June 24th - Elstow

Elstow-Waihou School Reach for the Stars - Totoro hoki nga whetu

SUCCESS TEAMWORK ATTITUDE RESPECT June 17th

Stars of the Week: Our star last week was Tena Koutou, nga mihi nui, Brooke Gibson for improved reading skills. ConWelcome to Hayes Shaxon little brother to Caedyn and gratulations Brooke for working so hard! This Eden, who started school this week. We know you will be week’s star is Lochlan Bolstad for being a great very happy here at school. ambassador for our school. Well done Lochlan! New Mid-Year Reports RUGBY: A reminder to all children who won a Rugby At the start of this year we installed a new Student Trophy or Cup last year to return them to the school office. Management System (SMS) called eTap. eTap allows us to more efficiently and effectively collect, collate and report CONGRATULATIONS to the players from our school student data. Teachers now have easy access to student who are part of the Te Aroha Under 13 rugby team that information. As a result of the new Student Management won the Challenge Shield last Saturday. The TCDC System we have been able to align our reporting to Shield is contested between the Thames Valley 5th Grade incorporate accumulated student data for Mid-Year and (Under 13) rugby teams. It was first played for in 2014 and won by Thames. The holder has to defend the shield each End of Year Reports. We have redesigned our Mid-Year Reports so that it is time they play throughout the season. The team that holds it visually easier for you to see the progress of your child’s at the end of round robin play keeps it until the start of the learning in relation to National Standards. Mid-Year following season and has their name engraved on it. We won it by defeating Waihi 14 -5, after they had won it off Reports continue to be in booklet format with the inside Paeroa the previous week. This is the first time Te Aroha have of the booklet showing a National Standards graph and ever won it and we have to defend it against Hauraki and comments about your child’s progress, next steps in Whangamata in the next two weeks to keep it until next learning and how you can help at home in relation to season. Well done boys for your hard work, keep it up !! reading, writing and mathematics. There is a curriculum section which summarises your child’s stage of learning within the curriculum areas of; science, technology, social sciences, health, physical education, arts; visual, dance and drama and music. The back cover lets you know how your child is progressing as a learner and in this section your child’s teacher may comment on your child’s work ethic, work habits, self-management, organisation and ability to relate to others. Information regarding additional learning support may be recorded if your child is receiving extra support. In addition information about any curriculum extension work will be recorded as well as curricula school activities. Also listed on these reports is an attendance count for your child. Welcome – Nau mai, haere mai to our up-and-coming community days We have a number of exciting activities planned over the next few weeks. Matariki Tree Planting Day 27th June and The Great Family Breakfast on the 1st July. Matariki Tree Planting Day 27th June By now you should have received your invitation to our Matariki Tree Planting Day – Each family will be gifted a tree to plant in our Native Grove. We hope to see you all there, if you haven’t already, please let Jocelyn know so we can get enough sausages on the bar-b-que. If there are Mums or Dads that are available to help dig holes for our family trees from 10 am onwards on the 27th June it would be much appreciated. Tree planting will take place from 12 pm onwards with a free sausage sizzle provided for the community by the PTA at 12.30 pm.

FROM THE CLASSROOMS: Room 4:Kia Ora. Another week has disappeared and we are on the final countdown until the end of the term! Over the last week we had some successes in the sporting arena. Well done to Kian, Josh, Hoki and Lochlan who st The Great Family Breakfast 1 July 7.45 am– 8.45 am played rugby for and won the Challenge Shield. The Year 7 All Welcome to attend a delicious breakfast at our school. and 8 girls won the Aerobics competition on Wednesday in We would like to thank you to the PTA for organising a their section. Thank you to Miss Manktelow who prepared great way for our children to start their day. Parents are the team for this competition. The girls gave up many of welcome to visit their child’s class and find out more their lunch times to practice for this event. A big thank you about their child’s learning. to Sue Dyer who has helped me over the term with Friday HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Grace Rayner who celebrated lunches. Thank you to Crystal, Kelly, Debbie, Mel and her birthday this week. We hope you had a lovely day! Louise who also gave up their time to help with these.

Room 1: Tena Koutou, This week we have been busy finishing off some testing in preparation for the mid-year reports. The children have been doing lots of talking about Matariki and the celebration that the school is having on Monday. They have all written invitations which have been sent home this week. The children are learning how Matariki is a time to spend time with whanau, play games and have fun, share food, plant plants and trees, sing and dance and remember those people who are not with us. We have been busy working on our basic facts. We are trying to get faster and more efficient at solving problems. Have a great weekend everyone. Room 2: Kia ora whanau. Another busy week is coming to an end and once again Room Two is humming along nicely. We are looking forward to our Matariki tree planting celebration next Monday, hopefully you have all received your invitations by now and can come along to share in this experience. This week we have been learning about different addition and subtraction strategies in maths and the children have worked on adding more depth and interest to their writing. We have been practising our production songs and will start putting together our scene over the next few days. The class completed some interesting pieces of robot art and writing with Mrs Barker this week and these will be on display next week. Have a great weekend and… GO ALL BLACKS! Room 3: Kia ora tatou we have enjoyed a fantastic week of Dodge Ball. Big thanks to Damien and Lucas. This is such an epic game and really a lot of fun whilst using a number of fundamental movement skills. Who would have thought hurtling a soft ball at your opposition could be so rewarding, especially when you hit them! Player of the week would have to go to Ashton! His accurate ball throwing, dodging speed and determination saw most of us go out to him, only to be rewarded when finally someone was able to get him out. Keeping active is really important for health and wellbeing, which in turn effects our ability to learn. Have a great weekend, nga mihi nui.

NETBALL: 10:00 Ct 3 Elstow A vs TAPS A 10:50 Ct 1 Elstow B vs Stanley B CALF CLUB:As that time is approaching fast, we would like all children who won a trophy last year to return them now to school . WANTED: Please if you have a surplus of supermarket bags, send them to the school, we are running out of rubbish bin liners, Thanks. SCHOOL FUNDRAISING: ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS: Don’t forget to get your 2106 book from the office or online. OXFORD PIES: Make your decisions.....so many yummy pies to choose....get your orders into the school so you don’t miss out! MUFTI DAY: there will be a Mufti day on 7th of July. Come in your mufti and bring along a gold coin to help add a little more for the senior camp fund. WORK WANTED: My Name is Rosalind Holmes and I have recently moved to Elstow. Just letting you know that I am an experienced calf rearer and relief milker and I’m available for work this coming season. Please phone 07-212-3798 or 027-748-6110 FIRST AID COURSES available for all rural people in July -When & where: Te Awamutu 11th / Tokoroa 13th / Otorohanga 14th / Te Kuiti 15th These will be 8am - 5pm and are being held at a St Johns Building in the areas listed, further details provided upon registration. You don’t have to be a member of Federated Farmers; this is open to all rural people. Refreshments provided, but bring your own lunch. Meet Health & Safety High Risk Occupation regulations AND/OR most importantly be able to help YOUR community in its hour of need! A St John & Waikato Federated Farmers partnership. Registration essential: Contact Gaylene 078580820/0800 327 646 or [email protected] /

COMING EVENTS 27th

Matariki Tree Planting 12:00pm

29th

Room 1 Open Day

July 1st

PTA Family Breakfast 7:45am Room 4 Assembly—all welcome

5th

Some Room 4 Parent Interviews

6th 8th 25th

CONGRATULATIONS also go to the year 7&8 Aerobics team, named the Nae Nae Crew. Claire Morris, Emma Nicholls, Teagan Garmonsway, Lily van den Heuvel, Brook Carter, Shelbie Inglis, Charlie Buckton-Dalley and Maia Wahanui won the aerobics group performance and were just out of the placings in the individual gymnastics competition at the Hamilton City Gym Sports Competition on Wednesday. Amazing result for a group of girls who are new to aerobics - what a talented group of athletes !

Whole school Parent Teacher Interviews Room 3 Assembly—all welcome LAST DAY OF TERM 2 TERM 3 STARTS

Regards: Heather, Wendy,Deane, Donna, Darren, Sarah, Tessa, Anne, Gordon, Justin & Jocelyn