Worser Bay School Children love learning. At our school, the entire school community can:
* See achievement celebrated and children valued as individuals; * Feel motivated and inspired to participate; * Experience success.
WORSER BAY SCHOOL
NEWSLETTER
Ka mau te wehi! (Grasp the Magic!)
Term 4, Week 5, Friday 14 November 2014
Kia ora e te Whanau o Whetukairangi
Well, the Wild Things roared their terrible roars and caused
a major rumpus!! Thanks to all who made Sunday such a
wonderful success. Special thanks to the Fair Committee
who have toiled away for the best part of 2014 to make this
happen and it certainly did happen! It is a great feeling
when you see so many community members getting stuck in
on the day too. This even includes parents whose children
have moved on some years ago, which is an incredible
testament.
I have been researching a little into community engagement
and have found the work of Tamarack - Institute of Community Engagement in Canada pretty interesting: http://
tamarackcommunity.ca/about.html
Tamarack's motto "Better Together" is certainly what we are
also promoting. Whether it be building teacher/parent
partnerships, collegial relationships, child/ teachers,
parent/parents, school/schools, school/wider community,
school/global connections… "Better Together" sums it all
up.
It was great to be able to celebrate belonging to such a
vibrant and dynamic community on Thursday night at the
Roxy. It was lovely to have the chance to get to know each
other better and make new connections.
We have plenty more opportunity to connect before the year
is out: Data Meetings, Fish and Chip Night (Years 3-6),
Assemblies, Karakia, Sharing Learning Morning (Years 0-3),
The Wrap, Year 6 Dinner/Year 6 Parent Drinks...... it's
certainly never dull!
Nga mihi
Jude
ACTION AT A GLANCE
 We are keen to get your feedback on the Wrap it Up
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Payment System. Please complete our survey, it only
takes a minute! Page 5
Diary Yr 6, Matariki/Māhutonga and Inquiry Events Page 5
Friday 28 November - Assembly 9.10 am
Thursday 11 December - Year 6 Dinner
(Year 6s plus their parents)
Tuesday 16 December - The Farewell 'WRAP'
(Whole Parent Community)
Data Meetings
We are reopening bookings from 3.00 pm today until
1.00pm Monday for late bookings. The teachers would
really appreciate you taking up this opportunity for meeting.
Please follow the instructions below:
Go to: http://www.schoolinterviews.co.nz/
Enter the Worser Bay School Code QEMJQ.
DON’T FORGET - ORDER ONLINE - IT’S SIMPLE AND SAVES HEAPS OF TIME!!! Go to: www.wrapitup.co.nz
Pay for: Sausages (Tuesdays $2 each), Sushi (Fridays), Trips and Sports Payments.
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Check out our blogs: http://www.tautoruandautahi.blogspot.co.nz/ and http://autahi.blogspot.co.nz/
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Student Workshops
We have been looking at some of our subtraction
strategies again. Some of us have been able to run
workshops for others. Here is a reversibility workshop in
action.
Here is another workshop. This one is looking at rounding
and compensating.
Student comments:
"It was good teaching other people my strongest strategy."
"It was fun learning different people’s ways of problem
solving."
"It was good to be taught not by a teacher, but a student."
"It gives other people a chance to share what they know
about maths."
Staying safe online...
Check out this post on the blog about staying safe online:
http://matarikiwbs.blogspot.co.nz/2014/11/stay-safe-online.html
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Funky Friday
Today we went to the beach. Children ran their own skills workshops. The workshops were things like cricket, karate, music, football, drawing and sand castle making. What a great day! by Juliette
Designing Inventions
We are using the flow chart to design inventions.
These ideas were developed by a group including
Rory, Betty Jo and Manaia. Imagine a cat with
mittens! It would have real trouble having a meal of
Tui, wouldn’t it! Amazing creative thinking!
Before making prototypes of inventions we are
learning to draw accurate diagrams.
This amazing cross section diagram of a kettle
is by Sophia.
This house appears to be
‘blasting off’.
An Invention Prototype
Check out our blog: http://matarikiwbs.blogspot.co.nz/
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PRINCIPAL’S AWARDS
Our Principal’s Awards for the term focus on Creativity.
Awards for this week were for Being Actively Involved in my
own learning.
Autahi and Tautoru:
Katherine, Hana, Sophie, Sammy and Molly.
Māhutonga and Matariki:
Jasper, James M., Louie, Sophia, Rory and James G.
Kia ora koutou
With 79% of our parent community preferring to pay for the
weekly sausage sizzles through 'Wrap it Up', we think you
must like it!? This has made a huge difference to the workload of the Carolyns in the office, too.
We would like more detailed feedback on this trial system
so would really appreciate your time to fill out our survey.
It's short and should only take you a few minutes.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TCCMBLZ
EVENTS CONCLUDING OUR YEAR OF INQUIRY
Attention all parents of students in Māhutonga/Matariki
plus parents of this year’s Year 3 students.
Innovators’ and Inventors’ Fair:
Tuesday 2nd December
Time: 6 - 7.30 pm
To conclude our year of Inquiry we will be presenting the
wonderful creative thinking of our students. Bring Fish and
Chips and come and hear about the kids’ inventions, their
ideas and the creative process they have all been through.
We would also love to take this opportunity to share our
planning for the first 2015 Inquiry with you and get your ideas.
This is why we would love Year 3s plus parents to come
along too!
Watch this space for more details.
Senior Team
Autahi and Tautoru Taking Action Around Innovation
Innovators’ and Inventors’ Presentation:
Friday 12th December
Time: 9.30-11.00 am
To conclude our year of Inquiry we will be presenting the
wonderful creative thinking of our students. We invite whanau
to stay on after the assembly to share in the children's
actions.
We will be discussing the kids’ inventions, their ideas and the
creative process they have all been through. We also want to
share our planning for the 2015 Inquiry with you and get your
ideas and contributions to this.
Watch this space for more details about this.
Thanks in advance.
Nga mihi
Jude
Just to remind you once more…
New Online Payment System
This term, we are piloting a new secure payment system
with Wrap it Up Limited. They’ve developed an online ordering and payment facility for all school activities. This
means you will be able to select a range of school
“products” such as sausage sizzles, school excursions and
sporting
activities and pay for them online either by internet banking
or credit/debit card.
The great thing about it is that you will be able to select
activities for more than one child and order sausages (for
example) for multiple weeks at a time.
Think of it like a shop. You can select as many or as few
“products” as you like for one or more children. You go to
the checkout, confirm your purchases and pay for them.
The system also stores a record of your purchases in your
account. It’s quick and simple. And there’s no more paper
permission slips as this is also done online. We can reduce
our paper and you can stop worrying about mislaying
notices.
While it will not be mandatory to use the Wrap it Up system, we recommend it as it will help us reduce the hours
currently spent on the administration of payments and financial record keeping. We’ve had a 4-year association
with Wrap it Up Limited and, to date, they have always
provided us a fantastic service that we can rely on.
They have very good systems in place and have always
provided us with
excellent customer service.
Junior Team
BALL RUN RESULTS
1st Prize
Two nights accommodation at the Cattlestop Martinborough.
Ticket number 975 - Karen Wyreweden
2nd Prize
$500 online voucher for Interisland Ferry.
Ticket number 498 - Nick Wykes
3rd Prize
Nespresso Coffee Machine.
Ticket 380 - Kathryn Ainslie
We’re excited about the new system and encourage you to
try it. It will certainly simplify your school payments. To help
with the pilot, we’ll be sending out a number of surveys
throughout the term to gather your feedback.
As well as the surveys, please feel free to feed comments
back to the school office directly, or contact Jane at Wrap it
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COMMUNITY NOTICES
Holy Cross School Year 7 Enrolments
There are some spaces still available for Year 7 students at
Holy Cross School for the 2015 school year. Please contact
them on 388 7189 or [email protected]
to register your interest.
St Anthony’s Bazaar Collection Day
St Anthony’s Bazaar is coming again soon (14th February
2015) and we would love donations of new and used
goods. We are holding a drop off day this Sunday.
Drop off day at St Anthony’s School
10 Ludlam Street, Seatoun
Sunday 16th November 2014
12pm-2.30pm
(Rain or shine)
If you have any donations to help us out we would really
appreciate it. No televisions or computers please.
House Sitting Available
If anyone in the Worser Bay area is going away between
24th and 31st of December and would like a house-sitter, my
sister, her husband and their three year old are
coming to Wellington for Christmas and are looking for
somewhere to stay. They are happy to feed pets. If you are
interested please contact Hannah on 938 9262 or
0211072817
Worser Bay Life Saving Club
New members, including qualified and trainee life guards
and children aged 7 years or older, welcome. Family club.
Spend time on the beach with your children while they
learn, have fun and compete.
Club days every Sunday from 2pm.
Contact Jenny Everett-Wells at
[email protected]
Position Available
Are you looking for some extra money and wanting to
keep active but find it hard working around the kids/school
schedule?
Then consider this - one of our school mums runs her own
cleaning business in the Eastern suburbs and is looking to
hire new workers. She set the business up to allow her
and her team to work around kids’ school hours and now
finds she has more clients than she can cope with. This is
a fully insured and professional cleaning business.
Pay is competitive. Access to company vehicle means
you must have a full clean driving licence for a manual
vehicle. The business uses ethical products so there are
no nasty chemicals, but there will be some lifting and
steps as you'd expect for Wellington! Help with childcare
and other options are also possible.
If interested, call Beks Hudson-Lowe for more details at
Ducks-in-a-Row on 021711283.
The Children’s Bookshop
Stacy Gregg - the best-selling author of "Island of Lost
Horses" and "Princess and The Foal" will be in store at
The Children’s Bookshop, Kilbirnie Plaza on
Thursday, 20th November from 4pm to 4.30pm.
Readers may bring any of their own copies of Stacy’s
books for signing. All welcome, no charge.
ARTISAN SUMMER SANDALS
If you are after your summer sandals for this year - children’s and
adults’. Feel free to contact Annette (021 626340) to hear about the
Spring Special! Or, catch her tomorrow at the Seatoun Kindy Gala and
Craft Fair (12-3pm).
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