August 28 Newsletter

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Important Dates

29/30 August SkiTrip11 September -Rehearsal atOBHS14 September -Pedals Study

15 September -Dress rehearsalat OBHS17 September -Polyfest17 September -Finalperformance atOBHS18 September -Next Newsletter25 September -Last day of term

KAIKORAI PRIMARY

SCHOOLN e w s l e t t e rA very special welcome to Hunter Wallace, Samuel Huang , Lil Irwin,

Frankie Eley, Cian Goldsmith, Jaxon Hitchens, Isla Marshall and theirfamilies to Kaikorai Primary School!

PRINCIPALS MESSAGE

Dear Parents,

It has been a pleasure to see Kaikorai children

performing so well in a range of activities over the

last few weeks. Our ukulele and orchestra group have had a

chance to perform at a variety of events while our winter sports

have concluded successfully. A special congratulations to ournetball team who won their competition. I would like to reiterate

the message from Tony Reid in this newsletter and thank all of

our parents who support their child to enable them follow their

interests and passions.

The busy times continue however as we put the finishing touches

to this years production and our Kapa Haka will be once againperforming at Polyfest.

I look forward to seeing everyone on the 17th at this years

production!

Kind regards,

Simon Clarke


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SYNDICATE NEWS

Middle News-

This year we have been learning to use Google Docs. We have recently surveyed the children to gaugetheir level of interest and awareness of the skills they are gathering. When asked whether they liked using

Google Docs 98% of children said that they do.Its my special spaceI loooove slideshowsI love doing google docs, it is one of my favourite things on the computer70% of children share their learning at home with their parents.

I like writing out my ideas and showing my parents what I learnt at school, my mum and dad sometimes send me messages.I like them knowing what Im learning at school.57% of children are now spending more of their free time writing.I like writing about whats going on and turning it into a story.I like writing plays, making slides about animals and writing made up stuff.

86% of children are able to articulate how they think using Google Docs has helped their learning.It has also helped my learning because I have been doing more writing and I am able to add more detail.It has helped my writing skills

If you would like to give us some feedback please go to this link: http://goo.gl/forms/DVECQMU8sU

Junior News

Kiwiana is our focus in all the Junior classes. We are learning about NZ as a country through our

dance, through art, science and myths and legends. We are really working hard to perfect our dancesso they are ready for the production in a few weeks.

Next term we are booked to go swimming in weeks 2 and 3. More details will come home before theend of term.

Please check your childrens reading folders for class and school notices daily.

It is vital that children come to school BEFORE 9.00 so they have time to unpack, socialise and settleinto school before the day begins. Mornings are peak learning time and when children are late they

miss important learning.

Thank you to the parents who logged into the Junior blog and left lovely comments. If you haventtaken the time to check it out please do so.

Senior News

Kiwiana- We are all very busy (when arent we?) with maintaining our learning programmes whilepreparing for our production Kiwiana. In all 4 classes we are using Maori myths and legends tosupport our reading and writing programmes. Classes are also using these to develop drama skits, role

plays and visual art works. With a buddy class we are still developing dance routines and songs to

showcase our ideas of Kiwiana.Extra curricular There are always lots of opportunities for children to be involved in the wider

life of the school. Recently, the winter sports codes have ended; most of our children played at leastone sport, and several played more than one. There has been a crosscountry run, a miniball

tournament and a netball tournament. Our children also tried their maths skills in an OMAthaloncompetition. We are now looking forward to a Current Events quiz next month.
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SCHOOL NEWS

Cross CountrySixty children took part in

the Hills Cross country afortnight ago. As alwaysKaikorai Primary was verysuccessful with a total ofeight medals won.Congratulations to GemmaRowcroft, Theo smith,Duncan Bell, SamanthaGrey, Stijn VonBroekhoven, Ben Sinclair,Sophie Wylie and MollyBallard.Seventeen runners qualifiedfor The Otago CrossCountry Champs onSeptember 4th

Congratulations to all ourrunners and good luck tothose of you competing in

the Otago Champs.Winter Sports

Basketball, netball and hockey have finished for another year and we congratulate the children forbeing keen and fair minded representatives of the school. It is great for us to see childrenparticipating and enjoying sports and we always see development in team play and ball skills as theyear progresses. Thank you parents for your contribution to our sports. Transporting children,managing and subbing teams and cheering Kaikorai on.Special thanks to Rua Haggie Kaikorai Nuggets mentor and coach, Tiffany Rowcroft, JanineSouthby and Delaine Kaan for netball coaching and refereeing and to Amanda Dyer our wonderful

Red hockey team coach.We really appreciate your continued support across the codes

Congratulations to...Congratulations to Imogen Hornal who placed 4th in the year 4-6 division of the NZCAFOtago regionalaerobics

competition and qualified for the nationals. She will nowrepresentKaikorai Primary School at the NZCAFNational

SchoolsAerobicsChampionshipsinWellington on September 19-20. Good luck Imogen!

Well done to Molly Ballard for 1st in beam, 2nd on floor and 3rd in teams at the Southland Gymansatic

Championship.

Finally congratulations to Jude Smillie, Race Porter, Charlie Murdoch, and Luke Milburn who were all part of the

Under 7 White team, which won the Kaikorai Junior Rugby team of the year award (for a 10 aside team) at the

clubsrecent prize giving. The boys backed up their undefeated season last year by winning all 13 of their games this

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SPORT AGE EMAIL WEB LINKCLOSING

DATE

Futsal Year 1 - 6 [email protected] bit.ly/1peZpco September 4

Flipperball Year 3 - 6 [email protected] bit.ly/1taGCAO September 4

Touch Year 3 - 6 [email protected] bit.ly/YWLX22 September 4

T Ball year 1 - 4 [email protected] bit.ly/1vNP72R September 11

Summer SportsYour child may have come home with a notice about playing a sport this summer season. If youhave filled this out and returned it that is all you need to do. If however you havent seen a noticeand you would like your child to play a sport this summer please click on the web link.

Kapa HakaThe Kapa haka group have been workinghard on their waiata and haka for theirup coming performance. This year it isour senior group who will be representingKaikorai at Polyfest, with our youngergroup having some opportunities to shareat other events next term.Polyfest will be held at the Edgar Centreand the Kaikorai group will be

performing on Thursday the 17th ofSeptember in a bracket which begins at11.30am. Parents attending will need tobe seated by 11.30. The group will beleaving school at 10.30am on the bus andreturning to school at lunchtime. Thechildren are looking fantastic and arereally excited to participate in this majorevent.

Ukulele Jam 2015

Hundreds of Dunedin schoolchildren, including30 enthusiastic children from Kaikorai Primarygathered at Tahuna Intermediate on the 19thAugust, for the sixth annual Ukulele Kids' Jam.This was the culmination of weekly practices atschool, learning chords, strumming patterns anda number of songs, of which 11 were performedat the Jam.

Our children presented themselves well, even

welcoming the bus driver with a performance, ashe arrived to pick them up!

Our children also got the opportunity to meetHighlanders rugby players Lima Sopoaga andWhite Ferns captain Suzie Bates, and mostimportantly got to play with a real band andsoak up the atmosphere of around 500enthusiastic strummers! Well done to all ourukulele players!

ProductionParents and families will have two opportunities toview this years production, Alps to Ocean.Tuesday the 15thof September at 1.15pm

and Thursday the 17thof September at 6pm.

Due to limited seating at the auditorium we canonly guarantee each family two tickets to eachperformance. A notice regarding tickets will be sent

home next week. Costume information is on ourwebsite.
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COMMUNITY NEWS

Partnership with Cutlers Reality Parent Group

Thank you to the parents who have

offered assistance at the upcomingsausage sizzle. We are pleased to

announce that the Sausage Sizzle is

back on!

The Sausage Sizzle is being heldon

September 3rd. If you haven't

already please get your orders intothe school office today, or email

[email protected]. This term

we also have a Pizza lunch fundraiser

on Friday 25th September.

Kaikorai Junior Cricket Club!"#$%&'()*+"#""$%&" '(#)

Sat 12 Sept 10:00am-12:30pm, and Tues 15 Sept 6:00pm-7:30pm

Both days at Kaikorai Rugby Club, Lynn St.

Girls and boys in school years 1-8 welcome.

! Fun skills sessions for ages 5-6

! Soft red ball cricket for ages 7-9

! Hard ball cricket for older age groups

See www.sportsground.co.nz/KaikoraiJuniorCCor contact Jarod Chisholm [email protected]
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]://www.sportsground.co.nz/KaikoraiJuniorCCmailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]://www.sportsground.co.nz/KaikoraiJuniorCChttp://www.sportsground.co.nz/KaikoraiJuniorCChttp://www.sportsground.co.nz/KaikoraiJuniorCChttp://www.sportsground.co.nz/KaikoraiJuniorCCmailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


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