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Outram School Newsletter Volume 2 Number 8 – 21 June 2018 OUTRAM SCHOOL VISION – A school where children strive for

excellence, love learning, develop their passions and reach their potential

Dear Parents Tēnā koutou, kia ora koutou katoa An unusual week in that we have had two different performances, with Elgregoe on Monday and Sailor the Puffer Fish on Tuesday. Both strong performances with different health messages for our students. Both were important opportunities. Thank you to Friends of Outram School. The annual donation we receive from FOS covered the payment for Elgregoe and koha to the NZ Asthma Society. We appreciate this support. MUSAC EDGE Parent Access on Phone App On Tuesday and Wednesday, I attended the Dunedin EDGE conference. EDGE is our student management system; the system we use for student enrolment records, medical, attendance, finance, assessment and reporting. In one session, I learnt that the parent portal for EDGE is also available as a phone app. At enrolment, and in past newsletters, we have shared information about how to get parent / caregiver access to EDGE online. This is reprinted in today’s newsletter. You can now get exactly the same access to your child’s details through the EDGE app. Find the free MUSAC EDGE app in the Apple or Google store and upload. You will be asked to load a four-digit pin, and then enter the login details you set up for the online portal. (Do this first if you have not already accessed EDGE.) The app is intuitive and you will have mobile access to all the information available through the caregiver / parent portal. It is a useful tool. Keeping Ourselves Safe and Cyber Safety Meetings A reminder of the two meetings planned for Wednesday 27th June. 2.00 pm – Keeping Ourselves Safe Meeting – this is a meeting for those parents who are unable to attend the evening meeting. It will be an overview of the KOS programme with an opportunity to view the resources we use. 7.00 pm – Cyber Safety Night – Pauline Spence, Netsafe NZ, will talk about cyber safety and what we can do as parents, and as a school community, to keep our children safe online. Students in our three senior rooms (Room 5, 6, and 7), are also invited to attend with their parents. The KOS resources will be on display at this meeting and there will a short summary of the material presented at 2.00 pm. The paper and School Stream return forms are repeated for this newsletter. We will advise the venue (hall or Allen Centre) early next week.

26 June 27 June 6 July 23 July 23-27 July 3 August 7 August 9 August 15 August 17 August 25 August

Golf Lessons at Taieri Keeping Ourselves Safe Meetings CAPES Assembly Last Day Term 2 Term 3 Starts Keeping Ourselves Safe Outram Cross Country Y6 Information Evening Outram Speech Night Taieri Speech Night Taieri Cross Country FOS Quiz Night

School contact details:

1 Beaumaris Street, Outram.

P O Box 22, Outram 9062.

Phone 03 486 1733 for all absences,

ASC and office.

Email: office@outram.school.nz

Web: www.outram.school.nz

BoT Parent Reps:

Anette Harrex 486 1681

Craig Brown 021 1915319

Katrina Robertson 486 1944

Ash Barron 486 2335

Amelia Rogers 021 882853

Friends of Outram School

Sonya Aitken 486 2026

Teacher Union Meeting A reminder, next Thursday afternoon, most of our teachers will be attending the Dunedin teacher union meeting. Thank you for all your support in helping us organise this. Children staying at school will be supervised in two classes. Buses run at 3.00 pm as usual. After School Care operates as usual. Tomorrow afternoon, we have Room 5’s assembly. I always look forward to seeing what Room 5 brings to share; it is always fun. I hope you can join us at 2.20 pm. Nga mihi nui

Jeremy Marshall Keeping Ourselves Safe and Cyber Safety Meetings – Return Form Family Tick

I / We will be attending the 2.00 pm KOS information meeting.

Number attending:

I / We will be attending the 7.00 pm Cybersafety meeting.

Number attending:

Our Room 5, 6, 7 child(ren) will also attend the Cybersafety meeting

Number attending:

Macklyn & Ryan made a poster each in the Allen Centre after the Elgregoe Show on Tuesday. Lots of great messages that Ryan learnt from the show on his poster. Good work boys.

MUSAC Edge Parent / Caregiver Portal Outram School uses a cloud based student management system (SMS) called MUSAC Edge. This system allows us to open up a parent / caregiver portal in Edge where you can access particular information from the SMS. Those parents who have an email recorded on the school SMS will be able to access the parent portal. The URL is https://parent.musac.school.nz/

Those with a Facebook, Google, Google+, Yahoo, or Windows Live account can login by clicking the appropriate icon on the left. Otherwise, enter your email and click ‘Forgot Password?’. You will receive an emailed, temporary password for your first login. (Check ‘junk’ or ‘spam’ if this does not arrive.)

Once logged in you will be able to access these details…

Home Page

School Announcements – another place we will leave important school messages such as snow closures and cancellations.

Your details – in future, we will use this to check all details are correct for the current year. If details are incorrect please let us know.

Under your child’s name

Summary of the enrolment details for your child including medical and all parent / caregiver and emergency contacts.

Attendance records for the current year.

Student reports – will have archived copies of your child’s school reports.

School Payments – An account summary with a list of current unpaid items. (We are hoping to open payment options in future).

The login is secure and only open to you; your child’s information cannot be accessed by anybody else. Please let us know if you strike a problem or can’t access the portal. Some parents may need to be issued temporary passwords through the school. If you have not provided the school with an email, and would like access to the portal, please let Carolyn know your email address.

Thank you to those who dropped off icecream containers.

I now have enough.

Little Einstein Quiz

The Student Council have organised a sponsored quiz called “The Little Einstein Quiz” to raise money for some playground equipment. Quiz packs have been sent home with all students, and the idea is that over the next two weeks students learn the answers to these general knowledge questions as part of their homework. Quiz Day will happen at school on Monday 2nd July. Younger students will be orally checked, they do not need to be able to write their answers down. Thank you to our parent community for supporting the Student Council.

Here is the Student Council performing a dance promoting

the Little Einstein Quiz

Photo from Elregoe the Magician Show

A couple of photo’s from the Sailor Asthma Show

Both of these shows had great messages for the students to learn from.

Simon is one of our school parents so it would be great to

have lots of Outram School support.

ASSEMBLY TIMETABLE

Term 2, 2018 Week 8 - 22 June - Room 5

Week 10 - 6 July - CAPES Assembly

Term Dates for 2018 Term 1

Tuesday 30 January – Friday 13 April

Term 2 Monday 30 April – Friday 6 July

Term 3 Monday 23 July – Friday 28 September

Term 4 Monday 15 October – Tuesday 18

December

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FRIDAY LUNCH ORDERS

PLEASE NOTE: - IF YOU ARE

ORDERING YOUR CHILD A LUNCH

FROM MITCHELLS FAMILY

FOODCENTRE FOR A FRIDAY, THE

ORDER MUST BE IN BY THURSDAY AT

THE LATEST. Phone 486 1723.

Community Oral Health Service 0800 TALK TEETH (0800 825 583) or 0800 ORAL HEALTH (0800 672 543 (free from

cell phones) Please call us to update your contact details,

change an appointment or to make an appointment. You can find us under

Community Oral Health Service in the White Pages.

Fuel for Schools Fuel for Schools is a programme where

people/businesses can nominate Outram School to earn

points when they purchase bulk fuel supplies from

Southfuels. So if you get your fuel from Southfuels we

would love you to nominate Outram School. The

points we earn enable us to choose a package which

could be sporting equipment or technology.

We would like to thank Sinclair Saw & Mower, Outram

Contacting, Mining Construction Equipment Repairs Ltd

& Riverview Trust who have already nominated us.

We look forward to your support.

SPORT

Netball

Draw for Saturday 23 June

Outram Red vs Taieri Rays 9.55am Ct 5

Outram Blue vs East Taieri Topaz 9.55am Ct 2

Outram Yellow vs Abbotsford Opals 10.50am Ct 3

Outram Green vs Fairfield Silver 12.30pm Ct 3

Outram Pink vs BYE

Y1 & 2 Programme is from 12pm to 12.45pm. This

programme will finish on the 7th July end of Term 2.

You can also find the draw on www.sporty.co.nz/taierinetball

Miniball

Monday 25 June – Y3/4

Outram Stars vs St Mary’s Warriors 5.00pm

Outram Breakers vs Silverstream Slammers 3.30pm

Tuesday 26 June – Y5/6

Outram Nuggets vs No draw on the website at the

Outram Saints vs time of printing the newsletter.

You can also check on the website:

www.sporty.co.nz/taieriminiball

Rugby

Yr 1 West Taieri 12 Dunedin 12 Pod Rylan Clucas Yr 2 West Taieri 9 Southern 12 Pod Max Doherty Yr 3 West Taieri 50 Taieri 85 Pod Whole Team Yr 4 West Taieri 60 Kaikorai 25 Pod Molly Nichol U 10 West Taieri 80 Alhambra 20 Pod Jacob Eaton U 12 West Taieri 24 Taieri 30 Pod Finn Aitken

COMMUNITY NOTICES cont’d Piano Lessons

$85 per term

After School – at Outram School

Enquiries Welcome - phone Brenda a/h 489 3032 Music Lessons Chris Glover – guitar & piano – 021 1317272

email: chrisglvr79@gmail.com

Regan Horrell – drums – 489 5230, 021 1850017

email: regan.horrell@gmail.com

Children's Craft Workshops

Rosy Posy Sewing Room Kids Club Bookings are now being taken for the following school holiday programme. July 9th&16th 10:30 to 1:00pm Flower making with a Kelly Muir from Flowers for Life (Kelly is well known for her beautiful creations which are available at Craft Room on 87 July 10th & 17th 10:30 to 1 pm Bath bombs with Jodi from The Cottage On Gordon (Jodi has built a popular business in bath products at great prices her products are available at Rosy Posy Sewing Room) 12th & 19th July 10:30 to 1pm Air Dry Clay Classes with Rosy Posy Sewing Room •Bookings are essential to secure your child's space. •Bring your lunch and drinks •Police vetted under Vunerable Children's Act •$25 per child per day Call in store for further details. "Time spent playing and teaching children is never wasted" Thank you if you have any other questions please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind Regards Maria Winward Rosy Posy Sewing Room 23 Holyhead Street Outram Dunedin Ph 021 1278394

Also note that the digital Entertainment Book can be used on two devices by logging into the registered email address and password (the default password will always be: entertainment). Perfect for sharing with partners.

KIDS CROSS COUNTRY WINTER SERIES 2018

Hi everyone, we had our first event on the 27th May - and it was cold but fun… and everyone that attended had a great time - here is the reminder about the next event and the rest as well. Hope you can make it on the 17th – see you there.

Event 2 17th June - Corstorphine Park, Corstorphine o Hosted by Caversham Harrier & Athletic Club

Event 3 1st July - Chingford Park, North East Valley o Hosted by Leith Harrier & Athletic Club

Event 4 5th August - Memorial Park, Mosgiel o Hosted by Athletics Taieri

Event 5 26th August - Rotary Park, Waverley o Hosted by Ariki Athletic & Harrier Club

Age Groups Year 0 to Year 8 Time & Distance Each event will follow the same programme

9.30 am On day registrations & race numbers available to collect 9.45am Course open for a walk around 10.00am Warm up & guided walk around the course 10.15am Years 0, 1 & 2 Boys & Girls Race (approx. 800m) Parents/Caregivers

welcome to run as well. 10.35am Years 3 & 4 Boys & Girls Race (approx. 1 - 1.5 kms) 11.00am Years 5 & 6 Boys & Girls Race (approx. 2 - 2.5 kms)

Years 7 & 8 Boys & Girls Race (approx. 2.5 - 3 kms)

Please note: Times can change on the day with races able to run up to 30 minutes earlier than advertised (only in adverse weather conditions). Events will not be cancelled unless very adverse weather conditions occur. The event cancellation will be posted on the website & broadcast on Radio Dunedin. How to Enter - On line at Athletics Otago website: www.athleticsotago.co.nz by clicking on ‘Events’ and then ‘Kids Cross Country Series’. Enter one event, or all five! It’s a fun way to keep fit over the winter months. The cost is $7.50 per child/per event or $30 per child if entering all 5 events at the same time. You can also enter on the day. What to Wear - No specialised gear is required, run in whatever you feel comfortable in, but remember it might get a bit MUDDY! – for most of the events it is recommended the children wear footwear. It’s also a good idea to bring something warm to put on after the race. Queries - email: athleticsotago@xtra.co.nz

PROUD TO SUPPORT OUTRAM SCHOOL…

MCER

Mining & Construction Equipment Repairs Ltd

Heavy equipment repairs & servicing

Component overhauls

Hydraulic Repairs

Electrical repairs

Mobile welding

Phone: Paul Bain 0272531137 or 03 4897317

mcrepairs@xtra.co.nz

Workshop: C/o Hyslop Rural, 28 Bell Street, Outram