Thursday 22 June 2017 – Term 2 Week 8

Connected, self managing learners, striving for excellence

Tēnā koutou katoa ngā mihi ki te whānau ō te Kura ō Otatara - greetings to all families of Otatara School.

MATARIKI Rooms 1, 2 and 3 celebrated Matariki with a breakfast yesterday in the Community Centre, it was wonderful to see such self managing learners waiting patiently to spread their own toast.

MID YEAR REPORTING We are very excited next week to be sharing our learning with parents/caregivers at our mid year reporting student led conferences. If you have not yet made a booking please do so as soon as possible at www.schoolinterviews.co.nz with the code 6n3jm. Please remember if you are booking for more than one child you need to leave a gap between your conferences/interviews. Classes will finish on Wednesday 28th June at 12.30pm with buses, Chipmunks and Cornerstone pickups running at that time. Thursday 29th June classes will finish at 2.00pm with supervision provided for those students unable to be collected early. Please note buses and after school programmes will run at the usual 2.50pm time on Thursday. Year 1-3 students will take their learning journal home after the student led conference, please return these to school on Monday 3rd July. For Year 4-6 students, student led conference conversations will be based around student books. A short report showing progress and next learning steps in relation to the National Standards of reading, writing and mathematics will be provided. If you have a conference booked early on Thursday afternoon before the usual school end time of 2.50pm and intend to meet your child at school, please go to the library for juniors or the hall for seniors as no students will be playing unsupervised in the playground. COMMUNITY FEEDBACK Given that many parents/whanau will be in and around school next week with our mid year reporting process we thought we would utilise the opportunity to elicit your feedback. There are multiple ways that you can engage with our feedback process. Peter, Alison and I will be available if you would like to chat to someone face to face, classrooms may have ipads or computers in their waiting areas with our google forms survey and the survey will be accessible from our web page.

The survey is very short, consisting of only 2 questions related to your child’s learning. Your feedback is an important part of our self review process so we hope you take a moment to respond to our questions. NZ PLAYHOUSE We recently received a thank you from the New Zealand Playhouse, the group who performed Puss in Boots. They commented on ‘what a treat it was to perform at such a drama focused school’. BLOCK B UPDATE Rooms 6 and 7 are almost complete and we expect to move back into these spaces next week, fingers crossed. Rooms 8 and 9 will then relocate to the Community Centre as their rooms are refurbished, returning at the beginning of Term 3 if everything goes to plan. SOUTHLAND CROSS COUNTRY Eleven of our students are off to Waimumu tomorrow to represent Kiwi Zone in the Southland Cross Country championships, we shall be thinking of them all and wish them every success. SPELLING STARS Congratulations to the 2 teams of 4 students who represented our school at the annual Southspell competition at James Hargest College last night: TEAM A - Dayne Harvey, Molly Flynn, Keita Ruwhiu and Kobe Rooney TEAM B - Lucy Cooper, Poppy Donnelly, Jordan Marshall and Sam Kubrycht-Ellis Team A gained third place out of 31 teams, special thanks to Mrs Rooney and Mr N-V for coaching and supporting our teams over the last few weeks.

WELCOME Next term we welcome Ruth Fairbairn back to our team as the teacher in Room 12. Ruth started her teaching career with us teaching in both the senior and junior teams and has recently been teaching at Makarewa School. Heoi anō tāku mō ināianei - That’s all for now Nāku noa nā. - Yours sincerely

Disco Postponed

Due to the ongoing construction work at school and the Year 5 students using the Meeting Room in the hall as a classroom, we will postpone the disco until early next term.

Connected, self managing learners, striving for excellence

Road Patrol Roster Monday 26 June – Friday 30 June

Monday David Mortimer Tuesday Hannah Winder Wednesday Kirsten Sargeant Thursday Satindra Kumar Friday Lyndal Ramsey

If for some reason you are unavailable on your rostered day please swap with another parent.

Milk in Schools Roster

Term 2, Week 9 Wednesday 28 June Linda/Brent Wilson Friday 30 June Tracey Yardley

Congratulations to our latest Manaakitanga

Award winners:- Cooper Earley Allie Harrison Flynn Cunningham Lucy Drake Brodie Brookland Oli Drake 23 June Southland Cross Country 28–29 June Student Led Conferences 07 July End of Term 2 24 July Start of Term 3 01 August NED Presentation 03 August Year 5 Netball Tournament 04 August Technology Challenge 07 August BOT Meeting 7.00pm Staffroom 09 August Chess Tournament 09 August Year 6 Netball Tournament 11 August ILT Dreamweaver 21 August Polyfest 11.10am 21 August Senior Aquatic/Water Safety begins 25 August School Ski Trip

Sports Results Netball Otatara Blue played Waihopai and won 8-3. Player of the day was Izzy Bowen. Hockey Otatara Green played Myross Bush and won 6-0. Player of the day was Ruby Goodall.

Holiday Basketball Programmes YEARS 3-6

Wednesday July 12th Thursday July 13th 9:00am – 3:00pm $60 per child

($100 for 2 siblings, $140 for 3 siblings) YEARS 7-10

Friday July 14th 9:00am – 3:00pm $35 per child ($60 for 2 siblings, $85 for 3 siblings)

Southland Basketball Association, Stadium Southland dan@basketballsouthland.co.nz

Phone 211 2254

Ride Learn to

T r a c k P r o g r a m me

Do you want to be the next track champion? First you need to learn the basics, join us and we

will teach you everything you need to know

Term 39 weeks

Wednesday or Friday 4-5pm session

$85.00 incl. gstincludes track hire, bike hire, coach,

water bottle & certificate

Book your spot by calling or emailing Cycling Southland(03) 2199325 – office@cyclingsouth.org.nz

School Assembly

23 June 1.30pm Junior School Assembly 30 June 1.30pm Whole School Assembly

We hope you can join us for our celebration of learning.