Issue 8 1 June 2016 Kia Ora, Talofa, Malolele, Kiorana, Greetings from Mrs Judy Jemmett, Acting Principal As we end May we officially enter the start of winter and cold weather. We have had an amazing autumn but with the quick change of season comes the winter ills and chills and all that this encumbers. If your child is sick they are best kept at home as the school’s sick bay does not have the facilities to cater for more than three children at a time. If your child reports to the office sick and the office staff deem that they should be at home please expect a telephone call.

Curriculum Reviews The school has an on-going self-review of curriculum programmes. As part of a curriculum review we survey students, parents and staff. This year we are reviewing our Technology and Art Programmes. Your child will soon come home with a survey for these subject areas that we would very much appreciate you taking time to look at and give us feedback. The school values the feedback we have received in the past. During 2014 we learned from parents that they wanted the school to offer a swimming programme. This was taken into consideration and this year we were able to offer this for all of our Year 7 students.

BOT Elections We are currently in the situation of having an election to choose five candidates from the seven parent nominations received. I trust everyone has received their voting papers and have exercised their democratic right and voted. Voting closes this Friday but a few days grace is given for postal votes to come in. We should know in the middle of next week who the successful candidates are. If you haven’t sent your voting papers in as yet it is not too late! Voting envelopes can be dropped into the office or sent to school with your child or of course posted.

Cross Country We had wonderful weather for our annual Cross Country event that was held at the Northpark Industrial area. It was good to see the large number of parents and family members turn up to watch the five races. Well done to all students who participated and congratulations to the first ten across the line in each gender and year group who get the opportunity to compete against intermediate and middle schools in Canterbury at Halswell Quarry soon.

School Car Park Sorry but our school only has one car park and this is for staff only. We do not allow students to be in our car park for safety reasons so therefore it is not a drop off or pick up area. We will soon have the car park area totally fenced and gated so this will hopefully stop students and might I add visitors to the school from walking through this area.

Dropping off and picking up of students With the alterations to the Walnut Avenue side of the school it now poses several issues. For those of you who have parked along here you will have observed lawn has just been sown so we do not expect anyone to walk across this area. If you park here it means that students are obliged to walk along the cycle area to get to vehicles. I think this is a safety risk at present. I doubt very much whether there will be a good strike of lawn at this time of the year so this will be an issue for some time.

Parents have been observed parking over pedestrian crossings and the school car park entrance to drop students off as well as to pick them up. This practice is very unsafe and I would like to see it stop please or otherwise the school may have to follow this up by taking registration numbers of vehicles who persist in doing this.

Headlice We are currently aware of several students with Headlice infestations. When a parent reports that their child has headlice all students in that particular class are given a letter to advise parents to check their child’s hair and take the necessary action if nits or lice are found. If a teacher suspects a child has head lice or nits they notify the office who check this out and if confirmed notify parents and distribute a letter to every child in the class. There are many methods for eradicating the problem, some of which do not involve costly solutions.

Nga mihi nui Judith Jemmett

Acting Principal

Calendar of Events

3 June

BOT Parent Representative Voting Closes

6 June

Queens Birthday Holiday Observance

9 June

Cybersafety evening at AIS Hall 7.00 pm—All parents are welcome to attend

9 June

HPV Vaccine follow up at school

13 June

ICAS Writing Exam

15 June

ICAS Spelling Exam

15 June

Gymnastics competition Christchurch

20 June

Bookings open for mid year interviews—www.parentinterviews.co.nz

21 June

BOT Meeting 7.00 pm Boardroom Administration Block

21 & 23 June

AIS performing at Music Festival

22 June

Inter Intermediate Cross Country at Halswell Chch

30 June

Mid year reports sent home

5-7 July

Mid Year parent -teacher-student interviews—bookings by website

MID CANTERBURY SCHOOLS MUSIC FESTIVAL DATES FOR PERFORMANCES Our School performance dates are Tuesday 21 June and Thursday 23 June. This event is held at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre, 211 Wills Street Ashburton. Cost of tickets: $14 per seat (adult or child) plus fees will be on sale SOON. Please book at Ashburton Trust Event Centre, 211 Wills Street or on www.ticketdirect.co.nz or phone Ticket Office: 03 307 2010

Yesterday 20 of our school leaders and school councillors attended the National Young Leaders Day at the Horncastle arena, Christchurch to be inspired by various keynote speakers. Pictured above is Thomas Patterson and Aidan Watt with presenters on the day Robbie Fruean, Dave Baxter and Tihou Messenger-Weepu

Cross Country Results 2016 – Held at Ashburton Business Estate Year 8 Boys

Year 8 Girls

Caleb Ward

Maddy Wilson

Flynn Mackenzie

Jahnaka McIntyre

Blake Farr

Jasmine Sturm

Fergus O’Neil

Zoe Kenny

Tyler Leonard

Georgia Schmack

Ben Middleton

Marlese Schoonderbeek

Charlie Galbraith

Sierra Chambers

William Joyce

Aleesha Haslemore-Smith

Aidan Watt

Emily Milner

Brodie Young

Tamaki Nishioka

Year 7 Boys

Year 7 Girls

Henry Soal

Maddi Lowry

Kaleb Leonard

Mia Christie

Liam Fuller

Charlotte Watson

Ashton McGrath

Milly Christie

Damien Green

Jessyca Donn

Josh Brinsdon

Lusungu Mbambo

Matthew Pearce

Ally Power

Zane Cameron

Chinatsu Hunt

James McLaren

Holly Trotter

Dion Reid

AmelieDick-Robertson

The first ten place getters in each age group are eligible to compete in the Inter Intermediate Cross Country event to be held at a later date. Below: Our 5 AWD (Athletes with Disabilities) students competed in the 1 km event on Friday. Below Right : Year 7 girls at the start line of their 3 km event.

DRUMS LESSONS There are a couple of spaces available for drum lessons held at school. Teacher Rob Zipfell has 30 year experience playing and teaching drums. Lessons are $20 for a 1-1 lesson. Contact the school office or Rob Zipfell on 3072176 or 0273158657

WINTER KILTS

We are very short of good

quality second hand kilts. If you know of anyone who has a kilt to sell to the school PTA please bring it into the office. It is preferable that kilts are dry cleaned to achieve maximum amount of resale val-

COMMUNITY NOTICES Free Dental Care for Children Our Community Dental Service preventive mobile will be leaving your school soon. After checking your child’s teeth a ‘Care Plan’ may have been sent home to let you know that further dental care is required. If you have not made an appointment yet please phone our Call Centre today as we would like to see your child as soon as possible. If your child has not been seen during our visit you can talk to the staff in the mobile, or phone/email our Call Centre . Please contact our Call Centre if you want further information on the Community Dental Service, to enrol your child or if you have any questions about your child’s dental care (a dental therapist will call you back) We have enjoyed our time at your school. Please remember to encourage your child to brush their teeth twice a day with fluoride toothpaste!

To contact our Call Centre: phone 0800 846 983 / email [email protected]

Canterbury Country U15 Girls Basketball Fun Day Fundraiser Kids bring your parents along and help our girls get to Nationals and have lots of fun When:

Sunday 12th June 12.30 - 3.30pm

Where:

Oxford Street Basketball Stadium

3 mini skills sessions for the kids just $5 (sign up from 12.30pm; starting at 12.45pm) Come along & have lunch with us; BBQ, drinks and baking available lots of raffles & prizes to be won so bring your gold coins :) Some fun games & activities the whole family will enjoy For more information please contact: Joe on 3072779