Panui / Newsletter

Updates and developments to share with you this week include the following...

Southland Athletics: Congratulations to the following students for their impressive efforts last Saturday at Southland Athletics.

• Piper Muir: 2nd in 8-year-old girls 60m and 1st in the 100 metres,
• Cooper Dobbie: 1st in the 7-year-old boys 60metres and 3rd in the 100 metres
• Ida Jukes: 2nd in the 9-year-old girls 800metres
• Quinn Tuhao: 2nd in the 10-year-old girls 200m.

Interviews: Thank you very much for your time and commitment in coming to the interviews this week. It is an important part of the learning process to connect teachers, whanau and children together focusing on their learning.

LMV School and ECE Leaders Day: On Wednesday the leaders of our LMV schools and early childhood had a day where we toured Gorge Road School and Tokanui School. After that, we met with Sarah Johnson from Corrections who chatted with us about their work in the community.

LMV Zone Swimming Sports: Thank you to teachers Mrs Hayley Clarke and Miss Sanne den Boon for being our supporting teachers at this event today which saw a large number of our children participate and do very well. Thank you to those parents that helped with transport and at the event.

LMV Kahui Ako Office Managers: Today (Friday 25th November) we drew together all our school's Office Managers as part of a Kahui Ako Community of Learning initiative to build relationships and strengthen practice across our school administrations. We toured Gorge Road School. We also farewelled Mrs Adrienne Dale who has provided Menzies College with many years of faithful service.

Christmas Postie Elf: Christmas card deliveries start next week being the last two weeks of the term. The letterbox is outside the staffroom for this each morning.

Boiler: We expect that replacement work for our new boiler will occur in early to mid-December depending on consent timeframes. This will mean that there is quite a bit of activity on the west side of the school including the removal of the chimney. Please be vigilant and stay appropriately away from the workers.

Miss Mineur's Registration: We enjoyed celebrating Miss Mineur's milestone of achieving full registration after two years of advice and guidance from her Mentor Teacher Mrs Hayley Clarke. Well done Caci and thank you to you Hayley for your support and wisdom over the past two years for Caci.

Acknowledging - Team Edendale

• Teachers: A big thank you to Laura, Hayley, Abby, Jenny, Caci, Sarah and Sanne for all the work that you all have done in regard to the end-of-year reporting processes relating to assessments, reports and interviews. It is a big job that requires a lot of organisation and time to fit it all in and get it completed. Well done.

Term Four 2022

Week 7 (of 8)

• Monday 28th November - Senior Triathlon
• Wednesday 30th November - Levi Goodall Show
• Friday 1st December - Celebration Time (2.20pm)

Week 8 (of 8)

• Thursday 8th December - Concert Matinee 1pm, Evening 7pm
• Friday 9th December - Year 6 Farewell and lunch.
• Friday 9th December - last day of school for all students

Class Swap - Thursday 8th December

At the end of the term, on Thursday 8th December, we have a Class Swap where we bring together the 2023 classes, with their teacher.

This is an important day enabling the classroom teacher to welcome her next year's class and for the children to meet each other to build new bonds of friendship and enjoy the existing bonds that they have already.

Term Dates - 2023

• Term One: Wednesday 1st February to Thursday 6th April (Ten weeks)
• Term Two: Monday 24th April to Friday 30th June (10 Weeks)
• Term Three: Monday 17th July to Friday 22nd September (10 weeks)
• Term Four: Monday 9th October to Wednesday 13th December (10 weeks)

Student Council End of Year Disco

Tuesday 29th November, 5.30-6.30pm, Christian Activity Centre (cnr Ferry Rd/George St)

Entry $2 - funds towards the new chicken coop

Theme: Somewhere Over the Rainbow - wear your favourite colour of the rainbow or ALL the colours of the rainbow!

Term Four - Final Meeting Schedule

The School Board's next and final meeting for 2022 is this coming Tuesday 29th of November, starting at 7.00 pm in the staffroom.

Out-of-Zone Enrolments - 2023

Enrolment at Edendale Primary School is governed by an enrolment scheme.

The School Board has 20 places available for out of zone students for the 2023 school year. The exact number of places is subject to the number of eligible in-zone enrolments received.

Applications are invited for those out of zone students who would like to enrol for Term One starting Wednesday 1st of February and going through to Thursday 6th April 2023.

Applications for this period are due on Tuesday 31st of January.

Information and application forms can be picked up at the school office. Applications can be made electronically through out website (www.edendaleps.school.nz) under Our School - Enrolments and Attendance. On the digital form, by ticking ‘Out of Zone’, you are deemed to be making an application.

If the number of out of zone applications exceeds the number of places available, students will be selected by ballot. If a ballot for out of zone places is required, it will be held on Thurssday 2nd of February.

Parents will be informed of the outcome of the application and/or ballot as early as possible.

Wow! Term 4 already.

Throughout the day we do lots of learning.

We start off the day with writing. The children have been busy learning how to write sentences, sounds, and words.

For reading each reading group has been moving through the levels. The children work on pointing and looking at the words, fluency and learning sight words.

For maths, groups have been learning about number knowledge and addition and subtraction. It has been wonderful looking back over the year and sharing progress with parents at interviews.

• Makayla – I am proud of my writing because I write lots and get to the second page. I like maths because I am working through my PRIME book and we try some maths by ourselves.

• Sully – Maths is my favourite because I like doing maths with my Triangles Maths Group and learning number bonds up to 10 in my PRIME book. I can read big stories now and I like scary ones.

During the day we have action station time. The children really enjoy this time as it is a chance for them to choose where they would like to interact with each other. Some favourite stations are lego, play-doh, whiteboards, drawing table and role play at the ice cream shop.

• Ridge – I like playing with the lego, blocks, whiteboards and everything else. I play with my friends.

• Rose – I like playing at the drawing table. I make cards and artwork.

We really enjoyed going swimming. Thank you to Janet Pollard, Tracey Lockhart and the parent helpers. It was amazing seeing the children’s skills and confidence in the pool grow over the three weeks of swimming.

• Divine – I practised kicking and floating. It was fun.

• Maverick – I liked being able to put my head under the water. I liked the game where we flipped the pancakes.

A highlight this term has been practising for our concert item. The children have been busy learning the words and moves to our item. We are looking forward to sharing our ABBA performance with friends and whanau.

I would like to say thank you to Mrs Shepherd, Mrs Blackmore and Mrs Knapp for your support during the year. Team Kea loves working with you and you have all helped make a difference in starting their school journey and learning.

Christmas Hamper - Raffle Items per Team

The Home and School would like to ask each family to please donate non-perishable (check expiry date) grocery items for our Christmas Hampers Raffle.

Please drop these items in your classroom donation boxes by Wednesday 23rd November.

Thanks very much.

• Team Kea: Christmas decorations

• Team Kiwi: Packets eg cereal, jelly, crackers, chips, biscuits, etc

• Team Pukeko: Sweets eg lollipops, marshmallows, popcorn, etc

• Team Tui: Condiments eg food toppings, jams, sauces, etc

• Team Kereru: Drinks eg fizz, juice, water, etc

• Team Kahu: Cans of food eg fruit, corn, spaghetti, tomato sauce, etc

Help Wanted - End of Year Raffle and Concert

The end-of-year events are fast approaching. The Home and School runs a Christmas Hamper raffle at the matinee and evening concert. If you are able to help with organising this we would be most grateful.

Further, on the night of the evening concert we provide supper and would love a few hands to help with the tea, coffee, cake and wash-up.

Please contact President Louise Duffy on: louisecduffy@hotmail.com

Next Meeting - Term One 2023

The Term One 2023 meeting of the Home and School, also an AGM, is scheduled for Monday 27th of February at 7.30 pm in the school staffroom.

A Christmas photo with a difference. Have your photo taken in a nativity scene.

• Where: Manna Bookshop, 90 Spey Street, Invercargill.
• What: Dress-ups available.
• When: Sat 3rd, 10th, 17th December 10-3; Thurs 15th and Fri 16th Dec 10-12, 2-4; Mon-Wed 19th - 21st Dec 10-12, 2-4.
• How much: Photo packs $5 & $10, cash only

For any queries please ring Manna Bookshop on 03 218 4571.

Boys Outreach and Girls Rally - Friday 25th November 7-9pm.

• Boys - bike night, bring your bike and helmet.
• Girls - outside games if fine.
• Everyone 9 years old and up is welcome, just come along.
• Christian Activity Centre, George St, Edendale
• Contacts Liz Pask 027 657 4615 or Johno Ferguson 027 444 1102.

Youth Group - Saturday 26th November 7.30 pm-10.15 pm

• Paint Ball shooting. Meet at Activity Centre.
• Anyone Year 9 and up is welcome.
• For any questions contact Becs Ferguson 027 412 4941.

Email: admin@edendaleps.school.nz
Website: https://sites.google.com/edendaleps.school.nz/edendale-primary-school
Location: Edendale Primary School, 24 Salford Street, Edendale 9825, New Zealand
Phone: 03 206 6959
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EdendalePrimarySchool
Twitter: @EdendaleSchool