family information booklet 2013 v1 nov 2012
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INFORMATION BOOKLET
Our Vision Tisbury School is a caring but challenging environment which, through example, persistent efforts, and with the
support of the family, aims to prepare students to become.... Confident Resourceful Life-long Learners
By being: Positive in their own identity;
Motivated and reliable;
Enterprising and entrepreneurial.
Resilient.
By: Relating well to others;
Effectively using Communication Tools;
Being members of communities and citizens of the world;
Valuing the land and environment; Participating in life contexts and
being part of NZ’s social, cultural, economic and environmental well-
being.
By being: Literate.
Numerate.
Critical, Creative & Reflective
thinkers.
Seekers, users and creators of knowledge.
Informed Decision Makers.
Tisbury School believes they will achieve this vision by: Recognising the importance of family. Providing a positive, co-operative and supportive environment.
Encouraging a “can do” attitude with students, so they will take risks and become problem solvers.
Reviewed: February 2014
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The Board of Trustees:
v Chairperson Mrs Angela Burnett v Deputy Chairperson Mrs Keri Tatham v Treasurer Mrs Teresa Newell v Deputy Treasurer v Property/Community Liaison Mrs Rachel Hoogeveen v Property/Community Liaison Mrs Erin Wilson v Staff Representative Mrs Jacqui Ferris
The Board of Trustees meetings:
Held once a month; dates and time advertised in the school’s newsletter.
All parents are welcome to attend. Although it is a public meeting, there are no speaking rights from the floor.
Staff:
v Principal Mrs Andrea Joyce v Senior Teachers Mrs Jacqui Ferris R1 – Senior School Mrs Joy Maheno R5 – Junior School v Teachers: Mrs Rebecca Warnock R2 Mrs Cassie Watt R3 v Reading Recovery Mrs Noelene Marshall
v Teacher Aides Mrs Joy McNamara Mrs Jayne Cloake Mrs Tania Olive v Office Administrator Mrs Mary Forsythe v Cleaner Mrs Glenys Hawkes v Caretaker Mr Peter Hughes
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General Information: School: Tisbury School Address: 3 Boundary Road Telephone: 2168213 Fax: 2168215 Cellphone: 0272542430 Email: [email protected] Blog Page: Tisbury.school.nz
Tisbury School is on facebook. School Hours:
School Commences: 8:30 Welcome to School Grounds 8:45 School Starts Brain Break 10:00 (approximately)
Morning Tea 11:00 (Eat and Read) 11:05 – 11:20 (Play) Lunch: 12:25 -‐ 12:40 (Supervised Lunch) 12:40 – 1:15 (Play) 1.20 School Starts School Ends: 2:45 pm School Bus Departs: 2:50 pm
Office is attended: Daily: 8:30 to 12:30 PLEASE NOTE: The hours that teachers are on site and available for supervision of students are 8:30 to 3:00pm. Teachers are not responsible for students outside of these hours – this information has been checked through the legal advisors of the MOE and STA.
Te Kura Tisbury -‐ Karakia
E Te Atua Lord Manaakitia Tatou Katoa Look after all of us Te Kura Tisbury Tisbury School Nga Kaiako Teachers Nga Tamariki Children Me Nga Matua Hoki Parents
Ake, Ake, Ake, Amine Forever and ever, Amen.
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TISBURY SCHOOL’S ADOPTED SCHOOL SONG:
TISBURY KIDS CAN DO ANYTHING !!
NOW THE SHOW BEGINS
AS THE SPOTLIGHT BEAMS UPON US. YOU CAN SEE US, CENTRE STAGE. WE’RE YOUR KIDS, YOUR HOPES,
WE’RE THE HEROES OF THE FUTURE. WE’RE THE NEW UNWRITTEN PAGE.
THE TIME HAS COME AROUND AT LAST FOR US TO SHOW THE WORLD THAT …
CHORUS:
TISBURY KIDS ARE ROCKIN’ IT, ROCKIN’ IT, TISBURY KIDS ARE TOPS.
TISBURY KIDS ARE LIVING IT, LIVING IT. LOOK WHAT WE’VE GOT.
KIDS CAN DO ANYTHING, ANYTHING. GIVE IT A TRY.
TISBURY KIDS ARE ROCKIN’ IT, ROCKIN’ IT. JUST WATCH US FLY.
NOW THE GAME BEGINS.
YOU CAN SEE US FROM THE SIDELINES. WE ARE IN THE WINNING TEAM.
WE’RE THE BEST THERE IS. WE CAN TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT.
WE CAN LIVE OUR WILDEST DREAMS.
THE TIME HAS COME AROUND AT LAST FOR US TO SHOW THE WORLD THAT …
CHORUS X 2 THEN SECOND HALF OF CHORUS AGAIN.
(WORDS AND MUSIC: DAVID ANTONY CLARK AND JANICE MARRIOTT 2003 – KIWI KIDSONGS 13)
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Tihei Mauri Ora Let there be life Tihei Mauri Ora Let there be life Nga iwi o te motu e To all the tribes of the land Tu ake, karangatia Stand forth and be welcomed Tu ake, manaakitia Stand forth and be hosted Nga iwi, kia ora ra To all the tribes, greetings to you Nga iwi, Kia ora ra To all the tribes, greetings to you
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The following is some useful information that will hopefully help you become familiar with our school, its routines and ways. If you have any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to
contact the school. Absences:
Please notify the school each day your child is absent by cellphone (0272542430) or a note in a sibling’s communication book. If we have not heard from you – the office staff will try three times during the morning to make contact.
Accounts:
Most activities/sports, if there is a cost involved, which is not covered by the school, will be on pay to play basis, ie fees must be paid before a student can participate in a team. If students require replacement stationery, a note will be sent home from the classroom teacher requesting either the item be supplied or money be sent to school to purchase. School accounts sent home at the end of each term. Internet banking is available. Please contact the office for the account number.
Assemblies: Monday – 2:10pm in the Library. Parents/caregivers are most welcome to attend.
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Behaviour Management (P6) Our school’s behaviour management system is underpinned by the School’s values. These values are the core for reinforcing positive behaviour that encourages students to become self driven to want to be a positive citizen. The school rules have been developed around two the core values.
School Values and Rules: Tisbury School Core Values:
Respect and Responsibility which are shown through the characteristics listed below.
Tisbury’s School Rule: Always show respect and take
responsibility for your actions through making awesome choices and following the
school values (MAC). Each class is to develop a Contract or Treaty defining specific rules for their classroom and students – these should be reinforced on an ongoing basis. The Contract/Treaty is to be clearly displayed in each classroom along side the school values chart – which are the foundations for being a positive Tisbury School Citizen. Team: Working together to do our best. Integrity: Doing what’s right, even when no one is looking. Striving: Aiming high to succeed. Balance: Working and playing at the right time. Understanding: Know what’s happening and why (ie W.I.T.S.). Resourceful: Finding ways with dealing with problems. YOU: Only YOU can be responsible and show respect in being a positive citizen.
MAC – using Tisbury School WITS: W: Walk Away! Make the right choice. Don’t let others influence or hurt you. I: Ignore! Make the right choice. Ignore people making you feel upset or unhappy. T: Tell Someone: Talk to the school’s Playground Pals, a Teacher, an adult you trust. S: Say an “I” statement. Be in control. Name the behaviour that you don’t like and why you don’t like it.
In implementing the school rules staff are asked to familiarize themselves with and follow the school behaviour management guidelines as defined in the behaviour charts. Teachers are asked to be professional in deciding consequences for inappropriate behaviour (ie is it just a quick 5 minute time out – or does the behaviour fall within the behaviour chart consequences). Part of the behavior chart consequence requires students to fill out a behaviour management reflection sheet. If the incident is serious, or ongoing, a behaviour note will be attached to the reflection sheet stating that three of these notes sent home in one term, will result in stand down procedures being considered. All serious or ongoing incidents will be recorded in the school student management system under behavior for a record. There is always a clean slate at the commencement of each term. Nevertheless … Tisbury School will not tolerate defiance, destruction of property, rebellion, bullying, intimidation or any act of rudeness. If a student/s continue to be non-compliant with the school rules or behaviour is of a severe nature (ie threatening, swearing, or violent, bullying) the Principal has the right to implement official stand-down or exclusion procedures as per the MoE guidelines.
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Guidelines: The following Charts explain our behavior guidelines. These charts are displayed in each classroom and around the school. Playground:
Students are allowed to climb the tree in the playground beside Room 5. Friday Wheels Day – students are allowed to bring scooters, roller blades on a Friday – students must have appropriate safety gear (ie helmets, knee and arm pads).
Play area over the road/Tisbury Hall (Terms 2/3) : Lunch time only:
Year 4/5/6 Students. Must be accompanied by duty teacher/Teacher aide – student’s line up by boiler room wall or at gate outside library. From 12:50 to the end of lunch a TA will provide supervision. TA is to coordinate with Principal on any issues.
Students are allowed to climb trees but not the hedge. No huts and no feeding the race horses. Ensure students have equipment to play with – cricket gear, rugby balls.
Tisbury Hall – Sports Leaders are responsible for organising games and ensuring they are played fair. The TA is there to support and step in to help with the situation – TA is to take the school’s cellphone
to ensure that the staff can support if necessary.
Orange Cones – these indicate areas that are out of bounds due to flooding or dangerous conditions.
Sports Teams Practices: during lunch times, practices take preference over students playing on either the tennis court or playing field.
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Buses/After School Care Services: All children are required to wear the Safety Vest on the School Bus/OSCAR pickup and on School Trips, parents and children are asked to sign the Safety Vest Agreement (included in enrolment pack) The children must follow the bus rules as outlined below. Bus Rules: Consequences: -‐ Use manners to others at all times. -‐ Keep hands and feet to yourself. -‐ Use a quiet voice. -‐ Stay in your seat and ensure seat belts are on. -‐ Keep your school bags in front of your feet, or under your seat. -‐ Follow the bus driver’s instructions at all times. -‐ Listen to the bus monitors. -‐ Cell-‐phones are not permitted to be used on the bus.
The bus driver and the monitor are to report any misbehaviour to the Principal (The Bus Controller). 1st Offence – verbal warning by Bus Driver – Bus Driver to inform Principal. 2nd Offence – verbal warning by Bus Driver – Bus Driver to inform Principal – who phones Parents. 3rd Offence – Bus Driver to inform Principal, who will inform Parents that as this is the 3rd offence, the student is not allowed to travel on the bus for a set period of time. If the incident is deemed to be severe the school’s behaviour procedures will be initiated.
After School Care Services: The school asks all parents/caregivers to advise the office, at the commencement of each term or when ever changes are made, if their child(ren) are being collected by an after school agency. Staff need to be informed as a school register is kept of who is being collected, by which agency and on what days.
Concerns: As a school we take concerns and complaints seriously, no matter how small or big. Our philosophy is to deal with them when they are small, therefore, please contact the school as soon as you have a concern – first approach is always the classroom teacher, then the Principal. However, if you have a formal complaint a copy of the complaints procedure is found at the back of this information booklet or in the back of the communication book.
Collecting Children From School:
Please phone and leave a message on the school’s answer phone – before 2:30 (afternoon phone messages are checked at 2:40), or write a note in the communication book if your child or children are not to go home on the school bus. If we do not receive a written, or phone, message your child will be sent home on the bus. Collecting children from school during school hours – please ensure that you advise the child’s teacher that you have taken your child(ren).
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Dental / Health Care:
Please contact Fernworth Dental Clinic for help or assistance – Phone: 2169706. The Public Health Nurse, visits on a regular basis. Please contact the school for contact details.
Administering Medicines – if parents require medicines (apart from asthma controls) to be administered at school, then written instructions and consent for the school to do so must be supplied. In each communication book there is a copy of the required form – this should be filled in and handed into the school’s office secretary, who will record request in the schools Medical Register. The School is not able to administer medicines without written instructions/consent. All medicines are to be handed to the School’s Secretary for safe keeping – children are not permitted to self-‐administer. For Asthma and other medical condition control – please fill in the Action Plan and return it to the school office.
Duffy School: Tisbury School is a Duffy School. Students receive one free book per term, plus every fortnight there is a “Caught Being Good Book” which is handed out at school assemblies.
During the year the students have Duffy Assemblies where role models, that encourage reading, talk to the students. Emergency Closures:
If for any reason the school is to be closed during school time, all parents or emergency contacts, will be contacted through either: phone, texting or email. All children will be kept at school and parents will be asked to report to the teacher in charge to take responsibility of their child. If school is to be closed before school starts in the morning, broadcasts indicating such will be put over the local radio stations cancellation announcements and/or a school text / email will be sent.
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Food and Drinks: Our school promotes healthy eating, and drinking, and therefore children are encouraged to drink water at school only. Children are permitted to have a water bottle in class during school time. (No fizzy drink and we would like to discourage juices ie orange juice as these are contributors to tooth decay.)
Lunches: School has the facility to only heat food up in a pie warmer (daily). Heatups cost 20cents. All heat ups are to be wrapped in tinfoil and named with a vivid. Students are to place their heat up in the classroom basket in their own classroom before school. The school provides a limited canteen which has a focus of trying to provide healthy options. Classroom Teachers provide supervision for their own class during brain food, morning tea and lunch time.
Milk in Schools: Tisbury School is part of the milk in school’s programme. Parents are asked to fill out a permission slip for children to receive milk on a daily basis. No child is required to drink milk everyday, it is up to them to decide. Snacks: Tisbury school has one brain break time at approximately 10:00am. At this time the school, in line with health department policies, insist that children eat brain food (it must be a piece of fruit, vegetable or popcorn) and drink water. Tisbury School has applied to become a “Milk” in schools which is to be introduced during 2013.
Homework: Tisbury School’s expectation is:
Year: Time Allocation: Homework Content: Juniors 1 -‐ 3
15 minutes per night Child share read from home reading book, spelling/word recognition practice. Maths: Practice counting, play games. Library Book over the weekend.
Seniors 4 -‐ 6
30 minutes per night Reading / Spelling / Basic Fact Practice. Library Book over week/weekend.
In addition to the above, classroom teachers may set independent projects relevant to the school’s inquiry topic. These projects are to encourage a home/school link and keep you informed of the learning that is happening at school. Homework should not generate stress or anxiety – if there are problems, please see the classroom teacher. Homework should not impinge on ensuring that children have time to persue out of school activities which encourage and enhance social interaction, ie sport groups; clubs; dance; music; horse riding – any interests that children have.
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Home/School Communication Books: Each child has a communication book – this book is to go home and back from school daily. The book is a means of communication – all school notices / newsletters will be found either glued in here or placed in the back pocket. Parents and teachers can write positive notes to and from school. The students are to show their teacher the communication book each morning.
Library Books: Our school has a wonderful library – library books are encouraged to be taken home and returned weekly.
New Entrant (5 Year Olds) Literacy Pack:
On behalf of the Invercargill Rotary Club, each five year old student starting school will receive a new entrant literacy pack – in addition the school provide a numeracy pack -‐ these will be shared during the new entrant’s first pre-‐school visit.
News Letters – Information Communication:
News letters are sent home once a fortnight. Important reminder notices will be emailed or a text will be sent. Information will be placed on the school’s web page or classroom blogs.
Parent Teachert Group:
Parent Teacher/Support Group –meet once a term and provide the foundation for fundraising for the “extra” things that school require. Parents are also encouraged to participate in a wide variety of school activities that support their children’s learning.
Reporting to Parents: Term 1: “Meet the Teacher” Term 2: Oral / written report on Maths / Reading / Writing in relation to National Standards through a Teacher/Student/Parent conference. Identified curriculum areas to be reported on at the same time. Term 4: Written report on Maths / Reading / Writing in relation to National Standards and identified curriculum areas plus The Arts Folder – shared by students to their family. Years 0/1/2: on commencing school and on their birthday (or as near too as possible) a report on Literacy and Numeracy progress will be provided.
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On-‐going over the year communicating with the classroom teacher is important. All we ask is that you make a time to have a chat. Sports and Cultural Activities:
Our school encourages and supports children who participate in out-‐of-‐school sports and cultural activities.
Tisbury School is part of the Sport Southland’s in school sports programme that provides experts across different codes to visit schools providing their expertise.
During the school year, our school participates in combined school: Sport: Term 1: Swimming Athletics Term 2: Cross Country Term 3: Moffett Cup Term 4: Soccer Tournament Education Outside The Classroom: During Term 4 All classes participate in an Education Outside the Classroom programme, with the Year 6’s attending a school camp. Cultural: As arranged throughout each year.
We try to arrange school sports teams for netball, touch rugby, mini ball, however, this is dependent on the number of students and help from parents to coach or manage teams available.
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School Uniforms: Tisbury school only has a sports top. This top is for sale – contact the office. With the sports top it is expected that students will wear black shorts and appropriate footwear for sporting activities.
Sunhats – can be purchased from the office. There is an expectation that students will wear the school’s sunhat during Terms 1 and 4. Children are not to share sunhats.
Stationery: A stationery list is available from the school’s office. During the term limited stationery is available ie pens, pencils rubbers, rulers etc. for which we ask students to pay as they use. If parents have a credit account, then they can be charged. Can Do Can Do Can Do
Tisbury Kids Can Do
Anything – Watch Us Try!
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TISBURY SCHOOL’S COMPLAINT
PROCEDURE
School/Community Process
Notes 1. While minor issues may be discussed in a quick informal chat with a staff member, normally in
order for both parties to give the matter full attention, arranging a time to discuss the matter is the preferred option.
2. If the complaints
procedure has not been followed the board will normally return the letter of complaint to the writer and ask that they follow the procedure first.
3. The board needs to
formally receive a complaint in order to act on it. If a complaint is serious enough for the board to deal with, it is serious enough to be put in writing. If you have any concerns about expressing the matter clearly in writing please discuss the matter in confidence with the board chairperson (or another delegated board member) to enable them to assist you with this.
4. All parties to a
complaint may bring a support person to any meeting where the
issue is to be discussed
Caregiver has a concern about something happening at the school
Caregiver asks for an appointment with the child’s teacher.
Matter unresolved or has resurfaced. Make an appointment and discuss with the principal.
Matter unresolved. Complaint put in writing and addressed to the chairperson of the Board of Trustees. The chairperson then follows the board process for handling complaints
Matters resolved to both parties satisfaction – either concluded or an understanding in place for future action.
After an agreed period of time eg two weeks action unsuccessful ie problem has resurfaced.
Matter resolved to both parties satisfaction – either concluded or an understanding in place for future action
After an agreed period of time eg two weeks action unsuccessful ie problem has resurfaced.
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Complaints procedure : The Board ProcessLetter of complaint, is acknowledged by the chairperson and the complainant advised of the next steps in the board process. The letter becomes part of the correspondence that will be dealt with at the next board meeting while the public is excluded.
Letter is tabled at board meeting (with the public excluded) and referred to relevant parties for reporting back to the board. The board decides whether to deal with the matter as a whole or appoint a committee to investigate and recommend to the board.
At the meeting of the board/committee the reports are received and the parties may be invited to speak to their complaint or answer questions. The board/committee considers the evidence and/or information and comes to a decision or recommendation.
Depending on the delegated powers of the committee either they or the board as a whole come to a resolution as to how the board will respond and/or what action will be taken.
The board’s response is communicated to the parties to the complaint. This may be either publicly or confidentially depending on the case.
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Photos 2013: Choir Yr 6 Camp
Dance