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Term 3—2015 No.12

P R I N C I P A L ’ S R A M B L E

Next Newslet ter :

06 August 2015

Remember:

School Hours :

8 :45 am to 2:45pm

Our Miss ion:

Developing Confident , Resourceful

Life -Long Learners .

WHAT’ S HAPPENING:

JULY

29 Board Meeting

AUGUST

7 Moffat Cup

27 Puberty Evening

SEPTEMBER

8 Sing Out Concert

14 School Photos

17 Art Around the World

Sharing

Thought for the Week

―Even if you’re on the

right track, you’ll get run

over if you just sit there‖

If you are interested in be-

coming one of our vegetable

garden volunteers please

contact the office. We need

you!!

Focus :

Key Competency

Relating to Others

Value : Understanding:

Meaning

How we play and learn

together using my WITS

Kia Ora, Talofa and Welcome to Week 1 : Term 3

Hopefully everyone has had a great rest and that you haven’t had too many bugs. Great to also see that there have been very few late arrivals during the first week - well done:)

Curriculua Focus this term: Technology - students developing processes to meet a need. The need being, developing a device to explore a planet of their choice. This hopefully will bring in the need for electrical circuits and the use use of materials appropriate for their planet. Watch out for the request material from home, ie boxes, old wheels, anything really that will help them make their device. In the second half of the term, students will be exploring Art Around the World - look-ing and learning about a specific artist and how they made their living. At some point in the term, you will be invited to buy the works students have created.

READING TOGETHER: Staff are offering a second opportunity for this programme in Term 3. Some parent comments from the last initial workshops were:

“We learnt how to wait and give time to our children when they are reading.”

“I, as a parent, gained so much confidence to know that I can help my child.”

“I saw reading from a child’s point of view.”

“I learnt how to prompt my child when they don’t know a word.”

If you are interested, please contact either: Noelene Marshall - Room Mataura; Jacqui Ferris - Room Kingswell; or myself.

TERM 3 EVENTS: Kapa Haka - practices have commenced for Polyfest. The students, as part of Maori Language Learning, have helped create a cloak that celebrates who they are. They have been painting symbols that represent their culture and Mrs Ferris and I will sew the cloak up.

The PTA have set aside money to help pay for Kapa Haka uniforms - and, as a school, we want your thoughts on what the Kapa Haka uniform should look like. During Term 3 we will be seeking your thoughts.

ILT Sing Out - Miss Harris and the Choir have started their practices for this event - so book the performance date into your diary: Tuesday, 8 September, Venue: Civic Theatre - information on ticket sales will come out soon.

Moffett Cup - information included in the newsletter for this event, but please diary this date if your child is involved - Friday, 7 August - Venue Tokanui School or Rugby Domain.

Blog Ninjas At the end of last term we advised that we were going to be creating music with Mark (the ILT Facilitator), however, we have decided to change this focus to develop students (and teachers) skills in blog usage. Mark will be working with teachers on the 4th of August and students for the next 5 weeks after this.

Kia Kaha Andrea and Staff

TISBURY

POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR FOR LEARNING (PB4L) Information for Parents and Caregivers - provided from the Ministry Of Education information sheet. This newsletter: Staff have introduced two strategies to reinforce positive behaviours across the whole school. 1) For returning playground equipment after the bell rings before school, after play and after lunch. If a student returns any play equipment they re-ceive 20 points for their house. 2) Staff on duty will also be handing out tokens (again, worth 20 points) to students who are showing respect through this terms focus: which for week 1 is using their manners by being coop-erative, being helpful and sharing.

Next newsletter: PB4L Behaviour is a form of communication.

Page 2

Tisbury School’s

Assemblies

Fridays: 11.30am

All Welcome

2015 TERM DATES

Term 1: 29 January –02 April

Term 2: 20 April—3 July

Term 3 :20 July -25 September

Term 4 :12 October—TBA

Thursday Canteen Dates

Term 3

No Noodles at school

________________________

Pita Pit 23/7, 13/8, 3/9, 24/9

Sausage Sizzle 30/7, 20/8, 10/9

Subway 6/8, 27/8, 17/9

Any volunteers to cook sausage sizzle next week please contact

the office

Kids Can

Do Any-

thing

Invercargill Secondary

Schools’ 2015 Open Days.

James Hargest College 26 July

Aurora College 29 July

Sthld Boys High School 30

July

Sthld Girls High School 30 July

Verdon College 2 August

Enrolments for all secondary

schools close on Friday 28

August 2015.

SCHOOL LIBRARY: As part of discussions from the Reading Together Programme - some of our par-ents were wondering if their pre-schoolers or even themselves could be use the school library to source books. Please use this opportunity to share our library with your child, or have your child share our library with you.

For Sale: some 2nd hand

uniform items.

2 x polar T Shirt—Size 6

1 x polar fleece jumper—

Size 6

1 x sports top—Size 8

1 x sunhat

Contact Ben Reid on 021

184 5591

Food Orders

will now be

delivered to

school on

Thursday 30

July. Pick up

in the after-

noon.

Just give it a

go

Certificate Winners

New PB4 L sign at the entry gate