Tēnā koutou whānau o te kura o Te Wai Hirere ROSENEATH SCHOOL ANNUAL QUIZ 2019: THURSDAY 5TH SEPTEMBER, 7PM.

No doubt you’ve all been waiting for this event & studying your general knowledge and 5 minute Dominion Post quiz. We’d love to invite you, your whānau & friends to join us for this great community event. Tickets are $25 which include a Paella dinner from the Pan Man (vegetable and non-veg options available) plus your first drink on us. Contact Kate on kateharrison321@gmail.com if you’d like to reserve a seat. As usual it will be a great night with Roni Saul as our naughty and hilarious MC. What a great opportunity to relax and enjoy a night with the school (and wider) community - and fundraise for the next phase of the playground - the climbing wall. Don’t miss out - we look forward to seeing you there.

SCHOOL CAMP MEETINGS, TUESDAY 20TH AUGUST 5:30PM, IN YOUR CHILD’S CLASSROOM

Thank you for attending our camp meetings this week, and for your offers of help with fundraising and parent help to/from and during camp. Please contact your child’s class teacher if you were not able to attend and if you would like more information or to offer your help. Our Upper Bridge camp this year is November 18-22nd at Forest Lakes in Otaki The Long Boat camp this year is November 20-22nd at Camp Kaitoke

CENTRAL ZONE SWIMMING EVENT

A big thank you to Mandy for stepping into the team manager role for us, and to all of the parents who transported and supported our swimmers.

Well done to all of our swimmers for striving and believing in themselves -two of our school values. We will let you know when we have received confirmation of those who have qualified for the next event.

Ph. 384-7218 www.roseneath.school.nz

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SWAN PLANTS YEAR 5 AND 6 CLASS

Please let the office know if you would like to order swan plants at $10 each Thanks

YUMMY STICKERS AND BREAD TAGS

Please keep these flowing in. We are needing more bread tags.

The Long Boat students with their hand stitched belt bag

QUIZ

CAMPS

SWIMMERS

STUDENT COUNCIL

STELLA

CALENDARS

BREAD TAGS

NOTICES

Upper Bridge students beaming through from their space station to other classes

The Long Boat students with their hand stitched

belt bag

STELLA’S WINNING STORY

CONGRATULATIONS TO STELLA (UPPER BRIDGE) FOR WINNING THE FABOSTORY COMPETITION

Stella is the winner of last fortnight’s Fabostory competition. This is a national competition that is run by a group of New Zealand children’s authors. Every fortnight (during most of the school year) one author posts up a story starter. Kids are invited to finish the story in up to 500 words. Suzanne Main (author of How I Alienated my Grandma and How Not to Stop a Kidnap Plot) set the story starter for the last round, and judged the entries. “Lyra!” “Lyra!” we whispered frantically. We ran around the shed and lawn checking every nook and cranny. “This is all your fault!” Danny hissed. “What? How is this my fault?” “You didn’t give him his food today.” “Oh my g- that’s not a reasonable explanation.” Mum noticed we were home. “Oh-no!” Danny winced. Mum came outside. “I saw you two looking for something. Is everything alright?” “Yup!” I said before blabbermouth said anything stupid. “Danny just lost his…“ “My pencil case!” Danny butted in. “Don’t be too long!” She wandered back to the house. I glared at Danny. We turned around to look for Lyra. It was then that we both noticed the fence. It was a swirling mess. I looked at it open mouthed, The swirl was growing bigger, tearing up the fence. Suddenly, a cloud of dust spun around our house making it almost impossible to breath. It abruptly stopped, sending us flying. I found myself on the ground. I got up and dusted myself off. “W-what is that?” I stared at it opened mouthed. Danny looked at me. “A portal.” I opened my mouth to say something but no words came out. Mum noticed the commotion and bolted outside. “Don’t go in!” she screamed. We scrambled back to the house but the portal was sucking us in. I took a last look at Mum. Then, we got sucked in. I squinted. All of a sudden – woosh – we fell to the ground. I was bleeding. Danny was unconscious. Danny woke up, he was gasping for air. Everything was so colourful it looked like someone had painted a rainbow across the sky. Suddenly we heard a voice: “Is that.. really you?” I almost jumped out of my skin. “D-dad? “ Danny looked amazed. Dad ran and hugged us. I started crying. “ Mum told us you moved away with a new family…” my voice muffled into his coat. I stepped away. “How could you? You left us! “ “Look, I didn’t leave you. “ He sighs, “I mixed some different paints when I was painting the fence. They reacted and I got sucked into this portal. I’ve been living in this empty rainbow place for years.” “Aarph! “ We saw a bundle of fur behind Dad. “Lyra!!“ We both yelled at the same time. “Now, how do we get out?” Danny asked. “You can’t, “ shrugged Dad. “What???????” We both screamed. “Arph!” Suddenly the portal opened up as Lyra ran towards the rainbow coloured fence. Then we realised that the only way the portal opened was because of Lyra. She had rust on her, it must have been the secret ingredient we needed. “Ok, that was simple.” Dad muttered We landed on the muddy grass. Dirt squelched into my face. “Emily?” “Mark?” Mum and Dad hugged each other. “I missed you so much” they said to each other. After today’s madness I’m just glad everything sorted itself out. “Aarph!” Lyra the magic puppy agreed with me too.

CALENDAR ART

The Friend’s school fundraising group are doing the calendar art fundraiser again this year. Many of the students have already completed the artwork, it looks fabulous. The prices are: $18 per calendar, $20 per diary and $15 per pack of 8 note cards. The sketch pad and mouse pad are also $15 each. The art work will be sent to the calendar company sometime next week. Once this is sorted there will be more information—a link so you can view and order on line.

STUDENT COUNCIL: ONESIE DAYS FOR WELLINGTON FREE AMBULANCE AND WWF Our Student Council- with reps from each class- meets regularly, to discuss actions we can take to improve our school and the wider community. They have surveyed their classes to find out which charities we could support. This term they are organising two Onesie Days- one on Friday 6th September (raising money for the Wellington Free Ambulance) AND another on Friday 27th September (raising money for World Wildlife Fund). Please feel free to dress up in a Onesie (or any fun costume for that matter!) and bring a donation towards these two charities. The Student Council are also planning a Friendship Bench for our school playground, for children to go to if they are looking for someone to play with. We will update you with this project as it develops.

Noho ora mai,

Adelle Broadmore and The Roseneath Team

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Volume 24

On 11 and 18 September Sylvia, our lovely yoga teacher, is taking a short holiday and there will be no yoga on those dates

Yoga with Sylvia Jasna Edge

$10 per class (cash or internet banking)

8:10–8:55 pm in Roseneath School Hall

Wednesdays during school terms

Loose or stretchy clothes; bring a mat or use the blue school mats

Register at http://tiny.cc/6aav7y

(Class will be cancelled on any night no one has registered to attend)

NOTICES

WOODEN WINE BOX HOLDERS

The school is looking for these boxes so we can re purpose them as glue gun storage and holders.

If you have any that you would like to donate please contact the office.

International Springboard Diving at Kilbirnie Pool

Come & be inspired at the Pacific Junior Diving Championships this weekend at Kilbirnie Pool – 23-25 August.

Over 60 young divers, aged 12-18yrs, from around the Pacific region will compete in this inaugural event. Three Wellington divers join the New Zealand team competing against teams from Malaysia, Adelaide, Sydney & Queensland.

See www.wellingtondiving.org.nz for more details or contact Barbara on 027 485 8888