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FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Friday 12th SeptemberWhole School Assembly
2pm, School Hallrun by the
School Council
Wednesday 17th September
BOT Meeting 7pm
Friday 26th SeptemberLast Day of Term
School Closes 2.50pm
Monday 13th OctoberFirst Day of Term 4
ISSUE NO. 29 DATE: 12th September, 2014
HELLO FROM THE PRINCIPAL!
Dear Parents/Caregivers,
At today’s whole school assembly, hosted by our Student Council, we will be enjoying the musical talents of many of our students. We are fortunate to have the talented Mrs Lee and Mrs Vincent, running our music programme here at school and a growing number of our students also participate in extra-curricula instrumental lessons on guitar and keyboard. Our lovely choir will perform a song they sang as part of the Kids for Kids concert, that was held at the Telstra Events Centre last week. Mrs Vincent reported that they demonstrated excellent behaviour and performed beautifully - well done to all the students who represented us so well!
Special thanks to Mrs Bull for organising Kite Day, which was held earlier this week at Totara Park. The 600+ of us were quite the sight, making our way to the park with all our kites and were thrilled with the number of parents and family members who came to join us. Well done to all the students who made a kite and showed persistence in getting it off the ground. Special mention to our prize winners Kayleigh, Varinder, Breno, Vaelyn, Nathan, Jacob, Eva K, Toria, Dylan (Taylor), Jasleen and Sam!
SUSANNAH FOWLER, PRINCIPAL
Website: www.thegardens.school.nz Phone: 09-269-0041 Email: [email protected] Address: 101 Charles Prevost Drive, Manurewa, Auckland Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheGardensSchool
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CONTACT INFORMATION Have your contact details changed?
Please make sure any changes to address/phone numbers/email contacts etc. are passed on to the school office to ensure we have up to date contact information for all our families.
GENERAL NOTICES:
PEOPLE OF THE WEEK:Each week at our Monday morning assembly we recognise 6 students for their efforts, either in learning, behaviour, school values or for some other special reason.This week we acknowledge:
Briann Aragon -‐ Takahe 2 Jacob Fallon -‐ Takake 1Sahara Hoskins -‐ Kereru 2 Setu Petaia -‐ Kakapo 2Anahera BeaKy -‐ Takahe 1 Methila Rahman -‐ Pukeko 1
MATHEX SUCCESS!!This week our Y5/6 and Y7/8 Mathex teams competed in the Manurewa Mathex competition, held at Manurewa Intermediate School. Mathex is a faced paced maths “race”, where teams compete to correctly answer as many problems as they can, in a given time.Our Y7/8 team placed SECOND in their field of 11 schools and our Y5/6 team came FIRST out of 13 schools!!
YEAR 5/6 Team: Riya Singh, Yash Chandra, Hannah Najar and Ethan Dissmeyer
YEAR 7/8 Team: George Liu, Ibrahim Moussa, Dylan Meleisea and Christopher Simonds
TEST YOURSELF: Mathex Practice Question (no calculators allowed and try to answer it with 60 people all talking around you......)
There are forty markers sitting at the markers’ desks at the Mathex Competition. If a tenth of them are not teachers, and a third of the teachers are men, how many female teachers are there?
WODONGA EXCHANGEWe have received confirma/on that 12 students and 2 teachers will be visi/ng from Wodonga South School, from the 9th -‐ 17th November. We are looking for host families who currently have a child in Y6-‐8 to host these students during their /me here. If you are interested in hos/ng, please see the school office for a host family “expression of interest” form and return it to school as soon as possible. Please contact Kate Gifford with any ques/ons [email protected]
KITE DAY, 2014Poems by Kea 2, Photos by Mrs Fowler
ConfeN SkyI gaze up into the confeN skyThe kites fluKer, twirl and flyI tug my string, as taut as I couldTo keep it in place, as it shouldThe dazzling tail spirals high,Like a tornado, spinning, twisSng, highSlowly slithering like a snakeA tail of colour it would makeHigher and higher it will soar,Into the cloudsLost to me forever more
By Devanshi Ranjan
At OnceWhere there stars once wereas beautiful as ever beforeThe kite takes over once moreIn the night skyWhere the stars once were
Gliding, slicing straight through the bleeding skyLike a knife slicing through cold butter,Trailing freely, a mind of its ownIt reaches the unsuspecting clouds
At once the stars vanishAt once the sun awakesAt last the kite breaks
By Shayal Sami
SPORTS NOTICES:KIDS Auckland Marathon - Sunday 2nd of November 2014Start: 10.45am - Beaumont St, Auckland City
SCHOOL ENTRIES CLOSE AT THE OFFICE MONDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 8:45am - (Students can still enter individually after this date on the Adidas website and run with TGS)
BE PART OF THE ADIDAS AUCKLAND MARATHON! Kids at primary school aged 7 & over and intermediate school. Final 2.195km run on the day at the adidas Auckland Marathon event.One parent or guardian can run with their child in the 7-9yr group KIDS MARATHON free of charge.
School training days are Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8 am on the top courts, these will be supervised and attendance recorded. For cancellations on training days, due to poor weather, please view The Gardens School Facebook Page. The training distances will vary from 1-3 kilometers and even more for our intermediate runners. For an entry form and payment please see the school office. All students attending the kids marathon event, they will need to have transport and supervision arranged by their caregiver.
Term 3 Sports Calendar
MPSSA Y5/6 Basketball Tournament - Week 9, Tuesday 16 September
VOLLEYBALLCC Y7/8 Volleyball Tournament - Week 9, Thursday 18 September
HOCKEYMPSSA Y5/6 Hockey Tournament - Week 8, Tuesday 9 September
BADMINTONCC Y7/8 Badminton Tournament - Week 9, Friday 19 September
FREE INTRODUCTION TO GOLF
For youngsters Year 5-8, at The Manukau Golf Club
After school Mondays and Fridays 4.30 - 5.30pm
All equipment provided. Our focus is on FUN and Development.
Why not try it out?Interested?Contact Jock Paterson to book your free session: 09 267 0597
