21 September 2017 FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK........... Dear Parents, Caregivers & Community Members Kia ora kotou. Another learning focused week at Woodlands has zoomed by. Well done to our gymnastics teams for their efforts last weekend at the Southland Gymfest. What talent…. our two Year 4-6 teams both received A Awards and our Year 7-8 team received an Elite Award! Teachers are putting together an interesting programme for our Cultural Celebration Day next Thursday 28 th September. The event will begin at 11.45am, with a welcome led by the Kapa Haka group. There will be a shared lunch and then children will take part in five activities from different cultures, sharing their learning with you. A programme is enclosed with this newsletter. We would love to see everyone who is able to come along. Congratulations to last week’s winner of the Principal’s Award for Caring, Quinn Davey. Quinn is very kind, trustworthy, helpful and hard working. She is a fabulous member of Room Tui who loves to share her ideas. On Friday assembly will be a bit different. It will begin at 2.15pm and we will have the winning Year 4-8 class speeches presented to us instead of a class item and song. Welcome to Shanon Smith who is a University of Canterbury trainee teacher based in Room Kakapo. Have you seen the Fonterra TV advertisement featuring our own Mrs Hamill? We have shared it on our Facebook page. Deborah and Mark had a very special experience travelling to Canada to learn about the amazing difference their milk has made to the life of a young accident victim. Congratulations to them for being given the honour of that trip. Voting day is nearly here (at last!) so it will be very interesting to see who the government is next week. There will be a polling booth here at school, so feel free to pop in to vote. Have a good week. Ngā mihi Fiona
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21 September 2017
FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK...........
Dear Parents, Caregivers & Community Members
Kia ora kotou. Another learning focused week at Woodlands has zoomed
by. Well done to our gymnastics teams for their efforts last weekend at the
Southland Gymfest. What talent…. our two Year 4-6 teams both received A
Awards and our Year 7-8 team received an Elite Award!
Teachers are putting together an interesting programme for our Cultural Celebration Day next Thursday 28th September. The event will begin at 11.45am, with a welcome led by the Kapa Haka group. There will be a shared lunch and then children will take part in five activities from different cultures, sharing their learning with you. A programme is enclosed with this newsletter. We would love to see everyone who is able to come along.
Congratulations to last week’s winner of the Principal’s Award for Caring, Quinn Davey. Quinn is very kind, trustworthy, helpful and hard working. She is a fabulous member of Room Tui who loves to share her ideas.
On Friday assembly will be a bit different. It will begin at 2.15pm
and we will have the winning Year 4-8 class speeches presented to
us instead of a class item and song.
Welcome to Shanon Smith who is a University of Canterbury trainee teacher
based in Room Kakapo.
Have you seen the Fonterra TV advertisement featuring our own Mrs Hamill? We have shared it on our Facebook page. Deborah and Mark had a very special experience travelling to Canada to learn about the amazing difference their milk has made to the life of a young accident victim. Congratulations to them for being given the honour of that trip. Voting day is nearly here (at last!) so it will be very interesting to see who the
government is next week. There will be a polling booth here at school, so feel free
to pop in to vote.
Have a good week.
Ngā mihi
Fiona
22 Sep Pita Pit Lunches – order at www.lunchonline.co.nz School Photo Orders due in Oral Assessment entries due 28 Sep Cultural Celebration Day 29 Sep Whio on Assembly End of Term 3 16 Oct Start of Term 4 18 Oct Zone Tennis Champs 30 Oct PET DAY 3 Nov Cans For Good Fundraiser 10 Nov Zone Football Tournament 6 Dec Oral Assessments (optional) 12 Dec Prizegiving at Morton Mains Hall 13 Dec End of Term 4 30 Jan 18 Start of Term 1
Pita Pita Lunches
Delivered Friday 22nd September
Order online until 9am on Friday 22 Sept
www.lunchonline.co.nz
FUTSAL Results for Monday 18th September. Y1/2 Woodlands won 12 – 0 against Southern Zone Socceroos. Player of the Day was Jared Stuart. Next Monday they will play Rimu Villa at 4pm on Court 1. Y3/4 Tisbury Tigers (Lucas) lost 2 – 5 to Western Southland. Next Monday they will play St Theresa’s Leopards at 4.30pm on Court 1. Y5/6 Rimu City (Amy & Michael) won 3 – 2 against Myross Bush Magic. Next Monday they will play Newfield Park Blue at 5:00pm on Court 4. Y7/8 Southern Zone United (Abby & Logan) won 4 – 1 against St John’s United. Next Monday they will play Verdon College Gold at 5.30pm on Court 2.
MINIBALL Results for Tuesday 19th September: Y3/4 won 30 – 0 against Sacred Heart Lakers. Player of the Day was Elly Baird. Next Tuesday they will play Windsor Orange at 5:10pm on Court 6. Duty family is Hurleys. Y5/6 won 20 – 12 against Otatara Attack. Player of the Day was Daniel Crack. Next Tuesday they will play Rimu City at 5:45pm on Court 1. Duty family is Cracks. WATERPOLO Results for Friday 15th September: Y1-3 Woodlands Blue won 8 – 3 against Rimu Blue. Player of the Day was Zoe Knight. Tomorrow they will play Makarewa Mackerels at 4.00pm in the Learners Pool. Y4-6 Woodlands Red won 12 – 9 against Donovan Sharks. Player of the Day was Finn Hurley. Tomorrow they will play Windsor North Stingrays at 5.35pm in the south end of the main pool. Y4-6 Woodlands/Tisbury Turtles won 13 – 5 against Rimu Black. Player of the Day was Michael Crean. Tomorrow they will play Makarewa Marlins at 4.20pm in the south end of the main pool. The following awards were presented at assembly last
week:
Learning Certificates: Whio Room Maia Murdoch Kakapo Room Peter McIntyre Pukeko Room Ben Topp Tui Room Harrison Milne Kea Room Rubie Maliao
Values Certificates: Whio Room Melissa Crean Kakapo Room Amy van der Straaten Pukeko Room Ocean Ranui Tui Room Adelynn Annan Kea Room Joella Ocho
Principal’s Award for Caring Quinn Davey
School banking is done every Tuesday morning through ANZ Bank. If you would like an application form for an ANZ Bank account for your child/ren, ring the bank on 0800 269 296.
Parents, please let the school know when your child is absent. When a child is not at school, and we don’t know why, Nicky has to spend quite a bit of time ringing parents. This is a “must do” for the safety of your children. If ringing the school is not always the easiest option, you can email [email protected] or text us on 027 758 1503.
Room Kea (5 year olds) Room Kea’s personal story writing:
Woodland School is again offering the opportunity for students to take Oral Communication Assessments. This is an extension activity and will require preparation work at home. Students will gain a badge or certificate plus feedback from the examiner. The following will be offered (costs shown):
Y3 & 4 Introductory or Advanced Introductory $36 Y5 & 6 Elementary or Advanced Elementary $42 or $47 Y7 & 8 Junior or Advanced Junior $53
If you would like your child/ren to enter this, please complete the slip below and send to the school office by TOMORROW Friday 22nd September. Further information will then be sent home. ������������-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ORAL COMMUNICATION ASSESSMENTS
���� Yes please enter ………………………………………………. in the Oral Assessments. I understand the relevant cost/s will be added to my account. Signed:……………………………………………….
Room Whio (10 - 13 year olds)
Room Kakapo (8-10 year olds)
Check out our print making! Room Whio students have been learning how to create relief prints, based on cultural images. We used polystyrene meat trays (thank you, Woodlands Butchery) and we used our pencils to engrave our images onto the trays. We had to keep in mind that our image would come out in reverse when printed, so any words had to be written backward - challenging! Once our images were ready, we then used rollers to cover them with printmaking ink and transferred the ink onto our white/coloured paper. We have used a wide variety of cultural images from around the world. Come to Room Whio and find out more about printmaking. We had heaps of fun!
By Joana Ilas
By Alexander Burns
By Will Murdoch
By Abby van der Straaten
By Lachlan McIntyre
By Maia Murdoch
One of the activities we have been participating in during our Cultural Unit this term is
Maori kite making. Each group had to design and create a kite based on a native NZ bird. We are going to
test them, make modifications if needed, and then fly them on our Cultural Day next Thursday.
‘This is our Kereru kite. We added
an orange beak and a green head.
On the tail we used toi toi and we
decorated the body with koru.’
By Jack Brock
‘This Kotare kite was
made with flax, paper,
feathers and string. We
made it as a group.’
By Carter Duncan
‘Our kite is made to look like a
Tui. We added a tuft of white
feathers and some black
feathers for the tail.’
By Sophie Murdoch
‘On our Miromiro kite we
used flax and toi toi sticks for
the frame. We are hoping it
will fly and not crash!’
By Tessa Burgess
Room Pukeko (6-7 year olds)
This week we had Elgregoe the magician and ventriloquist come back to our school to perform some
amazing tricks. He always bring his very cool animals with him. This year we learnt how to be HEROES to
stop bullying! HEROES stands for:
Being Honest- Showing Empathy and Respect - Looking for Opportunities to help others.
Here are some photos from his show.
I liked it when he cut Hapai in We have got the power to stop
half then put him back bullying.
together again! By Harrison Milne
By Adelynn Annan
I really liked Ringo the talking rabbit. He was really funny and clever. By Quinn Davey
This term our Year 3 students took part in the Cycling Southland “Learn to Bike” programme. They have built up
their skills and have learnt a lot - woohoo! Check out their photos and what they have learnt to do!
Photos clockwise: William Chamberlain, Anthony Shanks and Carl Cabuhat trying
to win the slowest race in the world; Year 3 students with Melissa from Cycling
Southland showing off their bike passports; Mackenzie Milne happily receiving
her bike passport.
Carl Cabuhat and Danyon Ashbrook: “We learnt about the 5 different rules that we got taught: wear our helmet, stand on the left
hand side of our bike, signal stop, signal turn and look behind you.
Rylee Cronin & Nixi Byrne “We both liked doing the figure 8 around the
cones. We had to go around the cones without crashing into anybody.”
Room Tui (5-6 year olds)
WOODLANDS SCHOOL CULTURAL CELEBRATION DAY
Thursday 28th September Parents, caregivers and whanau most welcome!
Timetable:
11.45am Kapa Haka performance begins
12pm Senior students to perform karakia/blessings
Shared lunch - whole school (see note below)
12.30pm Activities Rotations begin (20 mins each, 5 mins for change over).
2.40pm Filipino Culture Group performance
Senior students to perform closing karakia.
End of cultural day.
Activities & Venues:
Kea - Maori poi/rakau action songs - Room Kea
Tui - Philippines stick game - Verandah/front grass
Pukeko - Gaelic Football - Front Field
Kakapo - Maori Kites - Back Field
Whio - Making a BullRoarer (Aboriginal instrument) - Room Whio
Shared Lunch:
Can each family please supply a plate of food from their culture/favourite