Monday 12th October 2009.
Welcome to week 1 of a very busy term 4, 2009 and how the year is flying by!!
School Roll
We continue with a roll of 26 students, 14 in the senior room, 12 in the junior room.
Lamb and Calf Day
This will happen on Wednesday the 21st of October. The day consists of two parts :- Indoor work carried out and completed during the early part of the morning, with judging of this work from mid to late morning and then after lunch, the lamb and calf section with judging starting at 1.00p.m. After which we will have prize giving and afternoon tea. Could we ask parents to please supply a plate of goodies for afternoon tea and could we have all junior room parents provide a container of drink as well please.We would like to encourage all students to participate on this day by bringing along a lamb or a calf. We hope you are all spending time with and feeding your lamb or calf as caring for a living animal is a part of the science curriculum. We suggest that calves and lambs are born on or between 1/07/09 and 23/09/09. Please fill in the attached slip and return it to school a.s.a.p. Could we have all cleaned cups back at school as soon as possible please.You will need to have your lamb or calf at school well before 1.00pm which is when judging will start.Lambs are judged on Leading, Calling and Rearing and Calves are judged on Leading, Walking without a lead and Care & Attention. We will also run fun events while points are being added up, for best dressed lamb and calf and a drinking competition if you would like to bring 200mls for your lamb and 2 litres for your calf.
Please don’t wash your lamb, just give the coat a light brush regularly. You may wash your calf, but make sure you do this on a warm day, rinse all soap out of its coat and rub it dry with a towel. Practice leading your pet every day so that it becomes used to walking beside you rather than you pulling it along, regularly check that its collar isn’t too tight and don’t forget to take it off when your pet gets bigger.
This day also provides a great opportunity for the school to celebrate success, by showcasing student work. We use Lamb and Calf Day as a meaningful opportunity, to present work from many areas of the curriculum, in a variety of formats.
We are currently very short of newspapers (due to all of our Paper Mache recently!!). If you have extra at home, could you please send it to school with your child. Thanks!
Learning tasks Completed at School before Lamb and Calf Day :-
Each child needs to bring some suitable wrapping paper, in the next day or two, to paper mache the final layer of their fruit bowl. If you are unable to do this please let Nicki know and we will source wrapping paper for your child. If you have any extra wrapping paper sitting in your cupboard that may be suitable, we would greatly appreciate it.
We will be potting up our hyper-toofa pots this week. To do this we need herbs sections with roots so that they will continue to grow and create a herb garden once planted up in our pots.
If you have any herbs in your gardens that you can divide and take root sections from, we would appreciate this. The herbalists would also appreciate these for their Whanau Group herb garden.
Learning Tasks –
Herbs ‘n’ Hyper-toofa
Success Criteria
– Design of pot is functional and suitable to grow plants in
– Edges have a finished appearance
– Design and decoration is original
– Pot is planted with plant/s that will be useful in a kitchen
– Pot and planting is balanced and aesthetically pleasing to the eye
– Plants are healthy and maintained
Paper Mache Salad / fruit bowl
Success Criteria
– Is well balanced
– Contains all of the elements required of a bowl
– Is smooth and edges are well finished
– has an effective design
– is varnished for shine and to withstand wear and tear
Bush Education Poster
Success Criteria
– A1 size
– Explains an aspect of importance in our Bush Block
– Separates information into key areas
– Communicates key information clearly to others using a range of methods
e.g. written information report, labelled diagram, timeline, lifecycle, photos, table, graph, drawing, list
– Uses visual media effectively to educate and inform others
e.g. use of colour, size, font, layout
Pottery leaf bowl
Success Criteria
– Edges are smooth
– Bowl is functional as a dish for plants as food
– Leaf pattern
Pottery vase
Success Criteria
– Vase is water tight and suitable to hold plant matter
– Edges are smooth and sealed
– Design is original and interesting
– Colour has been used to enhance the effect
Plants as Food Collage
Success Criteria
– Portrays a plant eaten by a part of our food chain
– is simple and effective
– Uses pieces of materials pieced together to create texture and visual interest
– care is taken with coverage and edges
– Uses shades of colour to create interest and represent the ‘plant as food’.
Still Life Painting
Success Criteria
– Is planned
– Show perspective and Use of colour
– Uses shading / colour to give a 3D effect
– care is taken with finer details of the image
Indoor exhibits – Completed at school on the morning of Lamb and Calf Day.
9. - A Miniature Scene depicting ‘Plants as Food.’ (Meat-dish size container).
10. - Playdough Sculpture – students to use a mixture of living material and playdough to show an aspect of the food chain, e.g playdough cow eating real hay.
11. - Vegetable / fruit animal. Use of your own choice of fruit or vegetables to construct an animal. Toothpicks can be used to join pieces together only.
12. - Table Centre piece – Suitable for a dinner party / festivity- - using plants / food / candles etc. (no larger than dinner plate size).
The native area will also be judged on the day in 2 sections – care and attention and landscape design. Please remember that only natural materials are to be included in this area e.g, no tin, plastic, C.Ds.
We welcome families, friends, neighbours and relations to the school for this day. Visitors are welcome to come along anytime from 12.00 noon. A sausage sizzle will be running during the lunch break for anyone who would like a sausage.
If the weather is extremely wet, Blair and Fiona McCarroll have kindly offered to hold the Lamb and Calf judging in their covered in yards. We appreciate this but hope we won’t need them.
We will have the Book Fair running. Lamb and Calf Day will be a great day for everyone to have a look at the books on display in the library and place orders in time for Christmas. Please remember, that the school benefits in way of receiving free books from Scholastic from the amount of books sold. We look forward to seeing you all here for our Lamb and Calf Day.
Our Thanks to :-
Malcolm, Wendy, Kate and Sheree for their help with the Hyper-toofa pots and Kate for her guidance during our painting. It is fantastic parent support such as this that allows us to develop challenging learning opportunities for your children.
Thanks to Chrissy Lowe for having the school clean and inviting at the start of term, despite building still being in progress.
Thanks to Sonya for having the school grounds looking good despite the lousy weather.
Thanks to Miles and his team – the entrance upgrade is really starting to take on its finished look – inviting, welcome and professional.
Rugby - Colyton vs Northern Oroua Rugby
On September 16 our Northern Oroua team, all 18 of us, travelled to Rangiwahia to face Colyton. In about the first 5 minutes Simon had already scored 2 tries and Ngaira was about to get another 1.
In the next 15 minutes we had 6 more. Most of the tries were scored by Simon, Beau and Ngaira but we all worked together as a team to set them up. In the end we achieved what we had come to do. We thrashed them 65-15.
Jock was thrilled. He celebrated as Colyton handed over the shield.
We decided that we would play a different sport against Colyton for the shield each year. A huge thank you to Jock for his time and coaching expertise.By Caleb K.
Board of Trustee Meeting
The next Board of Trustee meeting will be held on Tuesday the 3rd of November, starting at 7.00p.m. in the staff room. All members of the public are most welcome to attend.
Assembly!
The first assembly of term 4 will be held on Friday the 13th of November starting at 2.30p.m. Everyone is most welcome. School PhotosSchool photos are booked with Quickpix Photography for Tuesday the 27th of October.
Swimming Lessons
Each year at Apiti School, we take the whole school into the Feilding Makino Pool for swimming lessons. We have developed a plan for our students in conjunction with the National swimming advisers and coaches and the Makino Pool staff, to action a swimming programme which will give the students the best opportunities to learn to swim and water safety. The number of New Zealand children who are not competent in the water was a focus last summer. We are proud to prioritise swimming and ensure that our children are proficient swimmers. We are all looking forward to some great beach and river time this summer!
The students have a swimming lesson at 10.20 – 10.50 and then a break and their second swimming lesson at 12.00 - 12.30 (Wednesdays - 11.30 – 12.00). After that they are able to practise what they are learning.
Students will be assessed and taught in ability groups.
Once again, the Board of Trustees have kindly offered to subsidise ½ the cost of these lessons which means these lessons will cost you $25.00 per student.
The dates for swimming lessons are :- 23rd & 30th of October and the 4th, 11th & 20th of November. We will need transport into Feilding for these lessons, so could all parents please fill in the dates listed below that they are able to take transport. It would be great if all parents could take transport to at least one lesson.
Our thoughts are with Bevin, Mary, Anna, Mathew and Tom.
Regards, Mary, Nicki, Mary B, Pat, and Christine.
We would like to thank everyone for their support!! From the Cuming Family.
ASSA – Lotto
We will once again run our “Lotto fundraiser” this year. It has been very successful and the funds raised from it have been used to directly benefit your children’s learning opportunities. We thank and appreciate everyone for supporting this fundraising effort.
This has been a great way to fundraise without too much work and a lot of fun. Tickets will cost $50.00 with a chance to win $25.00 every week for 52 weeks. Your number will be drawn on Lamb and Calf Day. Some numbers were drawn 3 times during this last year, well done to those people. If you would like to pay prior to lamb and calf day, please pay at the school office and then enter your name and address in the lotto book. It would be great if you could ask family, friends, business people if they would be interested in purchasing a ticket. Many thanks, Sonya Dearlove.
Raffle
ASSA will be running a grocery raffle again this year, to be drawn on lamb and calf day. Could each child who attends school, please donate 2 – 3 grocery items to go in the raffle. There is a box in the office for these items to go into. Tickets are selling for $2.00 each or 3 for $5.00. Tickets may be bought prior to lamb and calf day and will be sold on the day as well. Many thanks, Sheree Knight.
Athletics
If there is enough interest, we would like to run an athletics afternoon on Tuesdays after school. Parent help will be needed for this. Please give Jo a call on 3284 805 to register your interest and availability. - J. Beard.
Community Notices
Apiti Tavern – Hi from the Tavern. Where has August and September gone!!! We are just about to Christmas already. If you are considering a Christmas Function at the Tavern, please let me know as soon as possible, as we are starting to get quite a few bookings.When we were at the Hospitality Conference, we took with us some of our brochures that the school composed and published for us. They were shown to quite a few of the people in hospitality and the comments we received from them were amazing. It was great to get such wonderful feed back from them. Thanks to the kids from school. A job well done. We do stock milk and bread at the Tavern, so if you get short call in.Hope the weather picks up soon for everyone. Cheers, Bruce & June.
125th Apiti & Districts Jubilee Meeting – The next meeting is to be held next Monday the 19th of October in the Apiti Tavern starting at 7.30p.m. This is to discuss the horse ploughing weekend happening at the end of November. Everyone is most welcome to attend. - C. Digby.
Ladies Night – To be held Wednesday the 21st of October in the tavern starting at 7.30p.m. Our quest speaker Ruth McIntyre talking about her trip to Poland, Scotland and other places. All welcome. – Bev George.
Apiti Playcentre - Please find attached a ‘Christmas Gift Fundraiser’ flyer for the Apiti Playcentre. For orders please e-mail to choneendigz@kol.co.nz - M. Pratt.
Playcentre AGM – Tuesday 27th October at 6.30p.m. - K. Gillespie.
FEILDING JUNIOR CRICKET - Registration day Saturday 17 October 2009, 10.30 - 12.00 Kowhai Park Clubrooms. Coaches will be required for all grades. Fee's $45.00 per child for season, payable upon registration. Competition begins first weekend in November. Further information contact Brenda 06 324 0581 - Brenda Manley (Feilding Junior Cricket Co ordinator).
KIWITEA SCHOOL JUBILEE BALL - Kiwitea School will have its 125th Jubilee at Labour Weekend. We would love it if you could come along and help us celebrate this event. Saturday 24th October 2009 at 8.00pm
At the Marquee in the Kiwitea School Grounds. Cost: $40 with cash bar. Musician: Dean Parkinson. Get a group together and celebrate this occasion with us. Contact: Paula Scott (3285726 or http://home.view@farmside.co.nz/)
Kimbolton & District Bowling Club – 2009 – 2010 season - Every Saturday from 1.30 – 4.30p.m. Casual clothes and flat-soled shoes. Everyone welcome. – Denis Shaw (President).
Down-Hill Walking – November 14th - Join the walkers at Country Fayre in Pohangina between 8.30 and 11.30 a.m. and ride in the bus to the top of the anticline on Ridge Road. Then follow the marked route on old Branch Road back down to Country Fayre where lunch will be provided. Adults - $12.00. Children - $5.00. Under 5’s – free. For more info ring : P. Bowers 06 3294 759. A. Pilone 06 3294 762. J. Brock 06 3294 834. - M. Nettle
Lamb and Calf Day – 21st October 2009 (Please return a.s.a.p)
Name of Student ………………………..Lamb / Calf (circle one) Name of pet………………………
Name of Student………………………...Lamb / Calf (circle one) Name of pet………………………
Name of Student………………………...Lamb / Calf (circle one) Name of pet………………………
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Signed.
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Swimming Lesson Dates
I am able to take transport to the Feilding Aquatic Centre on the following days :- (Please circle)
Friday the 23rd October Friday the 30th October Wednesday 4th November
Wednesday 11th November Friday 20th November
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Signed.
