• Mid-Year Interviews with Reports: Next week we have our Mid-Year Interviews with Reports. Thank you to the many parents who have already booked their time to catch up with their child's teacher. We encourage you to bring along a whanau support person as we know that it takes a village to raise a child. This person could be someone such as a grandparent. It is a precious time, being only 15 minutes, focused on your child as a learner and, as such, it is not appropriate for pre-schoolers.

• Air Purifiers: Five of our six classrooms have been provided with air purifiers from the Ministry of Education. This is a way of keeping our classroom air clean when we have to keep our doors closed due to temperature.

• Pick Ups and Drop Offs: A reminder that the gate that can be operated by children is the pool entrance gate, so if you are dropping your children off that can be a good place to do it. Further, we do encourage all parents to come into school to collect children and not have the children wait outside the school gate. The reason is that children can be very spontaneous and when they see you they can forget everything they have been taught and simply run towards you, even if there is a road in between. You coming in to pick children up means this is all avoided.

• Cell Phones: We do not expect any children to be here with us, with cell phones. The way the messages are given to children, during school time, is through the office. That way we know what is happening for all our children.

• Matariki and Edendale's Kapa Haka Group: Our Kapa Haka group is going to be performing at the Gore and Districts Matariki Celebration on Friday 24th June at the Waimumu Field Days Pavilion. Our group is set to perform at 4.40 pm. They are going to be part of over four hours of live entertainment from kapa haka groups and school bands, involving around 200 students from across Southland. We are getting very excited about their first live performance. Last year they were digital for Polyfest. This year they go live.

Thank You - Team Edendale

• Student Council: This week the Student Council, supported and mentored by Mrs Jenny Coyle, organised Edendale's Got Talent 2022. It was great to see so many children being brave and putting their talents out there for others to see. It was also a great lunchtime entertainment experience for many children, epsecially given that the weather was rather winter-ish. Thanks, Student Council.

On Friday 24th of June, there is a Gore and Districts mega celebration of Matariki at the Waimumu Events Centre (Field Days) from 2.00pm to 6.30pm.

Schools are coming together to perform in what is a full and exciting programme of performances including kapa haka groups and school bands.

Entry to the event is free.

Food vendors are booked and will be positioned to create a 'food hall' experience for people who wish to purchase a wide variety of refreshments.

At the conclusion of the event, there will be a professional fireworks display.

Come along and be part of the celebration.

Thank you for all the entries. Over the coming weeks, I will compile these together into our 2022 On the Farm Poetry Anthology.

These books will be for sale for all contributors.

We will also provide a copy for each classroom and one for the library.

Term Two 2022

Week Eight (of 10)

• Monday 20th June - Thursday 23rd June: School Interviews
• Friday 24th June: Matariki Public Holiday - School Closed

Mid Year Interviews - Booking

Mid Year Interviews with Reports are Week Eight being Monday 20th of June to Thursday 23rd of June.

Go to www.schoolinterviews.co.nz and enter the event code ppe9a or use the link below to book a timeslot for you and your child/ren to meet with the teacher/s.

Student Council - Term Two Compassion Fundraiser

On Friday 1st July, we will have a dress-up day to support the Southland Charity Hospital Trust, which was established in memory of cancer patient, Blair Vining.

The Southland Charity Hospital will provide healthcare for those living in the Southern DHB Zone who would otherwise be unable to access treatment through the private or public systems.

The theme of our dress-up/mufti day is “My Dream Job’ - children can dress up to reflect the job that they think they would like to have when they grow up. This ties in with our current DRIVE Inquiry exploring jobs in our community.

Children who dress up or choose to wear mufti are to please bring a gold coin donation.

Kia ora from all the hardworking tamariki in Team Kiwi.

Well, as we reach the end of Week 7, Term 2, it is time for us to reflect on the term so far, and what a term it has been!

We started off with Sue Galloway coming into our room and transforming it into a science laboratory for the day. It was hands-on, live and engaging science. The children loved it!

We have also had two fun hockey sessions with Sarah our Sports Activator, a trip to the Kamahi Reserve searching for bugs, a visit from Elgrego the Magician learning about values, and Mr Shepherd (a local fireman) to teach us about fire safety, as well as a trip down to the racecourse for Lower Mataura Valley Zone Cross Country! Phew!

What excitement we have had and that is not even mentioning all the Writing, Maths and Reading we have been busy doing daily!

For DRIVE we have learnt about how simple machines work and are currently learning about different occupations there are, what our parents do and talking about what we might like to do when we get older.

This week we have been sharing our speeches with the class and next week we will start learning about Matariki.

We have many helpers that come into Team Kiwi each week who we appreciate very much. Last week we celebrated with them and acknowledged the work they do for us. Thank you to Mrs Rosalie Lumley, Mrs Stefanie Troster and Miss Tracey Lockhart for all you do for us.

Next week we look forward to meeting with the students, parents and whanau of Team Kiwi at the mid-year report interviews.

Thanks for reading!

From the Team Kiwi tamariki and the two kaiako, Mrs Duffy and Mrs Clarke.

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

Responsibility means we own our actions towards our roles, activities and items for our own and other’s benefit and is shown through loyalty, duty, commitment, initiative, onus, ownership, contributions, trustworthiness and doing.

At Edendale Primary School respect is demonstrated when we...

• Are ready for our learning.

• Work right through from start to finish.

• Care for people, property and places.

• Look after our belongings.

• Involve ourselves in our school whanau community.

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 Rose van de Laak for being a strong contributor, living out our school values every day.

Charlie Frantz is Team Kahu’s MVP this week for showing Haepapa - Responsibility.

Charlie always has a smile on his face as he greets the teacher in the morning. He gets his tools ready for the day and checks if there is review work that needs completing before the morning bell.

Charlie makes sure that he completes all his work in a timely manner. He shows he can manage himself and his learning by keeping track of what activities he has completed and what still needs to be done.

Charlie shows responsibility by getting up early each morning to complete his home partnership work, without needing to be reminded by his parents. He also makes sure that it is handed in at the end of the week, after being checked and signed off.

Charlie is actively involved in several sports teams. He attends practices and games, being on time and prepared for sessions. Charlie shows he is a team player both on and off the field and court.

Charlie, it is great to have your sense of humour to brighten our day in Team Kahu.

Keep working hard and pushing yourself in your learning. Tino pai.

McKenna is a Year Three student who is a great role-model of Haepapa - Responsibility for our team.

McKenna always has a tidy, correct uniform and she can be relied on to have all her learning tools ready for the day. She makes sure to take home her belongings each afternoon, and she completes her homework every week.

McKenna keeps all her work tools and belongings tidy and she is very responsible about putting away class equipment or games when she has finished with them.

McKenna is also a classmate who leads the way by following instructions quickly, and carefully; she works hard on her learning tasks and always does her best. She is supportive of others in her group work and encourages and helps them to do a good job too.

McKenna, we are lucky to have you in our team to help us see what a confident, connected and actively-involved lifelong learner looks like!

Keep it up - you will go far!

When I grow up I would like to be a policeman and I will protect the world.

School Board - Vision Day 2025+

The School Board is running its annual Vision Day on Wednesday 6th of July. This helps the School Board maintain continual momentum for the school. As part of that, the School Board surveys the school community (staff, students and families).

Below is a link that we would like you to use, to complete a very short survey, as we would appreciate your thoughts on what you think our school's future could look like.

Term Two - Meeting Five

The next general meeting for the School Board in Term Two is this coming Tuesday 21st June at 6.00 pm. Meeting material has gone out earlier this week.

Board Election - Timeframe

• Call for nominations: Friday 15th July
• Nominations Close: Friday 5th August before 4.00 pm
• Voting Papers Issued: Wednesday 10th August
• Voting Closes: Wednesday 7th September at 4.00 pm
• New Board Takes Office: Wednesday 14th September

Next Meeting - Term Two 2022

The Term Three 2022 meeting of the Home and School is scheduled for Monday15th August starting at 7.30pm in the school staffroom.

Can You Help? - Menzies College Ball Committee?

The Menzies College Ball Committee would like to borrow a child's swimming pool as a prop for their upcoming ball at the end of July. The size of a shell pool would be perfect. If anybody has one they would like to lend Menzies could they please get in touch with Andrea in the office and she will pass your details on.

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
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Twitter: @EdendaleSchool