2016.10.10

2016 Term Dates :  Term 4 : 10th October - 20th December.  

Welcome to week 1 of term 4, 2016. This is always a very busy term … but also a rewarding one as we continue to learn and reflect on our learning and achievements from the year.

Our focus for 2016 ... Whanuangatanga - learning together, accepting and involving family and others; including seeing through the eyes of others.

Calendar of Events
Term 4 starts : 10th October.
13th October : Oroua Touch Tournament - Transport required please.
13th October : School Jubilee Meeting at 7.30pm
20th October : Lamb and Calf Day.
24th October : LABOUR DAY - school closed.
26th October : AIA Healthy Kids Challenge begins
28th October : Swimming lessons start. Lessons are each Friday (see this newsletter for details)  - Transport required please.
31st October : Feilding School Principals to visit Apiti School.
31 October : Board of Trustees Meeting at 7pm.
15th November : GRIP Leadership course  - Transport required please.
25th November : Oroua Athletic Sports (PPD 2nd November)  - Transport required please.
6th December : Te Manawa visit  - Transport required please.
9th December : Student Reports shared with parents.
Week 10 : Student/Parent/Teacher goal setting conferences (Optional)
12th December : Oroua Leavers Dinner - Apiti Tavern.
14th December : Apiti School Bush Walk TBC (PPD 15th Dec)  - Transport required please.
19th December : Final school assembly.
20th December : Last day of school.

Please note: These dates are updated as required. Please visit our google calendar for the most up to date info.

Term 4 Staffing
Unfortunately Mary had quite a bad fall while in Indonesia during the holidays, leaving her in hospital with a badly broken ankle and unable to start the term. Our thoughts are with her and we wish her a very speedy recovery. It is at times like this that it is great to have such an experienced team at Apiti School. Until Mary returns Linda Penfold will be teaching in the junior room. Please don’t hesitate to contact Nicki at any time, as she is the Acting Principal at school in Mary’s absence.   

Celebrating our Successes:
This term we will continue to share our students achievements learning independently online. This is a great way for all students to challenge themselves and learn at their own pace in a motivating environment. It also makes a great homework challenge.
Our particular focus this term will be Mathletics, Reading express and Reading eggs, Sumdog Maths and Reading; plus reading and spelling progress.
There is also a minecraft competition we are entering “Design your own Dream Home”.  Students are welcome to work on this at home.

LOOKING AHEAD FOR THIS TERM:
Oroua Touch Tournament - Whole School
Our touch module from term 3 culminates with an Oroua Touch Tournament at the Kimbolton Domain this Thursday. All students need to be there by 9.30am. We will therefore need to leave school just after 9am. We will let you know the end time when we have more details. We need a parent to help manage the year 1 - 2  teams please. Please let Nicki or Christine know asap if you are able to help with transport to / from the event and/or managing a team. Students will need to wear full sports uniform and take a good lunch / snacks and water bottle. We would like to thank Brad and Crete for their tuition and organisation of the event.
Sport Manawatu PE Module - Athletics
Our next module is athletics. Could all students please be prepared daily with PE gear. We will begin practice next week in preparation for the Athletics Sports at the end of the term.
Every year a parent kindly tops up the long jump pit. If you are able to do this please let Nicki know … many thanks.

Lamb and Calf Day - Thursday 20th October
Please look at the link on the weebly. Click on links and information ...Term 4 … Lamb and Calf Day or click on this link .http://bit.ly/2cPnnuC
Students have decided on the learning tasks to be completed on the afternoon before/morning of Lamb and Calf Day. They are as follows:
  1. Miniature Scene in a roasting tray sized container showing how things work together
  2. Live arrangement in a decorated container e.g. decorated gumboot, egg cup, shoe etc
  3. Sculpture for an indoor / outdoor table using recycled materials
Students are encouraged to think about and plan these at home but they must be put together totally at school next week.
Note: We share all flowers and greenery to encourage creativity and thinking of others.

This week, at school, students will be completing their:-
  • Poster to promote their country,
  • Photo Essay (4-7 photos to tell a story visually)
  • Presented Photo.
Students are encouraged to discuss their ideas with you and to take their photos in their own time. They can be sent to school via email (in large format) or shared on google drive or on a pendrive. If your child would like help with this please contact Nicki.
HELP PLEASE: Are you able to donate your spare pillows and cushions? We still need stuffing for a few of the students cushions. Just send them to school … many thanks.
Lamb and Calf Day also provides a real opportunity for students to complete a range of tasks in a set time. This helps students develop their time management skills; a skill that is extremely important both for high school and beyond.  This Day also 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.
This day consists of three parts : Indoor section in the morning, Outdoor section in the afternoon and Whanau Group section.  
Programme
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/Playcentre)
: Judging of Calves commences (Senior/Junior)
At the completion of outside judging, the indoor exhibits will be open for viewing.  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.  
Lambs are judged on Leading, Calling, and Rearing.  Calves are judged on Leading, Walking without a lead and Care and Attention.
Pre-school children are welcome to bring their lamb – their section will be after the school lambs.  They are also welcome to join us for the fun events.
Fun events will be held while points are being added up, for ‘best dressed lamb and calf’ and a ‘drinking competition’ if you would like to bring 200mls for your lamb and 2 litres for your calf.
Cups / Trophies
Could all of last year’s cup winners return your cups to school, all polished up as soon as possible please.
Shared Lunch / Afternoon Tea
ASSA organises the shared lunch and afternoon tea for the day.  Could each family please contribute a meat, salad or vege dish e.g quiche, bacon and egg pies / sausage rolls etc for lunch and a small plate for afternoon tea.  We would like to invite all families, community members and friends to join the judges for a shared lunch at 12.00, before the lamb and calf section starts.   
We are running a grocery raffle on the day, so could each family please provide 3 non-perishable items to contribute to this raffle.  These items can be dropped into the school staff room any time before Thursday the 24th please - thank you!  Tickets will be available through-out the day.  We look forward to seeing you all here on the day.

AIA Healthy Kids Challenge
Apiti Students will begin this challenge on the 26th of October. We are just waiting for the pedometers to arrive. Their real steps will be used to take them on a virtual adventure. Parents are also encouraged to join in.  If you would like to know more, visit https://www.heathlykids.kiwi

Email from the AIA Healthy Kids Challenge Support Crew
Dear Parents
You may know that our class is participating in the AIA Healthy Kids Challenge. It's a fun virtual adventure around the globe, led by rugby star Cory Jane and his special guests. We all create our own little avatars and each child will receive a free pedometer to count steps in the real world that will move our team around the online race track. As our steps move us to a new destination, we see a video of our class of avatars exploring with Cory and getting some healthy tips too.

We need your help too! We'd love you to get involved so you can support and encourage your child to get moving more often and help us get more entries into the draw to win one of 20 $1000 AIA sporting grants for our school and one of 50 Huawei tablets for our classrooms. Simply join the Parents Class Team and count your steps to help move your team around the same course as the kids. Race against other parents teams, get active with your child and have some fun along the way.


You will get an email confirming your place and letting you know what to do next. To find out more go to https://www.healthykids.kiwi and read the Parents section of the website.
Thank you for your support.

Community of Learning
Feilding Schools are joining to establish a professional learning group (Community of Learning). This is in the initial stages of development. As part of this School Principals will be visiting all of our Feilding and District Schools, including Apiti School on the 31st of October. We look forward to sharing with other education professionals in our area.

Bon Apiti
This term’s Healthy Lunches will be decided after Lamb and Calf Day.
 
Board of Trustee Meeting
At the last BOT meeting it was decided to do a survey. The first survey will be on Digital Technology in Apiti. To help us get feedback from the community and plan programmes and deliver them according to the community. Please send any ideas, questions to the school so they can be added to this survey.  The next BOT meeting will be Monday the 31st of October, in the staff room starting at 7.00pm.  All members of the public are welcome to attend.   

Swimming Lessons
We have swimming lessons booked in at the Feilding Makino Aquatic Centre with 2 lessons per day on the following dates : Friday 28th October, Friday 4th, 11th, 18th November, 9th December We will leave school at 11.30am. Please mark these dates on your calendar. We would really appreciate it if you could email or ring Christine to let her know the dates you can help with transport as soon as possible. We understand the commitment and appreciate everyone doing their bit to make this a success.
The difference between a student’s swimming ability from the first to final lesson each year, their confidence in the water and our improved placings at the Oroua Swimming Sports over the years, demonstrates the value of our annual swimming programme. It is a great time to focus on swimming as we head into the holidays … a time when many students spend a lot of time in the water and around local rivers.

Reminders
  • Students do not need cellphones at school for learning. We have a great range of learning devices at school. If your child needs to bring a phone to school it is expected to stay in their bag the entire time they are at school, unless they have organised with their teacher to use it for something particular.
  • Please shut the entrance gates. These are temporary until we get our new fence.
  • Please respect our school.  Should your dog enter the school grounds, please clean up after it. Many thanks.

Thank you
A huge thank you to …
  • Christine … our school looks fantastic to start the term once again. Many thanks … it does not go unnoticed!
  • Pat … we all appreciated the many extra hours you spent helping students achieve their plan for their cushions in the final week of term!

Labour Weekend
School will be closed on Monday the 24th of October and will re-open on Tuesday the 25th of October at 9.00am.  Have a great long weekend.

ASSA
Please find attached, a fundraising letter from Maryann for you to read, fill in and return to school.

Apiti School 125th Jubilee minutes - 15.9.2016
Present : Pat Prince , Nikita Lowe, Hilton and Christine Digby and Mary Cuming
Apologies : Kimberley McIntyre, Hugh McIntyre, Rebecca Kelynack (nee Goodall ), Martin family.
General Business :
  1. It was decided there were not enough people attending this meeting to form a committee.
  2. It would be great to see some more ex- students of the school or ex-staff or BOT or committee members or even community people .  
  3. We will advertise more and ask as many people as possible, Christine will put it on school newsletter.  
  4. Nikita will put it on Facebook and advertise it widely.
Next meeting 13th Oct 2016 at 7.30 in the school staff room. Hope to see you then.

Happy Birthday to the following student, we hope you have a great day!  -  21st October - Johnny!
Regards, Mary, Nicki, Linda, Pat, Pam, Mary B, Jenni and Christine.



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