We would like to wish all staff and families an enjoyable break over the Christmas period. Those students leaving for High School or other schools, we wish you all the best.

The school will re-open on Monday 30th January 2016.

We would like to congratulate Mrs Trotter on being voted to become the President of CPPA from March next year.

In the case of any significant natural disaster, the school will be closed for the following school day to enable adequate safety checks to be made and enable the welfare of staff and students to be assessed. The BOT chair and the principal would decide what constitutes a significant event.

School Lockdown
The board would like to thank staff and students for all their efforts in managing the lockdown, the school followed its procedures and received acknowledgement from NZ Police on our procedures. A letter from NZ Police was sent to the school to remind parents that we need to wait for the all clear before heading into school.

The school’s policy can be found on school docs.

The following staff have been appointed for the 2017 school year:
Mrs Marsh – Team Leader Kauri & Year 5
Mr Rule – Music Teacher & Year 5
Miss Hebbend – Year 1
Miss Nichols – Year 1
Miss McPherson – Year 3
Miss Evans – Year 2
Ms Rakich – Year 3
Mrs Berquist – Year 6

Resignations
Karen Collins, we wish you all the best at your new school.

Focus Groups
Part of the Board’s review process is for staff to present. The focus groups this past year were:

· Tataiako/Te Reo and Kapa Haka

· Focus Review Restorative

· Literacy Focus Review

· SOLO Taxonomy

The staff presented the following reports at the Board’s December meeting Team Leaders Goal Setting Report, Target reports, Student Attendance, Special Needs, Reading recovery, 5/6 year net results, Term 4 Curriculum, Radio Station, Library Report, Unit Holder reports.

Cultural Narrative

As part of the education brief the school worked with our local iwi to put together the culture narrative. It is available for parents to view http://www.oaklands.school.nz/a/L1QCJVl

School Redevelopments

We will continue the collaboration models that we presented to you at our parent meetings this year.

All year levels will be organised into hubs. Students will not have a specific classroom. This means that one classroom space will be the Whanau Hui room (the meeting room where all the year group will meet to start the day as a year group). Depending on the programme students will then be grouped for their learning needs and will be working with specific teachers on their goals as identified in their learning pathways. Bags and lunch boxes will be in set cloakrooms and stationery will be stored in individual containers to enable them to be moved with the children.

This is to prepare our students at Oaklands School for our rebuild in 2018

Gala
The Board would like to thank the PTA and volunteers that helped at this year’s Gala. This events is enjoyed by all students performing to their families and the community.

Board minutes are available for viewing at the School Office. Each Board agenda is available to be viewed in the School Office on the Notice Board, the Monday before each board meeting.

If you have any feedback on the newsletter or would like more information, please contact on us at BOT@oaklands.school.nz.

For any concerns or issues, please follow our complaints process which can be found at http://oaklands.schooldocs.co.nz/index.htm?toc.htm?785.htm

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