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MT MAUNGANUI

INTERMEDIATE

School Newsletter No. 39

9 December 2016

IN THIS ISSUE Principal’s Report

PSG News

Sports Information

End of Year Reminders

Tauranga Christmas in the Park

Coastal Values

Community Notices

Mount Maunganui Intermediate School

SCHOOL RESUMES FOR ALL PUPILS 8.45am on Wednesday, 1st February 2017

STATIONERY PACKS [$30] SCHOOL HATS [$10]

& SECOND HAND UNIFORMS on sale in school hall from

10.00am – 1.00pm Thursday, 26th January 2017

SCHOOL OFFICE WILL RE-OPEN FOR

NEW ENROLMENTS 10.00am – 1.00pm

Wednesday, 25th January, 2017

Phone: 07 5755512 Email: [email protected]

C O M I N G E V E N T S

2016

DECEMBER

13 Friends of the School Morning Tea - 10.15am

14 9.15am Year 7 Prizegiving 11.15am Year 8 Prizegiving

15 Last Day Term 4 12.00pm finish

JANUARY 2017

18 Schooltex VIP Night - Uniform

26 Second Hand Uniform and Stationery Sales – 10.00am - School Hall

FEBRUARY 2017

1 First Day Term 1 - 2017

6 Waitangi Day

DONATE YOUR

UNIFORM

RECEIVE A FREE

JUICIE

Year 8 Students

If you would like to donate your uniform to the Parent Support Group and receive a free juicie, please bring it to the canteen

on the last day of school. (Thursday 15 December)

Students can wear mufti for this day.

ONLY STUDENTS DONATING THEIR

UNIFORM CAN WEAR MUFTI.

Thank you so much!

Last newsletter of 2016

See you here next year!!

mailto:[email protected]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL Kia ora koutou,

Well team, we have almost made it. The school year has finished calmly, with staff and students still working hard.

Next week, we have a number of events and celebrations. Our thank you morning tea is Tuesday morning, followed by our formal prize giving’s on Wednesday morning. Our leaver’s assembly will be held on Thursday morning. School finishes on Thursday, at 12.00 pm.

As a leader, I believe that my role is to grow people. We work strategically to develop, grow and build our staff. At the end of this year we are going to farewell a number of staff, who have won promotions, or are moving into different sectors. Although, sad for us, it is exciting to be involved in the support and development of careers.

We say congratulations, thank you and farewell to:

Mr Bassett - has won a leadership position at Kaimai School, teaching year 6-8. Ms Havill - Deputy Principal, has won a position with the Ministry of Education, as a Student Achievement Function Practioner. Mrs Jensen - has won a specialist teaching position at Tauranga Intermediate, teaching digital technology. Mrs Robertson - has been on maternity leave this year and has chosen to move into part time work to spend time with her young family. Miss Tierney - has won a secondary position teaching English and Spanish, at Te Puke High School. Mrs Toy - has resigned from her team leader position. She plans to spend more time with her family. Mrs Yorke - has won a position teaching in the Year 7/8 Learning Commons, at Papamoa College. Whaea Ange Webster - has won a position in the primary sector, at Te Akau Ki Papamoa. Rose from Kiwi Can - will be studying to be a teacher at Canterbury University.

In 2016, we have carried additional staffing, so despite a number of staff who are moving on, we have only two new teachers starting. Mrs Debbie Howell is an experienced teacher and Mathematics Curriculum/Numeracy adviser who has worked in New Zealand and overseas. She has recently returned from Abu Dhabi. We are also joined by Miss Hannah O'Kane, who joins us from Western Heights Primary School in Rotorua. She has strengths in Literacy, Numeracy, ICT/e learning and Te Reo.

2017 The predicted roll is 613 for the start of next year. Although, believe it or not, there are still enrolments coming in. The BOT has funded a 21st class, to lower class numbers. We have 20 students enrolled in our Te Reo bilingual programme. We would love to add some more students into this class, so if your child has an interest in Te Reo and Tiikanga, this could be the perfect class placement for them. This will be a year 7 and 8 composite class. We will have 11 year 8 classes and 10 year 7 classes.

All homeroom teachers will be in new or refurbished classes, with new furniture in 2017. Over the term break the school will be repainted, down pipes replaced and the back carpark extended. The new toilet block will be opened in term 1. We also plan to refurbish the last 2 remaining old classrooms, rooms 24/25, in the New Year.

We would like to thank our Board of Trustees and all of our staff for the tremendous amount of work that you all have done over the year. We are extremely fortunate, as a community, to have such a dedicated team.

A big thank you to all of the wonderful community volunteers, coaches, canteen, tutor reading, crossings and parent helpers. We are so fortunate to have such an amazing community. You make such a difference to the lives of our children and to our school. A big thank you to Joy Luker and to Anna Beck, who have convened our parent support group for the past two years. We cannot thank you enough.

To our students and families who are moving on to college, we wish you all the best. We know that you will love the Coastal Values and continue to be successful in your new place of learning.

To our year 7 students, the bar lifts again. We look forward to you stepping up and being wonderful year 8 role models.

Finally, to those families who have journeyed through MMI with one or more students. If you are leaving us for good, we bid you farewell. We know that the intermediate years seem fleeting, but, it is such a time of change and growth for your pre-teens. We know that you will all move on, but we hope that you never forget.

Student Leaders for 2017 We have been working on the appointment process over the past few weeks. Students shortlisted were nominated by both students and staff. These students and their families should be exceptionally proud of being identified by students and staff alike, as a positive role model. We are very proud of you all and the positive start to Intermediate that you have had.

From here, the leadership candidates have completed a CV, planned and given a presentation, answered interview questions and given an impromptu speech. The calibre of this year's potential leaders is very high. We will announce the Head Boy, Head Girl and Deputies at the Year 7 assembly on Wednesday. We encourage the shortlisted applicants not to be disappointed, but to be very proud of themselves and what they have achieved and to continue to seek leadership roles on the council, house leaders, in sport and other cultural and arts endeavour’s.

Mihi Kirihimete me nga mihi nui mo te tau hou. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the MMI team.

Lisa Morresey Principal

Mt Maunganui Intermediate School, 21 Lodge Avenue, Mt Maunganui 3116 Phone 07 575 5512 Email: [email protected]

NEWS FROM THE PSG Firstly we want to say a HUGE

Thank you

To all the people that have given up their time this year to help us raise money for the PSG. We have raised a total of $18,500, which we are very proud of. We have been trying desperately to spend it all so our kids get the benefit as soon as it is raised. Here is a list of things we have spent that hard earned cash on: New sickbay beds & fridge $ 4,005 Plants around the school $ 1,000 Classroom equipment $ 1,150 Timber for Picnic Tables $ 2,255 Year 8 Social & Gifts $ 2,046 Replacement iPads $ 5,400 Books for Library $95 Principals Kia Maia Gifts $ 500 Welfare Fund $ 1,000 Artwork for new house flags $ 400 We have had a great time being the co-ordinators of the PSG for the past two years, and we are thrilled to announce we have found some new people to lead the PSG into 2017.

Thank you Erica Mitchell and Jacqui Herrick for putting your hands up to do this rewarding job. We know you will be great, and that you will get heaps of support from our school community.

SCHOOL UNIFORM DONATIONS This is, of course, completely voluntary, but if you have no need for your MMI school uniforms, we would greatly appreciate them being donated to the school. This year, we raised over $5,000 from our second hand uniform sale. Year 8 students are allowed to wear mufti to school on the last day if they donate their uniforms - bring them to the school canteen before school next Thursday and get a free juicie. Again, thanks everyone for all your support over the past two years, and bye from us.....

Anna Beck & Joy Luker

New Bean bags for the library get their

first use!


CANTEEN MONITORS 2016

A HUGE thanks to our canteen monitors for 2016. This is not an easy job and we thank the students listed below who have carried out the job conscientiously.

Room 21 Room 3 Room 6

Olivia Carr-Manoit Kaya Swann Teneille Mehrtens

Rebecca Chatfield Ella Tattersall Devon Marks

Lana Beck Cohen Radich Tristan Hanna

Jaz Zajonskowski Matthew Schoonderwoerd Kaya Lake

Ruby Emmerson Gemma Saunders Rico Nelson

Elise Luker Tazmin Mackay-Hobson

Room 8 Room 13 Room 15

Maddie Brown Sophie Ruddell Sarah Skousgaard

Kirsten Max Stephanie Price Lottie Marshall

Grace Terry Samara Johnston Jaimee Flowerday

Breanna Crane Ella Hight Holly Sheaff

Rylee Bell Megan George Grace McDonald-Brown

Harmony Reiri

Willow Cunningham Room 19 Room 20

Lalia Dennehy Talia Williams-Ututaonga Jayrene Penwarden

Amber Weber Bellah McGregor

Environmental Monitors 2016

A group of boys have been responsible, on Fridays, for assisting with emptying the classroom food recycling bins, feeding the worms and keeping the paper recycling room tidy. It is a big commitment and not always the

most pleasant job. We thank them for their efforts towards assisting us to produce fertilizer for our school garden and in working towards reducing our waste footprint.

Many thanks for all your hard work: Jordan Toy Jayden Swinbank Cooper McKay Harley Prestidge Aidan Nathan Damien Wilson


SPORTS INFORMATION

WATER POLO SECOND PLACE

Mt Green had a close game with Aquinas Boys in the A Grade final on Tuesday. After losing their last 2 games, it was all even this time, with 1-1 at full time. After a penalty shoot-out, Aquinas came out on top again, with Mt taking 2nd place. Thank you to Sam Kramer-Pickering for coaching this term.

PLEASE RETURN SPORTS UNIFORMS

MISSING!!

Wetsuit No. 29

Size 12/14 Last seen at Ngatuhoa Camp

Borrowed for

Ms Jensen’s class Has MMIS on side Please send back to

school so that it can be used by others!!

Many thanks.

URGENT!!! Approaching the end of the year, we have many sports uniforms which have not been returned. We would appreciate if parents/caregivers could please check at home and ensure that all tracksuits and uniforms are returned asap. Many thanks


END OF YEAR REMINDERS!!

Tauranga's Christmas in the Park !!! NOW SUNDAY 11 December 2016 !!!

1pm - 8pm at Blake Park Some of our students will be performing

Joe Spiers - 5pm Mabel Affleck - 5pm Taylor Jonathan - 5pm

Go along and support them if you can

LIBRARY RETURNS Our library is closed for stocktake and requires all books to be returned. Could parents/caregivers please have a look around home and send any library books back to school immediately. Many thanks.

Last day for canteen is

TODAY!!

No orders next

Wednesday.

Thank you to all our

parent canteen helpers

and student monitors.

Merry Christmas!!

HO HO HO!


COASTAL VALUE CERTIFICATES 2016 Term 4 – Week 9

2 Kyle-Jon Barry For your hard work and positive attitude this term! Well done =)

3 Matthew Schoonderwoerd

For improvement in attitude towards learning and support of others.

4 Lani Doidge For significant improvement in her learning over the year.

7 Ruby Franks For consistently showing a positive attitude towards her learning and school activities, especially our class relay. Well done Ruby.

8 Harmony Reiri For being such a positive influence on the classroom in 2016.

8 Grace Terry For being such a positive influence on the classroom in 2016.

9 Amelia Hishon For a consistent high standard of learning and being a positive role model.

10 Hope Gibbard Just because! Those who know Hope, will understand.

11 Paige Thom For consistently presenting a high quality of work.

12 Katie Townhill For improvement in the effort towards your learning and ensuring you are keeping up with deadlines.

13

Megan George For her outstanding contributions to the class throughout the year.

14

Poppy Wilson For the progress you have made both academically and socially. You have become more confident in yourself and are now participating actively in all class discussions.

15

Jack Sheaff Congratulations on the huge improvement you have made during the year in Reading.

16

Maia Ensor Your hard work and commitment to improving your writing. You have written a range of texts using the appropriate language and structural features.

16 Crystal Moon Your hard work and commitment to improving your writing. Your narrative was imaginative and descriptive. Well done.

18

Sophie Lynskey For working effectively with her team during our market day, competing in our championship relay team, and then offering to help other groups clean up after school.

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COASTAL VALUE CERTIFICATES 2016 Term 4 – Week 9 continued

19

Emma Littlewood Showing initiative and coastal values during group work. Ka Rawe!

21

Sanghoon Kim For your outstanding effort and attitude in all that we do. And for your academic achievements this year. Congratulations.

22

Moai Tihi For your positive attitude to complete set learning tasks and support others. Kia Kaha Moai.

23

Arabella Beaufoy-Burchell

For being helpful and volunteering to assist with many different duties.

Visual Arts

Amelie Marwick Room 11

For being conscientious and taking care with all her work this cycle.

Digi Tech

Briale Roxburgh Room 10

For consistently remaining focused on her learning throughout the cycle.

Music

Opal Nilsen Room 6

For your hard work and commitment to learning new practical knowledge.

Dance & Drama

Piper Thomas Room 11

For showing focus, creativity, helpfulness and commitment in Dance and Drama.

Food Tech

Sevarn Tawhiao-Lomas Room 4

For slotting in to the class quietly and effectively after a late start to the cycle.

A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM ALL THE STAFF AND STUDENTS FROM MT

MAUNGANUI INTERMEDIATE. HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO

SEEING EVERYONE IN 2017!! HO HO HO!!













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MT MAUNGANUI INTERMEDIATE 2016 - WordPress.com · 12/9/2016 · Mt Maunganui Intermediate School, 21 Lodge Avenue, Mt Maunganui 3116 Phone 07 575 5512 Email: [email protected]