Taha Maori Focus Each week we have a Maori phrase aligning with our PB4L focus. Horoi ou ringaringa – Wash your hands

Crazy Hair KidsCan Mufti Day On Thursday 9 August it’s our turn to support KidsCan after everything they do for us here. Come to school with a CRAZY hair do, mufti CLOTHES and a $2.00 Gold Coin Donation. WE AIM TO RAISE $600!

Parent Diary for School Events – Please keep for future reference!

This Week

Tomorrow 8.30am St Chad’s Breakfast Club in the Kidsbase Room Official School Opening Celebration. This will be a very special day of activities from 11am. The opening ceremony will be at 11.00am followed by whanau lunch and fun class activities with whanau. YOUR LUNCH TICKETS WILL BE WITH YOUR CHILD’S CLASS TEACHER

Next Week

Wednesday 8 August Thursday 9 August Friday 10 August

8.30am Te Mapua Trust Breakfast Club in the Kidsbase Room Crazy Hair KidsCan Mufti Day. Gold Coin Donation 2pm: Coffee Club for Kakano whanau in Kakano Learning Centre with Sandra and Amy 8.30am St Chad’s Breakfast Club in the Kidsbase Room

Coming Up

Wednesday 15 August 3 – 7 September

School closed for National NZEI Teachers’ Strike Cultural Festival Week: School Kapahaka and Pasifika performance groups performing at Horncastle Arena

We value Being Respectful, Being Responsible and Being a Learner

221 Woodham Road, Christchurch 8062 Phone (03) 389 8112, Mobile 027 758 1467 eMail: office@linwoodnorth.school.nz www.linwoodnorth.school.nz

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For how the children grow, so will be the shape of Aotearoa’. Dame Whina Cooper

LINWOOD NORTH SCHOOL

NEWSLETTER Newsletter No 23: Thursday 2 August July

From the Principal’s Desk Dear Parents, Carers and Friends of Linwood North School Kia ora koutou katoa! Talofa lava! Mālō e lelei! Greetings everyone! It has been a huge week of exciting preparation for staff and students for a milestone in the history of our school tomorrow. This is the very first time the Governor General of New Zealand has visited Linwood North School and we feel very honoured and proud to have this special occasion with our invited guests and to share with you all. Our new School Hall facility is amazing and we are thriiled to finally call this learning space our very own and use it! Some friendly reminders for tomorrow…

• All students must be smartly dressed and wearing a red school top • Our School Hall has been built to a capacity that will enable us to seat everyone in the actual hall space • Please model our School Values and be respectful and responsible at all times • Parking prior to the ceremony will be at a premium. Please park lawfully either in our Rowcliffe Crescent

carpark or on our surrounding streets. Please don't create additional parks in the carpark, park on grass areas or on yellow lines. The Woodham Road carpark will be closed from around 9.30am – 12.30pm.

• There will be a Police security presence around the school. • Please arrive to the School Hall no later than 10.50am for the ceremony. The Haka Powhiri will commence

at 11am and cannot be interrupted. • Classroom Pizza Lunch can only be shared with family who have pre-ordered tickets. LUNCH TICKETS ARE

NOW WITH THE CLASS TEACHERS OF YOUR YOUNGEST CHILD TO BE ISSUED TO YOU AT LUNCHTIME TOMORROW. We cannot provide any additional tickets on the day. Children do not require a packed lunch tomorrow, unless they have a large appetite, but they do require morning tea please.

• Please do join us at school in classrooms anytime tomorrow that you can make it to join in the fun! • All students will receive 110th Birthday present from the Board of Trustees tomorrow. It is a special ‘yoyo’

and please can you ensure that it is treasured and stays at home next week! Congratulations to Room 1 and Room 5 They were first in our School Newsletter Return Competition last week with 80% and 76%! Well done! Kindest regards everyone Sandra Smith JP Principal – Tumuaki Staff Profile: Sandra Smith – Principal When I came to Linwood North School as Deputy Principal in August 1999, I had no idea just what a wonderful community of learning I would be working in or that I would have the privilege of leading the learning and become Principal in 2003. Over the years I have had the ongoing support of a great Board of Trustees, Teaching and Support Staff together with the joy of the company of many wonderful children and their whanau, some of who are now returning to Linwood North with their own children. I just love being able to make a difference in the lives of children and their families in the Linwood community. Every day at school brings both its rewards and its challenges! I live in Burwood with my partner Garry, together with Romeo, our Birman cat and Dougal our Scottish Terrier puppy. I have three adult children. Matthew lives in Sydney and Sarah Jane and Daniel here in Christchurch. We love chilling out with our three grandchildren. I am especially proud that our grandson, Samuel Cave has started school here at Linwood North School in Room 1 last Monday. In my spare time I love catching up with my family and friends, enjoy my garden, playing competitive bridge, learning to play better golf, yoga, reading, music and travel. We love spending time relaxing on our launch in the Marlborough Sounds and catching blue cod! I enjoy the privilege of serving the community as a Justice of the Peace and my role as a registered marriage celebrant and a funeral celebrant, which I hope to pursue as I plan toward my retirement in around five years’ time.

Weekly Principal’s Class Awards These awards are presented at Team Whānau Time on Monday mornings at 9am. Families are most welcome to attend. Class Awards for ‘Caught Being Good as Gold’ using our School Values. Olivia Houben Room 1 For taking risks and trying new things Vrinda Sharma Room 2 For showing our LNS values Vinuthi Hewa Lunawilage Room 3 For showing more confidence in class discussions Soni Tuima SKK For coming back to school with a positive attitude towards his learning. Ka Pai! Sienna Tavake SKW For being a great friend and for looking out for others in the Kete Rome Fanene Room 4 For being a kind and considerate member of Room 4 Dylan Chesmar Room 5 For being very helpful to others when they are having a problem Desiree McMillan Room 6 For being a Learner by knowing what it is she needs to do next Andre Walkinshaw Room 7 For trying hard to speak Respectfully to others Emily Park Room 8 For settling in so well to our classroom and for showing our school values so quickly Arnika-Rose G-R Room 9 For doing her best to be a Respectful class member Jennifer Doherty Room 10 For being a kind, caring student Hamish Thompson Room 11 For making fantastic choices about participating in class every day! Keep it up Hamish! Class Awards for Literacy and Numeracy: Samuel Cave Room 1 For fabulous story writing and reading Hunter Swainson Room 2 For fabulous reading and focus Jericho Adlington Room 3 For showing progress in the writing of his alphabets Jackson Whitworth SKK For showing progress in his Reading and Writing independently Aroha Doherty SKW For her awesome achievement in Reading and for using multiple strategies to figure out words in Reading David Huihahau Room 4 For great focus and achievement in Geometry Ababakar Yasin Room 5 For working very hard to learn his Spelling words Mitchell Shannon Room 6 For making sure to check his Writing for spelling errors Jayziah Galovale Room 7 For his awesome Geometry work! Drae Ferguson Room 8 For picking up how to calculate perimeter using decimals so quickly Sam Fifita Room 9 For being on task with his Inquiry work Naava Hopping Room 10 For excellent work in Maths and thinking outside of the box Carlee Ramsay Room 11 For fantastic work in her Literacy and Inquiry research PB4L-SW@LNS – Week 2 This week our focus is: Be Responsible - Be Healthy and Clean What does this look like at home?

Þ Offering healthy choices e.g. water instead of juice, fruit instead of chips Þ Creating routines to help with cleanliness e.g. getting up, getting dressed, eat breakfast, washing the face and brushing teeth, packing their bag Þ Encouraging your child to wash their hands before eating

Mathletics Results from Week 1 At Linwood North School the Board of Trustees fund Mathletics for each child to access online in class and at home. This means that learning can be ubiquitous as learning can happen at home, at school or anywhere. If your child does not have access to Mathletics, please see you child’s teacher for their login details. The top Mathletics Classes were: The top Mathletics students were: Kākano: SKK Kākano: Lockie Twose (SKK) Karawha: Room 7 Karawha: Nikora Cate (R7) Kōrari: Room 9 Kōrari: Govind Sharma (R9

News from the Kakano Team and Miss Collins We have opened Room One with Mrs Tizzard and Miss Collins sharing this class until the 20th August when we welcome Miss Bethan Philp back to Linwood North School. She is very excited to be returning to Linwood North and also looks forward to connecting with the families and the students she knows. Mrs Tizzard and Miss Collins are loving being back in Room One and working with our newest learners. A highlight recently has been making Ninja Turtle biscuits as a Language Experience for the letter Tt. They were also tasty!

For the past two weeks all Kākano classes have been busy learning about 2D and 3D shapes. It has been exciting to see this learning being transferred outside the classroom. At home please support our learning by talking about the common shapes around us and questioning “How do you know this?”.

Another game we have enjoyed is ‘I spy with my little eye a rectangle, triangle etc’ and also we have enjoyed asking yes/no questions only to find out what shape it is. Both are these are easy games that can also be played at home, in the car or when walking home. News from Room 7 and Miss Gosden Room 7 are enjoying being back at school. We welcome Lilly to our class this term! So far this term we have completed some colourful artwork using painting and collage techniques. They are displayed in the Karawha Learning Centre and in our new School Hall. For Writing, we are learning to write procedures. We had a fun time writing about how to make a Nutella or Marmite sandwich. We enjoyed eating the sandwiches after. Check out our instructions on the Room 7 class blog. As always, feel free to pop into Room 7 before or after school to see all the wonderful learning the students are doing. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -WEEKLY SCHOOL NEWSLETTER RETURN SLIP: Newsletter No 23

Please sign and ask your child to return this section to their class teacher. There will be a class weekly treat for the class who has the most returns. Your child will receive 5 house points and enter their slip in the class box for their class lucky book draw at our monthly Gold Awards Learning Celebration.

I have received and read the L.N.S. Newsletter 23 Student’s Name: _____________________________________Room: _____ Signed: ___________________________________ We welcome your comments and feedback to the Leadership Team: