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WHĪTAU SCHOOL NEWSLETTER NEWSLETTER NO 27: 29 August 2019

221 Woodham Road, Christchurch 8062 Phone (03) 389 8112, Mobile 027 758 1467

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Take care of our children. Take care of what they hear, Take care of what they see, take care of what they feel.

For how the children grow, so will be the shape of Aotearoa’. Dame Whina Cooper

KEY DATES - PLEASE KEEP FOR FUTURE REFERENCE!

This Week Tomorrow 8.30am St Chad’s Breakfast Club in the Kidsbase Room Sausage Sizzle Lunch $2 orders to class by 9am please

Next Week Monday 2 September Wednesday 4 September Thursday 5 September Friday 6 September

The Education Review Team (ERO) will be visiting our school until Thursday afternoon. 10.15 School Mihi Whakatau welcome to the ERO team. 11.30am Cricket Awareness Programme (Year 3 and 4 Only) 1.30pm Weekly School Award Assembly 8.30am Te Mapua Breakfast Club in the Kidsbase Room 11.15am ‘Taster Day’ Chisnallwood Intermediate (All of Year 6 only) 8.30am St Chad’s Breakfast Club in the Kidsbase Room

Coming Up Friday 13 September Monday 16 September Wednesday 25 September Friday 27 September Monday 28 October Wednesday 6 November

12.30pm Cultural Festival 2019 at the Horncastle Arena (Tickets only available now through Ticketek) NZSO Christchurch Performance of Tuia, 11 am - 12 noon - Korari Team. FREE 1.30pm and 6pm Whītau School Wearable Arts Show. ALL STUDENTS REQUIRED TO PARTICIPATE IN 6PM PERFORMANCE PLEASE! 9am Gold Awards Learning Celebration. FINAL DAY FOR TERM 2. Labour Day (School Closed) Christchurch Schools Music Festival

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Whakatauki of the Week: ‘Mauria te pono’ ‘Believe in yourself’

Principal: Sandra Smith, JP [email protected]

Board of Trustees Chairperson: Alexandra Davids [email protected]

We value Being Respectful, Being Responsible and Being a Learner

From the Principal’s Desk

Dear Parents, Carers and Friends of Whītau School Kia ora koutou katoa! Talofa lava! Mālō e lelei! Greetings everyone!

Education Review Office Visit Next week The Board and staff look forward to welcoming a team of three reviewers from the Education Review Office to complete our school’s ERO review. The reviewer team of Caroline Gray, Mark Bell and Bernadette Dawson will be onsite for four days so do make them feel welcome. It is now just on four years since our last review was completed in 2015, so we look forward to sharing the progress our school has made on our Whītau School journey of ‘learning to take us places’, with our review team. An ERO evaluation review supports schools to ensure that

● Every child can succeed as a lifelong learner. ● Every child and their learning is the heart of all we do ● High quality education for all learners

● Equity and excellence for all learners

Staffing for 2020 The Board and I are delighted that our staff is very happy and stable and there will be very little in the way of staff changes for 2020. The Board has appointed Tegan Ristow, Victoria Bernard and Ruby Leonard to permanent teaching positions. We look forward to welcoming back Mrs Kelly Heads (nee Smith) as a permanent teacher and we have also appointed a highly experienced teacher Mrs Alison Cox who currently teaches in Ashburton and Miss Samantha Sasse from Canada who currently teaches in Wellington. Sadly we will however be farewelling Mrs Bobbie Mackie as she retires from her teaching career.

CPPA Awards for Middle Leadership Teacher Professional Learning Today I was a very proud Principal to attend the Middle Leadership Presentations where Sam Turner, Stephen Wood, Laura Schulze and Roīsīn Anglesey presented their leadership learning journey at Whītau School this year in a creative storybook they had collaboratively written. Part of my Principal role is to ensure that I encourage and develop leadership in our teaching staff and our Middle Leaders are a great team to lead. Congratulations to you all as lifelong learners!

Principal’s Awards for Student Learning Congratulations to our New Entrants Kowhai Kaimate and Addison Chiles from Te Kura Waka for their amazing efforts with independent story writing they so excitedly shared with Mr Turner and I this afternoon. Kind regards everyone Sandra Smith Principal - Tumuaki

Taha Maori Focus Each week we have Maori phrases which we try to incorporate into our daily teaching and learning. In response to Kei to pēhea Koe, you could try these new responses Kei te tino ora au - I’m extremely well Kei to māuiui au - I’m unwell/sick Kei te pukumahi au - I’m very busy Kei te pukuriri au - I’m a bit peeved/annoyed

Positive Behaviour for Learning Schoolwide: PB4L-SW@LNS – Week 6 This week our focus is: Be Respectful - Kind hands, kind feet and a kind mouth What does this look like at home? ⇒ Use kind hands to do good ⇒ Use your feet for appropriate things ⇒ Use kind words towards others

Mathletics Results from Week 5 At Whītau School, the Board of Trustees fund Mathletics for each child to access online in class and at home. This means that learning can be ubiquitous as learning can happen at home, at school or anywhere. If your child does not have access to Mathletics, please see your child’s teacher for their login details. The top Mathletics Classes were: The top Mathletics students were: Kākano: Room 2 Kākano: Jax Woodward (Room 2) Karawha: Room 6 Karawha: Tanē Norton (Room 5) Kōrari: Room 9 Kōrari: Molly Aumua (Room 9)

Weekly Principal’s Class Awards These awards were presented at Team Whānau Time on Wednesday at 9am. Families are most welcome to join us in the School Hall. Class Awards for ‘Caught Being Good as Gold’ using our School Values of Respect, Responsibility and Learning:

VJ Taaso Ezra O’Grady Addison A-N Charlotte Hoogervorst Rayyan Ali Azariah W-T Zayden Arps Azaria Rogers Nevaeh Elliott Maria Vakapuna Alex Long Ava Yazdanpanah Jasmine Houben

TKW TKW Rua Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Room 5 Room 6 Room 7 Room 8 Room 9 Room 10 Room 11

For learning to listen to instructions straightaway For making a wonderful start to school by following class routines/instructions For always being a kind and caring member of Room 1 For being a role model in the classroom and a focused learner For showing manaakitanga everywhere he goes For thinking about others before herself For consistently showing 5 at mat time For her fabulous start to Room 6 For helping set up the classroom in the mornings For being a supportive friend to all members of the class For showing honesty and integrity For always having a smile ready and a great attitude to learning For her random acts of kindness

Class Awards for progress in Literacy and Numeracy:

Gurnoor Virk Rose Smith Liam Moss April Nevard Alin Tamang Gloria Cane Novalea Thorn Jonty Cameron Destiny Paintin Oliver Nixon Asten Norman Framie Fesway Nikora Cate

TKW TKW Rua Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Room 5 Room 6 Room 7 Room 8 Room 9 Room 10 Room 11

For showing improvement in his focus in class work For pointing under each word as she reads and remembering new words For always trying hard in his Writing and coming up with interesting ideas For working hard to stay focused during learning time and complete her work For working hard on his Spelling and focusing when stretching out words For making huge progress in all areas of learning For excellent writing and illustrating For making great progress in his fractions work For her amazing progress in Writing For his amazing effort in Writing For writing some amazing ‘Super Sentences’ For consistent excellence in home work presentations For outstanding effort in Literacy

Weekly Class Whanau Award - Room 2 Weekly Crest Cleanest Classroom Award - Room 10 Weekly Winning House - Porritt

Gold Awards Learning Celebration for August The following wonderful children deserve special congratulations for being chosen as our Gold Award students for August. They received their Gold Awards certificates and badges at our Gold Award Learning Celebration last Friday. Their teacher and class recognize them as being ‘as good as gold’. They have displayed consistently excellent behaviour, attitude and work both in the classroom and in the playground. You can wear your badges with pride children! Thank you to the whanau who joined us for the celebration.

Addison Chiles Rose Smith Te Ariki Paki-Otene Vrinda Sharma Eli Sia Kayden Manawatu Dylan Robinson-Campbell

TKW TKW Rua Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Room 5

Michelle Prasad Daimein Kennedy Noah Wilkinson Justine Teh Salote Vakapuna Aston Hardy

Room 6 Room 7 Room 8 Room 9 Room 10 Room 11

School Newsletter Draw

Chase Cameron Female Student Seth Taitoko Jayden Churchill Lucas Tuhoro-Williams Ryan Mcnicoll Tobias Fenton

TKW TKW Rua Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Room 5

Kyra-Leigh B-L Bellah Lamositele Naomi Ashwell Danica Pickles Lilly Milne-Bailey Madeline Jayet

Room 6 Room 7 Room 8 Room 9 Room 10 Room 11

Healthy Eater Award Georgia Yeomans, TKW Rua Piper Snowden, Room 5 Naomi Ashwell, Room 8 Caught Being Good, Caught Being Active Awards Sharmaine Boese, Room 4 Alizē Rasmussen, Room 9 Parent Draw Congratulations to Gail Chambers, David Chiles and Pip Horgan

News from the Kārawha Team and Mr Turner The Kārawha Team have been extremely busy working on some amazing costumes and designs for our inquiry focus this term. There are some fantastic creations being developed by our students so that they can wow you at the end of term wearable arts show. Please feel free to speak with your classroom teacher if you wish to help out in any way with these beautiful pieces of work.

News from Room1 and Miss Tegan Hollis-Ristow This term Room 1 has said farewell

to six students who have moved

through to Rooms 2 & 3. We have

also welcomed 9 new students

from Room TKW and Seini Fifita

into our classroom. This term is all

about the arts, so in reading we

have been making plays. This week

the children in Room 1 each preformed Mrs Wishy Washy by Joy Cowley. We

have been busy focusing on Myths and Legends in inquiry and writing times. In

writing we have been making our own Myths based on stories such as ‘How the tiger got his stripes’ and ‘Medusa and

Athena’. In inquiry we have been looking into the story of Maui and the Fish, we are about to start making wearable

arts based upon this story. In the meantime we have looked at some other things that Maui has done like catching the

sun!

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Student’s Name: _____________________________Room: _____ Signed: ________________________________ Please share your comments about Whītau School with the ERO Review Team…..