Mt Maunganui Intermediate School, 21 Lodge Avenue, Mt Maunganui 3116 Phone 07 575 5512 Email: [email protected]MT MAUNGANUI INTERMEDIATE School Newsletter No. 5 3 March 2017 IN THIS ISSUE Principal’s Report Year 7 Camp Information Year 8 Camp Information Class Councillors/Leadership Introduction Room 15 Learning Page Coastal Values School Reminders Useful Information Sports Information o Girls Cricket o Basketball & Hockey o Netball o Swimming Sports Results Community Notices ICAS Testing Reply Slip C O M I N G E V E N T S 2017 MARCH 2017 8 PSG MEETING 7.00pm - Staffroom 10 Elite Tennis (Whakatane) 10 Open Water Swim (Whakatane) 13 - 15 Year 7 Camp – Room 7 15 – 17 Year 7 Camp – Room 8 17 Elite Swimming (Rotorua) 20 – 22 Year 7 Camp – Room 4 22 – 24 Year 7 Camp – Room 2 24 Elite Touch (Rotorua) 27 – 29 Year 7 Camp – Room 22 29 – 31 Year 7 Camp – Room 11 APRIL 2017 3-7 Year 8 Camp Finlay Park 3 – 5 Year 7 Camp – Room 16 5 – 7 Year 7 Camp – Room 14 13 Last Day Term 1 MAY 2017 (Term 2) 3 – 5 Year 7 Camp – Room 18 PSG MEETING WEDNESDAY 8 MARCH 7.00PM Staffroom All welcome The parent support group at the annual bake sale!!
This document is posted to help you gain knowledge. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about it! Share it to your friends and learn new things together.
FROM THE PRINCIPAL Kia ora koutou A very warm welcome Mrs Melissa Nelson, who has joined us from Katikati College, as our new Deputy Principal. We welcomed her to MMI on Wednesday. We are very excited to have her join the MMI team. National Standards Data: On 1st March, all National Standards data is reported to the Ministry of Education. Approximately one third of our school will enter MMI achieving below and well below National Standards annually. Obviously, this is a big challenge for our teachers and our learners. That is why we set the school wide target that all of our students will make at least one year's progress in Reading, Writing and Maths. Our teachers and students work exceptionally hard to make these shifts in our learning. Over the next three weeks, we will share snippets of our learning data with you. This will show you where our students are achieving and just how much progress we are making to accelerate and shift learning and achievement. Proportion of Students achieving at/above the National Standards in Reading, Writing and Maths 2011-2016
Year Reading Writing Maths
2011 70 30 30
2012 72 56 54
2013 68.1 55 51
2014 79.3 63.5 63.5
2015 80.2 69 65
2016 80.9 63.3 61.5
National 80.35 64.8 68.6
Key Findings: As you can see our National Standards Data has steadily increased over the past six years. This is due to the significant amount of work we have done to improve teaching practice school wide. The 2016 National Standards shows small positive gains in reading and a small decrease in the proportion achieving at/above National Standards in Maths and Writing. However, during 2016 the roll increased overall by 31 students and we had a transience rate of around 14%. We also need to remember we change over around 300 students per year, as year 8's leave and year 7's arrive, so each year is essentially a new group of kids. Next week we will look at our positive shifts in Reading. Extra-Curricular: A busy sporting week: Good luck to all of our competitors who are taking part in multiple sporting events today. We have a number of students competing in New Zealand Under 14 Lifesaving Champs (Oceans 17), representing our three Surf Life Saving Clubs, the Western Bay of Plenty Poverty Bay Surfing Champs and our cricket team is also competing to take part in the MILO Cup. Well done to Year 7 Netball trialists who completed their first trial on Wednesday. Wheels Club: This week we have had two incidents of vandalism. A very small number of our boys have made some poor decisions and have been found to be interfering with bikes in our bike bays. All parents have been contacted and appropriate consequences have been put in place. Please contact us if you have any further concerns. We will also be working with the boys re safe cycling home. It has been reported to us that some of these young men have been doing wheelies into oncoming traffic. We are working to identify who these boys are. Have a great week. Ma te wa
YEAR 7 CAMP INFORMATION Below are the dates and room numbers for our year 7 camp beginning on 13 March 2017. This is at Ngatuhoa Lodge. The cost of the camp is $100.00 per student, which needs to be paid 1 week before they depart.
ROOM NO. DATES
7 13 Mar – 15 Mar
8 15 Mar – 17 Mar
4 20 Mar – 22 Mar
2 22 Mar – 24 Mar
22 27 Mar – 29 Mar
11 29 Mar – 31 Mar
16 3 Apr – 5 Apr
14 5 Apr – 7 Apr
18 3 May – 5 May (Term 2)
YEAR 8 CAMP INFORMATION Below are the dates and room numbers for our year 8 camp in week 10. This is at Finlay Park. The cost of the camp is $215.00 per student which needs to be paid before they depart.
Congratulations to these students, who have been elected by staff and students, to represent their class on our student council. Council meetings will take place, every Thursday morning at 8.10am, in the library.
LATE STUDENTS All students must come to the student lobby to receive a late pass from us, if they arrive after the bell. This pass advises us and their classroom teacher that they have arrived at school. We cannot issue a late pass to the parent/caregiver as we must personally site the child, for security reasons. Any students who arrive late 3 or more times, in a 6 week block, will receive letters home to their parents/caregivers, as lateness is classified, by the Ministry of Education, as an unjustified absence. If your child attends morning trainings, please advise their coaches accordingly, of their expected time to arrive at school. Training is not an excuse! Please ensure your child is at school on time.
TRAFFIC CHAOS
THESE ARE NOT DROP OFF ZONES
Lodge Avenue Staff Carpark
Lodge Avenue Turn Around
The Bus Bay on Links Avenue Please DO NOT use these areas to drop off/pick up your child. This is for the safety of your children and others. We will be monitoring these areas before and after school and will request you move on if we find you in these zones.
RINGING IN FOR YOUR CHILD
We appreciate your child may be absent from time to time. We thank you for calling us to advise they will not be in, but we need you to do this every day they are away or stipulate a return date. Please do not assume we KNOW that they are absent in the days following, even if we have sent them home sick the day prior. We need to ensure we have all our students accounted for and also this will reduce the texts we send out, if we have the correct information.
Our text absentee number is: 027 232 0446
Many thanks.
RAINY DAY AFTER SCHOOL
ARRANGEMENTS
With winter fast approaching, it would be helpful if you could discuss with your child what after school pick up arrangements you will do, in the event of bad weather. Please bear in mind, that calling us during the day to send a message to your child, so they stay dry after school, results in our runner having to venture out in the same bad weather.
ABSENTEE INFORMATION Please note that the Ministry of Education requires a reason for every absence. Please provide this when notifying the school of your child’s absence. If the office is not informed of the reason then your child will be marked as having an unjustified absence on their record. Thank you.
Text : 027 232 0446 Phone: 575 5512 ext 1 Email : [email protected] An automated system is used to alert caregivers of any unexplained absences. This number is a reply once only. Please do not use this number to try and contact the school.
ICAS TESTING INFORMATION
These are tests, sat by thousands of students throughout New Zealand, Australia and other Pacific Areas. Students sit the test on a designated day and we send the tests to Australia for marking. Results are sent back to us once the marking has been completed. The return slip is on the last page of this newsletter. Please return no later than 31 March 2017.
SUBJECT FEES In 2017 the subject fees are set at $100.00 or $25.00 per term. These include:
Food Technology Hard Materials/Electronics
Media Studies/Robotics Music
Visual Arts Dance and Drama
The cost of these programmes are subsidised by the Board of Trustees. All students participate in the specialist arts and technology programmes.
PAYING FEES ONLINE Parents who wish to pay by bank automatic payments or one off payments, are encouraged to do so. Our bank account is:
12 3146 0104711 03 Please put child’s name as the reference. The top priority item on your account will be credited unless otherwise stated by you.
TERM 1 UNIFORM Term 1 requires all students to wear black roman sandals. Also, hats are compulsory in our outdoor areas, at all times. Hats can be purchased from the school office for $10.00 or from the canteen before school when it is open.
BUS INFORMATION Web: http://www.baybus.co.nz/schoolhopper/schools/ Ph: 0800 4BAYBUS (0800 422 928) or phone/email our bus co-ordinator, Roger MacLean here at school on 575 5512 or [email protected]
BASKETBALL & HOCKEY Please register for weekly Basketball (Monday nights terms 2 & 3), and Hockey (Friday nights terms 2 & 3) by Wednesday 8th March. If you need a copy of newsletter please email Troy Jennings at:
[email protected] Basketball Registration Link https://docs.google.com/a/mtint.school.nz/forms/d/19gzneRMujuYmJU541qyj68VZ0xBPDyLULKFwY2KFhYU/edit Hockey Registration Link https://docs.google.com/a/mtint.school.nz/forms/d/10OuCvfgzAe0GXNftlZn3rK96beda9woiRhcLlEVJCsc/edit
REMINDER!! PLEASE REMIND YOUR CHILDREN
Please note that there have been a large number of students missing meetings regarding sports, and therefore trying to register late. In order to get teams organised and registered we really need to stick to cut off dates.
NETBALL INFORMATION
8th & 9th March Year 8 - Skills Session at Lunchtime
9th March 3.15pm – 5.00pm Year 7 - Trial 2
15th March 3.15pm – 5.00pm Year 8 - Trial 1
23rd March 3.15pm – 5.00pm Year 8 - Trial 2
24th March Deadline – Payment of Fees to School Office
A picture of, (most of), our first ever Mt Maunganui Intermediate Girls Cricket Team. The team put in a great effort during the NZ Post Shield Competition and, while they did not place, we are proud of how they represented our school. Thank you to our parent helpers for the day, Andrew Parkinson and Dee Ensing, without whom our girls would not have had the opportunity to play.
These are tests, sat by thousands of students throughout New Zealand, Australia and other Pacific Areas and administered out of Australia. Students sit the test on a designated day and we send the tests to Australia for marking. Results are sent back to us once the marking has been completed. All students in our school may enter any of the exams. A gentle reminder, the students in the Accelerate classes are expected to sit the English, Mathematics and Science papers. Other papers are optional. The exams and costs are as follows:
Digital Technologies $9.50 Science $9.50 Writing $20.50 Spelling $11.50 English $9.50 Mathematics $9.50
All entries need to be completed by Friday 31st March, to enable us to complete the necessary paperwork. Please note, no late entries will be accepted. Please cut out the registration form below and return by 31st March. Please note, if paying by internet banking, we still need this reply slip returned to school.
REPLY SLIP
ICAS TESTING INFORMATION 2017
If you child is going to sit one of more of these exams, please tick the appropriate box and return the slip, with the matching payment, to the school office by 31 March, 2017.
Child’s Name ___________________________Room No._______
ICAS SUBJECT TICK SUBJECT COST Digital Technologies $9.50
Science $9.50
Writing $20.50
Spelling $11.50
English $9.50
Mathematics $9.50
TOTAL (please complete) $ Online bank details are: 12 3146 00104711 03, reference “surname”, details “ICAS”