Newsletter

COVID Rollercoaster Ride: The COVID rollercoaster continues for the school, with children and staff being impacted and isolating.

We really appreciate the notification of cases as it helps us to track what's happening in the school and we are also required to notify the Ministry of Education so they can see what stress the education system is under.

Each day I have been posting on Facebook our attendance rates so that you can see the statistics around staff and class attendance that we are managing. Please be prepared if we need to close due to increased staff sickness. We are very grateful for our relief staff which is enabling us to get through at present but know it would only take two or three teachers to go down at the same time and things would get very tight.

Updates of the Traffic Light Setting: On Wednesday 23rd March the Prime Minister announced a number of changes that will impact our school.

• Red: We are still in the Red phase and so the advice is to still limit entry to school and so our drop off and pick up zones will remain whilst at Red.

• Celebration Time: We will begin as a school to gather together again for our Friday afternoon Celebration Times, doing this in a socially distanced way between teams. Our first one back together, for the children only, will be Friday 1st April.

• Scanning In: QR codes are no longer required to be scanned from Tuesday 5th April but we still require all parents, as usual in relation to emergency procedures, to sign in at the office so that we know who is on-site.

• Vaccine Passes: For school trips, events and school sports where parents are functioning as a volunteer support for the school, from Tuesday 5th of April, we no longer require evidence of a vaccine pass but will still require evidence of a clear police vet.

• Staggered Playtimes: From Monday 28th March we will move to restore our whole school break times after having staggered playtime for a number of weeks.

Principal's Challenge: For those children and parents isolating, there could be time to take on the Principal's Challenge. There are still a couple of weeks left and it could be a good way of extending your artistic talents.

Thank You - Team Edendale

• Caci Mineur: We love having Caci with us and watching her grow more and more in her skill and contributions to our school. She is committed to the children and her class and makes a great team member with a positive, flexible, contributing attitude. Thanks for being part of Team Edendale, Caci!

Principal's Term One Challenge - Leonardo da Vinci Portrait Artists

My challenge for Term One is to become an artist like Leonardo da Vinci and paint a portrait.

Entry Details

• The portrait is of a person alive today. It can be a self-portrait or of someone else. Maybe even a teacher!
• There will be a filled-in background that places the person in a context.
• The portrait can be by any handcrafted media (e.g. painted, colouring-in pencils, felt tips, pencil sketch, pastel). Not digital.
  
• Your name, year level and team need to be on the back of the artwork.
• There is an adults section available for any parents or community members who want to submit their work.
• The paper is an A4 orientated portrait (not landscape). We can supply A4 paper if needed for any artist.
• They are due Friday 8th April.
• By submitting a piece of artwork you are agreeing to have the portrait scanned and shared on our social media and website.

Prizes

• Year 1 & 2
• Year 3 & 4
• Year 5 & 6
• Adults

TERM ONE 2022

All activities and events are subject to the government's Covid-19 'Traffic Light' settings.

Week Nine (of 11)

• Tuesday 29th March - School Board Meeting Two, 7.00pm, staffroom

Week Eleven (of 11)

• Friday 15th April - Good Friday. School Closed Easter.

Book Club - Issue 2

Scholastic Book Club Issue 2 has gone home.

All orders need to be returned to the office by Monday 28th March. You can also order online.

Our year has started well in Team Pukeko, despite the disruptions of Covid isolations, and we welcomed Hoani last week to bring us to a total of 24 Year Two and Three students.

We feel very lucky in Team Pukeko to have a super team of amazing helpers to support us with our learning: Mrs Jane Muir is our release teacher for the days when Mrs Coyle is out of the classroom, and we have Mrs Liz Scott and Ms Tracey Lockhart supporting us as our fantastic, versatile Teacher Aides each morning.

We also enjoy having Mrs Belinda Knapp, a third-year trainee teacher from the University of Otago’s Southland Campus, working with us each Monday. Mrs Knapp spent the first three weeks of term with us, and will also have extended postings with us in Terms Two and Three, while she completes her training for a Bachelor of Education.

This term we have been getting to know the classroom routines and everyone is doing a super job of showing our school values. We are a great little team who enjoy each others’ company and we love learning new things!

We are still talking about our visit to the Kamahi Reserve, where we were thrilled to see a pipipi (brown creeper) flying around with the fantails.

Our Market Day DRIVE inquiry was very successful - we made and sold different types of bird feeders to help the birds out during the winter and encourage them into our gardens.

Our current DRIVE inquiry will see us learning about life in the Phillippines as we compare a variety of aspects with our lives here in New Zealand. Mrs Lordgie Batir, the Community of Learning’s Immigrant Support Worker, will be helping us with this.

For maths, many of us are learning to use the PR1ME Math books and we have been learning about telling number stories with number bonds and addition sentences for facts to ten. We have been doing a lot of work with place value, and our more advanced maths group has started working with money. With Mrs Muir we have all been learning about telling the time.

Our writing and reading skills are coming along beautifully - we love the challenges Mrs Coyle gives us for our writing (to include certain describing words, use different sentence starters, or to show strong use of our phonics and spelling skills). One of the highlights of our day is to learn new spelling words and patterns during our Word Lab lessons, and we are always excited to show that we have remembered our spelling words during our fortnightly checks!

All of us have been showing fantastic progress with our REAP swimming survival skills lessons in the past two weeks - such important things to know in a country with so many water features in our environment.

The next three weeks will be busy, busy, busy, but that is how we like it!

Nga mihi,

Mrs Jenny Coyle and Team Pukeko

The aim of our values is to nurture positive, purposeful and meaningful relationships of aroha. Respect helps us to do this.

Respect means we honour other people equally as we would honour ourselves and is shown through manners, courtesy, politeness, self-control, co-operation, obedience and participation.

At Edendale Primary School respect is demonstrated when we..

• Use our manners and talk politely to each other.
• Follow rules and instructions.
• Listen actively.
• Are aware of the needs of others and offer to help.

Every time our values are shown they make our school a great place to be for children and adults.

When we use our values on a day by day basis, in the relationships that we have, one with another, in our school, we contribute to making our school a great place for all to come along.

This week the Principal/Tumuaki would like to acknowledge Henry McKenzie for being a strong contributor, living out our school values every day.

Emma Penney

“Respect is how you treat everyone”.

Emma is a young lady who lives by this quote. No matter who you are Emma is polite and well mannered, and she demonstrates our school value of Manaakitanga - Respect.

Every morning, Emma walks in with a big smile on her face and gives a softly spoken greeting before completing her morning tasks.

Emma is always respectful during learning times by actively listening and following instructions, both in and outside the classroom. Emma strives for excellence by completing her work to the best of her ability and always having a can-do attitude when it comes to her learning.

Emma is quick to help me out with any jobs that need to be done around the classroom and she is a good role model of how to work with others for a pair or group activity.

Thank you, Emma, for being so reliable, hard-working and someone I can trust in Team Tui. You set a positive happy attitude in our room and you are a great example for all of what respect looks like.

Ka pai!

Rose van de Laak

Rose is Team Kea’s MVP this week for showing our school value of Manaakitanga - Respect.

Rose is a lovely young lady who consistently shows many of our school values. She walks into school with a smile and greets her friends and teachers by saying “Good morning”. She knows our classroom routines well and gets herself organised and ready for learning.

Rose is kind and caring towards anyone around her and is a valued member of our class. She has been a super friend and helper to the children who are new to the school this year.

Rose has a positive attitude towards school. She gives everything a go and makes sure she completes tasks to a high standard. Rose tries her best and has already made great progress with her learning.

Rose has excellent manners and treats others how she would like to be treated. She often gives out compliments to others and she is a delight to be around.

We are very lucky to have a fantastic role model, learner and friend like you in Team Kea, Rose. I look forward to seeing all your future achievements as I know you have a bright future ahead of you.

Goed gedaan, well done Rose!

Rylie McCauley - Yr 2, Team Pukeko

T-Rex told a fib!

He said “I don’t like meat.”

He was hungry so he ate a big dinosaur.

The dinosaur was trembling because he was scared!

T-Rex said “That was good.”

Next School Board Meeting - 2022

The next School Board meeting is to be held on Tuesday 29th March at 7.00 pm in the school staffroom. All material for this needs to be in the week before so that it can be sent out to the School Board members before the meeting.

Situations Vacant - After School Care Job-Share Coordinator

The position of an After School Care (Job-Share) Coordinator has come up.

If you are interested please send a CV with all your details to the principal at principal@edendaleps.school.nz. Include references, referees and evidence of identity (copy of your passport and driver's licence).

Employment is conditional on vaccination and a clear police vet. An up to date First Aid certificate would be helpful. Training will be required around child safety procedures.

Next Meeting - Term Two 2022

The Term Two 2022 meeting of the Home and School is scheduled for Monday 23rd May starting at 7.30pm in the school staffroom.

Year 4-6 Hockey Team - Invercargill

Any Year 4-6 boy or girl wishing to play hockey on Wednesdays in Invercargill, we have a very experienced coach Dean Ritani.

Starts Term 2: Week 2.

Cost to be confirmed but around $20-30 per player.

Contact Marg Dale to sign up! mdale@menzies.school.nz (021 223 3322)

Edendale Community Pool Society - General Meeting

An end-of-season general meeting will be held on Monday 4th April, at 7.30pm in the Edendale School staffroom.

All members welcome. Apologies to ecpscontact@gmail.com

Attendees are to please wear a mask and follow other sanitising and distancing protocols. Please do not attend if you have cold or flu symptoms.

A reminder also that the pool will close at the earlier time of 6pm every night as from Sunday April 3rd.

Edendale Netball Club 2022 Registration Information

All individual players must register on sporty: www.sporty.co.nz/edendalenetball/ and go to Registration.

YEAR 1-2 - Future Ferns

• Skills sessions are run every Friday at the Wyndham Netball Courts from approx. 3.30-4.30

YEAR 3-4 – Future Ferns

• Skills sessions and a 5 aside game are run every Friday at the Wyndham Netball Courts from approx. 3.30-4.30

YEAR 5-6

• Play in an Edendale Netball Team, playing 6 a side netball
• Teams usually practice during the week. Practice will be organised by the team coach to best fit in with the commitments of both players and themselves.
• Games are played on a Friday night at the Wyndham Netball Courts usually starting between 4.30 and 5.30

Year 7-8

• Play for Edendale Netball Team - 7 a-side netball
• Practice organised by the coach usually once a week
• Games played Friday night from 4.30 pm

Subs this year: Still to be finalised but approx below

Year 1 – 2: $20 per player

Year 3- 4: $30 per player

Year 5 -8: $40 per player

Please pay to Edendale Netball Club bank account: 03 0962 0060848 00 Reference: Child’s Name

The season starts on Friday 6th May 2022. Future ferns Yr 1 – 4 Term 2 only.

Yr 5-8 may have a couple of games in Term 3.

President: Sarah Cupido 021 181 5145

Secretary: Jane Muir 027 62 65 467

Treasurer: Joy Johnston 0274 866 474

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Email: edendalenetballclub@gmail.com

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Location: Edendale Primary School, 24 Salford Street, Edendale 9825, New Zealand
Phone: 03 206 6959
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