Apiti School and District Newsletter, 29/11/2010. Term Dates : October 11th - December 20th (Monday) Term 1 2011 : Tuesday 1st February - 15th April. Term 2 2011 : 2nd May - 15th July Term 3 2011 : 1st August - 7th October. Term 4 2011 : 25th October - mid December. Welcome to week 8 of term 4 2010. Event dates for your calendar 30th November - Year 8 leavers dinner. 3rd December - Oroua Group of Schools Athletics. (p.p date : 10th December). 14th December - Production Dress rehearsal at Kiwitea Hall at 1.30pm. 20th December - Term 4 ends. 1st February 2011 - Term 1 2011 starts. Students of the Week Senior Room - Wk 6: Ethan! For taking charge of his own learning and making the most of class time. For continuing to develop and share his expertise in ICT. Wk 7: Ashleigh! For her fantastic independence in the classroom programme, particularly in literacy, numeracy, report writing and picture book. Junior Room - Wk 6: Chloe! For reading fluently and being able to count up to 100. Wk 7: Tyler! For writing really interesting stories and moving to Blue 2 reading books. Reading - Ava to Yellow 1. Quality Work Table :-Maths - Caleb J. Cole. Charlotte. School Photos The school photo album has arrived and is available in the main block hallway for you to browse through or take home overnight. Order forms are with the album for you to place your orders. Please send your orders directly to the photographer, her address is on the order form. Oroua Schools Junior Large Ball Day Thank you to Kiwitea for organising this very educational day for the Juniors from the Oroua Schools. The students learnt new games and participated and contributed to their team, which included students from other Oroua Schools. It was great to see the sportsmanship of our students and how well they communicated with new and old friends. This opportunity for co-operation is valued as students develop key competencies. Also thank you to those parents who provided transport to and from this event, and thank you to those parents who supported the children and stayed and helped out. Library Stocktake On Tuesday the 7th of December, we will be carrying out a Library stocktake. We would appreciate it if everyone could search at home for any library books and return them to school before this date. Thank you. Board of Trustee Meeting The next Board of Trustee meeting will be held on Thursday the 16th of December starting at 6.00p.m. in the staff room. All members of the public are welcome to attend. ICT On Tuesday the 16th of November, 10 students from Mataroa School came here to learn how to make a wiki, how to change a wiki, how to add animation, upload a video and photo, how to embed in a wiki and how to write, edit and link to a wiki. We also taught them how to do other fun stuff like Photo peach, Glogster and Xtra-normal. - By Ashleigh Last Wednesday Chevelle, Caleb K, Ethan and Cole visited Kimbolton School to teach them how to set up and use a wiki. I enjoyed teaching them how to upload a photo. By Chevelle and Huntah Enviro Learning Last Thursday morning the Manchester Street Enviro-kids came up to our school. We shared our Bush block with them. We divided them into 5 groups and they visited all of the areas. We shared our learning in the bush with them and did some activities to practise this. When they came to us, we told them about the ferns and Bush lawyer. After that they came back to school. We gave them morning tea and showed them around our school. By Logan and Sam We visited Manchester Street School on Friday. They showed us their enviro-school and we learnt about what they did. Travis' favourite part of the tour was the gear shed and miniforest. Tom enjoyed the playground; especially the bridge. We learnt from nearly everything they did. They are a good enviro-school. We are looking forward to working more with them next year. By Tom and Travis Bike Ramp On Monday the 22nd of November, Albert James from the Manawatu District Council came to have a look at our school ramps and to get a design for some new ones. Cole and I did a quick blueprint and he said that it will take about three weeks to put the ramps together. We are all looking forward to this. By Caleb K and Cole Swimming Instruction These lessons have now been completed. Thank you to all parents for supporting this very worthwhile exercise and for taking the time to provide transport to and from these lessons. These yearly lessons are greatly improving the swimming skills of our students and helps develop water confidence, which is integral to water safety in our local rivers and water ways. It is hoped they will build on these swimming skills over the holidays, so that we can reap the benefits at the Oroua swimming sports being held next March. Accounts will be sent home in the very near future, please pay them promptly so this can be settled this year. Every Friday for the last five weeks Apiti School students went to the Makino Pool. We learnt to swim in groups and had free time and time to practise. Our group did four lengths of each stroke mostly. Thanks to all of the parents who took transport. We all learnt something new, became better swimmers and enjoyed it heaps! By Charlotte and Hannah Year 8 Leavers Dinner This event will take place on the 30th of November for our Year 8 students and their parents. This will take place in the Apiti Tavern starting at 6.00p.m. The guest speaker will be Sarah Goss. Oroua Group of Schools Athletics - Friday 3rd December These athletics are to take place this Friday the 3rd (p.p. 10th December), at Timona Park in Feilding. You will need to be at Timona Park by 9.45 so students are ready to assemble before the 10am start. (Timona Park is off Simon St which is the second on the left past the North End BP station on the corner of Kimbolton Rd and North St). All students participate in this event. The junior circuit (for children aged 5 - 7 years) is in front of the soccer rooms on the sprint track and the senior circuit (for children aged 8 - 12+ years) is on the athletic track in front of the athletic club shed. Students need to wear their correct school uniform for this day please. All students need to take their lunch, plenty to drink, a hat and sunscreen. Lunch will be available between 12:05 and 12.35. Kiwitea School will have sausages, muffins and drinks on sale throughout the day. The senior students day is expected to end at approximately 2.30. The junior students will finish at lunchtime and then become the responsibility of their parents / caregivers. However these times are only a guide and parents who leave should return to the park early in-case the programme finishes early. Parents will need to provide transport for their own children and the bus will not run at all on this day. If the event is postponed due to weather conditions (not looking likely), an announcement will come over the radio from 7am onwards and the phone tree will operate. Parents are asked to help with the events our school is responsible for (senior high jump and junior ball throw), so please make yourself available during the day to help out with these events, as we can not run them without your help. Safety - The river, the road and the playground are out of bounds to all children of all ages at all times!! Beach Study

Apiti School and District Newsletter, 29/11/2010.

Term Dates : October 11th - December 20th (Monday)

Term 1 2011 : Tuesday 1st February - 15th April.

Term 2 2011 : 2nd May - 15th July

Term 3 2011 : 1st August - 7th October.

Term 4 2011 : 25th October - mid December.

Welcome to week 8 of term 4 2010.

Event dates for your calendar

30^th November - Year 8 leavers dinner.

3rd December - Oroua Group of Schools Athletics. (p.p date : 10^th December).

14th December - Production Dress rehearsal at Kiwitea Hall at 1.30pm.

20th December - Term 4 ends.

1st February 2011 - Term 1 2011 starts.

Students of the Week

Senior Room - Wk 6: Ethan! For taking charge of his own learning and making the most of class time. For continuing to develop and share his expertise in ICT.

Wk 7: Ashleigh!

For her fantastic independence in the classroom programme, particularly in literacy, numeracy, report writing and picture book.

Junior Room - Wk 6: Chloe! For reading fluently and being able to count up to 100.

Wk 7: Tyler! For writing really interesting stories and moving to Blue 2 reading books.

Reading - Ava to Yellow 1.

Quality Work Table :-Maths - Caleb J. Cole. Charlotte.

School Photos

The school photo album has arrived and is available in the main block hallway for you to browse through or take home overnight. Order forms are with the album for you to place your orders. Please send your orders directly to the photographer, her address is on the order form.

Oroua Schools Junior Large Ball Day

Thank you to Kiwitea for organising this very educational day for the Juniors from the Oroua Schools. The students learnt new games and participated and contributed to their team, which included students from other Oroua Schools. It was great to see the sportsmanship of our students and how well they communicated with new and old friends. This opportunity for co-operation is valued as students develop key competencies. Also thank you to those parents who provided transport to and from this event, and thank you to those parents who supported the children and stayed and helped out.

Library Stocktake

On Tuesday the 7th of December, we will be carrying out a Library stocktake. We would appreciate it if everyone could search at home for any library books and return them to school before this date. Thank you.

Board of Trustee Meeting

The next Board of Trustee meeting will be held on Thursday the 16^th of December starting at 6.00p.m. in the staff room.

All members of the public are welcome to attend.

ICT

On Tuesday the 16th of November, 10 students from Mataroa School came here to learn how to make a wiki, how to change a wiki, how to add animation, upload a video and photo, how to embed in a wiki and how to write, edit and link to a wiki. We also taught them how to do other fun stuff like Photo peach, Glogster and Xtra-normal. - By Ashleigh

Last Wednesday Chevelle, Caleb K, Ethan and Cole visited Kimbolton School to teach them how to set up and use a wiki. I enjoyed teaching them how to upload a photo. By Chevelle and Huntah

Enviro Learning

Last Thursday morning the Manchester Street Enviro-kids came up to our school. We shared our Bush block with them. We divided them into 5 groups and they visited all of the areas. We shared our learning in the bush with them and did some activities to practise this. When they came to us, we told them about the ferns and Bush lawyer. After that they came back to school. We gave them morning tea and showed them around our school. By Logan and Sam

We visited Manchester Street School on Friday. They showed us their enviro-school and we learnt about what they did. Travis' favourite part of the tour was the gear shed and miniforest. Tom enjoyed the playground; especially the bridge. We learnt from nearly everything they did. They are a good enviro-school. We are looking forward to working more with them next year. By Tom and Travis

Bike Ramp

On Monday the 22nd of November, Albert James from the Manawatu District Council came to have a look at our school ramps and to get a design for some new ones. Cole and I did a quick blueprint and he said that it will take about three weeks to put the ramps together. We are all looking forward to this. By Caleb K and Cole

Swimming Instruction

These lessons have now been completed. Thank you to all parents for supporting this very worthwhile exercise and for taking the time to provide transport to and from these lessons. These yearly lessons are greatly improving the swimming skills of our students and helps develop water confidence, which is integral to water safety in our local rivers and water ways. It is hoped they will build on these swimming skills over the holidays, so that we can reap the benefits at the Oroua swimming sports being held next March.

Accounts will be sent home in the very near future, please pay them promptly so this can be settled this year.

Every Friday for the last five weeks Apiti School students went to the Makino Pool. We learnt to swim in groups and had free time and time to practise. Our group did four lengths of each stroke mostly. Thanks to all of the parents who took transport. We all learnt something new, became better swimmers and enjoyed it heaps! By Charlotte and Hannah

Year 8 Leavers Dinner

This event will take place on the 30^th of November for our Year 8 students and their parents. This will take place in the Apiti Tavern starting at 6.00p.m. The guest speaker will be Sarah Goss.

Oroua Group of Schools Athletics - Friday 3rd December

These athletics are to take place this Friday the 3rd (p.p. 10th December), at Timona Park in Feilding. You will need to be at Timona Park by 9.45 so students are ready to assemble before the 10am start. (Timona Park is off Simon St which is the second on the left past the North End BP station on the corner of Kimbolton Rd and North St). All students participate in this event. The junior circuit (for children aged 5 - 7 years) is in front of the soccer rooms on the sprint track and the senior circuit (for children aged 8 - 12+ years) is on the athletic track in front of the athletic club shed. Students need to wear their correct school uniform for this day please. All students need to take their lunch, plenty to drink, a hat and sunscreen. Lunch will be available between 12:05 and 12.35. Kiwitea School will have sausages, muffins and drinks on sale throughout the day. The senior students day is expected to end at approximately 2.30. The junior students will finish at lunchtime and then become the responsibility of their parents / caregivers. However these times are only a guide and parents who leave should return to the park early in-case the programme finishes early.

Parents will need to provide transport for their own children and the bus will not run at all on this day. If the event is postponed due to weather conditions (not looking likely), an announcement will come over the radio from 7am onwards and the phone tree will operate. Parents are asked to help with the events our school is responsible for (senior high jump and junior ball throw), so please make yourself available during the day to help out with these events, as we can not run them without your help.

Safety - The river, the road and the playground are out of bounds to all children of all ages at all times!!

Beach Study

You will have noticed that we had Monday or Tuesday penciled in for a study of the beach, water, tides and shore with Anwyl Minaar. Unfortunately the tides and available time do not coincide! We have decided to delay our trip to the beach until next year to enable us to make the most of this learning opportunity.

Future Planning

All students will continue over the next three weeks to reflect on their learning over the year as part of their end of year reporting to parents, finalize publication of their picture books to be sent to help students in Vanuatu, put together our end of year magazine, practice for the Oroua Athletic Sports, plan and implement our Green Gold Enviro Celebration, our end of year student celebration, and continue to share with and learn from experts such as Brian Coles and Ange Armstrong-Lush. Learning really is for life!

Junior Room Stories

At swimming I am learning to do butterfly. I am learning to do breast stroke and back stroke. I am learning to do a rolling log. Swimming is fun. – By Keanu. (age 7)

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I like school because it is awesome to play and learn. - By Alex. (age 5)

Use our Blog

We are very excited to see more and more people are viewing our blog. See the statistics below.

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Please be one of the many people who are now viewing our blog/newsletter online, we would appreciate it if lots of you cancel your paper newsletter copy, as this helps us reduce printing and paper costs and respects our environment. At times, especially when Christine is not working, we put school updates online and you have up to the minute news. This blog/newsletter has been very positively received, so get with it !! View online !!

Well that's it for this week folks, will catch you again in a fortnight. Regards, Mary, Nicki, Pat, Mary B & Christine.

The Big Bush Read / Read Plus

Please find attached, flyers with all the information regarding these programmes. - J. Hogan (Children's Librarian).

COMMUNITY NOTICES

Hi from the Tavern. What beautiful weather, summer is here.

We have a lot on at the Tavern in the next few weeks. Here is a list of events:

The Hub Church are having a Church service here on Sunday the 5th of December at 10.30am - morning tea provided. Everybody is most welcome to come.
Ladies Night Christmas Party Wednesday the 8th of December. Could you please ring me if you have not done so yet. $18.00 per person. Please bring along a small gift (value of $5.00 - no sweets or cakes please) and if you have one, a joke (no pressure). All ladies are most welcome. Please book with June on 3284 802. If you require further information, please ring Wendy on 3284 855.
Golf Dinner is being held on Saturday night the 18th of December
Community Christmas Dinner is on Wednesday night the 22nd of December this year. We will be having Father Christmas visit with gifts to be given out by him. Please make sure you book in early.
A big happy birthday to Derek on his 80th Birthday from everyone at the Tavern.
Hope all the Christmas shopping goes well. Cheers June.

Apiti Community Committee

Everyone is invited to the Apiti Community Committee Triennial Public Meeting on Wednesday the 15th of December in the Apiti Hall starting at 7.30pm. Our liaison Councillor, Tony Jensen will also be attending. Any apologies/queries to H. Digby on 3284 833. - P. Prince.

Apiti & Districts 125^th Jubilee

The next jubilee meeting will be held on Tuesday the 7th of December in the tavern starting at 7.30pm. All community members are most welcome to come along.

Jubilee Horse Trek - This event is happening on Saturday the 11^th of December starting at 10am. Over 4 hours of trekking across a variety of local high country terrain, including loops for riders to have a gallop away from the riders who enjoy a more leisurely pace. All children must be competent riders and must be accompanied by an adult rider. Helmets are recommended. Lunch and afternoon tea is provided. Cost is $35.00 per person. All proceeds go towards the running costs for the Apiti & District 125th Jubilee. For more information and bookings, phone Sandie on 3284 818 or Rhonda on 3284 788. A disclaimer must be signed by all riders. - S. Warren.

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