Issue 1107 18th June 2015 Issue 1199

Dear Readers of TAN Welcome back to Term Four! As we head into the spring/summer term it is great to see people wearing sunhats and keeping hydrated. It is very important, especially for us seniors, to keep up the study habits and push ourselves to be the best we can be, as externals are less than three weeks away. Work hard, and see you next week!

Taane Whetu, Head Boy

19th October 2017

Book Week

20th October ~ 1st November Dress up as your favourite Book Character,

Friday 27th October

Story Time in the Library

Wednesday 25th October, 6-7pm

(Come in your special pyjamas)

Milo will be served in the Staff Room

Te Whare Mahana

Twizel Cultural Centre AGM

18th November 2017, at 1.00pm

Ohau Road, Twizel Contact: Nicola 027 2943045

Shirley 027 4245559

Nau Mai, Haere Mai!

Road Safety Petition I have started a petition on change.org

about the dangerous T intersection at the

Mount Cook turn-off. I am asking that the

current Give Way status is changed to a

Compulsory Stop, and that drivers coming

off the Aoraki Mount Cook road are alerted

of the approaching intersection with a

flashing sign.

The petition has been shared on

Twizel Facebook pages but can also be

accessed by searching

change.org dangerous tourist road

Almost 400 people have signed in less than

48 hours, which indicates this is an issue

many are feeling strongly about.

Please consider signing and encouraging

others to do so.

Sandy Nelson

NCEA Exams are on at Twizel Area School

from 9th—27th of November. The area

around the Exam Room (MPR) will be

cordoned off and students, parents and

visitors are respectfully asked to show

consideration to our candidates by avoiding

the area where possible, and by keeping

traffic and noise to a minimum over the

entire exam period.

Thank You

Kia Ora and Welcome to TAN Welcome back to school for the spring term: the term that goes like a rocket. It is already warming up outside so it is timely to remind people about sun protection. Sun hats in particular need to be worn outside and these are available online from NZ Uniforms. Go to school /Headwear/ Safari Wide Brim (Navy)

A special welcome goes out to new students Amy Gao (Y1), Jacob Fox-Smith (Y2), James Honeybone (Y4), Jake Fitzsi-mons (Y5). We know you will be being made welcome, and making new friends!

On Tuesday evening we had a Course Confirmation evening and a good proportion of parents, caregivers and students turned up to hear what was on offer next year, and discuss choices with teachers. The students write down their pre-ferred options and then we write next year’s timetable to opti-mise the choices. Some students will still be discussing these with parents, and we ask you to bring your selections in tomor-row, if possible. It looks as if we will have forty Year 11-13 students next year- a new record!

We ask that anyone with children at any year level who are thinking of leaving the area (or arriving!) please let us know via the Office - it would help make our planning more accurate. Thank you.

There will be syndicate newsletters going home shortly, with particular news for your area, but I would like to remind sen-iors that it is three weeks until exams and, as I mentioned at Monday assembly, the best antidote to stress is preparation!

Hard Labour Weekend: It seems as if half the school will be tied up with this as partici-pants, organisers, or marshals, so we wish all those people a fine and ‘just the right level of excitement’ weekend. The mon-ey raised from this goes a long way to help our children’s sporting activities, including Snow Club, rowing and netball. School will of course be closed on Monday, to commemorate the establishment of the forty hour working week.

Coming up next week is Book Week with some bed time story telling in the Library on Wednesday evening and a book char-acter Dress Up Day on the Friday. (See details elsewhere in TAN). The first of the Junior School camps get underway next Wednesday, with Room 4 heading to Tekapo. Other dates are listed below and if you need to check later they (and any updates) are on the school website calendar at twizel.wordpress.com/calendar/ Upcoming Dates:

Labour Day Holiday 23 October

R4 Camp (L Tekapo) 25 –27 October

R5 Camp (L. Middleton) 1 – 3 November

R8 (Day Trip Duntroon) 8 November

NCEA Exams 9 - 27 November

Upper Waitaki Athletics 9 November

UWA Postponement Day 10 November

R13 Camp (L. Ruataniwha) 16 – 17 November

Y6 Day Out (Oamaru) 21 November

R9 Day Trip (Aoraki/Mt Cook) 22 November

R7 Day Trip (Musterer’s Hut) 30 November

Music Recital 1 December

School Picnic 7 December

Final Assembly 8 December

OFFICIAL SECTION

Ka kite ano William Feasey, Principal

Do YOU have a Growth Mindset??

We do in Room 8! Here's how to develop a growth

mindset:

Growth mindset means that you keep trying, and fixed mindset means that you don't keep trying and

you give up.

Our dendrites grow bigger when you discover some-thing new, and when you

think. When you make a mis-take your brain grows.

It's okay to make a mistake because you learn from it. If

you don't make mistakes you won't learn.

You have to keep trying. If it's too hard, try to do it a different way!

GYM CLUB STARTS NEXT WEEK! Tuesdays 3.30 — 4.15pm for 5-7 year olds

4.15 — 5.00pm for 8 years+

$20 per term, $30 Family Concession

GLOW IN THE DARK DISCO Friday 3rd November, see next week’s TAN for details!

Poetry By

Room 5

Edeweiss Pretty, White

Opening, Flowering Oh, so very Beautiful

Flower Tuulianna Laukkanen

HORSES Loving, furry

Trotting, cantering, jumping

Galloping through the breeze Equine

Soffee Rocha

PIZZA Crunchy yummy Melting cooking

steaming So good for me

Food! Gawain Smit

FISH Scaly, Slimy

jumping, swimming Eating

Tasty when you cook them

Salmon Charlie Frank

SLUGS Slow Slimey

Eating smelling destroying

Snail without a shell Creatures

Jack Conlan