Dates for your calendar :-
18th August - Oroua Schools Speech competition.
20th August - Student Led Conferences.
27th August - Assembly at 2.00pm.
31st August - Ski Trip to Mt Ruapehu. (p.p date) 2nd Sept.
3rd Sept. - Capital E - End Game for senior room students.
10th Sept. - Oroua Netball.
17th Sept. - Social at Waituna West.
24th Sept. - Term 3 ends.
11th Oct - Term 4 begins.
Welcome - We would like to welcome Alex to our school as a brand new 5 year old. Alex is the younger brother to Tom & Ben. We know Alex will enjoy learning at Apiti School.
Students of the Week:
– Junior Rm – Wk 3 - Tyler! - Reading well, writing interesting stories and working independently. Wk 4 - David! - Writing stories everyday- great homework reading. Senior Rm –Wk 3 - 
Ashleigh! - Focused on all learning goals and application to learning in all areas. Excellent time management, particularly in literacy and numeracy
Wk 2 - Hannah! - Hannah is setting herself high standards and applying herself to achieve these. Excellent speech development and helping others.
Quality work table :-Spelling-Tom & Charlotte. -Handwriting - Huntah. Reading-Travis Appreciation Box -Emma x 1,Nastia x 2, Jacob X 1, Ashleigh x 3,Cole x 1, Huntah x 2, Hannah x 1, Logan x 1.
Learning in the 21st Century learning environment
It was great to see so many of you at our recent workshops with AJ. Many have shared their learning and I know many students have since shared some of their skills and knowledge with you. As a 21st century learner we are all on a journey together and this is the most powerful tool and attitude we can have. Mary and Nicki also gained a lot from the day further developing their ICT / Web 2.0 skills with AJ. This filter straight through to our classrooms.
Below is the link that AJ showed us in the evening session. I thought you may find useful :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tahTKdEUAPk
We received an email from AJ last week saying that he thoroughly enjoyed his day out here working with the students, teachers and the parents, and how lucky the students were to be at Apiti School.
Student Led Conference
As teachers passionate about and facilitating your children’s learning, it was incredibly pleasing to see the confidence and competent with which students shared their progress, goals and the steps they will take to continue to improve and strive for excellence. Students all competently shared their growth and were keen to share evidence of this with you. We would like to congratulate them on the excellent responsibility they take for their learning. We appreciate the support parents give their children to allow them to develop the skills and strategies to become independent, competent, lifelong learners.
Published learning is ongoing through their e-portfolios. Remember to download Google
Chrome to access their Record keeping pages.
ICT Student led Conferences
Two of our students, Ethan and Ashleigh, will join other leaders from Feilding Schools to share their ICT learning with others at our area ICT Student led conference this Friday. It is based at Lytton St school. Ashleigh and Ethan will teach others about internet safety and how to develop an Avatar to protect your identity. Nicki will also run a workshop. This Conference is modelled on the Conferences that Mary and Nicki have attended through our ICT contract. Students from each school in our contract, and other schools who are part of ICT contracts in the wider area, have been invited to join us. Eight other students from our school will have the opportunity to join this learning community. These will be our Year 4 - 8 students. School uniform will be required for this day please. They will spend the day attending lessons based on aspects of ICT and will share their learning with us on their return to school. We will need transport for this day, so please email us or phone Nicki with your offer of help.
Cultural Day
This was a really great cultural learning day for all students and teachers. Thank you to everyone who helped out in any way, especially Jock for all his time and energy co-ordinating the wood and the delivery of the wood, Blair & Fiona McCarroll & Mike Malone for donating wood, Neil for helping with the hangi which included a really early start to the day and for also helping out during the day, Kimbolton School for hosting all the Oroua Schools for the day, Sara Wills for teaching weaving to students and to all the parents who helped out with transportation to and from Kimbolton. Also, a huge thank you every family for providing the kumera for the hangi.
Well done to our students - Emma, Caleb K, Caleb J, Asheigh & Hannah for stepping up as leaders and teaching activities to other Oroua School students on the day and it was great to see our students mix so well with the other Oroua students.
To conclude our cultural experience for the year, we will have a day trip to visit a Marae before the end of this term. It is hoped that all students will have the opportunity to visit a Marae during their time at school, as set out in our Treaty of Waitangi Policy.
Student Recounts -
I arrived at Kimbolton School. Then we all walked into the school. I did art about Maui, it was a sun. Then I learnt the Kapa Haka. I made a friend called Logan. He had blonde hair like me. He likes rugby too and he was at art too. - By Ben.
We drove to Kimbolton School and for lunch we had Hangi and it was yummy and for pudding we had a steamed pudding and custard in the hangi. All of the hangi was yummy. Neil woke up at 3am in the morning to put down the Hangi. - By Brooke.
My favourite show was the Fire Show because they put witches in the fire. - By David.
I had a birthday. I went to the pool. - By Alex.
School Speeches / Oral Language
Student took great pride in the development and presentation of their speeches this year. Students took great ownership of their topic and the development of their argument. This was evident with the quality of speeches. Some core conservation issues were highlighted. Congratulations to all students. I look forward to hearing next year’s already! With the horrid bugs going around, there were a couple of students who were away for last Friday’s assembly. They will present their speeches at our next assembly.
Placings were as follows:
1st: Emma
2nd: Tom
3rd: Caleb K
4th: Hannah
Note: Only students from the Senior Room were judged.
Caleb K and Emma will represent us at the Oroua Schools Speech Competition on Wednesday afternoon.
We would like to take as many senior room students as possible to this. It is a fantastic opportunity for our students to listen to the best speakers from our Oroua Group. These are a powerful learning tool for improvement. Please let Nicki know if you are able to take transport. Oldest students and children of parents taking transport will be given the first opportunity.
Conservation - Protecting ourselves and our environment is our learning context . With our Green Gold Reflection and sharing with the National team at the end of this term, we will be looking at our growth and next steps. I am sure your children will share this with you. Conservation will also be the context for Lamb and Calf Day this year.
Ski Trip
This event will take place on Tuesday the 31st of August (p.p. date : Thursday 2nd September). Forms were sent home early last week for you to fill out regarding what you would like to do, what you require to hire, the price of the activity and a form for you to fill out your personal details. Please fill these forms out and return them to school as soon as you can as we need to have all details to the Mountain as soon as we can.Capital E - End Game - Year 3 - 8 - Friday 3rd September
This event is to take place on Friday the 3rd of September for our senior room students. You will need to be at the College of Education Auditorium at 9.40am. Please offer transport to this event if you are able to help, either by email or send a note to school. Thanks.
Barcodes - We would love it if everyone who buys Eveready products from the Warehouse, to send the barcodes along to school so we can be in to win part of a total prize pool of $15,000 worth of computers for you and your school (that's us)!
Keep on sending those McCain barcodes along to us as well please.
Blowing Our Own Trumpet
The following are a sample of letters we have recently received :-
Manchester House : Would like to sincerely thank our school and students for the unexpected enjoyment experienced at being entertained by our students to a group of van travellers at a luncheon held recently in the Apiti Tavern, it was very much appreciated. - P. Hahn (Trip Organiser for Manchester House).
Feilding Intermediate School : Would like to thank the school for the wonderful performance at the Feilding Intermediate PTA Wearable Art Night. They really appreciated us giving our time to help ensure the evening was enjoyable to all. They were impressed with the great standard of behaviour of our students and the way they participated as part of the audience. When our students took to the stage the judges commented on the high standard of our garments, the creativity and construction methods. They were also impressed by the way our students moved on the stage to stay in character with their costume, congratulations, they were fabulous and thank us for our support and that it was great to have us participate. - S. True (Teacher Supporting Wearable Arts).
CORE Education Ltd : The commitment to ICT in this school is highlighted by the funding that has gone into ensuring that they are 21stC ready! The students using the tools to on-share their learning with the wider community, applying their own learning to create their own wikis and logging in their learning via their ePortfolios, shows the many avenues that are possible for ICT to enhance learning capability. The leadership has been instrumental in enhancing these possibilities and growing lifelong, confident and connected learners of the 21st century. - Kathe Tawhiwhirangi-Perry (ACT PD National Facilitator, CORE Education ltd).
Happy Birthday! Happy birthday to the following student who recently celebrated her birthday, we hope you had a great day : - 1st August = Hayley.
Sports Report - Saturday 14th August
Logan, Ben, Hayley, David, Tyler & Alex's team Ireland played the All Blacks and drew. Ben scored 3 tries, Alex 2, Logan 2 & Tyler 1.
Huntah's team Wellington - 9 played East Coast - 8. Huntah scored 3 tries.
Tom's team Auckland - 13 played Manawatu - 7. Tom scored 1 try and was Player of the Day!
Ashleigh's team Feilding U10 - 4 played Freyberg - 9.
Caleb J & Caleb K's team Feilding U11 - 17 played Freyberg - 22.
Netball - Emma's team - 12 played Ross Intermediate - 13.
Hannah & Charlotte's team Oroua - 10 played North St - 7. Charlotte was Player of the Day! Regards, Mary, Nicki, Mary B, Pat & Christine.
Community Notices
Apiti Tavern - A reminder of what is coming up - Thursday 19th of August - House Night. Friday 27th August - Daffodil Dinner & Auction, $25.00 per person. All donations for the auction to the Tavern before the Friday please. Please book for the meal. Regards, June. Ladies Night - 18th August in the Tavern starting at 7.30pm. Wendy & Fiona talking about Rarotonga. All members of the community are welcome. - W. Cawood.
125th Apiti & Districts Jubilee
The next jubilee meeting is to be held on Monday the 6th of September in the Apiti Tavern starting at 7.30p.m. We would love all community members to come along and have an input into what should be a great jubilee weekend, including some of the great fun events being held leading up to the jubilee weekend. Registrations are $20.00 per adult and if possible we would like these by the 1st of September please. 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 www.apiti125.co.nz
Jubilee Calendar
The Apiti Jubilee souvenir committee would love photos for a planned jubilee calendar. If anyone has some great photos of Apiti and / or the Apiti District past or present, it would be great if we could use them for the calendar. If you can help out, please either e-mail them to Kirsty at kpearly@xtra.co.nz or post a hard copy to Christine as soon as possible, as we hope to have the calendar available for Christmas. The Entertainment / Fundraising committee are planning on having a 'Apiti hoedown' in the Apiti Hall on the 6th of November as a lead up to the jubilee. More details as they come to hand.
Please don’t hesitate to contact either Hugh, Christine or Duncan if you would like more information. - C. Digby (Jubilee secretary).
Apiti 125 Jubilee Registrations
Thank you to the following who have registered for the upcoming Jubilee.
M. Agnew. M. Avery. R. & O. Buchanan. K. & T. Buckman. G. & M. Carter.
T. & J. Church. M. Cowan. I. & Y. Cuthbertson. P. & F. Darragh. A. & A. Deihl. V. Deihl. H. & C. Digby. B. & C. Digby. A. & C. Digby. J. Fleming. I. & N. George. M. & B. George. J. & S. Goodall. J. & R. Hocken. B. Hocken. P. & J. Jensen. S. Jensen. M. Loveridge. C. Loveridge. C. Lowe. N. Lowe. C. McIntyre. H. McIntyre. K. McIntyre. R. & C. McIntyre. C. & M. McKay. E. McKay. C. McKenzie. R. McKenzie. N. Martin. J. Morley. D. & D. Neilson. C. Neilson. T. & L. O’Hagan. B & M. Pratt. R. & L. Pratt. P. Prince. E. Prince. P. Prince. S. Prince. B. Prujean. B. Quigan. P. Reilly. N. Rose. M. Sheldon. B. & C. Strahan. H. Torrance. R. & M. Townsend. D.H. Wilson. J. Winter.
