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Kia ora tātou, Whilst it has been an incredibly challenging term for obvious reasons (moving between Alert Levels due to Covid-19), our students, whānau and staff have again provided an amazing range of learning opportunities in and out of the classroom. Highlights for Term 3 include: The increasing number of children coming into school and leaving school independently AND the vast number of older siblings supporting their younger brother(s) or sister(s) and vice versa! Our Year ⅞ Ōpāwa Dragons Basketball Team winning their weekly competition at Pioneer Basketball and this comment from the Basketball Development Officer at Pioneer: “Congratulations! You have an amazing group of kids here, they worked so well together as a team!” The overwhelmingly positive response to our Board led Community survey, with many people commenting about how awesome our staff are and how much we care. There were plenty of comments such as: “Outstanding school where the kids are appreciated and understood for who they are and have a sense of belonging, and the teachers are engaged, caring and highly competent” Every student in Year 1-4 completed the ‘Junior Run for Fitness’. Jasmine winning the Art competition through Harcourts and now collaborating with Justine Ottey, a local artist. All of our Year ¾ students having their water safety lessons at Pioneer Pool. Every class focussing on managing their own emotions through our school - wide Zones of Regulation focus. Our eight teachers and their students completed our 12 month Ministry funded ‘Teacher Led Innovation Fund’ project where we have focused on shifting teacher practice to ensure students contribute to their learning in a meaningful and genuine way. Our findings indicate that these shifts have improved our students wellbeing. We have hosted Sophie, Isaac, Kristie, Oli, Ting and Rosie, six Interns (trainee teachers) from The Graduate School of New Zealand. ŌPĀWA SCHOOL NEWSLETTER Term 3, Week 10 9 th September 2020 30 Ford Road, Christchurch Telephone: 332 6374 Cell: 022 319 1181 Email: [email protected] Website: www.opawa.school.nz
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Kia ora tātou,
Whilst it has been an incredibly challenging term for obvious reasons (moving between Alert Levels due to Covid-19), our students, whānau and staff have again provided an amazing range of learning opportunities in and out of the classroom. Highlights for Term 3 include: The increasing number of children coming into school and leaving school independently AND the vast number of older siblings supporting their younger brother(s) or sister(s) and vice versa! Our Year ⅞ Ōpāwa Dragons Basketball Team winning their weekly competition at Pioneer Basketball and this comment from the Basketball Development Officer at Pioneer:
“Congratulations! You have an amazing group of kids here, they worked so well together as a team!”
The overwhelmingly positive response to our Board led Community survey, with many people commenting about how awesome our staff are and how much we care. There were plenty of comments such as: “Outstanding school where the kids are appreciated and understood for who they are and have a sense
of belonging, and the teachers are engaged, caring and highly competent”
Every student in Year 1-4 completed the ‘Junior Run for Fitness’.
Jasmine winning the Art competition through Harcourts and now
collaborating with Justine Ottey, a local artist.
All of our Year ¾ students having their water safety lessons at
Pioneer Pool.
Every class focussing on managing their own emotions through
our school - wide Zones of Regulation focus.
Our eight teachers and their students completed our 12 month Ministry funded ‘Teacher Led Innovation Fund’ project where we have focused on shifting teacher practice to ensure students contribute to their learning in a meaningful and genuine way. Our findings indicate that these shifts have improved our students wellbeing. We have hosted Sophie, Isaac, Kristie, Oli, Ting and Rosie, six Interns (trainee teachers) from The Graduate School of New Zealand.
ŌPĀWA SCHOOL NEWSLETTER
Term 3, Week 10
9th September 2020
30 Ford Road, Christchurch
Telephone: 332 6374
Cell: 022 319 1181
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.opawa.school.nz
A group of 40 Year 5-6 students have been trained as Peer Mediators through the Cool Schools programme.
Senior speech competitions both in our school and then Latasha and Eileen competing at the inter-school competition at Cashmere on Monday night. A Skateboarding project has started which has included a ramp being designed and built by Lukas, Rob and groups of students. The first ramp is finished and has been used and next term a second ramp will be built using this collaborative process. We have a team of people who have started the process to plan nature spaces and revitalise our playground areas. Next term some students will join the team. Almost 90% of our whānau engaged with Learning conferences in the middle of the term to celebrate our children’s achievements and successes with their learning. Many students have been having their music lessons through the Christchurch School of Music and our senior students have had their weekly choir rehearsal. Twenty four students have mentoring and basketball sessions with the RAMS Mentoring programme for an hour a week. Some of our students, whānau and Robyn attended the opening of our community Opawa Library. Whaea Tracy and Shevaun have been working closely with Mātauraka Maahanui to plan how we help our student and community learn about our Ōpāwa School cultural narrative.
Our Senior kapa haka have been practising tirelessly for their (on again / off again) performance in Term 4. Groups of students have worked with Amy to complete the artwork on our Penguin - Aroha. Every child and staff member is represented on Aroha. Hosting Ministry of Education property team several times to plan our next property works around our school - hall, Rooms 17-19 and drainage work.
Senior speech competitions both in our school and then Latasha and Eileen competing at the inter-school competition at Cashmere Primary School on Monday night. Raising $1244.90 for Cholmondeley and The Champion Centre through our Ōpāwa Market Day. This was an incredible culmination of the term’s learning which focussed on Trade. This included learning about Financial Literacy, Maths and Social Studies, as well as learning about marketing and advertising.
We can’t wait to see you back in Term 4. Please look after yourselves and take care. Ngā mihi, Sally
Welcome to our new students and their
Whānau/Families: Maeve and Avery Rm1
TERM 3
Senior Kapa Haka Wananga Sunday 18th
October
Teacher Only Day 16th November
2020 TERM DATES
Term 3 20th Jul-25th Sep
Term 4 12th Oct-16th Dec
DATES FOR THE DIARY
Monday November 16th
2020 – Show Weekend
Our three suppliers of our uniform are:
Mainland Uniforms, 189 Peterborough Street, City, Telephone 377-6771
Little One, 4/132 Opawa Road, (second hand uniforms)
Uniform/Dress Students are expected and encouraged to take pride in their general appearance.
Our uniform is available from: Mainland Uniforms, 189 Peterborough Street - Telephone 377-6771
The Warehouse, Eastgate
Secondhand uniforms are sold at a local shop called ‘little one; which is located at 132 Opawa Road.
Please see http://www.opawa.school.nz/uniform.html for the full Ōpāwa School uniform.
The uniform should be clean, tidy and named.
Only the long sleeved Ōpāwa School undergarment (gunmetal grey) should be visible under the Ōpāwa polo shirt.
Socks/tights - plain navy, black or white.
Shoes must be black, brown or predominantly white trainers, leather shoes or sandals.
School sun hats must be worn in Terms 1 and 4. Plain black or beige bucket/wide brimmed hat or cap.
No nail polish and/or makeup to be worn at school.
Coloured hair is not appropriate.
Hair accessories: plain black, nave or orange headbands, ties, ribbons, bows or clips. Ties, ribbons, bows or clips to be no longer than 8cm in diameter.
Drawing on skin and tattoo transfers are not acceptable.
One piece swimming togs are recommended.
No jewellery should be worn except watches and ear studs or sleepers. No other earrings. Any other jewellery, including rings and necklaces can be a safety hazard and are not to be worn at school. All jewellery must be removed for sport. Variations due to cultural or religious beliefs are allowed on written request from parents/caregivers.
The final decision on all matters relating to the uniform resides with the principal
Subway Every Tuesday – have you tried online
ordering?
With online ordering there’s no need for
envelopes, however this option is still
available
To place an order for your child,
simply log on to online system, and
follow the instructions below to
pace an order before 9am each
Tuesday. Please note that you can
order days beforehand if you wish.
Visit www.subway.co.nzschools and select
SUBWAY School Lunch Programme –
Ferrymead Branch.
Either create an account or login by
following the prompts
Lunch online/Sushi Lunches can be ordered using lunch online.
This is an online service where
parents/caregivers set up their own
account, order lunch and pay online. The
lunch is then delivered to school on a
Wednesday in time for our lunch break.
To view the menu or to set up an account
is simple; all you need to do is register at
www.lunchonline.co.nz and follow 4 easy
steps to get started:
1. Register an account
2. Add member/s including your
child’s name, school and
classroom
3. Make a payment so you have
funds in your account before you
order
As the author of the award-winning Tales From The Farm picture book series, I would like to extend an
invitation to staff, students and families of your school to the launch of my new book ‘A Baa-rilliant Adventure’.
This book is a collaboration with Southland illustrator, Zerika van Jaarsveld. The launch will be held in Oxford, Saturday October 3 at 3pm (the middle weekend of the school holidays). The launch is a free event open to the public (though we do need RSVPs for catering). There will be kids’ activities - dress-ups, face painting and others - along with Middle-Eastern-themed food and drinks. It should be fun. We will also share about how the book came about and the artist, who is coming up from Southland, will share some of her artistic process. Here is a link for people to register interest: https://www.facebook.com/events/631830770643788 More about the book here: https://www.talesfromthefarmpublications.com/shop-talesfromthefarmpublications/a-baa-rilliant-adventure
Little One is relocating at the end of
September to Beckenham Central, so will
no longer be stocking Ōpāwa Second-hand
uniform.
Garden City Rotary McDonald’s Duathlon
Due to the uncertainties surrounding mass gatherings and events during the Covid-19 pandemic, we have sadly been forced to cancel the 2020 event, scheduled for September 20th. We realise this will be disappointing to all our young competitors and their supporters, but the good news is the 2021 event is already planned and scheduled for Sunday April 11th. We appreciate the support for this charity event, and have invited all registered participants to leave their entries in for the new 2021 date. All entry monies are held in our Garden City Rotary Trust account for safe keeping. We hope that you will continue to support this event because it is our major fund-raising event to support youth initiatives in our local community. Best Regards Gavin Walter Garden City Rotary Duathlon Committee
Date Change
Based from St Martin’s Hansen Park, with a range of trail running distances from 10km to 50km, this exciting
community led event also hosts the Athletics New Zealand Trail Running Championships.
We’re thrilled to confirm the childrens race will continue in 2020. It is a short blast around the Park for all
ages. Entries and info from:
http://www.craterrimtrailrun.com/
Studio One Performing Arts, your
local dance school, is currently giving
Ballet, Jazz and Contemporary lessons in
your area. The school’s director is
teacher, choreographer & ex-ballet
dancer Patricia Paul A.R.A.D. (London).
Ballet lessons from 3 years through to
Advanced, and all levels in Jazz and
Contemporary starting from age 7. For all
enquiries please phone 372-9191 or
email [email protected]
TIME FOR TENNIS! Junior registration
is now open at OPAWA TENNIS
CLUB. Tennis options for ages 4years
and up. Coaching and team interclub
competitions available. $155-$205 for
full year membership and
coaching/game
options. Visit https://www.sporty.co.nz/o
pawatennis or contact our junior
administrator [email protected]
m/text 0212327141. A fun, family friendly
club.
Dental Care during the School Holidays The Community Dental Service will be providing dental care for children enrolled with our service during the upcoming school holidays. The clinics will offer treatment and relief of pain sessions by appointment only. To make an appointment please call/email our Contact Centre which operates between the hours of 8am and 4.30pm, Monday to Friday throughout the holidays. The following Dental Clinics will be open during these school holidays: · Aranui Clinic, 240 Breezes Road, Aranui, · Lincoln Clinic, 35 James Street, Lincoln, · Rangiora Clinic, 163 Ashley Street, Rangiora, · Timaru Clinic, Level 1, 18 Woollcombe Street, Timaru The clinics will offer appointments between 8.15am and 4.45pm for school-age and preschool children requiring treatment. If your child has dental pain because of an accident, please contact your dentist in the first instance. To book an appointment at one of our clinics please: call 0800 846 983 Or email [email protected]
