Rosemary Vivien Principal • Edendale Primary School, 419 Sandringham Road, Sandringham, Auckland 1025

Telephone: 09 846 6340 • Facsimile: 09 846 3997 • Email: office@edendale.school.nz • Website: http://www.edendale.school.nz/

Edendale News

THE EDENDALE EXPERIENCE: THINKING, LEARNING, CREATING

Principal’s Message

Kia ora, Kia orana, Namaste, Talofa lava, Malo e lelei,

Ni hao ma, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Asalam alikum!

End of Year Procedures

We are in our final two weeks of the 2011 school year.

A reminder that we need you to notify the office,

as soon as possible, please, in writing if:

Your family is moving out of the area and your chil-

dren are changing schools

You have pre-schoolers who will be coming to Eden-

dale in 2012 but are not yet enrolled

You are going on extended holidays and will not be

starting school on the first day (Please forward writ-

ten requests for leave to the Principal stating your

return date to Edendale. Please be aware that if you

are going overseas for an extended period i.e. dur-

ing term time as well as holiday period, you will

need to bring a current rates, power or phone bill

into the school office on the first day that your child

returns to school to confirm that you still reside

within our school zone)

You have moved house and not yet given our office

your new contact details

Your home phone/mobile number has changed re-

cently.

Thank you for your continued support with this.

Community Hui and Fono

We met with a very small number of our Maori and

Pasifika families last night to discuss learning at Eden-

dale and talk about fundraising ideas and community

events. Thank you to those families who did attend

and also to team leaders for coming along to talk with

our families. We had very worthwhile discussions with

both groups; we realise that it’s a busy time of the year

for everyone but were very disappointed with atten-

dance. There will be feedback about the ideas we dis-

cussed in the final newsletter for the year after we’ve

talked about them at our Board planning meeting next

week (please note that the planning meeting is not a

public meeting and will be held earlier in the evening

than usual).

Morning tea for parents new to Edendale

We were really pleased to have a great turn-out for our

New Parents Morning Tea for Term Four. Some good

discussion took place with both senior staff and PTA

members Sarah and Aamel who also came along to

welcome the group.

Tolu Fa Choir

Congratulations to our Tolu Fa Choir who performed so

brilliantly in the Kids for Kids Christmas Show at the

Bruce Mason Centre on Wednesday 16 November. You

looked great and sounded incredible - well done to you

all! A big thank you to our choir teacher Lesley Boswell!

Eden/Albert Schools Cultural Festival 2011

Our Senior Kapa Haka group performed at this Cultural

Festival last Saturday and they did an outstanding job.

It was wonderful to have an Edendale presence this

year and very exciting for those involved. A big thank

you to Desma Lai and Emma Henry for training our

group!

We were a little disappointed that the festival seems to

have ‘lost’ the community festive atmosphere that it

had when it was held in schools and that audience

groups did not stay (in many cases) to watch groups

other than their own perform. We are hoping to re-

incorporate a cultural performance into a mini- school

festival at Edendale and have a greater proportion of

our community attend and enjoy the performances.

We’ll be asking for some assistance from parents within

our community early next year to train dance groups.

More about this later.

Final assemblies for the year

1. Monday 12 December 9:30am

Prize-giving Assembly

All welcome to attend

2. Year 6 Leavers Assembly

Tuesday 13 December 11:30am

All Year 6 families welcome to attend

Enjoy the last two weeks of this school year!

Rosemary Vivien, Principal

30 November 2011

Next issue: 14 December 2011

Rosemary Vivien Principal • Edendale Primary School, 419 Sandringham Road, Sandringham, Auckland 1025

Telephone: 09 846 6340 • Facsimile: 09 846 3997 • Email: office@edendale.school.nz • Website: http://www.edendale.school.nz/

School Information

Taonga Winners

Colby - Room 7

Rehma - Room 21

Edendale Playground

Good Behaviour Tickets

Name Awarded for:

Colby - R7 Keeping our grounds clean

Mesfen - R24 Keeping our grounds clean (17-Nov)

Billie - R8 Keeping our grounds clean

Jackson - R24 Keeping our grounds clean

Leila - R20 Keeping our grounds clean

Stella - R22 Keeping our grounds clean

Seini - R10 Keeping our grounds clean

Damian - R3 Keeping our grounds clean

Finn - R5 Keeping our grounds clean and be-

ing thoughtful

Jack - R4 Being helpful

Rehma - R21 Keeping our grounds clean

Nofi - R18 Keeping our grounds clean

Arius - R10 Keeping our grounds clean

Samantha - R23 Playing nicely with others

Eashan - R12 Playing nicely with others

Taulanga - R8 Great playground behaviour

Olivia - R5 Playing nicely with others

Toakase - R4 Playing nicely with others

Zulaika - R2 Playing nicely with others

Mesfen - R24 Keeping our grounds clean (18-Nov)

S P O R T S N E W S

Eden/Albert Athletics

We sent a team of 20 students to represent Edendale at the Eden/

Albert Athletics at Margaret Griffin Park on Monday 21 November.

Results are as follows:

8-year-old boys: High Jump - 3rd Tapenga N (R1), Over-arm

Throw - 3rd Ezra P (R1)

9-year-old girls: Long Jump - 1st Lydia F (R25)

10-year-old boys: Discus - 1st David K (R24), Shotput - 1st

David K (R24)

11-year-old girls: High Jump - 3rd Abigail R (R25), Long

Jump - 2nd Chantel Y (R26), Shot put - 2nd Abigail R (R25),

Discus - 1st Abigail R (R25), 100m - 1st Chantel Y (R26), 200m

- 2nd Chantel Y (R26)

Thank you to Kate Swan, Brian Coleman and Stephen Ramdhanie

for taking our team to this event and to all the parents who came

along to support them.

Soccer Coaching

Soccer coaching is on Tuesdays 3:15-4:15pm on the bottom field with Coach Taka. The cost is $8 - please send this to Zane Wilson Room 24 on Tuesday morning. Please make sure children are col-lected by 4:20pm.

Athletics Day

Pukeko team will have their Athletics Day on Thursday 8 Decem-ber. Feel free to come along and watch your child participate in the track and field events from 9:15am to 1:00pm. Don’t forget

hats, sunscreen and water bottles.

Measles

There has been one confirmed

case of measles at Edendale.

Measles is a highly infectious disease and is more serious than many people realise. Symptoms include fever, cough, red eyes and a runny nose, and then a rash which develops around 3 days after the other symptoms start.

Any student with measles must stay away from school for 5-7 days from the appearance of the rash until recovery.

If you think you or someone in your family might have measles, please phone your doctor or call Healthline 0800 611 116 for advice.

For more information and advice, visit the Ministry of Health website at www.moh.govt.nz/measles, the Immunisation Advisory Centre (IMAC) website at www.immune.org.nz or phone IMAC on 0800 IM-MUNE (0800 466 863).

Swimming 2012

Please complete your registration form for Swimsation and return it to your child’s teacher by Thursday 15 December 2011. Year 1 students need to enclose full payment of $40.

Edendale School

Christmas Holiday Programme

Monday 9 January—Friday 27 January

9:00am to 3:00pm daily

Crafts, workshops and trips

available for children aged 5-12 years

OSCAR approved

Pre-care and Post-care available

Enrolment forms available from the office

For all enquiries, please phone Karen on

09 846 6340 or 021 124 7571

Rosemary Vivien Principal • Edendale Primary School, 419 Sandringham Road, Sandringham, Auckland 1025

Telephone: 09 846 6340 • Facsimile: 09 846 3997 • Email: office@edendale.school.nz • Website: http://www.edendale.school.nz/

2011 School Calendar

Term 4: Tuesday 25 October to

Thursday 15 December 2:00pm

PLEASE NOTE: On the last day of term, school will finish at 2:00pm and there

will be no Post School.

School Information Manaaki Artists

MESSAGE FROM THE OFFICE

Our email database has recently been updated. If you

are not currently receiving school and team newsletters

electronically and you would like to do so, please send

an email to office@edendale.school.nz with your child’s

name and room number.

Lost Property Please ensure that you check for

any items of lost clothing in the

cupboard located by the office.

Any clothing left unclaimed after

3pm Thursday 15 December

will be disposed of.

Yummy Apple Stickers

Please continue to collect Yummy stickers and bar-codes from plastic Yummy bags. We will collect them from you again in 2012. Let's see if we can collect even more next year!

E D E N D A L E S T U D E N T C O D E

I am an Edendale student. Therefore, I show respect to everyone; I am kind to others; I behave in a sen-

sible way. I take care of my school, my belongings and the environment. I am honest and reliable; I am

Needed in the Art Room: clean tin cans, containers, lids and National Geographic or Home and Garden

style magazines. There is so much art going on, we are running out! Thank you from Kusam

Manaaki Team have been mak-

ing decorations to brighten up

Starship Children’s Hospital and

Radio Lollipop.

Here are some stained glass

creations from Room 1 and some

pressed flowers from Room 3.

NATIONAL JANDAL DAY

for SURF LIFESAVING NZ

Wear jandals and bring a gold coin donation

* * * W A N T E D * * *

We are still looking for an old bath tub (not plastic)

for our worm farm. If you know of anyone renovating

who will soon need to be rid of a

bath tub, we would be delighted

to take it off their hands.

Clean plastic lids from food containers (margarine,

yoghurt, ice-cream tubs) needed for the school holi-

day programme. These can be dropped in at the

school office.

Rosemary Vivien Principal • Edendale Primary School, 419 Sandringham Road, Sandringham, Auckland 1025

Telephone: 09 846 6340 • Facsimile: 09 846 3997 • Email: office@edendale.school.nz • Website: http://www.edendale.school.nz/

See our website for info on upcoming events, BOT news and more! www.edendale.school.nz

Board of Trustees

Our 6th December meeting is a planning meeting

for Board members only

Edendale PTA Next meeting will be held in the Meeting Room

Thursday 16th February at 7:00pm

All welcome to attend

School Disco: On Friday 2 December 6:00-8:30pm. The

theme is Crazy Hair and Hats. Children must bring a

permission slip on the night with $2 for admission. Also bring money for sausages, drinks, ice-blocks, glow prod-

ucts and face painting.

Toyco—Wagener Place, St Lukes: This store offers a

discount to Edendale families and very kindly donates a

percentage of sales back to our school. When making

purchases, quote our account number (90002) or show a

copy of our newsletter. Thank you Toyco!! It’s great to

have this support from a store that has such a wide range

of toys, puzzles and games.

Sausage Sizzle: A big thank you to Hel-

lers for donating the sausages for our Elec-

tion Day Sausage Sizzle. We really appreci-

ate your support! And thank you to

Hamish and Karen of Hamish Stewart Ca-

tering, all the other parents who also donated baking and

the parents

who came

along to

help out on

the day -

we couldn’t

have done

it without

you! We

raised a

whopping

$800!

PTA Newsletter: Please see attached for our final news-

letter of the year.

Tom Cooper - Chairperson

PTA News

A Christmas service for the whole community at Edendale Primary School Hall.

Carol service 3-4 pm. Fun & food before and after!

In aid of Ronald McDonald House Auckland...

A live performance of the Christmas

Pantomime ‘A Christmas Tale’.

Saturday 3 December, Logan Campbell

Centre, ASB Showgrounds, Greenlane.

Tickets available through the Southern

Stars ticket office 09 361 4599 or

www.southernstars.org.nz.

Southern Stars Charitable Trust has been helping to

support the work done by various worthwhile children’s

charities through our K.I.S.S. (Kids In Show Seats)

programme in the way of organising pantomimes.

THE BRUCE MASON CENTRE &

PHINEAS PHROG PRODUCTIONS presents

The Night Before Christmas

Shows 10am & 12pm daily

Monday 19 - Friday 23 December 2011

Tickets $16 per person (service fees will apply)

This December school holidays join in on the Festive

Fun with The Night Before Christmas, this is a new take

on a Classic Christmas Tale. Join a cast of bright, zany

Christmas characters and some special guests who

make a magical cast to bring you a fantastic Christmas

story full of laughter, fun and festive joy.

Book now: Ticketmaster 09 970 9700 or

www.ticketmaster.co.nz

Bruce Mason Centre, cnr Hurstmere Road and The

Promenade, Takapuna Beach, Phone 09 488 2940

ALLSTAR BAND PROGRAMME

Music lessons during school hours

Group/private lessons available. We

offer tuition in flute, clarinet, trum-

pet, saxophone, trombone, snare drum, recorder. Enrol

now for 2012. Enrol and pay your fees by 5pm 16 De-

cember and go into the draw to win one of four $30 Smig-

gle vouchers. Find out more about the Allstar Programme

at www.allstarbp.co.nz. Enrol at www.allstarbp.co.nz/

register/797/Francine-Werry. Contact your Allstar teacher

Francine Werry on 021 827 259. Hear more at the com-

bined groups Allstar Concert, Gladstone Primary School

Hall, 8 Seaview Terrace, Mt Albert, Saturday 10 December

12:00-1:30pm (admission $10 adult, $5 concession/child).