Quote - “There is nothing more unequal than equal treatment of unequal people.”

- Thomas Jefferson

The term is racing by! The whole school has just completed a health unit focussing on ‘Keeping Ourselves Safe’. I know it has created many interesting and sometimes challenging conversations at home.

Thank you for your ongoing support for this programme that is taught across the country and with the support of police education officers. The cyber safety component was appreciated by students and parents too. John Parsons who led the discussions is coming back next term to spend more time with us. Thank you to the fundraising group for supporting this initiative.

- Paul Drummond

SCHOOL FUN RUN On Friday the 5th of September, Year 0-6 went to the beach for the Fun Run. When we got there in our house colours, we did some jump jam and then our groups went to the activities. The activities were really fun. My favourite one was one where you take someone to the other side of a small hill. Then we got to have lunch. I had cashews and carrots and then they announced the winning team. Whenua came 4th. Moana came 3rd Tatahi came 2nd and Ra came 1st. Then we all walked back to school. - by Bradey and Corbin

Here are Wade and Recho having a rest but proud to be

part of Ra House who won the cup in the School Fun Run

this week. Ra also got points for the best chant!!!!!!!!!!!

Ra Ra we'll go far

We're the sun

We're the star

Goooooo Ra!!!! Room 7

Last Friday the whole school went to the beach to do the fun run. There were four activities to do. My favourite activity was when I had to lift my buddy over a pretend river. It was fun even though Ra won the day. - Keira Room 5

WELCOME to the following students and their families. Jessica Harrhy R2 Mason Atkinson R2

School and Community Newsletter No 13 9 September 2014

Tahunanui School N

ews

I can – I will

Ka tāea – ka tutuki

INTERHOUSE SPEECH FINAL - Tatahi wins! Congratulations to all Year 5/6 students who prepared and gave a speech recently. Talking the talk helps build confidence! Special congratulations to our finalists and our place getters. 1st Brodie, 2nd Lucy, 3rd Noah.

The interschool speech finals are on Thursday 11

September 7.00pm at the Woodstock Centre -

Stoke School Hall.

SCHOOL WORKING BEE - Saturday 6 September

Ninja News:Our New Garden We were lucky last Thursday when the BNZ bank was closed and their workers came out into the community to help with projects. Three helpers came along and began our new garden project. This was completed on Saturday when we ran a

working bee. We would like to send out a huge thank

you to all of those who came along. It was a great

day in the sun and thanks to all of your hard work we

now have an awesome garden for our students to

plant.

REMINDER - Broadgreen Intermediate enrolment forms (student information, enrolment card and learning partnership forms) should be returned to

their classroom teacher by Thursday 18 September.

A.L.L. WRITING GROUP Well done to all the members of the ALL writing group who have worked so hard over the past 15 weeks to accelerate their learning in literacy. It has been wonderful to see your confidence and self-belief grow. Remember everything you have learned and keep up the incredible writing! Thanks to all of the family, whanau, friends and teachers who attended our celebration party and supported us throughout the process. - Natasha Bankers A.L.L. Teacher

RUNNING AWAY You’ll never guess what I did when I was a baby. Well, when I was one and at my nanas house, I sneaked out of the door and toddled to the footpath by myself! Nana didn’t notice that I was gone. But when she looked out the window she gasped! I was not supposed to be there, I was supposed to be playing in the longue. My nana called my cousin to zoom off and try to catch me. He grabbed me around the tummy with my arms and legs dangling like an octopus. He limped back to nanas. I giggled and smile all the way there. When she saw me she gave me a huge hug. - By Janeille Y4 Room 7

ESCAPE! You’ll never guess what I did when I was a baby. I escaped from my cot with bars. I clambered out when my mum was asleep. The reason why my mum did not wake up is because she can sleep through anything apart from banging pans! I waddled down the stairs and sneaked to the kitchen. I pulled out some pans, went to the pantry, got a biscuit and started to munch it down while I was banging pans. It sounded like thunder! When my mum woke up she was furious because I was banging pans together. But when she saw me she just shrugged her shoulder picked me up and put me back in my cot. - By Lexus Y4 Room 6

Tahunanui School News

Speech Finalists

TAHUNA TUATARA AWARD

School and Community Newsletter 13 9 September 2014

STRETCH AWARD

Sunny Room 6 Sunny is a boy with

impeccable manners. He is always polite and respectful even when

using his excellent critical thinking skills

to ask some curly questions. He is an excellent role model

who participates enthusiastically in

all activities, makes insightful contributions to class discussion and

takes active steps to achieve his goals.

Sunny is a joy to have in Room 6 and is a

valuable class member.

Zehn - Orakei Zehn works hard on his school tasks. He listens well, has lovely manners

and lovey interactions with his teacher. When

he is disappointed or upset Zehn shows great

resilience in keeping on and trying hard.

His speech was full of emotion and determination. A

deserving boy to win ‘Stretch’.

INVOICES A reminder notice for Term 1, 2 and 3 charges were emailed and hard copies sent to parents we don’t have email addresses for. (To enable us to update our records please let the office know your email address or any change of details). Costs include O.E Day, homework resources, Suter visit, Junior Aqua Day, Science Dome, Winter Tournament, Y5/6 Adventure Week, Netball and Miniball fees and Amenity Donation. Thank you to the parents who have already paid. Payments can be made directly to our bank account number -

03-1709-0004521-01 (not 00). Please include your child’s name and room number. - Board of Trustees

CHOIR AND BAND AT RICHMOND MALL My name is Hennie and I’m in the choir. The choir and I went to the Richmond Mall to perform. Brody, Jo, Trent and Om danced as well, and the band played too. They were really good. Now we are working towards performing at Stage One in October. - By Hennie

My Rock Da House Experience

Sharli, Lucy and I were chosen to join the back beat choir. Two weeks ago Sharli, Lucy and I did a performance called Rock Da House

in Motueka with the Back Beat Choir. My favourite part of the performance was at the start with glow in the dark gloves and Sasa. - By Nikita

FUNDRAISING NEWS Student Calendars We are offering families the opportunity to purchase calendars and other products featuring individual student’s artwork. Order forms will be sent home

Friday 12 September. The completed forms need to be returned to school by Friday 19 September. Please note each child requires an individual form. The Artwork can be viewed in the library from Monday

15 September.

Wipe Out - Wednesday 5 November

WE NEED YOU!! After last year’s success, we are having another super fun ‘Wipe Out’ family evening again in November BUT we require lots of helpers!! All we need is an hour of your time to either help supervise the ‘Wipe Out’ course of help with food preparation / sales. A helpers form will be sent home at beginning of Term 4 or just leave your name and phone number at the office if you can help. - Fundraising

Group

Come join us this ‘Spring’ for exciting, fun

times with our experienced, trained staff 29 Sep-tember- 10 October. Enrolment packs can be collected from the Tahunanui Community Centre 61 Muritai Street or from the school office. Winz Oscar subsidies available. View the full programme details on their website www.tahunanui.org. Further enquiries please phone TCC 5486036 or email tcc@ts.co.nz. - Julie Brockie, Administration,

Tahunanui Community Centre

HOLIDAY TENNIS COACHING. Alastair Cotterill Nelson Residential Professional Tennis Coach is offering:- 2 day tennis coaching 2 hours per day

held at Nelson College Tennis Courts September 30th-October 1st and October 2nd-3rd 2014. Open to boys and girls, all abilities, age 6-17 years. Small groups - Maximum 5. Everyone guaranteed a tennis medal. For further information re costs,

times etc phone (03)5486984. Limited enrolments. Email: tigertennisnz@yahoo.com

TENNIS COACHING TERM 4 2014 Tennis coaching will be available Term 4 2014 at Tahunanui School and outside school time. Open to boys and girls, all abilities, age 6+. For further information re costs, times etc phone(03)5486984. Limited enrolments.

Email: tigertennisnz@yahoo.com - Alastair Cotterill Tennis Coach

Community Oral Health Service

OPEN through term breaks Did you know?

‘Rotting teeth’ continues to be a reality for 40% of children starting school in the Nelson Marlborough region. In New Zealand our sugar consumption is third in the world behind

Mexico and the USA. Sugar – How much is

too much? is the focus of Oral Health Week. Pick up a flyer at your School, Early Childhood or Oral Health Centre to see the daily sugar in-take guidelines and become a ‘sugar detective’ and find out how much sugar your family is consuming in their food and drink. Nelson 539 5324 and Stoke 539 5321. - Community Oral Health Service

ANOTHER RETIREMENT Last night the Board received notice from Sue Curnow of her resignation effective from the end of year. Next term we will celebrate with Sue and Carol their valued and significant contribution to our school.

LOST PROPERTY We have collected a large amount of lost property since the beginning of the term. We have collection bins in the Moana Room, the Burrell Centre, Room 7 cloakroom and Room 12. Please check to see if any of these items belong to your children. Naming all items of clothing enables us to return them to the rightful owner.

FROM THE HEALTH DESK Coughs and Colds - We have a number of students away with flu like symptoms of vomiting, diarrhoea, headaches, high temperatures,

coughs and colds. This is a reminder to expect your children to regularly wash their hands. Home remedy for Headlice

- Try this!

Coconut oil and apple cider vinegar mixed together. Coconut oil dissolves the lice’s outer skeletal shell instantly. Once you put it on someone’s head you can have them shower and rinse it off right away and all the lice will be killed and gone! Plus there are no chemicals.

Chickenpox - We have a small out break of chickenpox in our school. They are very contagious and children are infectious from 5 days before the first lot of blisters until 5 days after the last blister appears. Children must stay home from school during this time. - Mrs Tambisari, Health Coordinator

Lucy Holland Hi I’m Lucy. I’m originally

from Nelson and went to

high school here so its

great to be back for the

holiday programme. I am

a qualified secondary school

art and art history teacher

and love to do arts and

crafts with children.

I was on the Tahunanui

Community Centre Holiday

programme last holidays

and am really excited to be

back and running this one.

I now live in Christchurch

and spend most of my spare

time baking, tramping, rock

climbing, swimming and

travelling to see new places.

I hope to see a lot of you

again!

Elly Holland Hi I’m Elly. I'm really

excited to be back for

my second Tahunanui

Community Centre holiday

programme. I am currently

studying Music and Event

Management at MAINZ in

Auckland, but I grew up in

Nelson and went to Nelson

College for Girls. I have

worked on children’s

festivals and on arts

workshops for Capitol E

in Wellington. I play the

saxophone and love

tramping!

TAMURE AND

THE TANIWHA Once there was a ferocious man eating Taniwha that lived in the sea next to the beach. Taniwha liked to chase people

that were walking along the beach with beautiful sand. He chased the wakas and bit them in half and ate the delicious fish. Tamure was a giant, “I will go and punish that Taniwha to the deeps of the Moana”, said Tamure. He stomped down the cliff where the Taniwha was getting ready to chase people. The ground was still shaking from his walk. Tamure carefully climbed down the rocky cliff and ran into the shallow blue water. Suddenly Tamure got a hold of the great big Taniwha and beat him by punching and pulling him so hard. The mean evil blue Taniwha took off slowly into the deepest trenches of the entire ocean. It’s fine and safe to walk on the crunchy sand. It’s also safe for the fisherman and their wakas made of wood. - Tara Yr 2 Room 12

BRIDGE VALLEY HOLIDAY CAMPS These holidays Bridge Valley Holiday Camps bring to Nelson Survivor Asia. A week long holiday camp full of classic survivor challenges and games as well as the exciting Bridge Valley activities, including the luge. Intermediates choose to join one of our great elective combos: princess party, paintball, wheels, photography & media, or Bear Grylls over night adventure. Junior camp 8-10 year olds 29th September - 3rd October. Intermediate camp 11-13 years old 6th -10th October. Visit www.bridgevalley.co.nz to register or for more details.

NELSON JUNIOR VOLLEYBALL

LEAGUE Starts Thursday 16 October Years 4-6 only. $30.00 for Term 4 Games will be held at Nelson

College for Girls (Old Gym) Nelson from 4.00pm. Game times will be posted on Burrell Team window each week. More information before end of term.

FOOD FOR FAMILIES

Free Community Dinners Every Tuesday 5.30-6.30pm Tahunanui Community Centre 61 Muritai Centre. All welcome, come on down with your family and friends. For more information contact Martin 0210515664.

WHAT IS A RUGBY BALL? Writing in Tamaki Room A rugby ball is a special ball for the game of rugby. A rugby ball is an oval shaped ball. It is easy to handle, hold and carry. Some modern day rugby balls are made out of vinyl. A rugby ball can fly far and fast when thrown in just a few seconds. Some players can throw it more than four metres. If the pass is thrown well, it moves in a spiral motion towards the catching player. A rugby ball can be from size 3 to 5. It can have advertising on it from the maker of the ball. It can be in many colours. A silver fern on a rugby ball makes people think of the mighty All Black team. - Bennett Yr 6

SUZ4TENNIS TAHUNANUI TENNIS CLUB

HOLIDAY PROGRAMME Mon 29th Sept - Wed 1st Oct, 9-11am. Fun and games for all ages and abilities.

Suz4Tennis Term 4 Junior Tennis Coaching Starts week of 13th October. Runs for 8 weeks. Learn to play tennis in a fun environment. For all ages and abilities from 5years and up. For more details or to register go to www.suz4tennis.co.nz or contact Suzanne Spencer on 027 522 0115 or suz4tennis@gmail.com directly.

NAYLAND PARK POOL Spring School Holidays Holiday Programme 29 September—10 October 8am-4pm weekdays For ages 5-13 years. Enrol online at www.chilloutkids.co.nz or phone Nayland Park Pool 547 0292 for more information.

TRAIL JOURNEYS - Grand Opening Sunday 28 September 2014 Ride the Mapua Ferry - gold coin

donation for the day. All proceeds to

the Great Taste Trail.

Following their success on the Otago Central Rail Trail, Trail Journeys are now offering the same quality service on the ‘Great Taste Trail’. Visit them on the Mapua Wharf for further information or www.trailjourneys.co.nz

HOUSE FOR SALE Family home for sale, safe walkway to school, TradeMe Ref: #DZA287

LIBRARY NEWS Did you notice the changes in our Library? Brand NEW acrylic yellow and black Dewey Decimal Shelf Indicators AND Book Supports! No more concertina collapsing of books and MORE space to display special books - YAY!!!

SPCA CUP CAKE DAY

On Monday the 25th the Burrell Team sold cupcakes for the SPCA cupcake day. I'm Ben and my cupcakes were the ones that had green icing and the wrapping with blue polka dots. My mum and I worked really hard making those cupcakes as part of our home learning. Too bad I didn’t get any because they were sold out! When I got there mine were sold and each one for $1.00. Overall we made $305.00. It was amazing!!!!!! - Ben, Burrell Team

SOMETHING TO SMILE ABOUT

Q. What do you call a man with a car on his head?

A. Jack!

Q. What do you get from a pampered cow? A. Spoiled milk!

Q. Where do rabbits learn to fly? A. In the Hare Force!

SCHOOL LIP-SYNC

COMPETITION Thank you to all the students who took part in the auditions. You were all amazing. The finals will be held on Friday 12 September at1.30pm.

PARENT/TEACHER

CONFERENCES YEAR 3-6 REMINDER - Student profile folders will go home Thursday 18 September. You can book your conference time online.

Bookings close 3pm Thursday

18 September. Go to www.schoolinterviews.co.nz

Enter the school code SA9CR and follow the prompts. You can use a library computer. Mrs Trewavas, our librarian, can help or you can just ring the school office and we will do it over the phone.

Junior students (Year 1-2) will

have a conference to coincide

with their birthdays and then 6

months later.

GALA MEETING The first gala meeting will be on

Thursday 25 September in the

staffroom at 2.30pm. Bring your ideas. If you can’t make it send apologies to me and any ideas you may have that will contribute to another great gala. Phone Lee 548 6440 or email leesport@xtra.co.nz - Lee Corlett, Convenor

CONGRATULATIONS - The Board is pleased to confirm that Heidi Newland has been permanently appointed to our teaching staff.

69 Muritai Street Tahunanui Phone (03) 5486167 Email secretary@cloud.tahunanui.school.nz

CONGRATULATIONS

Congratulations to the Nelson Rugby under 7 and under

8 teams who have won two tackle 7s tournaments this year. They won

the Whitwells 7s tournament at

Riwaka on the

16 August and

the Mike’s 7s

tournament at Greenmeadows

30 August. This

is a massive achievement.

Tahunanui students in the under 7 team were Liam and Ania.

NETBALL The 2014 netball season has ended. Our Tahunanui teams were very successful with all players increasing their understanding and skill level of the game. Both teams

played some excellent netball. Finals day was a lot of fun and our teams got into the spirit of the event! Many thanks to all parents/caregivers who supported their daughters this season. You played a big part in making the season so enjoyable. Girls keep playing. I look forward to seeing you at the courts in the future. - Ms Norgate and Miss Riley, Netball Coaches

Congratulations to Jet who also won the 7s player of the year in the under 8 grade.

Congratulations to Liam who also won the McDonalds Cup for outstanding

attitude over all

grades.