Kia Ora, Talofa Lava, Greetings, Malo
e Lelei, Kia Orana, Bonjour, Nǐ hǎo, Hallo, Hola, Kon'nichiwa, Namaste
FROM THE
PRINCIPAL
Kia ora koutou
Thank you for your support with our
Teacher Only Day last week - we realise that school closing for the day can
cause an impact on your family, and an inconvenience to you all. The
reason for the TOD so early in the year was for our teaching staff to attend a
day long workshop with Kath Murdoch - an international expert we had flown in
from Melbourne. I engaged with Kath some
18 months ago and this was the first date she had available!
We were delighted to share the day
with other teachers
from Island Bay, Cashmere Avenue, Boulcott, Maungaraki, Redwood, and
Douglas Park. Kath is an experienced teacher, author, university
lecturer and popular consultant who has worked for many years in schools across
Australia, New Zealand, Africa, America, Asia and Europe. She is respected
around the world for her work in the field of inquiry based learning and
integrative curriculum. As I mentioned, I had been attempting to access Kath’s expertise
for some time, and she was certainly worth the wait. The staff were ‘buzzing’ after the day, and
enthusiastic about getting back into classrooms on Monday to use some of the
strategies that we all learned or were reminded of.
It was also great to connect our
teachers with a wider group of colleagues and connect to other school leaders.
All of these schools are refreshing their approaches to inquiry alongside
their curriculum redevelopment following their revisioning process.
Lost
Property - Is This Yours?
Thank you for the incredible response
from my last newsletter regarding the lost property pile! We have a keen and
dedicated group of parents that I am working with around the lost property we
continue to have at Muritai School. We met to brainstorm some solutions
and created a strategy for 2019 - a very proactive group of Muritai parents and
I have some excellent property return and display initiatives underway.
You may have seen the lost property is
now positioned in full view in the office foyer and is called the ‘Is This
Yours?’ area.
We encourage all parents to support
their children to only wear clearly named clothing to school. We
endeavour to return all lost clothing to its owner’s class regularly.
Unfortunately lots of the ‘found’ clothing is not named. Please do stop by the
garment rack in the foyer to check if anything belongs at your house.
We are also spreading the ‘managing
self’ message by reminding children to take their belongings home, please do
remind them to come to the foyer if they have misplaced something.
Staff
News:
Some of you may know Jess Davidson who
worked at Muritai for several years, first as a teacher and then as the
Associate Principal for the year 3/4 syndicate. Jess was planning on returning
to New Zealand and Muritai School (from maternity leave) this year but
unfortunately, just before Christmas on the 23rd of December, Jess’s husband
Julian, sadly died from a sudden heart attack. Jess and her family had no
warning, and are of course utterly devastated (Freya is 4, and Jack just 18
Months). The timing was particularly cruel being right on Christmas, and also
as all of their belongings were halfway back to New Zealand ready for their
return to us.
The school is supporting Jess where it
can, and staff have been in contact with Jess over the past couple of months.
A Give-a-little page has been set up for Jess to provide some financial
support during this difficult time which can be accessed at https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/julian-alan-davidson-loving-husband-and-dad-gone
After Drop off Walk and Talk with Bec:
Each fortnight I host a chat and a
wander around Eastbourne with a coffee to follow at Hive Cafe. Our next walk
and talk is on Tuesday 26th February.
Pushchairs welcome, as is skipping
the walk and coming straight for a coffee around 9:30!
Learning
Partnership Meetings
Thank you for the fabulous attendance
rates at our recent learning partnership meetings.
If you were not able to attend either
of the two afternoons, please contact your teacher directly to set up a meeting
or perhaps a chat over the phone. The learning partnership meetings are
an important start to the home and school partnership that we grow over each year,
and a chance for you to connect and develop a relationship with your child’s
teacher.
We value your thinking and opinions on
how the learning partnerships ran this year - please click on the link to
provide any feedback.
Kind regards
Ngā Mihi
Bec Power
Principal
FROM THE
SCHOOL
SWIMMING
SPORTS
We have our Swimming Sports day next Thursday
28 February. Our Year 3-8 children will be heading off to Huia Pool
at 9am and our Korora syndicate will be swimming at our local Eastbourne Pool
from 12.30 onwards. Further information will be coming out next week
regarding timing of races. We look
forward to seeing you at the pools for an action packed day.
NEW
PLAYGROUND MATTING
You may have noticed that at the end
of last year we replaced the matting under our Junior School Playground,
removing the old blue tiles and replacing it with a continuous rubber matting.
It looks wonderful and works extremely well. We would like to recognise and thank both the
Eastbourne Community Trust and Pelorus Trust for money granted to us to enable
this project to be undertaken.
GIRLS
FUTSAL TOURNAMENT
Earlier
this week a group of Year 5/6 girls (Emily D, Marina N, Livvy K, Briar D, Poppy
H, Jemima T and Una L) participated in a girls only futsal tournament at Walter
Nash Stadium.
An
action packed day included 8 games, each 10 minutes with four players aside.
Our team played brilliantly together and thoroughly enjoyed the day.
The
highlight of the day was meeting Maya Hahn, a former student of Muritai School,
and other Football Ferns who recently competed in a women's world cup
tournament and came 3rd.
A
special thanks to all coaches and parents that supported their teams at the
tournament.
Written
By Marina Nadilo
The year 7/8 girls futsal team
travelled to Walter Nash Stadium to play in a girls only futsal tournament.
While they were there they saw Maya Harn and some other amazing futsal and football
players, there to cheer the teams on. The Year 7 & 8 team had an amazing
result they played eight 10 minute games; they won 7 of there games and drew
the last one. They had so much fun. The team consisted of Hollie
Ridley-Gibbons, Paige Bangma, Isabelle Buchanan, Isabelle Cook, Harriet Wilson
and Izzy Kane. We had a great time and overall were very proud of the final
result.
Written
by: Paige Bangma and Hollie Ridley-Gibbons
Movie
Fundraiser
Muritai
Home & School are very excited to bring you our Movie Fundraiser: “Celia” a
documentary about the late Celia Lashlie by Amanda Millar
Hugely
popular at last year’s NZ International Film Festival, one reviewer from the
Celia Movie Facebook page said "one of the best movies I have ever seen. so many
powerful messages and layers to this film. everyone must see this!”
Monday
18th March 8:30pm
Lighthouse
Cinema Petone
Tickets
$20 available from school office from Monday or by email:
Tots: totsandrew@gmail.com
Kaye: KSherwin@xtra.co.nz
Belinda:
teamtito@xtra.co.nz or 027 253 3773
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TERM 1
2019 DATES
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28 Feb
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Year 3-8
Swimming Sports at Huia
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28 Feb
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Korora
syndicate Swimming Sports at Eastbourne Pool
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5 Mar
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SE Zone
Rippa Rugby - Y3-6
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8 Mar
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Whole
school assembly - Kereru
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13 Mar
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Y7/8
Capital E Festival
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14 Mar
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Weetbix
Tryathlon - Hutt City
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18-22
Mar
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School
Photos
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19 Mar
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Makahika
Camp Meeting - 6.15pm
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20 Mar
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Starting
School at Five Information Evening at 7pm
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22 Mar
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Whole
School assembly - Tui
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26 Mar
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IZ Rippa
Rugby Tournament - Y3-6
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2-5
Mar
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Makahika
Camp for Kereru syndicate
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5 Apr
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Whole
school assembly - Korora
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12
April
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Last day
of Term 1
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29
April
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First
day of Term 2
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TERM DATES
FOR 2019
Please
note our term dates for next year - 2019
Term
dates for 2019 have been confirmed by our Board of Trustees as follows:-
Term 1 Monday
4 February to Friday 12 April
Teacher only day on Friday 15
February
Term 2 Monday
29 April to Friday 5 July
Term 3 Monday
22 July to Friday 27 September
Term 4 Monday
14 October to Thursday 19 December
Community
Notices
Welcome to the 2019 Eastbourne Football Club Season!
The 2019
season kicks off for our Junior grades on 6 April 2019.
Registrations
are now open on our website; www.efc.org.nz
You'll
find everything you need to know about this coming season and instructions on
how to register via MyCOMET.
We've
also put some FAQs together which you'll find here; http://efc.org.nz/PDFs/EFC-FAQs.pdf
If you
have any questions, contact us at info@efc.org.nz
We
welcome back our returning players and look forward to meeting new ones.
Guitar
Lessons at
Muritai School Do you want to learn to play guitar? I am now
accepting enrolments for Term 1 for pupils in years 3 to 8. The lessons are
taken by Charles Hazlewood on Mondays or Fridays during school time. The
tuition is held in small groups according to ability and age. It is
educational, and normally a lot of fun!
The school has guitars to use at lesson
time, but you will need a guitar to play at home. I am a very experienced music
teacher currently teaching at several schools in Lower Hutt.
The cost will be $12 per 30 minute
lesson, multiplied by the number of lessons to be held during the term. Usually
there would be 8 lessons, so the term fees would be $96.
Please call Charles on 04-934-2759 or
029-9392759 or charleshazlewood1@gmail.com
Drum lessons available for Muritai students
between years 3 and 8. Please email our drum tutor Andy Russell at andyrussellmusic@gmail.com for more information or to sign up.
Fun French for Muritai School
children lunch time
Special class available for juniors
on Thursdays. Class for older students on Tuesdays.
· Experience French learning the fun
way! Children speak French from the first lesson
· Lessons once a week, lots of
interactive activities, role play, crafts, active games and music
· Free trial lesson. After that
$14.50 per lesson, plus a membership starter pack of materials to use at home,
siblings 10% discount
· To register your interest please
contact Stefi on Stefi@funlanguages.co.nz or 021 178 2099
· visit the website www.lcfclubs.co.nz
Get in touch for more details.
