Newsletter No: 06 10 May 2017

KEY DATES in 2017

MAY

Tuesday 9th-Friday 26th Life Education Caravan

Wednesday 17th Tui Reading Information Hour 5-6pm

Thursday 18th BoT Meeting 7pm

Friday 19th School Cross Country (postponement day 26th)

Wednesday 24th Wellington Easts Girls College – Information Session 3.15pm Y8 Girls

Wednesday 31st Wellington Girls College – Information Session 3.15pm Y8 Girls Gardasil Vaccination (1st dose)Year 8’s

JUNE

Friday 2nd Teacher Only Day – school closed

Monday 5th Queen’s Birthday holiday

JULY Wednesday 5th Mātariki Celebrations 6-8pm

Friday 7th Last Day Term 2

Tui & Kiwi Syndicates held a “dress up” disco last term to raise funds for World Vision

Naumai e te whanau o te kura Brooklyn Tena koutou katoa

Welcome back to Term 2. We have a fun filled term planned full of science, Life Education, Small Sticks hockey, Moa

and Kiwi swimming, cross country and culminating with our Mātariki celebrations.

We have welcomed Lisa Stratford to our school. Lisa has taken over the teaching and learning in Room 15 and is

really enjoying the class. Margaret Zlatkov has started the new entrant class in Room 2 and currently she has 10

children. Kirsty Parun is releasing Margaret on a Wednesday as Margaret is on Associate Principal release.

This week the Life Education caravan arrived on our top playground to help us with our health education

programme. For those of you who haven’t come across this mobile classroom Charlotte Klemick the Life Education

Educator will hold an open afternoon next Monday 15 May 2.30-2.50pm. Life Education is a charity that educates

and empowers children to make healthy choices so they can live full and healthy lives. Every year they

teach over 250,000 children about their body, friendships, their identity, food and nutrition and

helpful and harmful substances. Each class in the school will be visiting the

classroom at least twice.

Here are the areas the syndicates are focusing on:

Moa - Food and Nutrition

Takahe - Peer Pressure

Kiwi - Friendship

Tui - Friendship

You can find out more at http://www.lifeeducation.org.nz/in-schools/ourprogramme

Next week we are holding our school cross country. There is some work being carried out down in the lower park of

the Prince of Wales Park and we are in the process of finding out whether we can use the park as our course. We will

let you know later in the week where the venue is going to be. In the meantime the children are busy practising

around our school. The date for our school cross country is the 19th May (postponement 26th May).

Thank you to those of you who came along last Thursday night to share your ideas around our building

developments. We are collating these and will share these with you in due course.

There is a Fair Planning meeting tonight at 7pm in the staffroom, you are most

welcome to come along. We are planning to hold this event on Sunday 26th November.

As the weather cools down we thought we would offer Brooklyn Hoodies and House T-

Shirts for sale through the school office. Order forms went home today with your

eldest/only child –please check their bag (an email has also been sent).

Please put these dates in your diary:

Wednesday 17th May 5-6pm – Tui Reading Information Hour in the library – All Welcome

Wednesday 5th July 6-8pm - Our annual Mātariki Celebrations - this is an amazing community event.

New Students We extend a warm Brooklyn welcome to our new students and their families: New entrants Zoe Brazier, Atticus Cassels, Angus Kellow, Victoria Kempthorne, Oliver Lamb, Daniel Morris, Aryan Nathu, Mille Temple & Isaac Upton, and from other schools we welcome: Eliza Ho-Ng Year 5, Jailu Kong Year 2 & Jaiyi Kong Year 5 Nga mihi nui

Liz Rhodes

PRINCIPALS AWARDS FRIDAY 7 APRIL

Tui Syndicate

Room 1: Arlie Marriott – is a mature & sensible

student. She is a caring friend & a role model to

others in the classroom

Room 3: Apeksha Patel – for her happy “can-do”

attitude towards her learning

Room 4: Ursula Fletcher – showing how she cares for

& values the feelings of others

Room 5: Sophie-Anne Liu – for the fantastic effort &

focus she has shown in Room 5

Kiwi Syndicate

Room 14: Jake Parun – self managing his learning &

being an awesome role model in Room 14

Room 15: Jack Vivian – being thoughtful & kind. He

always wants to know what he can do to help

Room 16: Phoebe Wall – for having such a positive

attitude towards learning & not being afraid to be in

the “dip”

Room 18: Flynn Boucher – improving in his ability to

manage himself better, which has led to a more

focused & confident Flynn

Takahe Syndicate

Room 6: Eva Prebble – for her caring &

compassionate nature towards everyone in the class

Room 7: Harris Skelton – for his hard work &

persistence to get the “lightbulb” moment

Room 8: Hamish Wright – it is wonderful to see you

take on responsibilities, compete fairly & be

someone for others to rely on

Room 13: Phoebe Simcock – for being a positive ball

of energy that ignites & inspires people around her

Moa Syndicate

Room 9: Amelia Fogg - demonstrating niwha in

everything she does particularly her report writing

Room 10: Brinthan Dornan – always settling in

straight to his tasks & going the extra mile to get the

most out of everything

Room 11: Phoebe Paterson – demonstration niwha

to make great progress in our latest maths unit

Room 12: Yua Tomari – showing rapu during writing

WRITERS CORNER

The Lighthouse By Beckett Harland, Room 3

At Easter, we went to an old lighthouse perched up on a sharp and steep cliff.

The steep stairs up were old and rickety. Up where the lighthouse perched,

the wind blew the sand in large balls into my face. They burst as they hit. On

the way back, we went to a shop. I got a collection of shells and a dried-out

starfish.

Over the month we have generated 140.90 Kilowatts, this is enough to power 5 laptops, 140

microwaves and 280 irons. We also have saved 27.48 kg’s of CO2!

To keep this up, please power off any electric appliances that are not in use.

Thank you, from the School Gen and Environment team.

Just a friendly reminder about ‘litter-less lunches’, keep your rubbish in your lunchbox and put in

your bin at home.

School Gen Update

The Underwater hockey season is underway with the first two (of eight) tournaments for the

year being played. Seven of the 2016 Brooklyn School students have gone off to college – many

now playing for secondary school teams – and we have sixteen new (mostly) Year 6 students

practicing and playing games. Underwater Hockey is energetic and some of the best players

can hold their breath for quite some time. Newer players take time to get used to this so we are

rotating the newer players through with the existing players as one large team.

Tournament#1 (T1)was played in mid-March (nine school teams involved) and Tournament 2

(T2) was played on the first weekend of April (eleven school teams involved). In both

tournaments, Brooklyn came fourth. Both good solid results with the team rebuilding and

welcoming new players.

However, in T2 in April Brooklyn had a brilliant round robin group winning all four of their

games well. In the semi and final games the opposition teams only got one goal more, and in

the final game, Brooklyn narrowly lost on a “golden goal” shootout. Awesome effort and

everyone was shattered afterwards. Great team effort!

Congratulations to the players for the last two tournaments: Rory B, Emma G, Hamish S,

Mathieu E, Emma, Nick J, Clare S, Jessica G, Jacob Wilson and Dom Heitger (first game and

giving it a go).

We have six more tournaments for the year and will strive to get as many new players through

into the team so they can enjoy the game (s) and we can improve on our results.

Carl Savage, Brooklyn School Underwater Hockey Coordinator, 027 2808934

Kids Cross Country Series starts mid May The Brendan Foot Supersite Kids Cross Country Series is back this winter. Each event has 500+ kids, aged 3 to 13. There are five events through the Wellington region from May to August with the first one on Sunday 14 May. Your choice if do you one, two, or all five. Come along, join the fun. Complete them all and receive a commemorative medal and Drink Bottle. Only $8 to enter. More info or to enter go to athleticshub.co.nz

Every week we are going to feature some children involved in our Moa Mentor Programme which takes place every week during lunchtimes on a Tuesday. The purpose of the initiative is to pair up a younger child with an older student mentor from year 7 and 8. The role of the mentor is to help the younger students in a range of different ways relating to the needs of the child. This could involve sharing a common interest, playing games, helping them adapt in social situations or generally being a good role model. This week we are featuring Charlie and his mentors Eva and Brooke. They enjoy doing activities like cooking, electronics, Lego and playing tag. Here they are decorating cupcakes. Eva and Brooke enjoy Charlie’s company and mention that he is smart, creative and that he likes to have fun

Mentor of the Week

The Wellington Marathon is on 18 June 2017 and includes a Kids Magic Mile with major spot prizes from Mizuno and Thermatech, girls and boys mountain bikes, plus family travel on Bluebridge. For those running the full/half marathon/10k/5k then join Team Heart Racer and help raise vital funds for the Heart Foundation. Every Heart Racer receives a Heart Racer dry-fit running t-shirt, regular newsletter with training /nutrition /fundraising advice, an online fundraising page, plus a FitBit Surge for those who raise over $750! everydayhero.co.nz/event/wellington-marathon-2017

Springboard & Platform

Diving Kilbirnie Pool

Wellington Diving Club has a range of diving classes

for kids aged 5 years and up. Why not try something new this year? Visit our website and come along for a free trial lesson! We have several after-school sessions and cater for kids of any level from beginners to competitive. We also run fun casual sessions on Sundays. For more information, please visit our website www.wellingtondiving.org.nz or call/text Barbara on 027 485 8888.

Short term homestay hosts are needed for student-teachers from Hong Kong who are studying at Victoria University, from 4th June until 12h August (10 weeks). These students generally are between 20 and 30 years old and have a high level of English. They typically spend some of their weekends travelling the country with their friends. They particularly enjoy immersing themselves in NZ/Kiwi culture through living with local families. Families will be paid a weekly board.

For more information please contact

Katrina Semmens, 463-4716 or

email homestay@vuw.ac.nz

Learn conversational Mandarin with Ni Hao Children's Community!

Brooklyn School children are invited to register for a free trial in Term 2. Free trials involve

attendance at two classes (8 and 15 May), which is important if your child has not been

regularly exposed to a language other than English.

In Term 2, classes will be held at the Brooklyn Scout Hall on Mondays 4:30-5:20pm,

beginning Monday 8 May. Through games, fun activities (hands on and real life

conversations, so there are no colouring in activities or worksheets!), raps, singing and role-

playing, your child will learn Mandarin as an Additional Language and have the chance to

use it with their classmates.

Your child's learning is individually evaluated and considered during planning and there is a

set curriculum so you will see language progress.

For more info and to sign up, please visit www.nihaocc.org.nz.