2014.08.18

Welcome to week 5 of Term 3, 2014.

Dates for Your Calendar

21st August       - Oroua Group of Schools Speech Competition at 1.00pm.

15th September -  BOT Meeting.

17th September -  Ski Trip.  

19th, 24th Sept. -  pp Ski Trip.  
23rd September - Basketball Fun Festival Day.

26th September - Term 3 ends.  

13th October    -   Term 4 begins.

Please remember to check the calendar on our School website for the most up to date information http://apitischool.weebly.com/

Oroua Hockey Fun Festival Day

The Oroua Hockey celebration was a fantastic day and a great way to put developed and newly learnt skills into action. Many thanks to those parents who provided transport for this event, and to Cheltenham School and Hockey Manawatu for organising it.

Hockey Report

Clunk Clunk Clang

After a term of hockey training the Oroua group finished with a day of games to test our skills last Tuesday, at the Twin Turf in Palmerston North.

Over the last two years The Oroua schools have been enjoying the fun of a range of sports. Each term a different sport is focussed on. Coaches come to each school to teach us these amazing sports. So far we have learnt to play golf, hockey, touch, soccer, tennis and cricket. This tern we will be learning basketball. When the coaches visit our schools they teach us all the skills they know and encourage us to strive to be the best and to shoot for the stars. We learn to be good sports and we aim for victory.

An example was learning cricket. Each week we learnt how to bowl and hit the ball and field. At the end of the term we got together in Feilding for a tournament.We are definitely enjoying learning with Sport Manawatu as it is a great way to learn new sports. We have especially enjoyed learning hockey and touch.

Learning hockey we learnt new skills and how to play the game. It was great to have a fantastic coach called Stefan. He was awesome because he did it with us.

First he taught us how to hold the stick with two hands and dribble. We learnt how to push pass. We made sure we kept our stick close to the ball so we had more control. A simple and important rule is to keep your stick low.  We warmed up before each game. He split us into groups to practice. It was enjoyable because we learnt some new skills for hockey and got better at the basics. Even people who play hockey got better. We had to be careful not to hit people with a stick. 

All of our learning came together when we played at our hockey tournament with the other Oroua Schools. We met at the hockey turf and got separated into mixed teams according to age and year. We played three games. All were quite hard and it was a great competition. We also had to face both of the trainers at one stage because we were winning by quite a lot. But I outsmarted them as we kept as a group and communicated well. We now know what to do and to improve on. As we kept playing our games we thought about where to be for defence, attack and goalie. It was a great day as everyone had fun ... noone lost ... noone won ... everyone just enjoyed it. We especially liked it at the end when everyone got to shoot at the goalie. I loved seeing the safety gear a goalie wears and what an actual looks like.

We now look forward to basketball. I can't wait to see what we are going to learn and for the tournament at the end.  - Written cooperatively by Lacey, Nikki, Brooke, Travis and Derek

Apiti School Speech Competition

Wow what wonderful inspirational speeches all students gave last Friday at our speech competition.  It was obvious that all students researched their subjects well.  It is an amazing skill to be able to stand and deliver an interesting speech before an audience - confidence orally is the key to so many opportunities, well done to you all.  

Congratulations to the following students : 1st - Hannah (Malala Yousafzai).  2nd - Zahn (Nelson Mandela).  3rd - Huntah. 4th= Brooke / Tyler.

Hannah and Zahn will now represent Apiti School at the Oroua Speech Competition being held this Thursday the 21st, at Kimbolton starting at 1.00pm.  Good luck Hannah and Zahn.  Some senior students are welcome to attend to support our two speakers.

Thank you to all those parents who came along to listen and to support our students, it was wonderful to have you all here. A huge thank you to our judge, Mrs Mary Burton for taking on this unenviable task and as per usual, a job well done.  A special thank you to June for helping our students prepare afternoon tea, it was a real treat.  

For the speech competition, Bon Apiti made meringues, some chocolate brownies, kebabs and cheese rolls.  We had a lot of great speeches to say.  I think that we get better every year!  I am nervous about going to the Oroua competition.  -  By Hannah.   

On Friday, it was the Speech Competition.  I felt really good.  I got better at saying it.  I learnt my speech every night with my Mum and Dad.  My speech is about Catherine the Duchess of Cambridge.  The judge said “A brilliant job Lauren, you spoke so confidently and kept everyone interested.”  Next year, I will try not to have my cards and remember my speech.  -  By Lauren.         

Basketball  

Our next sport focus with Sport Manawatu, is Basketball.  These lessons will start tomorrow afternoon and will continue every Tuesday afternoon for the next 6 weeks. The Basketball festival day will be for all students on the 23rd Sept and we will need transport for this. More details later. 

Ski Dates

We have penciled in the following dates for our school trip to Mt Ruapehu:-

Wednesday the 17th of September as first choice.

ppd :- Friday the 19th of September, 2nd choice.

pppd :- Wednesday the 24th of September, last resort.

For a successful day, weather is of-course the leading factor as we really do want our students to have a positive ski experience and with the weather forecasting ability these days, it means we are able to decide the day before if the weather is suitable or not.

Forms will be sent home in the very near future for you to fill in. 

Lamb and Calf Day Learning
Click on this link https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ib7ONsYR8NlF6sQep-LDrDsayYP89OD6e7e2nP9dRsU/edit  to get the most updated info re-Lamb and Calf Day information, I have copied the latest info here,  but this info is regularly updated as the students and teachers plan the learning - 
We are looking forward to your Pet / Animal photos for Lamb and Calf Day, these will also be put into the Vet Club calendar competition. Please email, or send them to school on a removable drive. 

Lamb and Calf Day provides a great opportunity for our school to showcase student learning and celebrate success. This open day is a meaningful opportunity to present work from many areas of the curriculum, in a variety of formats.

Date - Thursday 23rd October 2014

This day consists of three parts : Indoor section in the morning, Outdoor section in the afternoon and Whanau Group section.  

Programme

Students arrive at school, at the normal time, with required items for the indoor exhibits to be completed independently in the morning.

9.00 - 10.15 :   Students complete Learning Tasks (Junior/Intermediate/Senior)

10.30 - 11.00 : Morning Tea.

11.00 - 12.00 : Judging of Indoor Individual Exhibits  

                       Students complete Whanau Group Learning Tasks.

12.00 - 1.00  :  Shared Lunch.

Calves / Lambs to arrive before 12.45.

1.00   :  Judging of Lambs commences (Junior/Intermediate/Senior/Pre-school)

            Judging of Calves commences (Senior/Junior)

The indoor exhibits will be open for viewing after judging has finished.

The Native area can be viewed at any time through-out the day.

This will be followed by Prize-giving and afternoon Tea.   

We welcome families, friends, neighbours and all community members to our school for this day from 12 noon. The day will run wet or fine.  

Context – Inspirations …

Completed at school before Lamb and Calf day

1 . Graphic Design

Graphic design is a creative process — most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form (i.e., printers, programmers, signmakers, etc.) — undertaken in order to convey a specific message (or messages) to a targeted audience.

Your digital graphic design will:

• Have a visual impact on the viewer - grab attention.

• Convey a clear inspirational message to a targeted audience

• Use words, images, symbols and graphs (where appropriate)

• Have a clear heading, subheadings/logo to enhance the message

• Have a relationship and a flow between the elements

• Be able to be viewed in A4 size (on a screen)

2. Informative essay

Use essay writing skills to inform others about an inspirational person, past or present.

Your Essay will:

• Have a max of 1200 words  (age appropriate)

• Inform us using the essay format

• Communicate your understanding clearly

• Use technical and quality language

• Use interesting sentence structures and language features

• Use correct grammar and spelling.

• Be referenced

3. Published Essay

Use creative techniques to publish your essay for readers

Your Published Story will:

• Be printed out A3 size
• Be visually appealing to readers
• Look professional and balanced
• Be published A2 size and include a border
• Use fonts, images and visual language to enhance the message

4. Pottery -

Your pottery piece will:

• Focus on design - pleasing / interesting / unique
• Use skills required for wheel / slab pottery
• Have smooth edges and joins.
• Have a label advertising use and purpose.

5.   Creative photography

Use imagery to capture a pet or local animal in an interesting way

Your photograph will:

• Be taken by the student
• Inspire us through its originality and use of elements
• Have good composition (Thirds rule, foreground, background, balance and order)
• Show one or more of the elements (line, colour, light)
• Demonstrate awareness of angle; frame and/or macro
• Be printed onto A4 and framed using A3
• Have an original title that gives perspective to the photo
• • Have good composition (Thirds rule, 6. Inspirational Art

Use art techniques to create an original piece based on an artist’s style

The art will:

• Be drawn by the student onto A3 paper
• Have good composition and demonstrate awareness of shape, angle and perspective
• Be drawn in a particular style
• Show use of stroke and shading techniques
• Show use of colour and colour mixing

7. Photo Essay

A photo essay uses visual images and story telling techniques to tell a story or to illustrate feelings and concepts - artist / sport etc.

A photo essay is a collection of related images that tell the progression of events, or illustrate an emotion, concept or key competency. Depending on the 'story', photos can placed in a specific order (similar to a flow chart) or can be arranged as a collection designed to add impact to the story.

Your photo essay will:

• Contain original photos taken by the student/s

• Have a title

• Contain between 4 and 7 photographs.

• Tell a clear, compelling story, or illustrate an emotion, event, or key competency

• Demonstrate good photography techniques and composition

• Be combined into a collage and saved as one image file e.g. .jpg or .png (photo software or apps can be used to create the collage.)

Potatoes for Sale

A reminder that the Corbett Family are currently supplying us with bags of potatoes to sell for our school. Please contact the school / Travis if you would like to purchase a bag/s at $6.00 per bag.  A huge thank you to the Corbett Family for this very generous donation.  - Travis 

Sports Report – by Huntah. Saturday the 9th of August

Rugby cancelled.

Friday Hockey - Zahn and Tylers team, Oroua – 3, played Bulls – 0.

Netball – Zahn and Hannah’s team, Bunnythorpe – 25, played St Josephs – 3.  Hannah was named Player of the Day.

Brookes team, Oroua – 6, played Halcombe – 5.

Sunday 10th August

Huntah's Under 12 Manawatu rep team -  104, played Horowhenua/Kapiti reps - 5.

Dylans, Tylers and James Feilding rep games were cancelled. 

Saturday 16th August

Friday Hockey – Zahn and Tyler’s team, Oroua – 3, played Hunterville – 6.  Zahn scored 1 goal.

Rugby - Zahn and Huntah's team, Highlanders – 55, played Marist – 10.  It was the semi-final. The Highlanders play PNBHS old boys in the grand final next Saturday.

Dylan and James team, Manawatu had a bye.

Tyler and Johnny's team, North Harbour – 6, played Auckland – 8.

Netball – Zahn and Hannah’s team, Bunnythorpe – 13, played North St Blue – 14.

Flipperball – Hannah’s team, Oroua – 3, played Halcombe – 17.

Happy Birthday to Mary who celebrates her birthday today - we hope you have a great day!!