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Newsletters October 28th 2009
QUIZ NIGHT Fundraising for Resolution Bay The Pines (Princess Bay) Thursday 29th October 7.00pm Entry $10.00 Tickets bought on the night
Available Term Four Dates 29 Oct Battle of the Bands Mufti—Tsunami Appeal 04 Nov Inter Intermediate Touch Tournament Working Together Workshop 6—7pm 06 Nov Life Education Caravan leaves Postponement day II Touch tournament 12 Nov Inter Intermediate Swimming Sports 13 Nov School Speech Contest Finals 15—20 Nov Resolution Bay Camp 1. 18 Nov Inter-Intermediate Softball Tournament 20 Nov Postponement II Softball tournament 22—27 Nov Resolution Bay Camp 2 02 Dec School Swimming Sports 03 Dec Speech Celebration 7pm. (local schools) 14 Dec Picnic Day Year 8 formal social 15 Dec Prize giving 7pm. 16 Dec School ends 12.00 noon. (Note. Some dates to be added)
Tuesday 2nd February First day Term One, 2010
Thank You Students We wish to publicly recognise the appropriate, positive behaviour displayed by these students and identified by a staff member. Dimaris Walker-Visala Sam Sidler Joanna Rubi (2) Chantal Clarke Emily Wood (2) Benji Taankink-Williams Rhys Magele Cheyenne Horne Arahea Te Uatuku Tamela Dunn Michaela Priest Nicole Saunders Wiki Taankink Shasabian Teautama
Coming up … 29th October Mufti Money raised to help Tsunami victims of Samoa and Tonga. 29th October Battle of the Bands. Our school band will compete at Maidstone Intermediate. 4th November Inter Intermediate Touch Tournament Our teams will compete against the best teams in Wellington. 4th November Working together— Kia Kotahi Tatou The beginning of our home/school partnership. 4th November Inter Intermediate Touch Tournament Postponement date. May be needed with the weather we are having,
TOP HOUSE Kotare
CHESS CLUB Restarts Nov 11th Wednesdays
STUDY CENTRE Tuesdays 3.00 p.m. —4.00 p.m. School Library Students are welcome to attend for supported independent study. Afternoon tea provided.
Quote of the Week “When things are at their worst I find that something always happens.” W. Somerset Maugham
Principal’s Comment There is currently a strong consensus in education literature on the link between parent involvement in a child’s education and academic achievement. Many studies conclude that parental support and involvement in the school is the number one factor in predicting academic success, more important even than socio-economic status. In recent decades, the terminology used to discuss home and school relationships has shifted from language focused on “parent involvement” to a call for school and family “partnerships”. Whereas “parent involvement” puts the onus on parents to engage with schools, “partnership” suggests that the burden must be shared equally by parents and schools, and that it incumbent on both parties to work together so that children might succeed. Partnership means establishing shared goals and having a shared investment in outcomes, thereby combating the “us-versus-them” dynamic that can be corrosive to the home and school relationship. A lack of partnership ignores the whole child, the child who exists, not separately at home and at school, but whose existence in one sphere fundamentally impacts on the other. In the past we have encouraged parent involvement in school and, with willingness on both sides, we have had success. We have had great groups of parent helpers on camps and trips, helping with sports teams and dramatic/dance performances. Some years we have had a relatively small but active PTA. We need to continue with this but now take it a stage further. Our new initiative, “Working Together – Kia Kotahi Tatou” is not seeking parent involvement. I believe we can begin to develop a new relationship – a true partnership where we can work together for your child’s benefit. We are beginning with a workshop on ways you can help your child at home with reading but we can host workshops on any topic that may be helpful for parents. There will be challenges in forming a true partnership. For a start it was difficult even finding a suitable evening to hold the workshop. Several teachers, including myself, are normally busy with other things on Wednesday evenings. We realise the importance of developing the partnership and so have made ‘Working Together – Kia Kotahi Tatou’ a priority. We all lead such busy and demanding lives. This first step in forming a new type of school relationship will not be a success without a good number of parents. You will be made very welcome. M. Debney
Empty Computer Cartridges Don’t throw them away! Send them to school with your child. We will collect them and can raise $4 for each one, any size. Remember your empty ones at work as well. Ask friends and family to collect for you. Let’s see how many we can get!!
BOARD OF TRUSTEES CONTACT Lynn McBain (Chair) 027 241 4082 Eryl Jones 383 6235 Lindsay Daysh 027 261 5840 Barry White 021 477 663
Working Together Kia Kotahi Tatou 6pm Wednesday November 4th School Library I warmly invite all parents/caregivers to be part of this important new initiative to lift our student achievement even further. We will be holding a workshop on practical ideas to help your child with reading at home. There will be ideas for developing readers and for extending excellent readers. I believe if we can all work closely together in an atmosphere of mutual respect and trust, we can be a truly outstanding school. This will be an opportunity to work towards this. The meeting will just take one hour including a light supper that will be provided. Younger children will be supervised and entertained during the workshop. Please remember this date and time! I look forward to seeing you there. M. Debney
FOOD TECHNOLOGY To encourage students to make the recipes they are learning in Food Technology, the recipes are being placed on the SWIS website in the Food/Fabric Technology section. Bon appetit!
Student Council Mufti Thursday 29th October $2 Proceeds towards the Samoa and Tonga Tsunami Appeal
EXCELLENT HOCKEY RESULTS AT INTER INTERMEDIATE TOURNAMENT
Our girls team beat almost every other school (one draw) to win the round robin competition. They faced Raroa Intermediate in a very tense final, which they won 1-0. The boys team played extremely well but did not enjoy the success of the girls. The tournament was a great opportunity for many of these first time players to experience the speed and intensity of hockey. Both teams exhibited a high level of positive team play and all players were a credit to the school. Special thanks to all the parents who came to support the teams, especially Brenda Lewis who took up the manager’s role. It was a pity Raroa Intermediate was so confident they didn’t bother to bring the trophy.
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