Welcome to Term 4—a short 8 week Term, but it was worth moving the holidays to

accommodate the final of the RWC now wasn’t it?

Attached are school and class photos for your enjoyment.

We offer the opportunity for you to order 2012 calendars, diaries and note cards using

photos of your choice. A sample is on display at the sign in desk. You may take

your child’s portfolio home and select 1 to 9 photos to be printed individually or as a

collage. The school photo may also be used. Prices are listed on the order form.

Term 4 is the start of our Hat rule. As the

sun is typically at its’ strongest Sept-April

in NZ we provide an individually named

hat for each child which they are required

to wear when outside. These are laun-

dered regularly and are kept at school.

We are also able to apply sunscreen if you

would like to provide an individually

named container of your own selected

product. We prefer to keep these in the

kitchen rather than left in children’s

bags—we then know which children re-

quire sunscreen and teachers can super-

vise the safe application of the product.

Open Day Saturday November 12th from 9am. This Open House is an opportunity

for you to bring along or refer friends, family or colleagues whom you feel may be

interested in finding out more about what we offer. We do encourage you to promote

this as we have a limited number of places available.

Plastic wrap in lunchboxes—please try to use alternatives that are child friendly

(children have great difficulty finding the edges) and more environmentally con-

scious. Reusable plastic bags are a good alternative as are lidded containers. We

will be returning all food wrap home in lunchboxes so that you may reuse or make

the disposal choice.

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Term Dates 2011

Term 4

Oct 25 to Dec 16

Parent Evening Dates 2011

Nov 16th (Wed)

Wa i k a t o M o n t e s s o r i E d u c a t i o n C e n t r e

Items to update

Paper- 2.5 months; Orange Peel- 6

months; Milk Carton- 5 years;

Cigarette Butt- 10-12 years; Plastic

bag- 10-20 years; Disposable dia-

per- 75 years; Tin can- 100 years;

Beer can- 200-500 years; Styro-

foam- never (immortal)

The New York Times (Nemve E. Metro-

politan Diary, October 1, 2001):

How long does it take a plastic bag to

break down or a glass bottle to decom-

pose? What about a milk carton or a

Styrofoam cup?

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Please name all clothing—we have a good

supply of unclaimed clothing for you to check

Donations

The classroom programme as

delivered is reliant upon paren-

tal donations. We appreciate

your ongoing donations which

allow us to deliver a full Mon-

tessori programme.

Donations for Term 3 would now

be appreciated—weekly or

monthly payment via direct

credit is able to be setup online

with most banks.

Donations may be made at

school or by bank transfer to

account;

Golden Beads Charitable Trust

03-0318-0857768-000

Receipts for tax purposes are

issued annually in April.

Scholastic book club—we have distributed the latest offers from Scholastic Book Club. We do not endorse all the books on

offer nor guarantee the prices are the best available, we are merely passing this on for you to review. If you do wish to order

any of these books please return your order and payment to us by 4 November 2011.

Holly, Kayla and Katherine complete their Grammar work in the garden.

Kaela is preparing food

for afternoon tea.

Morgan walks the wiggly plank.

Rose and Noelani identify

the Geometric Solids.

Sophia and Anna joined us during their holiday break. Max leads the

group under the arch of Muriwai and Sabrina’s arms.

Outing to the Hamilton Gardens.

Emily works with the triangles—

Equilateral, Isoceles and Scalene.

John carries the ball over

the hurdles.

Stefan and Victoria construct sen-

tences and identify the parts of speech.