Edendale Newsletter 10 July

Rosemary Vivien Principal • Edendale Primary School, 419 Sandringham Road, Sandringham, Auckland 1025

Telephone: 09 846 6340 • Facsimile: 09 846 3997 • Email: [email protected] or [email protected] •

Website: http://www.edendale.school.nz/

Edendale News

THE EDENDALE EXPERIENCE: THINKING, LEARNING, CREATING

10 July 2013

Next issue: 7 August 2013

Message from the Principal Kia ora, Kia orana, Namaste, Talofa lava, Malo e lelei, Ni hao ma, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Asalam alikum!

Farewell

On Friday, we farewell Shilpa Soysa, our Year One Team Leader. Shilpa has been a great team leader for our Tiaki Team (previously Pukeko Team) for five years and led Science at Edendale this year. We thank Shilpa for the wonderful start she has given many Edendale students; we will miss her and wish her the very best for her new role as Associate Principal.

We also farewell Natalie Hick, who is taking up a fixed-term teaching position before travelling overseas later this year. We thank Natalie for her teaching and for her work as co-ordinator for students with special needs over the past two years.

Welcome

We will welcome four teachers to Edendale on 29th July. Stacey Thomas will teach a Y.0 class in R19 and Julie Crombie will teach R21; they are beginning their teaching at Edendale. Lindsay Millar (who comes to us from the UK) will work with our students who have special needs and Jackie Howard (who comes to us from the Waitakere area) will teach maths groups on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays each week.

We look forward to these teachers joining our staff and our learning community!

Music Assembly

Special thanks to Jeremy Hantler and Fiona Bygrave for their student tuition and organisation of Monday’s superb Music Assembly. Our student performances were outstanding! It was great to see a number of families present. We hope that you enjoyed seeing our talented students perform as much as we did! We look forward to a further musical assembly later in the year.

Requests re private tuition

We are currently receiving requests for teachers to provide student learning information for private tuition agencies. We do not expect teachers to complete such documentation, which is beyond the work expected of them. Student reports and team newsletters are the best learning information for families to share if they wish to do so.

Have a safe and happy term break! See you all in Term Three!

Rosemary Vivien, Principal

Term Two ends on Friday 12th July at

3.00pm

There will be no post school on this day.

A special ‘thank you’ to our PTA

Thank you so much for your organisation of a wonderful Quiz Night and evening of fun, attended by community and friends! See over the page, for photos of the prize winners!

Pre-enrolling students

Please remember to pre-enrol your pre-schoolers who are starting school later this year as soon as possible. The Ministry of Education is currently revising our accommodation needs and may provide additional classrooms when the Year 3-4 block is rebuilt later this year. You may pre-enrol when your child turns four.




School Information • Programmes • Awards

Can you help out in our orchard? A group of parents who meet on Wednesdays at 2:00pm to weed, mulch, prune, etc. in the orchard would love more help. If you are able to come along and assist please contact Fiona Paul: 021 1742974 or 620 9498 or email: [email protected]

Lost Property

Please check for any items of lost property in the cupboard (by the office). We will dispose of any clothing unclaimed after 2.00pm, Friday 12th July.

Edendale School Term 2 2013

Holiday Programme

OSCAR-approved

Monday 15th July – Friday 26th July

from 9:00am – 3:00pm

for children aged 5 – 12 years

There will be craft activities and trips out. Pre-care and post-care is also available. Enrolment brochures are available now from the school office from Monday 1st July. For all queries, please ring the school office on 846 6340 or 021 124 7571.

Notice from the school office

For classroom drop-offs and collecting students/children at 3:00pm please use the side gates only. The main entrance door is only to be used for access to the office for office related matters, or collecting your child from the sick bay.

Our Quiz Night Prize-winners!

Top left: The Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Our Champion Team!

Above: Best Costume: Mums - Anna Swain

Above Right: Best Costume: Dads - Steve King

Left: Best Costume: Team - The Sandring-Hammers (Roller

Derby Crew) see our website shortly for additional photos!

Science-a-thon

The Science-a-thon is our major school fundraising event for this year.

Science-a-thon packs, questions and sponsorship forms have now been sent home to allow students plenty of time over the holidays to collect sponsors and to research and learn the answers to the questions.

Students will be tested in Week Two of Term Three (Wednesday 7th August) and sponsorship money will be collected by Week five (Friday 31st August).

mailto:[email protected]




School Information • Programmes • Notices

News from Edendale’s PTA Quiz Night & Dance Review Thank you to everyone who helped make Quiz Night a big success on the evening of Friday 28th of June! I would like to give special thanks to Kathy and Sarah for the amazing hours they put into making Quiz Night happen. To David for creating and implementing the Quiz – his first time ever! To Mose’ for donating his time to DJ and MC on the night. To Rowan for organising such generous alcohol sponsorship. To Rosemary for taking all the photos of the Quiz night and of course to all the staff and PTA members who gave their time. As well as all the other volunteers. Thank you all! A massive thank you to Aamel for co-ordinating the event. A fantastic time was had by everyone and there were many great costumes! We raised $7,766.00. This money will be used for additional resources for the school such as school trips, shows, Garden to Table and school equipment. As well as getting support from our wonderful volunteers and the school community we received generous support from a number of businesses. Please support these businesses in return. A list of these sponsors is attached please take the time to check them out. The 2012 / 2013 Entertainment™ Book expired on 1st June 2013. The new book is bigger than last years. It is also filled with a huge range of discount vouchers for dining, travel and recreation. Fantastic options for the school holidays! Books cost only $65.00 with $13.00 from each sale going to the school. To order books, please see the attached document. PTA Meeting The next PTA meeting will be held in the meeting room Thursday 15th August at 7:00pm. Please come and join us. Have a safe, fun school holiday. Edendale PTA

Edendale Playground Taonga Winners (Positive Behaviour Tickets) The following students were recently spotted playing well and being responsible. They have won sports equipment for their class to use for the next fortnight (Term Three): Taonga Winner: Xavier - R10 Keeping our grounds clean and tidy: Eashan - R2, Jamie - R9, Daniel - R15, Sophie - R18, Connor - R20 Playing nicely with others: Aisha - R7, Aryan - R8, Samantha - R2, Jayden - R27, Aden - R24 Being thoughtful: Xavier - R10 Helping others: Ahmed - R16 Our next school assembly will be on Monday 5th August at 10:00am.

Garden to Table We farewell Y.5-6 after two fabulous terms and hope they have learnt a great deal about gardening, harvesting and preparing delicious and nutritious food. We turned our harvested potatoes into potato pizza dough and topped them with a taste of summer with our harvest tomato sauce we preserved earlier in the year. As Y.5-6 were studying milk this term we decided to experiment how to turn a liquid into a solid! We made soft curd cheese infused with our garlic and rosemary. Have you noticed our bottle top art outside R23? Amazing what art you can make from recyclable material! A big thanks to Jo and the team at Pandoro in Mt Eden Quarter for providing us with so many bottle tops, it is much appreciated. In the garden we planted garlic and broad beans and we are digging holes for our exciting new arrivals—fruit trees. It is a great time to plant deciduous fruit trees if you are thinking of a little home gardening over the holidays! We are also continuing to prepare our beds for planting our spring crops! Have a relaxing and safe holiday and we look forward to seeing Y.3-4 teams next term. Sarah and Jodie




Board of Trustees

Next meeting will be held in the Meeting Room

Tuesday 13th August 2013 at 7:15pm

All welcome to attend

Edendale PTA

Next meeting will be held in the Meeting Room

Thursday 15th August 2013 at 7:00pm

All welcome to attend

School Information • Whanake Photos • Advertisements

School Calendar 2013 Term 2: 6th May—12th July

Term 3: 29th July—27th September

Term 4: 14th October—20th December

Public Holidays falling on school days: Monday 28th October—Labour Day

Mount Roskill Intermediate School Expo

Open Morning and Evening Wednesday 14th August 2013

Parents of prospective students are invited to visit Mount Roskill Intermediate with their children on Wednesday 14th August. There will be tours of the school with current students, as well as an Expo in the Hall that highlights the opportunities and learning at MRIS.

Open Morning: 9:00am – 10:30am (A short presentation by the Principal at 9:20am)

Open Evening: 7:00pm – 8:30pm (A short presentation by the Principal at 7:20pm)

We are proud of the accelerated learning that occurs at MRIS. Come along and see the exciting learning, sporting and cultural opportunities we have to offer. Enrolment Packs will be available.

www.mri.school.nz

Playball

Want to get you child involved in sports? Not sure which one?

Try Playball – the sports program with a difference. Classes take place every Tuesday 8:00am—8:45am in

the school hall. To Enrol please visit www.playball.co.nz or just text

021 457 571 to arrange a free trial lesson. For further details please see our

attachment/Flyer.

Open Day and Evening Thursday 8th August

Attention All Year 6 Students Balmoral Intermediate 2014 enrolment

process begins Term 3 Application forms, In Zone and Out of Zone will be

available from Monday 29th July Please see the attachment for more information

“CELEBRATION EVENING” WESLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL HALL

THURSDAY 11 JULY 7:00pm - 8:30pm

FREE ENTRY Come and celebrate a number of successes that we have

had in the past term. Our School Band

Our award winning movie (Full version) Our Kapa Haka Group

Hear about the future direction of our school See students performing

Come and celebrate with us!

Whanake Team making Crepes (by R2 and R4)

As motivation for procedural writing R2 wrote

instructions for making crepes, which R4 made on

Monday! Here are some photographs to show what

happened.

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Edendale Newsletter 10 July