NEWSLETTER 14 November 2016 Principal: Jennifer Horgan (M.Ed., B.A., Dip. Ed. Leadership) Email: etaieri@east-taieri.school.nz Web: www.easttaieri.school.nz

Phone: 489 6737

Dear Parents/Caregivers

WELCOME

A warm welcome to Jokobie Garner and Holly Thomas who have started in Room 13. We wish them happy times at East Taieri.

VALUE STARS

Jacob Rivett – offering to bring in the stilts

BOOK CLUB ORDERS – All orders to be in by Monday 21 November

WORKING BEE – THIS SATURDAY – HELPERS URGENTLY NEEDED We need more ‘manpower’ to cart away branches, etc from the the trees that are to be trimmed, as well as helpers with wheelbarrows and rakes to assist with replacing the woodchips under the adventure playground. Please fill in the slip below and return to school asap.

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WORKING BEE - SATURDAY 19 NOVEMBER

Name:

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Est 1853

WORKING BEE BBQ The Home and School Committee will be providing a bbq, weather permitting, for all the wonderful hard working volunteers at the Working Bee day this coming Saturday. Please let the office know by Wednesday, if you are planning to come, for catering purposes, so we can feed all the hungry tummies!!

CLASSES FOR 2017

The leadership team will shortly be looking at team and class structures for 2017. Due to the high number of New Entrants expected at the start of the year we will be starting with 13 classes, with Vicki Thorburn remaining in Room 13 with her present class for 2017.

Junior School : (Yrs 0-2) Junior/Middle School : (Yrs 2-4) Middle/Senior School : (Yrs 4-6) Should you wish to discuss placement of your child/children next year regarding academic, social issues, etc, please phone the office to make an appointment to see me by Wednesday 16 November.

COMMEMORATIVE TREE You will see that there is an addition to the wall at the Room 12 end of the Junior Block. The tree has been donated by Farra Engineering Ltd, of which John Whitaker, a past East Taieri School BOT Chairperson is Managing Director. Families are able to buy leaves which will be engraved with their names and dates attending East Taieri. If you know of past families who may be interested in purchasing a leaf, please pass this information onto them. The cost of an engraved leaf will be $50.00. Please email Annette, etaieri@east-taieri.school.nz, if you wish to purchase a leaf. PARENT READING TUTORS A big thank you to: Alister Finnie, Kelly Najafi, Sharlene McDonald, Susan Hopkins, Leanne Shaw, Philippa Wilson, Suzie Daniell, Helen McCrystal, Suzie Bishop, Jana Berman, Amanda Taia and Katherine Bradfield, for their time as Parent Reading Tutors this year. Our students have benefitted greatly from the one-to-one time for extra reading throughout the year. The support from these parents has been greatly appreciated. KIWIANA SCIENCE ROADSHOW TRIP A wee reminder that this Wednesday is the Kiwiana science group’s trip to the roadshow. We will get on the bus at 10.15am and return before lunch. Any children who have not paid their money or arranged to put the charge on their account, need to do so as soon as possible please.

THANK YOU The Quirey family would like to extend their heartfelt thanks to the Home and School Committee, the East Taieri school community and the local community for their kindness and generous support with the quiz night last Tuesday evening for Caroline. It is greatly appreciated. Thank you from Caroline and family.

YEAR 0-3 CROSS COUNTRY

On Friday we had the Year 0-3 cross country. It started off so well with a great turn out from parents, grandparents and pre-schoolers and some very excited

children. We managed to get a few races through and the clouds opened up and down came the rain in buckets! A huge thank you to the adults who helped to get all the children inside, and to those who braved it out and stayed to watch the Year 3 races. We didn’t manage to get the Year 2 girls race run, so this race will be held on Thursday at 12.00. All results and photos will be in next week’s newsletter, and certificates will be handed out at assembly on Friday. Thanks for your support.

SCOOTER ISSUES We have had several scooters mistakenly taken home by children thinking that they are theirs. Could parents check children’s scooters to make sure that they are actually theirs. ALL SCOOTERS TO BE NAMED PLEASE.

DANCE CLUB

On Friday the children from the Dance Club performed to the school, showcasing what they had learnt over the year. Many thanks to Rebecca McCracken for her help during the year and to Gill and Sam from the Dunedin Rock N Roll Club. A big

thank you to Lucy Morris for her organisation of Dance Club throughout the year.

TERM FOUR EVENTS

NOVEMBER

15 Otago Athletics East Taieri Whanau Hui – 3.30pm

18 Room 13 Assembly

21-25 Year 6 Camp

28-1 Dec Surf Life Saving sessions

DECEMBER

2 Year 6 Rafting Day

Junior/Middle Athletics Day

9 Talent Quest

14 Reports go home

15 Carol Service – East Taieri Church 11am – Junior Syndicate 1.30pm – Middle Syndicate 7pm – Senior Syndicate

16 Last Day (half day)

2017 31 January – start of Term 1

ROOM 8 POEMS

ROOM 1 MEMOIRS

YELLOW

YELLOW as a blowing daffodil petal falling off

YELLOW as a crunchy chip being gobbled up

YELLOW is the hot sun burning

YELLOW as the sand blowing out of my hands

YELLOW as a baby’s blanket on me

YELLOW as the hard chairs being stacked up

YELLOW as paper being crunched up

YELLOW as the sun shining on a swimming

pool

By: Mackayla Anderson

BLUE

BLUE is the wet rain dripping down onto the slipper

road

BLUE is a beautiful flower starting to bloom

BLUE is a cold, slipper, dripping blueberry ice-cream

BLUE sounds like waves crashing against the rocks on a

hot sunny day

BLUE feels like a steaming summer day

By: Aria Wilson

GREEN

GREEN is a green traffic light to let people

carry on zooming along the road

GREEN feels as soft as the grass on a field at

school

GREEN sounds like the trees swaying in the

air

GREEN feels as scruffy as a holly hedge

GREEN looks like zombies coming towards

you

By: Matthew Hana

I am having the best dream of my life then

suddenly Mum wakes me up. I hate mornings, the

feeling of having to get out of bed when I am all

warm and comfortable is so annoying. Mum

wakes me up by turning the light on, which springs

my eyes open. I try to get back to sleep but with

the light on, Zac in the shower and Mum’s radio

on, it would be near impossible for me. I can’t be

bothered reading so I decide it’s time to get up. As

I am jumping out of bed Zac gets out of the

shower. So I stumble down the hall way to the

bathroom. After my warm shower I pull the

curtains to see a lovely day. After I get dressed

and stumble down to the kitchen to make my

yummy breakfast.

By: Tom Cunningham

I hear Paddy calling out to me as if he were

saying, “give me some food, its cold!” Then I

hear my Mum yelling at Ben because he was on

the computer playing games. So I head out to

the paddock with some pony pellets. I feel the

rubber gumboots rubbing violently against my

socks. When I get to the paddock I felt the frosty

metal as I felt for the clip to unclip it. Suddenly a

little muzzle comes out of nowhere and pokes

me gently in the stomach. I give him a scratch

behind his ear and he nickers to me softly. I run

down and put the bucket in the tyre and

suddenly without thinking I jump up onto his

back.

By: Mya O’Connor

JADE

JADE is the pearl jade sea

Our JADE eyes on the lookout

Touching a rainbow full of blue and green

Blue is cold like icies

Blue is the happy sky at daytime

By: Ella Reid-Blair

Focus Value ~

Doing Your Best

COLLECTING CANS

The Student Council will be coming around classes daily to collect cans. There will be a competition, with a prize, for the class which brings the most cans over the week.

I wake up to “Jacko get into the shower – its

7.20!!” “Ahhh” I groan. I lie down under my

warm sheets for about five more minutes, until

Mum calls me to get up again. Then I slowly

drag myself out of my warm soft bed! Straight

away the coldness hits me. I gather up my

school uniform in my left arm and my towel in

my right hand. After everything else, like

having breakfast and brushing my teeth, I grab

my bag and jump onto my bike and start

pedalling as fast as I can to school. At the

corner, where Riccarton Road and Gladstone

Road meet, I look back for cars, then I cross if

its clear and wait for the last car if it’s not clear.

When I arrive at school it’s a normal day!!

By: Jackson Smith

“Woof Woof” – my dogs spring into my room like

Usain Bolt. After being drowned in slobber I flick

my lamp on while snatching my ipad to watch some

youtube. Bang the cat leaps onto the timber cold

window sill waiting for me to let him in. The sweet

sound of Tui and Bellbirds makes my eyes get

heavier and heavier. I start to slide off my bed with

the dogs taking over. My icy cold feet sneak into

my heated slippers. Mission – go to school is a go!

The syrupy smell of gold crumpets fills the kitchen

as I eat them all up. I slip into my uniform and play

hide and seek with my dogs all around the house.

Grabbing some food for school I put it in my lunch

box and rush outside onto the trampoline and

bounce around like a rabbit until its time to get on

my bike and go to school. “Click” my helmet wraps

around my head like a snake and I bike off to

school. I say “hi” to my neighbours zooming past.

BY Erika Reid

ART AUCTION 1st December

The Home and School Committee are looking for some wonderful volunteers to help with a flyer drop off in some areas of Mosgiel. There is a map and flyers in the office with the areas for people to mark off streets they can help with. We would like to have these out very soon so if you can spare some time and get the word out,that would be fabulous! Please feel free to contact me Tracy McGee 4895388 if you have any questions.

FLIPPABALL

Our team had a great game yesterday, winning 3-2. Player of the day was Benjamin

Renton

SMMC MUSIC CLASSES

This Wednesday the 16th November is enrolment afternoon for SMMC 2017 Wednesday afternoon Classes. Enrolments will be taken at Elmgrove School between 3.30pm and 4.30pm Many thanks Barrie Rutledge Coordinator Bathgate/Mosgiel

LOST SCOOTER

Early in the first week of November a child has accidently

“swapped” their scooter for our son’s. It is a Silver “Razor”

scooter with blue handles. The scooter was stored with others

behind Mrs Horgan’s office.

Our son would love his scooter back please and is keen to

swap it back (both scooters are the same but our son’s handle

was higher).

Please phone if it could be your child’s scooter that we have.

Thanks

Chris Watt – 022 6137624

Suzie Watt – 021 22590406