Elm Park School Newsletter - Term 2 - Week 9 - 22nd June 2012
Friday 22nd
June – Term 2 Week 9
Value Focus for next week: Trust
From The Principal
Kia
ora tatou katoa, Talofa, Malo e lelei, Bula vi naka, Kia orana Nga mihi nui ki
a koutou, Namaste, Nihao, Greetings to you all.
The end of the term is fast
approaching and the weather is truly winter - wet and cold! Thank you to all
the parents/caregivers who attended the Student Led conferences this week. It
is wonderful to see the genuine interest that you have in your children’s
education. The children are very able to articulate their learning and where
they need to be going next. You are able to check your child’s e-portfolio at
any stage of the year as we provide a formative assessment of your child’s work
rather than a summative assessment. Any support at home is much appreciated and
helpful to your child’s education. Especially listening to them read and checking
their spelling words and basic facts. If
you have any questions regarding your child’s education please contact the
office to make an appointment with the teacher or Mr Dave Borcher - Y4-6 DP,
Mrs Karen Allen - Y1-3 DP or myself to discuss any matters of concern or
needing clarification.
PTA - Many thanks to the PTA ladies for providing two Discos for
the children last Friday evening. We
really appreciate your hard work and I know that the children who attended had
an energetic time.
Silver Enviro Award - We are very pleased to receive the Silver
Enviro Award this Friday in our assembly. Our special thanks go to Cate Jessup,
Monica Meikle, teachers and children who have worked so hard to help Elm Park
achieve this award. Our Inquiry units about Sustainability and Guardianship
of the water related to the environment have been a major focus for our
learning at Elm Park over the past two years. Our children have gained vast
knowledge and understanding of the importance of caring for our environment for
our future generations.
Staffing - Sadly we will be saying farewell to Mr Neil Ackermann at
the end of this term, as he will be taking up a position at Wakaaranga School next term. Mr Ackermann has been an
active Team Leader of Year 6 since last year. We wish him every good wish and
thank him for all that he has contributed to Elm Park School. Mrs Dawn Walker will be taking up the Year 6
Leadership position from Term 3.
Mrs Ray Van Niekerk will be taking Room 13
during Mrs Hodge’s absence for four weeks next term. She will then start up a
new entrant class later in Term 3.
Mrs Liz Robertson will be taking
over from Mrs Melanie Olsen when she takes Parental leave later in the term.
Behaviour outside school - Thank you to the parents who have
alerted us to the unacceptable behaviour by a small number of our students that
has been occurring after school. We’ve had reports that a number of children
have been rude to adults and other students whilst walking home. This is not to
be tolerated and we need to know about these incidents so that we can deal with
the students as soon as possible. Please contact the office if you witness
these incidents.
Uniform - A number of our students are not wearing the correct
uniform, particularly sweatshirts. We have a huge number of second hand
sweatshirts that can be given to the children for free. We also have a lot of
unclaimed lost property, which is located outside Room 9 in a blue bin.
Please check or encourage your
child to check for their items, as we want our students to look well presented
at all times.
Have a lovely weekend,
Trish Plowright
Principal
Key
Events For Your Diary
Thur 28 June..... Principals Award Assembly
Fri 29 June....... Term 2 ends
Mon 16 July...... Term 3 commences
This Week
in Review
GRANDPARENT / ADULT
ASSISTANCE REQUIRED - We would like to run a Literacy Support programme
in the classrooms, for the year 1 children who need a little extra assistance.
There will be a little workshop to give you ideas and strategies of
how to support the children. You would be working with 1 or 2 children at
a time. If you are interested in finding out more about this please
contact Karen Allen.
THE
ANNUAL GUITAR COMPETITION was held on Saturday 16th June and was
once again well represented by students from Elm Park School. Well done to everyone who took part, you all
did so well and are all winners to me! It
takes a lot of courage to play and sing in a room full of people, many of them
strangers. The children who took part
were: Maniah Waihape, Tayla Webb, Brylee Webb, Calvin Hanna, and Louis Hewitson-Townley. Special congratulations to Tayla Webb who won
a bronze medal position. Tayla also had a very good result in the duet section,
coming in 4th place. Congratulations
also to Louis Hewitson-Townley who had a great day, winning 2 bronze medals and
also 1 silver medal which is awesome.
Anya John-Francke, a previous EPS
student who is now Y7, also had a fantastic day, winning 1 gold medal, 1 bronze
medal, a very highly commended award, and also the guitarist of the year trophy
for her age group….wow! When you consider
that the competition is open for the whole Auckland area and that for many
students it was their first time in the competition, these results are brilliant
and also very well deserved as everyone practiced regularly and worked very hard. Well done to each and every one of you, you
should all be proud of yourselves, as I am.
I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of the parents
and family members that supported their children in this event, by getting up
early on a cold winter’s morning and giving of their time so graciously. Your
support is very much appreciated by me, as without you, the event would not be
the success that it is. Thank you to all
of you for your continued support and efforts.
Alison Terry, Guitar and violin teacher - NZ Modern School of Music.
Looking
Ahead
ELM PARK SCHOOL
FACEBOOK PAGE – Elm Park School have a Facebook page.
If you ’LIKE’ the page, you will receive updates of all activities
taking place as well as newsletters and reminders. This is a good way to keep up to date with
what is happening at Elm Park School
HELP BUILD OUR MCCAIN SCHOOL
VEGGIE PATCH - Our school
has registered for the second consecutive year and is now urging our families,
local community members and businesses to help build the Veggie Patch by
collecting and sending the school barcodes from McCAIN vegetable packs to
redeem for points. Simply collect barcodes from your McCAIN
vegetable packs and place them in the collection box at the front office.
Every barcode earns McCAIN Veggie Patch points for our school which can
then be redeemed for gardening tools and seeds.
Last year we benefitted from this initiative but we are hoping to make
it bigger and better this year with more barcodes to cash in for gardening
equipment and plants. To find out
more about McCAIN School Veggie Patches, please visit: www.mccainveggiepatches.com
POI RESOURCES - Next Wednesday 27th June from
3.15 – 5.00 pm we will have a mini working bee to make poi resources for our
children to use at school. If you can help out please come along. We would appreciate any wool donations or
plastic bags if you have any to spare (please leave at the office). We look forward to seeing you there!
Focus on Children
The year 4
students went planting New Zealand native trees outside the school near the
creek. We planted Manuka, Kanuka,
Harekeke (flax) and Ti Kouka (Cabbage trees).
Soon we will be able to go and have a look at how the trees are growing.
Zion wrote: Wow, today Room 14 is
going to plant trees. I ran to
school. After morning tea, we went with
a partner. It was muddy and slippery. Our shoes got dirty.
Sylvia said: “It was so much fun planting trees. First we dug a hole and put the plant into
it. Wow! There was a very, very, very
big earthworm. It was fat.”
Rebecca got muddy
hands and the plants were tickling her.
Jacob learnt
that the earthworms are good for the soil.
The plants should grow well. It
was great fun.
Calais said that she
learnt how to use a shovel. It was
slippery and muddy but she had fun.
Ekin didn’t
like the earthworms but he did enjoy planting the trees.
Kaya said, “I was
so excited when I heard we were going tree planting. I got my gumboots and spare clothes.”
Jack found it
very hard to dig the soil. He did manage
to dig up a very large worm while planting eight trees.
POSITIVE SOCIAL
INTERACTION WINNERS
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Congratulations to the
following students who were selected and acknowledged this week for their
responsible, friendly behaviour.
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Room 2
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Veer Parmar
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Room 5
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Kayde Alleyne
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Room 7
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Vikasni Mathan Kumar
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Room 8
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Nadini Ariyaratne
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Room 9
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Charlotte McClintock
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Room 10
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Nikita Milne
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Room 11
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Thomas Mallard
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Room 12
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Saufoi Tavete
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Room 13
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Callum Dawson
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Room 14
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La’Didas Tukerangi
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Room 15
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Alisha Ditta
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Room 16
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Nicholas Putman
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Room 17
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Hannah Appleby
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Room 18
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Karen Zhu
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Room 19
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Caitlin Turley
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Room 20
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Rhian Blakeborough-Kocsis
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Room 21
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Jeremy Takau
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Room 22
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Iris Diao
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Room 23
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Neiko Numan
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Room 24
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Cian John-Franke
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Room 25
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Niu-Alinghi Peni
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Room 26
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Zvaryn Engu-Cordtz
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Room 27
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Desmarie Ah Sui
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Room 28
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Mujib Nazif
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Room 29
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Teryn Stephens
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Room 30
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Jeffrey Liu
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PERSONAL PRESENTATION
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The following students were voted as the overall
winner in their year level for the most neatly presented in their uniform.
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Year 1:
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Reuben
Ambler
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Year 2:
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Aaron Ho
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Year 3:
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Kayla Hallows
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Year 4:
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Ekin
Liu
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Year 5:
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Jared Wright
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Year 6:
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Connor
Hiley
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ZUMBATOMIC AND LATIN DANCE – Enrolling now for term 3
lunchtime classes. The cost for the 9
week course is $58.50. Thursday
Zumbatomic starts 26th July and Friday Dance starts 27th
July. Spaces are limited. Any further
questions, please call Natasha on 021 793 018.
COMMUNITY NOTICES
ART AFTER SCHOOL – Term 3, 2012 Hand
Made Works - with Kate Hart For children 5 to 8 years of age. With expert guidance from our experienced art
teacher Kate, students will learn how to make 5 exciting and inventive works of
art using clay, cardboard, paint and recycled
Materials while developing
artistic ideas and techniques in a fun and supportive environment in our Art
Studio at Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, 13 Reeves Road, Pakuranga. 10 Weeks l Starting Monday 23rd July l
3:30pm - 5.00pm l Cost: $116.00 l Materials supplied Book early by contacting Jennie at Te Tuhi
Centre for the Arts Phone: (09) 577
0138 Email: info@tetuhi.org.nz Website Info: www.tetuhi.org.nz/classes
HAVE FUN AT
SNOWPLANET THIS JULY SCHOOL HOLIDAY! Snowplanet offers unique
winter wonderland experience and only 20 minutes north of the bridge, making
for a wonderful school holiday destination. The very popular kid's school
holiday programmes come with a 2 hour ski or snowboard group lesson (beginners to
advanced) each day, rental equipment, a graduation meal on the last day, a
Snowplanet certificate of achievement plus a huge amount of fun! For enquiries
or bookings contact Snowplanet on 09 427 0044 or email rachel@snowplanet.co.nz. Visit Snowplanet's
website www.snowplanet.co.nz
AMI AUCKLAND NETBALL CENTRE July Holiday Programmes Look at our Exciting Holiday
Programmes: AMI Auckland
Netball Centre offers Multi Sport, Dance, and Netball holiday programmes over
both weeks of the School holidays catering for school years 1-9. Netball and
Dance Packages Available!! Delivered by qualified instructors. Held at AMI
Auckland Netball Centre, St John’s For further information email development@aucklandnetball.co.nz or for
registration forms please visit our website www.aucklandnetball.co.nz or phone 09 5700030 ext. 204.
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