WEEDONS SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

Respect The Rest & Be Your Best 05 Dec 2018 – Term 4 – Week 8

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Tena Koutou Katoa The time is quickly running away on us and the end of year is looming up fast. Hope you have our final assembly and prize-giving (Wednesday 12th) and Jellie Park picnic (Friday 14th) in your diaries. The prize-giving begins at Rolleston College auditorium at 6p.m (we would hold it at school if we had the space).This event is for all our students and their families, class and school prizes are awarded and it is a final chance for our school to come together as a community for 2018.We look forward to seeing you all there. Information on Jellie Park is attached. Thanks so much to FOW for once again funding this event. Yesterday, we were delighted to welcome the NZ Police dog squad to our school. This came about as a result of two year 6 students (Dan and Lucas) concern earlier in the year when police dog Cosmos was injured in the line of duty. They decided to write to Cosmos’ handler expressing their wish that he make a good recovery and come and visit our school. Thanks to Dan and Lucas for bringing Cosmos and his team to Weedons.

We were all enthralled at the skill of the dog team and their handlers.

A huge thank you to Selwyn Business Association who have donated a set of new safety vests to Weedons. This set will be used to replace some of the more tatty ones we have and gives us enough vests for a class set. Classes 2019 At the moment we are finalizing classes for 2019.Class make-up is as follows: Totara – Rooms 1 and 7 – Year 7/8 – Mr Gilmore and Mrs Adcock will run a programme similar to this year with students working with both teachers. Room 2 – Year 6/5 – Mrs Ward Room 3 – Year 5/4 – Mr Wyatt Room 4 – Year 4/3 - Mrs Gates Room 5 – Year 3/2 – Mrs Dawson and Mrs Riley Room 6 - Year 1 – Mrs Anngow and Mrs Fitzjohn

For split year levels, years 3, 4 and 5, teachers have considered age and social relationships as the first criteria for placing students in a class. Class teachers will let you know over the next week if your child is shifting classrooms. Classes for next year will also be attached to the report which comes home next Thursday.

STATIONERY- Next year except for room 6, you will need to purchase stationery on line through Eeny Meeny.

Teachers have finalised requirements with Eeny Meeny. An email will be sent to you next week with details of how to purchase. You can then go into the site and look at the costs and purchase at your convince before the holidays finish.

Diary 2018 15 Oct – Start Term 4 10 Dec – Swimming Week 12 Dec – Final Assembly 6pm Rolleston College 14 Dec – last ½ day Term 4 14 Dec – Jellie Park Picnic

TERM DATES 2019 01 Feb – Teacher Only Day (office open) 04 Feb – School Starts 05 Feb – El Gregeo 06 Feb – CLOSED Waitangi Day 12 Apr – Last day term one 29 Apr – First day term two 03 Jun – CLOSED Queens Birthday 05 Jul – Last day term two 22 Jul – First day term three 27 Sep – Last day term three 14 Oct – First day term four 28 Oct – CLOSED Labour Day 15 Nov – CLOSED Canterbury Ann. 19 Dec – Last day ½ day

EMERGENCY TEXTING: To register simply text Weedons to 570. You will receive confirmation that you have joined the Weedons School Text Alert Service.

We use this

service if the school is closed due to any weather/emergency related issues. Please do sign up, we don’t have a list of who has signed up but this will be our first port of call should an emergency arise.

All visitors to

school must come to the office and sign in and then out. This includes parents/caregivers/grandparents etc who are helping out in the classrooms. This also includes if a child/ren is arriving late to school or leaving for an appointment, please ensure you sign them in/out. If your child/ren are taking any medication, this must be handed into the office and a consent form signed by a parent/caregiver.

REMINDERsS

Stationery will be delivered to your home, please ensure it comes to school with your child on the first day. We have decided to implement this as we are concerned about the number of unpaid stationery accounts and the school can no longer afford to fund this compulsory payment.

Top Performer Room 5 The top performer in Room 5 this term is Angus. Angus is a charming and humorous young man with beautiful manners. He is kind to others, and always helpful and responsible too. Academically Angus has made huge strides this year. Through participating in Reading Recovery and Speech Therapy, and with fantastic support from his family, Angus has advanced many, many reading levels. In class he has just moved up a reading group and is now reading books at Purple level – wow Angus this is fantastic progress, you have showed great ambition in your learning! In writing, Angus is now writing longer stories and he is very conscientious about using capital letters and full stops for almost all his sentences. Angus is also becoming a very good speller because he is so conscientious about practising his Jolly Phonics sounds each week and learning new Essential Words. He also prints very neatly and legibly. In Maths Angus is also making steady progress and now recalls many basic facts and counting sequences by rote. He is also starting to solve number problems using the more advanced strategy of splitting numbers into parts, rather than counting on or back from the biggest number. Congratulations Angus this Top Performer is so well deserved.

Top Performer Room 6 The final Top Performer from Rata Room 6 this year is a delightful and talented young man named Olliver. At writing time Olliver gets his head down quickly and his ideas too. He can hear most of the sounds he needs and his letters are always so neat and carefully made. One of Olliver’s favourite times of the day is maths time. He works hard in his group and picks up new ideas quickly. He loves the challenge of learning new things about numbers. Whenever we look Olliver’s way he always has a smile on his face. He is kind towards all his friends and is a popular class member. Enjoy your well-deserved Christmas break Olliver. You have impressed all the teachers you have had this year. You are an awesome young man!!! REMINDERS: Last week of swimming next week for the whole school. It will take place in the afternoon, please remember to have swimming caps, googles, togs and a towel. Classes will be swimming as follows Rm 6 and 3 in pool – 12.45pm – 1.15pm Rm 5 and Totara – 1.15pm – 1.45pm Rm 4 and 2 in pool – 1.45pm – 2.15pm There will be buses transporting these children, please note that in front of the school where the teachers normally park we have designated this area as NO PARKING, BUS STOP only. This is from in front of the Green electrical box to the end of the school grounds. Please don’t park here. There are signs up clearly marking the space.

SCHOOL POOL: We hope to have this open from next weekend 15 December, Pool Keys will be available to purchase from the office from Monday 10 December at a cost of $60.00 for the season.

SPORTS UNIFORMS Please return all sports uniforms in a named bag, all t shirts/tops are to be returned WASHED and the jackets are to be checked and if dirty, please sponge clean. THESE ARE ALL DUE BACK BY FRIDAY 07 DECEMBER to avoid a bill coming home for replacement.

LOST PROPERTY This pile is forever growing, some of these items are named and some are so faint that you can no longer make out who the item belongs too. Please do check often in lost property for your child/ren belongings and also check that you can see their name clearly.

Eco Brick Holiday Enviro Challenge! As you may know, our soft plastic waste is being stockpiled as no one wants to process it. Please, if you buy soft drinks over the holidays, ask your children to stuff your plastic waste into them then bring them to school next year and we will see what we can create :) A special prize will be awarded for the family bringing in the most bottles! (You will be amazed at how much waste current packaging methods generate)

Chickens need a home over the holidays or forever. FREE to a good home. Contact the office.

No Friday lunch orders for Room 1 as they will be away from school. CHOCOLATES: URGENT!!!! MONEY IS NOW DUE BACK - either cash to the office or deposit in the FOW account 03-0767-0371245-000. Once all money is back we will do the draw for the $25.00 Warehouse Voucher we have paid for the chocolates and need to reconcile ASAP to get our fundraising money in the bank. CHRISTMAS RAFFLE: NOW ON SALE – Please support this raffle! We have been gifted a fantastic Jungle Gym – made by one of our very talented parents (Andrew Cogle) We have put together a Christmas raffle with some fantastic prices. We appreciate it is a huge ask to give every family a booklet to sell, so we have some wonderful keen parent volunteers to promote this raffle locally. If you can help by selling a booklet or even a few raffle tickets we would really appreciate it. If you have a business that could sell a booklet or two please see Debs in the officer. Tickets are $5 each and drawn on 13 December - just in time for Christmas!

1st Prize: Jungle Gym (valued at $530.00) 2nd prize: $200 Travel Voucher donated by Selwyn Travel

3rd Prize: Accelor 18 speed Mens Bike (donated by The Warehouse) valued at $180.00

4th Prize: Christmas Hamper (donated by Power Cable Direct) valued at $100.00

5th Prize: 9 inch Christmas Cake – kindly made by Emily Taylor CROSSAINTS – will be available for those that ordered them after school on Friday from the Friends

of Weedons shed.

FOW WEEKLY UPDATE

Community Notices

The Violin and Recorder are great instruments to start learning about music from a very early age (5 years onwards). On a Tuesday morning at Weedons School there are a few spaces for 2019. For more information please contact Lynn at admin@malvernschoolofmusic.kiwi.nz or Pauline (03 3178110), for specific violin or recorder details. Violins are available for hire at appropriate sizes.

GUITAR/SINGING/UKULELE

2019 I have spaces available for 2019. If

you are interested in learning

Guitar/Singing or Ukulele please get in touch. Adults welcome too.

Contact Katrina 332-5592 or 027 202 2309.