Ora, Talofa Lava, Greetings, Malo e Lelei, Kia Orana,
Bonjour, Nǐ hǎo, Hallo, Hola, Kon'nichiwa, Namaste
FROM THE PRINCIPAL
Kia ora koutou
Each year we have a terribly difficult decision to make as a
school, and that is who will be our Head students for the current year.
After a rigorous selection process, we are pleased to introduce the
following student leaders for 2019.
From left to right - Ned Sykes -
Deputy Head Boy, Paris Moore - Deputy Head Girl, Theo Thompson - Head Boy and
Scarlett Tito - Head Girl
Kia ora everyone my name is Scarlett Tito and I am your Head Girl
for 2019.
I have been at Muritai for all my schooling years and I am so
happy to have been chosen for this wonderful opportunity to represent this
amazing school. I am so grateful to have been given this role and I will always
try my best. I’m sure we will have an incredible year.
I look forward to meeting you all at some point soon and I can’t
wait to see what 2019 has in store for us.
Kia ora, I’m Theo Thompson and I'm your head boy for 2019. You can
come and see me as well as the the other leaders hanging around this side of
the school some lunch times. Feel free to come up and get to know us in the
student leadership team. I'm delighted to help lead this fantastic school for
2019. Ka kite ano.
Kia ora, I’m Paris Moore and I will be your deputy head girl for 2019,
we as the student leaders of Muritai will be representing this great school
when visitors come to check it out. We also are always around for anyone who
would like to talk to us and meet us. I hope I prove to you that I can be an
incredible role model an also bring all my creative ideas I have for the
school. I can't wait to see what this year brings.
Kia ora everyone my name is Ned Sykes and I will be your deputy
head boy for the year of 2019. I am very excited to be given this opportunity
to represent this fantastic school. We, as the senior leadership group, will be
representing the school in formal occasions and giving out house points to some
of our younger students. I hope to contribute as much as possible to this
fantastic school. Nga mihi
Policy Review - Term 1 2019
Through our School Docs portal there is one policy for parents to
review over this term.
All of our policies are available at any time via our school
website here: https://www.muritai.school.nz/copy-of-school-information
This term parents are reviewing:
Alcohol, Drugs, and Other Harmful Substances
- Visit the website
http://muritai.schooldocs.co.nz/1893.htm
- Enter the username (muritai) and
password (muritaischool).
- Follow the link to the relevant
policy as listed.
- Read the policy.
- Click the Policy Review button at
the top right-hand corner of the page.
- Select the reviewer type
"Parent".
- Enter your name (optional).
- Submit your ratings and comments.
If you don't have internet access, school office staff can
provide you with printed copies of the policy and a review form.
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 12th March.
Pushchairs welcome, as is skipping the walk and coming straight
for a coffee around 9:30!
Lost Property
After a brief cold snap and also our Junior and Senior swimming
sports last week...our lost property is overflowing!
Our volunteer ‘Is it
Yours?’ team are spending time everyday before and after school to return named
items to classes. The photo here shows the items that are sitting in the
lost property that are not named, and are not collected.
There are many goggles, hats, swimming towels and many jerseys
waiting to be collected. Please do pop in and check the pile next time
you’re in the foyer.
Our volunteers would like me to pass on that any items that have
sat for 5 weeks unnamed and uncollected will be donated next week.
Learning Partnership Meetings - Feedback
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
Board
of Trustees News
STUDENT
LEARNING AND ACHIEVEMENT
We are excited to have our refreshed school values up and running,
and are integrating these dispositions across all learning areas. The children
are starting to use these terms more naturally and understand how to be the
‘best that they can be’ as explorers, connectors and contributors in their
learning and their living at Muritai School.
In 2019 we will work towards further unpacking these values in
relation to learning - where we unpack what dispositions, assets and specific
concepts our students will need to have and understand - and how this
will form part of our learning at Muritai School. Keep an eye out in the school newsletter for
further parent consultation opportunities on our learning and curriculum.
Our school roll continues to grow, and as a public school we
welcome all students to Muritai who live in Eastbourne and the Bays. We
continue to be a desirable and inclusive school for all children. We work hard to design the very best
programmes we can so all learners can thrive, whether requiring extra support
or extension.
In 2018 we had a larger than usual group of new enrolments from
other schools in New Zealand and overseas, including some students with
additional learning needs. Some cohorts of learners achieved very high
percentages of success across the curriculum. Our wide range of unique learners
- all celebrated and catered for at Muritai - are reflected, somewhat bluntly,
in our school-wide achievement data for 2018. We will be considering if there are
better ways to reflect this school-wide data in future as a lot of valuable
insights are lost at this level of reporting:
In reading, 90.4 percent of students achieved at or above the
expected NZ curriculum level for their age, exceeding Muritai’s own target of
90 percent
In writing, 74.9 percent achieved at or above, against Muritai’s
own target of 85 percent.
In maths, 75 percent achieved at or above, against Muritai’s own
target of 85 percent.
While reading was up on previous years, writing and maths were
down slightly. As a result the Board has agreed with our senior leadership team
that we should focus deeply on maths and writing
this year. Both areas will receive more resourcing, including professional
development for staff around maths in particular. We have appointed additional
staff in our learning support team who will facilitate the following programmes
at Muritai School in 2019:
- Learning coaches and teachers across the
school who will run additional interventions e.g. early intervention
groups, support groups for specific learning difficulties, Reading
Recovery, Quick 60, Steps Web. (These interventions are designed to
teach students the skills required to become competent readers and
spellers).
- Maths support groups
- Writing support groups
- An oral language programme in the junior
school
- Reading Eggs groups
- Support groups for children who have English
as a second language
- A wide range of teacher aide support within
classrooms to assist teachers in catering for our learners’ wide and
varied needs.
We have also appointed a sports coordinator and increased our
administration hours in the office to manage the out of school additional
sporting responsibilities that were previously the responsibility of classroom
teachers.
Also last year, we began tracking back over several years those
students consistently under-achieving, to help us identify personalised
strategies to better support them. We will be continuing to refine our
assessment tools, including the consistency of "overall teacher
judgements" (OTJs), which continue to play an important role in assessing
student achievement post-national standards.
DONATIONS
We are pleased to report that our requested donations will
continue at 2018 levels this year. Many thanks for your contributions last year
- we met our conservative target of $100,000, which makes a fantastic difference
to what we are able to provide at the school for our students so rest assured all
your donations are appreciated and allow us valuable
extra resources like our performing arts teacher, librarian, digital
technologies and a wide range of teaching resources.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES ELECTIONS
School Board of Trustees elections will be held in May - June 2019
and as their children move on, so will some of the current board members.
Please feel free to chat with any of us - Nigel Cass, Louise Marsden, Miki Szikszai,
Andrew Saunderson or Mary Longmore - about what being a board member entails.
We would like to encourage parents and community members to
consider putting themselves forward to govern the school alongside the
principal and staff representative. We are fortunate in the Bays area to have a
wealth of skills and strengths within the community and would welcome a diverse
array of candidates considering contributing their time to leading the school's
direction, governance and success in this way. We are seeking five parent /
community trustees, who meet about eight times a year as well as divide up the
workload across committees. Professional development and support is
available for this community leadership position - a 3-minute clip on a trustee's role can be
seen here: www.trustee-election.co.nz
Our next Board of Trustees meeting is at 6:15pm on the 28th March,
do feel welcome to come along if you’d like to know more about being a trustee.
FROM THE SCHOOL
Sea week - Tiakina o Tatou Moana - Care for our Sea - March 2 to
10th 2019
Over the past week many of our classes have been focusing on
learning about the sea and exploring our local seashore. They have been
discussing different aspects of the ocean and how to care for it along with
exploring the plants and animals that live there.
Eastbourne Books
Does anyone have any books about Eastbourne and our local area
that they no longer need? The students are learning about their local community
as part of their latest inquiry so if you have any books that you no longer
need please let Maureen Buckley know and she will arrange for their collection.
The Big Read
Hutt City Libraries again ran their highly successful reading
programme, The Big Read, this summer encouraging tamariki (aged 0-12 years)
across Lower Hutt to get excited about reading and engage with friends and
whanau. This year 1431 tamariki
registered for the Big Read challenge.
Together they read 13,500 books and completed over 2,500 activities. Children who took part in the Big Read will
receive a certificate which will be presented to them at their syndicate
assemblies.
Muritai School had the most children registered for the Big Read
in the whole of the Hutt Valley. 101 Muritai School children registered
with the next closest school having 74 children registered. Although we do not have an exact breakdown of
how many of those children completed 1 or more of the Big Read level, Eastbourne
Library had a total of 122 registrations altogether with 87 completing at least
one level. It is safe to say that Muritai children did well.
Inter-school Rippa Rugby Tournament
Wow
what a day for a great competition! On Tuesday March 5th we had four teams
compete in the South East Inter school Rippa Rugby tournament. The teams did an
amazing job representing themselves and our school. It was a hard day with each
team playing 6 games. From this competition we have three teams going through
to the Inter Zone tournament, this will be held on Tuesday March 26th. Thanks
to all the parent support including coaches, managers and the awesome BBQ!
Movie Fundraiser
Muritai Home & School are very
excited to bring you our Movie Fundraiser: “Celia” a documentary 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
A message from Waterbourne Festival
organisers
Sustainable Coastlines be at the Waterbourne Festival in
Eastbourne this Sunday - sponsored by Centreport - running a beach cleanup
which will be followed by FREE paddle boarding lessons
Beach Cleanup with Sustainable Coastlines - Bishop Park - Part
of the Waterbourne Festival
9am Start!
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TERM
1 2019 DATES
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13
Mar
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Kahu Capital E Festival
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14
Mar
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Weetbix Tryathlon - Hutt City
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14
Mar
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Tui Capital E Festival
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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
A
Marsden Whitby education for your son or daughter in Year 9, 2020
Open
Day, Scholarship and enrolment information
You
are invited to the Samuel
Marsden Collegiate School Whitby Open Day, Wednesday 20 March, any time between 10am and 2pm. This is a
great opportunity to see the Marsden Whitby campus and to find out about
Marsden Whitby’s Visible WellbeingTM approach and future-focused learning programmes. There will be
staff and students to talk to and the students look forward to showing you
around. For more information and to register visit marsden.school.nz/experience
The
bus route to Marsden Whitby from Johnsonville, Churton Park, Tawa and Aotea is
now operational.
Scholarships
– Academic Scholarships for entry into Year 9 in 2020 are now open,
applications close on 16 May and the exam date is Saturday 25 May. Information
and applications are online.
Enrolments
-Marsden Whitby applications for enrolment for 2020 are now open. We encourage you to come and see the
campus and spend time in class during Term 1 or 2, and enrol by the end of Term
2. If you have any questions or would like a personal tour please call Lorraine
Rose on 04 234 1070.
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.
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