Tena koutou te whānau o te kura Muritai
Welcome to Tilly Potter (R6) and Myles Caughley (R1) who have joined the Muritai family recently. Congratulations to Vanessa and Glen MacPherson who have expanded their family following the safe arrival of their son Hadleigh MacPherson. Hadleigh was born last week. Mother, father and child doing very well. Great news!
Our 'new' Board had its first meeting on Monday with Krista Huber elected as chairperson unopposed. A very positive first meeting and there will be a BoT newsletter posted shortly.
Assembly is this Friday at 1.40. There are lots on display, especially from the TGIF programme from year 5-6.
Parent to do list -
- Return the last few entertainment books (immediately)
- Return the photo envelopes by May 28
- Search under beds for missing Muritai School junior readers
- Organic solutions for ridding white butterfly for cabbages room 8!
Dates / Upcoming events
Fri 21st May - Assembly 1.40
Sat 22/ Sun 23 May - Forty Hour Famine
Fri 21st May - Assembly 1.40
Sat 22/ Sun 23 May - Forty Hour Famine
Mon 24th May - Young Leaders Day (Year 8 students)
Wed 26th May - Year 4-6 Zone cross country and next newsletter out.Fri 28th May - Junior School - Heart Jam (gold coin donation).
Wed 2nd June - Starting school at 5 mtg - 7.00
Fri 4th June - Visiting performers - Jungle Bungle - year 1-6;
Mon 7th June - Queen's Birthday (school closed)
Tues 8th June - Year 4-6 INTER Zone cross country; Muritai hosting Enviroschools hui
Wed 9th June - ICAS Science exam (Y4-8)
Fri 11th June - School assembly 1.40
MIDDLE SCHOOL GARDEN
We are so impressed by the state of the year 3 and 4 garden and thank you to everybody for not ruining or destroying the children's learning - we are very lucky out here in Eastbourne! For those of you who haven't seen it you can view the results so far at room 8's blog here. If you know how to 'organically' get rid of white butterflies eating cabbage please leave a comment on the blog. Room 8 would be very pleased and I can't wait to see 8 year olds eating cabbage......
ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS
We have raised $1300 from the sale of Entertainment Books to date, so a big thank you to everyone who has bought or sold books. If you feel you can sell any extra books, please see Carole or Sue in the office for additional copies. If you still have your book and would like to keep it, then please return the envelope to the office with payment or, alternatively, return the whole book.
CARNIVAL
News from the Carnival Team
The Eastbourne Carnival is ON! A fabulous Carnival team is already underway, so mark your calendars with the date. Sunday the 28th of November. As always, we will be needing help from the entire school community in order to make this a success. Thanks to all the people that have already put their hands up for jobs on the day! If you have not yet let anyone know, but would like to do your old Carnival job again, or alternatively saw a different job/stall you'd really enjoy doing this year, could you please email Julie Parker on wattersparker@yahoo.com. Always difficult to commit to things 6 months in advance - but seeing as your calendar now says "CARNIVAL" on the 28th of November anyway, you might as well!
Jars for the Deli Store
The Deli Store are looking for more jars to put their yummy sauces, chutneys and pickles into. If you have any small jars with lids, preferably with their labels off, Mandy Holmwood would love to have them. You can drop them off at the office for pick up by Mandy.
TE KURA O TE MURITAI WHANUA HUI
The Muritai School whanau group will meet next Tuesday in the staffroom at 7.30.
SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY
Sadly this was postponed on Tuesday and is looking VERY unlikely to go ahead tomorrow. We are still determined to go ahead with the event but it is unlikely that it will operate in the whole school festival as per usual. It most probably will operate on a team by team basis. Details will be shared when decisions are made.
The Year 4/6 Zone Cross Country is next week on Wednesday 26 May. The teams will be selected before Monday and parents notified for transport accordingly.
Thank you to...
Eastbourne Lions for the apples for the children last week.
Margaret Sarginson, a long time supporter of Muritai School, who had a 'whip' around amongst her friends at the St Ronans sing a long and raised $220 for music instruments at Muritai School.
Our teacher trainees - Sabe, Leah and Elizabeth who have given their all in their 6 weeks at Muritai. We have loved having you here and thrilled with the extra time and effort that you have made to make your teaching practices so successful.
FORTY HOUR FAMINE
This weekend is the 40 hour famine. Many of our children have chosen to be involved with this and you can see much of the detail of why they have chosen to do this excellent challenge by visiting here.
YOUNG LEADERS DAY
Many of our year 7-8 students are off to Wellington next Monday to attend the national Young Leaders Day. This excellent programme is about building leadership for the future. Confirmed speakers include Pero Cameron, Melissa Clark-Reynolds, Rob Harley, Nick Tuitasi and Dayna Vawdrey.
What a great opportunity for our young leaders of tomorrow. More details of the programme are here.
HEART JAM
The Junior School are taking part in Heart Jam next Friday 28 May. Potentially it could be New Zealand's largest Aerobics class with schools taking part throughout New Zealand from 10 -10.30 am, to raise money for the Heart Children NZ’s appeal week, (Sunday 23 May – Saturday 29 May). It is designed to promote participation, discussion and foster a greater understanding of how heart conditions affect children. “Heart Jam is all about kids helping kids,” says Heart Children NZ’s Event Manager Liz Beck. “It’s an excellent resource for schools, adding value to the school curriculum and of course it’s a lot of fun too. We’re extremely grateful to the staff and pupils of Muritai School for their energy and commitment to help children living with the daily challenges of a heart condition.” There are 12 babies born every week with a heart defect, that’s 600 additional children affected every year. An additional number of children will develop a heart condition often through rheumatic fever. For many it will be a lifelong challenge. Heart Children NZ is the only organisation dedicated to supporting these children and their families from birth through to adulthood and beyond. Pupils from Muritai's Junior School can bring a gold coin donation when they participate in Heart Jam. All monies raised will go directly to Heart Children’s Child & Youth services to support children in the community. For more information please visit here.
SCHOOL PHOTOS
School photos are being taken on Wednesday 2 June. You should have received an envelopes with your child's name on showing all the different options. Please complete and return these to the office by Friday 28 May.
DYSLEXIA BLOG
Our learning support teacher, Sarah Richardson has set up a 'sister blog' to her learning support blog that is specific to addressing issues with dyslexia. Click here to go to the blog. This will be of interest to the many parents whose children may find reading and writing particularly difficult and not easy to grow with. The blog will grow over time as Sarah publishes more tools to help people. Both blogs are excellent resources set up by Sarah to provide support for children who find learning a struggle through no fault of their own. Staff are working hard to improve our systems around dyslexia awareness and we are determined to be the first school in New Zealand to be recognised by 4D as a 'dyslexia friendly school'. Parents can find out about our plan by viewing our dyslexia awareness policy.
ART (click here for the School Art Blog)
The Year 5 and 6 students have been studying drawing self portraits. They have been focussing on tone and drawing what they see, not what they think they see. Come and see some of the wonderful self portraits they have drawn using pencil. We have set up a display in the school foyer and you can view room 14's on this slideshow.
DO YOU HAVE....
.....some of our junior reading books. We are missing 118 readers from across our junior sets (which will cost $944 to replace). Consequently These may be under beds and or in bookcases and will be labelled with a colour and stamped Muritai School.
YEAR 7 IMMUNISATIONS - information session for parents.
The Health Nurses are holding a session on June 17 at 9.30 for year 7 parents in regards to the year 7 BOOSTRIX immunisations that are occurring next term. The vaccinations for children are on 9 August.
SPORT (click here for the school sport blog)
Sailing
Congratulations to a two of our students who have recently won
TE KURA O TE MURITAI WHANUA HUI
The Muritai School whanau group will meet next Tuesday in the staffroom at 7.30.
SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY
Sadly this was postponed on Tuesday and is looking VERY unlikely to go ahead tomorrow. We are still determined to go ahead with the event but it is unlikely that it will operate in the whole school festival as per usual. It most probably will operate on a team by team basis. Details will be shared when decisions are made.
The Year 4/6 Zone Cross Country is next week on Wednesday 26 May. The teams will be selected before Monday and parents notified for transport accordingly.
Thank you to...
Eastbourne Lions for the apples for the children last week.
Margaret Sarginson, a long time supporter of Muritai School, who had a 'whip' around amongst her friends at the St Ronans sing a long and raised $220 for music instruments at Muritai School.
Our teacher trainees - Sabe, Leah and Elizabeth who have given their all in their 6 weeks at Muritai. We have loved having you here and thrilled with the extra time and effort that you have made to make your teaching practices so successful.
FORTY HOUR FAMINE
This weekend is the 40 hour famine. Many of our children have chosen to be involved with this and you can see much of the detail of why they have chosen to do this excellent challenge by visiting here.
YOUNG LEADERS DAY
Many of our year 7-8 students are off to Wellington next Monday to attend the national Young Leaders Day. This excellent programme is about building leadership for the future. Confirmed speakers include Pero Cameron, Melissa Clark-Reynolds, Rob Harley, Nick Tuitasi and Dayna Vawdrey.
What a great opportunity for our young leaders of tomorrow. More details of the programme are here.
HEART JAM
The Junior School are taking part in Heart Jam next Friday 28 May. Potentially it could be New Zealand's largest Aerobics class with schools taking part throughout New Zealand from 10 -10.30 am, to raise money for the Heart Children NZ’s appeal week, (Sunday 23 May – Saturday 29 May). It is designed to promote participation, discussion and foster a greater understanding of how heart conditions affect children. “Heart Jam is all about kids helping kids,” says Heart Children NZ’s Event Manager Liz Beck. “It’s an excellent resource for schools, adding value to the school curriculum and of course it’s a lot of fun too. We’re extremely grateful to the staff and pupils of Muritai School for their energy and commitment to help children living with the daily challenges of a heart condition.” There are 12 babies born every week with a heart defect, that’s 600 additional children affected every year. An additional number of children will develop a heart condition often through rheumatic fever. For many it will be a lifelong challenge. Heart Children NZ is the only organisation dedicated to supporting these children and their families from birth through to adulthood and beyond. Pupils from Muritai's Junior School can bring a gold coin donation when they participate in Heart Jam. All monies raised will go directly to Heart Children’s Child & Youth services to support children in the community. For more information please visit here.
SCHOOL PHOTOS
School photos are being taken on Wednesday 2 June. You should have received an envelopes with your child's name on showing all the different options. Please complete and return these to the office by Friday 28 May.
DYSLEXIA BLOG
Our learning support teacher, Sarah Richardson has set up a 'sister blog' to her learning support blog that is specific to addressing issues with dyslexia. Click here to go to the blog. This will be of interest to the many parents whose children may find reading and writing particularly difficult and not easy to grow with. The blog will grow over time as Sarah publishes more tools to help people. Both blogs are excellent resources set up by Sarah to provide support for children who find learning a struggle through no fault of their own. Staff are working hard to improve our systems around dyslexia awareness and we are determined to be the first school in New Zealand to be recognised by 4D as a 'dyslexia friendly school'. Parents can find out about our plan by viewing our dyslexia awareness policy.
ART (click here for the School Art Blog)
The Year 5 and 6 students have been studying drawing self portraits. They have been focussing on tone and drawing what they see, not what they think they see. Come and see some of the wonderful self portraits they have drawn using pencil. We have set up a display in the school foyer and you can view room 14's on this slideshow.
DO YOU HAVE....
.....some of our junior reading books. We are missing 118 readers from across our junior sets (which will cost $944 to replace). Consequently These may be under beds and or in bookcases and will be labelled with a colour and stamped Muritai School.
YEAR 7 IMMUNISATIONS - information session for parents.
The Health Nurses are holding a session on June 17 at 9.30 for year 7 parents in regards to the year 7 BOOSTRIX immunisations that are occurring next term. The vaccinations for children are on 9 August.
SPORT (click here for the school sport blog)
Sailing
Congratulations to a two of our students who have recently won cups for sailing. Harry Quinn won ‘1st on Championship and 1st on Handicap’ for the Muritai Yacht Club 2009-10 season for the Optimist B sailors.
Moss Grenfell came 7th in the 2010 NZIODA National Championship for the Green Fleet held in Whitianga at Easter. Our Muritai sailors continually show enormous amounts of resilience, talent and adventure. Well done Harry and Moss.
Moss Grenfell came 7th in the 2010 NZIODA National Championship for the Green Fleet held in Whitianga at Easter. Our Muritai sailors continually show enormous amounts of resilience, talent and adventure. Well done Harry and Moss.
Basketball
Hutt Valley Basketball run a program every Thursday night for Y5/6 Basketball. The Muritai Monsters Year 6 boys won their game 26 - 12 over Eastern Hutt recently. Hutt Valley Basketball Association are holding trials for U13 Boys and Girls on Saturday 22 May, 4 to 6pm at the Walter Nash Stadium.
Year 5 and 6 Zone Soccer
The Year 5 and 6 Zone Soccer Tournament held at Sladden Park on Tuesday the 11th of May was awesome! The weather was spot on and the pitch was nice and green! Muritai had 5 very enthusiastic teams, here's how they did...
COMMUNITY NOTICES
Toy Library - New members sought and Part-time Position
Are you new to the Eastbourne area? Or perhaps you have recently welcomed a new infant into your household? Eastbourne Toy Library is looking for new members. We specialise in toys for pre-schoolers and offer a wide selection of puzzles, games and indoor and outdoor toys for borrowing. Annual family membership fee is from $60. Come along to our Thursday session (8.00-9.00pm at St Ronan's Church during school terms) to see what we offer or phone Susan Robertson for more information (ph 586 0303 in evenings). Eastbourne Toy Library has an immediate vacancy for a toy librarian for its Friday session. 2 hours per week (school terms only), including Friday 9.00 - 10.30am. $15 per hour. If you are a parent or caregiver, you are welcome to have your pre-school children accompany you. Phone Susan 586 0303 (evenings).
Swiss Ball Class for Beginners
New class starting soon on Tuesdays at 9am. Contact Lynne Plimmer 562 8889.
Piano Lessons with Vanessa Tindle (ATCL, BSc, dipTchg)
Vanessa currently teaches at school on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings. Next term she will be at school on Thursdays also. If you would like your son or daughter to learn piano with Vanessa please contact her directly to discuss. Ph 562 7663.
Heatpumps for schools
Wasabi Air are Wellington based installers of Fujitsu heat pumps. They are currently running a promotion for schools in wellington area that for every 20 Fujitsu heat pumps sold to friends and family of the school they will provide and install one free heat pump for the school.
If you want to check out the finer points of the deal call Nathan at 0800 492722 or visit www.wasabi-air.co.nz
Hutt Valley Basketball run a program every Thursday night for Y5/6 Basketball. The Muritai Monsters Year 6 boys won their game 26 - 12 over Eastern Hutt recently. Hutt Valley Basketball Association are holding trials for U13 Boys and Girls on Saturday 22 May, 4 to 6pm at the Walter Nash Stadium.
Year 5 and 6 Zone Soccer
The Year 5 and 6 Zone Soccer Tournament held at Sladden Park on Tuesday the 11th of May was awesome! The weather was spot on and the pitch was nice and green! Muritai had 5 very enthusiastic teams, here's how they did...
- Muritai Storm - 11th place in the boys 'A' grade. The storm were not meant to be in this grade but were placed there to make up team numbers. These players did so well.
- Muritai Lizards - 4th place in the boys 'A' grade. What a star team these players were! So eager and very skillful!
- Muritai Bears - 4th in the boys 'B' grade. These guys went right through their games undefeated! They had so many draws! Well done!
- Muritai Eagles - 1st place in the boys 'B' grade! These guys were awesome! They just played so passionately! It paid off too! They also went through undefeated.
- Muritai Candy Canes - 6th place in the girls 'A' grade. These girls were having so much fun and a lot of skill was involved! Amazing players!!
COMMUNITY NOTICES
Toy Library - New members sought and Part-time Position
Are you new to the Eastbourne area? Or perhaps you have recently welcomed a new infant into your household? Eastbourne Toy Library is looking for new members. We specialise in toys for pre-schoolers and offer a wide selection of puzzles, games and indoor and outdoor toys for borrowing. Annual family membership fee is from $60. Come along to our Thursday session (8.00-9.00pm at St Ronan's Church during school terms) to see what we offer or phone Susan Robertson for more information (ph 586 0303 in evenings). Eastbourne Toy Library has an immediate vacancy for a toy librarian for its Friday session. 2 hours per week (school terms only), including Friday 9.00 - 10.30am. $15 per hour. If you are a parent or caregiver, you are welcome to have your pre-school children accompany you. Phone Susan 586 0303 (evenings).
Swiss Ball Class for Beginners
New class starting soon on Tuesdays at 9am. Contact Lynne Plimmer 562 8889.
Piano Lessons with Vanessa Tindle (ATCL, BSc, dipTchg)
Vanessa currently teaches at school on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings. Next term she will be at school on Thursdays also. If you would like your son or daughter to learn piano with Vanessa please contact her directly to discuss. Ph 562 7663.
Heatpumps for schools
Wasabi Air are Wellington based installers of Fujitsu heat pumps. They are currently running a promotion for schools in wellington area that for every 20 Fujitsu heat pumps sold to friends and family of the school they will provide and install one free heat pump for the school.
If you want to check out the finer points of the deal call Nathan at 0800 492722 or visit www.wasabi-air.co.nz
