Stanley Avenue School Newsletter

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Student Attendance

Term 1 Outstanding Attendance Certificates have been handed out today. Student’s whose attendance was 97% or over for the term received these certificates. It is pleasing to note that 86 students have achieved this. Another big cohort achieved 94- 96%. Additionally, students who achieved 90% attendance or higher for the term went into the draw for a $100 Prezzy Card and a Te Aroha Pools family pass. We are delighted that the whānau of Simi and Timi Popoola has won this award.

Room 1 Position

We are thrilled to announce that Miss Shay Teague has won the Permanent Room 1 position, starting Term 3. Shay is currently teaching at David Street School in Morrinsville and is a highly effective practitioner. Te Aroha is Shay’s hometown, and a bonus is that she is also a former Stanley Avenue School student! Shay will be a huge asset to our learning community and has a promising future in education ahead of her. Miss Malone and Mrs Roskam will continue the great job they are doing teaching Room 1 during Term 2.

• 15 May Scholastic Book Club Issue #3 orders are due in to the office please
• 17 May Pink Shirt Day supporting Stop Bullying and promoting Kindness
• 20 May BOT Meeting 6pm Staffroom
• 29 May National Young Leaders Day NYLD
• 3 June King's Birthday School closed
• 17 June Oxford Pie orders close.
• 20 June Tough Guy and Girl Ngaruawahia
• 26 June Oxford Pie orders delivered
• 27 June Matariki Celebration Lunch and Open afternoon
• 28 June Matariki School closed

As part of the RSA's ANZAC remembrance services they ran a 'What ANZAC day means to me' writing competition for local schools.

Room 2 entered several students writing and were selected as the top 3 writers in the 10-15 year old category.

Congratulations to Sura Ung 1st, Regardt Prinsloo 2nd, and Lucas Gamble in 3rd!

Some of our senior boys took Pukeko for Waka Wednesday this week. They were learning the basics of touch and having a fun time getting to know the rules of the game. Well done to all the students who took part. It looked like everyone was having lots of fun!

Throughout Terms 1 & 2 Room 6 has been exploring the ocean.

For our unit students have taken part in the Young Ocean Explorers Challenge. This had students picking up rubbish on a daily basis to see how much rubbish they could pick up over a period of time. Our goal set for us was 525 pieces of rubbish. We smashed our goal and picked up over 1,400 pieces in just 2 weeks!

Students have learnt how to undertake research to learn about a chosen sea animal and then to present it.

They have also completed a series of art work based on sea life including silhouettes, collage and learning how to draw whales. Our finale will be completing our dioramas!

Room 6 would love for you to come and visit our under the ocean display!

This year we are going to be celebrating Matariki with a lunch and open afternoon. Please save this date in your calendar and come along and join us.

More details to follow.

Please communicate with your child’s teacher on HERO

Open up the app and click on the arrow beside the child that you want to communicate about and then click on Caregiver Communication on the list that dropped down.

If you send a message the student’s teacher will receive it and can reply to you. This sits in HERO then for us to go back to if needed and makes it super simple for you to contact their teacher.

You will receive a notification on your phone when there is a caregiver communication for you.

If you do not have the HERO app on your phone or are having difficulty getting this sorted please contact Di Meyler and she is happy to help.

It is that time of year again where you get the opportunity to stock up your fridge and/or freezer with Oxford Pies and support the school in our fundraising efforts. This year we are taking orders and money from now until Monday 17th June with the pies delivered late morning on Wednesday 26th June.

Ask friends, family, and neighbours and send in your orders and payment.

More forms are available from the school and I will put one online for you to be able to access if you need it in the holidays!

Thanks for your support!

Di Meyler

Our challenges this week included 4 ways to keep warm over the lunch break. Lots of happy children!

We have gone live on DirectGroup Uniforms with our Sports Shirts that you are able to purchase. We feel moving forward this is a great option and will save a lot of time issuing and collecting sports shirts. At this time we still have our other sports shirts for anyone that is playing and has not purchased their own yet. Check them out at:

https://dgstore.co.nz/collections/stanley-avenue-school

You can purchase the sport shirts and they arrive directly to your address and they even have Afterpay so that it makes it possible to budget. We are looking forward to seeing these appearing on our sports fields.

Email: office@stanleyave.school.nz
Website: https://stanleyave.school.nz/
Location: Stanley Avenue School Stanley Avenue, Te Aroha 3320, New Zealand
Phone: +64 7-884 8479
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stanleyaveschool/