Term 4 Week 1 Newsletter Wednesday 14 October 2015 Rāapa 14 Whiringa-ā-nuku 2015

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TERM DATES

FESTIVAL – Sunday 25 October

Labour Day holiday Tuesday 26 October

Term 4: Mon 12 October – Wednesday 16 December

UPCOMING EVENTS MoTec Technology Challenges: teams have been selected for these inter-school challenges. The Year 5 and 6 teams compete on Thursday 22 October and the Year 7 and 8 teams compete on Friday the 23 October.

Sailing: The Year 7 students have the opportunity to learn to sail at Kaiteri on Friday and the Year 8s have this opportunity on Monday. (Thanks to last year’s Festival for subsidizing this!)

Girls’ Rugby: The Year 7 and 8 girls have a rugby tournament in Motueka

next Wednesday

Principal: Alison Turner

Tel: 03 526 8842

Text Absences: 027 526 8842

Bank Account: 03 0693 0121445 00

Welcome Welcome back to all our students and to our Principal Ali who has been on sabbatical. We hope you all had a great holiday. This week we would like to extend a special welcome to our new students Tom who joins us in the Indigo Room and Chloe who joins Room 3. We hope you love your time here at Ngatimoti!

Mr Dunn Mr Dunn has accepted a teaching position at Nelson College for

Girls Preparatory School, beginning next year. Although we are

sad he is leaving Ngatimoti School, we wish him well! His

position at Ngatimoti is currently being advertised.

Shake Out (EARTHQUAKE!)

Shake Out is a nationwide event happening tomorrow morning at 9:15 am. We will all be practicing our earthquake drill at school, but please talk

to your children about what to do if an earthquake happens at home. This is a good time to ensure that we have any change of phone numbers

and emergency contacts at school. In the event of an earthquake at school, our procedure is to DROP, COVER and HOLD, and evacuate to the

bottom field on teacher instruction. If an earthquake did happen, we would contact as many parents as possible to collect their children from

school, but be assured staff would look after everyone until parents could get here.

Cricket Term 4 Separate notices have been sent out to all students who expressed their interest in joining a cricket team next term. Arrangements will now be made directly through Motueka Cricket Club who will be holding an open day this Saturday 17 October at Memorial Park Motueka. Ask Amanda for further details.

Volleyball Thanks for all your volleyball registrations! Those who have confirmed so far are Phoenix, Rowena, Aleesha, Joelle, Fraser, Amy, Jessie, Kingsley, Dana, Tui, Ashleigh, Ari, Naomi, Jasmine, Rosa, Archie, Ruby, Noa, Lili & Kai. If you are not included on this list and you still want to play you must pay your $20 fee or confirm with Amanda tomorrow. Teams will be confirmed and details sent out to parents following Coach Allan Brodie’s visit tomorrow. The first game is played next Tuesday 20 October at the Motueka High School Gym; time to be confirmed.

Touch Rugby Games begin next Tuesday 20 October with Intermediate and Junior teams playing on Tuesdays and Senior teams playing on Wednesdays. Thanks to Mike W and Nic W who have offered to coach teams! Teams are currently registered as follows with the times of play for the first game next week below:

Nippy Ngatimoti (Junior) Ngatimoti Rapids (Intermediate) Ngatimoti Steppers (Senior) Ngatimoti Eels (Senior) Chris, Nikau, Chico, Mannix, Sam, Tayla, Kaya

Isaak, Caleb, Pipiri, Freja, Mila, Louie, Harry, Liam, Sophie, Jacob

Oakley, Ruben, Oscar, Wolfgang, Teije, Archie, Fraser, Ollie, Shaemus

Jamie, Jordan, Billy, Jade, Amy, Joelle, Tenesha, Inca, Ethan

TUES 20 OCT 3.30pm vs LMS Little Rascals

TUES 20 OCT 4pm vs MSS Hurricanes

WED 21 OCT 4pm vs MSS Legends

WED 21 OCT 4pm vs Steiner Spitfires

QUICK REMINDERS

Hats on Term 4! Please make sure your child comes to

school with a named wide-brimmed hat so they are allowed

to play outside. No hat = no play.

Motueka Library Visits:

19 Oct 26 Oct 2 Nov 9 Nov 16 Nov 23 Nov

Rm 3 Holiday Rm4 Indigo Rm 3 Rm 4

School Cards – ½ price sale!

Ngatimoti School cards are for sale from the office

$5 pack of 8

Our new school sign went up today! Thanks to Peter Laufkotter for doing such a beautiful job.

MASSIVE DVDS FOR SALE NOW! A DVD of the whole show is now available to purchase - $10 each.

Please bring your order and payment to the office by next Friday 23 October at the latest. Thank you!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Congratulations to Oakley and Maya who

both celebrate their birthdays today and also

to Sam Mac who celebrates tomorrow!

Rā whānau!

GROW GREAT VEGETABLES AND WIN Yates Vegie Growing Challenge

is an opportunity for schools to win some great prizes while children learn

more about growing vegetables and having fun in the garden. Everyone who

registers online at www.yates.co.nz/vegie-challenge/2015 will receive a free

packet of vegetable seeds to get started. Click on the link to find out more!

LOST PROPERTY If you are missing items of lost property from last term please ask Lou as she has a collection ready to be donated to the Red Cross.

INDIGO ROOM HOME MADE SWEETS Help wanted to make sweets for our Indigo Room festival stall this Friday in school time. If any ex-students or parents would be available to help out making sweets next Friday and/or face painting on Festival day please give us a call. Thank you.

Upcycle Competition Tasman District Council are running this competition to be displayed at our festival in the community rooms. Create something useful by re-using old items that would otherwise go to landfill! Ask Amanda for an entry form!

Ngatimoti Festival 2015 Only 1½ weeks to go! Why do we have a Festival? The kids love it!

It brings our people together

We can showcase our wonderful school and community

We raise significant funds

Fourteen years ago it was decided to have one big fundraiser to support the schools finances. As well, we try to

make life easier for parents by not expecting them to pay out of their own pocket for too many ‘extras’. For example,

if we have a performer or show at school such as El Gregoe the magician or the Twisty Twins, we have not charged

parents. Over the past few years we have also paid for student stationery at the beginning of the year, bought a class

photo for each child and paid for bus transport to sports and events. We have subsidised many camps and trips. We

bought school gazebos, the greenhouse, gymnastics mats and lots of sports gear, laptops, ipads and TV screens. This

year we have paid for all students to have a series of dance lessons in Term 1 with Ezra and Dean, the Year 8s went

to Whenua Iti for leadership training and all students learned Life Education lessons with Harold the giraffe! We have

built the concrete rebound wall and installed a new piece of playground equipment for junior students this year. Of

significance also is the extra teacher aide time we have provided many students, by employing Judy, Amanda and

Glenn. None of these things are possible if we rely on Ministry of Education money and so we are very grateful for

the profits raised by the Festival.

This is why we really appreciate EVERYBODY committing to help at Festival time! Thank you to those who have

already made a scarecrow, brought items for the White Elephant, put flyers out etc etc. There is so much to do

before, during and after Festival, but it is all worth it!

If you can, please

Make and display a scarecrow asap

Bring in your eggs, lemons, ice-cream containers with lids.

Let Amanda know what else you can do to help – check the roster!

Let us know if you are able to lend us a BBQ, outside chairs/tables, shade umbrellas, small animal cages, carrier bags, chilly bins, rice cookers… more in next week’s checklist – give Amanda a call/email with any questions!

Do you go to Nelson/Richmond often? We need someone to collect rolls of newsprint from Nelson Mail.

Flyers Thanks for all your help distributing flyers – we have most of them out now but if you are going anywhere special you think we may not have covered please come and collect a couple more. Similarly if you have a roadside stall we could add a few flyers to please give us a call.

EGGS Please send in your surplus eggs for our whitebait stall. Eggs must be fresh, i.e. not more than 2 weeks old on festival day. Thanks!

TASMAN BAY BRASS ENSEMBLE Friday 30 October 7.30pm – Tickets $10

From Bach to Beatles – a renowned sound!

Playing at Ngatimoti’s St James Church

Tickets available from Ngatimoti School

(cash only please)

WHITE ELEPHANT Thanks for all your donations, our collection is looking great! We are accepting donations of

clothes, books, bric-a-brac etc. Please make sure your donations are clean and in reasonably good saleable

condition. You can bring in your items for sale anytime to Room 1. If you have items that need collecting please let us

know. We also need more people to help out on the White Elephant stall on the day – check out the roster on the

following page and give Amanda a call if you can help here.

FESTIVAL CAFÉ On the Saturday 24 October we hold a cake competition in the Hall and even if you’re not

competitive we would like every parent to bring along a cake to sell in the café on the day. Savoury items are also

welcome.

SILENT AUCTION Auction collection is going well but if you are willing to help out here on or before the day please

call Amanda in the office. If you know anyone who may give a donation or if you have a service, skill or creation that

people may want to bid for please consider a donation to our auction. Thank you.

SCARECROWS There are a few weird and wonderful scarecrows appearing! Please make a sign to go with your

scarecrow declaring NGATIMOTI FESTIVAL – SUNDAY 25 OCTOBER and clearly pointing in the direction of school.

If you live off a main road please let us know and we will make sure we include you in our competition – there are

prizes to be won every year for best scarecrow and they will be judged next week – add that to your list of fun for this

weekend!

DESPERATELY WANTED: PRIZES for Kidzone activities, small gift items for our lucky dip, vege seedlings for

our plant stall, baby animals for the animal tent – call Ron 526 8234, hay bales for seating, volunteers for running

around collecting things in Nelson/Motueka/Richmond next Friday… in particular please consider donating small

prizes for our lucky dip and kidzone as this will help greatly in reducing our costs in the running of festival.

ROSTER Please check the roster on the next page carefully for your name. Where you see a + we need more

help. Where you see a ? please confirm at the office. The idea is that you work with your team leader to

finalise timing of your shift. Parking helpers will need to start early – contact Barry B on 02231256992.

COMMUNITY NOTICES

SOCIAL NETBALL Any parents or year 8 students and older who would like to play social netball starting next Wednesday evening at the Rec. Centre (6pmish) please could you let me know by the end of the week, if there's enough interest I'm happy to put a team in. Teams are mixed, it will cost approx. $25 each and run for about 6 weeks. Lou Betts 5268815 or 0210457798 GARAGE SALE – THIS SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER. 10AM – NOON – 914 WAIWHERO ROAD (bottom of church hill). Clothes (women’s, teenage boys, babies), books, bric-a-brac, dahlia tubers and more… HOUSE WANTED TO RENT ASAP – School family looking for rental accommodation, preferably on the school bus route. Please phone Bek on 526 8589 or 0226463045. Thank you.

NGATIMOTI SCHOOL PARENTS GROUP - CAKE ROSTER $1 Cakes for sale every Friday. Please send your child with their money in a named purse.

On your duty day please bring approximately 24 pieces of cake to serve at 12.30pm. If you are unable to provide cakes for your

scheduled day please swap with another parent or phone Lisa on 526 8775. Thanks lovely parents – your baking raises approx $500

per term for Parent Group funds.

If any parents are able to send in cake to sell this Friday please do so – apologies for the short notice!

Friday 23 October – Ali T, Gali G, Hobbit

Roster for the remainder of Term 4 to follow next week.

Last year’s

winning

scarecrow!

Rails Girls Motueka – 7 & 8 November Free workshop for girls, learn designing, prototyping,

coding and introduction to Ruby on Rails at Motec,

Parklands School, Motueka

Apply at bit.ly/railsgirlsmotueka

Coaches wanted – bit.ly/railsgirlscoaches

Gates Parking Silent Auction

Bar Ice Cream Café Curry BBQ Whitebait Lamb Spit

Sue B Don H Catharine W Celia B Peter L Mechthild L Dan B Madeline R + +

Barry B Alistair S John H Simon L Ivan M Mike R Alex M Damian S Dan R Byron Mc Aike B + + + +

Catherine C Megan W + Lucy M ? Kyna T ? + + +

Kirsten B Sam R Nicola H Nicola W Deanna W ? BBQ bar Bob B Karen M Adrian M

Yvette A Judith B Charlie L Hamish K + + + +

Jan W Jud C Rachel G Pat F Michaela L Georgie G Sooyir L Carolin L Elaine H +

Joolz E Kylie O Di W

Graeme A Sam M Marianne Jason Martin G Jenny G Martin G Mike W + Damon W? +

Rita S Vanessa H Mike H Tanya C Camille N Evelyn D Ali T + +

Ruedi M Al C Bouke H Eamon M ? Andrew W Stefan L Barry E ? Franz V Rudi L + +

Pig Spit Animal Tent

Cow Pat Bingo

White Elephant

Plants Toilets Rubbish / Grounds

Money Other Noddy Train

Saul D

Louise D

Ross K ?

Greg R ?

Neil E ?

Simon R ?

Mel R ?

Kevin S ?

Ray C ?

Ron P

Justin K

+ Amber T ?

+ Roy M ?

+ Bek S ?

+

Hobbit

+

+ Charlie A ?

+ Craig S ?

Martina W Jo H Kathy S Leonie Mc + + + +

Keren S Maya M Freesia R Lauren T Lily W-S Dorit G Darryl G

Sasha B

Lisa S ?

Ian S

Suntah H

Mark C

+

Amanda

Andrea G

Glenys

Jennifer B

Karen H

Janine B

Kidzone

Debs G

Lauren M

Isabella C

Indigo Room & Room 3 students

Hot Dogs

Steve D

Room 51 students

Heidi KT

Kim T

Lucky Dip & Juicies

Heather R

Jill T

Room 4 students

Call Amanda in the office to make changes or add your name.

Where you see a + we need more help!! Where you see a ? please confirm.

Thanks everyone – we couldn’t do it without you!