Naumai e te whanau o te kura Muritai
Tena koutou katoa
Welcome to our new students at Muritai - Rio Salisbury-Metcalfe, Reuben Inwood, Matiu Inwood, Zac Walker, and Luke Barlow.
CHARTER
You will all have all recently received a very detailed newsletter from the Board about our future direction at Muritai. We would love to hear your thoughts and you can do this by clicking here and completing this survey. More than one person can complete it and you can go back to it and add or change your thoughts. Our website has further information on the charter consultation process.
Tena koutou katoa
Welcome to our new students at Muritai - Rio Salisbury-Metcalfe, Reuben Inwood, Matiu Inwood, Zac Walker, and Luke Barlow.
CHARTER
You will all have all recently received a very detailed newsletter from the Board about our future direction at Muritai. We would love to hear your thoughts and you can do this by clicking here and completing this survey. More than one person can complete it and you can go back to it and add or change your thoughts. Our website has further information on the charter consultation process.
ICAS WRITING
Congratulations to the following students who experienced success in the recent ICAS writing examinations -
High Distinction - Sally Bird, Harry Crawford, Margarita Montes de Oca
Distinction - Rose Scott-Billing, Abby Barclay, Sean McElwain-Wilson, Eva Poland
High Distinction - Sally Bird, Harry Crawford, Margarita Montes de Oca
Distinction - Rose Scott-Billing, Abby Barclay, Sean McElwain-Wilson, Eva Poland
Credit - Lucy Crawford, Helena Cvitanovich, Samantha Morphew, Grace Allan, Ruby Brandwood, Beth Brodie, Lily Griffiths, Maya Hahn, Rebecca Bergman, Lucy Bird, Liam Brandwood, Charlie Heath and Marguerite Kircher
MATHSWELL COMPETITION 2011
MATHSWELL COMPETITION 2011
Mathswell is an an annual mathematical problem solving challenge competition run by the Wellington Maths Association. Mathswell is where the top Intermediate mathematical minds battle it out in a mind boggling team challenge. This year’s competition was held at Fergusson Intermediate School in Trentham. Our team finished mid table and included Hazel Sisson, Meg Sykes, Marit Bruhn, Liam Brandwood, Casper Tilley and Kieran Cotter.
FUNDRAISER - CUPCAKES FOR SPCA
300 Cupcakes have been donated by Edward Christian to be sold at $2 each. All funds raised will go to the SPCA. If you would like a cupcake, come to the hall at morning tea on Friday 2 September.
ASSEMBLY
FUNDRAISER - CUPCAKES FOR SPCA
300 Cupcakes have been donated by Edward Christian to be sold at $2 each. All funds raised will go to the SPCA. If you would like a cupcake, come to the hall at morning tea on Friday 2 September.
ASSEMBLY
This Friday we will be having a whole school assembly starting at 1.40.
LIONS CLUB
LIONS CLUB
Last Wednesday the Lions Club donated $300 worth of gardening tools, vegetable plants and seed raising equipment. Ten students (from Year 1 to Year 8) and six Lions Club members spent the afternoon sipping tea, eating biscuits and cakes and gardening using the new tools. It was lovely to celebrate the progress of the the Year 4 Gardening Club which started with the vegetable boxes outside Room 2. The Lions are also donating 3 lemon trees to Muritai School for the children to plant shortly.
CALENDARS
Children have been making beautiful pieces of art to put on their calendars/diaries again this year with order forms being sent out to all families next week. Prices are:
Calendars $12
Calendars $12
Cards (Pack of 8) $12
Diaries $15
Your child's artwork will be on display in their classroom from Monday 11 September. All orders must be received at the school office by Monday 19 September. These make beautiful Christmas presents to send to grandparents, uncles/aunties or keep for yourself!
LIBRARY BLOG
Your child's artwork will be on display in their classroom from Monday 11 September. All orders must be received at the school office by Monday 19 September. These make beautiful Christmas presents to send to grandparents, uncles/aunties or keep for yourself!
LIBRARY BLOG
This year we have a team of quality Librarian’s working in our School Library. As part of the Library Gold Award we are working on the School Library Blog. The Blog will give you information about up-coming competitions, new books, book recommendations, book reviews and other useful library news. We have awesome prizes for people who take part in our competitions. We would love it if you would check it out.
From the Library Blog Team.
CAN YOU HELP?
The school has a large set of sport uniforms which we need to sort, clean and put away after sporting events. At the moment, the teaching and office staff try to keep on top of this but it can be a little time consuming. The Home and School have very kindly offered to help with this but need a group of volunteers they can call on to help out. If you would be willing to give a little of your time to help with the uniforms, please let either Sue or Carole in the school office know.
Are you able to help with road patrol? We have a wonderful team of year 6 children who manage the pedestrian crossing. Parents are most welcome to help our teaching team by supervising our patrollers while they are on duty. if you can spare 20 minutes around the beginning or end of school your help will be much appreciated. Please let either Sue or Carole in the school office know.
OLD LETTERHEAD
Do you have any old letterhead or blank paper you can donate to our Reading Recovery students? If you do, please drop it off at the school office. From the Library Blog Team.
CAN YOU HELP?
The school has a large set of sport uniforms which we need to sort, clean and put away after sporting events. At the moment, the teaching and office staff try to keep on top of this but it can be a little time consuming. The Home and School have very kindly offered to help with this but need a group of volunteers they can call on to help out. If you would be willing to give a little of your time to help with the uniforms, please let either Sue or Carole in the school office know.
Are you able to help with road patrol? We have a wonderful team of year 6 children who manage the pedestrian crossing. Parents are most welcome to help our teaching team by supervising our patrollers while they are on duty. if you can spare 20 minutes around the beginning or end of school your help will be much appreciated. Please let either Sue or Carole in the school office know.
OLD LETTERHEAD
DAFFODIL DAY
Thank you to everyone who bought fabric daffodils or stickers from our ambassadors on Friday. We raised $306.90 for the Cancer Society.
WEARABLE ARTS – REBOOT 2010
Our Year 5-8 Wearable Arts performance this year is titled ‘Reboot 2010’. It will be a colourful and exciting show looking at the theme of a sustainable future. Humans are beginning to ask themselves 'if we could do it all over again what would we change'.
Tickets will be on sale at the school office from Monday 12 September with evening performances on Wednesday 5 October and Thursday 6 October and a matinee performance on Tuesday 4 October.
ARTSPLASH
Wellington’s young people’s arts festival brings primary and intermediate schools throughout the region together to celebrate dance, music, drama, visual art and wearable art. They perform for their parents, whanau, friends and the public. Some of our Year 4-6 students will be performing in the Artsplash choir on Wednesday 21 September.
Tickets are now available for families who have children participating in the Artsplash performance. These tickets are being sold by the school office at $5.00 each and are limited to 3 per family.
SPORTS
Netball
The season has finished and our netball teams had much success across the season. With seven teams in action we ended up with 3 grade wins - our two year 6 teams and a year 5 team. All our girls made significant improvements under superb and dedicated coaching, management and support from our parent community. We are very grateful to our coaching teams of Fiona, Hilary, Mae, Ali, Robyn, Millie, Claire, Hayley, Kat, Louise and Lisa and their support teams for their service and enthusiasm for our children this year. Well done all!
Primary and Intermediate Waterpolo
The season has drawn to an end with mixed results. All four Muritai teams started relatively inexperienced and it took a while to get the hang of the rules and for all the players to gel together in their respective teams. As the season drew to completion the results started to show a marked improvement. It is hoped that the skills gathered this year will be further developed next year.
Year 7/8 Indoor Sports Tournament
On Friday 26th August the year 7/8 syndicate traveled to Action Indoor Sports to compete in teams against the teams from Te Kura Kaupapa o Te Ara Whanui. It was great to see the mixed teams competing in a wide range of sports for the morning. Sadly Te Ara Whanui was to have the winning team on the day, however, the spirit and standard of play by all was excellent to observe.
Underwater Hockey
With only a few Muritai players determined to play on Saturday 27th a combined team had to be formed with players from Marsden College. This clearly was a winning combination as the Muritai/Marsden team laid waste to the competition and were able to take first place.
COMMUNITY NOTICES
Eastbourne Market is back and on at Muritai Senior School playground this SUNDAY 4th September 2011 from 11am to 2pm. Come along and support your local traders while enjoying Fathers Day sampling foods, jewels, handicrafts and various take home treasures.
Any queries please contact them team at Eastbournemarket@yahoo.co.nz or call Lisa Dymond on 021 44 7252.
Muritai Tennis ClubAny queries please contact them team at Eastbournemarket@yahoo.co.nz or call Lisa Dymond on 021 44 7252.
Muritai Tennis Club invite you all to get back into tennis for the new 2011/2012 season @ our fun-filled Back2Tennis day. Play tennis, get coaching from the Capital Coaching team - Andy Wheeler and Richard West. Enjoy a barbecued sausage, nibbles after 4pm, BYO drink. Demonstrations from Thump Sports, prizes and lots of fun!
We will also be registering all juniors for coaching and interclub (please bring payment on the day).
When: Sunday 4 September 2011 (Sunday 11 September if wet)
11.30am to 1.30pm for all juniors (Registration Day also)
2.00 pm to 4.00 pm for all seniors
Where: Muritai Tennis Club, 356 Muritai Road, Eastbourne. For more information contact: Denise Cornford: 562 7465 or Andy Wheeler: 027 4599 321
Lunchtime French at Muritai School
Please come along this Monday lunchtime (5th September) to a FREE TRIAL CLASS in the green room. You can bring your lunch. Games, songs, drama and stories are taught in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere with the emphasis being on FUN!
For more information please contact: Stefi Plimmer-Blattner, LCF Clubs Fun Languages, ph: 562 8211/email: stefi@lcfclubs.co.nz. Website: www.lcfclubs.co.nz
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