Thursday 13 April 2017 Term 1 - Week 11

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.

Welcome to the last newsletter for this Term.  The time has rushed by and the children have been exposed to a huge number of different activities throughout the term.

Last Thursday a large number of our students received Principal awards and our new Values certificates in the Principal’s Assembly (see below). The winning house was announced and the Fun day was held on Wednesday. Congratulations to all the children who have received lots of ticks, tokens, awards and emails. The winning house was Kauri , Rata was second, Rimu third and Matai fourth, very close. The children are already busy earning more tokens and the houses are already filling up again.

Thank you to all the parents/whanau who are helping us by walking down the footpath at the back of the Year 1 block and not on the driveway. This is a health and safety measure. Thank you to all the parents/whanau who cross carefully and sensibly at the crossing instead of running across the road between the cars. We understand that it is chaos at the gate every day but we have no alternative than to monitor the crossing and driveway. It is in your children's safety.

We have lots of children arriving late to school and being picked up late after school as well. All children are to wait under the tree inside the school grounds for their safety. Please ensure that you have given the Office the correct contact details if we need to contact you in an emergency.

We hope you have a lovely Easter break enjoy the break. School starts again on Monday 1 May 2017.

Trish Plowright

Principal

RAIN COATS AND JACKETS AT SCHOOL - Please ensure your children have suitable jackets for school.  Many of the students are running errands in the rain during the school day or heading to other classes for groups and getting wet.  That is not so bad while the weather is still mild but they will need to stay dry in the colder, wetter months.

Cultural Activities /Annual Trips Payment $100.00 per year ($25.00 per term)

Parent Contribution & Annual Trips and Cultural Activities Payment - Thank you to all the parents/caregivers who have paid the school donation, activity fee and purchased the stationery pack so promptly. This assists us in getting the learning programmes underway as quickly as possible and enables the routines to be established early. Elm Park School strives to provide a quality education with a wide variety of opportunities for all students to participate, not just trips. This payment is very important to the school as many of our activities rely on this money.  Enrichment groups such as Maths, Art, PE, Music, Chess, Swimming activities, Digikids (ICT). Please support the school by making this payment as soon as you are able to.  

Parent Contribution Per Child   $160.00

Payment can be made through the school office during school hours, on the website using Wrap It Up online payments, or by internet banking. EFTPOS is available, and alternative payment options may be discussed with our Executive Officer, Ann-Marie Kawana.

Last year we introduced Wrap it Up, an online payment system for all school related payments in 2017. The benefits to the school include a more efficient way to manage and reconcile parent payments along with cost savings due to reduced paper and money handling. The benefits to you are a quicker and easier way to pay - 24/7, and no more paper permission slips to contend with! It makes everyone's lives much easier and we will be encouraging everyone to use Wrap it Up this year. If you've not already set up a Wrap it Up account, you will receive an email shortly inviting you to activate an account.  If we don’t have your current email address you will need to contact the office.  Please also contact the office if you have any further  questions about this.

Donation Receipts - Did you know that families with an annual income of $70,000 or less, may be eligible for a childcare subsidy. If you would like to apply, you can find an application form at your local WINZ office, or visit www.workingforfamilies.govt.nz If you require any replacement or duplicate donation receipts for tax purposes please request them at the front office before the end of the year. Our financial software cannot issue duplicates after the start of the new year.

Uniform Shop Hours - Monday – Friday mornings 8.15 – 9.00 am and afternoons 2.30 - 3.00pm (Libby Douglas is in charge of the uniform shop).

All children are expected to wear the correct uniform at all times.

·       All shirts must be the school uniform blue short sleeved shirt.

·       Headbands should be black, white, or blue.

·       Long hair should be tied back.

·       Only stud earrings are acceptable.

·       No nail polish.

·       Sensible black sandals, NOT coloured shoe laces etc. No canvas shoes.

·       Sun hats to be worn Term 1 and Term 4

·       Sports uniform for Years 5 & 6

After School Arrangements - In an emergency please feel free to call the school office to pass on after school arrangements to your child.  However due to the number of children in the school, we need to keep these calls to a minimum.  Wherever possible, please make arrangements with your child before school and if they need a reminder, a note to their teacher or a note in their school bag would be appreciated.  Thanks.

Road Safety  Thank you to Mrs Karen Allen for co-ordinating the Road Safety timetable. We encourage parents to help us by not parking on the yellow lines, making sure that the children walk safely across the crossing and up the path, not on the back driveway as it is a busy access to the school and not abusing our staff who are doing this job on top of all the other things they do. If you have any spare time we would love your help to monitor the Road crossing.  Please contact Mrs Karen Allen (09 577 0191)

Kids Korner (Before school  & After school care).

Just to remind you that we have this facility available. Please contact Kirstie Miller (5770198)

Before school             7.00 am – 8.30 am

After school                3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

 Award Winners

PRINCIPAL'S AWARDS

Congratulations to the following students who were selected and acknowledged this term as Principal’s Award Winners.

Congratulations to the following students who were selected and acknowledged this term as our

 Three R’s Winners.

RESPECT - Whakaute-a-ngiato - At Elm Park School we show RESPECT in the way that we treat other people.

RESILIENCE - Aumangea - At Elm Park School we show RESILIENCE in the way we overcome obstacles about out learning and behaviour.

RESPONSIBILITY - Takohange - At Elm Park School we show RESPONSIBILITY by managing ourselves, our jobs and the way we look after property and places in our school.

Focus on Children

Room 25 have been writing Ko Ahau/I am poems this term.

We were learning to use the language feature of metaphors in our writing.

I am Samantha

I am a fiery monster truck climbing through tough times.

I am Mount Maunganui with pohutukawa trees full of learning.

I am chinese noodles with fresh learning waiting for us to gobble and fill room for new learning in my tummy and my brain!

I am a tui souring through marvelous fluffy clouds of ideas.

I am chocolate cake waiting for toppings of ideas and learning scraped on to the top of the chocolate cake.

I am a Kapa Haka dress swaying to the moves.

I am the person you can rely on when you need help.

I am a horse bitting a persons but and telling them to do there homework!!!

By Samantha

Ko ahau - I am-Rory

I am an army jeep fighting through challenges

I am a gas station fueling ⛽️ up for learn.

I am a peaceful turtle cruising to the music.

I am a fizzy soda bubbling with ideas.

I am a spacesuit floating around worlds of ideas.

I am a wall solid on the subject.

I am a tree reaching for my  goal.

By: Rory

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