Welcome to week 8 of term 2, 2015 and only 4 weeks of term 2 left, but 4 very busy weeks, with lots of learning both in and out of the classroom. The cross country and the production both happening within those 4 weeks!!
Dates for your Calendar
19th June - Oroua Schools Cross Country at Waituna West (p.p date: 26th June).
1st July - Production Dress Rehearsal.
2nd July - School Production.
3rd July - Term 2 ends.
20th July - Term 3 begins.
Please view our google calendar for more details.
Welcome
We would like to say a very big welcome to Cidnee and her family to our school and district. Cidnee joins us as a Year 2 student. We know Cidnee will enjoy learning at Apiti School and we are looking forward to her younger sister joining us later in the year.
What's coming up ...
2nd July - School Production.
3rd July - Term 2 ends.
20th July - Term 3 begins.
Please view our google calendar for more details.
Welcome
We would like to say a very big welcome to Cidnee and her family to our school and district. Cidnee joins us as a Year 2 student. We know Cidnee will enjoy learning at Apiti School and we are looking forward to her younger sister joining us later in the year.
What's coming up ...
All students are training well for the cross country, please give some thought to footwear, as there are creeks for the older students to go through and thistles and stones. Students should be training in the footwear they expect to wear at the cross country. If you would like to organise a practise run on the course before the day please let us know.
Congratulations to Huntah who competed in the Interschool cross country at Ashhurst recently. Huntah finished a very admirable 18th place out of a field of 80+ runners from schools in the wider Manawatu / Horowhenua area. Excellent result Huntah!
Oroua Schools Cross Country - Friday 19th June
The Oroua Group of School Cross Country will be happening on Friday the 19th of June (postponement date : 26th June) at Waituna West School. As this is a school day, all children are expected to attend. Students need to arrive at Waituna West by 10.00am to walk the course (with guides). The first race starts at 11.00 with the 7 year old students running a distance of 1.4 klms. 11.15 - 8 year olds (1.4klms). 11.30 - 5 year olds (600mtrs). 11.45 - 6 year olds (600mtres). 12.00 - 9 year olds (2.2klms). 12.15 - 10 year olds (2.2klms). 12.30 - 11 year olds (2.8klms). 12.45 - 12+ year olds (2.8klms).
Boys and girls will run together but will be recorded separately. Certificates will be presented after each race. The course could be muddy and there will be some water to negotiate for the older children, so please make sure they take a change of footwear and warm clothes as they may get wet and muddy. Students run in the age group that they are on the day. Parents are welcome to watch runners on the course as long as you keep off the track and out of the way of competitors, it is not suitable to run with your child but you may like to be by the fence to help all students over. .
Students will need to wear their sports uniform please and take a good packed lunch, or money to buy it, warm clothing e.g beanie, jacket, suitable footwear for running in and maybe wet weather gear.This event is a winter event, so be prepared.
Parents are required to transport their own children to this event, however if you have difficulty with this, please contact Mary a.s.a.p. The bus will not run at all on this day. It is great to see so many Apiti parents at this event every year supporting our students. If parents do not stay to support the runners, please make sure you return in time for pick up at 1.30pm. If the event is postponed, which would be very unusual the phone tree will operate and it will be school as usual.
There will be sausages/small savouries/soup/slices/hot drinks/cold drinks for sale throughout the day. If you require further information, please don't hesitate to ring the school.
Footrot Flats
The students are working hard towards our annual Production. All students should now know their words. We are needing an old small water tank and sheep and dog onesies or light sheep skin mats if you have any we could borrow. We also need white or black tights, white or black long sleeve skivvies and some old stockings/panty-hose for the sheep to wear. It would be very much appreciated if you could send any of the above along to school a.s.a.p please so that we know what we have or still need to get. Also if anyone has any suitable old Footrot Flat books we could borrow, it would be great!
2015 Overall learning theme ..... I am Connected
Celebrations and Updates ...
Student Quality Learning
Week 6: Silver medal: Lauren (4276 points), Bronze medals: Tyler (2850), Phinece (1450), Dylan (1292), Hannah (1030), Top junior mathletics star: Elliot
Week 7: Bronze medals: Lauren (2750), Johnny (2711), Fisher (2277), Jayda (1311), Elliot (1160), James (1141), Dylan (1048).
Quality spelling Nikki.
Maintenance Huntah, Hannah, Brooke, Fisher, Jackson, James.
Maths strategy learning Huntah Hannah, Brooke, Johnny, Jayda.
Learning Basic facts Lauren, Sarah, Jayda.
Junior Reading Savannah has now gone up to Yellow 3, Josie and Kirsten are on Green 3..Abbey Red 2 and Elliot has also gone up a level.
Imaginative stories Elliot.
Recount writing Savannah and Cidnee .
Homework Learning
All students have passwords for Mathletics, Sumdog, Reading Eggs and Spelldrome
Sports Reports
All students have passwords for Mathletics, Sumdog, Reading Eggs and Spelldrome
Sports Reports
6/6/2015 - Netball - We played against a really hard team and we lost it was 0-5. Jayda was GK and WA and GS and Phinece was GK and GA. It was wet and hard. - Jayda.
6/6/2015 - We got the closest to the goal, but we didn't score a goal, and neither did the other team. I play for the Oroua Tigers. - Kirsten.
6/6/2015 - We got the closest to the goal, but we didn't score a goal, and neither did the other team. I play for the Oroua Tigers. - Kirsten.
6/6/2015 - We got 13 they got 0 points we won I was Centre, goal shoot, goal defence. Hayley was the player of the day, we got a packet of lollies. - Sarah.
6/6/2015 - My Team is Bunnythorpe. We play 4 quarter games. We won 19-4. I shot about half of the goals! - Hannah.
6/6/2015 - My Team is Bunnythorpe. We play 4 quarter games. We won 19-4. I shot about half of the goals! - Hannah.
30/5/2015 - Rugby - On Saturday my team played Auckland the score was something like 14-6. I scored 2 tries for my team and one for the other because I played the second half for the opposition. It was as fun as riding on a giant roller coaster in Paris. - James.
6/6/2015 - My team Waikato won and I scored three tries but my fourth wasn’t counted because it was in over time. - James.
6/6/2015 - On Saturday we went to rugby and we faced the Counties team. I did not like the counties they were doing high head tackles and kicking me when I got tackled and we lost for the second time. Then I got player of the day. It was so cold and after half time it warmed up. - Johnny.
25.5.2015 - Last Saturday we played rugby for the Feilding Blues. We lost but it was very close. The score was 35 - 30 and I scored 3 tri’s, Tyler scored 2 tries. - Dylan.
8.6.2015 - In the weekend we played rugby. We were playing another Feilding team. We lost. We were not happy because we only got one try. One time I got the ball and I ran but I got tackled and I passed the ball to Tyler and he kicked me by mistake. Next time I am going to try to score a try. - Jackson.
23/5/2015 - The 2015 high school grading games took place at Coronation Park in Palmerston North. Many teams from all over the district showed up to all play three games each in competition the best spot in the grade. Our first game was played against Wanganui Under 15’a team. With very strong competition, the boys fought strong together just to come short to lose by 15 - 12. Game two played out with our old rivals College Old Boys. A very big score rounded up to us winning 42 - 10.
Our last game was against one of the PNBHS Under 14 teams. A long anxious game it was and all the boys were starting to feel the long tired day. Try after try it was until the final whistle of the final game blew. 28 - 7 saw us win after three long games of strong fast rugby. - Huntah. 6/6/2015 - Timona park held the 4th game of the 2015 season, where the Feilding Under 14's took on the under 13/14 PNBHS team. A hard fought game ended with my team winning by 86 points to 5. Huntah scored twice. - Huntah.
Girl Guides - Week 4 - At guides this week we did mothers days gifts. We made bracelets, lip balm, bath bombs, mini pizzas and ANZAC cookies. We had to share the cooking room with the scouts who looked like they were just putting handfuls of bacon, lettuce and baked beans in a large pot. - Nikki.
Maths Rich Task - Soup Challenge
Our last game was against one of the PNBHS Under 14 teams. A long anxious game it was and all the boys were starting to feel the long tired day. Try after try it was until the final whistle of the final game blew. 28 - 7 saw us win after three long games of strong fast rugby. - Huntah. 6/6/2015 - Timona park held the 4th game of the 2015 season, where the Feilding Under 14's took on the under 13/14 PNBHS team. A hard fought game ended with my team winning by 86 points to 5. Huntah scored twice. - Huntah.
Girl Guides - Week 4 - At guides this week we did mothers days gifts. We made bracelets, lip balm, bath bombs, mini pizzas and ANZAC cookies. We had to share the cooking room with the scouts who looked like they were just putting handfuls of bacon, lettuce and baked beans in a large pot. - Nikki.
Maths Rich Task - Soup Challenge
Many thanks to all parents who discussed these with your children and provided some ingredients to help make it happen!
8/6/2015 - LAST WEEK WE DID OUR SOUP CHALLENGE. FIRST WE GOT OUR RECIPES
THEN WE CALCULATED HOW MUCH STUFF WE NEEDED AND THEN WE MADE OUR SOUPS. THERE WERE FOUR GROUPS, HUNTAH’S HANNAH'S, NIKKI’S AND MINE.
HANNAH MADE MINESTRONE, HUNTAH MADE PEA & HAM, NIKKI’S GROUP MADE CHICKEN CURRY SOUP AND MY GROUP MADE A CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP. - FISHER.
For our soup challenge we made pea and ham soup. Huntah, James, Jackson and I made it. It tasted really good. It turned out really good ... better than I thought it would. Everyone in our group liked it and everyone in the school. By the time we had finished our run it was basically finished because it was so good. I hope next time we can do a pizza challenge but it was really nice . - TylerHANNAH MADE MINESTRONE, HUNTAH MADE PEA & HAM, NIKKI’S GROUP MADE CHICKEN CURRY SOUP AND MY GROUP MADE A CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP. - FISHER.
We made chicken and noodle soup. In the soup we put egg noodles and they went all squishy so the juniors didn’t like it. Apart from the noodles it was good and all of the seniors liked it. Our soup had lots of herbs and spices. When making our soup I learnt about the importance of teamwork. It helped me with my timetables because we had to times the recipe by 5 to get enough for the whole school. Next time we will use different kinds of noodles. - Dylan.
Fungal
Foray Thank you!
Together
we made just over $3000, admittedly it did take a lot of work to make our
money!
Thank
you so much for everyone who did something for the meals. Every little
thing helped!
We
couldn't have done it without the kids helping!
What
a cool way for them to meet new people and experience things outside of their
world.
At
the beginning the catering was about the money.
By
the end of the week the money was still important but I think there was a lot
more gained by taking this job on.
- Our children's lives were enriched. They were
part of the week, cooking, serving meeting new people and they
experienced looking at our area from a different
perspective! This is invaluable life learning.
We showed how a small rural community works, with
everyone pitching in to help out!
Not all schools have this, big or small.
- Working together meant that we connected with each
other on a different level to everyday life.
- It was fun working with you and it reminded me that we need to do more together outside of work and school.
The
week was not without its stresses and I certainly learned a lot from the
week!
I
hope that everyone involved found it beneficial to be on board the team!
Many
thanks for your willing help. - Katherine.
2015 MCA
Winter Coaching Programme
The Manawatu Cricket
Association continues to provide a comprehensive Winter Coaching Programme to
help develop our junior cricketers to their full potential. The winter
programme are being offered to all junior cricketers starting the first week of
Term 3 and running for 10 weeks. Cost is $140 for ten 1 and a half hour
sessions.
U12 Monday 20th 5pm-630pm. Spots
available
U12 Tuesday 21st 5pm-630pm FULL.
If your child is still 11 or
younger before the 1st of September he or she will be in the U12
group.
The winter programme is
specifically designed to help players develop their batting, bowling, and
fielding skills appropriate to their ability and age. The courses are run by
experienced, fully qualified coaches who will provide a fun environment to
develop your cricket skills.
All sessions will be at the
NZCT Cricket Centre on Park Road. Book in quick as spots are already filling up fast. Bookings and
info please contact michaelmason@mca.org.nz
- 2nd June - Phinece! - 13th June - James!
