23 May 2016/14
Titiro ki Runga
Look Up and Reach for the Stars
School Values - We want our children to be:
Respectful; Caring; Honest; Responsible; Creative; Successful
and to Persevere
Welcome to week four of term two. The Warriors visit last week was very well
supported and they came with great messages about the importance of Sleep,
Hydration and Belonging. The event ended with a “That‟s Gold” photo so
hopefully we may appear on the NRL Footy Show. How could they not choose
an awesome school like ours!!
Puanga Festival: Topkids South Road are inviting you and your whanau to their
Puanga Festival to celebrate the Maori New Year with a shared hangi and a
balloon releasing ceremony.
Date: Friday June 10, 5.30 – 7.30 pm at the Ramanui School Hall. RSVP by June
1 - Phone 278 – 8366 or email: [email protected]
Dog Safety Talks: Tomorrow all of our classes will be involved in a Dog Safety
talk of about an hour. The timetable is: 9.00 – R 1& 4; 10.00 – R 2 & 5; 11.30 –
R 6 & 7; 1.30 – R 3 & 8. You are most welcome to join in if you would like.
Enrichment: Our current areas of focus for our enrichment programme are as
follows: Matarki – in preparation for June 6 lead by Jude Sklenars; Coding –
lead by Tash Gibson; Choir in preparation for a choral competition lead by
Donna Taunt and Te Reo lead by Helen Barrett and parents.
Scabies at School : Scabies are caused by tiny insects that burrow along the skin
laying eggs as they go. Above the eggs small blisters form surrounded by red
patches – these are very itchy. Scabies will not go away without treatment.
Anyone can get scabies. Even the cleanest people get scabies. Washing in soap
and water or swimming in the sea will not prevent or cure it. Scabies spreads
easily to other people in the family and their friends. Scabies spreads by close
bodily contact, e.g holding hands, hugging, sleeping together, sharing clothes and
bedding. Scabies does not live on furniture or carpets.
How do you Know? Scabies causes a very itchy rash that is worse at bedtime or
when you are warm. The rash is caused by the scabies mite laying eggs. Small
blisters form, surrounded by a red patch. You may first notice the rash: between
fingers; on the wrist; inside elbows; around the waist; on the bottom or private
parts. If someone in the family has scabies others may have caught it without
noticing a rash or itch. If you are not sure if you have scabies please talk with
your health professional.
Measles: While we have not had a break out of measles it is a timely reminder to
check that your child has been vaccinated against this disease.
Religious Instruction: Religious Instruction will now take place every Thursday
from 12:45 to 1:15pm in the library. This is open to all children who are
interested in participating.
Subway for Lunch on Wednesday.
Nga mihi nui
Linda.
Principal
Ph 272 8023.
Certificates
The following children will be receiving certificates at our assembly on Friday.
Assembly will be in the hall and will begin at 2.15 pm. Our hosts will be Kordae
Ross, Nevaeh Ratahi and Kyin Crawford from Room Two.
Room One: Daniel Lintern, Ivy Broughton, Brock Mack.
Room Two: Dametrix Edwards-Todd, Izabella Ching, Kaiyn Gray.
Room Three: Lucian Harper, Simulata Aholelei, Kensie White.
Room Four: Reeve Nelley, Cameron Campbell, Hayley Gavin.
Room Five: Peysha Hawira, Max Surgenor, Cody Fabish.
Room Six: Leyton Potroz, Lakita Jensen.
Room Seven: Autumn White, Sally Terry, Jaxson Rae.
Room Eight: Kayla Hori, Phoenix Edwards-Todd, Nate Wards.
Other awards from last Friday‟s assembly were:
Crunchie Bar: Asha White / Marius Aholelei.
Jump Jam: Ivy Broughton
Caught Being Good: Foma‟i Vaitupu
Best Banker: Kayla Hori
Tidiest Corridor: 1, 2, 5, 6, 8.
Winning House: Kakariki / Kikorangi
Dates to Remember
Day
Monday
Date
Month
30
May
Monday
6
Wednesday 8
Monday
13
Tuesday
14
Monday
4
June
June
June
June
July
Time
6:30pm
6:00pm
Event
Rippa Tournament in
New Plymouth
Queen‟s Birthday holiday
Bhana Cup
PTA meeting in staffroom
BOT meeting in staffroom
Graeme West Tournament
Normanby School
Board of Trustees Election 2016
Declaration of Parent Election Results
At the close of nominations, as the number of valid nominations was
fewer than the number of vacancies required to be filled, I hereby declare
the following duly elected:
Nelley, Leroy
Ogle, Sheree
Declaration of Staff Election Results
At the close of nominations, as there was only one valid nomination
received I hereby declare the following duly elected:
Dravitzki, Clarissa
Adrienne Cooper
Returning Officer
STAFF NOTES
Room 1
Tena koutou,
I have been very impressed with the kindness shown by students in Room 1 this
week. Students have been demonstrating kindness by respecting their peers and
ensuring other people feel safe.
Mathematics
Room 1 is practising using different multiplication and division strategies to
solve problems.
Mathletics
There is only a week left to use this website for free. Thank you to those parents
who gave feedback on their child‟s involvement with activities. I have shifted
students according to feedback.
Reading and Writing
Students have started their research challenge. They have chosen their topic,
asked interesting questions and are starting to search for specific information.
Rhett and Brock are researching white tail spiders. The boys had great joy in
telling me that these spiders are often found in drawers of clothes or shoes.
Addison is researching weta, but I think I have convinced her not to bring live
ones into the classroom.
Inquiry
Some of the questions Room 1 has about heat are;
 I wonder if heat moves?
 What things make heat?
 Can we create heat?
 How do things stay hot?
 What things get hot?
 How can we create heat?
 Can boxes or tin foil keep stuff warm?
Class Goals for this week;
o To show kindness to others.
o To find answers to some of our questions.
Thank you for your support.
Helen Barrett
Room 2
Hi everyone,
Well done to our hosts, Samara and Jeila, last Friday. They did a super job with
hosting our assembly. We are on assembly again this week. Our hosts are
Kordae, Kyin and Nevaeh.
Thank you to all the parents, grandparents, aunties and uncles that came on the
beach trip with us. We really appreciate you taking the time out of your week to
join us. This week in maths, two groups are finishing off learning about graphs
and the other group continues to work on addition stories and number sentences.
This week we start our writing clubs with Rooms 3 and 8. Today we had a milk
tanker visit us for a writing experience. The boys will be working with Miss
Sklenars and myself and the girls will be working with Mrs
Dravitzki, Miss Cooper and Miss Holloway during writing time.
Our focus will be writing a description. Tomorrow we have a
refresher on Dog Safety which is a topic that some of our
children learned about last year. This is an important message
and we appreciate the Dog Safety team coming in to reinforce it.
Have a great week,
Jessica
Room 3
Hi everyone,
In comparison to last week we have a fairly quiet week this week, which is good
as it means we will have a lot of focused learning time in class. 
This week we are starting our girls and boys writing clubs with Rooms 2, 3 and
8. Every day this week during writing time all the boys
will be working in Room 8 with Miss Sklenars and Miss
Fifield, while all the girls will be working in Room 3
with me, Miss Cooper and Miss Holloway. Today we
had a Fonterra tanker come and visit us and we are using
that as a basis for our writing.
For inquiry this week we are looking at where different
creatures at the beach hide during different tides. We are also going to create
some bottle top fish as part of our art for the week.
In reading focus words this week for the Boots group are „said‟, „a‟ and „to‟.
This week for PE we are continuing to practise catching and throwing small
balls. I have been really impressed with the students skills already and they are
working hard to master these skills.
Have a great week,
Clarissa
Room 4
Kia Ora,
What a busy and wonderful week last week with Duffy Theatre and the
Vodafone Warriors visiting our school.
We‟re continuing with our procedure/description focus in writing. The prompt
for this week is „How to survive Year 6 at Normanby School‟. Our reading
continues to be based around learning new vocabulary and paraphrasing the
information from the text to ensure that we understand it. In maths we will be
moving onto statistics, collecting and displaying data in different ways.
Our inquiry focus is moving to conducting experiments around heat and what
materials best insulate and conduct heat. This is in preparation for the hands-on
aspect of our inquiry later in the term.
Our interschool exchange this week is against St Josephs and this will be taking
place here at school starting at 1pm.
I have pencil booked one carwash this term and one next term at
Bunnings as fundraisers for our end of year experience. I will let
you know when these are confirmed by Bunnings. If you have
an idea/are able to organise a fundraising venture that would be
fantastic!! Please let me know and we‟ll sort out logistics etc.
A ani te wiki nui,
Richard
Room 5
Hello everyone.
I think we could safely say that autumn/winter has finally arrived. Here‟s to
warm clothes, coats and cosy evenings in front of the fire! This week is slightly
less busy than last week. The students learnt a lot about problem solving and
following instructions at last week‟s World of Maths experience.
Tomorrow we are lucky enough to have a free Dog Safety
programme delivered by the Taranaki Veterinary Centre. We
are scheduled in with Room 2, from 10am -11am. A good way
to follow up and cement their learning is for your child to tell
you about some of the things they learnt to keep them safe
around dogs.
As scientists we also have to learn how to compare and contrast our observations
to develop our thinking skills and understanding of the concepts we are
investigating. This means we have to complete compare and contrast maps about
rainbow drinks and viscosity towers first before we see if we can change the
viscosity of water.
In other curriculum areas we are training our brains to write descriptions,
working on counting back and learning catching and throwing skills through
basketball concepts.
We have circle time on Mondays. Our discussion this week will be around being
a successful learner.
Feel free to contact me ([email protected]), or come and see me at
any time.
Have a great week,
Liz
Room 6
Hi everyone,
Our circle time this week will be about caring for our classroom environment.
Circle time is a great way of getting children talking about what they feel is
important and what role they can take in being responsible. Over the past two
weeks‟ students have made contributions about why it is important to move from
one activity to the next quickly and quietly, and also about why it is important
that we are respectful. It is great to see the children willing to step up and offer
suggestions for how they think these things will work better in our class.
There was great excitement at school last week with World of Maths, Duffy
Theatre and a visit from the Warriors. This week is a little less busy, however,
we do have a session with the dog safety people on Tuesday.
There will be a few changes to reading groups and levels this week. Please
remember that children are tested on how well they understand a text as well as
how well they can read it. If you are unsure about this, ask your child to retell
you the story they have just read to you. Do they include all the main characters?
Do they clearly understand the main message? Are they including anything in
their retell that is not specifically written but that they know by connecting to
their own worlds?
As always, feel free to get in touch if you have any queries or concerns
[email protected]
Have a great week,
Tash
Room 7
Hello everyone,
After such an exciting week last week things are a little bit quieter this week.
Tomorrow we have a presentation about dog safety delivered by the Taranaki
Veterinary Centre. Please ask your child to tell you about some of the things
they learnt to keep them safe around dogs.
We only have this week left on our free Mathletics trial. If you would like to send
me some feedback about the programme it would be most appreciated.
[email protected]. Room 7 have really enjoyed the different aspects
of maths covered and collecting points to earn awards. It is great to see students
are logging on at home as well. The Room 7 laptops have been fully utilised
from 8:30 am to 3pm each day!
Many of you will know we are collecting points using „Class Dojo.‟ The students
earn points individually to contribute to an overall class total. The students earn
points for mat manners, using kind words, successful learning, keeping on task
and teamwork. So far this term the class have earned 278 points. When we reach
1000 points we will have a class celebration.
Our class goal for each week will now be discussed at circle time on Mondays.
The discussion this week will be around how we can help so that everyone gets a
fair go at using our class equipment.
Have a great week,
Mandy 
Room 8
Hi everyone,
This week we begin the first of our „Writing Clubs‟ and today the children got
the opportunity to have an up-close look at a Fonterra tanker! This is a great
motivation for our writing this week and by the end of it every child will have
worked on a piece of descriptive writing that will be used to inform others about
what a tanker looks like, what the different parts on a tanker are for, and what a
tanker driver‟s job involves. A big thank you to the team at Fonterra for
allowing the tanker to visit today.
In maths we are back into our learning about numbers with a focus on the „teen‟
numbers, counting accurately, reading and writing numbers, making up number
stories and completing number bonds for our stories, and using addition
strategies.
Tomorrow we have a refresher on Dog Safety which is a topic that some of our
children learned about last year. This is an important message and we appreciate
the Dog Safety team coming in to reinforce it.
Have a great week,
Jude
CAN TABS WANTED
The school is collecting can tabs and screw caps off wine bottles. These can be
left in the container at the office. Every tab or cap collected is worth one minute
of dialysis.
Kids Corner
Rooms 2, 3 and 8 went to the beach to find out what lives between the
tides. Here are some photos of our trip.
Miniball Draw – Wednesday 25th May
4:05pm
Normanby 3-Pointers
vs
Manaia Thunder
Ct 1A
3:30pm
Normanby Swish
vs
Turuturu Shooting Stars
Ct 1B
6:25pm
Normanby Slamdunk
vs
Hawera Primary Hawks
Ct 1
5:50pm
Normanby Hoopstars
vs
Tawhiti Marvellous
Ct 2
Netball Draw for Thursday 26th May & Saturday 28th May
Normanby Dragons
Saturday 28th May
1:00pm
vs
Tawhiti Primary Tigers
Hub 1a
Normanby Unicorns
Saturday 28th May
12:00pm vs
Turuturu Pearls
Hub 1c
Normanby Devils
Thursday 26th May
3:30pm
vs
Manaia Diamonds
HAW 3
Normanby Diamonds
Saturday 28th May
9:00am
vs
Tawhiti Primary Flyers
HAW 4
Normanby Ferns
Saturday 28th May
vs
Turuturu Rubies
HAW 3
9:00am
It’s time to step up!
Stepup Taranaki are filming to the classic Poi E!
All Normanby school children, teachers, parents, residents, community groups
and local business are invited to dance alongside the best of Taranaki‟s biking
community!
Join us Sunday 5th June @ 12:30pm on Broadway, Stratford
For more information go to the Stepup Taranaki Facebook Page