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Tuesday 26 November 2013

School News

Welcome
We are delighted to welcome Zane Renahan and his family into our school community. Zane is in Room 3 and his mum Debbie Dawson-Renahan has already spent a few hours helping with fundraising at the cake stall/sausage sizzle. We look forward to getting to know you better.

Hibiscus Coast Interschool Athletics
We are proud of both Talia and Kaleigh for representing us so well at the Hibiscus Coast Interschool Athletics. Kaleigh excelled in the Year 6 girls competition with a 1st in high jump and 3rds in both discus and shot put.

Friday Sausage Sizzle Lunches
On Fridays from next week until the end of term sausages will be for sale at lunchtime. Cost is $2 for a sausage, bread and sauce. If you wish to put in an order please put the money in an envelope and write on the front who it is for then hand it in to the office on Friday morning.

Performance
We are excited about the upcoming performance of “Oh the Places You will Go” this Friday 29th November @7.00pm.  We have sold about 80 tickets . Please encourage friends and family to attend. It would be very encouraging for our children to play to a full house. 

We are performing a matinee performance of our show on Friday morning for The Beehive Childcare Centre.

Tickets are available from the office and cost $10 per adult and $5 per child.

Friday Early Finish
As the children are very tired and Friday will be a long day for them children may go home early at 12.30 after the matinee performance so they can have a restful afternoon. The children need to be back at school at 6.00 to prepare for their evening performance.

School End of Year Picnic and Bible Fair
Date: Thursday 12th December
Time: any time from 5.00pm - Family games start around 5.45pm
Venue: School

Programme:
5.00 - Picnic on the slopes by classrooms followed by family games in house groups
6.30 - Walk through the Bible - view the booths of each child in Years 5-8 about their investigations.
As families, complete the Bible Quiz by finding answers from each booth.
7.15 - Reports will be handed out while the winners of the Bible Quiz are determined.
7.30 - Prizegiving for the Best Family Bible Quizzers, and the Best House Bible Quizzers
7.45 - Surprise
8.00 - Home time

Honouring Assembly for Volunteers to our school
Date: Friday December 6th
Time: 9.10am – 10.30am
Our school has been blessed by the help of numerous volunteers this year. These people add richness to your child's learning and save our school large amounts of money which keeps your fees down.

As a community we want to thank them for their support. Please come if you can to honour these people.

Please send a cake or biscuits to school on Thursday. If we all make something, each volunteer can receive a gift from our community.

Prizegiving and Farewell
Date: 13th December
Time: 10.30
We will award prizes to students and farewell Susan Vaughan and students leaving our school. Please make an effort to come to honour these people for their work in our school.

Santa Parade 7th December
Due to unforseen circumstances, the parents organising this are no longer available and our float contribution will be cancelled.

Wheels Day 3rd December
Please bring bikes, helmets and other wheeled machines for a fun day. The Police Officer will be teaching us about safety on our bikes.

Library Books
Notices about missing library books will be sent home this week.  Please have a good look around home and send any library books you find back to school as replacing them can be a costly exercise.

Library
We desperately need help from people for the library stocktake. Please let us know if you have a few hours to help out.

Weetbix Kids TRYathlon
We have enough people interested to enter a school team.
If you would like to take part in the Weetbix Kids TRYathlon as part of a school team please let June know in the office.
Costs
Earlybird Price ( before noon 20th December)        
$34.60 per person
School Group (4 children in any one event)           
$35.50 per person
Regular Entry Price                                             
$40.75 per person
Weet-Bix Kids TRYathlon is the BIGGEST under 16’s triathlon series in the world.
Entry is open to anyone 7 to 15 years of age no matter what your level of fitness, and you can either sign up as an individual or as a team of two with a friend.

Where and When: Narrowneck Beach, North Shore, 6th April, 2014
Contact:  try.weetbix.co.nz or call 09 531 5080

Vision and Hearing Testing
On 12 December the Vision and Hearing Technician will visit our school.  She will be testing New Entrants who have not had B4 School hearing and Vision Tests and children who have not been tested in New Zealand. 

Children do not need to be tested if they have completed the B4 School Check Hearing and Vision tests.

Upcoming Events:
28 November                Library Stocktake
29 November                School Production
3 December                  Wheels Day
12 December                Vision and Hearing Testing
                                     Bible Fair and Picnic
13 December                School Prizegiving
18 December                Last day of school for the year

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