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He aha nga wawata o te rangatahi ? What does youth want? He Ao pai A good World ko koutou ko apopo they are the people of tomorrow Clive School Board of Trustees wishes to advise that Mrs Maree Ringrose our Office Administrator has announced her retirement at the end of 2018. Mrs Ringrose has worked diligently for the children and school for the past 12 years. A farewell will be held for Maree on the 10 th December at 1:15. Where we will acknowledge the dedicated service she has given and the close relationships Maree has made with staff children and parents over the years. You are cordially invited to attend and share with the staff and children in fare welling Maree. Also departing is Mrs Jenny Jamieson our school librarian. Jenny leaves to take up her hobby of ‘wood working’ as a more full time activity. Jenny helped set up the new library and ensured that this wonderful resource is always fully stocked with modern and appropriate children books. We will miss both valued staff members. Our roll continues to grow and for the first time Clive has 269 students enrolled. Our teaching staffing is fully organised for 2019. Mrs Sacha Garett has been appointed as a permanent member of the teaching staff and will be with us again in 2019. The Board received many high quality applications for the role of Office Administrator and is currently in the process of appointing a suitable person. This will be announced at the end of the year at the prize giving. With the newly appointed applicant starting in January 2019. Clive School ‘the capable communicator ’ 2018 term 4 # 2 November: 14 th Year 6 depart for shortened camp 15 th 16 th Yr 6 return from Camp 19 th Swimming pool open seniors only 20 th Last Day for uniform orders 2018 21 st Swim HB working with seniors @ school 23 rd Mufti day Item donation for Xmas School Raffle 26 th Orientation day for 2019 year 4 ………Splash Planet Road Patrol & Bus Monitors 27 th Orientation day for 2019 year 5 ………Parent meeting for year 3 2019 ( ie 2018s yr2) 28 th Coastal Cluster Softball ………Speech drama Recital (Sam Grant Smith) 29 th Parent Helpers morning tea 30 th Year 5 & 6 assembly Musical assembly December: 3 rd Pounamu Year 6 4 th Pounamu year 6 ……..HB Triathlon Championships 5 th PALs celebration day @Sports Park ………Choir performance at Vougehaven 6 th Assembly year 6 leavers presentation 10 th Class placement for 2019 letters 11 th Prize Giving 1pm 12 th Learning Summaries Home 13 th 14 th Last School day close at 12pm ………..AFCARE opens at 12.05 The School office will open in January on Friday 25 th and then during following week from 10 o’clock until 2pm daily The First School day in 2019 for students is Thursday 31 st January and then Friday 1 st February weekend Monday 4 th Tuesday 5 th Waitangi Day 6 th February Thursday 7 th Friday 8 th weekend

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Page 1: Clive School

He aha nga wawata o te rangatahi ?

What does youth want?

He Ao pai

A good World

ko koutou ko apopo

they are the people of tomorrow

Clive School Board of Trustees wishes to advise that Mrs Maree Ringrose our Office Administrator has announced her retirement at the end of 2018. Mrs Ringrose has worked diligently for the children and school for the past 12 years. A farewell will be held for Maree on the 10th December at 1:15. Where we will acknowledge the dedicated service she has given and the close relationships Maree has made with staff children and parents over the years. You are cordially invited to attend and share with the staff and children in fare welling Maree. Also departing is Mrs Jenny Jamieson our school librarian. Jenny leaves to take up her hobby of ‘wood working’ as a more full time activity. Jenny helped set up the new library and ensured that this wonderful resource is always fully stocked with modern and appropriate children books. We will miss both valued staff members.

Our roll continues to grow and for the first time Clive has 269 students enrolled. Our teaching staffing is fully organised for 2019. Mrs Sacha Garett has been appointed as a permanent member of the teaching staff and will be with us again in 2019. The Board received many high quality applications for the role of Office Administrator and is currently in the process of appointing a suitable person. This will be announced at the end of the year at the prize giving. With the newly appointed applicant starting in January 2019.

Clive School

‘the capable communicator ’

2018 term 4 # 2

November:

14th Year 6 depart for shortened camp

15th

16th Yr 6 return from Camp

19th Swimming pool open seniors only

20th Last Day for uniform orders 2018

21st Swim HB working with seniors @ school

23rd Mufti day Item donation for Xmas School Raffle

26th Orientation day for 2019 year 4

………Splash Planet Road Patrol & Bus Monitors

27th Orientation day for 2019 year 5

………Parent meeting for year 3 2019 ( ie 2018s yr2)

28th Coastal Cluster Softball

………Speech drama Recital (Sam Grant Smith)

29th Parent Helpers morning tea

30th Year 5 & 6 assembly Musical assembly

December:

3rd Pounamu Year 6

4th Pounamu year 6

……..HB Triathlon Championships

5th PALs celebration day @Sports Park

………Choir performance at Vougehaven

6th Assembly year 6 leavers presentation

10th Class placement for 2019 letters

11th Prize Giving 1pm

12th Learning Summaries Home

13th

14th Last School day close at 12pm

………..AFCARE opens at 12.05

The School office will open in January on Friday 25th

and then during following week from 10 o’clock until

2pm daily

The First School day in 2019 for students is

Thursday 31st January and then

Friday 1st February

weekend

Monday 4th

Tuesday 5th

Waitangi Day 6th February

Thursday 7th

Friday 8th

weekend

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Finally the Ministry of Education has granted financial permission to start the work on the new replacement hall lights and the new drinking water well and supply system for the school. Exact dates are hard to give as we now wait for tradespeople to be available to commence work.

The upgrade in rooms 9 and 10 slowly inch towards completion. Held up whilst we wait for the doors to be installed the finished product will be very similar to rooms 7 and 8 and the new completion date is 1st December.

Our roll continues to grow and for the first

time Clive has 269 students enrolled. Our teaching staffing is fully organised for 2019. Mrs Sacha Garett has been appointed as a permanent member of the teaching staff

Yeah for FOS…Friends of the

School who work very hard for

every child at school.

Food Fair 15th March 2019 Please if you are a new parent come along to a FoS meeting and see, hear, share, offer your support where you can the other parents need you as well.

Uniform. Due to our current supplier

not wishing to continue supplying uniforms to

the school, the Board of Trustees has had to

engage a new provider.

What does this mean for Parents ?

a new skort design ( on display in office)

no change in colours

a slight change in pricing (given the prices

have not changed in 5 years it is a very small

increase)

There is no phasing in of any new

items or phasing out of older styles.

Last day to order uniforms before 2019

is 20th November via the school office.

Term dates for 2019:

31st Jan – 12th April Term 1

29th April - 5th July Term 2

22nd July - 27th Sept Term 3

14th Oct - 17th Dec Term 4

Children turning five in 2019?

If have any friends or neighbours who

have a child turning 5 next year and they are

considering enrolling at Clive School we

would love to hear from them.

We are now taking enrolments for

children who are turning 5 years of age

during Term One and Term Two in 2019.

Please ask them to call into the office

to collect an enrolment package and make an

appointment to meet our Principal, Brian

Eales.

It would be great if they could enrol

early, so before school visits can be

organised. Visits are usually three to four

weeks before starting school. Children

starting early next year will have visits at the

end of this year.

Some information for next year class

placement

For parents who have children moving from year 2 into year 3 in 2019 there is an information meeting on Tuesday 27th November at 3pm, just to talk about what is different and how does it all work. In the staffroom. A must if you have questions and concerns.

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At year Three, Four, Five and Six, children spend two years with the ‘same teacher’. This is to achieve two aims;

the teacher gets to know the child very well and there is no or very little disruption to the continuity of learning which often occurs as they change classes;

and that child can be a great role model for the new children entering the class as they already know the likely routines, expectations and classroom systems.

This approach has proved to be very successful. We implemented this in 2017 for both years three and year four and as a result this will continue in 2019.

Thank you for the great year. With your support and that of many other families our school has continued to grow and excel. At the end of this school year both staff and students are well due for a substantial break.

It is at this time of the year when people experience in some form and to some degree both stress and anxiety on a range of different aspects of ‘life at school’. Depending on how we deal with these issues as adults makes a huge difference in providing optimum conditions for great learning outcomes for all children and especially your children.

Placement of your child in a class

grouping is carried out by teaching staff at the end of the year.

Many hours are spent by teachers considering the set of factors that will most likely impact positively on your child for the subsequent year.

We do this in teams and as a whole staff based on the following;

learning needs, social maturation and development, relationships with all children,

relationships with specific children that may inhibit positive growth and development, optimum class numbers and groupings based on all of the above.

We do not consider parental requests for a change as they are generally based on; ‘a parental impression either positive or negative of a particular staff member’, ‘my child only relates to a particular type of teacher’, ‘a dislike of another child in that a class’ ‘a dislike of another family in that a class’, ‘my friends child is in that class and they have no friends in this class’

Fantastic effort at Athletics tino pai

e rawa nga tamariki ma, excellent children

what a great day ... Determination to the

front, children with a great attitude and

strong competition with results that either

pleased or disappointed, depending on the

placement when the line was reached.

Winning is important, as is the

determination to take part, to contribute to

an event, to push harder and to understand

our own limits and those ‘what if ‘possibilities.

Children learn great things from a

‘race’. They develop self-awareness and

eventually they will better prepare for those

‘races’ even more. They develop an

awareness that others are trying just like

them to cross the line first.

Children, with your help, can realise

that in winning so too comes defeat. Defeat

over fears and self-doubt and then in losing

so comes victory. Victory in having had a go,

giving it your all and aiming high. Being

‘graceful’ in winning and ‘magnanimous’ in

defeat are great but they are concepts that

we do try to develop in children. Many adults

struggle with that same concept.

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There were many outstanding

individuals who overcame their own internal

battles and won the race within.

There are many top athletes at Clive

school who can proudly put their heads high

and say ‘I won’ the race but I also needed

you in the race, to race me and the others to

the finish line.

And we don’t always win ! But that is

what life is about…taking part in it.

This is what builds resilience in

children that they take through into

adulthood it is often called character

I love this …..

If you...

Cut for me, draw for me,

paint for me, do for me...

All I learn, is that you

can do better than me.

So…

talk to me, listen to me,

explain to me and join me

But please, do not do it for me !

Let me fall

For then I learn how to get back up !

Summer

Summer, what a great time when

you are young to really get involved in

outside activities and enjoy your age.

When combined with holidays, summer is

just magic... ‘family’ friends and fun’ go

hand in hand.

Summer, when the bounty of the

‘Bay’, all that wonderful fruit is plentiful

and cool drinks with ice are really nice.

Summer when swimming becomes

reallypleasurable and family time is able

to occur more easily.

Summer when we all need to slap on

that sun screen, slip on that shirt and

avoid over exposure to the vicious effects of

the suns UV rays.

Hats are a must and need be worn in term

1 and 4 at Clive School. These are not

caps from the cupboard… but school

bucket hats

Swimming has started at school each class

teacher will inform parents as to the days

times for swimming.( Not as yet for Juniors

faarrr toooo coolllddd)

Swimming is not an optional activity, it is just

as important as reading.

The school year speeds to

and end and we thank the many

people who have helped at school

with a lot of events and activities.

Without people helping we would

struggle to meet the many needs

of children right across the school.

You are never taken for

granted and we thank you for

your support.

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