NEWS Stepping Up & Reaching Out      08 JULY 2016

Important Notes /Dates     A note from the PrincipalTerm Dates 2016:

Term 2 – Monday 2nd May – Friday 8th July

Term 3 – Monday 25th July – Friday 23rd September

Term 4 – Monday 10th October – Friday 16th December

*Teacher Only Day: Friday 21 st October – school closed for instruction (NB: This date was changed from 3 rd June)

Labour Day: Monday 24 October – school closed for instruction

Canterbury Anniversary Day: Friday 11 November – school closed for instruction.

Whats coming up:

July:

Friday 8th – Last day Term 2

Monday 25th – First day Term 3

Tuesday 26th - NE /YR1 Swimming begins at Kaiapoi Aquatic Centre (ends 20 September)

Wednesday 27th - PTA 2nd Hand Uniform Sale 3-5pm.  Room 1

Thursday 28th - House Colours Day

August:

Monday 1st - RSPCA visit Room 7&8

Tuesday 2nd – ICAS English Exam 11am

Wednesday 3rd - PTA 2nd Hand Uniform Sale 2-5pm Room 12

Dear Parents / Caregivers,

Farewell to Marg Roulston

This week we are farewelling Marg from Queenspark School after 33 years of loyal service! During this time Marg has had many roles, from teacher aiding in classrooms and in the library, to her current role with the admin team in the school office. She has served under 3 Principals and in that time has seen tremendous change. We have loved working with Marg and we have truly valued her wisdom, her love for others and her strong sense of service to our school and community. We thank her for everything she has done for our school and we wish her and her family a happy retirement as she starts the next adventure in her life.

Term 2 Reflection:As you are aware we have had our fair share of bugs with both staff and children inrecent weeks. Despite all this, it has been another great term for all andthere have been many highlights where we have seen lots of children make greatprogress with their learning. We hope you have enjoyed hearing about this at therecent mid year learning conferences. Thank you to our staff for the good workthey have done this term and thank you also for the way you have supported themin this.

School Security:Please keep a watch over our school during the holidays. Please report anywrong doings to the police or email admin@queenspark.school.nz

School Open Day:We are planning a series of open days at Queenspark School. The purpose isto give parents an opportunity to see our school operating on a typical day and tosee learning programmes in action. The first of these days is Thursday 18th August.Call in at any stage of the day. Please see the class teacher if you needany more information.

Cyber Safety:Monitoring our children’s access to the internet is something we all need tobe constantly working on. Please be vigilant in the way you check your child’sinternet usage on all devices they have access to at home.

We wish you all happy holidays and look forward to seeing you back for term 3.

RegardsRoss WillocksPrincipal.

Thursday 4th – Zone Winter Sports Tournament

Friday 5th - RSPCA visit Room 5,6 & 12

Saturday 13th – Ethel & Bethel Bingo Night - community

Tuesday 16th – ICAS Maths Exam 11am

Thursday 18th - QPS Open Day - Come along & see us in action!  Come anytime of the day to any class and see what we are all about here at Queenspark School!

Thursday 25th – Canterbury Winter Sports Tournament

Friday 26th - Spellathon Test Day

Monday 29th – Cultural Festival begins

Wednesday 31st - Christchurch Library Road Show

September:

Monday 5th – Kids for Kids Junior Choir - Wigram Airforce Museum

Wednesday 7th - PTA 2nd Hand Uniform Sale 2-5pm Room 12

Wednesday 14th - Senior Choir Rehearsal (Shirley Boys High) 9am -12pm

Wednesday 21st – School Photos

Thursday 22nd - NE/YR1 Parent Assembly 9.15am

Thursday 22nd - House Assembly

Thursday 22nd – Showcase 6pm

Friday 23rd – Last day Term 3

October:

Wednesday 5th - PTA 2nd Hand Uniform Sale 2-5pm Room 12

Monday 10th – First day Term 4

Thursday 20th – Senior Athletics Day

Friday 21st – TEACHER ONLY DAY - school

Principal Pizza Party

We had an overwhelming amount of children reading their books in order to qualify for the pizza lunch with Mr Willocks. ‘95’ students stepped up and challenged themselves! Well done to everyone who took part in this

Special Choir

3 girls from Queenspark have made it through to the Canterbury Special Choirs for the Music Festival. These girls are Holly Bowry & Mia Ellicott (Junior Choir) & Ruby Allan (Senior Choir). This is an outstanding achievement considering approx 200 auditioned for each choir! We are very proud of you and wish you all the very best for this event.

Korfball:

If you have liked korfball so far, here are some opportunities to play more.

Korfball Canterbury will run a school holiday programme in both the first and the second week of the July school. You can register for the first week, or the second week, or both.

In the first week the holiday programme will be at Shirley Boys High School, North Parade, on Tuesday 12, Wednesday 13 and Thursday 14 July. In the second week it will go to Middleton Grange, Acacia Avenue, Upper Riccarton on Tuesday 19, Wednesday 20 and Thursday 21 July. Sessions will run from 9.00am-1.00pm. The cost is $15 per session, $30 to attend all sessions for one week or $50 to attend both weeks.

Next term, for players in the 10-13 year age group, we are running a regular weekly junior korfball academy programme.

Sessions of the junior academy will be in the Bishopdale YMCA gym on Wednesday afternoons from 4.00-5.30pm starting on 25th July.

For more information about the academy and the school holiday programme, and to register for either, please visit the Korfball Canterbury website: www.korfballcanterbury.co.nz Or call Rob Smith on 021 764 996

Ukulele Music Group:

5 of our children and their teacher, Mrs Shute, attended a ukulele workshop at Rawhiti School today. After the workshop they played with The Nukes in a concert.

closed for instruction

Monday 24th – Labour Day – School closed for instruction

Friday 28th - Music Festival

November:

Tuesday 1st - QPS School Open Day - Come along & see us in action!  Come at anytime of the day to any class and see what we are all about here at Queenspark School.

Wednesday 2nd - PTA 2nd Hand Uniform Sale 2-5pm Room 12

Friday 4th – Junior Athletics Day (PP Date: 18 Nov) – PTA Sausage Sizzle lunchtime

Wednesday 9th – Zone Athletics

Friday 11th – Canterbury Show Day – school closed for instruction

Tuesday 22nd – Junior Mini Concert 11.15am

Friday 25th - YR1 Wheels Day - 11am - 12pm

Friday 25th -DISCO!

Tuesday 29th – Senior Mini Concert 11.15am

December:

Friday 2nd - LEAP

Tuesday 6th – YR7/8 Awards Evening 7pm

Tuesday 6th - YR1 Christmas Parent Assembly 9.15 - 10.15am

Wednesday 7th – Canterbury Athletics

Thursday 8th – YR8 Hanmer Camp

Thursday 8th - House Assembly

Friday 16th – Term 4 ends. Children released from class at 12.30pm

MAKE MATHS PART OF YOUR CHILD'S DAY

It's the holidays! So why not test out some of these real life math’s ideas from this website:

http://www.mathematicshed.com/maths-at-home-shed.html

We will be involved in the New Zealand MATHS Week coming up in Week 4 of next term. Look for details coming out early next term on how you might support your child in this.

Happy Holidays Everyone