Welcome to week 1 of term 2, 2010 and it’s great to see you all back here safe and well and looking forward to a great term 2.
Term 2 19th April – 2nd July.
Term 3 19th July – 24th Sept.
Term 4 11th Oct – late Dec.
Event Dates for your Calendar
19th April - Term 2 begins.
25th April - ANZAC Day.
26th April - ASSA Meeting @ 7.30pm.
30th April - Weed Busting Day.
10th May - Hearing and Vision Screening
21st May - Oroua Hockey.
28th May - Green Rig visits.
7th June - Queen’s Birthday.
13th June - ASSA Possum Shoot
16th June - Oroua Wearable Arts.
23rd June - Oroua Cross Country.
2nd July - Term 2 ends.
19th July - Term 3 begins.
Celebrating our Learning at Apiti School
Students of the Week: –
Junior Rm – Wk 8 – Tyler! – For being keen and settling into school really well.
Wk 9 – Derek! – For good independent work and great story writing. Reading – Ben & Brooke moved from blue 3 to green 1. Keanu moved from yellow 3 to blue 1. Travis moved from green 1 to green 2.
Senior Rm – Wk 8 – Ashleigh! Wk 9 – Ethan!
Welcome
We would like to welcome Payten & Anja to our school. Payten is a year 4 student and Anja is a year 2 student. We know Payten & Anja will enjoy learning at Apiti School.
We have started term 2 with 24 students, 11 in the senior room and 13 in the junior room. We are looking forward to 1 new entrant starting this term.
Change in School Hours
Many schools have, or are now changing school hours to optimise learning and to make things easier for students and families. There are many reasons and some of these are that many of our students are involved in after school activities, which we fully support. In order for families to attend these it is often necessary to take students out of school early. This is one of the many reasons we have decided to close school at 2.30. Other reasons include making the most of daylight hours to further develop interests. Also the lunch hour is unnecessarily long when wet.
In-class time will remain the same and break times shortened. All students will remain seated to eat their morning tea and lunch before going to play. The food our students are given is very healthy and great energy food. We thank parents for this. We encourage a named water bottle (water may be brought from home if you wish, but our school water is perfectly suitable for drinking), which can be kept in the classroom. There will be an opportunity for a brain food break during the morning, so please continue to ensure your child is aware of what should be eaten during this time.
At a recent Board of Trustee meeting (29/03/2010), the board decided to trial the change in school hours for this term. From the 19th of April (today), school times will be as follows:-
School start time will remain at 9.00 a.m
Morning tea time from 10.30 – 11.00.
Brain food Break
Lunch time from 12.40 – 1.10
Home time at 2.30p.m.
We hope to receive feedback from parents after this trial period.
Board of Trustee Meeting
The next Board of Trustee meeting will be on Monday the 24th May, starting at 5.00p.m in the staff room. All members of the public are welcome to attend.
Bon Apiti 2010
We will be having Sushi on Mondays and Pizza on Wednesdays. If anyone has any ingredients that would be suitable, it would be very much appreciated! Thanks - The Bon Apiti Committee.
ANZAC DAY – Celebrating 80 years Apiti RSA.
ANZAC day is this Sunday the 25th of April.
The school will be supporting this by marching in the parade at 10.30. Please assemble at the garage by 10.15. We would hope all school age children can join us in this. Please wear your school uniform. If you are unable to attend for any reason please send a note to school. If your child needs transport to attend the event, please let us know.
Magazine
It was great to read the quality student writing in our camp magazine. This is excellent authentic reason for writing. Unfortunately, the senior student descriptive writing was not printed. These have been put together as an insert. It would be appreciated if you could return your magazine to school so this can be included. Students often like to look back at their writing in later years.
Please take a little time to scan down and look at our last newsletter blog entry. It has been updated with photos and videos to support student contributions!
Blue Duck
We have received a donation of $2005 to help with our work eradicating stoats. We really appreciate this. The aim of this is to allow the Blue duck population to rejuvenate. This term we will continue our learning as we check and monitor stoat traps, coordinate and work with DOC and inform others. We thank those who have helped us with this work. If you would like to help please contact us and we will give you more details.
Bush Visit – Friday 30th April
On Friday the 30th of April, the whole school (depending on the weather for the junior students), will be travelling up to our native bush area with the aim to re establish the tracks and clear weeds as the bush has become really over-grown with weeds. We will head up there at 12.30 after an early lunch. Students will need to wear warm protective clothing / shower proof jacket / leggings and suitable footwear e.g. gumboots, work-boots. If we could have your help it would be really appreciated, as we will need at least 1 parent per group for 5 groups. Please contact Mary or Nicki if you are able to help. We will also need supplied please, several tools for cutting down low lying branches and tools for pulling out the weeds. Students may also like to wear thick gardening gloves in case of prickly weeds. We will be back in time for the bus or we will drop students off on the way back.
This day was postponed last term due to the weather. We are expecting several interested visitors, to visit our bush block this term so we are really keen to spend some time up there getting it in shape.
Plates / Dishes
If you are missing a particular plate or dish, maybe it is sitting in our cooking room waiting to be collected. We have several here from either the Apiti show or the recent trail ride. Please feel free to come and have a look.
From the Students
Mum, Dad, me and Derek went fishing. We waited and dad got a bite. He was winding it up and he got nothing. I got a big bite and it was a rainbow fish. I wound it up, it was a big rainbow fish. - By Travis.
Hydroponics – We have just started to grow our lettuces and we are going to start to sell our tomatoes, lettuces and chillis. We will also have basil. We hope you will buy our fruit and vegetables. - By Ashleigh.
Board of Trustee Elections
Just a reminder that all nomination forms for the upcoming Board of Trustee elections must reach the Returning Officer at Apiti School by 12 noon this Friday the 23rd of April.
Time line for 2010: Nominations close April 23rd. Voting Papers issued April 28th. Voting Day 7th May. Count Votes 13th May. Boards take office 14th May. - C. Digby (Returning Officer).
Well that’s it for the first newsletter of term 2, will see you all again in a fortnight.
Regards, Mary, Nicki, Mary B, Pat, and Christine.
ASSA
Lunch Catering for Gillespie’s Field Day
Thank you to Lance & Katherine for this fundraising opportunity & thank you to all those who contributed time & food, feedback has been very positive with lots commenting on the great lunch provided. This is a relatively easy way for ASSA to make a substantial amount so thank you again for your support.
If you have not had dishes returned they will be in the staff room at school.
Trail Ride
What a fantastic day we had for this trail ride, the weather was fantastic, the lunch was fantastic, the helpers were fantastic and by all reports the track was fantastic. Thank you to everyone who helped out in any way to make this day a very successful and enjoyable day for everyone involved. The exact amount raised will be reported in the next newsletter.
A de-briefing meeting is planned for next Monday night the 26th of April in the school staffroom starting at 7.30p.m. The possum shoot which is planned for the 13th of June, will also be discussed. See you all then. - K. Wilson-Bryant (ASSA chairperson).
Scholastic Book Club
Scholastic N.Z has donated several new books to our school library from points earned through books purchased by our parents during the past year. We would like to thank all parents who continue to support the scholastic book club. - Jo Beard.
Community Notices
Hi From the Tavern. Congratulations to Kesty and Julie on the birth of their daughter. It is nice to see the population of Apiti increasing.What amazing weather we are having. Hope it stays like this for Anzac Day next Sunday.
Ladies Night – Ladies night is this Wednesday the 21st starting at 7.30 in the tavern, with a talk on the recent visit to Castle Hill. Everyone is most welcome. Community Dinner - We are having a seafood dinner on the 30th of April. Please book in as soon as possible, as this is usually a very busy night.Exercise Night - Our Pilates and Zumba night on Thursday night at 7.00pm is going well. Please feel free to come and join the girls. A gold coin donation please. See you all on Sunday at Anzac Service. - June and Bruce.APITI RSA SPECIAL ANZAC Day – 25th April 2010
Celebrating 80 Years of Apiti RSA - We feel this is a milestone and want to have a special day of remembrance this year. Programme:
Please Note : This year, our programme times are slightly changed from previous years to accommodate the flypast of the spitfire (weather permitting), at 10.40a.m.
10.00a.m – Gather in the village.
10.30a.m – March conducted by Linton Army led by the Feilding & District Pipe Band to the Apiti Hall.
– Wreath laying ceremony.
10.50 - Spitfire flypast, followed by service in Hall conducted by Rev. H. Hirschberg.
11.15a.m – Morning tea at Hall – everyone invited.
Pot Luck lunch at Apiti Tavern – Apiti RSA are supplying meat for the day. People are asked to bring a salad or vegetable dish. Apiti Tavern is supplying finger food for dessert.
ALL WELCOME! Bring your Family Bring your Friends. Po Poppies are available from the tavern and will be for sale on the day.
Medal and Poppy wearing protocol
Medals - To be worn by recipient only on left breast. If medals are worn by a relative in honour of a deceased recipient, they are worn on the right breast.
Poppies should be worn above medals on left breast.
RSA Badge on the right breast or lapel.
History Photos
Ruth McIntyre is compiling Apiti RSA History. She would like any photos of old soldiers from the first and second world wars. Please contact Ruth on 3284 889.
Hope to see everyone on the day, wet or fine. - Pat Prince (Secretary Apiti RSA).
125th Apiti & Districts Jubilee Meeting – The next meeting is to be held on Monday the 3rd of May in the Apiti Tavern starting at 7.30p.m. We would love to see many community members come along to these meetings to have an input into lead-up events and the jubilee week-end celebrations and to show your support for the jubilee. This jubilee involves anyone who resides in the Apiti wider district from PiriPiri Bridge (Pohangina river), Mangora Bridge and the Oroua Valley Bridge.
Registrations are now open at $20.00 per adult. Please either contact Christine by post at 1016 Oroua Valley Rd Apiti, R.D 54, Kimbolton 4774, by phone 3284 833, or register on the website at http://www.apiti125.co.nz/
The jubilee committee is planning to fundraise through-out this year to help with the costs through-out the jubilee week-end such as catering, the dance band, marquee hire and the Sunday picnic. The committee presently has a tractor raffle running at $2.00 a ticket at the tavern, please support this by buying a ticket. Other fundraisers will include a stock drive, Octoberfest and a horse trek.
The stock drive will be happening within the next two weeks. A jubilee committee member will contact local farmers shortly for donations and details, otherwise please feel free to contact R. Burton on 3284 706 or B. Pratt on 3284 827.
We are looking for offers of accommodation from local residence for out-of-town folks during the jubilee weekend. If you are able to make your home available, please contact Gaylene on 3284 774, it would be very much appreciated.
Please don’t hesitate to contact either Hugh, Christine or Duncan if you would like more information.
- C. Digby (Jubilee secretary).
