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TERM 3, WEEK 5, 2016

IMPORTANT LINKS For updated school information please check our web site for the latest calendar of events, notices and newsletters. All this information is found under the ‘for parents’ tab. http://www.pointview.school.nz

Welcome to our new students Chenxi Song, Gina Hong, Savannah Haddadin, Zayden Berry, Judy Li, Zachary Zhang and Armani Seym.

IMPORTANT CHANGE TO OUT OF ZONE BALLOT

The ballot to be held in October this year will cover new entrant students turning five through to December 2017. Sisters and brothers of out of zone students at the school must also apply to go in the ballot. They do not have automatic right of enrolment. There are different application forms for the different priority levels so please make sure to collect the correct one. Please make sure you submit your sibling application in time to be included in the October ballot.

Trees for Survival Update Thank you to Doug and Clare Cleverly

Earlier this term thirty of our students planted a large number of trees on a property in Pukekohe as part of the Trees for Survival programme. The property owners, Doug and Clare Cleverly, were impressed with the motivation, maturity, fabulous behaviour and hard work of our students. They have made a $1,000 donation to the school that will be used to purchase a water tank for our Hive area. Our students always make us proud with their behaviour when they go out into the community representing the school and it is wonderful to hear such positive feedback. Well done to everyone who took part.

What to look for in this issue * Science-athon 2016 * Sports Results * Student Successes * Chess News * Alumni Registration * Science & Technology Challenges

MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL

We are having a very busy term, as you will see from the many events featured throughout this newsletter … interschool sporting competitions, the science and technology challenges, chess competitions, the dance festival and our own Olympic games celebrations. A large number of our students and past students also enjoy success in different fields outside school time so we celebrate and share these successes as well. Our Facebook page is a great place to keep up with the wide variety of activities and events that take place in the classroom and school on a daily basis. We regularly post photos and video clips of what is happening and reminders about what is coming up. Students across the school are busy preparing for the Science-athon 2016 test day this Friday. Along with the obvious educational benefits, this is a fun event for the children. Good luck everyone! Judy Parr

ALUMNI REGISTRATIONS Please encourage anyone you know who has past connections with the school to register on the alumni section of our website. Please also send to us any photos or memorabilia you may have of the early days of the school. We have full photographic records for recent years but we would like to add to our archived records for the first few years of the school. Next year we turn 20 – watch this space for more information.

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Up coming events: 2 Sept Friday Sept - School Disco 16 Sept Friday - Sausage Sizzle & Mufti Day All parents are welcome to attend our Family and Friends meetings. The next one is on Tuesday 6 September at 7.00pm in the staffroom. We hope to see you there.

THANK YOU JOHN RUSSELL MENSWEAR

John Russell Menswear in Howick is a great supporter of our school and they have donated a wonderful new set of jackets for our staff. The teachers are enjoying the warmth of the new jackets while they support our students in the many outdoor activities and sports throughout the winter.

WANTED – RELIEF TEACHERS

If any of our parents who are teachers would like some relieving work please contact the office on phone 09 274 0637 or email admin@pointview.school.nz

Stu Duval – Friday 2 September Stu has chosen Point View School to release his latest book, ‘The Giant Gear-Stick of Grooviness’. Stu will be at school on Friday 2 September to tell another of his great stories to all our children. He will sell copies of his new book, and an earlier one called ‘The Golden Spark Plug of Awesomeness’, in the library after school. The cost is $25 per book.

Netball Results It was a very fast paced game and the final score was 7-2 to Mission Heights. Our next game is here on Thursday against Willowbank. Rugby Results We played Star of Sea on Friday and lost 6 tries to 3. Our boys certainly put their bodies on the line for this game. I am pleased to report no serious injuries. Kilkenny Kids After School Care

Spaces are available at Kilkenny Kids After School Care programme, run on site at Point View School. For more information please contact:

Simone Mcfarlane simone@kilkennykids.co.nz or phone 0274 778 651.

OSCAR approved and WINZ subsidy available

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Year 3 Boys Cross Country 1st =Place Austin Wang Rm16 Ist= Place Ali Sadooni Rm16 3rd Place Harry Willats Rm16 4th Place Keanu Morunga Rm16 5th Place Harold Wang Rm12 6th Place Israel Baraka Rm13 7th Place Daiming Yu Rm15 8th Place Ryan Chandler Rm15 Year 3 Girls Cross Country 1st Place Holly Wong Rm15 2nd Place Poppy Wong Rm16 3rd Place Lexi Haining Rm16 4th Place Gabriella Frantz Rm15 5th Place Eden Chaytor Rm16 6th Place Portia Garratt Rm15 7th Place Keira Woolf-Field Rm12 8th Place Tamsin Low Rm16 Year 4 Boys Cross Country 1st Place Ashton Phipps Rm30 2nd Place Keegan O'Reilly Rm31 3rd Place Anton Smith Rm31 4th Place Jack Edgar-Banks Rm30 5th Place Archie Musham Rm29 6th Place Caleb Power Rm11 7th Place Chenyou Song Rm11 8th Place Raymond Quot Rm28 Year 4 Girls Cross Country 1st Place Rochelle Christie Rm29 2nd Place Ella Gibson Rm11 3rd Place Paige McKechnie Rm11 4th Place Brooke Burton Rm31 5th Place Georgia Lightfoot Rm29 6th Place Janice Zhu Rm31 7th Place Holly Shen Rm30 8th Place Sienna Walmsley Rm29 Year 5 Boys Cross Country 1st Place Thomas Blakeman Rm26 2nd Place Dallas Doctor Rm24 3rd Place Tomoki Huskinson Rm24 4th Place Blake Gordon Rm24 5th Place Connor MacDonald Rm27 6th Place Cory Gordon Rm26 7th Place Ryan Collett Rm24 8th Place Oskar Garratt Rm25

Year 5 Girls Cross Country 1st Place Victoria Alves-Flood Rm25 2nd Place Isabella Hintze Rm24 3rd Place Neha Patel Rm27 4th Place Vicki Lau Rm26 5th Place Abby Lee Rm27 6th Place Mia Petford Rm22 7th Place Connor MacDonald Rm27 8th Place Estina John Rm25 Year 6 Boys Cross Country 1st Place Joshua Capper Rm23 2nd= Place Alex Keen Rm23 2nd= Place Daniel Bargh Rm23 4th Place Cameron Christie Rm21 5th Place John Christie Rm20 6th Place Luka Ellis Rm18 7th Place Caleb Jurgens Rm18 8th Place Sunny Sun Rm23 Year 6 Girls Cross Country 1st Place Ruby Spring Rm21 2nd Place Anjalee Singh Rm21 3rd place Anne Hsu Rm21 4th Place Alicia Walmsley Rm18 5th Place Emma Haining Rm19 6th Place DianaListerRm217thPlaceSiennaMannRm198thPlaceRowanMacLeanRm23

CROSS COUNTRY RESULTS

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Kellan Talbot from Room 19 participated in a special modeling assignment for Farmers Trading Co.

Mila Stanisich from Room 20 and her crew were placed 3rd in the finals of the World Hip Hop Champs. Alex Page (past student) and her crew gained in 3rd place in the Mega Crew division. Congratulations Mia and Alex!!

Tayin Patel, a past pupil, made a leaflet on Port Waikato for fossil hunting. Judges thought his project was outstanding, resulting in him winning the Year 7-10 age group. Needless to say his parents were very proud.

Roman Amosa from Room 16 is starring in a NZ short film - Lani's Space. The film is soon to be released. Follow the link to see the results of the hard word Roman has put into this film. https://www.facebook.com/137859026651806/videos/147630672341308/

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Alyssia Hall from Room 3 has been selected for a football rep team after being recognised as a player who shows real potential.

SUCCESS BEYOND THE SCHOOL GATE

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Point View Team 1 finished in first place with a very creditable 220 points! Congratulations to the team. It was great to see how excited the middle school children were about science. I have read every comment written by the Year 6 helpers and they wrote some really lovely things about the children from PVS and the other schools. I was also very impressed by how well the Year 6 Little Einsteins supported the groups. Stuart Rankin - Organiser

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WOW - we did it again! Every year more and more schools join us for this competition and this year there were a total of 11 schools making up 24 teams (i.e. 96 players). Point View had many Merit, Credit, Excellence and even Distinction certificate winners this time around. A special acknowledgment for Daniel Tang who won all his games and has been invited to play in the Championship Trophy competition to be held in Wellington this year. He ranked sixth from all the players, Primary and Intermediate. We had five teams entered this year and even though we played against intermediate children (no mean feat) our teams managed to do really well, especially Team B who came in fourth place overall from all the primary and intermediate schools. As always the Point View children were very well behaved and did our school proud with some very good results. Here is the photo of all the proud players in Team B.

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Our school account number is 12-3040-0730060-01 for Internet banking. To ensure it is credited to the correct student use your child’s name, room number and reason for payment (eg John Smith Room 3 Donation 2015) as references.

Room 15 We have been doing Curious Monday Science investigations. Last week we worked with milk and dye then we observed bubbles and the latest investigation involved ice experiments.

CONGRATULATIONS Huge congratulations to Katherine Groom and Lynne Laburn for preparing the most amazing dances for the local dance festival. There was great choreography, great music, and great energy and precision from the dancers, along with fantastic costumes, as always.

It takes a huge amount of work to get groups to this level for a performance. We are so grateful.

Our school account number is 12-3040-0730060-01 for Internet banking. To ensure it is credited to the correct student use your child’s name, room number and reason for payment (eg John Smith Room 3 Donation 2015) as references.