9th February 2011 - Week 1 Term 1

What's happening this Term…..

Term 1 27-29th February ERO visit

1st March Beginning year Reports

7th March Parent Information Evening

2/3rd April Have a go Sailing (Yrs 5&6)

6th April Good Friday

23rd April Term 2 Begins

Motupipi School Contact

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

Staffing for 2011

Room 1 Jodie Grant Year 5/6 Room 2 Wendy Webster Year 1 Room 3 Helen Young Year 2/3 Room 4 Judy Cullen / Mark Cullen Year 3/4

Judy will teach Monday to Thursday and will be working in the office on her curriculum responsibilities on Friday. Mark will teach on Friday.

Room 5 Diarmuid Brazendale Year 4/5

Lynnette Edwards, and Vanessa Scott are our teachers aides and will be working throughout the school.

Sol Morgan, our Garden Facilitator comes in each Friday and does whole class and/or group teaching with the children.

Kirsten is in the office from 8.30am – 3.00pm

2012 Dates Term 1 7th Feb - 5th April Term 2 23rd April - 29th June Term 3 16th July- 28th Sept Term 4 15th Oct—20th Dec

Welcome We would like to welcome everyone back to

school for another action packed year. There

were a lot of excited parents on Monday as

they dropped their children off and were

looking forward to a bit more freedom and

ease with childcare. We have started with

107 children.

ABSENCES Please remember to phone us before 9.15am if your child is absent. After 9.15am Kirsten will phone parents to check where any unaccounted children are.

Welcome to all of our new students below.

Back Row (left to right): Noah Dorman, Joe Gee, Hol-

ly Thomas (Rm 1), Kier Etherington, Tai Horton

Front Row: Tara Morgan, Holley Fowler

Congratulations to Mason Lund for entering

and finishing the Tata Swim as the

youngest competitor!

Well done Mason!!!

“The swim was reasonably hard because I got

cramp in my leg. Dad was kayaking beside me

and that gave me confidence to keep going. I

had done a little bit of training at Totaranui

and Tata Beach. I felt really proud at the

end, but had no energy left.

I’m keen to do it again next year, but I’ll

probably train a bit more.”

School banking with the BNZ is Mondays. If you are a current BNZ customer you can just go and open an account and if you don't already bank with BNZ then you will need 2 forms of ID!

BOT News

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

Welcome back to the first week of Term 1 at Motupipi School for 2012. A very warm welcome to the many new

children and families who have joined us over the holidays.

I hope you all enjoyed and celebrated the children’s reports that went home at the end of last year. The

children at Motupipi are doing well and the data from 2011 has shown that our students are achieving and

learning. Please take the time to talk to your children about their successes and perhaps talk about the next

learning steps for them.

ERO Review

The Education Review Office will be conducting a review of our school later in the month. Many thanks to Mark,

Jude and all the teachers who have put in a huge effort over the holidays to prepare for the ERO visit. We have

complete confidence our school will receive a favourable review outcome.

Board By-Elections

Motupipi School has a diverse school roll and we believe the many varied family backgrounds and skills within our

community make us such a vibrant happy learning place. We are looking to add three people to our Board to

assist in governing the school and setting its future direction.

We have triennial elections for the School Board of trustees. The last election was held in May 2010. Since then

we have had two elected Board members resign, and one member has been co-opted onto the Board.

The present Board members are: Mark Cullen - Principal

Wendy Webster - Teacher representative

Sonya Fleming - Chair

Josie Shelly – Elected parent representative

Stacey Ward – Elected parent representative

Peter Howard - Co-opted 2010/board member

Tania Hurst - (Elected parent representative - resigned May 2010)

Mike Robertson - (Elected parent representative - resigned Dec 2011)

Parent representatives Tania Hurst and Mike Robertson resigned after serving over a term with the Board.

Our Board has decided to replace the two elected parent representatives and add one more person to our Board.

We have decided to do this via a parent/caregiver by-election rather than a selection process.

Mark will provide further details about the process for advertising, nominations and voting in the near future.

Please feel free to contact any current board members if you want to know more about what’s involved in being a

board member. We’d welcome your interest in being involved.

School Charter

Each year the Board of Trustees is required to put together a Charter for the school. Within the Charter there

needs to be a strategic plan which covers the next 3 to 5 years, an annual plan for 2012, and targets set for

2012. The targets evolve from data collected and collated from the previous year. Over the last couple of

months we have been working on the Charter and data has been collated from 2011 which has shown that our

children are generally achieving very well. There are some trends that have become evident and these will form

the basis for further discussion and action. We will continue to support all children with their learning and

development. The Board of Trustees will be meeting on Wednesday 8th of February to fine tune and ratify the

2012 Charter. Thanks again to Mark, Jude and all the teachers for their hard work in preparing this important

document.

Have a great term.

Regards,

Sonya.

Education Review Office visit In three weeks time from the 27th - 29th February we have an Education Review, which will be carried

out by two review officers.

The purpose of the review is to help schools improve the learning and achievement of students, it will

inform us what we are doing well and areas that we can improve on.

The major evaluation question for the review is: “How effectively is your schools curriculum

promoting student learning - engagement, progress and achievement?”

Once completed a copy of the report will be available on the Education Review Office website.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES BY ELECTIONS We intend to hold a Board of Trustees By Election and will have vacancies for three parent

Representatives to take us through the General Board Election in 2013.

The timeline for the election will be:

Call for nominations February 14th

Nominations Close February 28th

Voting Papers sent out March 4th

Voting day March 13th

Count the votes March 19th

Board take Office March 20th

If you are keen to find out more about what the role entails you can check out the New Zealand Trustees

website www.nzsta.org.nz or contact any of the school Board members.

Sonya Fleming 525 9143 Peter Howard 525 7093 Stacey Ward 525 9273

Josie Shelly 525 7995 Wendy Webster 525 6230

Mark Cullen 525 8632 (home) or 525 9986 (school)

More information will be circulated next week.

Friday Lunches We hope to start school lunches on Friday 17th if

there are parents who volunteer for the roster!

Thanks to Mary & Kirsten for organising school lunches last year, and to those few parents who have so kindly helped by baking, making, and helping to serve the lunches. Last year the lunches made the school $3557.70 which was put towards free buses for school trips, camps and school t-shirts etc. Also the children look forward to the treat of ordering them each Friday. Its time again to create a fresh parent base for 2012 lunches. The lunches can only happen with parent help; whether it is by cooking, preparing or donating ingredients. If you are worried about the cost of making the lunches, remember; you are not expected to buy the ingredients, but if you wish to donate any ingredients you are very welcome and it is much appreciated. If we have plenty of offers of help then it is just a matter of either baking a slice or putting together a lunch once or twice a year. We also have a list of tried and tested lunches or if you prefer, you can make your own favourite! Please call in and give Kirsten your name or phone the office on 525 9986.

Sunhats are to be

worn when playing

outside. Children are

required to play in

the shade if they

don't have a hat!

Junior Tinbum Triathlon 2012

The Junior Tinbum Triathlon for 6 – 10yr old children will be on Sunday 18th March at the Pohara Motor

Camp alongside the Senior Tinbum Triathlon.

The Motupipi School Fundraising Committee are the organizers of the Junior event and will be asking for

volunteers to help with marshalling and recording.

At the prizegiving we give out a number of spot prizes so if you know of someone who might donate

something suitable please let us know.

The event involves:

Swim/wade: 100m The buoys will be shifted for each age group, so it is only in chest deep water.

Bike: 2km around the top end of the camp ground.

Run : 1.5km, along the back of the camp and back along the beach to the Pohara Camp boat ramp.

Contact person is Mark Cullen

The Motupipi School Fundraising Committee would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has helped us out for various

reasons last year, and welcome everyone to the start of another great school year.

We as a committee carry out a number of fundraising events every year with the thought of the school in mind. All the money raised by

the committee is made available to the school.

Money raised in 2011 has been as follows:- Old Thumpers:- $1009.11 Junior Tinbum:- $303.52

Mystery Bike Ride:- $924.71 Disco, June :- $507.00

Cross Country:- $1781.74 Fonterra Tanker Drivers:- $1215.65

Disco, Sept :- $472.00 Boys & Girls Show:- $267.38

Calendars:- $824.70 School Lunches:- $3597.70

Total:- $ 10903.51

Money spend in 2011 has been as follows:- Room 1 & 5 Bridge Valley Camp:- $4150 Classes Wishlist - $500 per class $2500

Mathletics – Room 1:- $390 Grasshopper Tennis – Whole School:- $590.00

Swimming Pool Cover:- $862.50 Potato Competition – Whole School:- $136.90

Netball Uniforms:- $363.34 Red Cross Donation – CHCH Appeal:-$500

Room 4 Collingwood Camp:- $650 Room 5 Yr 3s End of Year Camp:- $156

Room 3 Picnic:- $150 Year 6 Leavers Dinner:- $176.76

Sunscreen:- 1ltr bottle per class:- $200 Total:- $ 10825.50

We are always on the look out new members and will be having a

meeting to start the year, Wednesday 15th Feb @ 3.30pm, staff room. For more info:- Clarissa Gray 525 6269