Newsletter No. 3, Term 2, 2016

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In this issue

Thursday 19th May 2016

- Year 4 Trip - Herb Farm & Oderings

Friday 20th May 2016

- Year 5/6 Winter Sport begins

- Pink Shirt Day (Wear something pink to show your support for anti-bullying week)

Monday 23rd May 2016

- Year 5/6 Trips to Travis Wetlands begins (through to 2nd June)

- Full School Assembly 2pm

Tuesday 24th May 2016

- Room 22 Quarry trip (AM)

- Room 23 Quarry Trip (PM)

Friday 27th May 2016

- South West Zone Cross Country at Halswell Quarry

Monday 30th May 2016

- Room 3 Trip to Styx Mill

- Kauri Assembly 1.30pm - 2.15pm

- Kakano Assembly 2.15pm - 3pm

Tuesday 31st May 2016

- Room 1 Trip to Styx Mill

- Room 20 Quarry Trip (AM)

- Room 21 Quarry Trip (PM)

Wednesday 1st June 2016

- Room 4 Trip to Styx Mill

- Parent Meeting for English Language Learners 9am-10am in Room 16

Friday 3rd June 2016

- Room 2 Trip to Styx Mill

Monday 6th June 2016

- Queens Birthday SCHOOL CLOSED

Monday 13th June 2016

- Kauri Assembly 1.30pm - 2.15pm

- Kakano Assembly 2.15pm - 3pm

Wednesday 15th & Thursday 16th June 2016

- Room 17, 18 & 19 Trip to the Worm Farm

Monday 20th June 2016

- Full School Assembly

Monday 27th June 2016

- Kauri Assembly 1.30pm - 2.15pm

- Kakano Assembly 2.15pm - 3pm

Thursday 30th June 2016

- Kakano Cross Country

Friday 1st July 2016

- New Entrant Parent Education Session 9am

Monday 4th July 2016

- Full School Assembly

Wednesday 6th July 2016

- School Open Morning 9am-11am

- Celebration of Learning Class Visits 2pm-3pm

- Year 7/8 Information Open Evening for current Year 6 pupils 7pm-8pm

Friday 8th July 2016

- End of Term

Steve Ladbrook

From the Year 7/8 Desk...

The Miro House Captains collect clothes and the Year 7/8 Touch Rugby Teams compete in the Turbo Touch Tournament

Karen Mackie

No riding scooters or bikes in school grounds before or after school.

An important message about scooters at school.

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Reporting Illness and Absence

With the large number of students unwell it is really important that you let the office know if your child will not be at school.

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Important - Students on school grounds outside school hours

A reminder that students cannot be on the school grounds before 8.30am in the mornings.

Danny Hillary

Kauri Cross Country

Last week the Kauri team walked down to the domain and got involved in the annual Cross Country. We had a great day and here are the podium results, from each race.

Caroline Martin

The future starts here...

Oaklands School has an opportunity to look ahead and design innovative physical environments that enable future-focused education for all learners and their communities.

Maria Brennan

Room 8 Remembers ANZAC Day

"In Flanders Fields the poppies blow between the crosses, row by row...."

Grant Forman

Winter Sport - Here we go!

This Friday is the start of the winter sport programme. 7 teams have been entered in the Year 5/6 weekly competition.

Justine Birdling

Community Notices - Week 3, Term 2, 2016

Click below for our community notices. DISCLAIMER: Oaklands School does not necessarily endorse or support any of the services advertised in the newsletter. *Image courtesy of www.kapiticoast.govt.nz

Caroline Martin

The Worry Bug Project: Focus Groups

Last year many of our students & classes were fortunate to receive a free copy of the Worry Bug picture book. Your feedback on this resource is welcomed.

Paul McAven

Wanted

We are looking for any strawberry plants or runners for our Food Forest.

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Policies and procedures

The school’s policies and procedures can be viewed by visiting our School Docs site. Policies currently under review are advertised in the school newsletter.

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WE ARE SUN SMART!

In Terms 1 and 4, all students must wear a hat when they are outdoors.

Justine Birdling

The Warriors Visit

We had a visit from the Warriors, and made the news!!!

Karen Mackie

Wrap it Up - Term 4 Activity Fees

Just a reminder that the Term 4 Activity Fees are loaded and are ready for you to make your payment on Wrap it Up . Wrap it Up, a partner website for making all school payments. From the 1st of January 2016 we’d like you to manage and pay for all your children’s school activities on www.wrapitup.co.nz

Grant Forman

Basketball Draw - May 16-20

The Pioneer Basketball competition kicks off this week. Good luck to students in the 6 teams entered.

Justine Birdling

A brief outline of the upcoming week

Week 4, Term 2, 2016

geoffrey McCallum

Oaklands School - 40 Hour Famine

This year - Oaklands School will be a part of this effort - to raise money to support those children who have been forced to leave Syria and are now refugees in other countries.

Caroline Martin

Bullying-Free NZ Week 16 - 20 May 2016.

Next week we are acknowledging Bully Free NZ Week with our school leaders Hannah, Jack, Kayla & Dylan presenting at both team assemblies, random act of kindness activities each day and a 'wear something pink' day on Friday. The pink shirt day website www.pinkshirtday.org.nz has some great ideas for activities and information to get the whole community involved. I would like to acknowledge the amount of work that is going into organising next weeks events by our Year 8 leaders and encourage you to get behind the event and wear something pink on Friday 20th to show your support.

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Term dates 2018

Dates for your diary.

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Complaints Policy

The purpose of our complaints policy is to provide clear guidelines for the school community in raising and resolving concerns and complaints.

Margaret Trotter

Oaklands Events

Last week the school had many highlights and opportunities for our students. This included a visit from the Warriors Rugby League Team (which was the Stuff site) our Kauri Cross Country, students completing their learning on Anzac and beginning their Science unit on Habitats in preparation for class trips. We also had our parent meeting on developing our Education Brief.

Karen Mackie

Entertainment Books are available now, get your copy today from the School Office!!

We're very excited to be fundraising with Entertainment™ this year. Order your NEW 2016 | 2017 Entertainment™ Books and Entertainment™ Digital Memberships from us today, and 20% of the proceeds contribute towards our fundraising!

Justine Birdling

Whooping Cough in the Halswell Community

Please see below for the notification we have received from CDHB

Chris Smith

The next meeting for parents of our English language learners is on Wednesday 1 June.

Lynette O'Connor

Our PB4L Mission Statement

"Develop positive relationships and a safe welcoming environment through explicit, consistent, and quality teaching, through our CARE values, to engage learners emotionally and academically."