Stanley Avenue School Newsletter

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We are excited that the Te Aroha Kāhui Ako (Community of Learning) will be meeting together for the first time in 2024, next Thursday. This year we welcome back Te Aroha Primary into our Community of Learning.

The major focus of the Teacher Only Day will centre around trauma informed teaching practice. Our keynote speaker for the day is Jason Williams, who additionally will spend time working with each Te Aroha School throughout Terms 2 and 3.

Jason Williams has been a Principal, and a Winner of the 2021 Prime Minister’s Education Excellence Awards, Wellbeing category. Jase is a certified trainer in the Neurosequential Model in Education (facilitated by Dr. Bruce Perry – regarded as the world’s leading childhood trauma expert). The only Māori male certified trainer in the Neurosequential Model in Education in the entire world, Jase facilitates monthly ‘Men’s and Women’s Hui’ as a place of healing for whānau in the community that is focused on mental health and wellbeing from a ‘keeping it real’ perspective and grounded in neuroscience.

Ngā mihi nui

John Byers

• 27 Mar Whānau Hui 6-7.30pm in the Rec Centre
• 28 Mar Kāhui Ako Teacher Only Day School Closed ( Kids club will be operating)
• 29 March Good Friday School closed
• 1 April Easter Monday School Closed
• 2 April Easter Tuesday School Closed
• 8 April BOT Meeting 6pm
• 11 April Team Tui Domain Trip
• 12 April Last day of Term 1
• 29 April First day of Term 2

Camp Epworth, in Week 6 of Term 1, was incredible.

Day one, we started with a walk along Lake Karapiro, timing the weather perfectly before the rain set in. When we arrived at camp we toured around Camp Epworth, set up our bunk rooms and did activities in the hall. That night, the weather was too wet for the campfire we had planned to do, so we had a 'Tug of War' tournament. To the parents' disappointment, the children were the victors!

Day two we jumped into our first four activities. The groups rotated around with different parents running different activities around camp. The activities were:

• Raft building where teams had to create a floating raft with rope, planks of wood and rubber tubes.

• Kayaking where teams learned different kayaking skills.

• Art and Camera, where a group went around and took photos of other groups doing their activities and then drew pictures from them.

• Ziplining, where students jumped off a ledge on the Zipline one at a time.

• St Johns, where students learned CPR and other life saving skills.

• Sports, where the children played a variety of sports including Ultimate Frisbee, Volleyball and Touch Rugby.

• Camp cooking, where students cooked damper and marshmallows over an open fire.

• Archery, where children learned to shoot with a bow and arrow to hit a target.

That evening we played top team activities, and finished the evening with a game of spotlight.

Day three we completed the last four rotations of activities. The evening involved a range of skits. Students did acting, dancing and comedy. The teachers and parents even performed a song. There was a final game of spotlight to conclude our last night at camp.

On our final day, after packing up, the waterslide was opened up and students had a great time going down it. Sports were played on the field and students played outdoor games such as the giant chess and checkers.

We returned to school after lunch, exhausted but thrilled after an amazing time at camp.

Debbie Hamilton

My Biggest Challenge - By Amul

CPR. The most challenging thing at camp. We were doing the St John Rotation, our group’s 5th rotation. We learnt how to do these procedures for when someone is unconscious from Alisia, a former St John worker. Then we had to do it to our partner, just like Alisha showed us how when she did it to Ruby…But back to the actual story.

We got to do CPR on the dummies, like Alisia showed us. We first did CPR to the dummies by listening to songs, and switching over with our buddy as well. It wasn’t as easy as I saw in the videos! We basically had to push the chest and the heart at the same time, which is unbelievably hard, because of how hard the bones are in the body, so I had to basically use all my muscles in doing that, unlike some people. When that got done, we got into this CPR competition where we had to do CPR to the lullaby “ Row, row, row your boat”. During one of the hard CPR round’s, I accidentally breathed into the dummy's mouth, which you are not supposed to do so for punishment, I had to clean the dummy's mouth, and the face. In actual fact, I actually did not mind at all!

Archery - By Nate

Thwip - I just let my arrow go at archery. I hear the arrow hit. I just hit the bullseye! I look and a massive smile shoots up the sides of my face. I am now second place out of all the groups beating Seb by a smidge but I forget the string comes back. Smack - the string whips me across my arm. I don't really care though. I get told to grab my arrow. I wait at my arrow for Whaea Adreena to take a photo. I get my round again. I go back. My next turn I hit the white. I thought my luck was gone but after three turns, I hit the red but that was the last turn so we had to put all the bows and arrows away.

Kayaking - By Huia

My arms and legs had a different level of irritation when I was pushing through the water in my kayak.

I couldn't help noticing that the clouds were getting closer. A few minutes later we were in the middle of a game when suddenly the enormous mysterious clouds started pouring down with rain. The rain was freezing cold. My clothes were soaked. We were about to go back to shore. When suddenly the rain stopped.

We got to enjoy the rest of the time we had left and had an amazing time.

After our School Swimming Sports in Week 5, Mrs Meyler accompanied our Districts Swim team along to the Te Aroha College pool last Monday to compete against the other schools in the Te Aroha District. These wonderful athletes gave it their best and came away with some amazing results …and croaky voices, after chanting and supporting their team all day!

Thank you to the ever present awesome parent helpers and supporters on the day.

RESULTS:

Girls

Medley

Open Age: 2nd Tyela Van Kuijk

Freestyle 1 length

12 Yrs: 3rd Ruby Whittle

Backstroke 1 Length

8/9 Yrs: 3rd Kaylee Kaumoana

11 Yrs: 2nd Hannah Corrigan

12 Yrs: 1st Ruby Whittle, 3rd Amelia Green

Breaststroke 1 length

10 Yrs 1st Rylee Gamble

Butterfly 1 Length

10 Yrs & Under: 1st Tyela Van Kuijk

Freestyle 2 Lengths

10 Yrs: 1st Tyela Van Kuijk, 2nd Emma Waterman

Backstroke 2 Lengths

10 Yrs & Under: 1st Tyela Van Kuijk, 3rd Emma Waterman

Breaststroke 2 Lengths

10 Yrs: 1st Tyela Van Kuijk, 3rd Emma Waterman

Freestyle 3 Lengths

10 Yrs & Under 1st Tyela Van Kuijk

Backstroke 3 Lengths

10 Yrs & Under 1st Tyela Van Kuijk

Breaststroke 3 Lengths

10 Yrs & under 1st Tyela Van Kuijk, 2nd Emma Waterman

Junior Girls Relay 2nd Tyela Van Kuijk, Emma Waterman, Fairlane Hughes, Harmione Brown

Senior Girls Relay 3rd Hannah Corrigan, Amelia Green, Ruby Whittle, Madeleine French

Boys

Medley

Open age:

1st Loclan Watts, 2nd Lucas Gamble

Freestyle 1 length

8 Yrs: 1st Patrick Norman

10 Yrs: 2nd Noah Whittle

11 Yrs: 1st Jayden Stockley

12 Yrs: 1st Erik Pollock, 3rd Oliver McLoughlin

Backstroke 1 Length

10 Yrs: 3rd Noah Whittle

12 Yrs: 1st Oliver McLoughlin

Breaststroke 1 Length

8/9 Yrs: 1st Patrick Norman

11 Yrs 1st Jayden Stockley

Butterfly 1 Length

11 Yrs & Over: 1st Loclan Watts, 3rd Lucas Gamble

Freestyle 2 Lengths

11 Yrs: 1st Loclan Watts, 3rd Xavier Norman

12 Yrs: 1st Lucas Gamble

Backstroke 2 Lengths

8/9 Yrs: 1st Patrick Norman

11 Yrs: 1st Loclan Watts

12 Yrs: 1st Lucas Gamble, 3rd Erik Pollock

Breaststroke 2 Lengths

11 Yrs: 1st Loclan Watts

12 Yrs: 2nd Lucas Gamble, 3rd Oliver McLoughlin

Freestyle 3 Lengths

11 Yrs and Over: 1st Loclan Watts, 2nd Lucas Gamble

Backstroke 3 Lengths

10 Yrs & Under: 1st Patrick Norman

11 & Over: 1st Loclan Watts, 2nd Lucas Gamble, 3rd Erik Pollock

Breaststroke 3 Lengths

11 Yrs & Over: 2nd Lucas Gamble

Junior relay 2nd Noah Whittle, Jakob Tesselaar, Elijah Elliott, Patrick Norman

Senior Relay 1st Lucas Gamble, Erik Pollock, Jayden Stockley, Loclan Watts

Progressive Relay 1st Patrick Norman, Tyela Van Kuijk, Loclan Watts, Lucas Gamble

Flying Squad (DQ) Loclan Watts, Tyela Van Kuijk, Jayden Stockley, Lucas Gamble

The Thames Valley squad is a team made up from all of the Te Aroha Schools competing together as Te Aroha District. This team then competes against the other Districts in the Thames Valley Area. This means there could be up to 14 other competitors to place against for any one event. These are our School’s individual results.

Girls

Medley

Open Age - 5th Tyela Van Kuijk

Breaststroke 50 Metres

10 Yrs: 1st Tyela Van Kuijk

Breaststroke 100 Metres

10 Yrs & Under: 3rd Tyela Van Kuijk

Backstroke 25 Metres

11 Yrs: 8th Hannah Corrigan

12 Yrs: 5th Amelia Green

Backstroke 50 Metres

10 Yrs: 1st Tyela Van Kuijk

Backstroke 100 Metres

10 Yrs & Under: 1st Tyela Van Kuijk

Freestyle 50 Metres

10 Yrs: 1st Tyela Van Kuijk

Freestyle 100 Metres

10 Yrs & Under: 1st Tyela Van Kuijk

Butterfly 25 Metres

10 Yrs & Under: 1st Tyela Van Kuijk

Boys

Medley

Open Age - 8th Loclan Watts, 11th Lucas Gamble

Breaststroke 25 Metres

9 Yrs: 3rd Patrick Norman

11 Yrs: 4th Jayden Stockley

Breaststroke 50 Metres

10 Yrs: 7th Loclan Watts

12 Yrs: 4th Lucas Gamble

Breaststroke 100 Metres

11 Yrs and over: 6th Lucas Gamble

Backstroke 25 Metres

10 Yrs: 2nd Jayden Stockley

11 Yrs: 6th Tamati Emery Te Kani

12 Yrs: 3rd Oliver McLoughlin

Backstroke 50 Metres

9 Yrs: 8th Patrick Norman

11 Yrs: 4th Loclan Watts

12 Yrs: 7th Lucas Gamble

Backstroke 100 Metres

10 Yrs & Under: 6th Patrick Norman

11 Yrs and over: 5th Loclan Watts, 9th Lucas Gamble

Freestyle 25 Metres

11 Yrs: 4th Jayden Stockley

12 Yrs: 2nd Erik Pollock, 9th Oliver McLoughlin

Freestyle 50 Metres

9 Yrs: 8th Patrick Norman

11 Yrs:2nd Loclan Watts

12 Yrs: 6th Lucas Gamble

Freestyle 100 Metres

10 Yrs & Under: 9th Patrick Norman

11 Yrs and over: 7th Loclan Watts, 10th Lucas Gamble

Butterfly 25 Metres

11 Yrs and Over: 8th Loclan Watts

Te Aroha District Girls: 2nd Tyela Van Kuijk (out of 118 competitors)

Te Aroha District Boys: 14th Loclan Watts, 22nd Lucas Gamble, 23rd Patrick Norman (out of 117 competitors)

Te Aroha District: 3rd Overall ( this is out of 7 Districts)

Last Thursday, 90 of our students travelled to Ngatea to take part in Hockey Fun Day. This is a wonderful opportunity for our budding Black Sticks to 'Give Hockey a go', learn new skills, and for some, experience working as a team on the sports field for the first time. A huge thank you to our wonderful staff and to the many parents/caregivers that went along as managers, provided transport and supported our team. As always we appreciate you all and say a big THANK YOU. These opportunities are not possible without your help.

Hockey Fun Day was FUN!!!!

Teams Tui and Ruru were lucky enough to have a taste of Japanese Culture on Wednesday, as 30 exchange students came to visit our school.

The Japanese students are part of the International Programme at Te Aroha College. Our visitors taught us how to make origami shapes and shared some of their language - both verbal and visual. A fantastic experience for all.

This week we are making the longest paper chain over two lunch times. The second challenge is playing giant Jenna. Here are some photos from Thursday

We have gone live on DirectGroup Uniforms with our new 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.

Due to the continued support of our sponsors, the Te Aroha Angling Club is once again in a position to run it's 'Take a kid fishing' day.. This will be run on Wednesday 17th April (1st Wednesday of the holidays)

We will travel up to Coromandel by bus where we will be fishing with Tom and Lorraine from Coromandel Fishing Charters 2013 Ltd.

This is for Year 6 - 8 students only (not 6- 8 year olds)

If you are interested, you will need to collect a disclaimer/permission slip from the office and return it no later than 9am on Tuesday 9th April.

Any queries please contact Steve Cox 0297700848

NETBALL SEASON IS FAST APPROACHING!

Is your child interested in playing netball this season but unsure if they will like it. Bring them down to our Future Ferns Give it a Go Day.

They can join in on a skill session with other kids their age and play some games as a tester to the season! We have some special guests from Avis Magic who will be joining us!

Wednesday 3rd April - 4pm - 6pm - Te Aroha Netball Centre, Spur Street

Please register at https://forms.gle/XSCxV5fwZCXHWnEU6

or get in contact with your schools Netball Coordinator - Kim Hayes

Welcome to everyone Years 1-8!

When:- Monday 25th March, 3.30pm to 4.30pm.

Where:- Te Aroha Primary turf.

Who:- Year 1 to 8

Enquiries to Kim Davey 0274 824 597 or stevekimnz@gmail.com

We are excited to announce that Edventure Hamilton will be back up and running these coming school holidays.

- Edventure Everyday (themed days) - 5-13 yr olds - $50/day

- Dungeons and Dragons with Lewis - 9-13 yr olds - $75/day

Daily activities based at Berkley, OSCAR available, 8.00am - 5.30pm,

Todd is also running a Brand New Camp...

Edventure Young Adventurers Camp 2024 (8-12yr olds)

based at Omokoroa TOP 10 Holiday Park and Thermal Pools (Tenting)- Mon 15th April - Fri 19th April $650. (20 Spaces available)

Please visit www.edventure.co.nz to BOOK NOW

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Website: https://stanleyave.school.nz/
Location: Stanley Avenue School Stanley Avenue, Te Aroha 3320, New Zealand
Phone: +64 7-884 8479
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