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Newsletter Week 5 Term 2 - 2015
Kia Ora everyone & Welcome
Nau mai, haere mai and welcome to KNS. Yesterday was a great day with our students in Year 3-8 competing at the
KNS Cross Country at Karori Park. Well done to everyone that participated and gave the challenge a go. Thanks to
Miss Ross for her organisation. Results of each of the year groups are at the back of the newsletter.
Communication @ KNS
Our main form of communication with you as parents/caregivers
is electronic. We will always endeavour to send information that
is only relevant to your child and events that involve them. We
highly recommend downloading our school app from Google Play
or the App Store on ITunes today. If you downloaded our app last
year, a new version is available. If you have had issues with lost
alerts or it's been a little temperamental, delete the app and then
reload it. When events such as cross country are postponed at
late notice we will use the app first to communicate with you,
then send an email and place the information on the the school
electronic sign.
Whanau Teams / House Teams
At KNS we believe in a healthy sense of competition and giving things a go. We have in the past had our four house
teams competing in relays at school events like swimming sports, cross country and athletics. At these events from
now on class and year relays will be the order of the day.
House captains have been put aside as we are aiming to foster a culture of shared leadership across all our senior
students at KNS. All our Year 7 & 8 students are leaders and are expected to showing others what to do, how to learn
and how to contribute to the whole school environment at KNS. At whanau events we have planned for this year,
you will see our youngest students interacting and working together with our oldest students. Discussions around
our school values of ….
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have formed parts of learning conversations, playground discussions and events at KNS. The discussion or
respecting the learning environment, our own property and other people's ideas as just three areas we have
heard talk about the last week.
21 May 2015 1 Google Apps For Education
Tonight is our information session on the Google Apps for Education suite evening
beginning at 6:30pm in the school library. A reminder that RSVP would be appreciated
for catering purposes. Come along and see what wickedly collaborative tools your
children will be using to connect, share and create with. Tomorrow we will be sending
home our revised cybersafety agreements. Please take the time to read through the
agreements and return the signed portion to the Office. Please feel free to email Kirsten Lang on
[email protected]
if you have any questions.
Thanks to everyone that came to our music assembly last week. We are making some changes to this event that will
be usually taking place at the end of each school term. To enable parents/caregivers to make the time when their
children will be performing, we envisage the following.
Junior students will begin the assembly moving through to senior students. Our Orchestra will perform first up at
1:30pm, followed by our junior performers. Our Kapa Haka group will perform halfway through. There will be a short
break where Mr Mac will get the children to stretch and celebrate what they have viewed. This is an appropriate
moment for you to enter or exit assembly if you are unable to attend the entire performance. We will then move on
with senior groups and complete the assembly with our bands. If you have toddlers, as with normal assembly, we ask
that you place yourself at the seats by the exit doors near the rear of the hall so that if your toddler becomes fidgety
or distressed, you can take them outside to calm them down as they can distract our students performing on stage.
Your attendance and assistance is greatly appreciated.
Have a great week
Andrew McFarlane, Kirsten Lang, Danielle Sanders & Charles
Bisley - KNS Leadership Team
Schoolwide - Additional News
15 May - Email Information Evening on 21st May
15 May - Email to Kapa Haka group
20 May - Email to UM - voluntary pizza lunch Friday 29 May
20 May - Email to Rm 5 re shared lunch Friday 22nd May
Looking Ahead to Dates in Term 2
Below is a list of dates to be aware of for Term 2. Please be aware that some dates may change due to
involvement from other schools, because of bad weather or availability of performers. For more updated
information please refer to the community calendar on the Kelburn School App.
Week 5
Thursday 21 May
Week 6
Google Apps Parent Evening @ 6:30pm Library
21 May 2015 2 Tuesday 26 May
Week 7
Monday 1 June
Tuesday 2 June
Week 8
Tuesday 9 June
3 pm presentation from Julia Davidson, Principal WGC for Y8 girls in library
QUEENS BIRTHDAY School Closed
PTA Meeting @ 7 pm Staffroom
WZ Cross Country
School Cross Country Results 2015
Boys
Girls
Year 3
Jack Robinson
Tom Cook
Harry Greenslade
Noah Lees
Harvey Walker
Oran Reed
Year 4
George Ormsby
Max Tebbs
Calum Martineau
Noah Maloney
William Cook-Green
Srian Sneyd
Year 5
Luca Evett
Nathan Lloyd-Evans
Kirin Simonsen
Charlie Scott
Guy Lees
Thomas Bierney
Year 6
Matthew Mahoney-Wearne
Haris Martineau
Oscar Kelleher
Samuel Halton
Ben Scott
Joshua Neylan
Year 7
George Willett
Eugene Farley
Baker Christie
George Teagle
Edd Forest
Harry Sturgeon
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Year 3
Anabelle Christie
Thea Cory
Penelope Costello
Natalia Woodridge
Laura Cookson
Ellen Bierney
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Year 4
Harmony Firestone
Georgie Griffiths
Francesca Rotolo
Scarlett Ching
Eliza Taylor
Rose Newton-Howes
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Year 5
Alexa Beatson
Sofia George
Libby Stewart
Meadow O’Dwyer
Charlotte White
Jade Forrest
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Year 6
Eilis Daily
Pippa Stewart
Bebe Newman
Maddi Campbell
Ruby Norburn
Drue Griffiths
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Year 7
Hannah Evett
Alana Taggart
Justice Firestone
Alix Gibson
Maya Levy
Isla Jones
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21 May 2015 3 Year 8
Zac McSweeney
Hamish Martineau
Harrison Mahoney-Wearne
Joel Tebbs
James Mallet
Toby Hunt
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Year 8
Milly Isac
Mimi Edlund
Georgia Rich
Lily Slater
Kyra Holt
Sally MacCormick
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2015 Term Dates
Term 2—Monday 20 April – Friday 3 July
Term 3—Monday 20 July
- Friday 25 September
Term 4—Monday 12 October – Thursday 17 December at midday
Sale of KNS Uniform
We have sale items available as follows:
Shorts at $25 while stocks last. Normally $35.
Track Pants at $32 while stocks last. Normally $40
Shell jackets for winter available at $65.
Beanies for winter available at $5. Normally $15
Polo Shirts available $25 while stocks last.
Sports Shirts available at $25 while stocks last. All new orders for Sports shirts will be $37.
Permission for use of Child’s Photo
Please advise the Office in writing if you do not wish for your child’s image to be used in any newsletters, on
the website or promotional material. This information will be kept for the duration your child is at Kelburn
Normal School.
To order your entertainment book on line go to
https://www.entertainmentbook.co.nz/orderbooks/104d205
REVIVE
- A big thank you to Revive for supporting KNS by supplying coffee for our staff and supporting the
KNS Centenary Celebrations. It is greatly appreciated
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