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Rosemary Vivien Principal • Edendale Primary School, 419 Sandringham Road, Sandringham, Auckland 1025
Telephone: 09 846 6340 • Facsimile: 09 846 3997 • Email: [email protected] or [email protected] •
Website: http://www.edendale.school.nz/
Edendale News
THE EDENDALE EXPERIENCE: THINKING, LEARNING, CREATING
15 May 2013
Next issue: 29 May 2013
Message from the Principal
Kia ora, Kia orana, Namaste, Talofa lava, Malo e lelei, Ni hao ma, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Asalam alikum!
Welcome Welcome to all new families who have recently enrolled students at Edendale. We do hope that you
enjoy being a part of our school community and we look forward to getting to know you all better.
Welcome also to Jeremy Hantler our new music teacher, Jeremy is also the new release teacher for
Rooms 27 and 28. You can read a little more about him on the next page. Also Welcome to
Nikita Tapora who is our new Year 0 teacher in Room 22. Amanda Will joins us next week as release
teacher for Rooms 2 and 3. Jackie Howard will join us next term (or earlier if possible) as our
part-time specialist Maths teacher. We look forward to welcoming both Amanda and Jackie to our staff.
School Donations and Activity Fees
Thank you to all parents and caregivers who have contributed donations and activity fees to date. We
very much appreciate your support for the additional programmes we provide at Edendale. Please
consider making a donation if you have not already done so. A reminder that activity fees are
compulsory. To date, school-wide, 40% of families have contributed a donation and 60% have paid
the activity fee. Thank you for your continued support! We will give an update on these figures later in
the term.
Food Revolution Day - Friday 17 May All classes are participating in the Food Revolution Day tomorrow, supported by the Garden-to-Table
Trust and led by Jamie Oliver, who has recently introduced Garden-to-Table programmes to UK schools.
The aim of the day is to promote healthy homemade foods. TVNZ will be sending their ‘Breakfast’ crew
to our kitchen classroom to film Room 28 enjoying their pyjama party breakfast and also a group of Year
5-6 students cooking healthy frittatas and muffins for the staff and for their team. The students are very
excited about their participation in this programme.
Rosemary Vivien, Principal
BOARD OF TRUSTEES ELECTION
PRESENTATIONS, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
THURSDAY 23 MAY - 7:00 -8:00PM VENUE: SCHOOL HALL
Ten candidates have been nominated for our next Board of Trustees. All parents/
caregivers are invited and encouraged to attend this meeting to hear our candidates speak about ways in which they can contribute as your representatives for the
governance of Edendale School for the next three years. Do join us for this very
important meeting. A crèche will be available in the staffroom.
Please read our candidate statements which will be mailed out along with voting forms early next week. There will be an opportunity to ask questions of each
candidate after they speak. We look forward to seeing you all at the meeting!
Rosemary Vivien Principal • Edendale Primary School, 419 Sandringham Road, Sandringham, Auckland 1025
Telephone: 09 846 6340 • Facsimile: 09 846 3997 • Email: [email protected] or [email protected] •
Website: http://www.edendale.school.nz/
School Information • Programmes • Awards
ICAS Computer Skills Competition Students who are sitting the Computer Skills Exam on Tuesday 21st May will need to have a ruler,
eraser, and a 2B or B pencil. These are available before school at the school office.
Music Room News Jeremy Hantler is our new music teacher. He has a First Class honours degree in Jazz
Performance drumming, a Diploma in Primary Teaching, and is passionate about fostering
creativity in our children. Mr Hantler has recently completed Level 1 Orff Training, a University
affiliated professional development course inspired by the research and teaching style of Carl Orff.
This approach aims to re-connect music with speech, dance, drama, and visual arts; while
encouraging children to rehearse, compose, and perform at all stages of musical literacy. It is a
fun way to engage children with the music curriculum, and gives them access to many mediums
they can use to express themselves.
If you are interested in helping out with the music programme with materials/home workshop/
instrumental skills/great ideas – please don’t hesitate to email him at [email protected].
Update of contact details
It is important that the office has correct details so we are able to contact you if your child is unwell and
correspondence can be sent to the correct address.
Please phone the school by 8.30am if your child is absent from school. Phone 846 6340 and push 1 for
the absentee line. Please leave your child’s full name, room number and reason for absence.
For change of pickup arrangements for school, please contact the office by telephone before 2pm.
Please do not text the school, as phones are not monitored for incoming text messages.
Garden to Table
With autumn upon us we are in the process of planting our winter and spring crops,
broccoli, peas, spinach and silverbeet, cabbage and broad beans. We still have plenty of
root crops and herbs to get us through our cooking sessions with some unusual crops
such asyakon, celeriac, Jerusalem and salsify to try! Jodie has been teaching the children about different plant families (eg leafy greens, legumes, fruit,
root crops, tubers) these are plants that are grouped together that have similar needs like water, soil
pH and sun. In the kitchen we have been baking feijoa, apple and banana crumble using up the feijoas from
our orchard and Sarah’s garden, and our frozen bananas from the orchard, the perfect dish for the
cooler days! Our focus has been on bread, its origins and what part yeast plays in the making of bread, we learnt
about proving and kneading and the results were delicious carrot and sunflower seed bread rolls. We are wanting to plant potatoes in the green house, if you have any spare clean 10 litre plastic paint
pots we would appreciate them you can leave by our Garden to table shed. We still have spaces available Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday for volunteers, if you are interested in
any of the days we would love to hear from you, please contact [email protected]
Sarah and Jodie
We’re 104 years old on 29 May!
We celebrate our 104th birthday in two weeks time! All teams are planning fun activities for students
during one learning block of the day, including talking about what school was like in ‘the old days’. I’m
going to bring some ‘Janet and John’ reading books and stamps to share with Year 0-1 students, from
my early school days at Model Country, Epsom (now Kohia Terrace School). You might like to talk with
your own children about your schooling from your primary school years!
Rosemary Vivien Principal • Edendale Primary School, 419 Sandringham Road, Sandringham, Auckland 1025
Telephone: 09 846 6340 • Facsimile: 09 846 3997 • Email: [email protected] or [email protected] •
Website: http://www.edendale.school.nz/
School Information • Programmes • Notices
News from Edendale’s PTA Movie Night Update!
Movie Night will be held at the Capitol, Balmoral on Sunday 19th May. The movie we will be a
pre-screening of the NZ movie ‘Shopping’ – A fabulous movie that has had great reviews! ‘Shopping’
won the Grand Prix at the Berlin film festival! Tickets are $20 – this includes a glass of bubbles and a
sweet treat. Start time 7:15pm.
There will be raffles, silent auctions and spot prizes on the night. There are many fantastic items to win
and bid on! Tickets are sale on NOW in the morning and afternoon every day outside Room 9.
Bids on the silent auctions can also be made there. You can bid on the auctions even if you cannot make
the Movie Night!! Bidding on the auction can also be done at the Movie Night. Tickets are limited so get
your tickets NOW! Can you help us?
Are you a caterer or baker? If you are and you can help us please email the PTA at
[email protected] Fotoman
Thank you to everyone who participated in this fundraiser. New Entertainment book for 2013/2014!
This book is filled with a huge range of discount vouchers for dining, travel and recreation. Books cost
only $65.00 with $13.00 from each sale going to the school. You can order now online
at: https://www.entertainmentbook.co.nz/orderbooks/991b27 or at the school office. Quiz Night
Will be held on Friday 28th June. We will be having auctions on the night so if you have any items or
services to contribute please email us or leave it at the office for us. We NEED Parent Class Reps!!!
We currently only have class reps for: Rooms 1, 3, 4, 9, 12, 15, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27. So we need reps
for: Rooms 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 16, 19, 23, 26, 28. If you would like to be a class rep for your child’s
class please let the teacher know so they can forward your details on to the PTA or you can email us
directly at [email protected]
The Parent Rep may be required to: pass on PTA information to parents/care givers and teacher,
promote fundraisers, inform PTA liaison of any suggestions, ideas or feedback from parents/care givers
or teacher organise with class teacher fundraising projects (e.g. collecting items for a raffle). Attending
PTA meetings is not required. If you have any questions about this please email us. PTA Meeting
The next PTA meeting will be held in the meeting room Thursday 16 May 7:00pm. Edendale PTA
Can you help out in our orchard? A group of parents who meet on Wednesday’s at 2.00pm to weed, mulch, prune, etc. in the
orchard would love more help; If you are able to come along and assist please contact
Fiona Paul:021 1742974 or 620 9498 [email protected]
Edendale Playground Taonga Winners (Positive Behaviour Tickets)
The following students were recently spotted and have sports equipment for their class for the next
fortnight :
Taonga Winner: Stella—Rm7
Keeping our grounds clean and tidy: Stella—Rm7, Romi—Rm18, Keira—Rm20, Lima—Rm6
Helping others: Ana-Hera—Rm28
Our next school assembly will be held on Monday 27 May at 10:00am
Rosemary Vivien Principal • Edendale Primary School, 419 Sandringham Road, Sandringham, Auckland 1025
Telephone: 09 846 6340 • Facsimile: 09 846 3997 • Email: [email protected] or [email protected] •
Website: http://www.edendale.school.nz/
Board of Trustees
Next meeting will be held in the Meeting Room
Tuesday 28 May 2013 at 7:15pm
All welcome to attend
Edendale PTA
Next meeting will be held in the Meeting Room
Thursday 16 May at 7:00pm
All welcome to attend
School Information • Tuakana Stories and Art • Advertisements
School Calendar 2013
Term 2: 6 May—12 July
Term 3: 29 July—27 September
Term 4: 14 October—20 December
Public Holidays falling on school days: Monday 3 June—Queen’s Birthday
Monday 28 October—Labour Day
Tuakana Team Self Portraits
Last term the Tuakana Team focused on Self-portraits during Visual Art.
Here are some examples of art the students created.
Zakariya—Rm27
Tara—Rm24 Tamasa—Rm23
Lois—Rm28 Amos—Rm26
Srijan—Rm25