NEWSLETTER 28 November 2016 Principal: Jennifer Horgan (M.Ed., B.A., Dip. Ed. Leadership) Email: etaieri@east-taieri.school.nz Web: www.easttaieri.school.nz

Phone: 489 6737

Dear Parents/Caregivers

ERO VISIT

We have been selected as one of 40 primary schools around the country to take part in an ERO National Evaluation project ‘Strategies That Make a Difference.’ Members of the Education Review Office will be in school this week. NEW SCHOOL VISION

Thank you to those who contributed to our Vision survey. As a staff we have collated feedback from students, parents and staff and have come up with two options, the drafts of which are included in this newsletter. During Week 9 these will be on display in the office for all stakeholders to vote on. Once votes are counted, the preferred option will go to a graphic designer for a stylised version to be created for publication.

COMMEMORATIVE TREE - FAMILIES OF STUDENTS LEAVING EAST TAIERI Families are able to buy leaves which will be engraved with their names and dates attending East Taieri. If you know of past families who may be interested in purchasing a leaf, please pass this information onto them. The cost of an engraved leaf will be $50.00. Please email Annette, etaieri@east-taieri.school.nz, if you wish to purchase a leaf.

OTAGO PRIMARY SCHOOL ATHLETICS SPORTS

We had some amazing results last Tuesday at the Otago Primary Schools Athletic Sports. A small team of 8 children participated with real determination and effort, showing the class of our East Taieri athletes. Our Under 10 Girls relay team won their heat, setting a NEW OTAGO RECORD. They then went on to gain a 2nd place in the final with a very hard fought race and some very

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tired legs being pushed to their limits. The team consisted of O’Hara Couch, Charlotte Va’afusuaga, Emma Timney and Georgia McCutcheon. Those lunchtime practices paid off girls - well done! Two of these girls then had to race their own sprint finals as well, so digging very deep to find some more energy they stepped up and took out more amazing results. O’Hara Couch was 3rd in the Girls Under 10 60m sprint and Georgia McCutcheon was 5th. Georgia had also taken out 3rd place in the Girls under 10 long jump earlier in the day and then had to find even more energy to run the 800m race. She managed herself extremely well and paced her race beautifully to come 5th place. A huge effort for these girls on such a long, hot day. Our other amazing athletes were Erika Reid, who was 4th place in the Girls under 11 Discus, Micah Simpson with a great discus throw, Rachel Waters with a super long jump and William Samuels who jumped his best in the Long Jump too. Well done to all our athletes, it was a shame our Year 6 children were at camp as I believe we could have had a lot of success with them too. BY : Jolene Casey

CROSS COUNTRY RESULTS

Pres-School

Year 0 Yr1 Boys Yr1 Girls Yr 2 Boys Yr 2 Girls Yr 3 Boys Yr 2 Girls

1st Elzanne Hamman

Charlie Clements

Jacob Glendining

Summer Te Kanawa

Hudson Shaw

Meg Earl Zac Cunningham

Sophie Thode

2nd Paige Clucas

Caleb Dobier

Ruan Hamman

Sophia Hannigan-Johnson

Tokoitu Taia & Rhys Lewis

Lily Carter Max Cross Jenny Petegem-Thach

3rd Luca Conley

Noah Bryson

Jesse-Alan Taylor

Kahlan Tamati

Connor MacDonald

Ruby Hayes Cooper Scammell

Ella Reid-Blair

SCHOOL ACCOUNTS

Term Four accounts went home with children last Wednesday. If you did not receive on please contact the office or email at etaieri@east-taieri.school.nz.

Focus Value ~

Kindness and Helpfulness

CONTINUING CARPARK ISSUES

Please use the ‘Drop Off Zone’ for dropping children off safely. One of our Board of Trustees members was very concerned last week after speaking to two parents who dropped children off in the middle of the carpark

A reminder also about the disabled parks- these parks are reserved for people who need them- not as a convenient spot to pick up children. Scootering and biking in the carpark: - Not permitted until after 3.30pm. Children are also reminded about wheeling bikes and scooters across the courts.

YEAR 6 CAMP

What a great week our Year 6 students had at Bannockburn last week. Thanks to Peter Thorn who organised the week’s activities and to the fabulous group of parents who were camp helpers.

Year 6 CAMP

The air was filled with excitement on last Monday morning as the year 6’s hopped on the bus. It was a long day travelling, but luckily we stopped at the lobster farm and Clyde Dam. The lobsters were in giant round containers and we got to stick our hand in the containers to pick them up. At the Clyde Dam we got to see the spill gates open, which was awesome. On Tuesday we got to go boating, kayaking, mountain biking, shooting with the air rifles and abseiling. These were all very exciting. Back at camp we set up our tents and finished the day by listening to Mel Fowler play guitar. He was great. On Wednesday we went to Arrowtown and Queenstown. In Arrowtown we explored the museum looking at the old gold rush history. We dressed up as 1890 children. My clothes were dry; My clothes were old; My clothes were formal. Miss Grey was our teacher (sort of) and she was very grumpy, like a lion that hadn’t eaten in days. After the museum we went gold panning in the cold Arrowtown river. Finally we went to the gondola and luge where we zoomed down the track. It was wet but extreme. On Thursday we split up into two groups The activities were the Stewart Town walk, paddle boarding and yachting. The paddle boarding was awesome and the yachting was a bit tricky at first but got easier as time went on.

We had a fabulous time at camp. A big thank you to all the mums and dads who came to camp with us.

By Mitchell Ballantyne and Jake Fowler

VALUES STARS

Meeya Stanley & Kayla Mcleman ~ for caring for the environment

Our Year 5 students ~ for stepping up to take on road patrol duties while the Year 6 students were at camp. There were several compliments from parents about how good the Year 5’s were at the job.

WANTED Please return any reading or library books to school asap. Time to check bedrooms, look under beds etc!! NETBALL SKIRTS There are still a few East Taieri School netball skirts to be returned. If you have a netball

skirt at home could you please return it to school this week.

ART AUCTION - 1st December – TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM THE SCHOOL OFFICE

TERM FOUR EVENTS

NOVEMBER

28-1 Dec Surf Life Saving sessions – whole school

DECEMBER

2 Year 6 Rafting Day

Pack the Bus – The Breeze Radio

Promotion

9 Talent Quest

13 Year 6 Leavers Evening

14 Reports go home

15 Carol Services – East Taieri Church 11am – Junior Syndicate 1.30pm – Middle Syndicate 7pm – Senior Syndicate

16 Last Day (half day) Finish at 12 noon

2017 31 January – start of Term 1

LOST SCOOTER

Black and Red scooter with Ninja

Turtle stickers on the underside.

Please check your scooters

2ND HAND UNIFORM SHOP HOURS

16 December 8.30AM – 12 NOON

Buy in and donation of uniforms

January 23, 25, 27 & 30

10 am – 12 noon

Any donations of school uniform

gratefully received. They can be left

in the school office at any time.

KIWIANA SCIENCE ROADSHOW

As we jumped off the bus at Silverstream school Mrs King tells us to line up. We walk quietly through the school stopping to ask two girls the right directions. We line up behind the other schools waiting to go

inside the building. When we get inside we can see Silverstream playing with all the science stuff. We sit down ready for a show on materials. We discover that some fabrics are flammable and some aren’t, some

absorb water better than others. After that show, we to go to play with the science things. There was a magnetic field one where a magnet

wouldn’t touch a magnet because they had the same poles, north and north or south and south. After we had a go we went and sat down for another show on sound we learnt humans can hear up to 20,000 hertz

(hz) dogs can hear 45,000 hertz (hz) and dolphins can hear 250,000 hertz. Hertz are the range of hearing levels. The hearing show was my

favorite. after the show had finished we got on the bus to head back to school.

By Ewan Beadell

WRITERS’ CORNER

Christmas is coming and crackers are cracking

Hopping, snapping and bobbing with more crackers

Racing reindeer making Santa’s day

I’m waiting for Santa and his sleigh

Santa coming down the chimney

Time to sit on Santa’s knee

Making wishes come true

A special present that is new

Snatching presents on Christmas Day, and then we can go and play

By Nadia Te Kanawa

Christmas is coming and crackers are cracking

Hopping, snapping and bobbing with more crackers

Racing reindeer making Santa’s day

I’m waiting for Santa and his sleigh

Santa coming down the chimney

Time to sit on Santa’s knee

Making wishes come true

A special present that is new

Snatching presents on Christmas Day, and then we can go and play

By Nadia Te Kanawa

Christmas magic while I sleep

Hoping kids do not peek

Reindeer leaping on our roof

Is Santa gone in just a poof?

Stunning lights upon the tree

Tinsel glistening is all I see

Maybe I could sneak a peek

Always waiting for this week

Santa may not come tonight, but if I’m good oh

he just might!

By: Chelsea King – Room 7

Christmas is coming with a cheer

Here comes Santa without fear

Reindeer soar through the sky

I wonder if Santa will sigh

Sometimes I can’t sleep

Tiptoeing down the stairs to have a peep

Mistletoe hangs from the ceiling

A happy sort of Christmas feeling

Santa sitting on his huge chair

By Kobe Watt – Room 7

Gabriel Reid finds the first piece of gold

Old pick axe ready to be used, waiting in the corner of the

store

Late at night, people staying til day, wanting their gold

Digging crazily, wanting gold

Rushing people into the mine. They love gold

Underneath a pile of dirt waits some gold to make them rich

Shimmering gold, sparkling in the sunlight

Hardworking men wanting to get rich

By: Abigail Anderson – Room 2

Wild Rapids As soon as I approached the monstrous wild rapids of the river my heart skipped a beat. The water rampaged and churned here and there. On the first rapid I felt like I was in a washing machine. Then… I fell out! Suddenly the guide screamed “Paddle harder!” We all paddled like our lives depended on it. On the second rapid all of us fell out of the boat and we swam as fast as we could back to the raft. We were back to the start. “Oh!” I shouted. While we were at the start I swung into the wavy water and when I got out I was wet from head to toe. By Hunter Freeman - Room 7 (Year 3)

Monolithic Rapids As the gushing water zoomed down the monolithic river I stomped into the raft into the raft and it wobbled like a jellyfish! Next I flew down past the sharp and pointy rocks and powered to the cantankerous rapid which was like an extreme waterfall. Then we got to the bottom and went underneath the churning water which gave me an enormous mouth full of fresh rain water. As we got out, someone jumped off. Then I whispered to myself “am I going to be the only one left?” Next we got saturated because the over powered water bombarded me in the face. After that the medium size raft bent in half and some got forced out because of the velocity of the intense water. By Kobe Watt - Room 7 (Year 3)

T/BALL

T/Ball – played Brighton and won 21-16. Player of the Day: Alex Lewis

Softball – played Halfway Bush – 16-16. Player of the Day: Conor Greeves

CONGRATULATIONS

Congratulations to Riley Harris who has been selected for the Otago Under 13 Softball

team. Well done Riley.

FLIPPABALL

We had a 10-3 loss in a very hard game yesterday. The whole team played their

hardest, and Hunter Compton was Player of the Day for an all-round good game.

Furious Water Rapids As I approached the churning and gushing river my heart skipped a beat. I charged onto the flexible raft. My friends were yelling and screaming with excitement. “Are you ready?!” boomed the voice of our tour guide. 3, 2, 1… the slippery snake was released and it tumbled down the gushing rapids. The sides were as smooth as a brand new car. We paddled down the rapids like I was on a rampage. I could hear an almighty rumble as the water gushed over the monolithic rocks. We zig zagged through the skinny rapid.The gushing water bombarded y flexible yet fragile boat. Suddenly we approached a massive waterfall. We tumbled down. The snake rocked and shook like there was a powerful earthquake. We hammered through the gap and we made it. We did a triple back flip of the side of the boat and into the water. By Hunter Compton - Room 7 (Year 3)

Matt Hanrahan is fundraising for Kings High School European football tour. Once again he is selling Fishers Christmas Hams. Half ham (min 4.7 kg) $50 and whole ham (min 9.5 kg) $85. Final orders and payment on 8 December delivery 16 December. Contact/tx Megan on 0273315364.

Thank you for your support. 🎄

FUNDRAISER

Jack Divers (ex East Taieri pupil) is off

to the Queensland State Swimming

championships in Australia. He is

selling lollies - $2.00 per bag.

Phone Justine 027 2600269 to place

or order.

THE BREEZE “PACK THE BUS” CHRISTMAS FUNDRAISER FOR NEEDY DUNEDIN FAMILIES

We are one of four schools taking part in The Breeze Radio Station’s “Pack the Bus” fundraiser taking place this Friday for needy Dunedin families. Children from the four schools are asked to bring new toys or non-perishable food that will be taken into the bus on Friday as it travels around the four schools. Children can bring items throughout the week. The visit will be recorded for radio broadcast and Alison Tay has written a song that a group of children will sing while the bus is at East Taieri.