St John’s Girls’ School Newsletter 3 November 2017 Principal’s Comments Tena koutou katoa – Greetings to you all. Welcome to Nevaeh Roughan who starts school on 13 th November, joining her big sister Lilly. Writing Moderation On Monday all the St John’s teachers spent the morning looking at the consistency of expectations around writing. We have always had a writing moderation day. Over the last few years we have invited other schools but choose not to this year. Everyone agreed it was a very worthwhile exercise which allowed teachers to learn from each other. The teachers are now busy testing your daughter(s) ready for reporting to you at the end of the year. I enjoy this, as the teachers are frequently very excited about individual girl’s progress. Seeing the growth is why we teach. Fair I want to acknowledge the great support we have from the Parents’ Association. They support the school in a myriad of ways, the main ones being fundraising so that your daughters and teachers have great resources in the classrooms and playground and providing delicious morning teas at our numerous events. They excelled themselves in the weekend. Many people have commented that the recent fair was the best school fair they have ever been to. The committee have spent many, many hours planning this special event. Thank you Parents’ Association. You are truly amazing and your work is appreciated. The staff were all very proud of what the girls achieved too. Thank you for your support with PrEP. It’s a great programme. 2018 Classes We have almost finalised the classes for next year. We have several composite classes and are taking our time to ensure we make the best decision we can for each girl. Year 6, 7 and 8 are all single year level classes. Our Familiarisation Morning for new students in Years 2 – 8, to St John’s in 2018 is on Friday 17 th November. All girls spend an hour with their 2018 class and teacher on this day so we will let you know what room your daughter will be in prior to this day. Nga mihi nui (Kind regards) Brenda Mackay TERM DATES: November 8th BOT meeting 5.30pm 14th Y8 HPV Vaccination 16th Years 3&4 speech exams Health Nurse Visit 17th Familiarisation morning 22nd Thank You Assembly 10am 24th Stripes awarded 27th BOT meeting 5.30pm December 4th Tabloids 5th Dance Sharing 7th Christmas Service practice am 8th Christmas Service 2pm St John’s Church 12th Prizegiving practice am 13th Prizegiving 1.30pm St John’s Church Y8 Leavers afternoon tea 3.15—4.30pm in hall Last Day January 2018 30th 1st Day Term 1 Congratulations to the following girls who received awards recently— Room 1 Kiran Gilmete, Sophie Purdon, Kadi Cantley Room 2 Shanna-Beth Smith, Amaya Swale Jones, Christabel Billcliff, Chloe Taylor Room 3 Lily Hillman, Lilly Roughan, Charlotte Hainstock, Sophie Hall Room 4 Sienna Hunter, Isabella Rhind, Amanda Henderson, Bailey King Room 5 Isabella Willis, Kate Goodeve, Phoebe Barlow, Brooke Egerton Room 6 Meg Wisely, Grace Watson, Rebecca Laverock, Sarah Slee Room 7 Emma Pope, Ivy Turner, Holly Driver, Louella Mirrielees-Huxtable, Values Cup: 27 Oct Niamh Doherty Rm 3 3 Nov Katie Dennis Rm 7
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St John’s Girls’ School
Newsletter 3 November 2017
Principal’s Comments
Tena koutou katoa – Greetings to you all.
Welcome to Nevaeh Roughan who starts school on 13th November, joining her big sister Lilly.
Writing Moderation
On Monday all the St John’s teachers spent the morning looking at the consistency of expectations around writing. We
have always had a writing moderation day. Over the last few years we have invited other schools but choose not to this
year. Everyone agreed it was a very worthwhile exercise which allowed teachers to learn from each other.
The teachers are now busy testing your daughter(s) ready for reporting to you at the end of the year. I enjoy this, as the
teachers are frequently very excited about individual girl’s progress. Seeing the growth is why we teach.
Fair
I want to acknowledge the great support we have from the Parents’ Association. They support the school in a myriad of
ways, the main ones being fundraising so that your daughters and teachers have great resources in the classrooms and
playground and providing delicious morning teas at our numerous events. They excelled themselves in the weekend.
Many people have commented that the recent fair was the best school fair they have ever been to. The committee have
spent many, many hours planning this special event. Thank you Parents’ Association. You are truly amazing and your
work is appreciated.
The staff were all very proud of what the girls achieved too. Thank you for your support with PrEP. It’s a great
programme.
2018 Classes
We have almost finalised the classes for next year. We have several composite classes and are taking our time to ensure
we make the best decision we can for each girl. Year 6, 7 and 8 are all single year level classes.
Our Familiarisation Morning for new students in Years 2 – 8, to St John’s in 2018 is on Friday 17th November. All girls
spend an hour with their 2018 class and teacher on this day so we will let you know what room your daughter will be in
prior to this day.
Nga mihi nui (Kind regards)
Brenda Mackay
TERM DATES:
November 8th BOT meeting 5.30pm
14th Y8 HPV Vaccination
16th Years 3&4 speech exams
Health Nurse Visit
17th Familiarisation morning
22nd Thank You Assembly 10am
24th Stripes awarded
27th BOT meeting 5.30pm
December
4th Tabloids
5th Dance Sharing
7th Christmas Service practice am
8th Christmas Service 2pm St John’s Church
12th Prizegiving practice am
13th Prizegiving 1.30pm St John’s Church
Y8 Leavers afternoon tea 3.15—4.30pm in hall
Last Day
January 2018 30th 1st Day Term 1
Congratulations to the following girls who received
awards recently—
Room 1 Kiran Gilmete, Sophie Purdon,
Kadi Cantley
Room 2 Shanna-Beth Smith, Amaya Swale Jones,
Christabel Billcliff, Chloe Taylor
Room 3 Lily Hillman, Lilly Roughan,
Charlotte Hainstock, Sophie Hall
Room 4 Sienna Hunter, Isabella Rhind,
Amanda Henderson, Bailey King
Room 5 Isabella Willis, Kate Goodeve,
Phoebe Barlow, Brooke Egerton
Room 6 Meg Wisely, Grace Watson,
Rebecca Laverock, Sarah Slee
Room 7 Emma Pope, Ivy Turner, Holly Driver,
Louella Mirrielees-Huxtable,
Values Cup:
27 Oct Niamh Doherty Rm 3
3 Nov Katie Dennis Rm 7
ROOM 1—Year 1—Mrs Jagoutz
Room 1 were amazing at running their “Flowers and Photos” stall at the Centenary Fair. They all took turns to be the
shop keepers and everyone was very impressed at how they could talk about the plants that they had grown. One of the
visitors commented that I had been very busy packaging all of the plants and I was very proud of the girls when I could
say that it had been all of their hard work and not mine. They ended up packaging and labelling 300 plants!
Nakaysha’s older sister nominated Room 1 for a Subway Shout Out
from the Hits radio station. We all had a bit more morning tea
yesterday – thank you.
Room 1 have been writing about grandparents and here are some highlights……
“My grandparents are special because they give me chocolate” – Kadi.
“My grandparents spoil me sometimes.” – Leah.
“My grandparents cheer me up when I am sad.” – Kiran.
“We go on outings. It is so much fun.” – Ave.
“Granddad takes me to the park and from the park I get ice cream.” – Aaliyah.
“My nana makes me laugh.” – Esme.
“Grandparents are special because they always give us pudding when we don’t eat all our dinner.” – Willow.
Greats and Grands Day is a very special time to share all of our class happenings and highlights. Room 1 will also use
this time to ask their special visitors all about when they were at school and the differences between then and now.
What a wonderful start to the term we have had. It has had a real summer feel to the last week or so and wonderful to
enjoy the fair in the sunshine.
We were very proud of our class ventures for the fair. Everyone did their jobs with pride and it was wonderful to see
the confidence with which the girls spoke to their customers. Preparing for the fair has developed skills and knowledge
in a whole range of areas.
This week we have spent preparing for grandparent’s day. The girls have written beautiful letters and made lovely
teapots to give their guests. It was great to have some help from our boarders after school to put the finishing touches to
our teapots. We certainly had a lot of fun quadruple checking that the right letter went in the right teapot!
I was astounded at our final practice today with the quality of the performances. Our girls have such a variety of talents
and are so confident.
Next week we have our visit to Demolition World to look forward to. Thank you to our volunteers. We are looking
forward to having Mrs Devlin back in our class next Friday. Enjoy your weekend.