7th August 2014 Dear Parents NEWSLETTER NUMBER 12 This term the focus for the School is Connections. The topic is wide and varied. However, in the Chapel we are looking at how we make connections with other people. These connections are what make us happy or sad, help us learn and help us make sense of the world. I have been thinking about the Habits of Mind we have in School and how important they are in assisting us to make good connections. Throughout the term I want to pick one and discuss it here and in the Chapel. The first one I want to focus on is Empathy. ‘The simple act of paying attention can go a long way’ Keanu Reeves. Teaching children to walk in the shoes of others is very difficult. It’s difficult for us, but it helps to focus on what a person looks like and sounds like when they are being empathetic. A person who is displaying empathy listens carefully without interrupting; they ask clarifying questions; they face the person; they make eye contact; they use gestures to encourage the conversation; they insert their opinion. Being empathetic is important to being human and being a good citizen. Next week we will be asking the children to practice this. ‘If there is any secret to success, it lies in the ability to get the person’s point of view and see things from their angle as well as your own’, Henry Ford. A Place to Go It has come to my attention that there are some families who spend time in their car while they wait for a sibling to finish sport. I would like to offer the use of the Dining Room between 3.30pm 5.00pm on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays for families to go there and wait. There is a coffee machine and it is warm and dry. We ask that students are always with a parent or they will be asked to attend after school care. Please only use the tables that are not set for dinner. Learning Conferences It has been a very busy week for the teachers with Learning Conferences and I thank them for their hard work and commitment. It has been wonderful seeing so many families attend these and I look forward to catching up with the boarder families at their Learning Conferences tomorrow. R A Helm Headmaster CONGRATULATIONS Congratulations to the following students who have been awarded their Achiever’s Tie: Olivia Holten and Lachlan Dunn. SPORT Cross Country Championships - Tuesday, 19th August Please come along and join us if you are able to and cheer on the children. You might even like to wear your supporters shirt or something coloured that supports the school house your children are in! Below are the race times for the various year groups - please be aware of these. Parking Please keep to allocated car parks at the front of the school - stay off the footpaths - the children will be running along these. If you come into the car parks by the junior school, you will be asked to stay there until the completion of the races. Watching the races Please try and keep to the cobblestones by the classrooms and turf. RACE ORDER: 1.50pm Year 2 2.15pm Year 5 1.55pm Year 6 2.20pm Year 8 2.00pm Year 0-1: 2.30pm Year 7 2.10pm Year 3: 2.35pm Year 4 Prize giving will follow the races and will be held in the PAC - Flat Floor. Recent Results WBOP Schools Individual Duathlon Year 8 Girls: Georgia Kimpton – 2nd Year 7 Girls: Sacha McLeod – 2nd Well done girls. Vs Hereworth & St Cuthberts Results from Hereworth matches last week 1st XI Hockey lost 2nd XI Football won 1st XI Football drew 2nd XV Rugby lost 1st XV Rugby lost Results from St Cuthberts last week 2nd XI Hockey won 1st IX Girls Football lost 8A Netball won 7A Netball won Congratulations to the following hockey players who have been selected for the Waikato Representative teams: Collier Trophy: Rosie Bedford, Olivia Bloor, and Isabella Brant Collier Development: Ele Barton, Emma Barton and Georgia Ronowicz Hatch Cup: Marcus Adams and Louis Brown BootCamp BootCamp this term is not going ahead - due to insufficient enrolments. OPERA - FIDDLER ON THE ROOF Opera Tickets go on sale from Monday, 18th August at 9.00am. Ticketing is being done through iticket again this year. To purchase tickets please go to their website www.iticket.co.nz Show Nights with pre show entertainment starting at 6.30pm. Show starts at 7.00pm. Matinees with pre show entertainment starting at 1.30pm. Show starts 2.00pm Opening night Friday, 12th September Matinee Saturday, 13th September Matinee Sunday, 14th September Evening Tuesday, 16th September Evening Thursday,18th September Closing night Friday, 19th September Tickets $28 Adults & $15.00 for students up to the age of 18. For Tuesday, 16th September there is a special ticket price for OBGA and any other patrons to ensure a full house on this evening. In the past this has been our quietest performance. Opera Props As you will have seen in our previous newsletter, we are looking for some props for the upcoming Opera.  An old fashion singer sewing machine with a foot treadle, preferably on its own table.  ‘dead’ light bulbs - not eco bulbs - regular filament bulbs.  Realistic "baby" doll. If you can just send a picture of the item first it is easier to judge if it will be suitable. All items will be discreetly named and returned at the end of the season. Many thanks. Contact [email protected] FROM THE LIBRARY Like us on our facebook page to keep up with lots of exciting book news and great ideas. https://www.facebook.com/SouthwellLibrary FROM THE NURSE For the safety of our pupils, we request that all medication brought to school is handed into the Office or the Clinic in the container they have been dispensed in. On the first day you will be asked to complete a Medication Request form. Thank you. DENTAL CARAVAN ON SITE The Dental Assessment van will be at Southwell School from Monday, 18th August until Friday, 5th September. Students whom we have consent for will be examined on site. Treatment will be carried out at Peachgrove Community Dental Clinic. If parents wish to be present at the initial Dental Examination for a family appointment they will need to take their child to Peachgrove Community Dental Clinic. 80A Peachgrove Road, Hamilton. Please phone 07 855 4108 by 15th August otherwise your child will be seen in the van as above. SSA NEWS Trivia Night - SOLD OUT! Good luck to all the teams and we look forward to hearing all about it in the next issue of the newsletter. Please be aware that this year is BYO drinks (due to liquor license issues). There will be no cash bar this year. FETE NEWS We hope that you are all now aware of what your children are doing for their class fete stalls. If not, then please ask the teacher or the fete liaison parent for your class. Planning is going really well and the enthusiasm is beginning to flow like the water that will spill over Mr Helm’s head at Dunk the Teacher! Food Stalls We will be having food stalls again with an international theme to represent our diverse community at Southwell. So far we have: Maori food; Chinese food; Indian food; American food. The attendance numbers at the 2011 Fete were in the 1000's and most of those people wanted something to eat at least once during the day! We would like to hear from anyone who has an interest in their cultural cuisine being represented at the fete. Where possible, we are trying to source ingredients from sponsors to help keep costs down. If this sounds like something you think you would like to take on - perhaps some French Crepes, German Pretzels, Mediterranean salads, Middle Eastern kebabs, then please let us know as soon as possible. Creative Crafters Calling all crafty people - already we have some Southwell friends and family volunteer their knitting and craft making services. If you know of anyone who would like to ‘create for the fete’ please ask them to get in touch with us. We would love to have some more Christmas themed items. Coffee We will have a coffee stall and this is truly one of our most popular stands. We have two fantastic in house baristas but we would love to add any willing coffee fiends to the team - anyone who can offer their barista skills for a few hours on Fete day, please contact Alex Bedford. Wrapped Lollies / Collection of other items The wrapped lolly box collection is going really well. Thank you to those who have already deposited into the lolly bank. Please keep deposits coming to the School Office. We will also have another collection box at the Office. At this stage we are asking for your old wire coat hangers, toilet rolls, clean label free glass jars and empty large size tuna tins. For those of you who want to relive the fun and excitement and those who want to see what all the talk is about please visit the photo gallery 2011 on the. Southwell website to look at all the pictures we had from our previous fete. Please like us on Facebook - Southwell School Fete, it is the best way to see where we and what we are up to. Remember - Save the Date for the Southwell Fete November 29th, 10.00am - 4.00pm CHAPEL NEWS Upcoming Chapel Services Baptism / Holy Communion Service (Combined Choirs’) Sunday, 17th August 10.00am House Evensong Chapel Service - Lincoln / Salisbury (Girls’ Choir) Sunday, 24th August 6.00pm KFC CLUB (Kids For Christ) This term the KFC club will be watching 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe' during their Friday lunch meetings and all Y3 to Y8 students are invited. Please come to the Boarder's lounge as soon as you've finished eating your lunch and join Peter, Susan, Edward and Lucy on their adventures in Narnia. FROM THE ENVIRO TEAM Ms Voss has enough Chop sticks, yoghurt pots, egg cartons and coffee grounds at present. Thank you to everyone who so kindly helped us out with these. OPEN MIC NIGHT TO CELEBRATE NATIONAL POETRY DAY Join MC Richard Swainson and guest poet Paula Green for an exciting evening of poetry at ArtsPost. We invite people to bring along a couple of poems to read appropriate to share in a family-friendly setting. Poems can be original work or recitation of others’ work. Guest poet Paula Green will read two short brackets of her poems. Winners of the Wintec poetry competition will be announced by Paula at the event. There will be spot prizes and giveaways. Location: ArtsPost, 120 Victoria Street, Hamilton Time: Friday 22 August, 5.30-7pm approx. See further details at http://hamiltonpoetryday.wix.com/2014 By Alexis McKinnon 5JMcF Southwell School, PO Box 14015, Five Cross Roads, Hamilton 3252 Telephone: (07) 855 2089 Facsimile: (07) 855 9023 (Business) Boarders’ Fax: (07) 855 1956 House Mother’s Telephone: (07) 855 7834 or 027 242 9996 www.southwell.school.nz Smoked fish pie recipe from 8JR The best thing about this, is that you can help us with our collection of cans (450gm) size for our Fete project. So please try this recipe, and then send along to us your clean empty tin. Thanks from 8JR This recipe transforms a tin of smoked fish into a new family favourite in about half an hour. The crumbs make a tasty change from a mashed potato topping. If you like, add a bag of baby spinach leaves to the fish mixture while it’s still hot or serve with a few fresh leaves on the side. To serve from frozen, defrost, then cover and heat for 20-30 minutes. 40g butter 1 onion, finely diced 1 tsp crushed garlic 1 tsp fresh dill, or ½ tsp dried ¼ cup flour 2 cups hot milk 450g smoked fish, tinned or freshly smoked and boned Sea salt and cracked pepper 4 eggs 3 slices bread 1 clove garlic 1 tbsp chopped parsley 2 tbsp olive oil Heat the butter in a large saucepan and saute the onion, garlic and dill over a medium-low heat for 3-4 minutes until soft and fragrant. Add the flour and cook for 2 minutes until golden and sandy in texture, then slowly stir in the milk until smooth and creamy. Simmer for 2 minutes. Flake fish into bite-sized pieces, add to the sauce and season to taste. Meanwhile, boil eggs for about 8 minutes, rinse under cold water, peel and slice. Place bread, garlic and parsley in a food processor and pulse until you have coarse breadcrumbs, then add oil with motor running. Divide fish sauce and sliced eggs between 4 freezer and ovenproof dishes (or 1 large dish) and sprinkle with a generous amount of crumbs. Freeze for later or bake on an oven tray at 180°C for 20-30 minutes until crumbs are golden and sauce is bubbling. What do you know about our School Houses? Canterbury, Durham, Lincoln, Salisbury, Winchester & York Here’s a copy of the report given to the students in Canterbury House earlier this year. Hello and welcome to this week’s Canterbury house report. We think YOU should know all about the history of Canterbury - Where our house is from and what it means. Canterbury Cathedral is one of the oldest and most famous Cathedrals in England, measuring 160 meters long and 72 meters high. It’s a Cathedral of a MASSIVE scale, even though it isn’t the biggest. Today the Archbishop of Canterbury is Reverend Justin Welby, who is 105th in line dating way back to about 597 AD. Today’s Dean of the cathedral is Reverend Robert Willis, who is passionate about his job and always gives visitors of the Canterbury Cathedral a warm welcome. The Canterbury cathedral has many stained glass windows, spires, 3 towers and 21 bells altogether. The South West Tower (Oxford Tower) contains the cathedral’s main ring of bells, hung for change ringing in the English style. (Change ringing - method of ringing a tuned bells special patterns called "changes".) All of the bells in the Canterbury Cathedral were cast in 1981 by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. The organ at Canterbury has three manuals, and sits in the choir gallery at the north choir aisle. It was built in 1886 by Henry Willis, then again rebuilt in the mid 20th century. Later, it was again rebuilt by N.P. Mander in 1978 and reduced down to three manuals at about that time. There are also plans to replace the current Organ and work starts this year… Yay! Canterbury cathedral is one of the most amazing cathedrals in the whole of England, and has loads of history behind it. You can always look it up sometime, they have a website that you can flick through, it’s got heaps of information that you can amaze yourself with. We certainly learnt something! But it’s not just the cathedral that’s amazing. There’s also the people of Canterbury house. Did you know that Canterbury used to be the best house, winning everything, like swimming sports, tug of war, cross country, lit quiz, house sport, and nearly every house competition! We barely lost anything!! We remember way back when we were about year fives and sixes, we were known as a real legendary kind of house, people knew we couldn’t be beaten. But then lots of the students of Canterbury left, we weren’t so good, and our ranking for the house shield isn’t going so well at the moment… So we need to pick up our game. We need to collect more C points and House points, and also train up for the upcoming events in the year that can push us up the ranks, like cross country and athletics. I know they’re AGES away, but training up for these kinds of things really pays off, and remember, it’s always a team effort! Even if we don't achieve the goal of coming first, Canterbury always has heaps of fun and a family spirit! So thanks for reading our Canterbury report, and keep up the good effort of collecting those points, and always remember, being a Cantabrian means that you strive for accuracy, you are true to and proud of yourself, and that there is always something out there you can help out with. Have a good term and don’t worry, be a happy Canterbury family! Written by the Official Canterbury Reporters. Yasmin Chew, Mayson Coffin, Siobhán Dolan and Molly Clements