Growing Excellence Together Piki ake te tihi ngātahi Newsletter 19 March 2015 Important Notes Things to note… ►March 27 Jnr Cross Country, PP Day 1 April. ►March 30 Centrals swimming. ►April 2, Thurs, last Day of term 1. ►April 20 First day of Term 2. ►May 6 Yr 5-8 Cross Country (Zones 19 May.) Has your child lost a collector’s album? Apply at the office. Our Awesome Road Patrollers on duty rainhail - or shine. Thanks to everyone for following the "cross now" instructions so well.▼ Nau mai haere mai, Talofa lava, Malo e lelei, Bula Vinaka! We are all excited at Avonhead School! Early next week/877 we expect to be connected to high-speed fibre! We have waited for it for a long time and as we use a lot of devices throughout the school day, there are many times when the internet is slowed down as the copper wires are a bottle-neck at the moment. You may be interested to know that our school is ready to use the new fibre system as we have had a network upgrade throughout the school and the wireless system has recently been upgraded! We look forward to sharing educational videos with classes without the ‘buffering’ delays! Just a reminder that the term-1 school holidays are earlier this year. We finish school at 3pm on Thursday 2nd April and children return back to school on 20th April. Also, please remember that Monday, April 27th is a holiday for students as it is the first of the ‘Mondayisation’ of a public holiday – having a public holiday on Monday as ANZAC day falls on a Saturday. Finally, just want to remind you (or alert you) to the fact that the 29th May is a ‘Teacher Only Day’ when the school will be closed. This is attached to the Queen’s birthday weekend so it can allow families to have a good break. It’s great to see the Senior students settling into the ‘HQ’ – the new buildings, and some of the new furniture is starting to arrive. It’s awesome to be able to walk through and see the wonderful things happening and the work that the children are producing. Every student I have spoken to tells me how much they love the new buildings and enjoy being in there. It’s amazing what a difference an amazing environment makes to the learning enjoyment/satisfaction of students. When we get all the new furniture sorted we will have an open day when you too can appreciate the new learning environment. On another note, the Senior team is looking for a wonderful parent/grandparent or friend-of-the family to building a custom-made, standalone shelving unit with cupboard doors, so if you can help, we would love to hear from you. Let us know in the office if you can help. Thank you. Thank you to the nine Avonhead families who looked after our Korean student teachers when they were here for the first four weeks of the year. I will be travelling over to Korea with the Principals of neighbouring schools at the end of this month and we will be presenting a seminar to students there on the NZ Education System at Gongju University. Gongju is a well-known and well respected, prestigious educational institution and we are delighted to be involved with this collaborative initiative involving the others schools in our cluster. Yellow Line stoppers! Charles Levings Principal Contact Us Please treat this as an alert that the traffic wardens will be targeting drivers stopping on yellow lines to let children off on Nortons & Avonhead Roads. This is an unsafe practice. Address: 55 Avonhead Road, Christchurch 8042 Phone: 03 348-7361 E-Mail: [email protected] Website: http://avonhead.school.nz Sports NorthWest Swimming Sports… Were held at Jellie Park on Tuesday 10 March. Results... Eliza McIntosh was 1st in the 11 Yr breaststroke & 2nd in 11 Yr backstroke. Isabella Parmenter came 2nd in the 9yr breaststroke & 1st in the 9 Yr freestyle. Our team of Hunter Mason, Will Mason, Molly Dunlop & Eliza McIntosh came 3rd in the mixed relay 11 Yr Congratulations to these swimmers! COME AND HEAR AN INSPIRING SPEAKER WHO IS A WORLD RENOWNED EXPERT ON SUPPORTING CHILDREN WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES;Parent Evening being held in Christchurch on the 12th May at 7pm - Commodore Hotel. This is designed for parents and children, to give parents and children the tools to help children cope with learning difficulties. Cost: $30 per head or $50 per couple children free.Bookings Essential as there are limited spaces - if you are interested please contact:[email protected] or Ph: 07 8821447▼ AVONHEAD GIRLS BASKETBALL TRIALS YEAR 7 AND 8 This Wednesday the 25th Mar 1.00pm in the Hall Games to be played on Fridays at Bishopdale YMCA Term 2 ◄Budding Builders in the junior school practising their skills with the new construction table and tools at discovery last week Budding Environmentalists in Team 3 & 4 creating a worm farm as a result of inquiry through reading - Learning in real contexts.▼ SPORT HELP NEEDED So we can give the children @ Avonhead School the very best sporting opportunities possible could you please contact Shirley-Anne Collins [email protected] I would like to be involved in the followingFRIDAY WINTER SPORT ( tick) SPORT Rugby Netball Football Hockey Basketball YEAR5/6 YEAR 7/8 COACHING MANAGER OTHER SPORTS FRIDAY WINTER SPORT ( tick) SPORT Basketball Volleyball –summer sport/tournament T Ball-summer sport Rippa rugby-summer sport Rugby fun day-24 April Aerobics Hip hop Cricket -boys Cricket-girls other YEAR5/6 YEAR 7/8 COACHING MANAGER Community Notices FUN STICKS—Hockey Registration. Children can register on line via the Harewood Hockey Club website or by attending the first session on 2 May or subsequent sessions. To assist planning, registration prior to the first session is preferred. SCIENCE ALIVE! Celebration of Light Festival A family based Light Festival April 11 – 17th at CPIT Madras St.—For more info on the festival www.sciencealive.co.nz/events/ Dear Parents/Caregivers, The April school holidays have a way of creeping up on us all! The Air Force Museum is running an OSCAR-endorsed holiday programme titled - ‘Nature’s Flight’, starting Tuesday 7th of April and running until the 17th of April. You can choose half days, full days, or a full week. For more information please check out our website, www.airforcemuseum.co.nz or call the Public Programmes Team on 03 3439504. Book now, spaces are filling fast! Adventures in Antarctica Holiday Programme! Parents/Caregivers! Do your children want adventure? Do your children want fun? Do your children want excitement? If they do, then have them join the explorers at the International Antarctic Centre for their new and exciting holiday programme! The adventures will be running every day from 13 – 17th April 2015 from 9 – 5.30pm. Each day will be different so book a place now for one day or more. For all enquiries and bookings Email [email protected] Faith Jeremiah, PhD candidate at the University of Canterbury, is conducting a small study on society's perception of disposing animal waste. It will only take 2 minutes of your time with a chance to win some MacDonald's vouchers. We are looking for pet owners only to fill it out. Here is the link https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LTSYD9K The Avonhead Community Trust Holiday Programme. Avonhead Community Trust is running another fun filled OSCAR approved holiday programme from the 13 – 17 of April. We offer three programmes for years 1-4, years 5-8 and years 9-10. Please contact Leah Coleman at the Trust office on 348-6742, 021-168-2827 or email [email protected] to register your youth. It is a first in, first serve bases. April 2015 Holiday Programme fun! http://www.sportcanterbury.org.nz/new-zealand/holiday-programmes/ An Introduction to Anxiety in Children/teens Is to the topic of Community Conversations @ St Marks, Avonhead. Wed 18th March 2015 7.30pm—$10 per person. [email protected]
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