NEWSLETTER

15 October 2012

Principal: Jennifer Horgan

Email: etaieri@east-taieri.school.nz

Web: www.east-taieri.school.nz

Phone: 489 6737

Dear Parents/Caregivers

Welcome back to Term Four at East Taieri School. I hope that despite the unsettled weather

over the holidays, everyone has managed to have a relaxing break and our students have

returned ready for their final term of 2012.The last term is always such a busy one, especially

for our Year 6 students. Please check the calendar for events which involve your children.

Enjoy Labour Weekend.

WELCOME

We welcome Emily Lacey to Room 10 and

Benjamin Renton and William Pearson to

Room 9. We wish them happy times as they

start their learning journey at East Taieri

School.

KEEPING OURSELVES SAFE

Over the next two weeks each class will be working through the “Knowing What To Do”

unit of the “Keeping Ourselves Safe” personal safety programme. The unit will be taught by

your child’s teacher, with support from Constable Ross Greer, our Youth Education Police

Officer.

The programme has been designed to give children the skills to keep themselves safe with

other people.

To be successful, “Keeping Ourselves Safe” needs your support. Your child will have a

Home Book of activities to work on with you. The booklet will reinforce the messages the

school is giving, and help your child to use his or her new skills with confidence.

Constable Ross Greer will be holding a parent/ caregiver meeting TOMORROW afternoon

in the school library at 3.15pm to give an overview of the programme. Apologies for the

short notice.

Regards

Jennifer

Est 1853

SUNHATS

The wearing of sunhats is compulsory in

Term 4.

SCHOOL CHOIR

Choir rehearsals are starting again. Choir is

on Monday lunchtimes and Tuesdays

before school starting at 8.15am.

SCHOOL UNIFORM

We have samples of our school uniform on

display in the office foyer. Uniforms can

be purchased at any time – see Annette in

the office.

MEADOW FRESH COMPETITION

9,760 Meadow Fresh stickers were sent in

for the Meadow Fresh competition. We

could be in for a share of $500,000.00

worth of art and sports gear. Thanks to

everyone who has supported us. Fingers

crossed!

If you still have some at home please send

them along to the office by Wednesday.

SAFETY CONCERN

Children who are biking, walking or

scootering to school along Gladstone Road

North, should use the shared pathway

closest to the railway line to travel to and

from school. Please wear your high viz

vests to keep safe.

MARKET DAY

On Friday 19th

October the Year 6 children

are having their traditional market day.

There will be a BBQ and various other

activities for all the children to enjoy, such

as sponge bob, white elephant stall, face

painting, cake stall, and possibly some

others. This is a good chance to have a

good spring clean at home and bring along

any pre-loved toys, games, book, videos etc

for the market stall. These will need to be

at school by this Wednesday.

TERM FOUR DATES

OCTOBER

Monday 15 Term 4 starts

Tuesday 16 Home & School Meeting –

7pm

Tuesday 16 Keeping Ourselves Safe –

Parent meeting 3.15pm

Thursday 18 East Taieri Athletics

Friday 19 Market Day

Kapa Haka Performance

Monday 22 LABOUR DAY – school

closed

Tuesday 23 Post. date for ET Athletics

Tuesday 23 BOT Meeting – 5.30pm

Thursday 25 Winter Sports Assembly

1.30pm

Friday 26 Room 8 Assembly

Cycle Skills

Tuesday 30 TSSA Athletics

NOVEMBER

Thursday 1 Post. day TSSA Athletics

Friday 2 Cycle Skills

Friday 9 Room 2 Assembly

Cycle Skills

Monday 12-16 Year 6 Camp

Monday 12 – 16 Safe Travel Expo

Friday 16 Junior/Middle Athletics

Day

Friday 23 Room 7 Assembly

Wednesday 28 Otago Athletics Champs

Friday 30 Talent Quest

DECEMBER

Friday 7 Year 6 Rafting Trip

Junior Duathlon

Tuesday 18 Carol Services

Last Day of

Term

19 December

2013 Start of

Year

4 February 2013

VALUES FOCUS ~ Co-Operation

KAPA HAKA PERFORMANCE

The Kapa Haka Group is performing this Friday 19 October at 11.45am in the Owhiro

Centre. All welcome to come and watch the performance.

WANTED

Old tarpaulins or heavy plastic sheeting to be used for building shelters – please send to

Room 1. Thank you

TOUCH RUGBY

A reminder this starts tonight at Peter Johnstone Park.

VOLLEYBALL

The Taieri College is looking at running a Volleyball programme on a Friday night. If you

are interested please see Mr Thorn.

WOW AWARDS

If you would like a DVD of our Wearable Arts Awards – please send $5.00 along to the

office.

CHEF TOOL BOX FUNDRAISER

All orders can be picked up from the office.

Room 8 has really enjoyed learning about the history of Pompeii and

have written reports to share their knowledge with others.

Pompeii is a city in Italy and in Pompeii there is a volcano called Mount Vesuvius that erupted more than

2000 years ago destroying Pompeii along with all the people and animals in the city. From 30 kms away a

young man wrote a letter so people could discover what happened in Pompeii. Thousands of years later a

man named Giuseppe Fiorelli discovered Pompeii. Archaeologists dug up the ruins of the vanished city and

they found ruined buildings and dusty, ash covered people and animals. The eruption in Pompeii was one of

the biggest eruptions in human history.

The frightened people who thought it was an earthquake were layered with dust and ash. After thousands of

years the people rotted and the remains were skeletons and any jewellery they were wearing.

In the eruption all the cutlery, vases and most belongings were all melted but it wasn’t hot enough to melt

the glass the people had. The eruption was caused by tectonic plates pulling apart letting the magma flow

through the gaps.

I really like Pompeii because nothing has happened like that in New Zealand. Pompeii is different in the

way it froze life.

By Shinae Stanley (Year 4)

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT

Mount Vesuvius destroyed the city of Pompeii in Italy 2000 years ago. When Archaeologists first started

excavating Pompeii they were destroying some of what was left of Pompeii. They were doing that because

they dug a big hole and then worked up. So Giuseppe Fiorelli decided to dig from the top and dug down so

the buildings weren’t damaged.

All the bodies were preserved in ash and pumice, it then turned into a cement cocoon. Scientists thought that

people died breathing the hot ash and their lungs stopped working. They died in whatever position they

were in.

A young man saw the volcano explode from 30 kms away and wrote two letters about it.

So now you know a lot about Pompeii, you know how it was excavated, how the people died and how

people know about the eruption.

By Ben Lymath (Year 4)

Nearly 2000 years ago in 79 AD in a place in Italy an active volcano erupted that was called Mount

Vesuvius. It destroyed some buildings and some are still standing. It killed all the people in the city and the

ash covered them as well as pumice. The rain came and it made the ash and pumice turn into cocoons.

People soon forgot about Pompeii and after thousands of years later someone that was an architect

discovered Pompeii while working on a place. Archaeologists are still excavating Pompeii today. They

found the bodies in cocoons, they drilled holes in the bodies and poured plaster into them. Then they

cracked open the cocoons and they could see the body shape, hairstyles, clothes and shoes, only the

jewellery and skeletons stayed. There was a boy who was watching the big explosion and wrote a letter

about it from 30 kms away.

By Kate McEwan (Year 3)

Pompeii was a city in Italy that got covered by hot ashes and gases for over 2000 years ago. Giuseppe

Fiorelli was archaeologist and he found cocoons of dead people and he found out how the people died. The

people who didn’t die from lava died from the ash that got in their lungs and suffocated the people. The

volcano is called Mount Vesuvius. The temperature was between 250 and 300 degrees in Pompeii and in

Herculaneum it was 600 degrees Celsius. It was so hot that it melted the cutlery but it wasn’t hot enough to

melt the glass. When Giuseppe Fiorelli excavated Pompeii he found cocoons of people which were made of

cement. He drilled holes in the cocoons and poured plaster inside and while he was doing that he found the

bones, jewellery and clothes they were wearing. I think Pompeii would be an awesome place to go to.

By Destiny Crawford (Year 3)

Vision Antenna Systems is proud to support

the Talent Quest at East Taieri School Scansouth is proud to support East Taieri School

BLACK

As dark as a night with no moon

The colour of a green-eyed cat slinking through the dark

I soak up heat and store it inside me, not willing to let it go

Turn off your lights at night and I will surround you.

By Jared Preston – Year 6

TREAT YOURSELF! Make life more pleasurable and do the things you enjoy more by removing those jobs you

loathe taking the hassle out of your day-to-day life

Specialising in: WEEKLY HOUSE CLEANING, OVEN CLEAN, WINDOWS inside & out

Spring clean

Moving house cleans;

Private house weekly fortnightly;

Cleaning and re-organising cupboard space;

Tenant after math clean ups

Gardening

Car grooming

Call Ally 021 93 94 90

“Knowing my house is going to be cleaned each week is just heaven! I wouldn’t want to do without

it” Niki Taylor

CALL 021 93 94 90

SCHOOL SPONSORS

Please support the following:

James Wren & Co Ltd – 477 9384 Fresh Choice Roslyn – 474 0983 Fowler Homes – 021 2422294 Conroy Plumbing – 027 4393038 Glen Summers Building & Construction – 021 455218 Guthrie Bowron – 477 6094

Mike Sowman Design Ltd is proud to support East

Taieri School

Mike Sowman Design is proud to support the Art

Exhibition at East Taieri School

AEC Security is proud to support

East Taieri School

Swimsation Learn to Swim School

Lessons at 3 Mosgiel sites Term 4 2012

Dates: October 15 – December 15

Mosgiel Community Pool - Mon and Wed 3.30pm – 6.00pm for confident breathing school-age

swimmers

Mosgiel West Community Pool – Tues and Thu 3.30pm – 6.00pm for beginner pre-school and

school-age swimmers

Fairfield Primary School Pool – Saturdays 9.15am – 12noon for beginner pre-school and school-

age swimmers

Email us: swimsation@dcc.govt.nz

Or call us: 4719659

BASKETBALL OTAGO – Diggers Development Programme Term 4

Basketball Otago Director of Development Mark Dickel is a student of the game and is super excited about

passing on the vast knowledge he has gained from his many years of playing and coaching in New Zealand.

Consists of weekly coaching sessions at the Edgar Centre, where basic fundamentals are introduced focusing

on skill based drills and emphasizing having FUN. Players need no experience to attend.

Day: Tuesday’s

Dates: 23rd

October – 11th

December

Under 8’s: 3.30pm-4.30pm

Under 11’s: 4.00pm-5.00pm

Under 13’s: 5.00pm-6.00pm

Cost: $69.00

We are looking for a parent to organise this. Please see Annette in the office.