We are delighted to welcome Hayley Wilson-Bryant who started school today as a brand new 5 year old. Hayley is the younger sister to Logan. We know Hayley will enjoy learning at Apiti School.
Our school roll now stands at 28 - great, we hope this trend continues.
Student of the WeekJunior RoomWeek 1 : Ben Beard!! Completing and writing up his science experiment.Week 2 : Jacob MacDonald!! Fabulous independant learning getting on with his story writing, reading and maths sheets.Senior RoomWeek 1 : Oliver - Excellent attitude to all areas of learning; particularly numeracy and science fair. Keen to help others and contribute to our cooperative learning environment.Week 2 : Chevelle - Extremely self motivated. Chevelle consistently gives his best; particularly in handwriting, spelling and numeracy. Chevelle is considerate of others.Quality Work TableThese students have demonstrated excellent progress in curriculum learning areas and have had their work displayed on our Quality Work Table. You are welcome to pop in and look at our QWT at any time.Graduated Basic Facts in the last 2 weeks: Caleb J, Caleb KGraduated Handwriting: Anastaisia.Reading: Emma.Handwriting: Caleb K. Chevelle.Numeracy: Karen. Caleb J. Oliver. Jacob. Ashleigh. Tom. Cole.Spelling: Karen. Caleb J.Appreciation BoxThese students are commended for the way they have demonstrated the key competencies of managing self, relating to others or participating and contributing in our school learning environment.They have been recognised by their peers or members of staff:- Emma x 3. Cole x 3. Karen x 2. Rebecca x 2. Tom x 2. Sarah, Chevelle, Caleb K, Ashleigh
Entrance Alterations
Thank you to everyone for bearing with us while these alterations continue. They seem to be progressing well and I'm sure the end result will be well worth the minor inconveniences. A big thank you to Miles, Richard & Paul for their consideration to the needs of the staff and school grounds.
Fireshow
Thank you to those parents who took transport to this event at Kiwitea. We also needed to transport students in the ASSA bus and we thank Nicki for driving it. The students appeared to thoroughly enjoy the show and learnt lots about fire safety.
Science Fair - 6th & 7th August
All projects are progressing well and will need to be completed by this Wednesday. The whole school will travel down to Kiwitea on Thursday to finsih setting up and to view the exhibits, leaving school by 11.00. The year 7 & 8 students will talk to the judges at 1.30ish. We will have lunch at Kiwitea School and then travel back home in time for the school bus. We will need assistance with transport please - there is a slip attached - please return it by Wednesday.
This Thursday the 6th of August, starting at 7.00p.m. in the St Johns rooms in Bowen St, Feilding, the Feilding schools ICT Cluster are pleased to be bringing to you Mark Treadwell. Mark is an internationally respected educator, futurist and commentator, involved as a school board member and advisor to the Ministry on the N.Z curriculum.
Mark is a real shaker and mover and has real impact in our education system and is one of the main leaders in education that the government listened to when writing the new NZ Curriculum document.
We here at Apiti School his philosophy helped us plan our curriculum asd assessment, especially in the area of key competencies and IT. We value his expertise and his input into education and especially the impact he has on the N.Z curriculum. Both Mary and Nicki have attended many of his sessions including his presentation workshop day last year and found him extremely enlightening and interesting. This is the reason why he has been invited back this year. Principals and teachers are pleased to give those interested in education, this unique opportunity. So come and listen to someone who continues to have a huge impact on our education system. We do need to know numbers, so please ring Nicki or Mary tonight or tomorrow if you would like to attend. It is free and everyone is most welcome. The bus will be going and baby sitters can be co-ordinated if necessary.
Parent Interviews
These are to take place during the week of 10th to 13th of August. Mary or Nicki will contact you in the very near future to arrange a suitable time.
Handwashing - High Five for clean hands.
Please reinforce our handwashing message to all children :- Always wash and dry your hands before 'eating and preparing food' and after 'sneezing, coughing or blowing your nose, going to the toilet, playing outside and having contact with animals.' We need this message taken seriously to try to stop the spread of flus, coughs and colds, school sores, upset tummies. Your co-operation in this matter would be very much appreciated.
Needs
Thank you to everyone who has dropped off egg cartons - these are great for starting the junior room fire. We never have too many of these. Could we also ask for newspapers please.
E-Mail Address
To cut back on paper, we would ideally like to e-mail our newsletter to everyone so could we please have your email address.
Well that's it for this week, will hopefully be back in a fortnight.
Regards, Mary, Nicki, Mary B, Pat & Chris.
ASSA - Human Health Evening
The ASSA fundraising committee would like to remind you of the Human Health Evening being held at the Tavern on Monday the 10th of August at 7.00p.m. Dennis Nieuwkoop will talk about 1) Human Health & wellbeing,
2) Growing nutrient dense food, 3) Information transfer across all generations and 4) Alpha Lipid colostrums capsules and its benefits. Entry is $5.00 per person. Be great to see as many community members as possible there for this fundraisning evening. - L. Gillespie.
ASSA Calf Scheme
An ASSA member will be in contact in the near future regarding this fundraising calf scheme, but in the meantime if you would like to be involved, please ring Lance on 3284747 or email lh.kjgill@farmside.co.nz to have a chat. He would be delighted to hear from you. - L. Gillespie.
Bon Apiti—Healthy Lunch Initiative—Term 3 ൨൦൦൯
Lunches cost $1.50 per portion.
Please notice that lunches have been changed from Friday to Thursday as we have a shortened lunch hour on Friday and senior students often need extra time.
Week 3Tuesday: Macaroni cheeseThursday: Udon നൂട്ലെസ്
Week 4Tuesday: Macaroni ചീസ് Thursday: Couscous + സലാഡ്
‘Bon Apiti’ allows students to develop a number of skills including financial literacy, numeracy, cooking, managing self, leadership, relating to others and participating and contributing in real life situations.All expenses and income is recorded using our Student banking system. Students use any profit to plan learning experiences to support and extend current learning.We greatly appreciate any donated any ingredients for our lunches. At present we are using pasta, ham or bacon, cheese, frozen vegetables, udon noodles, stir fry meat and സലാഡ്
vegetables.
Sports Results
Rugby - Saturday 1st August.
Ben, Logan & Hayley's team Ireland played Scotland. Ben sored 3 tries, Logan 3 tries & Hayley 1 try. Hayley was Player of the Day.
Huntah's team Canada - 15, played Wales 14. Huntah scored 4 tries.
Caleb J & Jacob's team played Marist & lost 100 - 5.
Tom's team played Waikato & lost 9 - 4.
Netball
Hannah & Charlotte's team Mt Biggs - 0 played Newbury 5. Charlotte was Player of the Day.
Sarah's team won 2 - 0.
Oroua Rippa Team Plays Curtain Raiser
Sunday the 2nd of August 2009, was a very special day for me and I'll tell you why.....I left home at lunch time and headed for the FMG Stadium in Palmerston North. I had to meet my rippa rugby coach Jock, together with my Northern Oroua team mates at 12.45p.m. We were playing an exhibition game of rippa rugby as the curtain raiser before the Turbos game against Counties. Our apponents were from Feilding Intermediate. We played 10 minutes each way and had to call upon all of our skills against a very good side, but we played our hardest and had a great game.Jock was very nervous for us and was pacing up and down the sideline. We had a really good referee who was fair and considerate. I'm not sure what the final score was but it was very close. After the game, both teams got to line up outside the player tunnel and held the flags up when both teams ran onto the field. That was really cool. We watched the game, it was very exciting. The Turbos managed to scrape in with a win in the last 10 minutes of the game.
A huge thank you to Jock our coach and to Mrs. Fielder for being our Manager. What a cool day!!
- By Caleb Knight
Community Notices
Apiti Tavern News - Hi to you all. I hope that you are all starting to think about Christmas shopping already!!!!!!! Daffodil Fundraising. For our Dessert night, we raised a grand total of $500.00. That is a wonderful start. Thankyou to everyone that came for the night. Our next night for cancer is a quizz night on Friday the 14th of August. We will be having $10.00 meals from six till seven pm, then registration for the quizz night will start at seven, with the quizz starting at seven thirty. It will cost $10.00 a person for the quizz. If you would like to make up a table of four before you come that would be good. But if you turn up on Friday night we will put you into a table of four. There is a good prize for the winning team. Have some small change in your pocket as there will be fines through the night if you misbehave. Daffodil night. This will be on the 28th of August. We have letters of request printed out for anybody that would like to approach firms that they deal with or come in contact with that would be willing to donate to the Auction on the night, just call in and get them from us. Anything that can be auctioned would be appreciated for the night. Cheers from the Tavern. - June and Bruce
Ladies Night - On Wednesday the 19th of August in the tavern starting at 7.30p.m. Cameron Burton will be our guest speaker telling us of his experience tripping around Eygpt. Everyone welcome. - B. George.
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Science Fair - Thursday 6th August
I am able / unable to help out with transport this Thursday to Kiwitea. I can transport my own children, plus...................other children.
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