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Term 3

Week 4

Newsletter

No. 11

16 August

2018

Dates for your Diary

Week 4 August 17th Room 11 first Aid training day

Week 5

August 20th Assembly 10am

August 21st Year 6 visit to Avondale Intermediate 9.10am - 1.00pm Takahe Parent Meetings (3.30-6.20pm) August 22nd Sport Waitakere Netball sessions Wintersports Field Day (Yr 5 and 6) August 23rd Sport Waitakere Netball sessions Digital Ignition sessions for Takahe Takahe Parent Meetings (3.30-6.20pm) Week 6 August 29th Whanau Leader Wacky Hair Day Sport Waitakere Netball sessions Wintersports Field Day (save day) August 30th Whanau Leader Breakfast Hub Sport Waitakere Netball sessions Digital Ignition sessions for Takahe Newsletter #12 August 31st Daffodil Day

What else is happening this term?

Week 5 - 7 Thurs Digital Ignition | Māpura Matihiko Workshops for Takahe

Monday 13th - Friday 24th August Whanau Leader Salvation Army Can appeal

Wednesday 5th September

APS Disco

Monday 17th - Thursday 20th September A R T S H O W

Term Dates TERM 3:

Monday 23 July – Friday 28 September TERM 4:

Monday 15 October – Thursday 13 December (finishing at 3.00pm)

Labour Day (Public Holiday) – Monday 22 October

Kia ora tatou katoa,

This morning I awoke to a beautiful morning, almost ‘spring’ like. I decided not to go to the gym and sweat profusely but spend some time with my sister visiting from the deep south. However, she’s heading to 28 degrees on the Gold Coast so the novelty of brother sister love wore off pretty quickly. Summer can’t come quickly enough.

This week the Tui Team moved back into their newly renovated rooms with no internal walls, fresh carpet tiles and wall linings, it looks great. I also spotted the Air Conditioner compressor has arrived so we will have the latest heating and cooling technology for our littlies soon.

The Takahe Team have also been busy vacating their classes and moving to temporary rooms. We look forward to the sprucing up of the Takahe area.

This week we start ‘Reading Mileage’ essentially this is 20 of our best Year 6 students listening to 5 readers a day, that’s 100 in total! We need to have our children heard reading. The 100 children will travel from their rooms after their guided reading lesson with their teacher and head to room 5. There they will read again to a Year 6 person. This mirrors a concept in Maori called Tuakana Teina. In a school context this is interpreted as ‘older younger’. We are excited to see how this will roll and hopefully we can iron out the kinks early on.

Yesterday’s strike by teachers was necessary but unfortunate in my view. Teachers have an increasing workload and do deserve an increase in pay to reflect their hard work. However, I watched politicians yesterday babbling on about ‘we can work together and sort this out’ to 24 hours later change their tune to ‘it’s disappointing there needed to be a strike and teachers are dream-ing about their claim’ just goes to show that we may have a way to go before things are sorted. Whilst I enjoyed the company of my own children as we joined a local march, my kids said they just wanted to be at school. So, to the negotiating teams, get on with it!

Next week is the APS board of trustees meeting. You are most welcome to attend this ‘meeting in public’.

Tomorrow I will send out the first of a number of surveys. We are gathering information, particularly around our curriculum and how we might roll for 2019 and beyond. Please look out for these as we will have a number of prizes to encourage you to return these. I will report back the findings at our Art Show opening.

In the meantime, enjoy the semi break known as the weekend, Go the Warriors and a little encouragement to you all too pop out to a local market, Avondale, Mt Albert, Otara or where I’m going, Grey Lynn.

Cheers all Mr Clarke

ART SHOW GALA OPENING

Our biennial art

show will be during week 9 of

this term. The hall will be a

sea of stunning art produced by all of

the APS budding painters, sculptors, designers and drawers.

To celebrate this event we will be hosting a Gala Opening on Tuesday

18th September from 6 - 8pm.

Keep this date and time free. An invite will follow

A message from our

Travelwise Team

STA FF CARP ARK CHANGES WITH CONSTRUCTION With the next part of the school

construction, our staff carpark will be in use by the workers.

PLEASE do not drive in for the drop-offs and pick-ups.

Term 3 Value

Creativity / Waihanga-tanga We are creative. We have special gifts and we

are willing to develop them. We use our imagination. We are open to inspiration.

School is CLOSED

We would like to sincerely thank everyone for their support yesterday as the teachers marched up Queen Street in an

attempt to get better conditions for students and teachers.

Friends of Avondale

The Friends Of Avondale would like to say thank you to everyone who contributed to the School Quiz we held in our

school hall on August 4th.

It was a huge success and far exceeded our $6000.00 target. We will be meeting on Tuesday 28th August 7pm to talk about

a BOT proposal on how we would like to spend it. We will also be planning our next community event -

THE ART SHOW GALA OPENING

https://www.facebook.com/ FriendsOfAvondalePrimary/

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FRENCH OR JAPANESE CLASSES! Would you like your child to learn French or Japanese in an after-school club? Lessons are specially designed to teach primary-aged students with songs, music, dance, games and much more! Cost is $15 per week and they can run before/after-school or at lunch-time. Please register your preferred language with tracy@lcfclubs.co.nz www.lcfclubs.co.nz FB:@funlanguagescentralwest

Introducing. . . Our Whanau Leaders We have amazing Year 6 Leaders. We would like to acknowledge and thank them for the wonderful impact they are making around our school.

Whanau Leaders Salvation Army Canned Goods Collection

The Whanau Leaders are very busy and have many

events and activities planned for this term. One of these is the Salvation Army Canned Goods Collection.

Over this week and next, the Whanau Leaders are collecting canned goods to be able to make a worthy donation to this community organisation. Thanks very much to

everyone who has already brought in a can or two. There is a box in the main office, if you would like to contribute.

Breakfast Hub

The Whanau Leaders will be hosting their Term 3 Breakfast Hub on Thursday 30th August. A RSVP slip will be sent home

closer to the time.

Pita Pit Day The Whanau Leaders have organised another Pita Pit day for the school.

The date for this is on Thursday, 13th September.

Blockhouse Bay Int. Enrolment 2019 Intermediate Experience Day - Thursday 23rd August (9:20am-11:45am) Students and families intending to enrol at Blockhouse Bay intermediate are invited to spend a morning at the school. You will see the whole school in operation and participate in some school experiences.

Serena Matai Year 6 Room 11

I enjoy reading, swimming, cooking, painting, playing rugby, netball and t-ball.

I think a whanau leader is supposed to help others, set a good example

and most of all be an excellent role model.

Loema Kowhai Year 6 Room 10

I am 10 years old

My hobbies are Soccer, hockey, softball and T-ball.

I want to be a whanau leader because I want to be a Role model

to the young children and help them. I want to do the right thing

for the young kids.

Whanau Leaders News

Term 3 activities

Wacky Hair Day - Wednesday 29th August. Raising money for our World Vision Child

National Daffodil Day - Friday 31st August Make a donation and receive a daffodil

School Disco - Wednesday 5th September 4pm til 6pm, in our school hall

Year 6 Transitions to Avondale Intermediate School

There are two specific occasions on Tuesday 21 August to assist with the transition of our Year 6 students to

Avondale Intermediate:

OPEN DAY at the INTERMEDIATE

Y6 will be picked up at 9am and return by 1.30pm to experience what it is going to be like at intermediate school.

Parent Q&A sessions 4:30 – 5:30 and 6 – 7.

Enrolment packs have been sent home with students. You can grab a spare one from our office or directly from the

Intermediate on Tuesday 22nd August.

Scholastic Book Club Closes at school - Tuesday 11th September

& online Saturday 15th September

School App! DOWNLOAD IT TODAY!

Just a reminder that we have a school APP! It is available for both android and apple smartphones. Search Avondale Primary School in the app store on your device.

ABSENCES If your child is going to be absent, please let your class teacher know, call the office or

you can let us know directly through this APP!

Dance classes for 8 - 12 year olds