M O S S T O N M E S S E N G E R
29 July 2016
email: [email protected]
phone: 345 5432
text: 027 428 7967
web: www.mosston.school.nz
Our Vision:
Nuture positive relationships and create lifelong learners
Poipoia te wairua o te temaiti kia puta aia ki te ao mārama
Our Mission:
To engage learners through quality education
Tākaia te tamaiti ki ngā o te tako
Congratulaons to the Marara and Hooper families who won the
Welcome back and a special welcome to Renae in Room 6, prize draw from returning the Community Consultaon forms.
Maynard in Room 3 and Rylan in the Whare I who have all
started at Mosston School this term. I hope you enjoyed the Room 3 and 4 have had their wall removed and the space been
opened up as part of our Innovave learning journey. Please pop
school holidays and enjoyed spending me with your children.
in and have a look at this great new space .
Michelle’s Message
Term 3 is going to be a busy 9 week term with the Big Day In,
Cross Country, Wellington Trip, learning celebraons, Olympics
Day, Mathex, a pie drive, school photos and we mustn’t forget
our ongoing learning programmes.
The staff have reviewed the ‘Jump Up’ system and have made
some tweaks. Your child may have come home talking about
becoming a ‘Ka Pai kid”. To become a Ka Pai Kid and a3end the
celebraon, children will be displaying the following learning and
social behaviours.
I am looking forward to another great term. ☺
Michelle [email protected]
There are five jumps up over each half of the term. The traffic
light system is sll in place for misbehaviours and consequences
are given separately for these.
We have also developed a progression as we encourage our
students to develop student agency i.e: becoming more self
managing of their learning. Children will progress from the
Maunga to the Moana and within these steps are descriptors
that explain the learning that goes with the stage. We will
introduce these to you over the next few newsle3ers.
Upcoming Events-for more visit www.mosston.school.nz
2 Aug
Big Day In to begin our inquiry unit
5 Aug
Raffle ckets home to families
8 Aug
14 Aug
School trustees meeng 5:15pm in the meeng room
Family portrait Parents’ Group fundraiser
19 Aug
Olympic Day
Raffle ckets returned to school office
Pie orders to be returned Parents’ Group fundraiser
24 Aug
26 Aug
6 Sept
Mosston cross country aCernoon
Raffle ckets winners drawn
Big Day Out Wellington
20 Sept
School photos-orders will go home beforehand
23 Sept
Last day of term
10 Oct
Term 4 begins
Every Tuesday Saveloys $2 each / Every Friday Pita Pit
Raffles for Trip Fundraising
ParenƟng Tip-How to help your child make friends
At the end of week 2 each family will receive one raffle card to
sell to raise funds for their child/rens’ Big Day Out. These have
20 numbers each at $1.00 per cket and the full amount sold
will be credited to their trip. If you wish to sell more than one
card please let Sue in the office know. If you have already paid
for your trip we can credit any funds to acvies later in the year
(like shows and swimming).
Somemes as parents we’re unsure about how much input we
should have in our children’s friendships. We know we need
to let them have some space, to find their own way. But at the
same me we are extremely interested to know – “Who did you
play with? For how long? Who else was there? How did it go?”
Having at least one friend will help protect our kids from all sorts
of bad days, but for lots of them, making friends is not so
The raffles cards and fund raised need to be returned to the easy. It’s helpful for kids to know there are a few magic
office by the end of week 4 and the raffles will be drawn in week ingredients when it comes to joining a conversaon with a new
5. Here is a small sample of the items donated for today’s muCi person or group day to make up these raffles prizes.
1. Smile – very simple but it marks you straight away as a
friendly person.
2.
Ask quesons/make compliments - “What are you
guys playing?” or, “Cool sckers on your lunchbox!”
Imagine the conversaon that comes next as a game of catch.
Every me someone speaks, they are passing the ball back to
you. Your job is to keep it going.
Introducing our Student Leaders - Kaitlin
Mosston School Facebook Page
Have you checked out our latest facebook photos?
We now have 131 members on our Mosston School Facebook
page and are enjoying sharing school happenings
with you. This is a closed group so no details are
shared with others. The group is only for current
adults associated with Mosston School. We are very
happy to add grandparents, just pop in and see Sue
or Michelle and we will add these extended family members for
you.
My name is Kaitlin. I am a year 6 student,
so this is my last year at this school. It was
one of my goals to become a student
leader. I enjoy being at Mosston and take
pride in my work. At Mosston I take part
in the ukulele group and e-club. I am also
a librarian and I have read a lot of words
in Lexile!
I am a good student leader because I am
responsible and caring. I am helpful to
teachers and other children and I care
about making sure others feel valued. I have a shy personality
and I feel this opportunity forces me to be centre stage and
helps me to further develop my confidence.
Outside of school me I enjoy reading, doing gymnascs, drama
lessons, free wring, music and going on the Chromebook. I
Healthy Lunch Boxes
Our lucky lunch box awards this have also gained strong skills in ICT and organisaon, that I feel
assembly went to Olive and Kate. Each benefits the school in my school leader role. I really enjoy being
day the duty teacher chooses a healthy a school leader.
lunch box. Winners are drawn at each
assembly and they receive a free swim Great learning
and slide pass from the Splash Centre.
Tumeke Te Reo
Kei reira!
Right on!
Koia kei a (ingoa) (name) really nailed it
Coffee Bus
One of our families has approached us about
selling coffee in the car park in the mornings and
passing on a percentage of takings to the school.
We will be trialling this for two weeks to see if we
have enough coffee consumers in our community.
The cart will arrive about 8:25am and leave just
aCer 9:00am. It will be on court, facing the pedestrian walk way.
The bus has eCpos and a loyalty card ☺
Aria and Sarah made these (complicated) crocodiles this week.
They followed instrucons from a YouTube tutorial and
independently completed these li3le works of art. Well done
girls. If you want to find out how these can be made, you can
click on the QR code above and this will take you to the tutorial.