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 rapidly approaching the end of the 2011 school

year. Please notify the school office as soon as

possible, 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 (request leave from

the Principal stating your return date to Edendale)

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 support with this.

APPA Choir

Congratulations to our APPA Choir who performed so

brilliantly at the Town Hall last Wednesday night. You

looked great and sounded incredible - well done to you

all! A big thank you to Lesley Boswell (choir teacher)

for her work in training our choir and taking them to all

the rehearsals. Thank you also to Catherine Oxenham

for her continued support of and work with the choir.

New Parents Morning Tea

Families new to the school in Terms Three or Four are

welcome to attend a morning tea in the staffroom on

Friday 25 November at 10:15am. Senior staff and PTA

members will be present to talk with you and to answer

any questions you may have.

Election Day

Please note that Edendale school hall will be used as a

polling place for the 2011 General Election.

Auckland Primary Principal’s Meeting

Jenny, Jackie and I attended a breakfast meeting this

morning at which Minister Anne Tolley and Labour

spokesperson Sue Maroney spoke about their plans for

education over the next three years. It was an

‘interesting’ meeting. We learned that the current gov-

ernment is putting millions of dollars into a new nation-

wide educational intranet system. Apparently there has

been no consultation/discussion with schools about the

use of this network.

We were also reminded about the number of schools

with leaky building issues. Interestingly, our Board has

not yet been repaid for approximately $190,000 of re-

pairs undertaken at the school in 2009. We have ap-

proached the Minister for Ministerial Review about this,

and followed up our written application with emails but

have had no reply at all. We intend to progress this

issue shortly, watch this space.

We also learned that Labour will make parts of National

Standards optional for schools and keep other parts

compulsory.

It will be an interesting General Election this year.

Eden/Albert Schools Cultural Festival 2011

Our Senior Kapa Haka group are readying themselves

for their performance of the year. The Cultural Festival

is on Saturday 26 November and our Senior Kapa

Haka will perform on the outside stage at approxi-

mately 1:00pm. There will be performances from local

schools throughout the day, food stalls and various fun

activities. It would be wonderful to have a strong Eden-

dale presence there on the day. It promises to be a

great day for the whole community and very exciting

for all involved. We look forward to seeing you there.

Rosemary Vivien, Principal

16 November 2011

Next issue: 30 November 2011

Community Hui/Fono Evenings

We look forward to meeting all our Maori and Pasifika

families at our end of year meetings in the staffroom;

they are coming up on:

Tuesday 29 November

5:30-6:30pm - Community Hui

6:45-7:45pm - Community Fono

Class teachers will be contacting families shortly

about coming along to meet with us. Please phone

the school office if you have any enquiries.

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

MESSAGE FROM THE OFFICE

Our email database has recently been up-

dated. 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.

Taonga Winners

Zanique - Room 6

Katie - Room 19

Edendale Playground

Good Behaviour Tickets

Name Awarded for:

Michaela - R9 Being really brave

David - R2 Playing nicely with others

Haoxin - R4 Playing nicely with others

Nivetha - R29 Being thoughtful

BJ - R28 Playing nicely with others

Joey - R8 Playing nicely with others

William - R18 Keeping our grounds clean

Yasmine - R15 Being thoughtful

Mohamed - R5 Keeping our grounds clean

Zanique - R6 Playing nicely with others

Katie - R19 Helping others, Being thoughtful

Leo - R20 Playing nicely with others

Aaliyah - R30 Playing nicely with others

Matthew - R27 Playing nicely with others

Isaac - R4 Playing nicely with others

Manu - R10 Keeping our grounds clean

Tomas - R16 Helping others, Being thoughtful

Ella - R11 Keeping our grounds clean

Taylor - R11 Keeping our grounds clean

Lae - R22 Keeping our grounds clean

Yummy Apple Stickers

Congratulations everyone, $535 worth of sports equipment was earned from collecting Yummy apple stickers this year. Well done and keep up the good work for 2012.

S P O R T S N E W S

Eden/Albert Cross Country

We sent a team of 9 students to represent Edendale at the Eden/

Albert Cross Country at Fowlds Park on Thursday 3 November.

Results are as follows:

9-year-old boys: 11th Aiden B (R24), 20th Campbell M (R24)

9-year-old girls: 9th Lauryn F (R26), 10th Eva W (R25), 14th

Sabine P (R28)

10-year-old boys: 19th Max E (R24), 25th Michael W (R28)

10-year-old girls: 8th Abigail R (R25), 25th Chantel Y (R26)

Thank you to Zane Wilson for organising and to all the parents who came along to support our team.

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.

Upcoming Events

Eden/Albert Athletics is being held on Monday 21st November at Margaret Griffin Park. Parents will be notified should their child be selected to represent Edendale.

Athletics Day

Kabila and Koru teams will have their Athletics Day on Tuesday 22 November. Feel free to come along and watch your child par-ticipate in the track and field events from 9:15am to 1:00pm. Don’t forget hats, sunscreen and water bottles. If the weather poses a problem, the rain day will be Thursday 24 November.

LIBRARY NOTICE

All books are due back to the library by Friday 18 November.

Piano Concert

Families, staff and students were entertained by Edendale’s bud-

ding young pianists at our Inaugural Piano Concert on Monday. It

was impressive to see the results of hours of piano lessons and

practice. Well done to the students involved, a show to really be

proud of, and thank you to Fiona Bygrave, the piano teacher.

Swimming 2012

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

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.

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

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 Koru Artists and Authors

Room 5

The Koru team are learning about kites

in technology this term. The children

have been making some paper kites

and learning to fly them. Shortly they

will design, make and test a kite of

their own. Here are Isla’s instructions

for flying a kite.

1. Put your back to the wind.

2. Hold one hand on the bottom corner

of the kite.

3. Hold the winder in the other hand.

4. Let the kite launch and unravel the

string.

5. Once the kite is in the air you can

run or just stand with your back to

the wind.

6. When your kite starts to drop, yank

the kite and run a little bit.

7. When the wind dies down or you

have to go, reel in the line and pack

it away.

Room 6

We have been working on storyboards after watching Mary Poppins.

This storyboard is from Nicholas and Danielle.

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

Room 7 has

been writing instructions

about flying kites.

We had fun practising our kite flying skills to help us get the

right steps to write about.

IT'S COOL TO WALK TO SCHOOL

Come and join Edendale's very own walking school bus, the Edendale Energetic Express. It's a practical, fun way to encourage your children to exercise regularly and to learn how to be road-safe. On the Edendale Energetic Express, your kids can walk to school every day. Parents and/or caregivers are rostered to walk 1-2 days each week. The route takes in Calgary and Arabi Streets, turning down Mars Avenue into Sandringham Road, arriving at school by 8:40am. If you are inter-

ested in finding out more, or if this route doesn't suit you but you are keen to explore whether a

walking school bus might work in your area, please call Carolyn for details on 09 620 2911.

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.

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 17th November at 7:00pm

All welcome to attend

Please help: We are holding an Election Day sau-sage sizzle at school on Saturday 26 November

10am-2pm and we would really appreciate some help. If you are able to spare an hour or two, please email aamelrahmati@hotmail.com. Thanks.

AGM: We will have our AGM at the next PTA meeting

this Thursday night, 7:00pm in the meeting room. It would be great to see some new faces and hear some new ideas. You might even want to stand for Chair, Sec-retary or Treasurer! Come along and meet the team and help us decide what to put on the cards for next year.

Phone tree: Many hands make light work. Helping the PTA is a great way to contribute to our school commu-nity and the more helpers we have (to assist with things

like sausage sizzles and various events), the more we can achieve. Even if you are unable to come to meet-

ings, we’d love to have you on our phone tree. If you are interested, please send your name, number and email address to aamelrahmati@hotmail.com.

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.

Tom Cooper - Chairperson

PTA News

A big thanks

to all Eden-

dale doodlers!

We had over

2500 schools enter doodles in this

year’s competition and we were

thrilled with the incredible doodles

that were entered. We want to pass

on a huge congratulations to all who

entered this year’s competition for

showing their passion, talent and

wonderful ideas. Although not eve-

ryone can be chosen as a finalist,

we can honestly say we are so awed

by the wonderful talent and effort

gone into every doodle we received.

Keep on doodlin’ and don’t forget to

vote for your favourite winners at

www.google.co.nz/doodle4google.

Measles Outbreaks So far this year, NZ has had 387 measles cases, 307 have been from the Auckland region and most have occurred since the start of the current outbreak on 30-May (278 cases).

Most cases have occurred in unimmunised people, and immunisation remains the best way to prevent infection and spread within the community. Measles affects both children and adults, and is highly contagious. It 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. Complica-tions can include middle ear infections, pneumonia, and, more rarely, encephalitis or brain inflammation. So far this year more than 70 people with measles have needed hos-pital treatment (around 1 in 5 cases this year).

The best prevention is the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, free for all NZ children and for adults born after 01-Jan-69 who have not been fully immunised (if un-sure, check with your family doctor). Prior to 1969, NZ did not have a national measles immunisation programme and as measles is so infectious, it is very likely that most peo-ple born before 1969 were exposed to the virus and developed immunity. People need to make sure their family’s immunisations are up-to-date.

Any student with measles must stay away from school for 5-7 days from the appearance of the rash and until recovery. Those unimmunised or with no immunity to measles, who have been in close contact with a measles case during the infectious stages, should stay away from school for 14 days from their last contact. This requirement is under the Health (Infectious and Notifiable Diseases) Regulations 1966 (Regulation 14). These exclusions also apply to students taking part in interschool sporting and other events.

Being fully immunised means having the appropriate number of immunisations (1 or 2) depending on age. Adults and children aged 4+ should have received two MMR doses.

For more information and advice: visit the Ministry of Health website www.moh.govt.nz/measles, visit the Immunisation Advisory Centre website www.immune.org.nz or phone them on 0800 IMMUNE (0800 466 863). If you think you or someone in your family might have measles, please phone your doctor or call Healthline 0800 611 116 for advice.