December 16, 2010

Naumai e te whanau o te kura Muritai

Tena koutou katoa

Dear Parents / Caregivers

A reminder that school finishes tomorrow at 1.00pm. For those children who usually catch the bus home, you will need to be collected as there will not be a special bus at the end of school.

The first day for next year is Wednesday 2nd February. Welcome powhiri is at 10.00 on this day.

Term dates for 2011

Term 1 – Wednesday 2^nd February to Friday 15^th April

Term 2 – Monday 2^nd May to Friday 15^th July

Term 3 – Monday 1^st August to Friday 7^th October

Term 4 – Monday 25^th October to Friday 16^th December

FAREWELL TO OUR YEAR 8 STUDENTS

Last night we had a special celebration for our year 8 students and their parents. It was a lovely occasion and the sharing of happy memories. We wish our year 8 students every success as they go onto their respective high schools next year. Many families have their last child leaving Muritai School and we say goodbye to them and thank them for their many years association with the school. Tomorrow we have a leaver’s assembly at 11.00 in the school. All the students who we will farewell tomorrow have contributed immensely to our culture at Muritai School. Our leavers have many diverse qualities and strengths but above all, they should feel that they have tried to be the best that they can be and leave with an appreciation for their peers, their teachers, their school and themselves. We congratulate them and thank them, and their parents, for the contribution they have made to Muritai and wish them all the best for the road ahead.

At last night’s prize giving the following cups and certificates were awarded -

Abel Tasman Cup – Iman Holden

Improvement in year 8 award – Harry Heath and Lisa Hanschke

Board of Trustees Cups for 'Endeavour' – Georgia Crawford and Thomas Rodgers

Board of Trustees Cups for 'Academic Excellence' – Sofija Cvitanovich and Grayden O’Connor

Jacobson Cups for ‘Mathematics’ – Nick Bielby and Jessica Woodnorth

Debbie Bertaud-Gandar Memorial Cup for ‘Commitment to Science and Technology’ – Finnegan Fahey

Swain Cup for ‘Leadership and contribution in sport’ – Iman Holden

Beck Family Cup for ‘Best all round sportsperson’ – Kenzy Cooper and Scott Manson

Mills Family Cup for ‘Contribution to the Arts’ – Oscar Connor

Eastbourne Community Trust Cup for ‘Leadership’ – Jack Griffiths and Sofija Cvitanovich

Principal’s Prize – ‘ The quiet achiever’ - Maddy Hesketh

Teachers Cup for ‘Being a joy to teach’ – Zoe Lovell-Smith

Stotter Cup for ‘Dedication and commitment’ – Kenzy Cooper

Clarke Cup for “Positive contribution to Muritai School” – Alana Lai

Newton Family Cup for ‘Service to Muritai School’ – Zoe Lovell-Smith

Class of 61Cup - “Outstanding Contribution to Muritai School” – Sofija Cvitanovich

Booth Family Cup ~ “The Student’s Student” – Ryan Sheridan
Fortescue-Willis Environmental Leadership - Earthcare Award - Verity McRae

YEAR 8 ABEL TASMAN TRIP

The year 8 students had a marvellous time in the Abel Tasman National Park and successfully survived their week away. Stephen Eames, Raihania Chadwick, Carole Lowe and Chris Galvin reported a wonderful week’s experience and praised the children who were energetic and outstanding, both in accepting the challenge of the expedition and in their behaviour. A huge thanks to those parents who gave up their time to spend a week with their children and allow them the opportunity to enjoy the experience.

EOTC WEEKS

The teaching teams put in a HUGE effort to enable the children to have some wonderful learning experiences in the last fortnight. Children ventured far and wide as well as enjoying the benefits of living in such a wonderful community. As part of their inquiry programme the year 3-4 team held a market last, organized and run by the children and raised $927 for the Orphanage in Nepal.

TOUCH RUGBY

A wonderful touch season!  All teams did so well, with two teams coming in at 1st place!  Thanks so much to all the amazing parent support.  Also, a reminder about returning touch uniforms to the office.

Sharks          2nd overall

Eagles          1st overall

Bears            5th overall

Vipers           3rd overall

Rockets        4th overall

Storm            1st overall

Hurricanes    6th overall

Flyers            6th overall

CONCLUSION

This is the final newsletter for 2010 and I take this opportunity to thank the children, staff and the Muritai community for what has been another very successful year.

Through the regular newsletters and blogs parents will have gained an impression of school-life throughout 2010. The newsletters has been available by e-mail, the website and through the school office. We have used email this year as the main process to communicate with the school. School-life is always “full on” and the website and blogs certainly capture the moments of the many activities and exciting events your children have been involved in. Parents who have been keeping track of the school’s webpage www.muritai.school.nz will also have gained an understanding of the beliefs, values and curriculum focus areas the school has promoted throughout the year. Through the newsletters, celebration assemblies, performances, and the school’s website the school has celebrated and recognized the many successes of our children who have achieved in a variety of academic, sporting and cultural activities. The positive celebration of our successes throughout 2010 reflects the school’s vision statement “be the best that we can be”. It is certainly a pleasure to say “thank you” to the large group of parents who regularly support the school and who have been actively involved throughout the year.

The children have been showing signs of excitement as they share their anticipation of what Christmas will mean to them. The Christmas season is indeed one of excitement and joy for them as they begin to dream about everything that sparkles and of course the gifts that are shared by families and friends! Christmas means many different things to each of us and our preparations take many paths as we reflect on our own personal understanding of Christmas and anticipate visitor arrivals, plan summer beach holidays or simply look forward to relaxing and enjoying time with our families.

Many families are leaving the school as they move on to different schools. Thank you for your support and commitment to Muritai and best wishes for the future.

We farewell Vita Collier and Holly Edwards tomorrow from our teaching staff after 2 years at Muritai. Both are heading to the UK – Holly is heading home to Edinburgh with her fiancé James and Vita is heading to Oxford to join up with her partner Dan at Oxford University. Holly and Vita have been excellent staff members at Muritai – very popular and good team players.

Muritai runs on people and we are very lucky with the team we have here. I would like to thank –

Our DP’s - Matt Skilton and Maureen Buckley and team leaders Stephen Eames, Stu Devenport and Richard Dobson for their tireless organization of the teaching and learning for staff and students.

Our teaching staff and specialist teachers, who every day, do their very best for our children with skill, organization and enthusiasm.

To our teacher aides and support staff, who often do the most difficult work, and finally a huge thank you to Carole and Sue at the front office who do such a great job and for accommodating, with a smile, the numerous extra requests we get from parents on a daily basis. We are very grateful for your service to Muritai.

To our after school group, in particular Cath and Chrissy who put in many hours to look after our children before and after school– we say thank you. Not an easy job but one that is always done with a smile.

Our children are very lucky to have such a great team working with them and we really appreciate the nice thoughts, comments and gestures from parents received recently, in appreciation of the contribution we make in your children’s lives.

Our 6th Eastbourne Village Carnival was a huge success raising over $50,000 for the school. Thank you to the entire carnival team, and the home and school team for their hard work and determination to create experiences for our children and families at Muritai.

To the Board of Trustees - you have a huge job and many responsibilities, and you have had another successful year. Recent ERO feedback, yet to be confirmed, shows that Muritai is in good heart and governed extremely well. We are blessed to have such a supportive team that enables so many opportunities and developments to come to fruition, at our side.

All the team joins with me in wishing you all a very happy and safe Christmas with family and friends. Enjoy spending time with your children.

Kindest regards and Mere Kihirimete

Andrew Bird

Principal/ Tumuaki

COMMUNITY
Christmas Lights
The Hutt Heat Water Polo elves have been very industrious at the North Pole with the unique 2010 Christmas Light Display all fired up and blazing each night through to 23 December.
It’s our 10th Anniversary, so come along and visit up soon, soak up some Yule from the Pool - gates open 8.30 pm each night at the North Pole aka 27 Hathaway Avenue, Lower Hutt. (off High Street close to Hutt Hospital, turn into Military Road, turn left into Hathaway with ample car parking on right) Check out the Christmas Lights video on You Tube using the link on the Hutt Water Polo Club web page http://www.huttwaterpolo.org.nz/ It’s the warmth that comes to our hearts when the Christmas spirit returns again. Spread the word, spread the cheer, keep the Christmas light burning, friends make Christmas Merry! Entry: $2 cash per head. Kids under 5 Free Hutt Water Polo Club

Bike-a-Palooza! Kids Bike Open Day at Karori Park Saturday 18th December, 10am-3pm Come on down to check out the new Karori Kid's bike track! This event will provide a great environment for kids to explore these tracks for the first time and learn some new skills. Thanks to a collaborative effort by WCC, The Kennett Bros, the Outdoor Participation Trust, the Makara Peak Supporters and local volunteers, the Karori Kid's Track is up and running! The short loop in the pines behind Karori Park was specially designed with the safety and enjoyment of younger riders in mind, and is one of few such facilities in the universe!
10am-12 noon for 11 years and under, or those inexperienced at riding on rough surfaces or hills 1-3pm for kids 12 and over, or confident young'uns For more information please contact John Randal at siftyjohn@gmail.com

Experienced Nanny/housekeeper/aged elderly care available. 12 years experience with all ages of children. Reference available from Eastbourne families. Please call or email Abby 0277396594  abswilton@windowslive.com

We also farewell Ann Gibbons, who has been teacher aiding in our student support team. Ann has been here since 2006, and has been a valuable member of our team.

December 8th, 2010

Naumai e te whanau o te kura Muritai tena koutou katoa,

Dear parents / caregivers,

A special welcome our new arrivals to Muritai School - Daisy Hemmingson-White (Room 23), Mason Pendrous (R13) and Olivia Seymour (R14).

This newsletter aims to give some background to the reports that will be issued on Friday along with classes for 2011.

This Friday each child will bring home an envelope that will contain an explanation around the national standards processes, your child's 'grading’ against the national standard in reading, writing and maths, the curriculum achievement report and finally information showing their class and teacher for 2011. The children will also bring home their portfolio which will display some of their class work from this year.

Our aim this year has been to develop as clear a process as possible for implementing the National Standards and sharing them with parents and children. Children receive information and feedback on how they are doing at school, specifically related to their next steps for learning. To read, write and do maths well the children have to show many different skills at various times of the year. To summarize children into a simple box that indicates whether they are well below, below, at or above - against a very wide standard - is quite tricky. The curriculum achievement report gives richer information about some specifics within the disciplines, as well as commenting on work, class conduct and study skills. The general comment concluding this report provides a brief commentary of how the children - have performed, what they have done well or struggled with, and what they may focus on next year.

In our view, at this stage, our visual presentation of the national standards, and the school report is the clearest way to inform you of how well your child is doing against firstly the national standard, and secondly the NZ curriculum. Most schools have struggled with the process around judging the national standard - it needs to be acknowledged that there are considerable flaws with the standards due to the skill set required to master and use effectively the 3 disciplines of reading and writing and maths. We have found that the standards and the curriculum are not truly aligned across the 8 years of primary school. This makes moderation between and across groups of children very difficult. It also makes moderating across schools to form a national standard extremely difficult. Generally, at best though the national standards provide a ‘snapshot’ position of your child within the disciplines of reading, writing and maths. The table format of the report (from well below to well above) reinforces this as well.

CLASS STRUCTURE 2011

Class placement notices will be coming home this Friday. We have some final modifications to make at this stage but we are well advanced in the process. Generally, no changes can be made after placement notices are sent out. Any concerns should be directed to me (Y7-8), Matt Skilton (Y3-6) and Maureen Buckley (Y1-2), not to classroom teachers.

It is always a juggling act to fit 400 children into classes. One change can have significant ramifications for many other children's placements. Moving children after the placements have been made is only possible in exceptional circumstances and only after I have considered all the implications from talking to the teachers concerned. Only social or emotional reasons will be considered in a move. We take the process very seriously and I’m confident that you will all be happy with the result!

With a starting roll in 2011 of 404 (375 this year) we essentially will be running an extra class through the year! Muritai will start with 18 classrooms and grow to 20 through the year. I commented last week about forming classes and again there has been some movement this week with new enrolments coming in daily. However in establishing classes - we have had take into account -

• the expected children (46) coming to Muritai through the year.
• the need to have learning spaces available for these children.
• the available additional funds to pay teachers required to be in front of these classes.
• the fact that year groups do not fit nicely into small groups of even sizes, with a number of bulges in year groups and gender imbalances. So some give and take HAS to be accepted.
• our geography, with a split site, also prohibits even classes.
  

The Ministry funds the school on the following ratios - 1 teacher to 15 children for new entrants, 1 teacher to 23 in years 1-3 and at 1 teacher to 29 at year 4-8. In addition to this, due to our decile rating and extremely high student achievement performance, the school receives limited funding for learning support, reading recovery and extension programmes – this has to be allocated out of operational funds. What the school is able to provide in 2011 is class sizes of 18-23 in year 1-4 and 22-25 in year 5-6 and 27-29 in year 7-8. At the same time the Board is committing all parent donation funds to additional teaching resources and not into the general running of the school.

So the 2011 line up looks like this –
3 year 7-8 classes of 28 - Stephen Eames, Kirsten Berry, Raihania Chadwick
2 year 6 classes of 22 - Stu Devenport, Peter Hull,
2 year 5 classes of 25 - Lisa Allen, Melissa Coton
3 year 4 classes of 20 - Richard Dobson, Karen Chao, Hayden Ray
2 year 3 classes of 23 - Jess Savage, Pippa Grant
2 year 2 classes of 21 - Karen Jones/Morag Roberts, Annabel Capper,

1 year 1-2 class of 21 - Sheena Naik
2 year 1 classes of 21 - Barbara Ryan, Sally Ingram,
3 new entrant classes starting with Maureen Buckley; Margs-Mills Smith (term 2)

What is on in the last 8 school days -

December
9th – Y0-2 Xmas concert; Y5-6 triathlon; 2011 Y5-6 camp meeting; Y7 at Mt Holdsworth;
10th – Y5-6 at Days Bay; Class lists/ Portfolios/ Reports go home
13th - Children visiting new classes (Pippa and Melissa are here); Thank you parent morning tea; BOT mtg
15th – Year 8 Formal dinner
16th - Year 3-6 Xmas Concert
17th – Final assembly (11.00) and last day. School finishes at 1.00.

EOTC week

Over the last fortnight the children have been out and about enjoying things in their local communities. We have relied on parent support to help us get through and we really appreciate this. The kids appear to have had a wonderful time.

PARENT MORNING TEA
On Monday 13th staff will be hosting a 'thank you parents' morning tea at 10.30 in the hall - all parents welcome.

FINAL ASSEMBLY

Many people like to attend our final school assembly where we farewell people leaving the Muritai family. This will be at 11.00 on Friday 17th.

LAST DAY

School finishes at 1.00 next Friday the 17th December. Our after school care team will supervise a 'movie' in the library until 2.30 for after school care children (or any casuals that need care next Friday).

TOUCH RUGBY

It is finals day this Friday and we have -

• 3 teams playing for 1st place - the Storm, the Eagles, the Sharks
  
• 1 teams playing for 3-4 place - the Vipers,
  
• 1 team playing for 5-6 place - the Bears

Sadly the year 7-8 teams - the Rockets, the Flyers, the Hurricanes have had to default due to Abel Tasman and Mt Holdsworth trips.

All teams have had great parental support through coaching, cheerleading and transport. Thank you to Mr Hull for his coordination of this terms touch rugby.

HOLIDAY PROGRAMME

Our after school team are running holiday programmes until Christmas Eve and again from January 17th - February 1st. Details are in the Noticeboard' section of our website click here or email Cath at barker@muritai.school.nz

CHRISTMAS TWILIGHT FESTIVAL

This is on this SUNDAY 12th December. Starting at 4.30 with the Community Christmas Carols in the Muritai School Hall and at 5.00-8.00 there are Eastbourne Village Market Stalls and Entertainments in Rimu St (rain or shine) - plus buskers, music, mechanical bull (donated by Bruce Mills 2000 Ltd) and more stalls than ever before.

CHRISTMAS HOUSE

Karen Brown's amazing Christmas House is open again this Saturday 11th December (2pm -9pm) at 2 Waeranga Rd, Days Bay (just up the hill - please park on the waterfront). Come and enjoy the Christmas House with its wonderful array of decoration, and the very large Christmas tree wit decorations that have been collected from all over the world. The kids (and adults) will love it. Entry is gold coin donation for charity.

Friday 3 December

Naumai e te whanau o te kura Muritai Tena koutou katoa

Dear Parents / Caregivers

We welcome our new arrivals to Muritai School - George Walker, Pania Rolfe, Kieran Kerr, Barney Cass and Lily Heath (all room 16). I am sure your time here at Muritai will be enjoyable, enriching and full of fun. Lily is our 100th new enrolment this year!

EASTBOURNE VILLAGE CARNIVAL
What a fantastic day on Sunday. The weather was just wonderful and there were some tired and sunburnt faces that rolled into school on Monday morning. It appears that we have raised in excess of $50,000 for our school library, which is a stunning achievement. It was so neat to see the parent and children community out and about working together to make the day such a success.

It is time to regroup and thank our wonderful team for making the day happen – Penny Stock and Julie Parker who along with a wonderful support crew have worked tirelessly through the last 3 terms to make sure everything was in place. Thanks also to our wonderful Sue and Carole at the front desk who continue to manage things in a smooth and efficient way.

Along with the organizing team, many of you put your hands up to go the extra mile on Saturday and Sunday and support the team and school to make it such a success. It was a great day for the school and very productive

CLASS STRUCTURE 2011
We have finalised our class structures for 2011. With a starting roll in 2011 of 401 (375 this year) we essentially will be running an extra class through the year! Muritai will start with 18 classrooms and grow to 20 through the year. However in establishing classes - the year groups do not fit nicely into small groups of even sizes, with a number of 'bulges' in year groups and gender imbalances. We have had to plan for the expected children coming in and also the need to have learning spaces available. Our geography, with a split site, also prohibits even classes. These are real issues that the Board quietly confronts and tries to resolve as best it can for the benefit of student achievement.

Muritai School uses the parent donation to fund additional teaching resources. Most of this donation is used to provide smaller classes. The school also provides a strong learning support programme through Sarah Richardson, a reading recovery programme for 6 year old children through Karen Jones and various extension and remedial programmes provided through additional teachers and teacher aides. At the same time the school is confronted by a shrinking funding source as costs go up (specifically wages) against a relatively static operational funding source.

The Ministry funds the school on the following ratios - 1 teacher to 15 children for new entrants, 1 teacher to 23 in years 1-3 and at 1 teacher to 29 at year 4-8. In addition to this, due to our decile rating and extremely high student achievement performance, the school receives limited funding for learning support, reading recovery and extension programmes – this has to be allocated out of operational funds.

What the school is able to provide in 2011 is class sizes of 18-22 in year 1-4 and 23-24 in year 5-6 and 27-28 in year 7-8. At the same time the Board is committing all parent donation funds to additional teaching resources and not into the general running of the school.

So the 2011 line up looks like this –
3 year 7-8 classes of 28 - Stephen Eames, Kirsten Berry, Raihania Chadwick
2 year 6 classes of 23-24 - Stu Devenport, Peter Hull,
2 year 5 classes of 23-24 - Lisa Allen, Melissa Coton
3 year 4 classes of 20 - Richard Dobson, Karen Chao, Hayden Ray
2 year 3 classes of 23 - Jess Savage, Pippa Grant
3 year 2 classes of 21 - Karen Jones/Morag Roberts, Annabel Capper, Sheena Naik
2 year 1 classes of 21 - Barbara Ryan, Sally Ingram,
3 new entrant classes starting with Maureen Buckley; Margs-Mills Smith (term 2)

Please note that Hayley Skilton will be taking a year’s leave from early in the year for 2011.

CLASS LISTS
These will be coming out next Friday 10th December. We have used our parent information and teacher observation throughout the year to form classes that look as though they will be very successful. There will be some changes for some children as we look to expand their friendship groupings and make sure that the classes are even and have a workable dynamic about them. Generally there are limited surprises and lots of fresh starts and opportunities. If I may ask that you be supportive of the school through this process. What may seem as a disappointment to some children needs to also be seen as an opportunity for them. They have all been placed with lovely children and excellent teachers. Fresh starts are often the best and with a positive attitude nothing should stand in the way of the children having another successful year at Muritai.

On Monday 13th children will have a chance to spend some time in their new class with their new teacher - Pippa Grant and Melissa Coton will be here at Muritai on that day.

EOTC WEEKS
Our children will be out of Eastbourne over the next week or so as part of their EOTC weeks. We wish our year 8 group well for their week at the Abel Tasman next week. Year 7 are off to Matiu/Somes Island next Tuesday and Mt Holdsworth next Thursday/ Friday. Year 5-6 are pottering around Wellington next week with a trip to Masterton next Wednesday and the triathlon next Thursday. Year 3-4 have had their mini carnival to raise money for Orphans of Nepal, are at the zoo today and a walk to Butterfly Creek next Thursday. The year 1 and 2 group have been busy this week with Zebong the storyteller this Monday, Capital E on Tuesday and a trip to Avalon park.

CENTRAL ZONE ATHLETICS MEET
The Central Zone athletics meet was a huge success on Tuesday the 23rd of November. Along with the 7 schools attending the event, a film crew shared the field with us, adding to the excitement. Muritai did very well, having 12 students get through to the Inter-Zone event. A special thanks to the parents who turned out to support the athletes.

Through to Inter-Zone:

Hillary Sheridan – Vortex; Xavier Manson – Vortex; Emeline Gray – Shot Put; Beth Brodie – Long Jump; Milly Griffiths – Long Jump; Ben Grenfell – Long Jump; Frankie Middleton – Long Jump; Caleb Hewson – Long Jump and Sprints; Rupert McRae – Long Jump; Elliott Hawes – Discus; Piri Bradshaw – High Jump; Mathieson Lamb – High Jump

INTER-ZONE ATHLETICS MEET
The Inter-Zone athletics was held on the 30 November at the Petone Rec. Central Zone did very well (results out soon) as well as Muritai having two students coming first place in their event:

• Caleb Hewson came first place in Year 6 sprints
• Ben Grenfell came first place in long jump.

Well done to all athletes, you represented Muritai and Central Zone very well. Again, a special thanks to the support we had from parents who helped with transport and encouraging the athletes.

TERM DATES 2011
Term 1 - Wed 2 February - Friday 15 April
Term 2 - Monday 2 May - Friday 15 July
Term 3 - Monday 1 August - Friday 7 October
Term 4 - Tuesday 25 October - Friday 16 December

END OF YEAR EVENTS
December
3rd - School assembly ; Year 3-4 Zoo
5th – Y8 at Abel Tasman
7th - Y7 to Matiu/Somes Island; Y5-6 to Masterton;
8th – Y7 - Hangdog climbing
9th – Y0-2 Xmas concert; Y5-6 triathlon; 2011 Y5-6 camp meeting; Y7 at Mt Holdsworth;
10th – Y5-6 at Days Bay; Class lists/ Portfolios/ Reports go home
13th - Children visiting new classes (new teachers); Thank you parent morning tea; BOT mtg
15th – Year 8 Formal dinner
16th - Year 3-6 Xmas Concert
17th – Final assembly and last day. School finishes at 1.00.

PARENT MORNING TEA
On Monday staff will be hosting a 'thank you parents' morning tea at 10.30 in the hall - all parents welcome.

EX- MURITAI STUDENTS
It is always nice to see our ex-students doing well at Secondary School. Recently at the Wellington Young sportsperson of the year award Rachel McJorrow was awarded the female underwater hockey player of the year award, while Anita Trudgen was awarded the female yachtsperson of the year award. Emily Stotter was a finalist in the football category. Rachel, Anita and Emily, along with Stella Beck (basketball) and Rory McJorrow (waterpolo) have all represented New Zealand this year at age group level.

Carnival Deli Store
A huge thank you to all of you that helped with the Deli store items, it really was a great day and our produce was exceptionally delicious!If you missed out and wanted to get some chutneys we still have some left to sell, these are great Christmas gifts. Prices: $4.50 for 1 jar, or $16 for 4:Tomato relish, Old Fashioned Tomato Sauce (better than Watties), Lemon and Green Chilli Chutney, Spicy Beetroot Chutney, Ginger and Beetroot Chutney, Lemon Ginger and Chilli Chutney, Pumpkin and Ginger Pickle, Nigella's Xmas Apple Chutney, Spiced Orange Slices, Marmalade, Carrot Cardamom and Orange Jam and Banana and Brandy Jam.Send me an email or call and I will get them to you asap! mgmh@slingshot.co.nz5628102
Regards Mandy

SPEECH LESSONS
Some of our Year 2 children have been taking lessons with Jan Avison on a weekly basis. Recently ten of them took exams with the results as follows:-
Distinction - Evie Richardson and Rachel Vass
Highly Commended - Rufus Rusholme-Cobb, Sophia Cave, Scott Langridge, Hugo Blair, Mika Simnett
Commended - Lea Pummer Ruby Wells Sophie Van Rooyen

COMMUNITY
Piano Lessons with Vanessa Tindle (ATCL, BSc, dipTchg) If you would like your child to have private piano tuition with Vanessa at school next year, now is the time to put your name down on a waiting list. All enquiries are welcome. Please phone Vanessa directly to discuss. Ph 562 7663.

Youth Worker Trust
Karen Sisson, from The Eastbourne Youtb Worker Trust has designed a tea towel and cards (set of 10) to raise money for the Eastbourne Youth Worker Trust. This raises money to provide the Friday Night Youth Group and funds a Youth Worker for Eastbourne young people.
The tea towels and cards are $10 each and available from Karen or at Harcourts, Rimu St.

Helen O'Grady Drama - Holiday Programme January 2011 Wellington
The Helen O'Grady Drama Academy, Wellington, presents Holiday Stage School for 8 - 14 year olds in the theatrical disciplines of singing, movement and drama; Commences Tuesday 25th January to Friday 28th January 2011; Limited spaces available. Explore performance in a fun way. Contact Denise Wakem 04 388 9710 or email phildeese@xtra.co.nz.