Newsletter 17 October 2019

Kia ora Dalefield Whānau,

It’s hard to believe that we’ve reached Term Four?! A warm greeting to all Dalefield families and to our new whānau, welcome to the fold. This term three new students have started with Dominic Pullman in Year 7, Holly Mills, a new entrant and a welcome back to Teana Grant-Richardson in Year 8.

Lamb and Pet Day Saturday 10.00am -

2:00pm

W e a r e l o o k i n g forward to this annual event this Saturday. The anticipation is building at school and we hope to see you all there. A huge thanks to the Home and School Committee for the tireless work organising the event and to those who have volunteered t h e i r t i m e a n d o f f e r e d sponsorship. You will have seen the great uniforms at the kapa haka festival last term and funds

raised will be contributing

towards the building up of these.

Science at the Events Centre

During the holidays, local schools had a science in action display at the Events Centre. This was a great showcase of learning that is taking place across the South Wairarapa.

EPro8 Challenge

Last Monday a group of Year 7/8 students took part in the annual technology challenge in Masterton. A group of Year 5/6 s t u d e n t s a r e u n d e r w a y tomorrow in Greytown. This challenge has been part of our calendar for the last three years.

Visit to More FM

Last Tuesday six students from the radio team visited Brent Gare at More FM. Brent took them around the studio and then interviewed them about their weekend’s Lamb and Pet Day. He gave the students a wonderful insight into what goes into producing a radio show, further inspiring the students about the rewards that can be gained through effort and perseverance - fantastic learning experience.

Sunhat and head-lice reminder

Al l s tudents must have a brimmed sunhat (no caps) in terms One and Four. This is a school requirement and children are not allowed outside unless a sunhat is warn. This rule is strictly adhered to and is part of NZ schools’ sun-safe policies. We recommend a named sunhat that stays at school and we reinforce that hats are not

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shared, particularly at the moment when we have a problem with head lice. Lice are an issues in all schools at different times and Lisa as mentioned in emails/messages does have a supply of head lice treatment in her office, however we do encourage you to check your child’s hair and have it treated before returning to school. We also ask that at the moment all hair be tied up to minimise risk of spreading. Thanks for your support in this.

Athletics

The South Wairarapa athletics tournament will be on the 20th November and we will be sending out details shortly. It is great seeing the children out practicing skills in their physical education programmes.

As mentioned at the end of last term, we will be opening up our pool in November dur ing lunchtimes. The I’m of this supervised activity is to boost confidence and skills before the summer months. Our water skills programmes start in Term One next year.

Looking forward to a great day on Saturday - see you there!

Ngā mihi

Eric Daubé

Principal

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Dalefield is so proud of you Violet. What a stunning effort

Shout out from us all Violet

NEWSFLASH Check out Friday’s Times Age newspaper for our very own

Dalefield Star!

Thank you to Cyruss’

grandad