1981 South Head Road Helensville 0874 Email: [email protected] Wesbite: www.waionekeschool.co.nz September 7th 2015 No: 13 Term 3 ‘Empowering children to be the best they can be.’
Tena Koutou!
Gosh! Where’s the term gone? Suddenly we’re in week eight!
Firstly, I’d like to say a great big THANK YOU to the parents, students, BOT members and staff who made it to the
Working Bee on the 30th. We managed to get a few tidying up jobs and repairs done around the place and make
plans for some further projects. The weather wasn’t the best but everyone did a great job and the children had a huge
amount of fun in the sandpit!
I’d also like to thank in particular, Lisa Ciseau for all the work she is doing supporting the Enviro Group. You will
notice that we have new plantings in the courtyard area, a new worm farm and seedlings growing for planting out in
the future. Lisa is also working with a smaller group of students during electives on a Friday, to tidy up and replant the
garden in the pool area.
What a wonderful challenge we presented to our Speech Judges last Monday! We were fortunate to have the same
judges as last year and I would like to say another thank you to Bronwen Byers and Amber Scott for coming in to
listen to and judge our finalists. Both Bronwen and Amber commented on the quality and standard of the speeches
this year, and the improvements they noticed from last year. CONGRATULATIONS to the winners from each year
group: (the full list of placings can be found on our website)
Year 2
Year 4
Year 6
Year 8
Summer
Tamea
Caleb
Ben M
Year 3 Samara
Year 5 Blake C
Year 7 Jaidyn
A special mention must go to our New Entrants, Sophie B, Broc and Ayesha who recited their favourite nursery
rhymes - they were confident, expressive and very entertaining!
We have had a number of sporting successes in the past two weeks with our Netball teams featuring in their finals
week and our representatives doing us proud at Norwest Cross Country. Miss Rowlands has provided an update in
the “SPORTS SHED”. CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU ALL FOR YOUR OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCES!
A couple of newsletters ago, I briefly talked about the government’s IES plan and the NZEI Joint Initiative on
Communities of Learning. I am meeting with the other Kaipara Principals before the end of the term to discuss how a
Community of Learning might work in the Kaipara Region and what this might look like for Waioneke School. After
this meeting and subsequent discussions with the Board, I will report back to you.
Finally, I would like to congratulate Merril (and Ross!) Tristram on taking up the opportunity of a lifetime! Mrs Tristram
will be moving to the South Island next term to support Ross in his work for the summer months. We will miss Mrs
Tristram tremendously, but I have told her the door is always open and I’m sure we will see her back next year in
some capacity! We will be having a special assembly on the last day of term to farewell Mrs Tristram and thank her
for her 20 years of service to the school. If you have any special memories or stories you would like to share please
let us know!
Have a great week - keep warm!
All the best
TERRIANNE
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FROM THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES We are very excited to announce that our two new board members are Emma Bendall and Jason Bell, and we would like to thank all of those who put their names forward for consideration. We had a number of high quality applicants and encourage those unsuccessful candidates to consider nomination for the upcoming Board of Trustees Elections in 2016. A huge thank you to everyone who came to the Working Bee on Sunday – the weather wasn’t the best but we managed to get quite a few little jobs tidied away. Our netball season came to an exciting finish on Saturday. All teams had a very successful season. Our Spitfires and Mustangs both finished first in their grades. This is a massive achievement for our school. We would like to extend our gratitude to the coaches and managers of all of the teams. Your dedication and efforts are definitely appreciated! Kim Ross A brief background to school finance A state school is considered a non profit business by the Ministry and with any business has to operate within its set budget. Each year the Ministry sets the schools operating budget and it is the Principal’s and Board’s responsibility and accountability to manage this budget within the budgeted dollar spend. There are no extra handouts from the Ministry during the calendar year outside of the set budget. The Ministry does not financially bale out Schools that run at a deficit so it is critical that our school operates within its annual budget every year. I am proud to report that our School has for the last five years managed to operate just within annual budget spending right up, to what we are entitled to spend. Managing our Annual budgets accordingly has ensured that our School has not been in a position of deficit, and thus having to of set this deficit from additional school donations / student fees and fundraising. Every month our accounts and finances are audited by a Ministry approved Accounting firm which is CES Partnering Education. Every month, 12 months of the year we receive a Monthly Financial Report from CES who report on invoicing, payments and expenditure to budget against every cost centre. CES also manages our account payments through the Ministry and on behalf of the School. On top of these monthly audits and finance reports, once a year every state school has a full finance audit completed by a Ministry Auditor. Staffing The Ministry also determines how many teachers we can employ and sets and manages our Teachers Salaries budget. The number of teachers is calculated on our roll numbers which are submitted to the Ministry in March and July each year when we complete our roll returns. This calculation determines the number of teachers and teaching hours we must operate the school within. The calculation also determines if the Principal is a teaching, partially teaching or non-­‐
teaching role, thankfully over the last few years our calculation has left our Principal in a partial or non-­‐teaching role which enables us to have dedicated class teachers five days a week. The calculation and resulting budget of course dictates our class sizes and composition of year groups within those classes. Again this is a budget that the Ministry controls and sets and that the Principal and Board are responsible and accountable to work within. We are quite lucky at Waioneke with the current school role growth to have had approval from the Ministry for more teaching hours / budget to have been able to appoint a new teacher and expand to five classes. We hope that we will be able to maintain this staffing level into 2016 and beyond, however we are bound by the Ministry’s directive. Andre Ciseau School stationery and donations can be made via online banking Waioneke School Board of Trustees ASB 12-­‐3011-­‐0159280-­‐00 Use your child’s name as the reference You can now pay online for your lunch orders. Make sure you put your child’s name as
the reference. You still need to place your order through school though.
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NO POTATOE TOP PIES Rimu
Rimu worked hard developing their presentation skills during our speeches. They learnt about looking at their audience, to think about speaking clearly and trying not to race through it, they learnt about speaking so the audience could hear them. They also had to learn their introduction, their nursery rhyme and their conclusion, saying it from memory thinking about all these skills. I was very proud of their efforts. They all presented their nursery rhymes to Karaka confidently and tried hard to think about their presentation skills. We got some good feedback from Karaka with some last minute things to focus on. Thank you for your help Karaka. Broc, Sophie B and Ayesha represented our class, sharing their speech at the Junior Speech Finals. Well done to all. Karaka
Well what a great week we had last week. We all enjoyed being able to listen to the Speech finals
for the seniors and the junior/middle students. We had a great time and we were impressed by all
the speeches we heard. Congratulations to all of the place-getters.
Karaka enjoyed creating their planets using black card and a mosaic type technique with coloured
paper. They are now proudly hanging up in the class for all to see.
It was our turn to lead the school assembly on Friday and Karaka room enjoyed this opportunity to
be MC’s and to share their learning. They did a great job.
We look forward to carrying on with our topic learning and our next art project.
Totara
We have been busy investigating different planets for their information reports. We planned our
reports carefully then wrote them out using facts that we had researched. We then published them
in Google Docs using our class chrome-books. We have also started our Papier Mache planets
and have been working together in groups. We have been learning about how time is measured
and some groups have learnt about the lunar year as well as when leap years fall.
I was really proud of everyone in Totara presenting their speeches to their class and congratulate
Blake and Caleb for going on to win their Year group competition at school. Good luck to Caleb
for the Nor West Competition!
Kowhai
It was most enjoyable listening to both Karaka and Kowhai’s speeches last week. What interesting
approaches everyone had to persuade us on their topic. Both Mrs Ward and I were most
impressed with everyone’s efforts. It was extremely tricky picking a top 3 from each year level to
compete in the finals on Monday.
With only 3 weeks of space inquiry left, we have kicked into high gear. Small groups have done
some wonderful research on the iPads into their assigned planet. This week we will be presenting
our information in different ways to display around the classroom. To end the term, we have the
Star Dome to look forward to on September 22nd. More information about this will come out next
week.
Mathematician of the Week: Laurel
Laurel has been working hard in group sessions to use her times table knowledge to solve tricky
fractions problems. She is becoming a bit of a whizz!
Reader of the Week: Corey
Corey has been thinking about keywords when finding information for his planet research project.
He has found some fascinating facts that he has shared with his peers.
Writer of the Week: Dana
Dana has been using the information that she is gathered from her research and put it effectively
into her writing. You can see it in both poetry and creative writing pieces.
Manuka
Speeches are completed and what a fantastic job Manuka did! We wish Ben all the best for the
Nor West Speech competition as he represents us. Great to see how much they have learnt about
persuasive writing and speaking. We have been focusing on dance in our PE time and I have to
say we had some pretty impressive waltzing going on last week.
This week we are having our careers week and we are looking forward to all of our special visitors
that are coming to share with us. We have a good range of people and careers that we will be able
to find out about. We are also going to start looking at the careers that the children are interested
in and find out what knowledge and the skills they will need to succeed in their chosen career.
Congratulations to our Manuka sporting heroes our Spitfires team won the A grade final. It was an
amazing game. Our cross country representatives were outstanding with them placing really well.
A special congratulations to Brooke who attended the AIMs Games in the weekend and did us
proud with her performance.
UPCOMING EVENTS – TERM 3 September Tues 8th Thurs 10th Thurs 10th Fri 12th Tues 15th Tues 15th Wed 16th Thurs 17th Fri 18th Tues 22nd Thurs 24th Friday 25th Monday 12th October Y 7&8 Tech at Kaipara College Y 7&8 Tech at Kaipara College Waioneke School Netball Teams break up at Parakai Pools Electives Y 7&8 Tech at Kaipara College NorWest Speeches at Riverhead School (Caleb) Nor West Speeches at Riverhead School (Ben M) Y 7&8 Tech at Kaipara College Electives Assembly, led by Rimu 1.30pm School trip to Stardome Observatory Board Meeting 6.30pm School Staffroom Electives Assembly 1pm LAST DAY OF TERM 3 First day of Term 4 WHAT’S BEEN HAPPENING IN TOTARA ROOM Neptune Information Report
Neptune was discovered on September 23, 1846 by Jean Joseph. It is one of the coldest
planets in our Solar System. It is also the smallest Gas Giant. It is located 5.6 billion
miles from our Earth and is the eighth planet from the Sun.
Neptune’s Moons
Neptune has fourteen known moons, Triton is the coldest moon in our Solar System.
Neptune’s other moons are called Nereid, Proteus, Larissa, Thalassa, Psamatte,
Helimede, Naiad, Despina, Galatea, Neso, Laomedeia and Sao. Triton orbits Neptune
in the opposite direction of the planet.
Climate Temperature
It’s surface temperature is -201 degrees celsius [-301 degrees celsius]. It is so cold
because it is 4.498 billion kilometres from our Sun and the furtherest planet out. It is
only 23 degrees away from being the coldest planet in our Solar System.
Special Features
Even though they might be hard to see, Neptune has very faint rings.Neptune also has
a big, swirling storm, like Jupiter’s Great Red Spot it can be seen from space. It is
called the Great Dark Spot and is a darker blue than the planets colour.
Neptune is not a livable planet as it is too cold and it does not have the right
atmosphere. All of it’s moons are not livable for the same reasons. Neptune has only
ever been visited by one space shuttle, Voyager 2, and it only flew by as there is no
solid surface for it to land on.
By Georgia
FROM THE SPORTS SHED NETBALL
Netball has now drawn to a close and what a wonderful finish Waioneke School had.
Congratulations to the Year 5/6 Waioneke Mustangs on finishing 1st place in Junior B. What an
exciting final that was! A big congratulations to the Year 7/8 Waioneke Spitfires on winning their
final against Waimauku to get 1st place in Intermediate A. They had a dream first quarter and then
were able to hold them off to win by 14.
The end of year break-up is at the Parakai Pools this Thursday and prize giving is THIS Saturday
at the Helensville School Hall. Please check your emails for more details.
The school would like to say a massive thank you to all of the volunteers this season. Thank you
Glennis (teams manager), Lynette (coach), Kara (coach), Brooke and Austin (assistant coaches),
Melissa (umpire), Katie (umpire), Nathan (umpire), and Brennan (umpire). We wouldn't be able to
play netball at this school without their wonderful contributions.
AIMS GAMES
Brooke Ross represented Waioneke School at this year's AIMS Games in Tauranga. She had
been training for 4 months in the lead up to her race on Sunday. Brooke lined up on the start line
with 130 other Year 7 female competitors from across the country. She gave it a good go and
finished 60th. Well done, Brookie.
RIPPA RUGBY Unfortunately due to awful weather the 3rd tournament was cancelled. Thank you to all of our
wonderful coaches and parents that helped us during the tournament.
NOR WEST CROSS COUNTRY
We had 11 runners compete at this event last Friday at the Muriwai Surf Club. They competed
against 24 other schools from the North West area.
Thank you the parents that helped transport and support our athletes. A big thank you to our
runners who cheered each other on.
Ella D 10th
Ben F 37th
Angel 13th
Jaidyn 48th
Clayton 56th
Conner 36th
Brooke 1st
Austin 24th
Ben M 34th
Hayden 64th
TOUCH RUGBY 2015/16
This year the season starts on October 16th and runs through until early December. There is a
break through Christmas and the season resumes in February through to mid March. Waioneke
have had great success in this locally run tournament over the years. All games are played on
Friday afternoons at Rautawhiri Park in Helensville. The teams range from New Entrants up to
Year 8’s and are mixed teams (boys and girls in the same team).
Please see the sign up form attached with this newsletter.
We would love to enter teams into this year’s competition, to do this we need coaches. If you
would like to coach a team please let Maria know ASAP. If you have any questions about
coaching touch rugby, Maria is more than happy to answer them with her 27 years of experience
in Touch Rugby.
If you are interested in refereeing please let Maria know.
WAIONEKE SCHOOL QUIZ NIGHT September 17th 2015 The local RSA is starting an initiative to support schools in the Kaipara District. Each month they will host a Quiz Night and donate the proceeds to a different school. We are the first school to benefit from this, so it would be great if we could get behind the initiative! Time 6pm meals will be available. Quiz starts at 7pm Venue Kaipara Memoral RSA – 49 Commercial Rd, Helensville Cost $5 per person. Maximum number in a team is 6 There will be raffles and prizes for the winning team. The staff will be entering a team (or two) and I’ll be approaching other local schools to support us too!! So get a team together and come along for a fun evening and a great meal. Register your team with Maria at the office – spaces are limited so get in early!! GROUP DAY DELEGATE We are looking for a wonderful parent with an interest in Calf Club to support Nicola Young as our second Group Day Delegate. This involves attending 5 – 6 evening meetings and helping with preparations and the set up for Group Day in November. If you are interested in being our delegate please let Maria know. WAIONEKE SCHOOL READING TOGETHER Seminar Four – 22nd September 6.30pm in the library HELENSVILLE TENNIS OPEN DAY Sunday 13th September at 10am Rautawhiri Park, Helensville Helensville Tennis Club is holding an open day for anyone interested in having a go at tennis, coaching or joining the club. There will be people there to talk to and show you how. Email: [email protected] MOBILE EAR CLINC (MOBY)
The unit will be at the following schools:
24th Sept
29th Oct
19th Nov
10th Dec
Woodhill
Parakai
Kaukapakapa
Helensville
Please call 420 9450 to make an
appointment. Parents / caregivers must
accompany children to these
appointments.
Hearing tests are not carried out by the
Moby Clinic.