Term 2 Week 2 Friday 13th May 2016 From the Principal It has been another interesting week in the life of Oropi School community with a wide range of activities going on. SENCO (Special Education Needs Coordinators) trip to Japan Mr Turner and Mrs King will be back at school later next week from Japan. They are currently in Hitachi, Tauranga’s sister city, with a group of SENCOs from other schools in Tauranga that belong to the Education Tauranga Group (this includes Oropi School). Part of the sister city agreement has been to ensure such a trip occurs so Japanese and New Zealand teachers can connect to learn from one another about how each educational system caters for special educational needs in schools. This is a rich learning opportunity for our teachers and the Japanese teachers as it is learning about this aspect of school operations from a different cultural lens, which is a very important aspect of education in the 21st century (this is an area I researched while on study leave last year). It also connects with our Asia Awareness strategy. Adam and Amanda have been presenting to Japanese teachers about the New Zealand system, attending workshops and meetings arranged by Japanese teachers and the Hitachi Ministry of Education team, meeting the Hitachi Mayor and other dignitaries. Before they head back to New Zealand, they will also visit two schools in Tokyo. They will be sharing their ideas and new knowledge on their return. Coding and Programming I would like to thank Patrick Van Rinsvelt for the time he gives to the school in working with students on coding and programming. He is currently working with a group of Y7&8s on programming and coding using “Arduino” – an open source electronics platform. The children are making interactive projects using coding and programming. The current project is creating a system where coloured lights glow to indicate certain air temperatures. An after school code club will be starting up again as well, as we had operating in 2015. More information will come about this opportunity.

An exciting aspect of this initiative is we will be entering Year 6-8 children in the Young Innovators Competition later in the year so we will have quite a large number of children in this. Great 21st century skills for our senior students! For this competition the children have to design an innovative product or service. School Buses IMPORTANT As a follow on from last week’s messages with regards to roll growth, our bus runs, particularly the User Pays Bus, are nearly at capacity. Therefore, it is important that children do not swap for one-off days as we need the certainty of numbers going on each bus each day. Changes like this could have a major impact when our buses are reaching capacity. We are working with the bus company regarding bus options to cater for our numbers. All procedures and requirements are currently being met, but we need to be mindful of and planning for the Term 3-4 period when our numbers are at capacity. Have a great weekend! Kind regards Andrew King Principal Notices Board of Trustees Nominations Everyone should have received their nomination forms last week in the post. Please ensure these are received no later than Friday 20th May. Matariki Plans On Friday, the 10th of June, during week 6 of this term, the junior and senior school will be presenting an assembly in celebration for Matariki. Each classroom will be presenting their own individual item that represents Matariki in some way or another. The junior assembly (Year 0 – 3) will be at 2pm in Piwakawaka, and the senior assembly (Year 4 – 8) with be at 9am in Pukeko. In both assemblies there will be five awards given out per class for specific Maori values. These values include: Ako – Learner, Whanaungatanga – Helping others, Manaakitanga – Relating to Others, Rangatiratanga – Leadership, and Kotahitanga – Togetherness/Team Building. Class Assemblies for Term 2 Pukeko will have their Assembly in their classroom, Friday June 3rd, 2:10pm Te Hokioi will have their Assembly in their classroom, Friday June 17th, 2:10pm Ruru will have their Assembly in their classroom, Friday June 24th, 2:10pm Music Please remember to pay your music fees. Lessons will start in Week 2. You will be guaranteed 8 lessons in Tem 2. Soap We have a waiting list for families wanting to sell more soap. Before we order more, we encourage families who are struggling to sell their soap to return it to the office so we can pass on to keen soap sellers. We would like all soap and money returned to the office before Friday 27th May. Payments Please ensure your account is up to date. We welcome automatic payments. Please pay to the school account:

ASB 12-3440-0087772-00

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Please use your surname as a reference.

School Visits The Term 1 & 2 dates have been updated. If you have a 5-year-old who is starting soon, please click the link to view the visits dates. http://bit.ly/oropischoolvisits School Polo Shirts Polo shirts are in stock. $35 for size 6-12. $38 for adult sizes XS & S.

Scholastic Book Club is back up and running. Issue 3 orders must be in before Friday 3rd June.

Sports Update Dear Coaches, Managers, team members and supporting parents/caregivers The staff at Oropi School would like to thank you for your time and effort assisting with coaching or managing a winter sports team and/or transporting and supporting your child to and from practises and games throughout the next two terms. We appreciate the commitment towards your child’s growth in sporting skills, values and the character building they will develop during this experience. We wish you all the best for your upcoming games. We hope that all participants and their supporters are positive role models for Oropi School and ‘Be All You Can Be’ on and off the field. We would love to share your successes and challenges with the school and wider community, so could the coaches or managers please email the office your weekly results, who the team versed and outstanding efforts on the day. We intend to share the successes in assemblies on a Monday morning and in the school newsletter. In the unlikely event of an issue occurring on or off the field which needs to be discussed or addressed further, please do not hesitate in contacting either myself or Sarah Weston. Have a superb sporting season and enjoy watching your children grow. A senior management member will endeavour to come along to some games to support the teams. Demelza Pendergrast [email protected] Sarah Weston [email protected] Netball Results The year 5/6 team played Merivale School and lost 6-0. A good game to start the season and players of the day were Iona and Lauren. The year 1 – 3 girls are doing really well on Tuesday afternoons at School. Thanks to Jackie Hodgson for running these sessions.

What's on at Oropi School Term 2 2016 Week

Dates

3

16 May – 20 May

4 5

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

HPV 2nd Dose & Boostrix education session 11.30am

Amazing Race Year 6-8

Tech Y7&8 & Year 6 Technology in action

BoT Nominations Close 12noon

23 May – 27 May

Rippa Rugby World Cup Blake Park

Tech Y7&8

30 May – 3 Jun

School Cross Country

GATE Students House of Science

Choir rehearsal am BoT Voting closes 12pm ARGOS Gym tournament Year 3/4

KRSA Cross Country

Matariki assemblies KRSA X Country postponement New BoT Announced ARGOS Gym tournament Year 3/4

People Savers First Aid Course Y7/8 BoT Meting

6

6 Jun – 10 Jun

Queen’s Birthday

7

13 Jun – 17 Jun

New Bot 1st Meeting

West Cluster Cross Country

West Cluster Cross Country Postponement

8

20 Jun – 24 Jun

Mobile Dental Clinic on site until Term 3 Week 4

WBOP X Country

Out of zone enrolments due today

9

27 Jun – 1 Jul

10

4 Jul – 8 Jul

User pays bus fees due today for Term 3

BOP X Country BOT Meeting

Music performance

NZEI Rural Principals Conference visiting groups

Teacher Only

Sign Language Week

On Tuesday we had two visitors from NZSL week visit our school. They taught us sign language. Some people are deaf and can’t hear, so they have to use sign language to talk to each other. We learnt to sign the colours in the rainbow, the alphabet letters, some animal names and the numbers to 10. We loved learning sign language and want to learn more. By Kiwi class.

Number: 6

Colour: white

Colour: red

Letter: b

Applause