Macleans Primary School Newsletter

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From the cradle to the grave we are forever learning

This whakatauki links to the Macleans Value of 'Learning to Learn' well as we should always look for ways to keep on learning & growing!

Home-School Partnership, Year 2 Classes, T1 Winning House, Whole School Cazh, Hauora: Sparklers Website, Thx. Rachel Kim, Library, Hall & R6-R9 Updates, Music Lessons, Kiwi Competitions, Pet Fundraiser, Hunger Hut, Staff Updates, Brickz for Kids, Emergency Planning, Swimming Team, Children Arriving at School, Rotary Fun Run team, Writing Books, 2023 Yearboks For Sale, HCYT Holiday Programme, Future Ferns Netball, Enviro Team Updates, Moth Pod Comp., Return Your Library Books!, Maori Community Hui Update, MPS Local Curriculum, Kawau Team & Dates for Your Diary.

Hello Everyone

Two more days to go in term 1 2024 and all is well in the classrooms at Macleans Primary; the kids are learning, values are on display....but, what is that around the corner? Yes, it's a two week break for the children at Macleans Primary. And, what a well-deserved holiday it will be for all of the children as they take a breather from their learning in the classroom to their learning outside of the classroom and at home! We are always learning, right?

Thanks everyone for your support of our 'home-school partnership' in Term 1; Term 1 is 'in the books' and Term 2 promises to bring with it heaps of Macleans Values and Macleans Learning: Local Curriculum, Learning Pathways and the LEARN Model. We also look forward to the learning conferences in Term 2; dates TBA early next term.

Two more days left in the term and a reminder that we have TWO cazh days tomorrow and Friday. Tomorrow's cazh day is for ATARAU house only. A note would have come home yesterday stating that your child is in Atarau house and they are invited to wear cazh tomorrow. On Friday it is our traditional 'end of term cazh' for all (no school uniform) celebrating a great term at Macleans Primary!

Another reminder to stay tuned to the email, seesaw, facebook and skool loop as there could be notices and/or reminders from the school (me) or your child's teacher.

Please have an enjoyable, relaxing and fun two week break. We look forward to seeing all of the children again on Monday 29 April, the first day of term 2.

Enjoy this newsletter!

Regards - Matthew Cooke

Principal

m.cooke@macleansprimary.school.nz

PS - Thanks to Farm Cove Superette for their sponsorship of this newsletter: 1/190 Fisher Parade, Farm Cove. See ad below.

PPS - Remember that at the end of this newsletter in your email you may get the note that the Message is Clipped and you may need to click on View Entire Message)

Next Newsletter and Notices:

•Wednesday 8 May 2024

•MPS Notices and update at anytime

You can help your child's learning every day, by supporting and encouraging them and being excited by their learning. Here are some ideas to keep them developing their reading, writing and maths skills at home. Have a look at the year group for your child and have fun.

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

The PTA work hard for Macleans Primary school, supporting the school in many ways :))). Most recently, the PTA has donated $1750 towards the Y4-Y6 camp and EOTC experiences. The PTA has also bought the new offical Macleans Primary staff school jackets. But it does not end there as the PTA has also committed $3000 towards the purchase of some new chrome books. Thanks SOOOOO much from all of us at Macleans Primary!

The School Office will be Open on Wednesday 24 April between 9 and 12 noon for any uniform, stationery, enrolment or general enquiries.

Now that the hall is nearly finished, Miro Construction will be moving across the playground to begin the refurbishment of R6, R7, R8 & R9. R6-R9 will be moving to temporary homes for Term 2 as follows:

• R6 will be moving to Room 4 (room 4 and room 3 will be together with their two teachers.
• R7 will be moving to R5
• R8 will be in the library
• R9 will be in R15A

Well done Atarau house for winning the house shield in term 1. In recognition of your win, Atarau will have a cazh day tomorrow. Please try and wear your house colours - something YELLOW!!!

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The hall will be open from mid. May now. The refurb. will begin very soon on R6,7 & 8 only. R9 refurb. will begin later now as we need R9 for SKIDS during the holidays and the first few weeks of Term 2.

SKIDS will be using Room 9 before and afterschool over the holidays from Monday 15 April. From the The library will be closed in Term 2 as R8 will be using the library as their classroom for Term 2.

Macleans Primary School is offering Year 5 & 6 students the opportunity to participate in the online 2024 KIWI Competitions (New Zealand). The subjects are English, Maths & Science for Years 5 & 6 only. For further information on the competitions, please consult the CAM website www.canterbury.ac.nz/cam. Test fees, dates and entrance details are all in the newsleter information that is can be dowloaded below.

Keep your pets healthy AND fundraising for Macleans Primary

We've teamed up with the crew at My Rover to help our fundraising efforts through the Pets Of The School (POTS). Sign your dog or cat up for regular flea and worm treatments at the same price you pay elsewhere and up to $5 from every box goes directly to your school every month. Prices start at $26.99/m (or just $6.22/w), with all the profits sent directly back to our school. For more info or to sign your pets up, head to: Schools.BixxyBox.com And sign your pet up today!

We have said goodbye to our caretaker Frederick Tang. Thanks Frederick for the past year working as our caretaker. Until we find a new full-time caretaker, we will be managing aspects of the caretaker role 'in-house' using contractors and 'handy-man' services.

Hello and welcome to teachers Mr Jason Cox and Mrs Kelly Raos. Beginning in term 2, Jason will be teaching 1 day a week in R23 and Kelly will teaching dance & drama to a variety of classes from Y1-Y6 for 1 day a week also.

Last week the swimming team went to Lloyd Elsmore Pools to compete in the Howick-Pakuranga Inter-Schools Swimming. Thanks to all parents who helped drive the team to Lloyd Elsmore Pools and another thanks as well to all parents who cheered and supported the team on :))). Mrs Amber Cambie continues to do a great job managing and organising most of our sports events and teams, as she did with the swimming team. Here are some of the results:

• Chloe Monro 1st place Backstroke 9-year-olds
• Alice Han 3rd place girls freestyle 8-year-olds
• Amorē, Yehm, Brax & Chase: 10-year-old Relay Team 1st place:
• Jack Bowker 4th place in freestyle 8-year-olds
• Danika Van Der Bergh 6th place freestyle 9-year-olds
• Matthew Wong 6th place freestyle 10-year-olds

Beginning on the first day of term 2, Monday 29 April, if children arrive at school before 8.30 am, they will be supervised in a designated space. We are aiming for either the hall deck if ready for use OR outside R15 under the shade cover. Children will be supervised until 8.30am.Our before and after-school childcare providers SKIDS can provide care for your child before school. Details below and link to SKIDS website HERE.

Contact

Onsite Number: 027 272 3570

Customer Service: 0800 274 172
Email: macleans@skids.co.nz

Programme Hours

Before school Care: 7:00-8:30am

After School Care: 3:00-6:00pm
Holiday Programme Care: 7:00am-6:00pm

FACEBOOK

BOOK HERE

The Rotary Fun Run Team represented Macleans Primary School extremely well. 21 children ran in the Rotary Fun Run on Sunday 24 March. Well done to Ben Wiggins and Brody Thum who placed in the top 10. The full team: Sophie Wiggins, Brody Thum, Veer Sharma, Pepper Engelmann, Leon Zhang, Jack Leack, Clay Engelmann, Esandi Abeysekeri, Leander Diedricks, Chanteze Redelinghuys, Edie Campbell, Abimanyu Aher Lucy Modricker, Ben Wiggins, Jack Wen, Zion Kang, Matthew Min, Lily Jiang, & Coco He.

We do hope you were able to complete the Parent Writing Sheet that was sent home the other day in your child's writing book. If you have not completed the Parent Writing Sheet, please do so and return the book asap.

We have a few 2023 Yearbooks left over from last year. First come first serve! We are selling them at the bargain price of $10.00. Pay in the office with cash or eftpos or online into the Macleans Primary School Bank Account: 12-3089-0444444-00. Please ref. child's name and yearbook. Come in and pick-up the yearbook or let Sharon or Sally in the office know that you have purchased a yearbook and we will get the yearbook into your child's bag!

We are holding futureFERNS teams in term 2 for year 3 - 4 and year 5 - 6! Tuesday team futureFERNS at HPNC for 8 weeks. Date: Tuesday 30th April - Tuesday 25th June. Coaches and umpires to be provided by team.

Year 3 - 4: 4:00 - 5:00pm - $150. Game format:

• 5 v 5 - 2x A, 2x D, 1x C
• 2/3 court
• 2.6 meter goal post

• Size 4 ball

• 4 x 8 minute quarters

Registration link year 3 - 4 - https://www.sporty.co.nz/viewform/286251

Year 5 - 6: 4:00 - 5:00pm - $165 Game format:

• 6 v 6 - 2x A, 2 x D, 2x C

• full court

• 2.6 meter goal post

• Size 4 ball

• 4 x 8 minute quarters

Registration link year 5 - 6 - https://www.sporty.co.nz/viewform/286392

Our Enviro team came together to brainstorm different ideas around us making a difference. In this time the learners realised that there is more to Enviro than just the gardens at our school. We have planned to do some cleaning around our school to prevent litter getting into our streams and sea, plant some flowers to encourage pollinators to our school, plant vegetables and herbs for us to bring to our tables, adopt a park as well as entering the MothPod competition.

Our Year 5 and 6’s had the opportunity to go to the Murvale Reserve to explore with Auckland Council that we have adopted this year. We will get an amazing opportunity to plant 60 more Native plants in the reserve on the 5th of June.

Collect your moth pods and drop off to Mrs Scott in Room 3. You can leave then outside the main office doors during the holidays

What is Learner Agency?

Students have a sense of "agency" when they feel in control of things that happen around them; when they feel they can influence events. This is an important sense for learners to develop. They need to be active participants in their learning.

Agency involves the initiative or self-regulation of the learner. Learners must have a belief that their behaviour and their approach to learning will make a difference for them in their learning context – in other words, a personal sense of agency.

Agency is interdependent. The learner is not working in isolation doing their own thing and what suits them, there's connectedness.

Agency includes an awareness of the responsibility of ones own actions on the environment and on others. Every decision a learner makes, and action she or he takes, will impact on the thinking, behaviour or decisions of others – and vice versa.

From Left to Right: Mrs Mia Ramjee, Mrs Caitlin Kwok, Miss Alice Khiu, Miss Abby Marais & Mrs Adelle Hunkin

Tomorrow - 11 April - Cazh Day for winning house for term 1 -

12 April - Whole School Cazh Day

12 April - Last Day of Term 1

15 April - BoT Meeting @ 6pm

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Monday 29 April - 1st Day of term 2

Friday 17 May - Teacher Only Day (school closed)

Friday 31 May - Teacher Only Day (school closed)

Monday 3 June - Kings Birthday Public Holiday (school closed)

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