Edendale newsletter

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

Telephone: 09 846 6340 • Facsimile: 09 846 3997 • Email: [email protected] • Website: http://www.edendale.school.nz/

Edendale News

THE EDENDALE EXPERIENCE: THINKING, LEARNING, CREATING

Message from the Deputy Principals

Kia ora, Kia orana, Namaste, Talofa lava, Malo e lelei, Ni hao ma, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Asalam alikum!

Welcome

A warm welcome to all new families who have started

at Edendale this term! We are delighted that you have

joined our school family and look forward to getting to

know you all.

ICAS 2012 English Competition

Below are the Edendale statistics for the competition.

Sixty-two students participated in this competition

and were awarded 1 High Distinction, 9 Distinction,

12 Credit and 40 Participation certificates.

Our congratulations go to all entrants and special

congratulations to those who were awarded High

Distinction, Distinction and Credit Certificates.

High Distinction, Distinction and Credit winners:

High Distinction: Year Six: Katie Room 28

Distinction: Year Four: Rosemary Room 3, Imogen

and Ruby Room 4 Year Five: Katie and Emilie Room

23, Alexander and Joshua Room 24 Year Six:

Maddison Room 26 and Alisha Room 27

Credit: Year Four: Keeru Room 2, Mackenzie Room

4 Year Five: Levi, Leo and Daniel Room 24, David

Room 27 Year Six: Harshini, Bhavya, Zoe and Eva

Room 25, Charlotte Room 26, Yi Chao Room 27,

Sabine Room 28

Skill areas

* Vocabulary * Syntax * Textual Devices

* Literary * Factual

Where we did well

Year 5 average scores: 7.0 (equal to NZ ) in Literary;

7.6 (equal to NZ ) in Factual and 3.4 (equal to NZ) in

Vocabulary.

ICAS 2012 Mathematics Competition

Below are the Edendale statistics for the competition.

Fifty-eight students participated in the Mathematics

Competition and were awarded 3 High Distinction, 5

Distinction, 11 Credit and 39 Participation certificates.

Congratulations to all entrants and special

congratulations to our High Distinction, Distinction

and Credit certificate winners.

High Distinction, Distinction and Credit winners:

High Distinction: Year Five: Alexander Room 24

Year Six: Bryan Room 24, Bhavya Room 25

Distinction: Year Four: Mekal Room 3, Year Five:

Joshua Room 24, David Room 27, Sean Room 28

Year Six: Maddison Room 26

Credit: Year Four: Jack and Ryan Room 2,

Sankeertana Room 3, Willliam Room 4 Year Five:

Zi Room 23, Hamzah Room 27 Year Six: Hemant

and Zoe Room 25, Alisha and Yi Chao Room 27 ,

Sabine Room 28

Skill areas

* Number and Arithmetic * Algebra & Patterns

* Space & Geometry * Chance & Data

* Measures & Units

Where we did well

Year 5 average scores: 3.6 (0.1 higher than NZ) in

Algebra and Patterns; 5.9 (0.4 higher than NZ) in

Space and Geometry

Year 6 average scores: 2.8 (equal to NZ) in Algebra

and Patterns

Jackie Procter and Jenny Tong, Deputy Principals

24 October 2012

Next issue: 7 November 2012

Participants School New Zealand

Year Four 18 3401

Average Score 23 24.4

Year Five 21 4382

Average Score 22.5 22.8

Year Six 23 5171


Participants School New Zealand

Year Four 18 4222


Year Five 19 5187


Year Six 21 6214




School Information and Programmes • Notices

Links Edendale’s Website Garden to Table Blog Garden of Eden Blog News Blog

Edendale Playground

Good Behaviour Tickets

Taonga Winners: Brelina—Rm10, Rodney—Rm19

These children were seen...

Keeping our grounds clean: Ahmed—Rm28, Ella—Rm8, Cammie—Rm29

Playing nicely with others: Mohammed—Rm3, Nofi—Rm12, Cyrus—Rm15, John—Rm5

Being thoughtful: Mackenzie—Rm4, Connor—Rm21

Helping others: Mackenzie—Rm4

Other great behaviour: Griffin—Rm26

Sharing with others: Avatar—Rm18

Please Note - Term 4 Calendar

28 Oct Y4-6 Athletics Day

7 Nov Photolife—Portrait and Sibling Photos

and Room 29 class photo

14 Nov APPA Choir Performance (7.30pm)

14 Nov Junior Parent information meeting

Literacy/Maths 8.30—9.30am

23 Nov Term Four New Parents morning tea

School Playground After Hours A reminder that our adventure playgrounds will close at 3:30pm daily. Please note that students playing on school equipment after hours must be directly

supervised by parents/caregivers.

SPORTS NEWS

Soccer Coaching

Soccer coaching wi l l resume

from Wednesday 31st October,

3:15-4:15pm on the bottom field. Cost: $8 per

session. This should be paid to Mr Wilson in

Room 24. Children must be collected afterwards

by 4:20pm and must not play on the playground

unsupervised. Forms for registration are on the

table at reception.

Wanted

Clean, empty, plastic cream bottles for activities. These can be dropped off at the school office.

Edendale’s Beat It and Marimba groups

performing at The Cloud.

Saturday 27 October

The students in the Beat It and Marimba groups have been working hard all year to perform this Saturday at Onza’s annual Marimba Festival. This year the festival will be held at The Cloud on Queens Wharf, Quay Street. The Beat It group will be performing outside The Cloud

at 11.20am and the Marimba group will be performing inside The Cloud from 1-2pm. Entry to the Marimba group performance is by gold coin donation.

Come along and support our talented musicians.

For more news please refer to the attached PTA newsletter. ‘Bangers Day’ Sausage Sizzle A Guy Fawkes sausage sizzle will be held on Friday 2nd November. Once again we will be selling great tasting Halal sausages from Sheffco Halal Meats Ltd, in Stoddard Road. They will be $2.00 each. A notice and order form will come home with your child closer to the event. If you would like to help please email us at [email protected] Please return your orders on Wednesday 31st October to your teacher, this would assist the PTA immensely if we

could avoid any late orders on Friday. Tom Cooper & Aamel Rahmati

Co-Chairpersons

News from Edendale’s PTA

Reminder to Parents/Caregivers School car parks and driveways are not to be used for dropping off or picking up students.

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Artists and Authors • Notices

Edendale Student Code

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

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

actions. I have fun with my learning; I participate at school and try my very best!

Garden To Table

It’s now Term Four and so we’ve said goodbye to our Endeavour classes, who have finished their Garden to Table sessions for the year. We have enjoyed seeing their skills develop and their confidence grow over the past three terms and hopefully some have used their

new found cooking and gardening skills at home. This term Year Three and Four classes will have clas-ses with us. In the gardening classes we started off the

term making a compost lasagne (to feed the plants, not us!) and becoming competent with tools secateurs and hand trowels. In the kitchen we prepared and cooked spring vegetable frittatas filled with fresh harvest from

our garden. In these classes we also learned about kitchen safety and correct use of knives. You will see the new raised beds outside Room 22 have been planted. Year Four have some potatoes growing rapidly, hopefully for a pre Christmas harvest! We’ve recently had a couple of our volunteers finish up and so we are now very keen for new volunteers especially for Wednesdays and Thursdays. Contact us

if you’re interested, it’s a fun programme to be part of. Please contact [email protected], if you can assist. Jodie, Sarah and Kim

India for their art by Room 12

We got our ideas from geometric patterns and patterns from

nature. We used our knowledge of transformation, reflection and

rotation to design our patterns. We used pastel crayons and dye in

fluorescent colours.

Finn—Rm11 Krish—Rm11

Jared Zaima

Jordan

Mixed Media Japanese Artwork by Room 11

Mohamad Achorite

School Camp Year Five—Six



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

Board of Trustees

Next meeting will be held in the Meeting Room

Tuesday 30 October at 7:15pm

All welcome to attend

Edendale PTA

Next meeting will be held in the Meeting Room

Thursday 15 November at 7:00pm

All welcome to attend

Artists and Authors • Notices

Grace Church A big thank you from the

Edendale Walking School

bus team, for the very

thoughtful vouchers.

PHOTOGRAPHS

Portrait and siblings

and Room 29 (class photo)

Wednesday 7th November

Envelopes were distributed

25 October.

If you require a Sibling order

form envelope, please collect

one from the school office.

LIBRARY NOTICE

All library books are due

back to the library by

Monday 5th November.

Message from the ART ROOM

Needed clean tin cans, containers, lids newspapers and magazines.

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

Floating Boats

Yesterday Kabila team went

down to the swimming pool because it was a boat carnival and Room Twelve came first. My boat was

nearly there when the wind got trapped in my sail then it rushed to the finish line, I feel very happy. Next was Room Ten, Raaga’s boat sank to the bottom of the pool and Mrs Ward had to

get it out.

Siddhesh—Rm 10

The Boat Race

On Monday we went down to the pool

to test our boats everybody’s boat

floated on top of the water. Room Nine

was the last class to try their boats out

in the pool. After the boats were all

tested each teacher had to pick two

children from their class, we were

going to have a race. I pushed Jordan's

boat to the finish line. After that we

went back to our class room it was

great I liked the carnival we went home

after that. Rob—Rm 10

Boat Race

We were having a boat race in the Kabila team. The person in Room Ten that won the race was Rob. Once every person in the Kabila team had a turn, two people in the class got chosen in the Kabila race Lyla-Ann and Aimon had a tie. It was sad because Rob’s Ice 'breaker pushed them. I was cheering for Rob! But he didn't win.

I was hoping I would go in the final but I didn't. My boat was really fast though. Tasman—Rm10

Extracts of

The Gingerbread Man

Once upon a time, there lived a little

old woman and a man who wanted to

make a gingerbread man, they were very poor people, so they made a very large gingerbread man. Finally they put the gingerbread man in the oven. “It will be ready in one hour said the woman” but the man was too hungry to wait. He opened the door, out

jumped the gingerbread man, "Stop, stop” they cried, but the gingerbread man was too fast for them.

As they were running across the side walk they saw a tall boy pushing a girl

on a swing “Stop, stop” they cried, but the gingerbread man was too fast “Run, run as fast as you can! You cant catch me I’m the gingerbread man” he

said. The man, the woman, the boy and the girl ran past a cat and a dog. They licked their lips, so they started to follow but the gingerbread man said “Run, run as fast as you can! You cant catch me am the gingerbread man”.

The gingerbread man came to a river he didn't know how to cross it, he then

met a fox. The fox said “ Climb onto

my tail” said the fox. “Climb on to my back” he said “Climb on to my head” said the fox. “Climb on my nose!” said the fox. That was the last word he said and the last word ended up as eating the gingerbread man.

The End.

Poppy—Rm12

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