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What’s in the Newsletter this week:

Responsibility

Music Festival

Swimming for Years 0-4

Athletics Day

Zone Athletics

Weetbix TRYathlon 2019

Mountain Biking

OLA Prayer Space – Update

Helping Hands

School Closed 14th November

School App

Policy Review

Single Divan Bed Wanted

Welcome to OLA This Term

Lunch on the Principal

Principal’s Award

PTA News

Calendar

Church Notices

Newsletter – 1st November 2018

Dear Parents and Caregivers

Haere Mai, Talofa Lava, Maligayang pagdating, Malo e leilei, Hwan Yeong hamnida,

Bienvenido, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Bienvenue and Welcome.

1st November

2018

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Responsibility This term our value and self-directed learning focus is on Responsibility. Our aim is to help develop children who take responsibility for their actions and for their learning. Children may be at different stages of growth at any age. For example, some children may be a Seedling (Tupu) because “I can be trusted to make good choices about my learning” and they may also be a Sapling (Whanake) I can usually work independently within set time limits”. We have attached an A4 size copy of our poster (to the email that this newsletter came with), so that you can print it off and discuss with your child or maybe even have a copy on the fridge.

Music Festival Last Friday night our choir took part in the annual Christchurch Primary Schools’ Music Festival. As part of the massed choir our students represented us well and entertained and amused the audience. Thanks to Mr Nick Grant for working so hard with our choir and preparing them for this event. Every year students audition to be part of the Special Choir. This special choir sings particular pieces on each night of the 3 night festival. This year we congratulate our 3 special choir children Eva, Sophie and Lucy. Special congratulations to Lucy who has been selected for the special choir for four years running. A very special achievement.

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Swimming for Years 0-4 Our Year 0-4 children have started swimming lessons at Wharenui Pool this week and these lessons will continue for another week. Following this our Year 5-8 students will have 2 weeks of swimming. These lessons are taken by qualified swimming instructors from Wharenui Pool. Thanks to the parents and caregivers who assist the junior children changing after swimming.

Athletics Day

What an amazing day we had for athletics! Our children gave of their best as they ran, jumped and threw throughout the day. Thanks to the parents who assisted with events and groups, to the staff who ran events and many thanks to Mrs Emma Maslen and Mrs Amanda Campbell who were responsible for the organisation and smooth running of the day. 63 of our children qualified for zones – congratulations to you all! Please see the notice below.

Zone Athletics The South West Zone Athletics day is on Tuesday 6th November, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Hillmorton High

School. The postponement day is Thursday 8th November. We need help from parents to set up on the day. If you can help, please email Emma Maslen at emma.maslen@ola.school.nz

Weetbix TRYathlon 2019

Registrations are now open for the Weetbix TRYathlon 2019. It was a great success last year so why not give it a go! The TRYathlon will be held on Sunday 24th February 2019. Remember to link your entry form with the OLA School Group for a special entry price and a chance to win prizes. As part of this we also get a group photo taken on the day (just like this photo of last years participants)! Sign up now at try.weetbix.co.nz

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Mountain Biking This year the Hillary Hub students have had the opportunity to experience mountain biking for the first time or to further develop their skills in this area. For many students this has been an opportunity to challenge themselves physically in a new sport and we are very impressed with the way they have done this. They will be having another session next week and I understand that Fr Chris is joining them for the afternoon!

OLA Prayer Space – Update Thank you to everyone for all your ideas and input into our proposed Outdoor Prayer Space – we really appreciate the effort that you all put in. Just to let you know that we are working behind the scenes combining all the amazing, creative, innovative ideas from our school families. Ideas included seating, planting, stones, crosses, statues, trees, Jesus and Mary to name but a few. We have work to do to pull all this together and get a plan in place. Good things take time so if we go quite for a while please know that a plan is being hatched for this special space within our school. We will keep you posted!

Helping Hands Thank you to those who support our OLA Helping Hands initiative of providing meals and baking throughout the year to families who need a helping hand. If you would like to support this school community initiative or just find out more information on what it involves please email hh@ola.school.nz and we will be in contact with you to get included in this fantastic programme.

School Closed 14th November The Board of Trustees has made the decision to close our school on the 14th November due to Health and Safety reasons while our teaching staff are on strike. This means that there will be no staff on site and all the buildings will be closed. An email with further details will be sent out today. We understand that this may create some difficulties for you and thank you for your understanding.

School App Did you know we have a school app? You can use the app to:

Let us know that your child is going to be absent from school.

View the school calendar.

Read school newsletters.

Receive messages from the school. Order Lunch on Line.

To download this free app, simply search for “Our Lady of the Assumption School” in the app store on your phone.

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Policy Review Over a 3 year cycle all our policies are reviewed. This term the policies being reviewed are: Religious Instruction

Improving Educational Outcomes for Māori Students

The instructions for reviewing this policy are as follows: To take part in the review:

1. Click on the link above.

2. Enter the user name (ola) and password

(assume11).

3. Click the green “Current Review” box

4. Select the policy you wish to review and read it.

5. Click the red “Under Review” button.

6. Select the reviewer type “Parent”.

7. Enter your name (optional).

8. Click “Login”

9. Submit your ratings and comments.

If you do not have computer access, please see Carolyn or Kim in the office for a hardcopy of the document.

Single Divan Bed Wanted Do you have a spare single bed (preferably with drawers underneath) that you no longer want? We are currently looking to replace the bed in our sick bay. Please contact the school office if you have a bed you wish to sell.

Welcome to OLA This Term

A big welcome to the following students who have started at our school this term:

Room 1 – Tate Room 8 – Isaac

Room 2 – Oliver, Isaac & Isla Room 11 – Georgia

Room 5 – Eliot Room 12 - Aimie

Lunch on the Principal

Congratulations to Léala who received

lunch on the principal.

The Principal noticed you living out our school

values.

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Principal’s Award

A big congratulations to our Principal’s Award winners.

PTA News

A big thank you to all the families that supported the PTA sausage sizzle yesterday – we raised over $500. The last sausage sizzle for the year will be on Wednesday 28th

November.

When you shop at Look Sharp Store, Tower Junction, mention OLA and the name of the Principal and you will receive a 10% discount!

The last fundraiser for 2018 will be Tiki Wine and Whitestone Cheese Packs – Great

for Christmas. Look out for the order forms coming home with your children soon!

To keep up with the latest PTA events you can join the PTA Facebook page by clicking here.

Calendar

Week 3

Mon - Fri Friday 2nd November

Swimming (Year 0-4) Mass 9:15 a.m. (Batten Team) Assembly 2:20 p.m. (Room 3) - Hall

Week 4

Mon – Fri Monday 5th November Tuesday 6th November Wednesday 7th November Friday 9th November

Swimming (Year 0-4) PTA Meeting in the Staffroom 7 p.m. ALL WELCOME Zone Athletics Y4 parent meeting – “Digital Learning in Yr 5” – 9 a.m. in the school library Mass 9:15a.m. (Hillary Team) Assembly 2:20 p.m. (Room 2) - Hall

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Week 5

Mon – Thur Wednesday 14th November Friday 16th November

Swimming (Year 5-8) NZEI Strike Day – SCHOOL CLOSED Show Day – SCHOOL CLOSED

Week 6

Mon - Fri Friday 23rd November Sunday 25th November

Swimming (Year 5-8) Assembly 2:20 p.m. (Room 11) – Hall Children’s Mass (Sheppard & Hillary Team) – Hoon Hay Church

Week 7

Monday 26th November Wednesday 28th November Friday 30th November

Values Assembly 11 a.m. – Hall PTA Sausage Sizzle Assembly 2:20p.m. (Room 10) – Hall

Week 8

Monday 3rd December Friday 7th December

Year 8 Leavers Dinner 6p.m. Assembly 2:20 p.m. (Hillary Hub) – Hall Prizegiving 6 p.m. – La Vida

Week 9

Wednesday 12th December Friday 14th December

Jellie Park – Sheppard / Batten / Hillary Hub Leavers’ Mass 11:15 a.m. END OF SCHOOL YEAR

TERM 1 – 2019

Tuesday 29th January First Day of Term 1

God Bless Janet and the Team at Our Lady of the Assumption School

Church Notices

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Community Notices

Christchurch City Council – Swimming Survey

You could win a free fun day for your school at Jellie Park (pool and slide) on the 18 December by filling in a short survey around water safety and learning to swim. Each entry increases your school’s chance of winning. Currently only 30% of school age children participate in swimming lessons and the Christchurch City Council’s Swimsmart team are keen to understand parents and caregivers views around water safety and learning to swim. Here is a link to the survey - https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/schoolswim18

Community Bootmarket and Thorrington School Kids

Market.

Saturday 24th November, 10am-2pm

Come along and join in the fantastic fun and entertainment at Thorrington School, 22a Colombo St. There will be live music, a huge variety of stalls, games and activities, food, coffee and much, much more! If you would like to book a $25 bootmarket site please email:bootmarket@thorrington.ac.nz

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