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NEWSLETTER 14 September 2015 Acting Principal: Janine Clague - B.Teach, B.Ed Email: [email protected]
Web: www.easttaieri.school.nz
Phone: 489 6737
Dear Parents/Caregivers Thank you to all the wonderful parents who support the staff in promoting road safety to our children. We appreciate you taking the time to use the crossing, parking in the carpark and encouraging your child to scooter, bike or walk to school in their hi vis vest. We value your support to keep our children safe and teach them safe practices around traffic. Great to see a sunny day for the start of our Golf unit which will run for this week. Regards
Janine
WELCOME We welcome into Room 12, Tommy Conley and Lily Ballantyne. SCHOOL ATHLETICS - TOMORROW The Year 4 - 6 athletics morning will be held tomorrow starting at 9am. Please ensure children are wearing their PE uniforms, appropriate footwear and have a drink bottle. MINIBALL PRIZE GIVING – Tuesday 15 September Miniball prize giving tomorrow at 3.30pm at the Mosgiel Stadium.
OTAGO POLYFEST – FRIDAY 18 SEPTEMBER The Otago Polyfest is a week long event, held each year at the Edgar Centre. It is an opportunity for the East Taieri Kapa Haka group to showcase their Kapa Haka talents. Our performance at the Polyfest is this Friday, the 18th of September, IN THE 2.00pm – 2.30PM time bracket. As we are one of the last
groups to appear at the Polyfest we would love lots of our friends and family members to come and support our performance. Kapa Haka students will be transported from school to the Polyfest by bus. There will be no bus returning to school from the Edgar Centre at the end of the performance. The Polyfest will finish at approximately 3pm. Please make arrangements for your child to be picked up at the end of the Polyfest. Thank you to all the wonderful people who have offered their assistance on the day.
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SCHOOL PHOTOS School photos will be taken by Kelk Photograph on Tuesday 13 October. SCHOOL TRAMP – FRIDAY 16 OCTOBER The whole school will be walking the Ross Creek/McGouns tracks in Dunedin on Friday 16 October. Please see the attached letter with more information. TOUCH RUGBY
Games are played at Peter Johnstone Park every Monday. If cancelled the school is notified at 1pm by the organisers. We will then put this information on the school facebook page or website.
WANTED
As part of our Arts Inquiry we are intending to create an art and sculpture garden by
upcycling and creating a range of interesting garden sculptures. We would appreciate any donations of:
old, unwanted or broken crockery for mosaics
old or broken shovels chicken wire unwanted concrete pavers unwanted bags of concrete
Please leave your donations by Clayton’s shed.
STARS ON STAGE DVD Stars on Stage DVD orders to be into the office by Wednesday 16 September. The DVD includes every school performance and photos. Cost - $15.00
CHRISTMAS GIFTS
This year the Home and School Committee are again offering the opportunity to get your child's art or photos made into a fun calendar, diary, or set of 8 greeting cards. These make an ideal Christmas gifts for the early Christmas shopper or to send overseas.
TERM THREE EVENTS
SEPTEMBER
14/9 – 18/9 Golf lessons - whole school
15/9 Years 4, 5 and 6 ETS Athletics Day
18/9 POLYFEST
17/9 Years 4, 5 and 6 ETS Athletics Day (PP Day)
18/9 Marrzipan Drama performance – 2.15pm
21/9 - 24/9 ART EXHIBITION
25/9 Last Day of Term 3 – BBQ lunch
12 OCTOBER Start of TERM 4
13 October School Photos
16 October School Tramp
30 OCTOBER Junior/Middle Cross Country (Years 0 – 3)
17 DECEMBER END OF TERM 4
We are making this opportunity easy for you by running this fundraiser alongside the annual art exhibition in the last week of term. You will be able to choose a masterpiece at the exhibition or something your child has already drawn or a photo to be scanned by one of our committee members and make your order. It will be that easy! If you wish to do an original piece of art at home, please see Annette in the office for the correct art paper. An order form is included with this newsletter. Please visit www.fundraisingforschools.co.nz for further information on this product. All funds made will go towards upgrading the schools IT equipment. Thank you for your support. Enquiries to Robyn Kelly 4898337 / 0274401332 [email protected]
ALiM Maths
Group Big Day Out
On Monday 7th September the AliM maths group visited these people to learn about how they use maths in their jobs; Pam Crawford - Post Shop, Linda Roxburgh - Mosgiel Public Library, Janine Sabiston - Blackstone Cafe, Jack Stafford - New World and Rochelle Stephens - Flight Centre. We had a fantastic day learning about the cost of posting mail, how to stick to budgets, making sure you make profits to pay the bills, how to design a holiday with flights and accommodation and how library books are organised with the Dewey System. Many Thanks to the people that hosted us - we really appreciated your time.
Thank you to Suzie Daniell who helped to transport the children.
FOCUS VALUE –
RESPONSIBILITY
SPORTS ACADEMY NEWS
The Sports Academy children were privileged to visit the Dunedin Central Police Station Gymnasium on Wednesday last week. What a fantastic experience it was. They got to have a go at some of the Physical Competency Test (PCT) challenges and activities, use the fitness equipment, climb ropes to the roof and challenge each other with fitness tests. Senior Constable Thomson spoke to the children about the skills and abilities required to be a police officer and the ongoing training for fitness levels. We were then lucky enough to be taken down to the cells. Here we got to look through the watch room and view the cameras. From there we were taken through the 'process' that a person in custody would experience. A real eye opener for some, and hopefully a good deterrent to encourage them to make the right choices!
Many thanks to our three parent helpers and huge thanks to Brendon for allowing us to have a look around and pass on his wealth of knowledge. We look forward to our next trip when we will be working on our fitness levels and mountain biking skills.
YEAR 5 & 6 EDGAR CENTRE DAY
We hopped on the bus and when we got off we were at the Edgar Centre. We got into our groups and a man from the Sports Institute of Otago told us some information. My group's first activity was rugby, we practised our passing and then the buzzer went off. There were lots of other activities like basketball, athletics, soccer, obstacle courses and hockey.
In every session we had two coaches from the Sports Institute of Otago. Elmgrove School and Silverstream School were there too. My friend was there, he is from Silverstream. We did three activities before morning tea and two after morning tea. We went back to school in the rowdy buses.
By Liam A and Hunter H
SCHOOL ACCOUNTS The term accounts will be going out later this week with the eldest child.
VALUES STARS
Lewis Divers, Rosie Falcous & Pippa Earl for caring for a younger child Hunter Nimmo for making himself available to do road patrol when other children are
away or don't turn up. Charlie Kelly for being kind to a Junior student. Charlie Cockerill for always being kind to all the children in his class.
CERTIFICATES
Congratulations to the following students who were presented with certificates at Room 7’s Assembly last Friday.
KEY COMPETENCY
VALUES
Co-operation EXCELLENCE
Room 1 Heath Knowles -
Managing Self
Holly Crawford Riley Harris
Room 2 Josh Jones
Participating & Contributing
Jake Fowler Paddy Smythe
Room 3 Kate McEwan –
Managing Self
Zara Adamson Sam Bonney
ENROLMENT SCHEME NOTIFICATION JANUARY – JULY 2016
Enrolment at East Taieri School is governed by an enrolment scheme. The details of which are available from the school office and on the school website. If you live in the home zone of East Taieri School, your child has automatic right of entry. If you plan to enrol your child at East Taieri School for 2016 but have not yet notified the school, please contact the school office as soon as possible. If you live outside of the school’s home zone you do not have automatic right of enrolment. Please read the following carefully. OUT OF ZONE PLACE FOR 2016 There will be two enrolment periods. The first enrolment is period January – 3 July 2016. The Board of Trustees has determined that there is likely to be a limited number of places available for Out-of-Zone New Entrant students turning five before 3 July 2016 and no places for out-of-zone year 1-6 students. Applications for enrolment within this first enrolment period for Out-of-Zone New Entrant students close at 3pm on Thursday 15 October 2015. Please contact the office 03-489-6737 or [email protected] for an enrolment information pack. If out-of-zone applications exceed the number of places available, a ballot will be held. Kathryn Brenssell Chairperson East School Board of Trustees
Room 4 Caleb Ford -
Managing Self
Keisha Little Ewan Beadell
Room 5 Liam Tasker –
Relating to Others
Tayla Brough Nico Chirnside
Room 6 Trent Sutherland –
Managing Self
Emily Clements Ella Reid-Blair
Room 7 Lewis Divers –
Participating & Contributing
Malachai Stanley Sophie MacDonald
Room 8 Brody Mitchell – Participating & Contributing
Josh Grieve Hannah Kerruish
Room 9 Roma Daniell
Managing Self
Harry Freeman Hannah Anderson
Room 10 Jessica Greiner – Relating to Others
Poppy Scott Alana Bishop
Room 11 Cooper Quinn –
Managing Self
Jesse Harvey Devon Watt
Room 12 Angus Wilson –
Managing Self
Kaiah Hiko Angus Russell
Room 13 Otis Quelch –
Participating & Contributing
Blake Shrimpton Olivia Wallace
Minion outfits wanted!
The team at East Taieri Church
are already preparing for their
Christmas Eve Children’s Production
and would like a number of Minion outfits. If you are
have one and are happy to lend it for this event please
contact Jo Hackfath, [email protected] or 027
352 7521
Home and School Committee First Aid kits.
Thank you for your orders! There is a slight delay in delivery from the suppliers. We expecting to be able to get the first aid kits delivered to you in the last week of term. Thank you again for your support with this Fundraiser.
SPORTS CUPS We would appreciate all school cups back at school by the end of term. This includes netball, hockey cups and end of year trophies.
T/BALL Please contact Annette in the office if you would like your child to play T/Ball. We will be requiring a coach this year. We have a person who is willing to help guide any person willing to coach. Softball/T-Ball Are you aged 9 years old or over? Do you want to learn how to play softball or T-Ball? We have space for you in one of Cardinals Softball Club teams.
Junior Softball - ages 9 and older T-Ball - ages 5 - 9
Registrations can be completed online at www.cardinalssoftball.info or contact Katrina on 0220 146 368 or [email protected] for further information. Please register by 18 September at the latest.
ITM LOVE IT HERE COMPETITION
The NZ Rugby Union in association with ITM is running a competition for schools to win a $10,000 working bee. To win, what you need to do is take your children along to watch the Otago ITM Cup team play at Forsyth Barr Stadium. You will be given a
large and a small sticker. You need to bring the small heart sticker back to school and place it on the poster in the foyer of the office. We need to have the poster filled by the 29th September and then we will go into the draw to win the $10,000 working bee. OTAGO ART SOCIETY YOUTH AWARDS Congratulation to Caroline Quirey who got 1st place in the 8-10yr age group in this competition. She was competing against approximately 100 other artist. Her art work and some others from the school are on display at the exhibition at Otago Art Society, Dunedin Railway Station till October 4th (hours 10am - 4pm)
CONGRATULATIONS Congratulations to Jack Cloynes who won a silver medal in the 35kg and under Judo championships. Well done Jack.
MOSGIEL FOOTBALL PRIZEGIVING Congratulations to Charlotte Vaáfusuaga who received the Most Promising Trophy for the 9th Grade Mighty Blue team. Well done Charlotte.
SPORT NOTICES
Tombola at the school fair.
It is competition time – Room 4 needs canned and bottle items to bag up for the Tombola at the school fair. People will buy a ticket for $1/$2/$5 and then the bag that matches the corresponding number will be the prize BUT we need prizes so for the next three weeks Room 4 children will come to each room to collect items and we will tally up the classroom who has the most items for each week and they will win a prize! So please bring along canned food, bottles of oil, salad dressings, sauces, jams, honey, hair products, body products, baby products – anything you can think (no alcohol please) and hand these into your classroom teacher. We also need brown paper bags – if you know of
a free or cheap source of these please let Miss Lewis in Room 4 know
3, 2, 1 . . . Countdown to the East Taieri School Country Fair! Sunday 15th November 2015 11am – 2.30pm The countdown is on for the 2015 East Taieri School Country Fair! This is a fun day out for not only our school families but also the wider community. Spread the news and invite friends, family, neighbours, anyone and everyone to come along and join in the fun. There will be loads of amazing stalls with everything from Crazy Hair to our fabulous café, stalls run by our children in their classroom groups, entertainment with bouncy castles, pony rides, pet parade and fabulous chances to win at the Chocolate wheel. The infamous silent auction will again be available along with much, much more. We appreciate that you are going to be flooded with information and requests in the lead up to the fair. We are seeking sponsorship of things from individual items to be used as prizes through to bigger ticket items for the silent auctions and everything in between. If you would prefer to advertise a business by sponsoring an event at the fair such as the bouncy castle, photo booth, sausage sizzle, chocolate wheel, crazy hair stand or the preschool play space please contact anyone from the Home and School committee or email Megan Jones at [email protected]. A start has been made but please keep the White Elephant/Jumble items coming into Jo Hackfath in the reading recovery room. Indoor and Outdoor Household goods and Books are all welcomed with open arms for this stall. The East Taieri School Country Fair is an essential part of our school fundraising and the funds raised are earmarked to increase the ICT resources for our school. The Home and School Committee thank you in advance for your support for this awesome school event.
Mark Falcous is the contact person for our School. He can be contacted on [email protected] There will be practice sessions on Wednesday 9th September, and Wednesday 16th September at 3.30 at the Mosgiel BMX Track if you can make it. (sessions run for approx 1 hour) Riders need long trousers, gloves and a helmet.
Junior Track Cycling Development Programme 2015 Try the fast and furious sport of track cycling
at Seddon Park Velodrome, Mosgiel.
Have fun, make friends, learn new skills!
Come to a Junior ‘Taster’ session:
Sunday 13th Sept, 12.45-1.45pm Sunday 20th September, 11.30 – 12.00pm and 1.00-1.30pm, & 2.30pm (Velodrome Open Day – 11.00-4.00pm) Sunday 27th September, 12.45-1.45pm All junior tasters are free of charge and coached by our qualified coaches. We will provide you with a track bike. You need to bring helmet, gloves and appropriate riding clothes. Minimum age 8. Arrive at least 20 mins in advance for bike fitting. If you like it?
If you want to sign up for the track development programme: Cycling NZ membership is $15, Bike hire and development coaching for the season is $75 ($25 if you have your own track bike). Development coaching runs on Sunday afternoons from Oct 4th until mid-December. Club racing runs on Tuesday evenings from October to March See: www.cyclingotago.co.nz for more information e-mail enquiries: [email protected]
Taieri Junior Cricket Club
Programme 2015/2016 October - March Junior cricket is for players Years 1 to 8
(Boys and Girls aged 5 to 13)
Superstar Academy Programmes (for players 5-8 years)
Free giveaways
Registration Times:
Saturday 12th September 11am to 1pm &
Wednesday 16th September 6pm to 8pm
Open Day 19th September 10am to 12.30pm
Brooklands Park
Church Street Mosgiel
Contact Donna Burns
phone 489-2342
www.sportsground.co.nz/taierijuniorcricket
YOGA4LIFE Beginners Course
4 weeks - $50 Saturday Nov 7,14,21,28
10.30-12 noon Small group – maximum 12 Mosgiel Holistic Centre
Yoga4Life classes are suitable for all levels including beginners, but
for many, it feels more beneficial to be in a class specifically for absolute beginners.
These classes will introduce you to the foundations of a safe and effective yoga practice, including postures, breathing, meditation and
deep relaxation. Yoga4Life offers yoga practices to support you in your everyday life
no matter what stage you’re at. This yoga practice aims to bring the body, mind, breath & being into balance,
creating a smoother energy, a strong core, and a stable, fluid, more easeful you.
Suitable for beginners or anyone who’d like to revisit the basics
Book early to avoid disappointment: Lisa Morrison
0274370779 or 4894009 [email protected]
QUIZ NIGHT – ALTRUSA CLUB
In promotion of our Education Night for Parents next year we are raising funds. A Quiz night is being held tomorrow night at the RSA at 7pm. Teams of 6 - $30.00
