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9 November 2016

Please remember togs, towels, goggles and caps all next week for this

important learning opportunity.

MEDICS

There is a new volunteer group at Limehills School. We are the Medics. Our job is to help out at playtime and lunchtime if someone is hurt in the playground. You will find us on duty outside the staffroom everyday.

Mrs Henderson has trained us to help with grazes, bumps and bruises. We have learnt how to reassure the patient, clean the injury, give them a plaster or an ice pack if needed. We have a special bag and red caps and Mrs Henderson bought us a First Aid book to read. We know to get a teacher if it’s a bigger injury. We will take good care of you and be gentle so come and find us if you need any first aid help.

By Lilly, Annabelle, Alissa, Chloe, Keely, Aniska, Ellexa, Maddison, Brooke and Xiara

WHAT’S ON DIARY

November 10th - Book bus 21st - 23rd - Rm 6 Camp Columba 22nd & 23rd - Christmas Pantomime Rm 7/8 28th-1st Dec - Rm 7&8 Dunedin Camp

December 2nd - Sports Activator Tournament 5th-7th - Rm 7&8 Riverton Rotations 5th - Rm 4&7 School Overnight Camp 12th - School Christmas Pantomime 7pm 15th - Last day for Y0-7 15th - Prizegiving 6.30pm 16th - Last day for Y8

February 7th First day of Term 1 13th-17th Bikewise 17th - Tryathlon 20th Food for Thought Yr 4-8 20th BOT meeting

CONGRATULATIONS ! Very exciting news for Mr and Mrs Brunell and Harry, Alfie George Brunell w a s b o r n o n S a t u r d a y 2 2 October. Room 2 were lucky enough to Facetime with Mrs Brunell a couple of weeks ago in the Winton Maternity Centre. We all got to talk with Mrs Brunell and see her gorgeous baby boy sleeping in his wee bed. Mrs Brunell

said one day she will come and visit us and we will get to meet Alfie in person.

Congratulations Brunell family from everyone at Limehills School.

Pet Day letter to Ruru School

We were very happy that you came and supported Limehills School Pet Day. I was really delighted to see all the kids running around enjoying patting lambs, dogs, calves and all the other pets. There was so many smiles on the children’s faces I even got to see a boy that went to my old school and now goes to Ruru. I

saw a little boy cuddling my lamb. It put a smile on my face. What made me happier was he came up and gave me a hug and said thank you. Save the date for next year because you are welcome to come. Yours sincerely Josh Campbell

Painting the Beehive

For the last couple of weeks Franciz and I have been painting the beehive door. We painted it so it can suit our colourful Beehive and because it was dull and old. The door now looks brand new, very colourful and it suits our Beehive. Our next project will be organising tours and workshops for kids to come in and learn more about Bees. By Ben Egan

Mailbox We asked New Zealand Post if we could have one of these mailboxes because of their article that was in the Southland Times. The article was about taking out these old mailboxes and replacing them with new mailboxes. NZ post have kindly given us one of the mailboxes. We are going to keep it to remember what these old mailboxes look like after they finish taking them out and replacing them with new mailboxes. Thank you to Mr Murray who picked this up. By Jade Hamilton

Chris Brand

Tree Services

Qualified and experienced

Arborist available for all

your tree work requirements:

pruning, thinning, felling,

dismantling of problem trees

and general chainsaw work.

Local and reliable.

Call Chris for a quote

or advice on

027 221 7477

ALERTS Both statements and request for payments have

been emailed on Monday. Please refer to the statements as it should record all payments received and/or refunds/credits allocated so is more accurate. Please contact the office if you notice any errors.

School photo order forms due to the office by Thursday 10

November.

Sailing and surfing Medical Release forms to be returned.

Swimming continues next week.

We have had some instances of headlice at school. Please be

vigilant and treat accordingly.

Friday 25 November 5-7pm at Top Pub - Home and School

Social Catchup

Thursday 8 December - School Disco

School Christmas Pantomime - new date of Monday 12

December at 7pm.

End of 2015 year trophies Please return all trophies to the office.

Weekly Awards

Congratulations to all those that received awards this week. Writers Kate Pulley, Rm 2 Readers Benson Boys, Rm 3 A+ Attitude Fiona van der Poel, Rm 4 Maths Tarquin Gilmour, Rm 6 School Pride Jaye Ward, Rm 3 Student of the Week Rylan Cooper, Rm 7

“Let’s build a wall and make Mexico pay!” “I believe woman are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world!” By the time you read this you may know which one of these quotes would be leading one of the mos t powe r f u l country in the world. US election: Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton which one. By Callum Taylor

Keep the 8th December free! School Disco with DJ Vinyl Richie (see advert below) Brought to you by the Home & School Committee More info to come ...

editor@limehills.school.nz

Home and School End of

Year Social Catchup Friday 25 November 5-7pm

Winton’s Garden Bar Come and join us after touch at Winton's Garden Bar (Top

Pub) for a low key catchup. We'd love to see old faces, new

faces, mums & dads off the farm, leaving school families and

of course the kids. Nibbles provided. RSVP for catering

please by clicking the ‘Going’ button on our Facebook Event

page and please comment with numbers if you are bringing

the family too.

HOST A ROAST! In the holidays we hosted a Host a Roast for the Southland Ronald McDonald House in Invercargill. I helped Mum for most of the day getting the food ready like putting the pineapple on the ham, peeling potatoes for roast spuds and I also made a massive bowl of ambrosia. We invited 12 adults and 16 kids for tea. They all gave us a donation which we gave to the Ronald McDonald House which totalled $575. I took the money in on

the Monday and Helen was very excited. I also take in 2 or 3 dozen eggs when I'm in town. Everyone loves the eggs that are staying in there. We have just found out that we won a little competition by people voting for our photo of the night that we hosted the party. By Harry Clark

ICE-SKATING FUN!

Love Letters By Mia Harper

We have just received this thank you from the Childrens’ Ward. It is very exciting to have received this and it just shows how grateful they really are. Receiving this it has been my favourite part of this whole

project just to see how it has payed off.

“To all the children at Limehills School, Thank you so much for the beautiful love letters you took so much care in making to brighten the days of our children. We have started using the love letters and the children so love them. Your kindness is much appreciated.

Kind Regards from everyone on the Children’s Ward

PS We will monitor their use and let you know if we need any more.“

CSC Orientation Day Last Friday most of the Year 8s went to CSC for their Orientation Day. When we got there everyone went and got their name tag and we sat down in the hall to be welcomed. Afterwards we got sorted into our groups and got a tour around the school. Each group went to different places. I did my English test first then Social Studies and Maths, then it was lunch time. During lunch the Year 12s set up a game of universal ball. We had two teams all lined up on opposite sides of the gym. The year 12s would say what game we were playing and how many people were needed. The game could be basketball but with a ping pong ball and three people or netball, but with a frisbee and five people. After lunch, we got introduced to some important people in CSC then we went on to our last activities. My last activities were PE and

Agriculture. At the end of the day we all went to the library and our Dean, Mr Tree and the head students for next year talked to us about the school values. Then it was time to go home. We all know what it is going to be like next year and can't wait. By Ariana and Morgan

Bird & Nest Report On Sunday the 6th November I went to the Otatara Community Nursery to learn about birds and nests. Henry, Fletcher and Jonty came as well. A girl called Abbey was there from Otatara School. We started with a treasure hunt, we found lots of pictures of birds around the education centre.

We were lucky because the teachers Bronwyn and Chris asked if we wanted to see some brand new kaka chicks, we all did so we got in the car and went to Bush Haven.

The Bird Haven is really cool because it is a bird hospital. People bring injured birds there and Mae and Ross look after them. Inside there were 6 injured birds. One flew into someone’s window and the window broke. It had a broken wing and a hole in the bone from the glass, the bird was a kereru.

At their house they have lots of different types of colourful birds, my favourites were the baby kaka chicks, we went into the big aviary to see them. They were tiny, there

were five of them in the nest at the bottom of an old tree trunk. The mum and dad were landing on us, Mum didn’t like that!

Ross and Mae taught us some interesting facts about birds:

Birds have hollow bones.

Wood pigeons don’t make good nests so

they fall on the ground.

It takes three weeks for a broken wing to

heel enough for the cast to come off.

Female wood pigeons beaks are shorter

and they hold their head lower when they sit. By Millie Scott

DUNEDIN ACTING COURSE By Connor Newell

Last term I went to an acting course in Invercargill and I ended up getting selected to go work with him again in Dunedin.

On Sunday we drove up to Dunedin to do an acting presentation for Victor Rodger. When we got to the Dunedin Art Gallery we walked up the stairs and into a room where all the other actors were sitting. We got our lines and started to read over them. My character was Marshall and I had two older siblings Rosie and Thomas. My character was dark and talked a lot about death and murder. Rosie was a 15 year old girl who swore a lot and was annoyed at everyone all the time. Thomas was 18 and talked in a French accent and was obsessed with everything French.

At about 3pm people started to fill the room and then I started to get very nervous. The music that we had to enter in on started to play and we walked into the room with about 160 eyes on us and my heart started to race. We started the play and it started to get easier. When we finished we had a big round of applause and I was very happy. After that the paparazzi A.K.A our parents started taking photos of us and asking if we could give them a signature. This to me was very overwhelming.

Overall it was a great day and I was stoked to hear we will be getting paid a wee bit. Also, we stopped at Maccas on the way home.

CONGRATULATIONS! Huge congratulations to the Gill family on the safe arrival of Austin. We’re sure Emma and Zac will be a great big sister and brother.

RESCUE MISSION

These caring girls found a baby bird on the ground at school and are

nurturing it back to health.

AB LIME knows about lime and

fertilisers, and with good reason

too. AB LIME has a reputation

for reliability as Southland’s

producer of high quality lime,

fertiliser blends and suppliers of

phosphate products. AB LIME

also supplies Knap Rock for

dairy farm lanes.

CALL 0800 163 361

Dave Wilson

Agriculture

Contractor

Ploughing

Power Harrowing

Levelling and Cultivating

Drilling and Rolling

Direct Drilling

Mole Ploughing

Hay and Baleage

Mob 027 223 831

Hm 03 236 1037

Fax 03 236 1038

If your interested in a quality learning environment for your youngster to

develop life skills, social opportunities and a love of learning, we welcome you to

come and experience it first hand.

Phone 03-2367393

www.wekapreschool.com

FOR AN ENROLMENT PACK TODAY

Limehills Community Pool The pool is open from 6am to 10pm, only closed during school hours (9am-3pm Mon-Fri Term time), for swim-ming lessons (Mon & Thurs 3pm to 6:30pm) or for maintenance.

If you would like a key please email limehillspool@gmail.com and we can send you a pool agreement and invoice. These are also available from the Limehills School office.

TOUCH DRAW - Friday 11 November 2016 YEAR 1&2 4:00pm – 2A - Limehills North v Dipton Dazzlers 4:00pm – 2B - Limehills West v Winton Bears 4:00pm – 3A - Limehills South v Winton Wiggles 4:35pm – 4A – Limehills East v Hillside Hurricanes

YEAR 3&4 4:35pm – 1A – Limehills Hobbits v Lochiel Legends 4:35pm – 1B – Limehills Elves v Warrior Saints 4:35pm – 4B – Limehills Orcs v Winton Wombles

YEAR 5&6 4:00pm – 5 – Limehills Kakapos v Lochiel Lasers 4:00pm – 6 – Limehills Tuataras v Drummond Dynamites 4:00pm – 8 – Limehills Takahes v Winton Stags

YEAR 7&8 4:35pm – 7 – Limehills Pacific v Winton Stormers 4:35pm – 8 – Limehills Tasman v Winton Chiefs

Volleyball Summer Hit Out Clinics

Volleyball Southland is offering a

Development and a Performance clinic

for those interested in

u p s k i l l i n g i n

Volleyball. Come

along and have fun!

Limited spaces so be

in quick or you may

miss out.

VENUE: ILT Stadium Southland

CLINICS: Development or Performance

TIMES: Development @ 4pm – 5pm

Performance @ 5pm – 6pm

DATES: 6 weeks programme

11th & 18th Nov 2nd, 9th & 16th Dec 2016

AGE: 10 – 16 years of age

COST: $60 per person (5 Weeks) or $70 with a

t-shirt

CLOSING DATE: Wednesday 9th Nov

For more information please contact the

Volleyball office on 03 2112259 or email

alissa@volleysouth.org.nz

TENNIS CHAMPS

A few weeks ago eleven keen tennis players went to compete in the Central Primary School Tennis Champs in Winton. Five players got through to the Southland Champs which were played last Wednesday. Unfortunately Jade was sick so she couldn’t play. So that meant it was just us boys (Ryan M, Jack C, Harry C and I) left to play on a hot sunny day in Gore. Ryan got third and I got second in the Year 6 and Under age group. I had to play an intense final against Taine Withy and unfortunately I lost it in a tiebreaker. Jade was lucky enough to be accepted as a wildcard to the next stage so her and I are going to Dunedin to play in the Southern Region Primary School Champs tomorrow. By Cameron Scully

TENNIS FEVER HAS

HIT!!!

Wintons own Theatre Restaurant - That's Life You will have heard that the Friday and Saturday shows are now sold out - WOOHOO - but there are still some tables left for the Thursday 1 December night show. Performances by Southlanders, Buffet by Country Manor. $60 per person (Tables seat 10). Grab a group of friends, doesn't matter if you don't get a whole table. The show has adult content and is not intended for the Under 18s. contact Alister on 0273344692 or via the Winton Theatre Friends Facebook page.

Free Kids’ Paper Sculpture Workshops Invercargill Public Art Gallery (formally Anderson Park Art Gallery) has a new temporary home. We’re showcasing exhibitions of the City’s art collection at 5 Don Street, previously State Insurance, beside The Kiln.

As part of our Kids can Curate exhibition, gallery staff are running free after-school art workshops inspired by the artwork on display. Spaces are limited. Register in advance by mailing info@invercargillpublicartgallery.nz or calling 215 7432. · 13+ years: Tue 15 Nov, 4–5pm · 9–12 years: Tue 22 Nov, 4–5pm · 5–8 years: Tue 29 Nov, 3:45–4:45pm (suitable for preschool aged siblings)

Adventurers Club

News

Poppi and Tara

taught us about how

doubling the end

consonant protects

the short vowel

sound. Tu meke

girls!