Issue 1107 18th June 2015 Issue 1193

Dear Readers of TAN Another week almost finished. Exams are coming up fast for seniors, so make sure you are studying! Snow Club this week went ahead on both days; on Monday we have Rooms 7 and 13 going to Tekapo for ice skating and snow tubing; Tuesday Room 4 go skiing, and on Wednesday Room 9 is going to Roundhill for a ski day. A busy time! We had our Science Fair last week and today Mrs Arkless is away in Fairlie to help with the Senior Science Fair there. Enjoy the rest of the week, have a good weekend and work hard next week! 'Remember, fortune favours the bold!' Sky Lambe, Head Girl

TWIZEL AREA SCHOOL

Student Representative Election for

Board of Trustees Nominations are invited for the Election of one Student

Representative to the Twizel Area School Board of

Trustees.

All full time students from Years 9 – 13 are eligible to

be nominated and vote.

A nomination form and a copy of this notice will be

distributed to all eligible voters on the student roll.

Further nomination forms can be obtained from the

school office.

Nominations close at 12 noon on 12 September 2017

and should be accompanied by a candidate’s statement.

The voting roll is open for inspection at the school and

can be viewed during the hours the office is open.

There will also be a list of candidates’ names for

inspection, as they come to hand, on the Board of

Trustees notice board by the Office.

The Poll closes at noon on 22 September 2017 M MCDONALD

Returning Officer

M1 and M2 Parents - Puberty/Sexuality

Education Keep a look out for letters home regarding the above units starting within the next fortnight. If you do not receive the letter from your child, or wish to discuss this further, please contact Mrs O'Carroll or Mr Feasey at school.

BUS PUPILS : please confirm/update all current

information, including cellphone numbers, drop off & pick-up points etc, by emailing to np@twizel.school.nz - Thank you, Neil Potter

24th August 2017

~ NZQA FEES 2017 ~

Invoices for the annual NZQA fees of $76.70 have been issued. If you believe

you are entitled for financial assistance con-sideration, please contact the Office. If you have a Community Card please bring that

along so that it can be photocopied and the relevant forms completed. Financial assis-

tance forms must be completed and returned to school by

next Wednesday, 30th August.

Robotics and the ‘Need for Speed’ The Robotics option class finished their first task ‘the

need for speed’ this week. The objective was to get their group robot to five metres ahead of the competition.

Stability and acceleration being the difference in the end at five metres.

The sprint off was a bit noisy as the students do get a little excited and passers-by were well aware that some-thing exciting was happening. Thanks to Daniel T, the

robots are all now faster. He introduced gearing to increase the speed; so much so that we now need to

have a minder to catch the robots before they impact and self-destruct. Team 4 was the winning team and

comprised AJ, Rudolph, Tom and James. The next task is to win at 10metres, then we go cross

country!

Q ~ Why are pianos hard to open?

A ~ The keys are inside!

Kia Ora and Welcome to TAN On Friday 8

th September School closes for a Jumbo Day in

Dunedin. This is to facilitate all the teachers in our Southern Area Schools Community of Learning (COL) getting togeth-er and sharing good practice. This marks an important step for our COL, or Kahui Ako, as up until now it has been the work of managers such as Gary Pascoe of Roxburgh, (our across schools principal, with assistance from all our schools principals); Mrs Nelson, our across school teacher, and Miss Francis, our within school teacher. We have settled on im-proving writing as our first COL goal, and have contracted professional learning advisers in writing to work with our teachers. Mrs Nelson and the adviser will be travelling to other schools next week. Friday the 8

th will be the first time all of our teach-

ers meet face to face. This is important as we aim for teach-ers across the schools to collaborate in groups relevant to them, such as Year 1-2 or Science teachers to improve learn-ing for all the children in our classes. Teachers who have met and talked face to face are more likely to collaborate effectively on line later, and we expect the majority of our collaboration to happen online.

The Science Fair showed a range of interesting exhibits, from rotting milk to does PE improve your reflexes? Ms Arkless is in Fairlie today with some of the better exhibits, and is helping with the Mackenzie Schools Science Fair. We await the results with interest.

Maths: Carol Butel, our maths adviser, spent a couple of days at the start of the week working with teachers in class, and then with maths curriculum managers on rewriting the Twizel curriculum to reflect new knowledge.

We have four students sitting their Level 1 Ski Instructors qualification this week. Actually less sitting, more performing skiing drills or demonstrations of how to teach. This is one of the many ways STAR and Gateway funding is used to support our students to get advanced qualifications.

Basketball: The boys came within three points of competition leaders Firehunters on Tuesday night, despite a couple of them having tired legs from skiing all day. They will head into the finals this weekend with renewed energy. The girls were also beaten, but are in the playoffs this weekend for 5

th place.

Netball: The senior girls (the Volts) are in the Division 1, 5 final in Oamaru this weekend, playing at 11am. Good Luck! Rugby wrapped up with prizegiving last weekend, and I have-n’t heard much yet except that Sue Ozaki was the Colonial Motel best player; Quinn Pratt was Player of the Year for the Twizel Turbos, and Ben Rogers Player of the Year for the Twizel Torpedoes! Football season is also coming to a close. Skiing: The Aoraki Secondary Schools Ski and Snowboard Championships were postponed before we left Twizel on Sunday, with bad weather at Mt Dobson. The new date is set for this Sunday. The Ohau Snow Club hosted an Interfield race event for nearly sixty children on Sunday, with Jenna Evans and Holly Skinner getting first and second respectively in the U14 girls, and Jessie Evans third in the U10 girls. This weekend we are hosting a National Points Race up at Ohau, with the Giant Slalom on Saturday and the Slalom on Sunday. Next Week: The North Otago Cross Country postponed from last Monday is scheduled for this Monday, the 28

th August.

Rooms 7 and

13 are going ice-skating the same day. On Tuesday 29

th Rm 4 are going skiing at Ohau, and on

Wednesday Room 9 head to Roundhill. On Friday we have a

team of Junior skiers heading to the Roundhill Ski Race Day.

Please Note: School photos day is

now Friday 22nd September.

OFFICIAL SECTION

Ka kite ano William Feasey, Principal

Twizel Junior Netball Club Prizegiving

WHO? Players, Coaches, & their families WHEN? 4.00pm Wednesday 30th August WHERE? Mackenzie Country Hotel Conference Room BRING: All uniform items in net ball bag

Drinks and nibbles provided. For further information please contact

Megan Lynch on 021 124 5405

Mel, Hannah, and Neisha take a break

during the recent M3-Senior Class Ski trip

at Ohau Snow Fields.

Did you know….. A crocodile cannot stick it’s tongue out

It is physically impossible for pigs to

look up into the sky

Tigers have striped skin, not just

striped fur

In the course of an average lifetime,

while sleeping you might eat around 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders, or more

Wearing headphones for just one hour

could increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times

It is impossible for most people to lick

their own elbow (try it!)

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear

‘Dreamt’ is the only English word that

ends in the letters ‘mt’

A shrimp’s heart is in it’s head