribe
maunga work or activity
karakia river
Assembly Our final assembly for Term 1 will be held this
Friday, 7 April in the school library at 2:00pm.
Parents are welcome to come.
Mufti Day- this Friday Children love mufti day. They get to come to school
without wearing their school
uniform! What a treat. Our first
mufti day this term is on Friday,
7 April. Children are asked to bring a
gold coin donation. The theme is bright
colours. Money raised will be used to support children
and families suffering from financial hardship.
Cross Country Our school cross country is going to be held next
Monday 10 April. If it is wet Wednesday 12 April is
our postponement date. Programme 11:15am: junior school assemble (Team Totara and
Team Kahikatea) 11:25am: races begin:
NE and year 1 boys and girls, Year 2 boys and girls, Year 3 boys and girls.
Lunch: 12:30-1:25pm 1:25pm: senior school assemble (Team Miro) 1:35pm races begin: Year 4 boys and girls
Year 5 boys and girls Year 6 boys and girls
There will be a Naked Baker coffee van on site from
11:30-12:30pm so bring some change along to grab a
coffee or hot chocolate.
Sports Mentors At BAS we are trying to expand our Banks Ave
Mentor Programme (BAMP) to include sport support.
This would involve committing to picking up and
taking a child to sports once a week. In particular if
you already have a child playing a sport you may be
willing to adopt another child to support (note there is
no financial commitment - just time).
We have an under ten boy who would love to play
rugby however he cannot get to games or practices.
Would anyone, who already takes their own child to
rugby (under 10), be happy to also pick up and take
this boy?
What sports do your children attend? Would you be
happy to offer to support another child to play the
same sport?
If you can help contact Shirley Haig, Room 27 or
email her at: [email protected]
Ice Racing Club - fast is fun Speed skating is fast, fun and a great way to get fit.
The Mainland Club caters for all ages and abilities.
Skilled coaches offer instruction in either social or
competitive skating. This is an affordable sport
costing $10 a week (skates can be hired for $10 for
the term). For more information email
[email protected] or ring
Shirlee 021 139 5857 or Carlene 027 864 9410. There
are a few pamphlets available in the school admin as
well.
HEART Values Children are sharing with parents about our values. To
help reinforce our values at home even further I have
included three HEART tokens for you as a parent to
use. (They are at the bottom of page 4). You can use
them with your own children or when you come into
the school grounds you can give them to a child who
you see using HEART. Try to be explicit with your
language when you give them out, acknowledging
what they are for, e.g., Tama, this is for showing
excellence, your bedroom is spotless. Mohamed, this
is for showing aroha, you are playing well with your
sister.
“There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called, Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.” Dalai Lama
Xavier from Room 7 has the respect of his classmates
for his advanced ability in mathematics and sport. He
is reliable in the roles of student councillor and
tuakana buddy. No job is too big or too small for
Xavier. Ka ma te wehi!
‘HOT SHOT’ LEARNER’
Maori Vocabulary - fifty words we all should know
Aotearoa New Zealand, long white cloud
aroha love
Awa river
haka generic term for Māori dance.
hangi traditional feast prepared in earth oven
hapu clan, sub-tribe; to be born
Hīkoi walk
hui gathering, meeting
Iti small
iwi tribe
kai food
karakia prayer
Kaumatua elder
kauri large native conifer
kiwi native flightless bird
Koha gift, present
kōhanga reo language
nest, Maori immersion pre-school
mahi work or activity
mana prestige, reputation
manuhiri guests,
visitors
Māori indigenous inhabitants of New Zealand,
marae the area for formal discourse in front of a meeting house, or applied to a whole marae complex
maunga mountain
moa extinct large flightless bird
moana sea
motu island
Nui large, many, big
Pā hill fort
Pākehā New Zealander of non-Māori descent, usually European
pounamu
greenstone, jade
puku belly,
stomach Rangatira person of chiefly rank, boss
Taihoa to delay, to wait, to hold off to allow maturation of plans etc.
tama son, young
man, youth tamāhine daughter
Tamariki children
tāne man, husband, men, husbands
tangi funeral
Taonga treasured possessions or cultural items, anything precious
tapu sacred, not to be touched, to be avoided because sacred, taboo
te reo Māori the Māori Language
tipuna/ tupuna
ancestor tuatara reptiles endemic to New Zealand
wahine woman, wife
Wai water
waka canoe, canoe group
waiata song or chant
whakapapa
genealogy, to recite genealogy
whānau extended
family Whenu land, homeland
Congratulations!
The McDonalds Youth Duathlon was held on
Sunday 2 April as South Hagley Park. You
have to run one kilometre, bike four kilometres
and then run 500 metres. Madi was a first
timer, Lucas was a second timer and I, Holly
was a third timer. I was proud to get 2nd in my
age group. Madi and Lucas were in the top 15
for their age groups. It was pretty hard at the
end with the 500 metre run as you're
exhausted and you have to push on. Your legs
are used to biking and you can see the finish
line so you have to go for it. Next year we
would have to do double the amount as we go
up an age group so that's a maybe!
Madi and Holly
Lucy and Pip working with one of our
mentors…making chocolate Easter treats
PTA
Bunnings Sausage Sizzle
Thanks to Rachel, Melissa, Noella, Sarah,
Fiona, Toni and Colleen for their help with the
Bunnings Sausage Sizzle on the weekend. It
was a great day and lot of fun had by all. We
raised just over $500, so a great to start to the
years fundraising.
Uniform Shop
Will be open 2:45-3:15pm this Friday.
CASH ONLY
Entertainment Books 2017-2018
Early Bird specials for this year’s
ENTERTAINMENT BOOK now available!
Purchase now and receive over $165 in
BONUS OFFERS!
Orders for early bird purchase and renewal can
be made by accessing our Banks Ave order
page using this online link:
http://www.entbook.co.nz/1348e93
Both digital and paper copies are available,
and each book
benefits your
children directly by
raising money for
school resources and
activities!
Sausage Sizzle The PTA will run a Sausage Sizzle
(weather permitting) on Wednesday
12th April) at 3pm outside the old
Dental block (next to Room 15). $2 for
a sausage. See you there!
Dental Care over the School
Holidays The Community Dental Service will operate
an emergency service over the school
holidays. This service is to provide relief of
pain only and will not undertake ‘routine’
treatment. The service will be available each
working day from 8:45am until 12:30pm from
the Hillmorton Community Clinic, Sylvan
Street, Christchurch for the following times:
Tuesday, 18th April to 21st April 2017
(excluding weekends) and Monday, 24th April
And Wednesday, 26th April to Friday, 28th
April 2017 (excluding weekends).
This service will operate by appointment only
and if we are unable to see your child,
alternative options will be given. If your child
has dental pain as a result of an accident please
contact your dentist in the first instance.
You can phone and make an appointment for
the emergency clinic by ringing 0800 846 983.
St Nicholas Netball Club
Future Ferns (Year 5 to Year 6) Does your child want to learn or play
netball this season? We currently
have spaces available in our Year 5
and Year 6 teams.
For any further information please
contact our club secretary Rhonda Blair
383 3300 or [email protected]
Player of the Day ‘I was had my first big
game of rugby for the
year (a proper
game…not a practice)
and I wanted to get
Player of the Day. I tried
my hardest and got
Ripper of the Day at the
end of the game. I had a
really great day!’
Ryan
CIRCUS OPEN DAY
Saturday 15th April
1pm -3pm
146 Seaview Rd, Roy Stokes Hall New
Brighton
Have a go and watch a show.
Free event - Christchurch Circus Trust Also, sign up for April Holiday circus
workshops: http://chchcircus.co.nz
Join the fun… Being a Pippin with GirlGuiding NZ is
a very popular choice for 5 and 6 year
old girls and it is great to be able to
offer the opportunity to more girls to
join our Rawhiti Pippin Unit –
Thursdays 4.45-5.45pm at All Saints
Church, 305 New Brighton Rd.
Guiding is about learning, developing self-confidence,
making new friends and, of course, having lots of fun
outside school!
Our programmes are provided in a fun, safe
environment and girls get together each week with
girls their own age to do lots of cool stuff like
discovering nature, visiting interesting places, making
crafts, playing games and more.
If you have a 5 or 6 year old
daughter who likes to have fun
then contact Jenny Brawley
ph. 022 054 2093 or visit
www.girlguidingnz.org.nz
The tutors and managers at The School for Young
Writers have all been very busy with new
developments over the start of 2017.
We have seen a huge growth in our Saturday Morning
Classes as keen young writers seek that ‘extra
something’ our author-tutors provide. As a result, we
are preparing to open a new class in
Term 2. This means we can offer places for young
writers from Year 4 to Year 13.
Two day Workshops – are very popular. Up to 10 young
writers get intense workshop time with one of our
experienced tutors.
One Whole Month of Enrichment Writing – for a
personalised writing programme with regular tutor
feedback to keep children motivated and improving.
Radio Plays – supported by Plains FM, children write,
produce and record a radio play complete with sound
effects.
Radio Plays: Supported by Plains FM your children will
write, produce and record a radio play complete with
sound effects.
Reticent Writers: for a group of children who have
potential by hold back from writing experiences.
Contact: [email protected]
