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Office Newsletter No29 29 June 2017 From the Principal’s Pen Kia ora whanau Our week began with a powhiri for four reviewers from the Education Review Office (ERO) carrying out a scheduled review of our school. I felt extremely proud of our KapaHaka group and all our children and staff who made our guests very welcome. Many thanks to Matua Alwyn for his guidance and leadership. The external evaluation supports our internal evaluation processes and together they aim to improve education outcomes for our students. ERO’s overall evaluative question is: How well is our school achieving equitable outcomes for all children? They worked to understand how our practices are helping us to improve teaching to accelerate students’ progress. They also explored the conditions in place to promote equity and excellence in reference to ERO’s evaluation indicators which can be found here: http://www.ero.govt.nz/publications/school- evaluation-indicators After an intensive three days of meetings with the Board of Trustees, Lead Team members, visiting classrooms, talking to children and office staff and poring over documentation ERO provided their verbal feedback to the Board and school leaders today. We will provide more information on what they had to say as soon as we can. Matariki Celebrations We are all looking forward to celebrating Matariki and sharing learning from our Term 3 integrated inquiry next Tuesday – 4 th July. We hope your family will join us for an “old fashioned games” evening from 5-7:00pm. Learning Hubs will be open from 5:00pm – 6:30pm and then we finish with a family game of spotlight for those who are game! Remember your torch. If you have more than one child, you might like to pace yourself and move around the Learning Hubs like this: 5:00pm – Kowhai 5:30pm – Matai 6:00pm – Kauri 6:30pm – Spotlight 5:00pm – 6:30pm – Hot dog dinner available in the hall – thanks to our great Home & School Creating awareness and interest in many different games and activities will help our children have a wide range of options for entertainment while some of our traditional play areas become unavailable once our exciting new build gets underway. What a wonderful way to relax and celebrate the end of a busy term of learning! Farewell Last Friday we said a very fond farewell to Jo Howell, a valuable member of our school family since 2010. During that time Jo has been an amazing colleague who has been supporting children with learning and health needs alongside them and within the classroom. Jo has moved onto new horizons and we wish her all the very best in her new ventures. Room 13 - change of teacher Many of you will know that Sarah Parkes is expecting a baby in a few weeks’ time. She will take maternity leave from the beginning of Term 3. These are exciting times for Sarah and her husband, Ed and we wish them all the very best as they prepare to welcome their first child. We are delighted that Mrs Jo Tebbs will join the Year 6 Learning Hub as the new teacher for Room 13. Jo has been part of our teaching team this term, working as a release teacher, attending staff and team meetings while developing strong working relationships with colleagues. She has begun to visit the classroom and will continue to do so in the afternoons for the remainder of the term. In this way we ensure transition between the two teachers is smooth and that quality learning programmes continue for the children. Teacher Aide Positions We have been successful in appointing two permanent Teacher Aide to the vacancies advertised recently. We warmly welcome Angela Porritt, new to our school family and Zabron
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Office Newsletter No29
29 June 2017
From the Principal’s Pen
Kia ora whanau Our week began with a powhiri for four reviewers from the Education Review Office (ERO) carrying out a scheduled review of our school. I felt extremely proud of our KapaHaka group and all our children and staff who made our guests very welcome. Many thanks to Matua Alwyn for his guidance and leadership. The external evaluation supports our internal evaluation processes and together they aim to improve education outcomes for our students. ERO’s overall evaluative question is: How well is our school achieving equitable outcomes for all children? They worked to understand how our practices are helping us to improve teaching to accelerate students’ progress. They also explored the conditions in place to promote equity and excellence in reference to ERO’s evaluation indicators which can be found here: http://www.ero.govt.nz/publications/school-evaluation-indicators After an intensive three days of meetings with the Board of Trustees, Lead Team members, visiting classrooms, talking to children and office staff and poring over documentation ERO provided their verbal feedback to the Board and school leaders today. We will provide more information on what they had to say as soon as we can. Matariki Celebrations We are all looking forward to celebrating Matariki and sharing learning from our Term 3 integrated inquiry next Tuesday – 4th July. We hope your family will join us for an “old fashioned games” evening from 5-7:00pm. Learning Hubs will be open from 5:00pm – 6:30pm and then we finish with a family game of spotlight for those who are game! Remember your torch. If you have more than one child, you might like to pace yourself and move around the Learning Hubs like this: 5:00pm – Kowhai 5:30pm – Matai
6:00pm – Kauri 6:30pm – Spotlight
5:00pm – 6:30pm – Hot dog dinner available in the hall – thanks to our great Home & School Creating awareness and interest in many different games and activities will help our children have a wide range of options for entertainment while some of our traditional play areas become unavailable once our exciting new build gets underway. What a wonderful way to relax and celebrate the end of a busy term of learning! Farewell Last Friday we said a very fond farewell to Jo Howell, a valuable member of our school family since 2010. During that time Jo has been an amazing colleague who has been supporting children with learning and health needs alongside them and within the classroom. Jo has moved onto new horizons and we wish her all the very best in her new ventures. Room 13 - change of teacher Many of you will know that Sarah Parkes is expecting a baby in a few weeks’ time. She will take maternity leave from the beginning of Term 3. These are exciting times for Sarah and her husband, Ed and we wish them all the very best as they prepare to welcome their first child. We are delighted that Mrs Jo Tebbs will join the Year 6 Learning Hub as the new teacher for Room 13. Jo has been part of our teaching team this term, working as a release teacher, attending staff and team meetings while developing strong working relationships with colleagues. She has begun to visit the classroom and will continue to do so in the afternoons for the remainder of the term. In this way we ensure transition between the two teachers is smooth and that quality learning programmes continue for the children. Teacher Aide Positions We have been successful in appointing two permanent Teacher Aide to the vacancies advertised recently. We warmly welcome Angela Porritt, new to our school family and Zabron
Gollan who has been supporting students since 2016 in a fixed term capacity. Angela brings a broad range of experiences supporting children with learning and health needs at Kimi Ora School and Wellington Girls. We are now interviewing for another Teacher Aide to work in a fixed term position we have available until the end of the 2017 school year. Kaukau Building Project Update You will have received an email yesterday outlining that the project is about to get underway during the term break. Please read this carefully as next term the Drop Off / Pick Up Zone is not available. Junior School Refurbishment Tenders have closed and we are now working with architects to progress the project to create extra teaching/learning space and modernise the foyer/toilet area of the big Kowhai block – Rooms 3-5. We anticipate this work will take place during Term 3. Health Education Consultation 42 families (12%) responded to the Health Education Consultation Survey. Thank you! We will now use this information to develop a draft statement on how we will deliver the Health Curriculum over the next two years. We’ll share the draft with you during Term 3. Congratulations to the Carr-Smith family, winners of the $100 My Food Bag Voucher. Kauri School Swim Sports Kauri School Swim Sports is tomorrow. We look forward to all our children participating and demonstrating their aquatic skills. Thank you As this is the final newsletter for the term, I would like to thank all our wonderful children, dedicated staff and supportive parents for your valuable contributions to our school whanau. Ours is certainly one very large family that works continually to create a safe, well-resourced learning environment in which we strive to nurture all children to be stars and shine in their own way, all the time aiming to be the very best we can be. Tatai ki te rangi. We are blessed indeed! Ngā mihi mahana Louise Green Principal
Coming Events – Term 2
The following events can all be found on our school calendar on our school website.
Date Activity
Term 2 Thursday/Friday’s Swimming Kauri
30 June Kauri School Swim Sports
4 July Games Evening 5pm-7pm
7 July Term 2 Ends
24 July Term 3 Starts
Term 3 Matai Swimming
Kapa Haka
The St Brigid's Kapa Haka Festival will be held on Saturday the 16th of September at Onslow College. The festival is open to pre-schools, primary schools, intermediates and colleges in the northern suburbs of Wellington. Khandallah School Kapa Haka Group will be performing at the festival. Performance times and information for performers will be provided as the festival gets nearer.
Cross Country
Well done to our Khandallah Cross Country runners who represented Wellington's Northern Zone at the Interzone Cross Country last Tuesday.
The top ten runners will represent Primary Sport Wellington at The Regional Cross Country on the 4th July in Masteron. Our runners encouraged one another, persistent and proud of their achievements. Thank you so much to our supportive parents who enabled our runners to train, be transported to and from as well as attending and supervising on the day.
Year 4 Girls 15th Hunter M Year 5 Girls Year 5 Boys 8th Abbie S 7th Conner K 9th Olivia P 10th David C 10th Maia S 22nd Miles W 29th Alfie D Year 6 Girls 12th Charlotte C 24th Sophia W
Inter-zones
I got up early in the morning. I got dressed
like lightning, like flash.
My legs were jumping like crazy. I just
wanted to get a move on already!
We got to inter-zones and I felt quite
queasy in my tummy. There were
butterflies jiggling and wobbling in my
tummy.
We waited for a really long long long time.
Finally it was time. I jumped in my order
behind the others. My legs were wobbly
and achy.
I speed across the field and zoomed around
the corner. I sprinted the whole way
through the course. It felt like I was a
champion at running cross country. That's
what made me pass all of the fast runners.
John said to me “get in the top ten boy” so
I went as fast as my skinny legs could take
me. I sprinted past one person quite close
to the finish line and then I past one more
person really close to the finish line. I
speed up and came tenth. I was so proud of
myself that day.
IT WAS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE.
David C
Room 18
Miniball Khandallah Stars in Action
Student Achievements
Four lucky year 6 students were given the opportunity to attend a workshop with Rebecca Holden the Artist in Resident at Samuel Marsden School. There the children joined students from other local schools to create a series of pictures to retell one of the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale. These pictures were on display at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery for the people of Wellignton to enjoy. Well done to Jahmaia Unuka Urech, Sophia Wong, Angus Rusbatch and Jedh Racho. You created amazing pieces of artwork!
Khandallah School Student Lauren Taylor had the honour of running the match ball out at the Hurricanes vs British & Irish Lions On Tuesday. Well done Lauren.
Sushi Lunches is moving to a new website, ezlunch! From term 3 all orders will need to be placed via www.ezlunch.co.nz. It’s the same sushi, same varieties and the same price, just a new website for orders.
Home and School
ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS – GRAB
YOURS TODAY Once again we are selling the hugely popular
Entertainment Book – 20% from every
membership we sell contributes to our
fundraising. A flyer came home recently with
your children that contains all the details.
To order your Book or Digital Membership – visit
www.entbook.co.nz/104218f
If you have any further questions please email:
INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY Inspire Photography will be at Khandallah School on Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th September. Bookings are essential for this popular event and more information will follow.
LOST PROPERTY Jackets, jerseys, hats and socks – there is a huge pile of lost property wanting to find its way home again! Please ensure that you check the lost property bin by the library for all your lost items. At the end of the term (Thursday 6th & Friday 7th July) all lost items will be displayed by the library or in the Amphitheatre. Any items that are unnamed and not collected will be donated to charity.
BINGO NIGHT WITH A HILARIOUS
COMEDY DUO Bingo madness with
comedy duo Ethel
and Bethal Bingo
Babes coming on
Friday August 18th
at the Khandallah
Town Hall. An
evening of bingo
comedy, prizes and auctions. Tickets available July 5th for $25 pp. Tickets sold individually or as a group. Get involved and come along for this hilarious
fund-raising event in support of Khandallah
School.
Community Notices
The following notices have been received from a range of sources for inclusion in our school newsletter and are provided for your information. Khandallah School does not accept responsibility for the accuracy of information provided. BIGAIR GYM CLASSES, BIRTHDAY PARTIES AND HOLIDAY PROGRAMME Our popular classes include Gymnastics (Preschool and School age), Trampolining, Tumbling, Parkour, and Cheerleading. GYMNASTICS teaches the fundamentals of strength and coordination which supports all sports, and children gain increased self-confidence as they progress through Bigair’s gym programme. PARKOUR is fun for kids to learn safe and new ways to move around obstacles. Children that love cartwheels, handstands, and walkovers will enjoy GYMNASTICS and TUMBLING classes. Anyone that has a trampoline at home will love learning new skills in Bigair’s TRAMPOLINE classes. For all those dancers, tumblers, and gymnasts, we have our famous Bigair CHEERLEADING Teams for 4 years and above. Plus we offer Birthday Parties which are fun, and easy for parents! Bigair Gym Classes for Term 3, and our active School Holiday Programme are open for bookings NOW! For all inquiries and bookings; Contact Bigair Tawa on 04 232 3508 or [email protected] or contact Bigair Owhiro Bay on 04 383 8779 or email [email protected].
Does your child like to take centre stage with
a hairbrush?
Come along to Sunshine Drama for a free trial class to learn more about our creative programme for preschoolers to year 8. Through a range of fun & engaging drama activities, children can let their imaginations take charge, growing their confidence, communication & performance skills. Contact Jenae Ryan 0274 380 533 or visit www.sunshinedrama.co.nz.
Rata Studios Winter holidays. Holidays are here so let’s escape into Film and Theatre and have some fun. This will be an exciting and challenging week. Viewing, interpreting, experiencing and improvising and plunging into fighting against emerging villains and creating our own on screen news reports. To find out more click here
Drama Classes Our international curriculum will: Help explore Performance skills, creativity, Overcome shyness, Develop positive self esteem, Grow their imagination, Interact with adults, Make new friends. Have lots of fun Fun after-school classes – 5 – 17 years Held in Khandallah, Tawa, Lower Hutt, Whitby. To enrol please call or see our website. 0800 161 131 www.helenogradynz.co.nz
Drama Club is running a drama holiday programme in the upcoming school break – Monday 10th - Friday 14th July. The classes are held each morning from 9.00am (drop off from 8.30am) till 12.30pm. We have a different topic each day so students can pick and choose which days they would like to attend. Enrol on the Drama Club website - www.dramaclub.co.nz or contact Bridie on [email protected]
FANTASTIC MUSIC CLASSES AT ENCORE! SCHOOL OF MUSIC Join us for music learning and heaps of fun in Johnsonville & Churton Park! We offer a wide variety of individual and group music classes including piano, keyboard, singing, violin, drums, guitar, ukulele, flute, recorder, band, music theory and others. All ages welcome! We also have classes for toddlers & preschoolers and are always delighted to welcome adult students too! You will love your music classes with us! Sign up now for the new term! Check out: www.encoreschoolofmusic.co.nz Contact: [email protected] Tel: 04-976 8742
