Friday 22 May 2015 – Term 2 - Week 5
Value Focus for next two weeks: Initiative and Perseverance
From The Principal
Kia ora tatou katoa, Annyong Haseyo, Talofa, Malo e lelei, Bula vi naka, Kia orana Nga mihi nui ki a koutou, Namaste, Nihao, Greetings to you all.
CROSSING THE ROADS
I am gravely concerned when I read in Saturday’s Herald that a 5 year old child has been hit by a vehicle on their way to school. Gossamer Drive is a very busy road and is extremely dangerous at all times.
Our staff are greatly concerned about the high number of parents / families that are NOT using our pedestrian crossing each day whilst they are picking up and dropping off their children, our students, to Elm Park School. Our staff spend valuable time each day monitoring the pedestrian crossing to ensure that everyone is safe. However, this is increasingly difficult when we are ignored and verbally abused putting the children in grave danger everyday.
The Police are often present at our crossing at our request and they are horrified at the way motorists and pedestrian are behaving. There will be many more Police present as a result and many people will be given fines as a result of misdemeanours. Please, please ensure that more care is taken outside our school.
PARENT CONTRIBUTION AND ACTIVITY PAYMENTS
Thank you to those parents who have already paid. Just call the office if you are not sure if you have made a payment. We now have credit card facilities at the office. Our Teams have organised lots of exciting trips and activities for our students so please ensure their activities fees are up to date.
Have a lovely weekend.
Trish Plowright
Principal
Looking Ahead
PAYMENT BY CREDIT CARD - We now have the facility for you to pay with Credit Cards when making payments in the office. Hopefully this will be helpful to many of you.
Parent Contribution / Activity Fee reminder statements will be sent home next week. Please note that you are now able to pay by Credit Card.
YUMMY Stickers!! We are once again collecting these. Last year we received approximately $800.00 worth of equipment. Please send along any Yummy stickers you collect from a variety of apples.
Visiting Duchesses Dance Crew from last Friday’s lunchtime show
Second hand uniform - Just a plea that we only accept clean, near new clothing at the uniform shop to sell on behalf of parents/whanau. We are happy to accept donations of clothing for our students who get muddy or have an accident but please could it be clean, no holes or paint on the articles of clothing. We want our children to be smartly dressed and proud of our uniform.
Thank you for your co-operation.
COLGATES PRODUCTS RECYCLING
1.40 min video: http://www.terracycle.co.nz/en-NZ/brigades/oral-care-brigade.html
Colgate®, a global leader in oral care, has partnered with TerraCycle® to help provide a second life for toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes, toothpaste caps, floss containers, and their outer packaging materials.
Help divert landfill waste by sending your oral care products to Elm Park so that we can send to TerraCycle. For each approved item received, Elm Park School will be awarded two TerraCycle points. These points can be redeemed for a payment of $0.01 per point to Elm Park School. Please send to the office and we will have a collection box waiting.
Award Winners
POSITIVE SOCIAL INTERACTION
Congratulations to the following students who were selected and acknowledged this fortnight for their responsible, friendly behaviour.
Room 2 | Coey Leung | Room 16 | Ezekiel Stewart |
Room 3 | Abrielle Aseem | Room 17 | Kayden Liggett |
Room 4 | Irene Sung | Room 18 | Layla Timms |
Room 5 | Grayson Baigent | Room 20 | Elizabeth Davies |
Room 7 | Karis Chi | Room 21 | Joshua Christophers |
Room 8 | Khloe Rakich | Room 22 | Hailley Young |
Room 9 | Ariella-Traeh Sililoto | Room 23 | Zvaryn Engu Cordtz |
Room 10 | Room 24 | ||
Room 11 | Sage Cooper | Room 25 | Nikhil Kamath |
Room 13 | Adeline Santoso | Room 28 | Damien Hollins |
Room 14 | Braxton Heretuku | Room 29 | Raj Piratheepan |
Room 15 | Darius Elliot | ||
Personal Presentation Winners - The following students were voted as the overall fortnightly winner in their year level for the most neatly presented in their uniform.
Year 1 | Madeleine Wilson | Year 4 | Jenny Um |
Year 2 | Keeley Lambert | Year 5 | Isla Gutry |
Year 3 | Vijay Durairaj | Year 6 | Julius Boysen |
This Week In Review
2014 National Standards Data for Elm Park School
Dear School Community,
As part of our ongoing fundraising, we’re trying something a little different with a fantastic ecostore ‘Good Soap’ Fundraiser.
Selling for $2.50 each, the 80g ecostore soaps are excellent value and $1 from each soap will go to Elm Park School
If you haven’t tried ecostore soaps before, they’re beautiful to use, free of nasty chemicals and have a lovely fragrance.
You’ll be able to buy your Good Soap from the office from Monday 9 March 2015.
Fundraising activities like this make an important contribution towards Elm Park School for the benefit of our school community. We’re looking forward to a successful fundraising drive.
Thank you for your support.
Focus on Children
Room 21 have been learning about World War 1 and The Gallipoli Campaign. We have made presentations that you can view on our blogs. Here are some of the slides from some of our presentations. We hope you enjoy reading them.
Room 21 Boys. (Click on the pictures to view the slide show)
Community Notices
Mt Hobson Middle School - Enrolment for 2016
We are currently meeting with families for entry in 2016. Mt Hobson Middle school is a private school for boys and girls in Years 7-10. We offer small class sizes with a maximum 12 students per class, and a small school environment with 48 students in total. We work with students of all abilities, preparing them for success in Year 11 and beyond.
131 Remuera Road, Newmarket
Ph 523 1241
Email admin@mthobson.school.nz
