Outram School Newsletter Volume 3 Number 4 – 17 August 2017 OUTRAM SCHOOL VISION – A school where children strive for

excellence, love learning, develop their passions and reach their potential

Dear Parents Tēnā koutou, kia ora koutou katoa In amongst the O’Mathlon, Ukulele Jam, EPRO8 Challenge and the preparation for tomorrow’s Sth Taieri Cross Country, students have been very busy preparing and presenting their poems and speeches ahead of the 2017 Outram School Speech Night. We have Erika Ward returning to judge alongside our Lion Club judges, Ad and Graeme. I thank all three in advance for agreeing to undertake this task. Below is an invitation to the event. Each classroom teacher will send home a note with those students who have been selected to speak. A full list should go home on Friday.

An Invitation Outram School Speech Night 2017

A warm invitation is extended to all parents, members of our extended school family and residents of Outram to the 2017 Outram School Speech Night.

This year the students have prepared speeches to entertain. Venue: Outram School Hall Date: Tuesday 22 August Time: 6.30 pm Programme: Junior Poetry Recitals Year 4 One Minute Speeches Year 5 / 6 Speeches Year 7 / 8 Speeches

Judging from the laughter coming from Room 5 during the presentation of their speeches in class, I am picking we will all have a great night. Best wishes to all speakers. The Sth Taieri Cross Country is scheduled for tomorrow and is the same course as the one used for the school cross country. All families are invited to join us for the 12.00 pm start. Good luck to all our runners, I am sure you will represent Outram strongly. Nga mihi nui

Jeremy Marshall

18 August 22 August 30 August 1 September 4-6 September 14 September 15 September 21 September 29 September 16 October

South Taieri Schools Cross Country Outram School Speech Night Taieri Schools Speech Night Otago Cross Country Stars on Stage Y6 Evening Flower Show School Photos Disco CAPES Assembly End of Term 3 Term 4 Starts

School contact details:

1 Beaumaris Street, Outram.

P O Box 22, Outram 9062.

Phone 03 486 1733 for all absences,

ASC and office.

Email: office@outram.school.nz

Web: www.outram.school.nz

BoT Parent Reps:

Craig Brown 021 1915319

Katrina Robertson 486 1944

Ash Barron 486 2335

Anette Harrex 486 1681

Amelia Rogers 021 882853

Friends of Outram School

Sonya Aitken 486 2026

SCHOOL NOTICES Hurry last week to order - Friends of Outram School Fundraiser

We sent home an order form for lots of pasta options from Pasta d’Oro 2 weeks ago. I have also

put a copy at the back of this newsletter. These orders are due back to the office with the money by

25th August. If you want to pay by internet please note the new account no. for Friends of

Outram School at the top of the order form. Thank you.

Wanting to borrow The Stars on Stage organisers are wanting to borrow the following items:

Long sleeved white shirts (i.e. boys school shirts)

Hooped petticoats

If you can assist with either of these items please phone the office or see Janferie in Room 6.

Thank you.

Thank you

I would like to thank everyone for supporting my bake sale raising money for Brain Injury Otago. I

raised $166.10. Thank you from Dylan.

SCHOOL NOTICES cont’d

STARS ON STAGE PERFORMANCE NIGHT

MONDAY 4 SEPTEMBER

Tickets These go on sale on Monday 21 August. They can be purchased in several ways:

Online at www.ticketdirect.co.nz By phone 0800224224 or 034778597

Counter sales at the Regent Theatre box office.

Cost is $17 for adults, $10 for children plus booking fee.

Daffodil Competition – Spring Flower Show Well hopefully everyone’s daffodils are growing well. There has been no lack of water over the last couple of months, so by now they all should be starting to pop up. Remember though do not let them dry out too much. A reminder that they all should be planted in a pot and on the Thursday 14 September bring them into school with your name, school year and age on the pot, if you are taping your name on make sure it is securely taped to the pot. I will then take them around to the flower show. The actual Flower Show is on Friday 15 September from 2pm- 6pm so make sure you go around and have a look. I would think you could collect your daffodil up from the show around 6pm if you are wanting to keep it and plant it in your garden, remember these multiply very easily and next year you should have more to brighten up your garden. Your support is very much appreciated. Kindly sponsored by Donna Tisdall – Southern Wide Real Estate & Maungatua Church Flower Show

Canterbury Pants/Shorts Orders We are taking Canterbury pant/shorts orders if anyone is interested. We send an order away once

we have a few orders.

Prices are: Child trackpants $51

Child shorts $24

Adult trackpants $57

Adult shorts $30

If you want to place an order please either call into or phone the school office.

Our EPRO8 boys at the finals competition

Room 4 have been loving poetry this year so much that some children have begun writing their own poems. Charlee Eaton wrote a poem about stars and Mrs Paterson sent it to Judi Billcliff who is a published New Zealand poet. Judi’s poetry company is called Rainbow Poetry. Here is Charlee’s poem and Judi’s reply. Stars Stars stars I saw Stars zipping and zapping through the night light. But then I began to look up again and I saw a shooting star zipping zapping through the moonlight By Charlee Eaton Hi Charlee, WOW, what a cool poem you've been writing. I could just imagine those shooting stars zip zapping through the moonlight in the sky. Thank you so much for sharing it with me. love Judi B

Rockin’ At Ukulele Jam

On Wednesday, Room 7 jumped into cars, full of excitement and drove to Tahuna Intermediate to attend Ukulele Jam 2017. At first we got our ukuleles and took a seat. Even getting a seat was pretty tricky as we were trying to fit in with 492 other students! When we looked around it was like a sea of colours - children and ukuleles. On the stage there was a big band - drums, electric, acoustic and bass guitars and a keyboard. Kanisha was feeling nervous, Flynn was really excited and we all couldn’t wait for it to start. The first song we played was ‘Utaina’. When everyone started playing together it sounded like a shock wave of sound. We were all pretty surprised at how loud it was. Brodie was feeling really alive with all the sound. We had to play a variety of songs, including ‘Budapest’, ‘Proud Mary’ and ‘The Cup Song’. During ‘Proud Mary’ Jakob and Mitchell were selected to go up to the front and show off their picking skills - they did such an amazing job! During ‘Amawole’ Mrs Jackson and Emilee got the chance to play some African drums - Emilee thought it was awesome and fun. When we played ‘Le Aute’ 6 students were selected to play some Samoan drums and Shelby was very lucky to be one of the chosen students. Shelby was also very lucky as she got to go up on stage during ‘The Cup Song’. We all had to persevere to get through all the songs - even when we didn’t know all the chords. When we went out to the playground at morning tea time the jungle gym sounded like a rainforest full of monkeys! After morning tea we saw some funny pictures of the teachers when they were little. We had to try and guess which one was our teacher - not many people guessed Mrs Jackson’s picture! Then the teachers got up and sang ‘Photograph’ by Ed Sheeran. Some special guests came to Ukulele Jam - Anna Grimaldi, who won a gold medal at the Rio Paralympics, Callum and P from The Hits radio station and Olivia from the Steel netball team. When we started playing ‘Sweet Child of Mine’ we all sang so loudly it sounded like a bomb going off! We thought we might lift the roof off the hall! At the end of the jam we were all sad that our fun experience was over.

ASSEMBLY TIMETABLE

Term 3, 2017

25 August – Week 5 – Room 2

15 September – Week 8 – Room 3

29 September – Week 10 – CAPES Assembly

Term Dates for 2017 Term 1

Tuesday 31 January – Thursday 13

April

Term 2 Monday 1 May – Friday 7 July

Term 3 Monday 24 July – Friday 29

September

Term 4 Monday 16 October Monday 18

December

Text follow outramschool to 8987 to keep up to date and receive all school alerts.

FRIDAY LUNCH ORDERS

PLEASE NOTE: - IF YOU ARE

ORDERING YOUR CHILD A

LUNCH FROM MITCHELLS FAMILY

FOODCENTRE FOR A FRIDAY,

THE ORDER MUST BE IN BY

THURSDAY AT THE LATEST.

Phone 486 1723.

Community Oral Health Service 0800 TALK TEETH (0800 825 583) or

0800 ORAL HEALTH (0800 672 543 (free from cell phones)

Please call us to update your contact details, change an appointment or to make an appointment. You can find us under

Community Oral Health Service in the White Pages.

GUITAR LESSONS If you are interested in your child learning the guitar or drums please ring Dylan on 0273012977. These lessons are $20 for

private lessons or $10 for paired lessons. Lessons are for 20 minutes taken after

school, here at school.

SPORTS

Netball Final Week

Here is the draw for this Saturday 19 August. If you want to

check draws for yourself go to:

www.sporty.co.nz/taierinetball.

Outram Red v Taieri Steel FINAL 11.00am Ct 2

Outram Blue v Abb Orange FINAL 9.00am Ct 2

Outram Yellow v Abb Red 10.15am Ct 4

Outram Green v Silverstream Flyers 11.25am Ct 4

Outram Pink v East Taieri Sapphire 10.50am Ct 6

Taieri Plains Netball prizegiving starts at 1pm on Saturday.

Don’t forget the Outram School Netball prizegiving on

Thursday 24th August from 3.15pm to 4.30pm in the school

hall for all netballers Y1 to Y8 and parents. Please bring a

plate to share for afternoon tea. Thank you.

Miniball

Outram Y7&8 – Monday 21 August

Outram Y7&8 v Big Rock Hipsters 5.15pm Ct 7

Y5&6 – Tuesday 22 August

Outram Nuggets v Bye

Outram Saints v Fairfield Hurricanes 4.00pm

Y4 – Monday 21 August

Outram Stars v East Taieri Blaze 4.00pm

Y3 – Wednesday 23 August

Outram Breakers v East Taieri Shooters 4.00pm

Touch If your child hasn’t already brought their touch notice in

please get it in tomorrow as I am sorting out teams now.

Thank you.

Berwick Community Pool AGM

Thursday 17 August at 7.30pm

at Nick Moores

115 Waipori Falls Road

The Berwick Community Pool has been run by a Trust since 1997 and now has two key committee members shifting from the district, so we need more people to help keep this community asset going. The work isn't onerous, approx 4-5 meetings a year, one or two working bees and doing a week of pool duty each season. Please consider coming on our committee to keep the pool in the district for us all to enjoy.

Any questions please ring Vivienne Stewart on 4862 605

COMMUNITY NOTICES

PROUD TO SUPPORT OUTRAM SCHOOL…

MCER

Mining & Construction Equipment Repairs Ltd

Heavy equipment repairs & servicing

Component overhauls

Hydraulic Repairs

Electrical repairs

Mobile welding

Phone: Paul Bain 0272531137 or 03 4897317

mcrepairs@xtra.co.nz

Workshop: C/o Hyslop Rural, 28 Bell Street, Outram