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12 October 2016

Sir David Fagan will be shearing at our School Pet Day! 11.00 am Monday 31 October

What an honour.... Sir David, the legendary shearer who has won the New Zealand Golden Shears contest a record 16 times, set 10 world records and won 5 world, 6 world team and 16 national titles is coming to our Pet Day!!!! He is coming to help our SVA students with their special projects in relation to next year's World Shearing Championships to be held in Invercargill.

All Southland primary schools have been invited to our Pet Day, where they will see working sheep dogs, shearing and young farmer contests. This is when they will begin to learn about the World Shearing Champs and what their school can do to be a part of it. Lets make the World Shearing Championships in Invercargill the best ever!

Look out for the full programme coming soon.

WHAT’S ON DIARY October 18th - Central Primary Tennis Champs Y5/6 & 7/8 19th - School Photos 24th - Labour Day 27th - Enviro Hui Borland 27th - Home & School meeting 7pm 28th - Nga Putangitangi 31st - Pet Show

November 1st Nov - Western round of Golf - Riverton 2nd - Rm 3/4/5 Ice Skating/Swimming Trip 7th - BOT Meeting 7pm 22 & 23rd - Annual Christmas Pantomime Rm 7/8 28th-29th - Rm 6 Camp Columba 28th-1st Dec - Rm 7&8 Dunedin Camp

December 2nd - Sports Activator Tournament 5th-7th - Rm7&8 Riverton Rotations 5th - Rm4&7 School Overnight Camp 15th - Prizegiving TBC 19th - Last day for Y0-7 20th - Last day for Y8

BREAKING NEWS!!!!!

DAD’S CAKE OFF DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT

TAKES TO WIN THIS

YEARS PET SHOW CAKE OFF?

DONATIONS PLEASE It’s time to start bringing in your donations for the 2016 Pet Show Hampers. This year the hamper theme is Christmas, so get your festive spirit on and get creative. Some of the things you might want to bring is chocolates, biscuits, crackers and other non perishable foods.

The hampers are raffle prizes and more raffle cards are available from the office. The raffle cards have to be handed in before 9.00 am on Pet Day. There will be a prize for the family that sells the most cards.

Please come and see us in Room 8 if you haven’t received a Pet Diary or have the wrong one. I hope your pet is fit and healthy and your training is successful.

By Tayla and Ariana, President and Treasurer

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Unfortunately, our plan to modernise Rooms 1 - 4 and the south entrance are temporarily in limbo. This is because we have found asbestos in the main block. Fortunately, the asbestos is stable and therefore no risk to staff and students. Air testing has been carried out by the Ministry of Education, which confirmed this.

However, the asbestos will need to be removed, which is a very costly process. We are currently working with the Ministry of Education to establish how best to proceed and to what extent our plans will need to be altered, if at all. We will let you know more about the timelines and new scope of work once we have more information ourselves.

Meanwhile, the term has started with a bang. We are very excited about Pet Day, especially now shearing legend Sir David Fagan will be attending. We are expecting some TV coverage so let's all go the extra mile to make 2016's Pet Day the best ever. We look forward to seeing everyone from our wider community there!

This Term is looking like another very busy Limehills term with plenty of school camps, sports, visitors, Pet Day, Borland Enviro Hui and lots more. Because of the warmer weather that means the beginning of touch and swimming as well as some other sports. This term there is also going to be five camps including Room 4 and 7’s overnight camp at school, Room 6 is going to Camp Columba and Room 7 and 8’s camp to Dunedin. And these are only some of the exciting and fun things planned for Term 4.

Ruby Anderson

principal@limehills.school.nz editor@limehills.school.nz

ALERTS Room 7 & 8 Dunedin trip-Divers forms to be

returned.

Pet Day - Raffle tickets - keep selling, more available at the

office. Please return all tickets, sold, partial sold or unsold to the office before pet day. Hampers - all donations gratefully received at the office.

Please remember to be sun smart and bring a hat to school

everyday this term. No hat, no play.

Remember Touch starts after school this Friday at Moore’s

Reserve, Price Road, Winton. Players are to wear Limehills tops and all players must wear suitable footwear or they won’t be allowed to play. The touch teams and draw for this week are included in this newsletter. Future draws are available on Thursdays at www.touchsouthland.co.nz

Coming up is the Rm 4 camp. If any parents want to come

can they please get their police vetting form filled out and given back to Mr Murray or Mrs Smith

ASAP.

Wilson Sister Camp For the first week of the holidays I went up to Christchurch. I had been planning and fundraising for this trip for nearly a year. I attended a Horse Camp which was run by the Three Wilson Sisters off the reality TV Show ‘Keeping up with the Kaimanawas.’ They hold horse camps nationwide and up to 100 riders can attend. Fortunately for us this camp only had 38 riders and that was awesome because we all got to spend a lot more time with the three sisters. Because there were only 38 riders there were a lot more team building exercises such as some icebreakers and a human pyramid.

During the camp the sisters got a visit from Eve off the Adam and Eve 4:30 show for an interview and my horse was put on TV in one of the interviews.

The camps that they hold are mostly for young r iders to improve just as much as their horse as well as being put out of your comfort zone. It was unreal to have been able to go to one

of the camps and I have learnt a

whole lot more things especially around the areas of horsemanship and techn iques o f

jumping. It was well worth the time spent

fundraising and waiting for the

t ime to finally approach. By Mia Harper

Christmas Pantomime

Save the dates!!!

Tues 22 & Wed 23 November

Rooms 7 and 8 will perform their Christmas

pantomime at 7.00 pm throughout

the Limehills School grounds. Not just one

play but 5 plays to see. There will be a $5

charge per family, the money will be used

for the costume hire. We have been

working hard on our scripts and characters.

It will be exciting and interactive, with you

walking around the school grounds to see

the different plays. Don’t miss out on

this exciting evening.

Talent Quest Report 2016 The Talent Quest this year was the best ever. We had so many children wanting to enter that we had to have 3 heats.

In the final we had 16 contestants and 4 lucky winners. The winning acts included dances, jazz and a puppet show. Third equal was Jade and Tara with their highland dance. Our other third equal was Jamie Anderson with her dance. Second place was Milly T, and our winner for 2016 was Brooke Fennelly with her very clever puppet show.

We had a fantastic time being the hosts and we would like to thank all the parents for coming to watch the show and the judges for the great job they did.

By Jordan N, Chloe T,Lilly V Jonty P.

Basketball Last week on Tuesday I flew up to Christchurch to compete with my team in the South

Island Basketball Tournament. We had a great first game beating Canterbury Red by 25 points. Next we played Nelson it was a close game right until the buzzer beater which Nelson ended up winning by 5 points. We played North Canterbury next who ended up winning the the tournament so it was a hard game that we ended up losing by 20 points. Our next game was against Otago A and it was one of those games that our bucket weren’t dropping so we lost that game by 23 points. Our last game in pool play was against Canterbury Black which was our hardest fought game. It went down to the wire but we lost by 1 point in the end. Even though we only won one game in pool play we still went through to the semis because of points differential. In our semi final we had to play Otago A and this game had the same result as the last with us losing by around 20 points. So the third and fourth play off was set Southland playing Canterbury Black. In a thriller of a game that had everyone on the edge of their seats in the end it was our win that we won by 12 points. We got third!!!! We attended prize giving and to my excitement I was picked in the South Island tournament team for the second year in a row. I had a great time captaining the Southland U13 Girls basketball team for the second year in a row and wish me luck for my tr ials next year for the U15 team. Well done also to Blake Howes-Kollat whose team came seventh in their grade!! By Jaime Anderson

Ronald McDonald Update Thank you to the following people who contributed in the holidays delivery for the Ronald McDonald Family Room: Roelie Hart, Mrs Caldwell, Fiona Thorburn, Mel Cooper, Harry Clark and Kirsty Rodger. Thanks for all your help. The Ronald McDonald Family Room really appreciates it. Helen was very busy organising a Christmas tree that will be placed at Stadium Southland. If you would like to contribute to cooking food one week just let me know in Room 8, hannaht@limehills.school.nz . It would be great if you could put on a piece of paper what the meal contains. You don't have to cook a meal you can drop off some ingredients and the kids in Rooms 7 & 8 can cook it for you. Below is a list of parents cooking this week. Thank you. By Hannah Thorburn and Georgia Hart

Room 6 Wastenet Visit

Last term the Recycling Group went to the Wastenet Centre in Invercargill. We have learnt so many facts to share with you. Wastenet is a company that recycles paper, cardboard, plastics, glass and cans. Did you know that it takes 17 bales of recycled paper to make one Womens’ Day magazine? You can recycle balewrap for free. They can also make coffins out of recycled materials. Another interesting fact is that the glass that we recycle gets shipped overseas for other countries to use. An important thing to remember is not to squash your plastic bottles because they can get stuck in the conveyor belt where everything gets sorted. We would like to thank Mrs Anderson-Kereti for driving us and Jenny from Wastenet who gave us a great tour. By Room 6 Recycling Group

BEE ADVENTUROUS! On the first Sunday of the holidays Keely, Drew and us two boys went to the Southland Nursery for a bee day. We sat down and watched a slideshow of bees. This showed us what activities they had in mind for us. The activities were: honey tasting where we got to taste all sorts of honey, seeing what happens in a hive without being harmed. One of the activities we found interesting was the chemical stall. It was interesting which chemicals were bee friendly and what chemicals have the bee friendly sticker on but are still harmful to the bees. The last activity was about what plants bees are attracted to. This learning will help us with our school beehive.

By Trey Anderson-Kereti and Ben Egan

NATIONAL GYMNASTICS In the holidays Blake and I

went and saw the National Gymnastics competition that was being held at the stadium. There was heaps of different events which are categorised into 4 groups that you could move around and see. Blake and I both think that the artistic gymnastics was the best to watch because we knew some of the people competing. It was cool to watch such an amazing event because there was international competitors competing and it was well organised.

This is a photo of Mr Murray’s son, Reid, who competed in the event and whose photo featured several times in the Southland Times.

By Brooke Anderson and Blake Strachan

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CONGRATULATIONS MRS HENDERSON Mrs Henderson has been studying hard to achieve a qualification and Brooke A and Amiee interviewed her yesterday.

What is the name of the classification? National Diploma Emergency Medical Technician

How long did you have to train and study for? 2 years

Why did you decide to work for St Johns? I liked helping people and giving back to the community.

What skills are important to do your job? Having empathy and being assertive, calm, organised, able to carry out your job in a professional manner and to get along with team members.

We have heard that you are going to teach kids at school some of your skills, can you please tell us about that ? I am going to teach some basic first aid skills and how to treat others. Then the students I have trained up will become “medics” helping out in the playground at interval and lunchtime.

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Limehills Community Pool The pool is open from 6am to 10pm, only closed during school hours (9am-3pm Mon-Fri Term time), for swimming lessons (Mon & Thurs 3pm to 6:30pm) or for maintenance.

If you would like a key please email limehillspool@gmail.com and we can send you a pool agreement and invoice. These will also be available from the Limehills School office.

HOCKEY TOURNAMENT Last week during the school holidays Morgan and I went to compete in a hockey tournament that was in Gore. We stayed near Edendale. As soon as we got there we unpacked the vans and had some fun before going to our rooms with all of our gear. Then we had our tea and went to bed so we would be ready for the games the next day.

We played North Canterbury and Canterbury our scores were 1:3 against Canterbury and 0:5 against North Canterbury. Even though we tried our best and lost both of our games we were still to play two games the next day. The

next day we played North Otago and Eastern. Our scores were 3:1 against Eastern and 3:0 against North Otago. We were so happy that we won and got to play another game for 7th and 8th at the end of the game the score was 2 all. We had tied our game against eastern we ended up 7th equal. Morgan scored a total of 3 goals and I scored none but I set one up. Morgan was playing the wing and centre forward role and I was playing centre half most of the time but I was available to be in all positions.

We would like to say a big thanks to our coach Hamish Napier, our manager Jan-Maree Pyle and our cook Kate Webster. They were all a big help to the team. By Morgan Strachan and Harri Pyle

I N S P I R E D 2 0 1 6 A R T EXHIBITION Please extend this invitation to all students and their families who have artwork in this year’s school art exhibition. “ Something Borrowed Something Blue” 23 July - 27 January, Southland Museum & Art Gallery.

BRAIN DAY Head Injury Society of Southland Inc are holding an education day at the Invercargill Workingman’s Club on 29 October. You can have a walk through ‘Brain’ exhibit that allows the examination of the inside and the outside of the human brain. The invitation is extended to all students and their families who would like to learn more.

REAP CLASSES We have some great upcoming classes around the community:

Ohai - "Blokes Workshop", Winton "Term 4 Kapa Haka" - There are a lot of new & exciting things happening in 2016, subscribe to our Facebook Events Page to keep automatically updated!

SPEECH & LANGUAGE WORKSHOP with Kathryn ButlerSuitable for a parent, an educator or caregiver working alongside pre-school aged children. Do you have concerns about a child’s level of oral communication; is their speech hard to understand? What is ‘normal’ or expected? Come and talk to the experts and if you have questions or would l ike someth ing par t icu lar inc luded p lease le t us know.

The course covers... Speech development, Stimulating language, Practical strategies DATE: Wednesday 19 OCTOBER TIME: 6:00pm – 8.00pm COST: FREE VENUE: Southern REAP Winton, 224 Great North Road, Winton

For more information, to enrol or register your interest in this class please phone Louise 0800 111 117 or 03 236 6008.

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Sausages Sizzle We are back in Term 4 and are having the

sausage sizzles once again. The sausages will be available on Thursday for $2. Please get your orders into the office by Wednesday. Remember to check your child’s bag for the orders and all the money goes to Room 7 & 8’s camp. Thank you

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