Term 4 Week 3
29 October 2013
Dear Parents, Caregivers
and Friends of the School,
On Sunday 17 November is
our annual Mahurangi Christian School Birthday Church Service.
This is our opportunity to remember the heritage of our school, and to thank God for God's presence with us and work in and through us over many years.
The Snells Beach Baptist church members birthed our school and still work today in many volunteer capacities behind the scenes to ensure that we have great facilities.
This is our opportunity to remember the heritage of our school, and to thank God for God's presence with us and work in and through us over many years.
The Snells Beach Baptist church members birthed our school and still work today in many volunteer capacities behind the scenes to ensure that we have great facilities.
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Some provide morning tea each week for our school assemblies.
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Some are on
the Proprietor board, and manage the finances for the mortgage and the other many
obligations to the Ministry of Education. Jennifer Smith and previously Sheila
Holden have spent many
many days voluntarily each year managing the attendance dues.
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Some are on
our Board of Trustees and meet regularly for the benefit of
our school.
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Some have weeded gardens, some have
maintained and completely repainted
the toilet block for the
children.
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Ruth Meldrum has voluntarily helped for many years in our school library, and as a teacher aide of reading.
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Trevor Lark has helped as a volunteer
teacher aide in the science and physical education area, and has also
volunteered to give our senior children technology
skills and experiences every
week this year.
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Rob Jensen has been a faithful supporter of the school as Chairman of the Proprietors for the last couple of years, and we
enjoy a good relationship.
This is all a significant commitment from many people who have no other reason to be involved but for their love for God, their love for your children, and a sense of the opportunities they have to bless this community through providing Christian education.
It is this love that inspires these people to continue being a blessing. The Proprietors are commissioned with the responsibility for the Special Christian Character of our school, and this is the core reason they do the work they do. Many in the church faithfully pray for our school, and we will never know the full extent of the fruit of these prayers.
So, on Sunday 17 November, the entire school is asked to attend our Mahurangi Christian School Anniversary service to give thanks and to pray for our school.
Please plan to come to join with families and friends who are prayerfully committed to God's work through our school.
Thanks
Helen
Pearson
Congratulations
Yummy Sticker Collectors
We received $237 to spend on sports equipment this week from our yummy
sticker collection. That is awesome aswe
only managed $170 last year. So thank you all our fabulous collectors,
including families in the school, Mahurangi Baptist Church Members and other
faithful friends.
We even received some stickers from a lady in Auckland who, finding her
children’s school was no longer collecting them, mailed them to us. She tells
me she will continue to collect them even over the summer and send them up to
us when the competition resumes next year. It would be great if you can
continue collecting. It gives us a good
head start to next year’s collection. If you would like any collection
sheets they are available from the office.
Senior
Uniform 2014
Next year our Years 7 & 8 will have a new uniform. Shorts and skorts
will remain the same as the junior uniform but both Year 7 & 8 boys and girls
will have a white shirt rather than the maroon polo. These will be available before
school next year.
Cancellation
Guy Fawkes Family, Fun, Firework Fundraiser!
Unfortunately our
enthusiastic organizers are going on an unexpected trip overseas, so this event
has been cancelled.
MCS
Athletics
This
Thursday we are holding our Athletics Day and Interschool Athletics will be
held on Tuesday 12th November.
If
you are keen to help our children prepare, or to be involved in being a parent
helper on our Athletics Day, please complete the online form here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19_Hr9vp1UkRnVTVPMZfHgyC0K73C6_O7JAyfruZTzHw/viewform
Marae
Visit
We are visiting Te Hana Marae on November 20th. All details are in the separate letter you
have received. We would love as many of you as possible to join us on this trip. Please try to clear the day so you can
attend.
Hats
Please send your
children with hats and sunscreen from now on. Any hat that protects your child
from the sun is acceptable.
Buddy
Kit fundraising
We receive $3 for every Buddy Kit sold so please
support us by collecting orders. A
Chocolate Brown Voucher will be won by the family who sell the most. Order
sheets with money must be returned by 15th November. The Buddy Kits
are available for viewing in the office.
Changes
in Child Restraint Laws
Please
note that from 1 November (the end of this week), the law says that you must:
-correctly secure your
child in an approved restraint until
their 7th birthday
-correctly secure your
child in an approved child restraint if one is available in the vehicle (and if
not, in any child restraint or safety belt that is available) from their 7th
birthday until their 8th birthday
To
find out more about the law and what a suitable child restraint is under the
new law, please click on the link below:
Please note that for
school trips we need appropriate car seats to be provided by parents for the
day. Please also note that the police will be enforcing
this law.
Production
We will be producing a
school musical performance at the end of the year on 29th November.
If you would like to
help with musical, dance or dramatic aspects of the performance preparation,
prop development or costumes, or lighting and sound, please click here https://docs.google.com/a/mahu.school.nz/forms/d/1BepJG6Ejhfoai4XLgwl08mlwWDbEc8iA4VC0Md6C7go/viewform
Video
being made about MCS for professional development of NZ Teachers
On
18 November, we will be visited by a professional video team so that a short
movie can be made about our school and the progress we have made in e-learning
during the last 18 months. The facilitator is excited by what is happening here
and thinks that other schools throughout the country need to know about it to
help them in their own journeys!
If
you don’t want your child to be filmed please advise the office.
Camp 2014
This
will be a great way to start the year, and to get to know all our new students.
When: 25-27
February 2014
Where:
Marsden Bay Christian Camp
Who:
All our learners (Year 0-8), with younger children only coming for one night.
Parents are welcome to come along and join in the fun.
Cost:
$110 per student. $80 per parent. (A family room can be booked for $62 per
night if preferred, food costs additional.
Payment: If you
would prefer to set up an automatic payment to our account so that you relieve
the financial burden in the New Year our account number is: 123105 0014453 000.
Please make sure you include in the particulars what it is for.
Honouring
Assemblies
See
your child get a special honour
Our End of Term
Celebration Assemblies this year have focused on those learners who have
made the most outstanding Progress during that term.
Our End of Year
Prizegivings focus on those learners who have had the most outstanding
Achievement.
This term we are
holding special Honouring Assemblies in which we will honour people
within our school community.
Please note that all
individuals in our school will be specially honoured in an assembly that
focuses on their particular Room. Please do try to come along to the Room 1, 2,
or 3 assembly on the dates below to see your child presented with a special
certificate that honours the things that we appreciate about them. This
will enable us to celebrate those things that impress us about each person, and
will ensure that all our learners will know how much we value them regardless
of progress or achievement.
Please
book in the dates now, and invite friends and grandparents and prepare to bring
a plate to share for a class party/morning tea
for all learners and guests celebrating with us. If there are extra curricula
skills developed, or you have noticed significant improvement in your child at
home in some way, feel free to let us know.
Honouring
Assemblies: Honour our helpers and volunteers
On 22 November, we
will have an assembly to honour our volunteers. Please keep this date free if
possible.
Assembly
Roster for Term 4 2013
Term
4
|
2013
|
Assembly host
|
Week
1
|
19
Oct
|
Principal’s
Assembly
|
Week
2
|
25
Oct
|
Colin Shilston
|
Week
3
|
1
Nov
|
Pre- school
Tabloids- no assembly
|
Week
4
|
8
Nov
|
Honouring Assembly
Room 1
and
class party afterwards
|
Week
5
|
15
Nov
|
Honouring Assembly
Room 2
and
class party afterwards
|
Week
6
|
22
Nov
|
Honouring Assembly
Room 3
and
class party afterwards
|
Week
7
|
29
Nov
|
No assembly due to
Production
|
Week
8
|
6
Dec
|
Honouring Assembly
for friends of the school
|
Week
9
|
13
Dec
|
Prize Giving
|
Upcoming Events:
29
October Board Meeting
Initial
planning meeting for Santa Parade
31 October MCS Athletics
Day
1 November Early Childhood Education Tabloid Sports Day
New
Child Restraint Laws are operational
12 November Interschool
Athletics
17 November MCS Anniversary Church Service
18 November Visiting Film
Crew
20 November Te
Hana Marae Visit
29 November School Production
7 December Santa Parade
18 December Last day of school for the year
Iconz – Building kiwi
boys into kiwi icons
Faith - Blood - Mud -
Fire - Water - Speed - Smash and Build...Boys Being Boys
Where: Springboard, Hamatana Road
When: Started 23rd
October 6.30 – 8.00
Who: 8yrs – 11 yrs
Teamwork -
adventure - skills - fun - confidence - leadership - outdoor action
Kaipara
Flats School - Country Show Day
Saturday November 2 10.00am-2.00pm
Come along and be part of a good old fashion Country Show Day. There will be lambs, calves, food, drink, face painting, raffles, auction, cake stall, Devonshire teas, woodchoppers and much more. Our major auction item is a signed framed 2013 All Blacks Jersey. Phone 4225819 for more details.
Saturday November 2 10.00am-2.00pm
Come along and be part of a good old fashion Country Show Day. There will be lambs, calves, food, drink, face painting, raffles, auction, cake stall, Devonshire teas, woodchoppers and much more. Our major auction item is a signed framed 2013 All Blacks Jersey. Phone 4225819 for more details.
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