1 06 3880130 26 Huia Street Taihape, 4720 www.tas.school.nz TAS Radio - 88.1FM Principal: Richard McMillan [email protected]Lead Me to Lead My Learning Taihape Area School Monday 13th November, 2017 Term 4 – Newsletter Number 5 Important Dates This Week Monday 3rd Room 1/4 to Hunterville Wed-Friday Room 79 to Rotorua Friday17th Room 5 to Napier Coming Up Tues 21 st – Fri 24th Year 9 Camp Whakatane Tena koutou katoa Welcome back for another week. We have a very busy few days ahead with a number of Junior Classes involved in Outdoor Education activities, including the Room 79 Camp in Rotorua, a Room 5 Day Trip to Napier, and a Room 1 and 4 Day Trip to visit places of interest around Hunterville. As well this is a huge week for thousands (143,000 in total) of Secondary School Students throughout the country who are beginning their external NCEA Examinations. Today 47,000 Level 1 Students sit the English examination. For our Year 11, 12, and 13 Students, this represents the culmination of their year’s work, and is obviously a very significant test of their abilities, and in particular, the effort they have made during the year. We wish them all the very best for this important challenge. As both a teacher, and a parent, I think I have a very realistic view of the challenge our children face in preparing for success in the NCEA examinations. As a 15 year old my youngest daughter flew through level 1 – it was new and exciting, she was very focused, worked hard, and tackled this new challenge in a very positive and determined manner. It all seemed so easy. Unfortunately, a year later, she approached NCEA Level 2 with a more cavalier and relaxed mind set. Although in the end she was successful, it
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Tall Poppies The following Taihape Area School Students rose above the Crowd last week as outstanding
achievers, and members of our Learning Community:
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Louise Collings (Room 1) - for great learning in room one and for helping others with their
learning in a respectful manner;
Nile-Khalila Saudifin (Room 1) - for showing rangatiratanga in her
learning, always giving her best;
Room 3 - for doing an outstanding job of leading Hui-a-ata and Homai
te paki paki this week;
Kenzie Pilato and Naylene Hahn (Room 3)- for progress in reading;
Kajhmyn Pula (Room 5) - for writing an amazing narrative story using descriptive words, Well
Done;
Tuterangiwhiu Rolston (Room 5) - for working very hard solving division problems with
accuracy;
Nailul-Hafiz Saifudin, Benjamin James, Nga Whakapai Twomey (Room 6) - for outstanding
writing;
Jack Waldron and Kaya Bowers (Room 79) - for their outstanding effort with their Reading;
Harmony Lucas, Caryse Clark, and Erika Elers (Year11) - for achieving the last internal
assessment with Excellence in Visual Arts;
Anahera Hapi (Year11) - for achieving the diorama assessment with Excellence.
Tall Poppies from Learning Street – Week 4
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Planning for 2018
Planning for 2018 is well underway. It would be hugely helpful if we knew of anyone who is
intending to enrol their children here in 2018 – or if you are shifting. This makes planning
easier. We endeavour to ensure that classes are set up as well as possible from day one, as this
avoids disruption to classes - unknown enrolments can make this difficult at times.
Supporting Your Child The most important lessons your child needs for success often aren’t taught in the Classroom,
they’re taught at home. Children’s performance in School has more to do with parents, than
with their natural brainpower, or even their teachers. One recent study claimed the parental
effect on exam results at 16 is 5 times greater than any other factor. So what should we be
doing to maximise their chances?
The Importance of a Regular Bedtime Children who do not have a regular bedtime are more likely to suffer behavioural problems.
Erratic bedtimes can cause a similar effect to jet lag and the longer youngsters go without
regular bedtimes, the greater the impact on their behaviour, experts have found. They believe
going to bed at different times could disrupt natural body rhythms and cause sleep
deprivation.
In turn, this undermines the way the brain matures and the
ability to regulate some behaviours. But they also found the
effect is reversible - parents who started putting their children
to bed at consistent times noticed an improvement in their
behaviour, as did teachers.
The study on more than 10,000 children was carried out by
experts at University College London (UCL). The data was collected via the UK Millennium
Cohort Study, with bedtimes noted at age three, five and seven, and information on behaviour
collected from parents and teachers.
Irregular bedtimes were most common at the age of three, when around one in five children
went to bed at varying times. However, by the age of seven, more than half of children went
to bed regularly between 7.30pm and 8.30pm and just nine per cent went after 9pm.
The experts found that those youngsters who experienced erratic bedtimes throughout
childhood displayed progressively worse behaviour. But those children who went from
varying bedtimes aged three or five to a regular bedtime by age seven. displayed a notable
improvement in behaviour.
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Professor Yvonne Kelly (from UCL's Department of
Epidemiology and Public Health) said: "Not having fixed
bedtimes, accompanied by a constant sense of flux, induces a
state of body and mind akin to jet lag and this matters for
healthy development and daily functioning.”
"We know that early child development has profound influences
on health and wellbeing across the life course.”
"It follows that disruptions to sleep, especially if they occur at
key times in development, could have important lifelong
impacts on health.”
"What we've shown is that these effects build up incrementally over childhood, so that
children who always had irregular bedtimes were worse off than those children who did have
a regular bedtime at one or two of the ages when they were surveyed.”
"But our findings suggest the effects are reversible. For example, children who change from
not having to having regular bedtimes show improvements in their behaviour."
The types of behaviour studied included hyperactivity, repetitive bad behaviour, problems
with peers and emotional difficulties. Children whose bedtimes were irregular or who went to
bed after 9pm came from more socially disadvantaged backgrounds. They were more likely
to have poor routines such as skipping breakfast, and not being read to daily.
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Library Update It's that time of year again and all library books issued to students in Year 11, 12 & 13 need to be returned before students leave on study leave.
The school has implemented an email based system to advising students of library books on loan, however many students have not responded to requests to return their books.
Letters will be sent home this week to caregivers of students who have overdue books (library and/or textbooks) to ensure that caregivers are aware of books due.
Please help with this issue and encourage your children to return any resources.
I can be contacted via email ([email protected]), phone 06 388 0130, or by just popping in for a chat.
Junior Outdoor Education Programme The Junior (Year 1-8) Classes will all be involved in a range of Outdoor Education
Activities before the end of Term. Activities scheduled this week:
Room 1 and 4
On Monday Room 1 and 4 are doing the Bruce Park Loop Walking Track, and visiting
Hunterville Park and the Flat Hills Maze.
Room 5
On Friday Room 5 are off to Napier to visit the National
Aquarium.
Room 79
On Wednesday Room 79 leave for a 3Day Camp in
Rotorua. Rotorua is a fantastic place for a Camp with a
huge range of educational and recreational options
available. They are visiting the Prawn Park in Taupo, the
Buried Village, the Redwoods Forest, a 3D Gallery, and a
perennial favourite the Luge. They return on Friday.
In two weeks Room 3 are off to Flip City in Palmerston
North, and Room 6 on an overnight Camp in Turangi.