N E W S L E T T E R NO. 31

18th October 2016

Dates: Grandparents Morning 26 October

Celebration of Learning 27 October

Bake sale 27 October

End of year Prizegiving 15 December 11 am – 1 pm.

Dear Parents and Caregivers

Celebrating our community

What an amazing day Friday was! It was such a special day where our community came together to celebrate all the

diverse cultures that make up Parnell District School. Our diversity is such a strength of our community, and events

like diversity day that put it on display are an opportunity for us all to remember just how wonderfully multicultural

our community is. It speaks to the melting pot that is Auckland Central, and the world all our students will grow up

in.

One aspect that really made diversity day such a spectacular success was the support of our parents. For our parents

to donate their time to broadening our students experiences has meant that we can offer a range of opportunities

that we could never consider otherwise. But diversity day is just the tip of the ice burg in terms of all our parents do

to support our school. From our BOT and PTA, to our wonderful parents who read with students in the morning, to

parents who garden with our students, to parents helping in class and the myriad of other ways our parents support

our students. You are creating a community of care that supports every one of our students. On behalf of all our

students I would like to take the chance to thank every one of you for your ongoing support.

Get your diary out!

One date I'd like you to pencil in for the end of the year is our Prizegiving. It takes place on the 15th of December

from 11am-1pm and is a chance for us all to gather to celebrate the achievements of our students. We are well

under way in planning to make our prizegiving a celebration worthy of our students!

Richard George

Principal

Bake Sale

Do ’t forget the PTA-run Bake Sale is on this Thursday, 27th October with the Year 1&2 syndicate providing the

baking. There will be sales at morning tea time for $2 per cupcake if children would like to purchase. Gluten and nut-

free options available. Please bring along $2 to buy a yummy goodie.

Road Patrol 2017

Training for students next week. We still need some wonderful parent volunteers to help next year. If you

can offer some of your time for this rewarding and essential service, we would appreciate it very much.

UNSW – Global Educational Assessment:

Results for Maths and English Results have arrived over the last two weeks. There are a second batch of Maths

results still to come.

They are graded with those achieving above 95% receiving High Distinction, between 90 – 95% distinction, 66- 89%

Credit, 55- 65% receive Merit. All students receive their booklets and a summary of their test paper with the correct

answers noted so that they can look over the paper and learning from the experience.

Certificates, marking sheets and a copy of the paper will be sent home this week via the class teacher.

Congratulations to the follow students:

English

High Distinction: 2 Meryl Gogolashvilli, Annabelle Judd

Distinction: 9 Alice Lawry, Grace Colling, Caitlyn Liu, Imogen Worrall, Natalie Salmon, Nasca Watson, Laura Xinyu Li,

Gemma Graham, Lovelyn Goundar.

Credit:18 Maxwell Clarke, Aston Ingram, Emil Gill, JIyu Han, Tanner Jensen, Alex Muir, Mirai Arao, Jared Manning,

Alisha-Rhea Siddiqui, Amira Wilde, Sylvie McDonald, Linnea Quinn, Jessie Hodgson, Edwin Low, Xanthe Saville,

Morgan Thompson, Gleb Proskurin, Jonah Kearns.

Merit: 7 Hinata Arao, David Ballentyne, Ida Gerlach, Maalika Natali, Charlotte Elliot, Charlie Teague, Cormac

Hodson,

Mathematics

High Distinction: 1 Timmy Gong.

Distinction: 7 Emil Gill, Maxwell Clarke, Caitlyn Liu, Nazca Watson, Jessie Hodgson, Edwin Low, Annabelle Judd,

Credit:17 Tanner Jensen, Taylen Kim, Alice Lawry, Ming Milne, Joanne Li, Jared Manning, Gigi Moaveni, Imogen

Worrrall, Meryl Gogolashvili, Emily Li, Laura Xinyu Li, Micheal Boyer, Cormac Hodson, Xanthe Savill, Morgan

Thompson, Gleb Proskurin, Brooklyn Bowden.

Merit: 8 Aston Ingram, Alex Lam-Muir, Mirai Arao, Charlotte Elliot, Linea Quinn, Natalie Salmon, Fabian Temme,

Max Woodhams.

Diversity Celebration Day

There are so many people to thank for making this day such a success. Firstly to our absolutely amazing parent

co u it , e could ’t ha e do e this ithout ou! Please tha k:

Priscila, Alessandra & Heloisa for teaching us about native Brazilian art

Kavita for showing us how to make yummy Diwali sweets and Sunita for teaching us about Indian Rangoli

patterns

Sarah Stokes & her mum for teaching us about Aboriginal Art

Tamila Mostipan (and friends) for showing us how to make Ukrainian dolls and Anzelika Romanenko (and

friends) for teaching us how to make Ukrainian dumplings

Francois Profit and Phil Jordan for enlightening us about French culture

Senait Ghebremichael for teaching us more about Eritrea

Carla Moore & Joanna Pleszek for helping us to learn Spanish

Diana Bain for teaching us how to Tango, Argentinian style! and her daughter, Ruby Reid for her amazing

mask making skills

Kensuke Hayashi (& Catherine Murata) for the Japanese food & games

Also a very special thank you to the Asia New Zealand Foundation for providing us the funding to employ:

Michaela Sangl from Yogikids

Alka Suresh from the Aaja Nachle Bollywood Dancing School

Rae Storey from New Wave Folk Dancing

Murray Simpson from Karate Remuera

Steven from the Tamashii Taiko Drumming school

Peggy for teaching us Origami

Rita (+ Edwin & Oscar) for sharing their Chinese drumming

Jean-Francois Vognin for the Chinese Calligraphy lesson

As well as Daniel & Yoomi from the Korean Education Centre for teaching us traditional Korean games

And lastly, thank you to our talented teachers who shared their expertise:

Suzanne Parkinson for teaching us Maori language and games

Val Marra for teaching us the Samoan Sasa

Kate Gomez for teaching us more about English Culture

Andy Dwyer for teaching us tī rākau (stick games)

And our amazing office staff (Liz, Adrienne, Ros & Georgia) who worked behind the scenes helping in all ways

possible. Please enjoy the photo collage to follow and more photos can be found on

http://parnellschoolesol.blogspot.co.nz/

Sincerely,

Anna Hedstrom and the Social Studies team (Mel Barr, Rachel Crowther & Emma Williams)

From the Health & Safety Committee:

5.26 Education Outside the Classroom

(SCHOOL TRIPS AND CAMPS)

Guidelines:

1. Outdoor Education provides excellent opportunities for educational, social, physical and personal

development. For these reasons excursions, overnight camps at school and major camps at other venues feature as

part of the curriculum.

2. Outdoor education contributes to education by

providing first-hand experience in learning about the world around them;

pro idi g e perie ces that e te d stude t’s skills a d co fide ce;

fostering the school and community partnership by parent/ caregivers/ caregivers, pupils and teachers sharing

educational experiences; and,

utilizing a range of learning resources and facilities available locally and further afield.

3. Steps will be taken to ensure all children are given the opportunity to participate in planned outdoor education

experiences.

4. All outdoor education activities are to be conducted in a safe manner. Risk Assessment and Management

procedures are to be followed.

Spare Fridge

Thank you to the amazing Julyan Lawry for her donation of a spare fridge. Thank you!!

Lucky children

Some of children got to meet the All blacks last week as part of Cure Kids!

Lukas Gill with Beauden Barrett Mela Rose Mitchell and Hannah and Ella Billcliff

Sports update

All sports notices in full and photographs of PDS week of sport are now found on the school sports blog

http://parnellsport.blogspot.co.nz/

Please check this blog regularly for information about sports days, upcoming school sporting events, coaching at

school and your weekly photos of the students during their PE classes and sports days.

Year 1-6 PE days

Please ensure that your child wears their school sports uniform, sports shoes and hat on their PE days; Year 1 –

Thursday Year 2-6-Friday

Bay Suburbs and Eastern Zones Touch Rugby Tournaments-

Eastern Zones- 1st November Rain Day 3rd November at Madills Farm Reserve

Bay Suburbs - 2nd November Rain Day 4th November at Madills Farm Reserve

PDS Athletics days

If you help on any of these days at an Station, Marshalling, Recording we would appreciate your support. Contact

Valeriem@parnell.school.nz

Yr 5-8 Tuesday 8th November 9.15-2.30pm

Yr 1-2 Thursday 10th November 9.15-11.30pm

Yr 3-4 Tuesday 15th November 9.15-12.30pm

Parents required to help at Class PE Athletics with Ms Marra– Thursdays Yr 1-2 11.30-1pm or on Fridays Yr 2-4 9-

11am or 11.30-1pm-yr 5-6 Contact Valeriem@parnell.school.nz

Year 3-8 Sports Assembly – Tuesday 13th December 12.00-1.00pm in the school hall- all parents and caregivers are

welcome to attend.

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Babysitting

My name is Jacob Pead-Kingdon and I am an ex-student of Parnell District School, now attending Auckland Grammar.

I am 16 years old, responsible, mature and dependable. I am able to babysit after the 14th of November full time or

after school pick ups. If interested, I am available on the following number:(mobile) 0210499144.

Or

Hi my name is Katherine Nicholls an Ex-Parnell Student. I am now a year 10 student at Epsom Girls Grammar School

and I am seeking work as a babysitter. I am very competent with children, I have taken a babysitting course at the

Parenting Place which included a first aid and CPR component. I also coached the Year 3 Parnell netball team this

year and I have previous babysitting experience. I am trustworthy, reliable, organised and responsible.

To contact me please text or call me on 02108414174.

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