FRIDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2019

Kia Ora, Talofa Lava, Greetings, Malo e Lelei, Kia Orana, Bonjour, Nǐ hǎo, Hallo, Hola, Kon'nichiwa, Namaste, As-salāmu ʿalaykum

A warm welcome to Emma Gellatly and Eddie Evans to Room 1.

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Tena koutou Muritai families, 

Bangers and Maths

We were incredibly surprised and delighted by the amount of parents and students who attended our Maths evening last week.  Our school hall was bursting at the seams, and our BBQ chefs were sizzling sausages as quickly as they could! We have had great feedback following the evening too, which tells us that this sort of evening is useful for parents to get updates around new ways of teaching and learning in different focus areas. Our focus on Mathematics this year as a staff was briefly explained on the evening : mathematical discourse, rich mathematical tasks, integrating mathematics, groupings for teaching and collaboration.  After the session in the hall the fun had in classrooms was superb! Thank you all for getting involved and learning some new maths games alongside your children.  We will hold further parent meetings in 2020 including another maths evening.   I will also create a video of some of the key points for anyone who was unable to make it on the night for our website.  

Thank you for your support and interest in our teaching and learning at Muritai School, it’s a big effort for teachers and our Maths team to put on an evening like our ‘Bangers and Maths’ and it feels so rewarding when we get the attendance and feedback we received.  I hope you are enjoying your maths games packs for home learning - if you did not get a games pack for your family, please pop in and ask at our office as we have a few left over.  

MADE AWARDS 2019

We have once again had enormous success at the national school awards for media and digital excellence (MADE).  

Last Friday night Quincy Buckley represented Muritai on behalf of our school at the prizegiving in Tauranga, and was delighted to be presented with first place in his documentary for year 7/8 students.  

Our trophy cabinet will be bursting once again as all of our finalists placed in the top three in their categories!

Congratulations to the following students:

1st place - Y7/8 Documentary Quincy Buckley

2nd place - Y7/8 Documentary Reihan Kusnadi

2nd place - Y7/8 Commercial Team L.O.A.F - Lachie Cook, Ollie Cleland, Alex Jacobs, Fraser Neilsen

2nd place - Y4-6 Photography Hunter Chapman and James Allcock

3rd place - Y7/8 Photography Emily Ebskamp

Health Consultation 2019 (- still open for another week)

 At least once every two years, boards of trustees are required to produce a written statement about how the school will implement health education. The legislation requires schools to:

- inform the school community about the content of the health education components of the curriculum

- consult with members of the school community regarding the way in which the school should implement health education

- describe, in broad terms, the health education needs of the school's students.

Following the consultation in 2017 we made significant changes to our programme and created a streamlined 2 year overview of Health, PE, Sport and EOTC.  Please follow the link below to see our odd and even year overview and to add any thoughts for our consideration for 2020 and 2021’s programmes in this important curriculum area. 

https://forms.gle/gtAEr4G7WTksJVfg6

Playspace Update

All of our ‘Playspace design Model’ finalists are now being housed in the library. You are more than welcome to come and see them. The library is open throughout each day and after school most days till 3.15pm.

During next week the final judging will take place - selecting aspects, parts or even whole designs that will actually be passed onto the playground experts and then built in the new year!

Ngā manaakitanga,

Bec Power, Principal

FROM THE BOARD

Casual vacancy for an elected trustee 

A casual vacancy has occurred on the board of trustees for an elected parent representative. The board has resolved under section 105 of the Education Act 1989 to fill the vacancy by selection. 

If ten percent or more of eligible voters on the school roll ask the board, within 28 days of this notice being published, to hold a by-election to fill the vacancy, then a by-election will be held. 

Any eligible voter who wishes to ask the board to hold a by-election should write to: 

Chairperson, Muritai School Board of Trustees, Muritai School, 154 Muritai Road, Eastbourne or email chairperson@muritai.school.nz 

FROM THE SCHOOL

KERERU (YEAR 5 AND 6) SPEECH COMPETITION

A BIG mihi to our Y5 & Y6 speech finalists! You were all amazing!! The judges were blown away by your enthusiasm and passion for your persuasive speech topics.

Our finalists were:

Year 5s...

Ruby Martin

Eloise Bothwell

Chloe Hammond

Millie Bonifant

Year 6s...

Luca Marshall

Hunter Chapman

Issy Fogarty

Matty Miller

Max Bentley

Congratulations to our winners:

Best Year 5 - Eloise Bothwell 

Best Year 6 - Luca Marshall 

Overall winner - Eloise Bothwell

Hats

We have noticed quite a few children coming to school without their hats.  As a Sunsafe school, we require students to wear wide-brimmed hats whenever they are outside and involved in school activities and any child without a hat must remain in a shaded area.  Can you please ensure your child brings a named hat to school during Term 4 and Term 1.

Athletics

Interzone Athletics was held on Tuesday this week where we had some 'ka mau te wehi' results :

Year 4 Girls

Elodie Dent – 3rd place - Long jump

Year 4 Boys

Alfie Holden – 1st place - Long Jump

Year 5 Girls

Izzy Lewis - 3rd place – 150m sprint, 2nd place – 800m

Willa Velvin – 3rd place – Quoit

Relay Team (Willa, Una, Izzy and Elizabeth) – 1st place

Year 5 Boys

Ben Park – 1st place – 80m sprint, 2nd place – 150m sprint, 3rd place - Long Jump

Noah Carian – 1st place – 800m

Tom Neilson – 1st place – Long Jump

Relay Team (Tom, Ben, Noah and Christian) – 1st place

Year 6 Girls

Marina Nadilo – 2nd place – Vortex

Year 6 Boys

Aubrey Chunga – 3rd place – 80m sprint, 2nd place – 150m sprint, 2nd place 800m, 1st place – Long Jump, 1st place – High Jump, 1st place - Vortex

Year 7 Boys

Inaki Zabella – 1st place – 100m sprint, 2nd place – 200m sprint, 3rd place - Discus

Year 8 Boys

Luke Barlow – 3rd place – Shotput

Full results can be found here:

https://www.sporty.co.nz/asset/downloadasset…

The students named above have qualified for the WELLINGTON REGIONAL PRIMARY SCHOOLS ATHLETIC CHAMPIONSHIPS on Tuesday 3rd December (Postponement Wednesday 4th December) from 9.00am – 3.00pm at Newtown Park, Wellington. 

Term Dates 2020

Term dates for 2020 have been confirmed by our Board of Trustees as follows:-

Term 1   Wednesday 5 February to Thursday 9 April

Term 2   Tuesday 28 April to Friday 3 July

Term 3   Monday 20 July to Friday 25 September

Term 4   Monday 12 October to Thursday 17 December

TERM 4 2019 DATES
15 Nov	Whole school assembly - Kororā led
19 Nov	Inter Zone Athletics
21 Nov	Postponement day Inter Zone Athletics
26 Nov	Wellesley Cricket exchange Year 5’s
27 Nov	Starting School at 5 Information Evening 7-8pm
29 Nov	Whole school assembly - Kererū led
1 Dec	Abel Tasman camp for year 8’s
3 Dec	Regional Athletics
4 Dec	Postponement day Regional Athletics
10 Dec	Y8 Gardasil vaccination
11 Dec	Kererū Triathlon
11 Dec	BOT meeting at 6.15pm
17 Dec	Year 8 Formal
19 Dec	Leavers Assembly at 11am
19 Dec	School closes at 1pm

COMMUNITY NOTICES

Hutt City Libraries Summer Reading Challenge 2019-20

·         International research shows the 'summer slide' (where reading gains slip over the long summer holidays) is a major barrier to ongoing literacy achievement

·         Tamariki who have access to books and learning experiences during the long holidays show less of a decrease (or even an improvement!) in their reading levels when they return to kura/school

·         The Big Read motivates tamariki to read books and participate in activities. Our friendly librarians are always available to provide support

Any child aged 0-12 years can sign up for the challenge at any of our eight Hutt City Libraries from 1 December.

The entire whānau can join in, this year we have The Little Read for ages 0-5 years; The Big Read for ages 5-12; and Explore, Read, Relax for rangatahi and adults. It’s a great way to support your child’s reading and help them maintain the reading achievements they have made throughout the school year, even while on holiday!

More details at library.huttcity.govt.nz and at all Hutt City Libraries.

FRIDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2019

Kia Ora, Talofa Lava, Greetings, Malo e Lelei, Kia Orana, Bonjour, Nǐ hǎo, Hallo, Hola, Kon'nichiwa, Namaste, As-salāmu ʿalaykum

A warm welcome to George McIntosh and Eddie Evans to Room 1.

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Tena koutou Muritai families, 

Health Consultation 2019

 At least once every two years, boards of trustees are required to produce a written statement about how the school will implement health education. The legislation requires schools to:

- inform the school community about the content of the health education components of the curriculum

- consult with members of the school community regarding the way in which the school should implement health education

- describe, in broad terms, the health education needs of the school's students.

Following the consultation in 2017 we made significant changes to our programme and created a streamlined 2 year overview of Health, PE, Sport and EOTC.  Please follow the link below to see our odd and even year overview and to add any thoughts for our consideration for 2020 and 2021’s programmes in this important curriculum area. 

https://forms.gle/gtAEr4G7WTksJVfg6

2020 Classes

Thank you for all of the parent feedback and information that you have provided regarding our class placement consultation period for the 2020 classes.  We are now underway in the creation of our class makeups.  If your child will not be with us in 2020, please let us know asap.  We are trying to place at least one friend alongside each child and need to ensure we have the correct number of children in each room as we design the classes - similarly, if you are intending to enrol another child with us, please do enrol them asap so that we can ensure we have enough teachers!

We have also finished our recruitment for 2020 and have our teaching teams introduced below.  These are of course our classroom teachers only, not our entire teaching staff.  

Our 2020 teaching teams are as follows: 

Kororā (Year 0-2)

Jess Richards

Kea Maritz

Marzena Simpson

Nadia Henderson

Alison Furminger

Tūī (Year 3-4)

Holli Willams/Jamie Power

Kate McLean

Kelly Williams

Michelle Hollard/Jess Davidson 

Kererū (Year 4-6)

Felicity Lovell

Greer Dalziel

Alice Daykin-Pont

Conor Burke

Kāhu (Year 7-8)

Jon Mackie/Ruth Hooke

Kate Salisbury

Amy Newman

You will spot three new teachers in our teaching teams - Nadia, Conor and Amy.  We are excited to introduce these fantastic teachers to you and they are all very excited to be coming to Muritai School next year.  With three new arrivals that must mean that we have three departures -  next year Deane McKay is taking a year’s leave to explore teaching in the Northern Territories of Australia with a focus on working with indigenous children. We wish Deane all the very best as he provides some much needed experience and educational service in this area. We farewell Steph Lamborn who is moving to the UK to travel and teach overseas  and lastly Chantel Lyons is pleased to announce a ‘baby Lyon' will be joining the Muritai family early next year, and Chantel has taken the majority of 2020 off as parental leave.  

Ngā manaakitanga,

Bec Power, Principal

FROM THE BOARD

Just a quick note from the Board of Trustees to let you know we have decided not to opt-in to the School Donation scheme that the Government is introducing next year.

Whilst the scheme is for all schools, it is only decile 1-7 schools that will receive funding from Government of up to $150 per child as long as parents and caregivers are not asked for donations. 

As a decile 10 school we are not eligible for this funding. As most will know our school donations are an important part of resourcing and enabling Muritai learners to be the best they can be.

If anyone is interested in more information there was a stuff article about it recently: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/115519668/scrapping-school-donations-closer-as-government-clarifies-rules

Thanks, Muritai School BOT.

FROM THE SCHOOL

NOURISH (HAMPER ELVES) BAKE SALE

The Nourish Bake Sale was a huge success last Friday, raising $768 for Nourish.  This is a great achievement and will hopefully go a little way towards their goal of $75,000 to be able to provide the 500 hampers they are hoping to send out to families at Christmas.  Thank you to everyone who helped support the Bake Sale and enjoyed the delicious baking.

KERERU (YEAR 5 AND 6) SPEECH COMPETITION

We have found our finalists for the 2019 Kereru Speech Competition. The speech competition final will be held on Tuesday 12th November from 1.30pm in the school hall.

The following students will be contesting for 'best Y5 and Y6 speech' as well as 'overall champion' (RD Harrison trophy):

Year 5s...

Ruby Martin

Eloise Bothwell

Chloe Hammond

Millie Bonifant

Year 6s...

Luca Marshall

Hunter Chapman

Issy Fogarty

Matty Miller

Max Bentley

You are welcome to attend!

Nga mihi, Mr. McKay

HATS PLEASE

Please remind your child/ren to bring a wide brimmed hat to school so that they can play safely out on the playground or field.

MURITAI MATHS EVENING - BANGERS AND MATHS 

You might have seen some information in the school newsletter or received an invitation about the upcoming Bangers and Maths Family Evening. It is an evening of information, fun, challenge and learning about how we teach maths at Muritai School. Come and hear from our Maths Advisor Julie Roberts and the School Maths Team about maths best practice and pedagogy, then see it in action where the children will share with you some knowledge based maths games.

Who: Children and Parents/Caregivers

When: Week 5 Wednesday 13th November, 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Where: School Hall

How: 5:00pm - 5:30pm Sausage in bread outside the hall, 5:30pm - 5:50pm an introduction to Muritai Maths with Julie Roberts and the Maths Team, 5:50pm - 6:20pm showcase of maths in classrooms (student led), 6:20pm - 6:30pm collection of your Bangers and Maths goody bags full of fun maths games and activities for home :)

Don't forget to bring in your prize draw slip that was on the bottom of your Bangers and Maths invitation. There will be a box to enter this into in they foyer for a chance to win a great pack of family board games and home maths equipment etc!

For our information about attendance and sausages to purchase, can you please click on this link and fill out a quick survey

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdETV3045_ErcFJpvDh5BcYlnaXSX8G2hA6Vfv5-ulwxGwd1w/viewform?usp=sf_link

Thanks,  The Maths Team (Jamie, Jon, Greer, Marzena, Bec and Julie) 

SPORT

Summer Netball

This term we have three netball teams playing at Taita Courts for the next 6 weeks. They are two weeks in and loving it. Thanks to Jane Llyod-Evans for kick starting this and giving more children the opportunity to play Netball!

Touch Rugby

Wow what a start to the season! Our first game was last week with the majority of the teams having a win on the board. The children are loving it. We have 118 children playing, so over a quarter of the school! It's great to see all the Muritai school sports uniforms dominating the view at Hutt Park on a Friday night.

Athletics

This week was our Inter School Athletics competition. Muritai had 81 students qualify and ready to set their mark against the other schools in the zone. 

The day was not as bright as we would have liked it, a lot of cloud cover overhead and a LOT of wind. With all this to deal with our students still excelled with 52 qualifying for the Inter Zone competition which will be held on Tuesday 19th November at Hutt Rec. Attached arel the students that qualified and their results which is something to be proud of.

Thanks to all the parents that came along and helped on the day. We will need you again on the 19th!!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qPKYIxEvEH1ykYTBPQ-cLzOsuY6hZpID3lAD417FyO0/edit?usp=sharing

ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE FOR CHRISTMAS IS COMING!

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Easy to buy, easy to use and packed with 12 months’ worth of savings, the new range of Entertainment Memberships are set to be a popular addition under the Christmas tree.

Available from 18 November.

* multi options to include single city and multi city/country

* easy app purchase only (no books), membership emailed instantly

* 12 months validity from activation date

A percentage of proceeds will go towards Home & School fundraising at Muritai School.

More details to follow in November!

Term Dates 2020

Term dates for 2020 have been confirmed by our Board of Trustees as follows:-

Term 1   Wednesday 5 February to Thursday 9 April

Term 2   Tuesday 28 April to Friday 3 July

Term 3   Monday 20 July to Friday 25 September

Term 4   Monday 12 October to Thursday 17 December

TERM 4 2019 DATES
15 Nov	Whole school assembly - Kororā led
19 Nov	Inter Zone Athletics
21 Nov	Postponement day Inter Zone Athletics
26 Nov	Wellesley Cricket exchange Year 5’s
27 Nov	Starting School at 5 Information Evening 7-8pm
29 Nov	Whole school assembly - Kererū led
1 Dec	Abel Tasman camp for year 8’s
3 Dec	Regional Athletics
4 Dec	Postponement day Regional Athletics
10 Dec	Y8 Gardasil vaccination
11 Dec	Kererū Triathlon
11 Dec	BOT meeting at 6.15pm
17 Dec	Year 8 Formal
19 Dec	Leavers Assembly at 11am
19 Dec	School closes at 1pm

  

COMMUNITY NOTICES

EASTBOURNE SWIM CLUB

Registrations for the Eastbourne Swim Club are open! Our first club night is Thursday 14th November and we will run to 19 December, then resume after the holidays on the 6th February to 5th March. Our club meets at the Eastbourne Summer Pool.  Click here to register. Alternatively, we will be at the pool from 10am-12pm when it opens on 9th November to take registrations and answer questions. Pool entry is free this day so come along for a swim! As always, classes are allocated on a first in first served basis. Eastbourne Swim Club runs affordable lessons for children aged 5-12 years on Thursday’s during term time over the summer months. It’s a local club run by a committee made up of volunteer parents. The club would benefit from a few more committee members and swimming coaches, both poolside and assisting in the water. If this is something you would be interested in finding out more about we would love to hear from you. We are looking forward to a fantastic season this year and hope to see you all there. You can email us at eastbourneswimclub@gmail.com or check out our Facebook page.  Eastbourne Swim Club Committee BUTTERFLY CREEK THEATRE TROUP - A FARMHOUSE CALLED SHELTER Love a gritty drama full of suspense? Have an interest in history? Want a love story, politics and a thriller all rolled into one? Then you are bound to enjoy this WORLD PREMIER, written by local playwright Michaeljohn Butcher. Eastbourne’s Butterfly Creek Theatre Troupe’s production of A Farmhouse Called Shelter is set on The Falklands amidst the war between Britain and Argentina in 1982. A story of bravery, escape, dreams and love. https://www.facebook.com/events/2840080202746178/?event_time_id=2840080209412844 Beginning on November 21, the play has six performances in the Muritai School Hall, Eastbourne.  This is a play for mature audiences who love thrillers, suspense, gritty drama and a slice of history.  Tickets can be purchased from Eventfinda.com and Rona Gallery in Eastbourne. The opening night includes a glass of bubbles and a cushion to hold!   Lottie Butcher- Publicity NANNY AVAILABLE I’m a nanny with 16 years experience. Currently with my family of 8 years in Lower Hutt.  Sadly they are moving so I’m looking for a new family in the new year.  I have cared for all ages full or part time, before and after school.  Have great references and policed checked.  Looking forward to hearing from you. Michele Parlett (0273076244)