Our Greendale School Vision is to: L. E. A. R. N. Lifelong Learner

Excellence Actively Involved

Relationships Now and in the Future

Interested in joining a school Board of Trustees? Dates have now been scheduled for Korari sessions. These are free sessions for anyone interested in learning more about the role of trustee on a school board.

Further information is available in the school Office. Cleaner/Caretaker vacancy: at Greendale School. Permanent position; full year (9 hours per week over five days). Visit our website www.greendale.school.nz and go to Our People to download the application details and job description. Application forms are also available from the school Office during school hours. Applications close on Sunday 31 March 2109.

New Name … New Sign?!

We would love to have a new sign to welcome people to Greendale School; one which incorporates our gifted Māori name. Do you know anyone who would be willing to sponsor a lovely new macrocarpa sign for our entrance, like this one?

The total cost of the sign is $885 + GST, but sponsorship doesn’t need to cover the whole amount – we would be very grateful for any support. Remember, all donations to the school are tax deductible.

Please contact Deb in the office if you can help.

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NEWSLETTER PĀNUI

Week 7 Term 1 2019: 15 March 2019

a: 187 Greendale Rd, RD 1, Christchurch p: (03) 318 8436 e: office@greendale.school.nz

Our PALs for 2019

Thanks to Miles Toyota in Christchurch, who very generously offered to sponsor some of the cost of the jackets and tops for our 2019 PALs.

We welcome Essie to our Greendale School whānau

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watch. Enquire at

school Office.

Calendar of Events 2019 15 March House Colour day, and tug-o-war. Come dressed and decorated in

your house colours. 15 March Elgregoe performance at Greendale Community Hall. Cost of event

met by payment of the 2019 Activity contribution. 18 March PTA AGM at Darfield Surf and Turf Bar, at 7 00 pm. All welcome,

including new members. Please see the PTA postcard sent home with this newsletter.

19 March Malvern swimming sports at Rolleston Pool - qualifying students - notice has been sent home and transporting parents arranged.

19 March Envirogroup meeting 2 30 - 4 00 pm. All welcome. Bring a paint brush to paint a wardrobe for the pool toys.

20 March Selwyn Sports Trust Rogaine event for Years 5 - 8 students 25 March Scholastic Book orders close - order online and make payment

directly to Scholastic. Your orders make possible the acquisition of books for our library. Order forms sent home with this newsletter.

26 March Parent Afternoon: Decodable texts Reading books - 3 - 4 pm We welcome Jo Anderson, our RTLit, Literacy Specialist to talk to parents about our phonics and spelling approach; if you’re interested, a chance to hear more about them, and ask any questions you may have. Children can be supervised by a teacher; please provide their afternoon tea.

28 March Sports spectacular for New Entrants - Year 2s 3 April Board meeting at 7 pm 4 April Canterbury swimming sports at Rolleston Pool - qualifying students 5 April School triathlon for whole school, organised by PALs. It will involve

some running, swimming and biking. Children will be able to enter a short, medium or long course depending on their ability (like last year). If biking is tricky for your child, then they have a few weeks to practice their biking skills.

8 April Parent-teacher interviews 2 30 - 5 pm; bookings will be made online. Hear how your child is settling in to 2019 and about the assessment data we have collected this term. Online bookings open soon.

9 April Parent-teacher interviews 2 30 - 8 pm; bookings will be made online 11 April Spelling Bee - Years 5 and 6 - for all Malvern schools, hosted by

Greendale School at the Greendale Hall. Whānau are welcome to come and watch and/or help with organisation. More details soon

11 April Interested in joining a school Board? Attend a public session at Hornby High School at 6 pm. RSVP required to lwhelley@nzsta.org.nz

12 April ASB Get Wise Financial Literacy

MANA AKE VISITS Each Wednesday between 1 00 pm and 3 00 pm, Liz Adams, from the new initiative Mana Ake, will be visiting Greendale School. She will be in the playground at long play, then working with classes/students, and will be available from 2 30 - 3 pm for a drop-in for parents and teachers. This is a free service, so you are welcome to ask any health and well-being questions you may have.

Mana Ake promotes wellbeing and positive mental health for Years 1 - 8 children. Mana Ake kaimahi can help promote and maintain wellbeing for all students. They can also support groups of students or individuals who are experiencing ongoing concerns that impact their wellbeing, such as anxiety, social isolation, parental

separation, grief and loss and managing emotions.

The Mana Ake service is provided by people with a range of skills including social workers, whānau ora kaimahi, counsellors, youth workers, nurses and psychologists. The service can support individual children, groups of children and provide information and workshops for parents. Mana Ake kaimahi are available to support children and their families/whānau at school and at home and they will be in your child’s school regularly.

Hi, I’m Liz Adams (Family Works, Presby-terian Support). I am a qualified and reg-istered social worker and have experience working with children and families. I have a particular interest in understanding human development and behaviour. I am looking forward to supporting the wellbeing of families and schools in the Malvern District.

From Canterbury District Health Board, 6 March 2019, regarding the Measles outbreak

Since 26 February 2019, the number of cases in the latest Canterbury measles outbreak has been steadily climbing and as at 5 March we have had ten confirmed cases, with more likely to be confirmed over the next days and weeks. Some are children who have yet to complete their MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccinations, but four are adults aged between 27 and 50 who have had only one measles vaccination, which was standard practice between 1969 and 1990.

Cases have now spread throughout Christchurch. Measles is a serious and highly contagious, viral disease where up to 30 percent of those who catch it will develop complications – usually children under 5 and adults over the age of 20. Measles during pregnancy increases the risk of miscarriage, premature labour and low birth-weight in babies. Measles is spread through droplets in the air and through contact, so that anyone unprotected who has been in the same room as someone with measles will likely get it. The surest protection is for people to have had both of their MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccinations, scheduled to be given to children at 15 months and at four years.

As long as children of school age are up-to-date with their vaccinations they should be protected against measles. People vaccinated between 1969 and 1990 should contact their GP team who will provide a booster vaccination. People born before 1969 will have been exposed to measles and will be immune. Family members who aren’t sure if they have been immunised with two doses of MMR vaccine should talk to their GP team who will be able to provide a vaccination if they need it. An extra vaccination will not cause any harm. Measles symptoms include: A respiratory type of illness with dry cough, runny nose, headache; Temperature over 38.5 C and feeling very unwell; A red blotchy rash starts on day 4-5 of the illness usually on the face and moves to the chest and arms.

More information about measles is available at http://www.immune.org.nz If you think a child at your school has measles, keep them away from other children until they can be collected and taken home. If they are already sick they should stay home for at least five days after symptoms such as a rash appeared. Once measles has been in your school, parents of any children who are not fully immune (2 doses of MMR) are advised to keep them home for 14 days from the likely date of exposure.

Tēnā koutou katoa

A few things have been ticked off the school calendar over the past two weeks: *Swimming lessons with Christina have finished (with thanks to the PTA for their support) *Bus Safety has been revisited with the whole school, and our bus monitors have been trained by Constable Rick *Parents heard a talk about speech language with Sarita from MoE *Swimming sports at Greendale and Hororata Pools (with thanks to families for coming along to support your hard-working children)

This Friday promises to be a fun day as we have House Colour day, as well as our annual Elgregoe magic show, which focuses on “Being Bully-free”, and Jacqui Adams will be working with students, leading art lessons for the Sheffield Show.

It is with sadness that we received a resignation from Sarah Busch, from her cleaning and caretaking positions. She will remain as a Teacher Aide. You will note a position vacant notice on our Community News page.

Have a happy weekend.

Carey-Anne Hamilton, Tumuaki - Principal

Great teamwork at Greendale School, with our

students building vehicles with the tyres

Schoolwide Awards L.E.A.R.N.er of the Week trophy: to Aidan, awarded on behalf of Christina, the s wimming teacher - for great improvement and never giving up

Mataī Awards

Class Award: to Chloe, for being a hard working, settled member of Mataī. You are cheerful and listen carefully to instructions Class Award: to Greer, for a fabulous Quick Write, extending yourself and producing great sentences L.E.A.R.N. Values Award: to Lucy, for L (Lifelong learner) You are an awesome Lifelong Learner, Lucy. Super impressed with listening carefully to feedback, asking questions and working hard to learn how to swim butterfly. L.E.A.R.N. Values Award: to Bess, for E (Excellence), for striving hard at working with excellence, even when you’re a bit unsure - keep up that great work ethic Milk Monitor: Tessa

Horopito Awards Class Award: to George, for consistently using his Whole Body Listening skills L.E.A.R.N. Values Award: to Sophie, for N (Now and in the future) never giving up, and trying her best at all times

Tūrepo Awards Class Award: to Haidee, for making good choices Class Award: to Essie, we welcome you to Tūrepo L.E.A.R.N. Values Award: to Joscelin, for L (Lifelong learner) for paying attention and trying hard at all things L.E.A.R.N. Values Award: to Austin, for E (Excellence) for showing Excellence at all times

Wishing our March birthday children a Happy Birthday:

Katelyn, who turns 8 on 21 March

Eli, who turns 5 on 26 March

from Mrs Maude and Mrs Hamilton

Musings from Mataī…

Congratulations to everyone for awesome efforts at the Swimming Sports! Wonderful to see our learners stepping up to challenges and encouraging others. Looking forward to taking the group of Malvern swimmers to Rolleston next week for the next level of challenge - swim your best and enjoy the experience!

Our focus has shifted a little from water and swimming… to rocks! On Tuesday, we took a walk down the road to the river bed to each find our own special rock. This is inspired from the beautiful book, Ishi. Our special rocks will help us to learn more about ourselves, our feelings and what we can do when we are feeling “a bit stinky”. We will be naming our rocks, creating a profile page for them, and making connections with our own names … finding out why we were given our names and how names and their meanings can tell stories of who we are and our whānau. We are also in the process of writing recount texts about finding our rocks to share with the other classes.

Isaac and Jayden took part in the X Games at Halswell Quarry recently

”Stinky days. We all have them. After having one too many, I found Ishi. Ishi became my rock. Ishi gave me tips. Simple tips. Tips that made me happy. I hope they make you happy too!”

Spring bulbs: Place your order in the Office foyer by 22 March 2019. PTA AGM: is being held this Monday, 18 March 2019 at 7 pm at the Darfield Surf and Turf Bar. New members always welcome. Entertainment Book: A flier is coming home with this newsletter. Please support this

great fundraiser, or pass the flier details on to friends and family. Take a School to Footy: The link to the ticketing page is : https://www.ticketrocket.co.nz/event/details/187376/crusaders-v-highlanders Our Promo Code is Greendale , and you enter this code in the top right corner of the TicketRocket site: *promo codes are not case sensitive. All tickets will need to be purchased by parents/caregivers online.

Anyone can along after school this Tuesday, 19 March from 2 30 - 4 pm. We’re going to paint a wardrobe for the pool toys.

Seed library: There is now a seed library at the Darfield Library that everyone is welcome to use. The rules of how it works are with it. It’s a fantastic opportunity to grow different plants.

*Mark the date* Clothes Swap (adults and children) on Friday 3 May, at 6 30 pm in the Greendale Hall.

I can't believe it is Week 7 already! We welcome Essie Mayberry to our class. The children have been learning about the Very hungry Caterpillar this week as our letter is

C. Next week we will be looking at the letter i and the short vowel sound it makes, as in insect.

We also had the experience today of making porridge. This is to accompany our storytelling of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The children had mixed results but on the whole it was generally tolerated!

The children are doing well with their reading and remembering their reading folders and readits every day. Poetry is sent home on Fridays by Mrs Leech. If a

child forgets their reading folder, I will not send a book home as our books are very precious and they need to be cared for. It is less likely they will get scrunched and crumpled in a bottom of a bag if they are in a reading folder.

You may have noticed your child has a new Maths book in their reading folders. We call this an AWS Maths book. This is to be done for homework and sometimes we use them at school along with the Mathletics programme. The expectation is that children do reading each night. If they want to do maths, this is great as well, but it is a big ask for some of them. The Level One books start off reasonably easy, focusing on numbers 1 to 5 and have a few activities to complete. As they move along, the activities become more challenging and the numbers become more challenging. Ideally a page a week is great; some students are so keen they race through it, which is also fine as long as they understand.

Most of the children are working on pencil control and forming their letters and numbers correctly, which AWS focuses on at the beginning. It would be great if the AWS books come to school every day and I will use them as “early finishers” activities for Maths. Keep up with Mathletics, as points are collated and children are given certificates once they reach certain points. Passwords are in the front of the readits. There are also rewards for getting to certain nights’ reading which align with the stickers your children can get in their readits. We also do rewards for AWS when we reach every fifth page.

from Mrs Cridge helena@greendale.school.nz

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Medication to be administered at school: If you require us to administer medication to your child, either as a one-off or on an on-going basis, please:

Complete a Medication Authority Form, available from the school Office

Bring medication and form to the school Office

Medication should be in original prescription packaging, with your child’s name, dosage and medication name clearly visible. Medication in blister pack should remain in that packaging.

Please have an adult deliver the medication to school, to ensure the safety of both your child and others at school.

Decodable texts (literacy) Parent Afternoon on Tuesday 26 March, 3 - 4 pm. We welcome Jo Anderson, our RTLit, Literacy Specialist to talk to parents about our new decodable text reading books with their phonics and spelling approach. It is a chance to hear more about them if you’re interested, and ask any questions you may have. Children can be supervised by a teacher; please provide their afternoon tea. Greendale School Triathlon on Friday 5 April: The Year 6 PALs are planning a whole school triathlon on Friday near the end of term. It will involve some running, swimming and biking. Children will be able to enter a short, medium or long course depending on their ability (like last year). If biking is tricky for your child, then they have a few weeks to practice their biking skills. Parent/Child/Teacher Interviews on 8 and 9 April: These will be held in the last week of term. We will open our online bookings for these over the coming weeks. This is a chance for you to come along to school and hear how your child is settling in to 2019 and assessment we have collected this term. Malvern Spelling Bee on Thursday 11 April: This initiative is organised by us and we host all Malvern schools at our hall. Whanau are welcome to come and watch and/or help with organisation. More details nearer the time. Drama opportunity in Greendale: We have a good number of students taking up this opportunity on Thursday afternoons with Nickie Hughes from Christchurch. After the first lesson last week, the students were buzzing, it’s so exciting to see! Swimming Sports qualification for Malvern on 19 March We have 16 Year 4 - 6 students who qualified for the Malvern Swimming, to be held next Tuesday at Rolleston. We hope they enjoy their day out swimming and representing Greendale. Student Record Sheet (on pink paper): The information listed needs to be checked, signed and returned to the school office, whether or not changes are required. We are still waiting for 30 forms to be returned.

… has been about our Story Telling story, The Lion and The Mouse, and descriptive writing about Mrs Hamilton. It is really interesting to see what children notice!

George’s version of The Lion and The Mouse: The lion is snoring. He woke up and caught the mouse. He said “I am going to eat you.” The lion did not eat the mouse. The lion got stuck in the trap. The mouse helped the lion by eating a hole in the trap. The lion go out of the trap. The lion and the mouse are friends.

Saphia’s version of The Lion and The Mouse: One day there was a lion. After a big snack he fell asleep. Then a mouse crept onto the lion and started to bounce and jump, then slide down his tail and up his tail. Then the lion woke up and put his paw on top of the mouse and the mouse said “Let me go.” “No, I will eat you,” said the lion. “Oh King, please let me go and I will help you one day.” “Ha, ha, ha … you will help me?” said the lion. “Yes, ok then,” and he lifted his paw and the mouse walked away happy. The lion went the other way, The hunters made a trap for the lion. After eating some bones, the hunters caught the lion and he roared and roared and roared. All of the animals, also the mouse, heard the roar. The mouse said “Don’t worry, my King, I will help you with my sharp teeth. Nyum, nyum, nyum.” The lion was free. “Thank you, mouse.” “No worries,” said the mouse. “By the way,” said the lion, “do you want to slide on me and jump on me?” “Oh, yes,” said the mouse, “weeeee!” Then they lived happily ever after.

Konnor’s version of The Lion and The Mouse: One day a lion was asleep and a mouse jumped on the lion and the lion woke up and grabbed the mouse and the mouse said “Please don’t eat me.” The lion said “Yes, ok.” The lion went for a walk and got caught in a trap. The mouse came and broke the net and that let the lion out. Arlan’s description of Mrs Hamilton Mrs H is pretty, kind and caring. She is creative and good fun. She is in Green House. She tells people off when they are naughty.

Breanna’s description of Mrs Hamilton Mrs H is pretty. She drinks lots of water. Mrs H has beautiful hair. She is in Green House. She is healthy, creative, and is really good on the computer.

Dylan’s description of Mrs Hamilton Mrs Hamilton has lots of pretty shoes. Her hugs make me feel good. She is in Green House.

from Mrs G