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Tena koutou, Malo e lelei, Kia orana, Fakalofa lahi atu, Bula vinaka, Ciao, Namaste, Al Salaam a’alaykum,
Ni hao, Merhaba, Konnichiwa, Hola, Annyong hasayo, Greetings
Balmoral School Newsletter
Te Kura o te Roto a Rangi 19 Brixton Road, Mt Eden Auckland 1024
Phone 638 7960 Fax 630 1944
Email office@balmoral.school.nz
w w w . b a l m o r a l . s c h o o l . n z
Vision To value diversity and to develop curious, confident
and connected learners.
Friday 3 November 2017
Intermediate Dates to Diary
Year 7 Picnic Day Thursday 7 December, 10am-2pm (Parnell Baths)
Year 8 Picnic Day Friday 8 December, 10am-2pm (Point Erin Pools)
Library Books Returned Friday 8 December
Year 7 Peter Pan Friday 8 December
Intermediate Prize-Giving Wednesday 13 December, 1pm-3pm
Year 8 Poroporoaki (graduation) Thursday 14 December, 1:30pm
Meet Year 8 Teachers Friday 15 December, 10am
School Closes Friday 15 December, 1pm
Canteen Days Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Tena koutou e te whanau, he mihi nui kia koutou katoa
As this is our last newsletter of the year I would like to wish you all the best for
the festive season. To all those students leaving our school at the end of the
year I do wish you all the best for the future.
To those families returning to Balmoral School we all look forward to seeing
you on Tuesday 30 January 2018.
I also wish to thank the following teachers and support staff who are leaving
at the end of this year. Nicky Bunz, Rosalie Sinclair, Carl Pynenburg, Gillian
Appleby, Kate Watson and Rebecca Wharton leave from our teaching staff.
Glenda McLuckie and Kelee Hackett leave from our Learning Support Team.
I wish them all the best for the future and appreciate their contribution to our
school community.
“Meri Kirihimete me te Hape Nū Ia” ki ngā iwi me ngā hapū katoa
Malcolm Milner
Principal (Te Tumuaki)
School Fair
Many thanks to all the members of our community who helped out at the
school fair on Saturday 18 November. It was a a fun filled day for friends,
family and the wider community. The key organisers work extremely hard to
keep costs down. This effort certainly paid off and we raised a significant
amount of money to invest in our capital purchases next year.
I would also like to acknowledge the huge amount of work by our key
organisers Deb Campbell and Kristen de Monchy who were the main driving
force behind this event.
School Canteen
Please note school canteen closes for the year on Friday 1 December and
reopens Wednesday 7 February 2018.
Kids 4 Kids Concert
Trusts Arena
On Tuesday 21st November the 67 members of our Kids 4 Kids Choir took a
bendy bus to the Trusts Arena for a dress rehearsal for our Kids 4 Kids concert.
The show was called ‘KIWI AS’ and we had spent a good part of the year
preparing for the 19 New Zealand songs we were about to perform. Our two
amazing music directors, Chris Lamsam and Brooke Baker, and our hosts,
Nathan King and Jackie Clarke rehearsed us, actions and all, for our evening
concert.
Each school was allowed to provide 4 pre-auditioned students to audition for
special solo parts in the evening performance.
Everyone sung so beautifully, but Balmoral stood out from the crowd; three of
our four soloists who auditioned were accepted for the 7 solo parts!
Wow! Jackson Boswell opened the show with a fantastic rap in the ‘Kids 4
Kids Anthem’, Marli Comer sang a beautiful solo in ‘Love Love Love’ and
Emma Newland did an epic narration of the ‘The Wonkey Donkey’ with
Jackie Clarke; each song was backed by the wonderful Kids 4 Kids choir.
They did us so proud and we cheered them on like we had been chosen for
the parts ourselves!
Our whole choir represented Balmoral School so well, with incredible singing,
enthusiasm and behaviour. Sarah might have even had tears in her eyes at a
few points, she was so proud! Go Balmoral. You were impressive!
Balmoral School Redevelopment
The BoT have signed a Memorandum of Understanding which outlines how
the school and the MoE will interact throughout the rebuild. The Board have
also agreed to the Master Plan.
This means that the design phase is now underway. This week representative
teachers from the primary and intermediate school met the architects
separately to ensure that we develop flexible learning spaces to further
enable what and how we teach.
We have also received plans for the location of the remaining four
relocatables which we will use throughout the build process. These plans are
currently with the Auckland Council awaiting consent.
Intermediate News
Tēnā koutou Intermediate Whānau,
This time of year is always bittersweet. We reflect on the great learning and
experiences our students have had and sadly farewell our Year 8 students as
they embark on the next step in their education.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the hardworking intermediate
staff for their commitment and dedication to our children’s learning and
development. We are incredibly lucky to have such a positive and
enthusiastic team of practitioners.
In these last weeks of the year, I look forward to seeing many of you at our
Prize Giving Year 8 Poroporoaki as we celebrate our students’ successes in
2017.
On behalf of the intermediate team, I would like to wish our Year 8 children
all the best for 2018 and beyond and happy holidays to our Year 7 children.
Naku noa,
Kate and the Intermediate Team
Shared Learning from Rooms Aparangi (Year 8)
Room 3
“The year is 2050. Man is now colonising the moon and you have decided to
open the first lunar theme park in history”. So for Maths we have become
Theme Park designers/creators! We are in the process of creating a theme
park on a budget of $500k. This includes all our rides, shop, cafes etc and our
daily costs including electricity, staffing etc. Here’s some of our logo’s we
have designed for our theme park. Which one would you like to go to?!
Room 4
In Room 4 we’re exploring art-making
conventions while creating original art
inspired by imagery found in the
production of the text ‘LOTR: The
Fellowship of The Ring’. We initially
developed some ‘firework’ art (inspired
by Smaug’s doppleganger at Bilbo’s
party) that made use of chalk, dye,
acrylic paint, and pastel on black
paper. Our follow-up projects are
currently underway and are quite
representative of our individuality and
artistic flair!
Room 4.75
Room 4.75 have been setting up businesses and managing a class economy
for CIB. The class has a functioning court system, currency, taxation, a
business register and a parliament to create legislation as needed to
promote fair business. Below are some examples of the kinds of goods and
services on offer.
Rm 5
Room 5 have been
exploring Culture in our
CIB and are trying to to
answer our over-
arching question of our
inquiry “What makes up
a culture?”. We have
looked into Family,
Food, Routine, Fashion,
The Arts and more
recently, Sports.
Exploring Sports, we
looked at similarities of
them across different
cultures and created
our own definitions of
sport to help us
understand how they
slot into the great tapestry of Culture. Here are some pictures of sports we
created when we mixed sports already a part of most cultures to explore
them physically as well as philosophically.
Rm 6
For Literacy, Room 6 have had the joy of reading the book Wonder by R. J.
Palacio this past term. We’ve been digging deep into the ideas of bullying,
standing out and fitting in.
For Maths, we’ve been creating board games for our Year 4 buddy class to
help and encourage their learning. The board games use math ideas and
have themes that are based on our buddies likes so they are motivated to
learn.
Rm 31
Room 31’s inquiry learning has been about human behaviour - exploring how
we behave and what or who could influence our behaviour. Integrating CIB
and P4C discussions, we celebrated the World Philosophy Day 2017
Challenge by viewing a video of ‘the Philosophy man’ talking about Nelson
Mandela’s influence on South Africa’s people and their Constitutions. Our
class took up the challenge to create their own constitution - rules that they
would set for themselves, so that in the future they would do the right thing,
even if it is difficult. Here are some of their constitutions.
Intermediate Sport
Central Zone Badminton Tournament
On Wednesday, 15
November the Balmoral
Central Zone (CZ)
Badminton team went to
the Auckland Badminton
Centre for the CZ Badminton
tournament. It was an
amazing experience for
everybody. Each year group
had a doubles team and a
single player. Everybody had
challenging games with wins
and losses throughout the
day and everyone got on
very well.
The best result overall was
Jacob Wolf who placed 2nd
in Year 8 singles losing only by a small margin to Remuera. The Year 8 doubles team -
Jayman Bhana and Jackson Somerville - came 4th just missing out on a placing by one
point to Mt Roskill. Overall all the players were happy with how they played and if they
could, they would do it again.
Big thanks to Michelle for organising, all the parents for transport and Deb Wolf for
managing the teams on the day.
Jayman Bhana and Jackson Somerville
Central Zone Athletics
The Team
Year 7 Girls Year 7 Boys Year 8 Girls Year 8 Boys
Lucca Landon-Paniora Caitlin Douglas-Bell Cassia Reinsfield Ruby Pengell Tasha Greenway Bianca Power Stella Nola Mridul Singh
Cole Rogers Miro Osmond Lucius Fox-Griffiths Ethan Faleni Marco Bethan-Copisarow Connor Ashton Harry Speight Jay McElwee Noah Freundlich Callum Michie James Ray Cyrus Stowers-Sao
Caitlyn Mossman Soana Musie Wainouna Kaleopa Rebecca Clement Zoe Tritt Pip Hawksworth Madison Oliver Sarah Brinck Ella Lord Melani Percival Lara Grozev Hannah Brook
Cassius Tia Josh Lafaele-Cameron Arius Percival Elliot O’Connell Toby Fernandez Ben Mitchell Jack Frear Oliver Fox Theo Bus Josh Chote Lenny Anderson
TA News
Balmoral Spring Festival goes off!
Wow – we made a massive $50,000 at the Balmoral Spring Festival! What a great result. A huge thanks to everyone who helped out in anyway - whether you made cakes; staffed stalls; cooked anything from curries to sausages to dumplings; made crafts; played music; filled jolly jars; packed down marquees and then packed them back up again; or turned-up enjoyed yourself and spent money on the day! A truly successful festival only happens when everyone pitches in to make it work, so many thanks for the part you played. We had an amazing fun-filled day and managed to make a huge amount for the school. The total the Balmoral School PTA has now raised for the school this year stands at an incredible $110,000!! Finally, a big thanks to the Balmoral PTA leadership team, who have lived and breathed the Spring Festival for the past term. Your commitment and energy has been unwavering and incredible. Thank you Kristen de Monchy, Debbie Campbell, Louise Garbett and Sasha Halstead. A special thanks also to Anna Morton for all the hard work with the sponsorship.
Thank you to our sponsors: We’d like to say a huge thank you to our sponsors and supporters for helping to make the Balmoral Spring Festival such a success! A special thanks to our sponsors:
• Lindesay Construction
• Anna Copeland at Barfoot & Thompson Mt Eden
• The Finance Marshall
• ANZ
• The Tile People
And a big thank you to all those other individuals and businesses that supported us:
• Commonsense Organic
• Countdown
• Image Centre Group
• Hellers Sausages
• Bakers Delight
• Aotearoa Martial Arts Academy
• All Blacks
• Health and Sports Gym
• Michael Overend Photography
• Hello Saturday
• SKIDS
• Active Plus Physio
• Eat Auckland
• My Food Bag
• Farro
• McDonalds Balmoral
• Clip n Climb
• Trent Bray Swim School
• Snowie
• The Dance Studio
• Virtual Flight
• Rapid Crossfit
• Heritage Anchorage Resort Taupo
• Te Puia Rotorua
• Skyline Gondola and Luge Rotorua
• Malcolm Milner
• Think Water
• Jones Road Cider
• The Hangman
• Pak n Save
Don’t forget to pick up your Christmas Tree tomorrow
Those who have ordered their Christmas Trees can pick them up at school tomorrow between 11am and 3pm. There will be a limited number of trees for sale for those who haven’t pre-ordered so get in quick. We’ll also be selling ice blocks, Christmas crafts and our awesome Balmoral School cookbook, Everyday Easy Eats.
Get your Everyday Easy Eats Christmas supplies now!
Our awesome Balmoral School cookbook, Everyday Easy Eats makes the perfect Christmas present!
Get your copies at the school office - they’re only $25 each or you can get two for $40. What a bargain!
If you want to order a number of copies, contact Louise on: louisegarbetto@gmail.com
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