Dear Parents and Caregivers,
Term 3 events
Sep 27 Last day of term 3: School closes 2.00pm.
School
term 4 Activities
Oct 14 School
term begins18 Applications for ballot close at 4:00pm
23 Out of Zone Ballot held
24 BOT meeting 7.30pm & Year4 Camp meeting
28 Labour Day
Nov 07 Athletics Day – Seniors
11 Book Fair Week
21-22 Year4 Camp
25 PTA meeting 7.30pm
26 Fairfield School Cluster Athletics Day
27 Athletics Day – Juniors
Fairfield School Cultural Festival – Fairfield College
29 Year 6 Outing
Dec 04 Year 6 Leaving Ceremony
05 BOT meeting 7.30pm
06 Learning Portfolios/End of Year Report – home
Religious Instruction finishes for the year
Road patrollers Outing
11 Final Assembly - End of Year
13 School Closes for 2013 at 2.00pm
Classes for 2014: I am inviting
parents to write to me with any special requests regarding the class placement
of their child(ren) for 2014.
Please note that
this is not an invitation to request specific teachers, it is rather an
opportunity for parents to outline special circumstances/considerations they
would like to be considered before classes are actually formed for 2014.
Once classes are
formed, the compositions will not readily be changed unless there are very
unusual or, extenuating circumstances that were not known at the time of the
classes were compiled.
Written submissions are to be in to me before
Friday 25 October.
Children Not Returning to Woodstock in 2014:
(not including Year 6’s). We would very much appreciate notification (as early as
possible) of any child(ren) not be returning to Woodstock School next year.
Please ring the office as soon as possible. Thank you.
Pohutukawa Syndicate is very proud of both
Dayna Parish (Year 6) and Ciaran Watson (Year 5) for their tremendous efforts
representing Woodstock School at the Great Waikato Spelling Bee recently. Dayna and Ciaran competed against over 50
other students in their respective age groups and the competition was very
tense at times!
Special
congratulations go to Ciaran for eventually taking out first place in the Year
5 section of the competition
Waste Free
Wednesdays
Our new, exciting
school wide Enviro-Project began in Week 8 of this term. For the rest of
the year, every Wednesday will be a WASTE FREE WEDNESDAY at
Woodstock School.
Our first days
have been extremely successful and everyone has being taking it very seriously.
On Waste Free
Wednesdays we ask that everyone . . .
- packs NUDE FOOD lunches. (We can use re-usable
containers, unwrap our bars at home or pack our food WITHOUT glad-wrap.)
- uses the WORM BINS to recycle our food scraps.
- uses the PAPER
RECYCLING BOXES for our paper ‘rubbish’.
- does not use the RED bins in the playground. Large
classroom rubbish bins are also No Go Zones!!!
- takes all of their other rubbish home with them in their
lunch boxes. Wrappers, chippy packets, glad wrap, rinsed out yoghurt
containers . . . we take these things home.
Some classes have
been doing NUDE FOOD at intervals for a while now. From now on everyone
will be doing nude food at playtime. This means no litter or rubbish
leaves the classrooms at interval.
Nude Food lunch
boxes are easier for us to eat, and healthier too.
Thank you for
your support with this. We look forward to sharing with you, our progress
with making Woodstock School ‘Waste Free’.
School Picnic
Our first Waste
Free Wednesday for Term 4 coincides with National Nude Food Day. To
celebrate National Nude Food Day, we will be having a school picnic.
Everyone will sit together, under the large trees and enjoy our lunches
together. If you are free to join us on National Nude Food Day, our lunch
eating time is 12.15pm - 12.30pm. What
to bring: - Our own packed nude food lunch from home.
- Hats (In Term 4 we all wear our ‘sun-smart’ hats when we are
outside).
Well done Alice Ankersmit
Alice’s art entry into the Te Wananga o Aotearoa ‘Arohatia te Reo’ (Cherish
the Language) competition won 3rd prize! Her entry was published in the Nga wahi o
Aotearoa: Places in Aotearoa book.
The book can be viewed in our school office reception area
Year 4 Camp - CAMP KARAKARIKI
Our Year 4 students are very excited
about our up-coming overnight camp on 21st and 22nd November. Thank
you to everyone who has paid their camp fees of $65. Just a reminder that
camp fees are required to be paid in full by the end of Week 1, Term
4 (Friday 18th October 2013). Thank you, Kauri Team.
PTA
Raffle
Reminder for people to continue selling their raffle tickets and return
all sold ticket butts and money to the office as soon as possible.
If you are unable or unwilling to sell the raffle books please also
return to the office so that they can be issued to someone else to sell.
Please return sold raffle butts as soon as you can. A big thank you to
everyone who have already sold and returned their money and ticket butts.
Robotics
When we first
arrived we walked past the office and went inside the robotics class. We were
greeted by some Fairfield Intermediate students and the robotics teacher, Mr
McPeak. First we watched a small clip of a robot that stacked pancakes. It was
so fast at its job. Once we had got over all the excitement we got to make LED
lights turn on using playdough, four batteries, and red and black wires. It was
amazing. Then we got to use the Rudolf boards. They were awesome. After morning
break we got on to the real fun, the robots. We were each given a robot to use.
My group’s was called Tigger and my friend Ridwaan’s was called Sleepy but to
her it was Grumpy. We had to control the robot using a computer to steer it
around a square. I’m glad to say we eventually got there. That is what the Year
6s got up to on our Robotics trip.
By Shanelle
Swainson.
Roald Dahl Day
We had a WHIZPOPPING day on Friday the 13th September,
celebrating Roald Dahl’s Birthday. Thank
you to everyone who contributed to our art competition. Our school library walls are now covered with
amazing, colourful and clever art works.
We were also very excited to see many Georges, Enormous Crocodiles,
Oompa Loompas, Fantastic Mr Foxes, Matildas, BFGs and Willy Wonkas in our
classrooms.
Next term we will be having another special dress up day on Friday 15th
November to celebrate our Scholastic Book Fair (Week 5, Term 4). There may even be another art competition
with more spot prizes!! We’ll let you
know the theme for the day, closer to the time . . . Thank you again
everyone. Mrs Tangney
Pohutukawa and
Kauri Speech finals
The 2013 speech
finals went off very well. A big congratulations and well done to all the
children in Pohutukawa and Kauri Syndicates for writing and presenting their
speeches this year. It takes a lot of courage and determination to take
part in this.
It was judged by
Evelyn Stewart and Gale Hussey from the Kirikiriroa Power Talk Club.
The winners were;
YEAR 4 Winner
- Takalangi Katoa – Money YEAR 5 Winner - Madeleine Conn - Bullying
YEAR 6 Winner -
Lucy Thompson – My bucket list
Cure for Kids Red Nose Day 2013
Woodstock School
children and staff recently supported the day by coming to school dressed in
red things such as caps, t-shirts, pants, shoes and even red noses.
Cure for Kids is a charity that
is trying to find a way of curing young kiwi kids that have childhood
illnesses. Researchers are working to give a better quality of life and a
longer life while they work towards the ultimate goal, a cure.
Thank you to all
families for your support, we raised $158.40.
Enviro request
We were wondering
if there were any landscape designers out in our community who would like to
give us some ideas regarding our school gardens and how we can make them more
attractive learning areas. We would of course need this advice at a very
minimal cost, but would be very happy to acknowledge your contributions .If you
know of anybody who would be happy to help us please contact kym@woodstock.school.nz
Cool to be Kind Awards:
The
following students were awarded ‘Cool to be Kind’ Awards at recent assemblies.
Sian Cavanagh:
Stepping
in to do another child’s duty with a smile. Thank you for helping out Sian.
Rongomai Thompson:
For
offering to help a teacher carry their heavy boxes/bags from the car into the
classroom.Thanks Rongomai.
Just letting everyone know that one of our students, Mia Downing
entered another competition, this time it's ‘what now's 'the one'
She was on TV on Sunday 15th and is
the only Hamilton kid in this round. So now we have until the 29th to vote for
her online to get through to the next round, in Christchurch! Here's the link to the what now site: http://whatnow.tv/2011/?page_id=6950
If you click on 'the one' sign it will take you to the
performances and voting People can vote once a day for the duration
Mark Cossey
Coaching – October School Holiday Football Programme
Inzone Indoor
Sports Centre, Sunshine Avenue, Te Rapa
Monday 30th September - Friday 4th October
Fairfield Amateur Athletic Club
To enjoy a summer of fun,
Monday nights 5.30 to 7.15pm at Porritt Stadium. Waikato’s only
all weather track off Crosby Road, next to the Fire Station. From Monday 14th
October 2013 for children from 3 years to 14 years. Enquiries: Jenna Bell
(Secretary) phone 852-5868. Email: fairfieldathletics@hotmail.com
Habitat for Humanity Build Challenge
Build a LEGO® house for Habitat!
Join the Build Challenge: build a house out of LEGO® for Habitat for
Humanity and make a difference! And be in to win some great LEGO® prizes too.
Join one of our fun local events during the school holidays, or build at home
(28 Sep - 20 Oct). Check www.buildchallenge.org – registrations open from 28 Sep.
We are holding two day holiday programmes throughout the October school holidays. These are fun filled days with skills, futsal, games, competitions and much more.
Some of New Zealand brightest stars have been through the ‘The Alegria School of Samba Style Soccer’, these players include All Whites Chris Wood, Adam Thomas (pictured right with Neymar), Michael Fitzgerald and Marco Rojas (pictured left with Sandro). Come experience what these players have and spend two action packed days adding the X-Factor to your game! The programme will be run by Samba Style Soccer coach of ten years Josh Groom (BPhEd, GradDipT). Each two day programme will also guest star current Futsal White John Penyas.
AGES 6-9: Monday 30th September and Tuesday 1st October
AGES 10-14: Thursday 3rd October and Friday 4th October
9.30am - 2.30pm
ST PAUL'S COLLEGIATE SCHOOL GYM, HUKANUI ROAD, HAMILTON
$100.00
Chris Wood (All Whites and Leicester City)
“Playing Samba style futsal to the Alegria
music helped me reach my soccer goals. The smaller ball and confined space
helped develop and sharpen my shielding and shooting skills.”.
Michael Fitzgerald (All Whites and Alberix, J.
League Japan)
“Samba
style futsal heightened Michael’s desire to achieve his dream… it gave him
self-belief and opened his mind to the music unique to playing football… and
lifted his game to a whole new level.”
-Mrs Koleti Fitzgerald. REGISTRATION by Friday 27th
September to Angela - agroomnz@gmail.com
PAYMENT options are CASH or direct credit with
reference. Our account info is ANZ, Chartwell Branch, Alegria
Futebol Ltd, 010370 0089428 00
Discover the Magic Of Christmas MAGICAL GARDEN CHRISTMAS SHOW
10.00 am – 12.00 pm every week day
Come along and join Elvin the elf, Pirate Barnacle Bottom. Fairy Kowhai
and friends at the Magical Garden’s for a fun filled interactive show filled
with Christmas music, dancing and laughter. After the show each child has the
opportunity to do a special Christmas Craft activity and enjoy a Special Visit
to The Magical Christmas Grotto and fairy garden. 03rd Dec 2013 - 15th Dec 2013 An
experience not to be missed!
Public Show
Available!! 7th Dec 2013 2.00-4.00pm
Bookings essential Tickets $6.00 per Person
Ph 07 8566146 or 027
6821846 www.magicalgarden.co.nz
“What if there was a way for you to absolutely love to learn to play the
piano? Simply Music is a revolutionary
piano/keyboard method that brings celebration back into learning! Learn to play great sounding blues, classical
and pop songs right from your very first lesson! Classes offered for children and adults!” Come find out more at our free introductory sessions listed below. You
only need to attend one.
Where: Chapel Hill Community
Centre meeting room 2 Cate Road, Rototuna
When: Saturday, 21st
September 3-4pm. Tuesday, 24th September 5.15-6.15pm
To register, contact: Keys 2
Success Creative Arts Academy Phone 07-827-0348 Mobile 029-770-6823
Saturday morning
music classes
The first session
for Term 4 of the Hamilton Community Centre of Music school will be on Saturday
19th October. The school is located on the University of Waikato
campus and offers group tuition in a wide range of musical instruments at very
affordable rates. Classes are usually 30 minutes in length; class times are
between 8am and 12:30pm on Saturday mornings during primary school terms.
In Term 4, we are
introducing ukulele lessons for
the first time. In addition to Beginners and Continuers ukulele classes, we
will offer a special ‘sing-along’
format with a new ‘family-rate’
fee structure. Contact the office by phone or email enrolment@hccm.org.nz for details.
Online enrolment for ukulele is not yet available.
Also available
for children ages 3 through 12 is our Music Makers programme. Based on the
Orff-Kodaly principles of music education, these classes incorporate singing,
movement and simple percussion instruments to encourage musical exploration.
Course fees for Music Makers are based on the child's age and are from $20-$40
per term. Contact us via our website http://www.hccm.ac.nz/ or on 07 838 4611
This is a great
opportunity for parents to enhance their expertise on a bike so they can ride
confidently with the kids -
This practical on-road session is for adults who can comfortably ride a bike in off-road environments, but want to learn the basics for riding on quieter roads. In order to attend this workshop you need to be able to ride with one hand for at least 3 seconds (so you can signal turns), and also be comfortable with looking behind you while riding. The workshop will cover basic safety and road rules (conducted in the school playground), followed by on-road riding including how to pass a parked car, turning left and right at controlled and un-controlled intersections, and navigating single-lane roundabouts. The course will be held on quieter roads only. No traffic lights or heavily trafficked roads will be used.
Where: Rototuna Primary
School When:
Sunday 13th October Time: 9.30am – 2.30pm
Contact: For more information or to register
contact Julie Roe phone 021 799 377
Steve Ostermann Principal
