11th February 2016 - Week 2 Term 1

Motupipi School Details: 435 Abel Tasman Drive

Takaka 7183

Phone: 03 525 9986

EMAIL: markc@motupipi.school.nz

Or: office@motupipi.school.nz

Internet Banking No:

03 1711 0013347 00

2016 Dates

Term 1 2nd Feb - 15th April Term 2 2nd May - 8th July

Term 3 25th July - 28th Sept Term 4 10th Oct - 15th Dec

School Calendar February 16th Parent Information Evening

19th Mini Reports sent home

23-26th Room 1 Camp

24th Assembly 2.10pm

March 6th Weetbix Tryathlon

9th Assembly 2.10pm

23rd Assembly 2.10pm

25th Good Friday

28th Easter Monday

29th Easter Tuesday

April 15th April Term 1 ends

Board of Trustee Elections This year throughout New Zealand, Board of Trustee elections will be held. The election day will be around late March/

April with dates to be confirmed next week.

The Board is made up of five parent elected representatives, one staff representative and the Principal. We generally

meet once a month.

We are looking for an enthusiastic group of parents to help with setting a vision for our school so that Motupipi continues

to be a place where you want to send your children.

We will soon be holding an information evening for those who are interested or want find out more about what becoming a Board member involves or how much time it takes.

In the meantime please feel free to contact one of the current Board members, have a chat about their experience as a Board member or go to the Trustees Election Homepage www.trustee-election.co.nz for a short video.

If you know of a parent who you think would make a good Board member, please ask them to consider it.

Board member contacts are Andy Williams 970 7558

Clarissa Bruning 525 6269

Brian Nesbit 525 9969 Sophia Cooke 525 6225

Wendy Webster 027 525 6230 Mark Cullen 525 8632 Home 525 9986 School

Parent Information Evening We will be holding a parent information evening next Tuesday 16 February. The evening will be staggered so that parents can get to

hear what is happening in their children’s classes. There will also be

a time for parents to catch up with a teacher should class talks coin-cide, which will be the case for a couple of families.

Information shared will be

Explaining the reading , writing and maths programme

Homework expectation What you can do at home to help support your child?

Information Evening Timetable

5.45pm Rm 2 -Wendy / Rose & Rm 5 -Renford 6.15pm Rm 1 -Jodie & Rm 3 -Helen

6.45pm Rm 4 –Jude

The playground will be supervised as will the pool if you wish to bring your children along.

Room 1 Camp

Room 1 will be heading to camp at the

Kahurangi Outpost on

Tuesday 23 – Friday 26 February.

The camp will involve a number of walks,

biking, caving and various team activities.

Class Swimming Each class has a swimming session each day and all of the children are expected to take part. The pool

temperature is currently 24 degrees. With daily swims the progress the children are making is already noticeable.

Swimming Sports / School Tryathlon We are waiting for the dates of the Golden Bay Schools Swimming Sports which is for

all 7-11yr olds who can swim a length of the High School Pool. Once the date has been

decided we will be able to plan a date for our School Tryathlon which will be held at the

Golden Bay Top 10 Holiday Park. Prior to the swimming sports we will take the children

to the GBHS pool for training.

The Junior rooms will hold a swimming demonstration towards the end of the swim

season.

Assembly We couldn’t use the hall this week for assembly so we held it in the shade down the backfield instead.

Our comperes this week were Kate and Eliza who did a fine job introducing each item.

Rm 2 all introduced themselves to the school

Rm 3 gave a dry land swimming demonstration

Rm 1 showed the sketches they had been working on and what they needed to focus on while sketching

Rm 5 performed an African action song

Rm 4 read some of their ―Amazing Me‖ poems

Principals Awards Congratulations to…...

Hayden & Tara ; for using their initiative and putting class equipment away. Caitlin A, Caitlin W & Anna ; for asking for help to clarify instructions and completing tasks to a high standard Phoebe, Keiran, Carlos & Iris; for being great role models to their classmates Malika & Aliana for being responsible in helping our new students settle in Riley W for taking on the responsibility of opening the PE shed Jack PH for making responsible choices

Staff Development At our last staff meeting, Helen Bracefield, the Public Health Nurse, went over the signs & sympton of severe

allergies and also gave us a refresher on the use of epipens

Epipens are a disposable, pre-filled automatic injection device that administers epinephrine in the event of a

severe allergic reaction. Epinephrine is a medication that can help decrease your body's allergic reaction.

When we go on school trips / camps we ensure that two epipens are carried.

All our teachers, teachers aides and office staff hold current first aid certificates.

School T-Shirts Please send in any

school T-shirts that

are sitting in drawers

at home. We will

need these soon for

swimming sports.

Motupipi Newsletter has gone Electronic for 2016

We are no longer sending out printed copies of the School

Newsletter. It will be emailed out to parents and be published

on our School Website— www.motupipischool.co.nz .

Please give Jane in the office your email address if you or any

of your family wish to be sent it electronically.

Football/Soccer Golden Bay Football Club would like to invite all players

who are intending to play football/soccer in a travelling

team this year to come along

to the registration day on Sunday the 28th February at

the Recreation Centre from 10am.

If there are any questions please contact

Diarmuid on 5257013 or 0276424244

Friday Lunches

Savoury Pinwheels $3 (Vege. Option available)

Chocolate Cake $2

Thanks Janet for lunches this week

TENNIS

Golden Bay Tennis—Park Avenue

Free Coaching for Yr 5 and 6

3.45 until 5pm—Mondays

Dave Lewis ph 027 738 1746

Guitar Tuition with Levity Beet for students in Year 5/6

Small group lessons will be on

Thursday afternoons.

New students can borrow a school

guitar.

Returning students are expected to

sort out their own guitar.

Students pay a term fee based on around $6 per week.

School terms are of differing lengths so a term fee will

be $30 -$48 depending on how many weeks Levity is

there for.

Levity is always away the last two weeks of term so the

guitar course is shorter than the full term length.

Students must bring a clear-file folder to keep materials

in and bring the school or their own guitars to school

each Thursday.

Room Five - Reading This week we got to choose our own novels. I chose “The Butterfly Lion” written by Michael Morpurgo. There is a little white lion from the wild in Africa, which they are taming. It is special because they have never seen a white lion before. By Iyla I am excited about reading “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” which I started this week. I really like Harry Potter because I’ve watched the movies. I need to watch five more. By Trey

Scuba diving, camping,

Amazing me!!

Fishing and hunting,

Amazing Me!!

Playing rugby,

Amazing Me!!

Wake boarding,

Amazing Me!!

By Sawyer

Diving in the pool,

Amazing Me!!

Swimming, climbing trees,

Amazing Me!!

Playing tag,

Amazing Me!!

Writing poems,

Amazing Me!!

By Mav

AMAZING ME!!

Swimming, paddle boarding,

Amazing me!!

Diving, jumping, running,

Amazing me!!

Writing, reading, listening,

Amazing me!!

Fishing, climbing, rip sticking,

AMAZING ME!!

By Kahu

Incredible Me!!

Riding, jumping,

Incredible me!!

Playing games,

Incredible me!!

Sleeping, dreaming,

Incredible me!!

By Max

Amazing Me!!

Swimming, diving,

Amazing Me!!

Rock climbing,

Amazing Me!!

Up a tree learning

Amazing Me!!

Listening, reading, writing,

Amazing Me!!

By Gabriel

Amazing Me!!

Roller blading, dancing, running,

Amazing me!!

Swimming, talking, biking,

Amazing Me!!

Learning, reading books,

Amazing Me!!

Playing on my roller blades,

Amazing Me!!

By Emily H

Amazing Me!!

Doing awesome science

expreiments,

Amazing Me!!

Swimming, playing, writing,

Amazing me!!

Rock climbing, reading

library books,

Amazing Me!!

Spelling, diving, drawing,

Amazing Me!!

Learning ukulele,

Amazing me!!

Cricket champion,

Amazing me!!

Playing rugby,

Amazing Me!!

Helping other people,

Amazing me!!

By Riley

ROOM FOUR POEMS

Guinea Pigs Wanted—Animal loving child would like to buy guinea pigs. Please phone Phoebe or Rachel on 525 9385

Please get guitar enrolment forms from Jodie

Room Two’s Writing

Here is the roof. By Quinn

I am going to the camp ground. By Bunnie

I am happy.

I am a girl.

I am Taya.

I am a Tiger. By Wiremu

We are having a deck. By Saxon.

I’m learning lots in Room 3. I like doing maths

games and riding my bike at breaks. Ashton S

I’m enjoying being back at school and doing

homework. I’m also looking forward to our camp at Kahurangi Outpost as I’ve never been there

before. Will

I’m enjoying learning new games and doing cool

stuff. I really like having my own desk. Chloe H

The kids are friendly

at Motupipi so I made friends really quickly.

My teacher Mrs Cullen is kind and teaches us

lots of stuff. Emily H I like being back at school with my friends and my Dad,

because he is working at school on the building. I can go and talk to him at breaktimes. Olive