31 March 2015 – Eeek – the final newsletter for term 1! Southland Primary Schools’ Athletics Congratulations to Darnae, Matt, Rayvin, Abby, Kaiah, Ellie, BrookeBiahn, Amelia, Cory, Caleb and Leihlani who all represented Phoenix Zone at the Southland Primary Schools Athletics at Surrey Park on Saturday. Every child qualifying for this Southland Primary Schools’ event should be very proud of themselves and their great sportsmanship – they are a credit to the zone. Special recognition goes to the following students who were placed in the top 8 in the finals. Darnae LoweMcPherson 5 th in 100m and 5 th in 60m 8 year girls Caleb Ryan 3 rd in the high jump 9 year boys Matt Johnson 7 th place in shotput 9 year boys Rayvin Pauli 4 th place in shotput 10 year boys Cory Russell 6 th place high jump 10 year boys BrookeBiahn Bradshaw 6 th place in high jump 11 year girls. This is quite a feat when the competition is Southland wide! Well done everyone! Holidays – Reading – Flashcards School finishes for Term 1 on Thursday 2 nd April at 3pm and restarts for Term 2 at 9.00am on Monday 20 April 2015. Please can you all encourage your children to keep their reading mileage up over the holidays and to practise their maths flashcards. Thanks. Board of Trustees Whanau Consultation The Board of Trustees are consulting families about the curriculum areas they will be reviewing during the 2015 school year. Getting all this done ‘in one go’ means we won’t have to annoy you throughout the year. We would really appreciate all forms back at school by Thursday please. Just pop them in the box in the office. Thanks!! Duffy Assembly Wee hee – all got new Duffy Books after the assembly last week! The role model was Shelley Ryan who works at the RSPCA in Auckland. We are so lucky to be part of this programme and that our kids get the choice of such fabulous books! Hopefully there is some great holiday reading in them. WHOLE SCHOOL SWIM - YIPPEE! The whole school is having a fun swimming afternoon at the pool this Thursday 2 nd April . Everyone will be released from the pool at 3.00pm so…. all pickups are from there please. T Ball Congratulations to the Bluff Under 9 Taniwha TBall team who won their grade in the TBall Competition this season. All players received lovely medals to keep. Well Done!! Visit to the Bluff RSA Last Friday all classes went to visit the RSA. Thanks to Hamesh and James. We talked about the difference between WW1 and WW2 weapons and how they evolved, and how soldiers defended themselves during the war. Carrying a shovel is a must because they did a lot of digging! We found out many people died druing the war and the RSA is a place they would come to forget about memories of the war. Brodie and Shenell. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ A wishful piece of Moment in Time writing from Kaiah in Takahe: As I am walking onto the MCG… I can see a field of green, all I can feel is the shaking of my two hands, sweat is running down my face, the scent of fresh air fills my nose. I stand in my position “Let’s go!” I stutter. I’ve gone delusional. All I can see is people and more people. All of a sudden I hear myself yell “Good I am back”, as I am saying it in my head. A stroke of pain leaps up my arm. My arm goes numb. I stand back up – this is the last ball, if I don’t get this I have let the whole of New Zealand down. All I can see is a man in yellow running towards me. He throws the ball, it flies towards me like a bird. ‘SMACK!’ it hits the bat and goes all the way into the crowd. I look at the screen “New Zealand has won!” __________________________________________________________________________________________________ School Holiday Programme – being run here at school! Nga Kete Matauranga Pounamu Charitable Trust invites tamariki between 10 13 yrs to come and find out about the Taitamariki Oranga programme Its fun, its challenging and its at Bluff school!! Register to join us for sports, games, craft and a tikanga treasure hunt 14 th April 2015 9.153.30 Breakfast and lunch provided. To register email [email protected].nz or [email protected] Registration b4 2 nd April 2015 is a must Other holiday programmes on in town: We also have information about a Football Training Camp, Girlz Rule Holiday Camp and ASB First Kicks: an introduction to team sports. Just call into the school office if you are interested (no room for them all here!) __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Have a safe, fun- filled holiday break! Alison
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31 March 2015 Eeek the final newsletter for term 1! Southland Primary Schools Athletics
Congratulations to Darnae, Matt, Rayvin, Abby, Kaiah, Ellie, Brooke-Biahn, Amelia, Cory, Caleb and Leihlani who all represented Phoenix Zone at the Southland Primary Schools Athletics at Surrey Park on Saturday. Every child qualifying for this Southland Primary Schools event should be very proud of themselves and their great sportsmanship they are a credit to the zone. Special recognition goes to the following students who were placed in the top 8 in the finals. Darnae Lowe-McPherson 5th in 100m and 5th in 60m 8 year girls Caleb Ryan 3rd in the high jump 9 year boys Matt Johnson 7th place in shot-put 9 year boys Rayvin Pauli 4th place in shotput 10 year boys Cory Russell 6th place high jump 10 year boys Brooke-Biahn Bradshaw 6th place in high jump 11 year girls. This is quite a feat when the competition is Southland wide! Well done everyone!
Holidays Reading Flashcards
School finishes for Term 1 on Thursday 2nd April at 3pm and restarts for Term 2 at 9.00am on Monday 20 April 2015. Please can you all encourage your children to keep their reading mileage up over the holidays and to practise their maths
flashcards. Thanks.
Board of Trustees Whanau Consultation The Board of Trustees are consulting families about the curriculum areas they will be reviewing during the 2015 school year. Getting all this done in one go means we wont have to annoy you throughout the year. We would really appreciate all forms back at school by Thursday please. Just pop them in the box in the office. Thanks!!
Duffy Assembly Wee hee all got new Duffy Books after the assembly last week! The role model was Shelley Ryan who works at the RSPCA in Auckland. We are so lucky to be part of this programme and that our kids get the choice of such fabulous books! Hopefully there is some great holiday reading in them.
WHOLE SCHOOL SWIM - YIPPEE!
The whole school is having a fun swimming afternoon at the pool th is Thursday 2nd Apri l . Everyone will be
released from the pool at 3.00pm so. all pickups are from there please.
T Ball Congratulations to the Bluff Under 9 Taniwha TBall team who won their grade in the TBall Competition this
season. All players received lovely medals to keep. Well Done!!
Visit to the Bluff RSA Last Friday all classes went to visit the RSA. Thanks to Hamesh and James.
We talked about the difference between WW1 and WW2 weapons and how they evolved, and how soldiers defended themselves during the war. Carrying a shovel is a must because they did a lot of digging! We found out many people died druing the war and the RSA is a place they would come to forget about memories of the war. Brodie and Shenell. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
A wishful piece of Moment in Time writing from Kaiah in Takahe: As I am walking onto the MCG I can see a field of green, all I can feel is the shaking of my two hands, sweat is running down my face, the scent of fresh air fills my nose. I stand in my position Lets go! I stutter. Ive gone delusional. All I can see is people and more people. All of a sudden I hear myself yell Good I am back, as I am saying it in my head. A stroke of pain leaps up my arm. My arm goes numb. I stand back up this is the last ball, if I dont get this I have let the whole of New Zealand down. All I can see is a man in yellow running towards me. He throws the ball, it flies towards me like a bird. SMACK! it hits the bat and goes all the way into the crowd. I look at the screen New Zealand has won! __________________________________________________________________________________________________ School Holiday Programme being run here at school! Nga Kete Matauranga Pounamu Charitable Trust invites tamariki between 10- 13 yrs to come and find out about the
Taitamariki Oranga programme Its fun, its challenging and its at Bluff school!! Register to join us for sports, games, craft and a tikanga treasure hunt - 14th April 2015 9.15-3.30 Breakfast and lunch provided. To register email [email protected] or [email protected] Registration b4 2nd April 2015 is a must Other holiday programmes on in town: We also have information about a Football Training Camp, Girlz Rule Holiday Camp and ASB First Kicks: an introduction to team sports. Just call into the school office if you are interested (no room for them all here!) __________________________________________________________________________________________________
Have a safe, fun-filled holiday break!
Alison
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