19th November 2015 - Week 6 Term 4

School Calendar

November 20th School Photos due

26th Scrabble Tournament

27th GB Athletics

December

2nd John Parsons

3-5th Rm 5 Camp

7th Yr 6 Powhiri GBHS

7-9th Rm 1 Camp

9-11th Rm 4 Camp

11th Reports sent home

16th Dec Last day of 2015

February

2nd Feb Term 1 2016 begins

Friday School Lunch - Savoury Pinwheels $3 and Ice-cream Sandwich $2 (thanks this week to Janet) Vege option available

Motupipi School Contact

Details:

435 Abel Tasman Drive

Takaka 7183

Phone: 03 525 9986

EMAIL: markc@motupipi.school.nz

Or: office@motupipi.school.nz

Internet Banking No:

03 1711 0013347 00

GB Schools’ Athletics Sports Due to a bad weather forecast the GB Athletics Day has now been postponed until next Friday. All of our children aged 7 and up are in-volved and will be attending. It will be held at the GBHS School Fields.

School Photos

Last Day for orders is

tomorrow (Fri) morning.

END OF YEAR>>> The school year is closing down fast with lots still happening around the place. Staff are gathering up achievement information and doing final testing before writing school reports. Once the achievement information from all the classes has been collated we will be looking at children or groups of children who aren’t achieving as well as we would like and setting up an action plan of how best meet their needs.

Room One are heading out to Farewell Spit on Monday to carry out activities based around whale strandings.

Our Scrabble teams of Chris, Will, Pippa, Holly, Phoebe, Rhys W, Tane and Maata will take part in the Golden Bay Schools Scrabble Tournament next Thursday in the Motupipi Hall.

Also next Thursday, Alex, Jessie, Rhys N and Rosie will travel out to Taupo Point with a TV 1 crew to film them setting up Geo Caches. They will also be talking about the “Schools Adopt a Section” that we are involved in. The TV crew will start off at school before heading out to Taupo Point.

School camps are also closing in and thanks to all for getting notices back so that we can sort the finer details.

Dean Lund from NBS has kindly let us use their Bouncy Castle for the last three days of school.

John Parsons On Wednesday 2nd December John Parsons will visit Motupipi. John Parsons is an Internet Safety and Risk Assessment Consultant to schools, the private sector

and the health sector, providing specialist advice and direction on the safe use of

Digital Communication Technology. He works alongside Police, Children Young Persons and their Families (CYF) and

Health Professionals delivering training in child protection. He delivers cyber safety workshops to those who work with young people in

areas of health, education and safety.

John also delivers parent/caregiver cyber safety workshops through school or community based initiatives.

He promotes the rights of children to be judges, fairly recognizing their rights to use communication technology safely and with the respect for themselves and

others. This is the foundation upon which he delivers his classroom workshops to students of all ages.

John will work with children during the day, providing a workshop for staff after

school and parents in the evening. John has visited the Bay on several occasions and his sessions are well

worthwhile.

School Concert - The Playhouse

Wow! What a week last week was, with all the trips back and forth to the Playhouse

with practice and performances. It was certainly worth it with the children putting on

a series of great shows.

Thank you so much to our families and friends for all being such great audiences as it really lifted the

children’s performances.

Thanks also to all those who helped out with props, costumes, face-painting, supervision and all the

other jobs that go in to getting the shows ready.

It takes a huge amount of class time to get it to a level that can be performed to an audience but it is

such a great way to report back on the children’s oral language, music, dance, singing and drama.

Senior Production Photos (Junior Production Photos will be in next weeks newsletter)

Sunhats Last year due to health and safety concerns over high rates of skin cancer, the Board of Trustees reviewed the school’s “Care in the Sun Policy”. We are all aware of the need for protection from excessive exposure to U.V. rays and the effect a lack of it can have later in life. Many of the hats worn by the children do not give adequate protection. We have decided to use the Cancer Society recommendations to guide our decision. This year the children will be required to wear the Cancer Society recommended hats when playing in the sun. The hats can be any colour. These hats are to be either Wide brimmed hats Bucket or surfie style hat Legionnaire style hat Baseball caps and sun visors are NOT recommended hats as they leave the ears and back of the neck exposed, which are two common areas of skin cancer Children not wearing Cancer Society recommended hats by next Friday the 30th October will be required to play in the shade .