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INFLIGHT MAGAZINE October 2019

ROYAL OAK INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

NEWSLETTER

Together empowering confident, motivated learners to achieve success in all walks of life.

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DEPUTY PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

Kia ora Whanau and Families, Term 4 has sprung on us and we are busily buzzing our way through Spring. We are working industriously to unpack our integrated inquiry about Careers of the Future as well as our Science concept of “Kitchen Chemistry”. It is exciting to see how students are integrating their digital technologies with their scientific investigations. We look forward to viewing experiments and investigations throughout Term 4. Tamariki are encouraged to ask parents and whanau for help when conducting “Kitchen Chemistry” experiment at home. Working with your tamariki is exciting – I can assure you, we as adults enjoy the experiments more than the tamariki! Our Health Units, Body Care and Safety will include a visit from the Life Caravan and these topics will be delivered over four lessons through the Life Education Trust. An important aspect of this unit is that students will identify the effects of changing situations, roles, and responsibilities on relationships and describe appropriate responses. These discussions are conducted by a qualified professional from Life Caravan. If parents wish to contact teachers or the LE professional, it would be fantastic to see you – we appreciate your amazing support. This term, Health and Physical Education will cover the following achievement objectives as stated in the NZ Curriculum:

• Personal Growth and Development

• Regular Physical Activity

• Safety Management

• Personal Identity

The following link allows you to give feedback regarding the delivery of Health Education to our tamariki. You are able to opt out of the lessons should you prefer that they do not participate: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HRDXKBP We continue to soar and show excellence in Cultural Performances and sport. Recently, our students performed their dances and drama items before a packed audience on both evenings. Over these evenings, whanau and friends celebrated the success of their child’s culminating task when skill and talent was showcased in the form of one of the key competencies, that is, participation and contribution. Royal Oak Intermediate School was represented by nine Squash players at Central Zone Squash. Mrs Loggie was exceptionally proud of these players as they competed against some seasoned athletes. Our girls team finished 4th and boys placed 8th and 20th. The annual Cross-Country was held at Monte Cecilia Park. Grainger, Binsted, Buchanan and Jordan showed RERE when they competed against each other. Growth Mindset was exemplified, especially when ākonga had to be motivated to complete a second lap to achieve maximum House points! Well done to all! A huge congratulations goes out to our Central Zone team who competed at the Waiataura Reserve and Kizyra produced the best results and was placed 29th in Year 7 Girls. Royal Oak Intermediate Volleyball Team achieved well at Central Zones. The Boys team won 6 out of their 8 games and were placed 3rd for the day. The Girls team was placed 6th and won 3 challenging games. Our Hockey team worked exceptionally hard to beat everyone in their pool by being placed 1st at the end of the season. In 2020, we look forward to increasing the number of Hockey players at our kura. We hosted a Careers Day with a myriad of professionals informing our tamariki about their careers and/or jobs. The New Zealand Police, Dogs Squad, Crash Unit and Air Support ‘Eagle’ Unit displayed their skills and showed us how to respond to emergencies. We are grateful and thankful to all our parent and professionals who celebrated this day with us and their expertise with kaiako and tamariki. During our AIMS week, we held a Cultural Week here at Royal Oak Intermediate School. Kaiako, ākonga and whanau celebrated the diversity of cultures and classes engaged in cultural activities that highlighted cultural responsiveness in our kura and community. Term 4 Social is 14 November 2019 from 6:30 – 8:30pm at a cost of $5.00. Drinks, food and games will be on sale. We hope to see as many tamariki as possible!

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Our Year 7 students are already getting ready for 2020 leadership and learning opportunities. Several Year 7 students delivered eloquent speeches in preparation of putting themselves forward for student leadership in 2020. This is a fantastic experience and process for these students, regardless of the outcome. We are here to support our tamariki to soar to great heights. Our Year 8 students should now be enrolled into their 2020 High Schools. Please ensure that your Year 8 child has finalized their enrolment for school. As this can be a scary process, this is time when family and whanau need to support tamariki as they can become nervous, unsettled and the onset of a range of emotions. At ROI, we do our utmost to make transitions a smooth process. Some ideas that may help easy transitioning into College/High school:

• Meet with the school – being in High School is a huge step! Schedule a meeting with the Dean to discuss your child’s learning.

• Explore extra-curricular activities at the school – this can be the best way for child to meet other students with similar interests.

• Over the summer holiday support your child’s reading and get him/her involved in activities that require responsibility. It does not

matter what they are reading, for example, sport magazines, e-books or comics.

We still have five weeks left in the term with exciting activities before us! Let us continue working hard and reap the benefits thereof. Nga Mihi Albra Stoltenkamp Deputy Principal

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Calendar – upcoming events

Friday 1st Nov Student Leader speeches

Monday 4th Nov Life Caravan arrives

Wednesday 6th Nov CZ Girls Touch

Thursday 7th Nov CZ Boys & Mixed Touch

Thursday 14th Nov ROI Orientation Day 1

Term 4 Social

Wednesday 20th Nov CZ Athletics day

Thursday 21st Nov ROI Orientation Day 2

Tuesday 26th November BOT Meeting

Assembly

Each Friday at 10:10am in the Hall. Everyone is welcome!

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Uniform Reminder

We are seeing a lot of variations to the school uniform being wore by the students. Please ensure that your child is wearing the correct uniform as pictured. Uniform Expectations:

1. Students are to always wear their normal school

uniform to and from school. 2. Students are to be in correct uniform every day. 3. Students must wear plain, black leather shoes

and may wear sports shoes for PE. 4. Non-uniform to be removed immediately. This

includes shoes. 5. Plain, black leather shoes are required in BioFood

and Design Technology classes. 6. Royal blue cap or bucket hat. Compulsory in

terms 1 & 4 7. Track pants and jeans are not acceptable. 8. Students wearing our uniform in public represent

the school and we expect them to wear it correctly and with pride. Our school values are something that should be upheld in or out of uniform.

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Go and see some of our students fabulous Artwork at:

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In Class Work

Should students get Home Work at School? I strongly believe that students should get homework at school because the work we get in school is not enough. Work in High School and Intermediate has a big difference and I wouldn’t want a huge pressure of work in High School. It gives us practice in advance as well unless I want to get embarrassed in front of the teacher. When we get homework, it makes us organize ourselves. We open our school bags and at the same time we are able to check if we have any newsletters or notices for our parents. We often see that the notices don’t reach home because we forget to give them to our parents or they just stay in our bags! Homework helps us revise the work that we do in school and it gives us the opportunity to work independently. Besides helping us to work independently, homework enables us to remain mentally active and prepare ourselves for the next day at school. Also, homework boosts my brain and help me achieve at my learning level in school subjects. I wouldn’t want to be left behind and let everyone move ahead in life and laugh at me. If I do homework, I will start liking that subject. I will get better and that subject it will become easier with practice. People who do homework will succeed in life and if I don’t, I’ll probably won’t achieve anything in life. Amish Bhayani Room 12 Yr 7

What is a Career? A career is a job under taken by a specific person interested in a specific line of work. This occupation is kept for a significant period of a person’s life with opportunities for progress and a better salary. What makes me ’ME’? I am very Organized, Determined, Respectful, Kind, Energetic, Intelligent, Reliable, Honest, Good Listener and I believe in myself. For my future job I would like to be a vet this would help me to help animals and the community. I want to research and diagnose diseases and treat medical conditions of pets, livestock and animals those are not cared for their living. At present I am helping animals in my community and I want to continue this. Alexis Haraki Room 12

Visit to Catherine Lodge On Monday 26th August 2019, Room 1, Bio Food students showed Mahi Tahi for the elderly in the community by visiting them in the Catherine Lodge a retirement home. This was an exciting opportunity for us students to spend quality time with them, listen to their concerns and be affectionate. The purpose of our visit was a reminder of how much people still care for them, especially when they have entered this new phase of life. I think sometimes when the elderly in the lodge or retirement home get visitors they too love to listen and spend time with the young people and especially children like of ours age. Mrs. Kumar and Room 1 students made some amazing and delicious muffins with different flavours such as: chocolate, berries, vanilla etc. Mr. Webber our classroom teacher had prepared us with the school song and the two other Maori songs which was Ka Rere and E Tuia. We sang these for our elderly people in the lodge so as to entertain them and make them be part of us. We, then with our peer/buddy had a brief interview with the elderly in the lodge and asked them few questions such as: What was their full name and who they were named after? Where were they born and where did they grow up? Besides their family who were their role models and why?

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What were some of their achievements that they were proud of throughout their life? It was a privilege to spend that precious time with our elderly people of our community and we got to know so many things from their time and age. There were some interesting things they were telling us such as- Royal Oak was once the home to Boyd Zoo one of the earliest Zoological Gardens in New Zealand. It was their morning tea, we offered our muffins to them and we had some juice with them and continued spending our time sharing and talking about all the exciting things about our learning. The receptionist told us that Marie Cortese (one of the elderly persons in the lodge) would be turning 100 years at the end of August. We sang a song called “E Hine to a wahine” for her and Mr. Webber briefly explained the meaning of the song and why it was so special for her. It was fun learning for us students and it gave our elderly of the community a sense of value and dignity and purpose, by sharing their wisdom, or just being appreciated and loved.

Room 1 students.

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ROI Careers Day 2019 On the 12th of September 2019, the students of Royal Oak Intermediate were privileged to have a fantastic group of adults who enlightened us about the different jobs and occupation they were doing. This was an opportunity where it made us students to get thinking if that could be us. I am a year seven student and I am here to tell you about some amazing memories I have about this great event. I believe the school has been celebrating “Career Day” from past 4 years and like me there must have been many students who have been motivated and inspired to choose their future pathways with so much of information out from the speakers. An incredible experience to know and understand how the police department works for me and you and every single person living in this country was just amazing. A group of police officers came along and taught us about what they do together in the skies. Looking for lost people and capturing intruders are just not the two of the things they do. The chopper they brought along was a new one with a camera suitable for spying on someone over 3 kilometres then for a shock to stop and capture was so much for us students to now acknowledge the hard work done by them. They then showed us some of the techniques the police dogs do on patrol, not only that, it made things so clear for us to understand that from the smallest things like finding a phone to arresting runaway robbers and others too large extent was their priority for each and every citizen of this country. Further on, we had Isabel, a dietician from the heart foundation who taught us about what food you need and how much sugar there is in the everyday drinks we have. The most stunning fact, was an insane amount of sugar in the fizzy drinks. I am sure we students were able to make connections to what Mrs Kumar teaches us, which is how important it is to have a healthy nutritional diet so as to keep ourselves fit and healthy. Isabel taught us that each and every individual needs a different kind of diet to follow; otherwise, it’s not right for you and your health. You should take care of your own body and to do so you need to care of what you eat and why. From police department, a dietician, we then moved to fall into the sea and find a marine biologist, Anthony, the marine biologist talked about how he sees the most amazing views and gets a trip quite often. There are always ups and downs about his career, and a downside would be SHARKS! If you are in the middle of the sea and a shark is just coming straight at you, it will surely be scary and panicky but with a lot more of experience in this job you become the hero and a champion in this field. A marine biologist to me now means you are going to see the most beautiful of the underworld sites, corals, fish, rocks and so much more! Coming back to our RERE values and a little more religious, we also had a Pastor who talked about how this is another way to meeting and greeting people, travelling around and helping and spreading the good things we as humans should do. He shared with us his life journey where he had so many opportunities to go out of the country and to other churches with a mission. Now a little more technical would be a relationship manager. She shared with us her job profile as a relationship manager. Her job is to secure a clients and partners bond. She helps people’s relation to stay there healthy and happy forever. She does her best to maintain the client and business partner’s friendship so that they can work with ease. A relationship manager has to help the client understand what they do and how. The job isn’t hard, and it isn’t easy either, you have to have excellent social skills and persuasive skills as well. To conclude, we the students of Royal Oak Intermediate now have understood that there are so many options for us. It is time for us now to think about who and what can we be in the future. It is like the saying “make your sails before your journey”, meaning we should think of what we are going to be before we study for it. Sadhana Singh. Room 12

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Cultural Festival

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Cooking with Brendon Coffey Room 1 were lucky enough to work with professional chef Brendon Coffey. Brendon has worked with world famous chefs all over the world including Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver. Not only that there is lot more to add to his profile Brendon has worked in New Zealand and internationally at 5 start Hotels and Restaurants. In addition, Brendon judged many cooking competitions and was the Chief Judge at New Zealand Salon Culinary from 2002 – 2005. He has worked with or cooked for Rick Stein, the All Blacks, Prime Ministers, Presidents, Movie stars – (John Travolta) To name a few. He taught us how to make healthy falafel tortillas. Brendon also taught Room 1 some professional tips on cutting vegetables safely and especially how to finely dice the onions. He talked us and encouraged us about how to eat well and be healthy and told us how healthy food in our bodies means a healthy mind ready to learn. Making our own wraps with the falafel from the scratch was indeed a challenge for all of us as a team but Brendon guided us throughout till we finally had a platter the wraps for the judgement. Each team had to present their wraps and we had to be creative in our own ways. The different ways we presented our dish was leaving the falafel and the dressing on the plate and the wraps folded in two, there were others who filled the wrap with falafel and the dressing and rolled it and there were others who gave a nice presentation dividing the wrap in two etc. The winning team was awarded with an amazing recipe book made by Brendon Coffey and it had ample of wrap recipes for us to try at home. It was a great experience and taught us to be passionate about food and cooking and as Brendon said- “Food brings people together” I am sure we students have had the privilege to learn a lot from his experience. Isabella Wickman

Should More Areas of NZ be restored to their original state? Did you know that New Zealand has one of the highest extinction rates in the world of both plants and animals? this is a reason why we must restore more areas in NZ to their original form. I believe this because there will be fewer problems with pests, we can prevent birds and animals from being endangered or becoming extinct and we can

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protect our native trees. This is why I strongly believe we must restore more areas of New Zealand to their original form.

My first reason is there will be fewer problems with pests. around 25 million native birds are killed by introduced predators such as possums, stoats, rats, and feral cats. rats and numerous other pests mostly prey on small birds’ chicks, and eggs. So, if we don’t restore more areas of New Zealand there will be more pests than there are birds. So that’s why we definitely must restore more areas of NZ to their original form.

My second reason is that we can prevent birds and animals from becoming endangered or extinct. around 80% of the country’s birds are endangered and we have lost about 15 bird species. So, if we don't act soon our birds could be in great danger but if we restore more areas of land back to its original form I believe that the chances of NZ birds being threatened will slowly decrease.

My third reason is we can protect more of our native and endemic trees. what I mean by this is that trees also have predators for example possums not only raid nests taking eggs and chicks for protein, but they defoliate thousands of hectares of NZ trees. 80% of New Zealand trees are all endemic so if we don't restore more areas of NZ to their original form our trees could be facing extinction.

In conclusion if we restore more areas of NZ it will have a tremendous and positive impact on New Zealand’s bird’s animals and trees. what I mean by this is that there will be a slender amount of problems with pests, we can avoid birds and animals from being endangered or extinct, and keep more of our native and endemic trees safe. Therefore, we must act as soon as possible.

Sarah Pili

Should More Areas of NZ be Returned to Their Original State

Did you know that an estimated 25 million birds are killed every year by introduced predators in New Zealand? Because of this I believe that we must definitely restore more natural environments to NZ. My first reason why I believe this is because NZ would have less problems with pests, secondly to protect our native birds and last but not least to protect our native trees.

Firstly, did you know that there are 30 million possums in NZ and up to 25 per hectare. Pests eat birds, lizards, kiwi chicks, insects and snails which decreases the population of their different species. Most of the pests carry a lethal disease which is responsible for up to 44% of new infections, which can spread world wild. Because of this we must restore more natural environments in NZ and get rid of all pests.

Secondly, it will protect our native and endemic birds, for example pests such as stoats, rats and possums compete with our native birdlife for food and habitats. If we got rid of pests our birds wouldn’t be harmed as much and there would be more food and places for birds to nest and live. Food and shelter is also limited for our native birds as most of the food and shelter has been taken by pests which leaves nothing for our endemic birds.

My final point as to why we must return more of NZ to its natural form is to protect our native trees. Did you know that some of our NZ trees are endemic? For example, Rimu, Kauri, Pohutukawa and Totara are some of the endemic trees in NZ. If we don’t protect our native trees then they could be in great danger and NZ won’t have enough clean oxygen for humans and our wildlife, including birds.

To sum up we must restore more natural environments in NZ. If we did, our native birds would have more places to nest, our NZ endemic trees would be healthier and we would have less problems with pests. Imagine if we didn’t have any pests… There would be more species of endemic birds, lizards and kiwis. Because of this we must definitely restore more areas of NZ to their original forms ASAP.

Losana Ho

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GENERAL SCHOOL NOTICES

1) PLEASE NAME IT – we make every effort to see students’ personal items are

secure. It would make our task considerably easier and would drastically reduce

levels of stress for students if ALL ITEMS – INCLUDING ALL UNIFORM ITEMS,

SPORTS UNIFORMS, SHOES, SPORTS EQUIPMENT, JACKETS, JERSEYS,

LUNCHBOXES, WATER BOTTLES, BAGS etc WERE ALL CLEARLY NAMED!!

2) UPDATE OF INFORMATION – if there have been any changes to the custodial arrangements, change of address, change of telephone number, change of emergency contact numbers, or any other changes we would be very grateful if you would inform us as soon as possible, so our records can be corrected. 3) VISITORS - whenever you visit the school please do so via the office so you can be checked in, instead of going directly to the classroom. Thank you for your cooperation. 4) NO - ipods, games, fizzy drinks, lollies, chocolate or chewing gum is to be brought to school. If students do, it will be confiscated and returned at the end of the day! We look forward to your support with this. 5) CELL PHONES - if students bring cell phones to school they are given to the teacher (to be put into the lock-box) before school and collected after school. If students keep them on them or in bags during the day and they are ‘lost’ or ‘stolen’ we will not waste any time in following up. Owner beware - follow the procedures! 6) MONEY - is not to be left in bags, desks or clothing when not being worn. Hand to the office or their class teacher for safe keeping. If the procedure is not followed and money is ‘lost’ or ‘stolen’ we will not waste any time following up. Owner beware - follow the procedure! 7) SCHOOL UNIFORM - it is wonderful to see the majority of students now wearing correct school uniform, although there are still some who are not: either because they are choosing not to or because the uniform shops may still not have all stock in (if this is the case, non-regulation uniform is ok but a note is still needed). However, if incorrect uniform is worn, for whatever reason, a note is needed please.

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PICKING UP & DROPPING OFF STUDENTS

PLEASE DO NOT PARK NOR DRIVE THRU

THE SCHOOL CARPARK WHEN DROPPING OFF & PICKING UP YOUR

CHILDREN BEFORE AND AFTER SCHOOL

PICK UP & DROP OFF STUDENTS FROM SYMONDS ST THANK YOU

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UNIFORM REMINDER – ALL BOYS are now required to

wear the knee-high sock as part of their uniform. In addition to this, any white part of the uniform will now not be allowed at school i.e. girls socks must be black, long sleeve tops under uniform (skivvy etc.) must be plain black. School hats are compulsory in Term 1 & Term 4.

MONEY - Please DO NOT send your child to school with $50 or $100 notes. This is too much money for them to have for the tuckshop and/or school activities payment. The tuck-shop will no longer accept these large notes. Thank you for support with this.

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Community Notices

Past Present Future Dare to Explore 2019-2020 at Auckland Libraries

Sign your children up for the penultimate Auckland Libraries Dare to Explore summer reading adventure! We will be looking at the Past Present and Future with some exciting fun activities all for FREE. Registrations open on 18 November with the adventure starting on 9 December. It is a great way to maintain your children’s reading levels over the long summer holiday. And it is all totally FREE! We look forward to seeing you at one of our libraries soon.

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