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Welcome to Magnus Jamieson,Danya’s little brother, Lauryn Fleming,Thomas and Andrew’s little sister andAbbey Glover, Katie’s little sister toRoom 2 already this term. Welcomealso to Ethan Mitchell, Blake’s littlebrother, who starts next week. We willwelcome another 5 New Entrantsbefore the end of the year.
Last week at the Board meeting we
discussed the collated mid yearassessment data. This was where
every individuals report across the
different foundation learning areas -
Reading, Writing, Spelling and Maths
into an overall school picture of
achievement. I would like to share
some of that evidence and discussion
with you to celebrate the progress and
achievement of our children and the
partnership of our teachers and
parents effort to support and enhance
that.
Below is a quick summary of theoverall percentages while over the
page are the graphs that further
example our high achievement.
Achievement Levels across the
school:
Reading: 93% achieving 'At' or 'Above'
school and national expectations
Writing: 92% achieving 'At' or 'Above'
school and national expectations
Spelling: 93% achieving 'At' or 'Above'
school and national expectations
Maths: 88% achieving 'At' or 'Above'
school and national expectations
Some of the supporting analysis from
the mid year data report made thefollowing points:
* Mid year data is used as formativeassessment in syndicates especiallywith the ‘beginning’ achievementstudents to set goals and direction for intervention.
* Large percentage of students at /above in Reading, Writing and Spellingis indicative of the developmentemphasis between 2006 - 2009 of our Literacy programme (with Ministryfinancial support in the Literacycontract 2006-2009) and thecommunity support for our literacyprogramme in the home environment.
*Children identified as 'beginning' havereceived numeracy support duringTerm 2 (both with Numeracy Cluster support - Year 3&5 groups and inschool numeracy programme support -Year 4&6). These children haveimproved achievement with number knowledge and basic facts.
*Shifts towards independent /personalised learning in teachingpractice is catering for studentextension in classroom programmes.
I believe it is important to reflect and
respect these very positive results from
our partnership in our children's
learning journey. We are currently in
an increasingly 'sound bite' education
system with recent media and Minister
of Education comment. We continue to
hear statistics that don't apply to all
schools and communities. The
uniqueness of each school is why we
have a local Board of Trustees, our
own charter and achievement targets
for our students. What works for
Myross Bush School and itscommunity is not the same as what will
work for a school in Wellington, or
north of Auckland etc.
Myross Bush SchoolNewsletter Find out more at www.myrossbush.school.nz
Kia tu Pakari From strong foundations we grow and stand tall together
Celebrating student progress andachievement in our school...
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School Notices:Thank you to: Cristy Henderson andPaula Stewart for helping to wash theMoffett Cup rugby jerseys.
No Assembly this week. due to classrefits.
Email addresses: If your addresschanges we ask that you advise theschool office. Thank you.
Rugby World Cup Flags: Any further orders? $25 per 10m, 40 flag bunting.Please ring the office tomorrow at thelatest.
Sports Notices:Summer Football: Slips have gonehome today. Please have thesereturned by Friday 2nd of September.Spare notices are kept on the notice
board in the office.
Hockey
MB Champs V Fern Sticks Lost 6-1POD Katie Jukes, Hannah Corbett,Tarrah Shirley, Ethan TuffleyMB Legends v St Theresa’s LostPOD Harriet Stevens, Liam Devery
No Hockey this week due to aSecondary School Tournament.
Netball
MB Shooters v Waihopai Lost 4-2POD Simone Caughey
Well done to Gabby Schuck andSophie Sinclair who were in theSouthern Zone Year 5 Netball Teamwho came 3rd overall in the SouthlandZone Tournament . Also to SimoneCaughey, Devon Grey and OliviaFraser whose Year 6 team came 11thin their Tournament.
Thank you to: FOS, RichardStodart and Nan Sinclair for organising the awesome netballpoles and new basketball hoops.
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The sound bite of '1 in 5 failing in reading,
writing and maths' is made across all
primary and secondary schools when it in
fact relates to the number of students
leaving school without a NCEA Level 2
qualification. Primary schools are notfailing 1 in 5 students. If you broke down
our schools data to make a comparison to
that sound bite it would look like this:
Those working at or above the expected
level at Myross Bush:
Reading: 14 out of 15 ʻatʼ or ʻaboveʼ
Writing: 12 out of 13 ʻat or aboveʼ
Spelling: 14 out of 15 ʻat or aboveʼ
Maths: 8 out of 9 ʻat or aboveʼ
Our staff use every individual's data to
analyse what progress and achievement is
happening across the whole school. We
then work together on how to target our
teaching and school resources to ensure
that continued opportunity for progress
and achievement is possible for all our
learners.
We take great pride in every child's
progress and achievement. We are a
high performing school with high
expectations for our students and our staff.
Together, with you, we are giving our
children a strong foundation from which
every child can grow and stand tall
together. Thanks to everyone in our
community for their support and assistance
in making this continued success possiblefor all our children.
Next week sees the start of our classroom
upgrade project. Stage 1 of this project iswhere each of our classroom learningspaces gets a revamp with an internal fitout. Rooms 2 & 3 will be shifted into the
activity centre this Friday afternoon for the
next week or two. This will be their
classroom and their learning programmes
will continue in partnership with each other.
Please note there will be no Assembly
this week and we will be touch about an
alternative arrangement once we see how
the work progresses. We are excited
about this development and thank you for
your support and understanding during this
transition time.
Regards,Tim Lovelock
Principal
= Beg RED = At = Above
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Week 4 Term 3
Room 1 Mrs Lemin and Miss McBeth arehaving a lovely time working with the childrenin Room 1 this week. We can't wait to hear allthe exciting things Mrs Forde has beenlearning about when she gets back. Our focusfor our writing continues to be narratives
(imaginative stories). The children are havingfun writing problems in their stories andcreating interesting solutions for them. Lookout for the stories in their published story booksthis Friday. Our inquiry has an 'icy' focus thisweek. The children are exploring ice and how itturns into water. Ask your child what pouringwater onto ice does?Certificates: Sarah Hay - fantastic hockey skills& Elizor Ringor - showing kotahitanga
Room 2 is excited to be on the move to theActivity Centre on Friday while our room isrenovated! We will have some great
adventures as we share the space with Room3 over the next few weeks, and we are lookingforward to the fresh new room we will return to.Welcome to Abbey Glover and her family, who
joined our team this week. It has been lovelygetting to know the fresh faces and keenlearners who have joined us over the last fewweeks! Our little scientists have been makingpredictions and honing their observation skillsas we conduct some ice experiments thisweek, and we have been learning to writesimiles to make our narratives more interestingfor our readers. What a busy class!
Room 3 are all very excited about the moveinto the Activity Centre on Friday. We havepacked up a lot of boxes and are nearly readyto go. Room 2 will be sharing the ActivityCentre with us and we will be working together on some tasks together which will be great fun.When our classroom is refurbished we get tomove back into a beautiful new learning space.Certificates: Lucy and Liam
Room 4 have had a busy start to this week. Wehave started looking at length for Maths anddone some comparing of the size of our feet.We also made as fabulous adjective tree to
help make our narrative writing moreinteresting. I am enjoying being in Room 4 thisweek. Rowena Hughes
Room 5 are having a busy week from writingnarratives to learning about separating coloursin science. Look out for our science display onchromatography outside Room 5. What afantastic bunch of children to teach, they are allso motivated and hardworking- it will be hard tohand them back to Mrs Kahukura at the end of the week! Mrs Wilcox.• I have enjoyed doing the science experimentswith Mrs Wilcox. I learnt that oil is less dense
than water. Katie Heads.• In Maths we made symmetry monsters and we had to reflect our shapes. My monster wasmade up of triangles, squares and had claws. Emily Hay
• I never knew that colours are made up of different pigments. It was fun learning about chromatography. Brock Rogan• Writing narrative stories has been cool. Mineis a story about when some parents don't let agroup of children eat junk food, so the children
come up with a plan to defeat the adults.Cassie Gray
Room 6• We made name bugs and they looked funny.Ben• We’ve been doing nasty narratives in Room6. I like nasty narratives. Louis• I liked making a tee-shirt for my dad for Father’s Day . George• We made colourful pictures which wescratched to put in pictures that are spec ial tous. Holly• I really enjoyed making the scratched
pictures. Jack
Room 7 are half way through their legoanimations on "I Can Animate", with manygroups finding that to get a realistic lookinganimation, it takes a lot of patience and veryco-operative group skills. Once these are allrecorded we will be starting workshops on "IMovie".Don't forget to hand in you SKI PERMISSIONSLIP tomorrow if you are going.Certificates: Hannah Fitzgerald & BradleyCorbett
Room 8 • Kees - We're doing lego animations about theHabits of Mind. Our one is on persistence. I'velearnt how to do animations and make it look clear and not blurry.• Sean - We've been learning about hockey for P.E. I've learnt that you don't make the stick goover your head but that it's just a flick. It's really fun! • Mr Herring - We'll be posting our animationson youtube.com and having an award for themost viewed. Visit our classblog for the linksand vote for your favourite ones in 2 weeks!
NO ASSEMBLY this week
Don’t forget that you can check out our school newsletter in colour at:
www.myrossbush.school.nz
Community:BABY SITTER AVAILABLE: Ex Myross Bushstudent, reliable. Ph Makaela 2157922
GLADSTONE TYRES & MAGS: Get the school
rewarded - $5 back to the school on every tyrepurchase - drop a copy of your invoice into theschool.
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August September October
25th (Thurs) TOMORROW
Year 3-6 Ski Trip paymentsand return slip due back.
Please Note: If paying by internet, payment needsto be made today so that it shows on the bank tomorrow and the slipneeds to be returned tothe office.
2nd (Fri)
Year 3-6 Ski Trip
5th (Wed)
Myross Bush WOW nightat Civic Theatre
26th (Fri)
FOS CHALK TOYCATALOGUE orders dueat office with payment
12th-16th
Book Fair Week - moreinfo later
7th (Fri)
End of Term 3
16th (Friday night)
School disco - more infolater
24th (Mon)
Labour Day
22nd (Thurs)
Lifestyle Portraits - moreinfo later
25th (Tues)
Term 4 begins
November December
7th (Mon) Pet Day 16th (Fri) End of Term 4
(to be confirmed)
22nd-25th (Tues - Fri)
Year 6 Camp
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