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Term 2: Monday 30th of April to Friday 6th of July. Public holiday: Queen’s Birthday 4th of June Term 3: Monday 23rd of July to Friday 28th of September.
Term 4: Monday 15th of October to Thursday 13th of December. Public holiday: Labour Day 22nd of October
Week 10 Term 2 | 4 July 2018
Tena koutou e te whanau, he mihi nui kia koutou katoa Kia ora, Talofa lava and Bonjour. Welcome to Week 10 of Term 2.
The end of term two has arrived and plenty of new learning and teaching has occurred. This week we had out Matariki dawn ceremony and it was great to see so many families attend [and some for the second time] as this is now an annual event on our Te Kura o Ritimana calendar.
The swimming pool has been packed up thanks to Tu and other adults last Saturday and we’d like to thank them for that as it isn't an easy task. The pool provided to us by PoolsiNschoolZ will be back in term three 2019 for another term and will make its way to Waterlea Primary over the holiday break. Thank you PoolsiNschoolZ for this opportunity to provide our tamariki with a pool at a lower cost than would otherwise be possible. http://www.poolsinschoolz.com/
The design work for our new library, resource room, administration offices, staffroom etc has a tentative start date for construction as the beginning of 2019. It is likely that over the Summer break this year [2018/2019] the admin office, RTM office and leadership space will temporarily move to the old TWW spaces, MiM will move to the last two classrooms on the field and the library will move into the classroom on the lower court to allow for the year long renovation to occur. More updates will follow as the year progresses. David [DP] and Peter [BoT] are your school contacts.
This is my last newsletter for Richmond Road School and I wish you all the very best for the rest of 2018 and into the future. Richmond Road is a great place to be with a diverse community that is very representative of Aotearoa New Zealand this century. Our children are lucky to be here as we work hard in preparing them well for being ‘culturally intelligent life long learners who aim high’.
The Board will update you on Friday around who will be the Acting Principal during the period between my departure and the appointment of a new permanent leader.
Have a safe and amazing time over the coming two week break and we look forward to welcoming you back on the 23rd July for term three.
Ngā mihi nui
Jonathan
IMPORTANT DATES Wednesday 4th July: BoT meeting Friday 6th July: Last day of T2. Last assembly 9.15am in the hall – everyone welcome.
- Holidays-
Monday 23rd July: Start of Term 3 Friday 3rd August: School Disco * Wednesday 8th August: Kowhai Information evening [7-8pm] at Kowhai intermediate Hall Thursday 9th August: Inner City Rippa/Rugby Wednesday 15th August: Milk and Cookie Whanau Evening [6-7pm] Wednesday 22nd August: BoT hui [6-7pm] in the staffroom Monday 27th to Friday 31st August: Art exhibition week Thursday 30th August: Inner City Soccer Thursday 13th September: Inner City Netball Wednesday 19th September: Pre-BoT hui [6-7pm] Wednesday 26th September: BoT meeting Friday 28h September: Last day of T3
- Holidays-
Monday 15th October: First day T4 Wednesday 31st October to Friday 2nd November: Year 5 and 6 school-wide camp [Carey Park Adventure Camp, 397 Henderson Valley Rd Waitakere]
* More details in the following pages
TERM DATES 2018
APPA Music festival 3 day Instrument course This is for accomplished instrument players in Y4 to Y8 who wish to develop their musicianship skills in orchestral and band performance, and perform at the Auckland Town Hall as part of the wider APPA festival in November. Registration close on Friday 31st of August 2018.
For more information and register please follow this link
http://www.appa.org.nz/appa-music-festival-3-day-course-open/
SCHOOL POLICY REVIEW This term's school policy review is: Draft Transgender/Gender Diversity policy – board members, staff, and parents
Please review the draft policy here: https://goo.gl/wT1wnB
Please send your feedback to [email protected] by the end of the term.
WELCOME We would like to welcome our new students and their families:
- Bienvenue Pia
We look forward to being part of your growth and learning journey.
1. SCHOOL DISCO - Our student council has met with the PTA and have finalized disco details. We will need volunteers to help with the items below. If you can assist please let us know:
a. Volunteers to help set up the hall with decorations on Friday 3 August from lunchtime.
b. Volunteers to bake cupcakes. We will be selling pizza, water and cupcakes at the disco.
c. The children will be making special decorations for the hall. We need 3 or 4 parents to help supervise lunchtime workshops Tues, Wed, Thur, Fri (July 31st-3rd Aug).
d. On the night, there will be glow in the dark face painting. If you can help to paint/supervise please let us know.
e. Parents to help with selling food on the night.
If you can help, please email turama - [email protected] 2. PTA FORMALISATION - the PTA met with BOT and Management on Thursday night. The meeting was very productive and PTA is now ready to move forward with formalisation. We will keep you updated.
3. FUNDRAISING IDEA'S - In anticipation of working more collaboratively with BOT and Management in relation to funds the PTA raises for the school, please let us know your ideas for projects around the school that could benefit from fundraising monies. Please speak to or email Alex ([email protected]), Tamah ([email protected]) or Turama ([email protected]) with your ideas.
The fairplay code for parents and supporters Good sport is about positive attitude. You can set the right tone and help make the game a success. Play your part – fair play.
To the best of your ability you will:
- Encourage your child, and other people’s children, in their efforts in sport
- Insist that your child plays within the rules and by the principles of fair play
- Make an effort to understand the rules (modified) of the game
- Respect your child’s efforts regardless of whether they have won or lost
- Display self-control on the sideline - Always be positive. Never shout or ridicule players
- Support good play and applaud good performance from all competitors
- Show your appreciation to people who volunteer their time so your child can play
- Remember that your child plays sport for their reasons not yours, never place undue pressure on your child to play or perform
- Be a positive role model for your child
- Give it your full effort
LUNCHES UPDATE – Pane and Vino Please note that from next term Pane and Vino will be available only from EZ lunch platform, on our online shop Kindo. There will be no more orders for Pane and Vio through YQ. You can still use YQ to order Subway.
Ipad charger and cords Do you have any spare Apple chargers or IPad cords (old or new version) that you could donate to our school?
If so, please send them to the office or Emma.
Music competition results
Below please find the results on how our students did at the competition on Saturday 23 June. It was a very tough competition, there are just so many kids who came with amazing talents there, but all of our children had worked very hard. Collectively Richmond Road School pupils won:
• 11 Highly Commended Certificates • 13 Very Highly Commended Certificates • 11 Bronze Medals • 10 Silver Medals
Here are the results of the participating students:
GRETEL H. Highly Commended Certificate - for Own Choice piece - 8 yrs old category SURINA R. Highly Commended Certificate - for Test Piece - 9 yrs old category ALPHONSE T. Highly Commended Certificate - for Test piece - 9 yrs old category TOMMY S. Highly Commended Certificate - for Own Choice piece - Beginners Feb 2017 category Highly Commended Certificate - for Own Choice piece - 7 yrs old category FRANCESCA F. Very Highly Commended Certificate - for Own Choice piece - 9 yrs old category THEA F. Very Highly Commended Certificate - for Latin American category POPPY T. Very Highly Commended Certificate - for Own Choice piece - 10 yrs old category NOE B. Very Highly Commended Certificate - for Test piece - 10 yrs old category CARLOS D. Highly Commended Certificate - for Own Choice piece - 7 yrs old category Very Highly Commended Certificate - for Test piece - 7 yrs old category NINA S. Highly Commended Certificate - for Own Choice piece - Boogie Woogie Junior Very Highly Commended Certificate - for Test Piece - Boogie Woogie Junior Very Highly Commended Certificate - for Test Piece - for 9 yrs old category MILA J. Bronze Medal - for Own choice piece - Beginners Feb 2017 category MIRI H. Highy Commended Certificate - for Test Piece - Beginners Feb 2017 category Bronze Medal - for Own Choice piece - Beginners Feb 2017 category YANN R. Very Highly Commended Certificate - for Own Choice piece - Beginners Feb 2017 category Bronze Medal - for Own Choice piece - Beginners Feb 2017 category CAITLIN-LILY W. Bronze Medal - for Test Piece - 7 yrs old category Bronze Medal - for Own Choice piece - 7 yrs old category LIAM S. Very Highly Commended Certificate - for Solo Junior first time contestant Very Highly Commended Certificate - for Own Choice piece - Beginners Feb 2017 category Bronze Medal - for Test Piece - Beginners Feb 2017 category Bronze Medal - for Test Piece - 8 yrs old category SAOIRSE C. Silver Medal - for Own Choice piece - 9 yrs old category ZAC W. Highly Commended Certificate - for Test Piece - 8 yrs old category Silver Medal - for Own Choice piece - 8 yrs old category MILA P. Highly Commended Certificate - for Test Piece - Boogie Woogie Junior Very Highly Commended Certificate - for Own Choice piece - 9 yrs old category Silver Medal - for Test Piece - 9 yrs old category THEO S. Bronze Medal - for Own Choice piece - 8 yrs old category Silver Medal - for Test Piece - 8 yrs old category MIRIAMA S. Very Highly Certificate - for Solo Junior first time contestant Bronze Medal - for Own Choice piece - Beginners Feb 2017 category Silver Medal - for Test Piece - Beginners Feb 2017 category ARTHUR Y. Highly Commended Certificate - for Own Choice piece - 10 yrs old category Bronze Medal - for Test Piece - 10 yrs old category Silver Medal - for Test Piece - Duet Junior Silver Medal - for Own Choice piece - Duet Junior MANON G. : RICHMOND ROAD SCHOOL PIANO PUPIL OF THE YEAR Very Highly Commended Certificate - for Latin American Junior Bronze Medal - for Own choice piece - 9 yrs old category Silver Medal - for Own choice piece - Open section Silver Medal - for Test Piece - Duet Junior Silver Medal - for Own Choice piece - Duet Junior
DONT DESPAIR WE ARE HERE to help with your childcare during the July School Holidays - we are so excited to offer a very cool programme to keep the kids busy and entertained over the holidays...... Theatre, Fun Park, Iceskating, Art & Craft, cooking and more... see attached schedule and booking details..
BOOKINGS ARE ESSENTIAL - ESPECIALLY FOR OUTING DAYS TO ENSURE NO-ONE MISSES OUT.
JUST EMAIL OR CALL ME IF YOU NEED ANY FURTHER DETAILS.... 0272782000 or [email protected]
CHEERS SUE & THE CREW
Student Collection After School - Reminder A reminder that school finishes at 3:00pm. Recently there have been a number of our children left at school until at least 3:30 which has raised concerns around their safety from members of our community. Staff will from today be sending any students remaining in the playground after 3:15pm to the main office and this will be the point of collection. Please support us in the interests of child safety and wellbeing.
LUNCH ORDERS You can order at the lunch table (by the main office) or through web/mobile. You can ask the office if you have any questions.
Subway Ponsonby: You can order every day at school by dropping your Subway envelope in the Order box before 9am on the day. Please just make sure that the envelope has: the child's name, the unit and teacher, the money (Subway gives back the change if need be) and the detail of the order.
You can also order Subway through YQ. This service is available every day before 9.30am on the day. You can access the website here www.yq.co.nz or download the mobile app.
Pane and Vino: Lunches (pizza/pasta) from Pane & Vino can be ordered everyday online with EZ lunch. EZ lunch: Order Subway or Pane and Vino by text or online before 9.00 from the online shop https://shop.tgcl.co.nz/. See their website http://www.ezlunch.co.nz for more information.
WATER ONLY SCHOOL We are a ‘water only’ school. School staff will be reminding children of this and will also remove drinks other than water from children. They will be asked to take it home and not to bring it back.
LATENESS, ABSENCE AND APPOINTMENTS If your child happens to be late, please sign in (or remind him/her to sign in) at the office first and then your child will be given a late pass for the teacher’s attention. Otherwise you will get an absence notification.
If you take your children out before the end of the day, please come to the office first where you can sign your child out and be given a sign out pass for the teacher’s attention.
If your child is absent, please let the office know with a valid justification either by email at [email protected], by phone or through the absence form on our website, even if you have told the teacher already. Otherwise you will get an absence notification.
For all absence without justification, we will send you an absence notification through text or email. Please make sure you provide us with your latest contact information and let us know if you have a preferred contact to use.
BELL TIMES Children can arrive from 8.30am onwards and school is from 9.00am to 3.00pm. Please make sure you have arranged collection of your child by 3.00pm.
Breaks: Morning tea is at 11.00-11.30am and lunch time is at 1.00-1.50pm.
OFFICE HOURS AND CONTACT The school office is open from Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 3.30pm during school time. The school office is closed on public holidays and school holidays.
You can contact Audrey for enrolment questions and general enquiries by phone at 09 376 1091 or by email at [email protected].
You can contact any teacher or Senior Leader by email using this format: [email protected]
For the Board of Trustees, please use the following email address: [email protected]
CONTACT DETAILS UPDATE Please update your phone number, email address or home address as soon as it changes. It is most important that we have your latest contact details.
STATIONERY Your child’s school stationery list requirements are uploaded online at myschool.co.nz/richmondroad. Simply select your child's Year Group lists and follow the instructions on the website. You can also pick up a paper copy of the stationery list from the office.
ACTIVITY FEE AND CONSENT FORM FOR TRIPS We encourage you to pay the Activity Fee of $80.00 (per child per year) to ensure your child can participate easily in all EOTC (Education Outside The Classroom) activities without having to pay separately for a trip (this covers 3 - 4 trips a year related to enhancing curriculum). This activity fee doesn’t cover camp, or sports teams.
To make trip organisation easier for teachers, administration and parents, we ask for your generic consent for local trips. This consent for your child will remain in force as long as he/she is enrolled at this school. Please get in touch with the office to check if you are up to date with your forms.
Thank you for your cooperation.
REMINDERS
