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 Ruben Ackerman, Elisabetta McDonald, Liam
Riley, Sam Delaney to Room, Lily Phipps, Nicole Bradley,Eben Harris, Lucas
Langland and Harri Hayes to Room; Margreta Beatson to Room 13, Alexander
Beatson and Ruby Martin to Room 16, Millicent Martin to Room 11, Craig Curwen to
Room 6, Alex Curwen to Room 14 as well as Quin Eldridge-Fright, Liam
Eldridge-Fright and Wynter Eldridge-Fright who have returned to Muritai after a
stint in Europe.
FROM
THE PRINCIPAL
Tena
koutou Muritai families,
I hope
you all had a wonderful Queen’s birthday weekend last weekend - winter has most
certainly arrived in Eastbourne this week, and days like today remind us of the
ability for the weather to change suddenly! Let’s hope some of this sunshine
carries through to the weekend ahead.
Board
of Trustees
As
our voting has just closed at noon, and we await the final postal votes before
announcements can be made next week, I want to acknowledge and thank our
current Board of Trustees. Nigel Cass (Chairperson), Miki Szikszai,
Andrew Saunderson, Mary Longmore, Louise Marsden and Deane McKay finish their
current trusteeship next week, when the new Board take office on the 14th of
June. It has been my pleasure to work alongside them as trustees over the
years, and on behalf of the community I thank them for their care, their
commitment and their mahi in enabling Muritai School to grow from strength to
strength under their governance.
There
is one final meeting for our current board, a social/transition/handover catch
up to welcome our new Board into office on the 20th June - our current nominees
may like to pencil this date into their calendars.
PB4L
As you would have read in our last
newsletter, Muritai School is excited to be part of the PB4L (Positive Behaviour
for Learning) initiative offered and funded by the Ministry of Education this
year. PB4L School-Wide looks at behaviour and learning from a
whole-of-school as well as an individual child perspective.
Our first task was to write our
‘purpose statement’ for PB4L. We have done this in as a PB4L team, then
have gone out for consultation with our full staff and Board of Trustees.
Following this, our PB4L team (Chantel, Dean, Kate, Steph, Michelle,
Felicity and myself) have worked through the feedback received, and we now
present the purpose statement for parent feedback as the completion of this
consultation.
We now invite you to complete this
survey as part of our consultation process on our PB4L purpose statement. Your
voice is important, as it will determine the PB4L focus for Muritai School.
PB4L
Purpose Statement draft:
At Muritai School, we Explore, Connect, and Contribute to develop a school wide
culture where we can Be the Best we can Be. We do this by having visible
inclusive expectations to ensure our learners thrive as they progress and
achieve in our community-centred school.
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Please
click on this link to record any thoughts or feedback. https://forms.gle/i8M4UwbVNj5DQvab6
(The
survey link is open for one week - and closes on the 14th June)
Staffing
Next
week we farewell Nicolette Fisher as she has won a position at East Harbour
Kindergarten. Nicolette has worked with us for over two years at Muritai,
starting as a beginning teacher, and is now transitioning to the Kindy as a
fully certified teacher. We wish Nicolette well for her move down the
road, and although we are sorry to lose Nicolette, we are excited - along with
the Kindy, as to the opportunity this offers our wider school community to
further boost our connection between Kindy and School. Room 2 will
continue to be taught by Liz Sullivan, who takes over the main teaching role,
supported by Margs Mills.
The
junior syndicate will farewell Nicolette at their junior assembly on Tuesday
afternoon.
Generous
Donation to Muritai School
Ngā
manaakitanga,
Bec
Power, Principal
FROM THE SCHOOL
Strike for Climate Change
“2 4
6 8 SAVE THE EARTH IT’S NOT TOO LATE!”
On
May 24 2019 we, Nicolas Walcott and Cameron Johns, participated in the
Wellington Climate Change March.
“We
felt like we had to march on parliament to get the government to do something.”
“It
was very crowded marching but I felt like we achieved something.”
We
learnt that we only have 12 years to act before our actions will do nothing to
stop climate.These are the things you can do to help to stop climate change:
- Get an
electric car.
- Get a
hybrid(half petrol half electric) car.
- Pick up
plastic.
- Vote for
people who care about the environment.
- Drive less
- Ride a bike.
- Use public
transport.
- Use
renewable-eco friendly power.
- Try not to
buy plastic.
- Stop idling.
- Don't
litter.
- Donate money
to organizations that care about the environment.
- Support the
environment
the video of our climate march (- see Nicolas and Cameron at 45 seconds)
By
Nicolas Walcott and Cameron Johns (Kereru syndicate)
ROAD
PATROL - ADULT HELPER NEEDED
I
am looking for an adult who would be able to do road patrol on Muritai Road on
a Thursday afternoon 2.45 - 3.05 p.m. from Term 3. If you are able to do this
please contact Maureen Buckley on buckley@muritai.school.nz
INTER
SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY
Last
week we had 80 students attend the Inter School Cross Country event. These students
did extremely well with 42 qualifying for the Inter Zone Cross Country Event
coming up on the 18th June. Well Done to all the students that competed, they
did themselves, their families and Muritai School proud. Good luck to the
athletes moving through to next event!
Some
great results:
Year
4 Girls
2nd
Place - Elodie Dent
3rd
Place - Mia Oliver
Year
4 Boys
1st
Place - Lars Meyer-Westfield
Year
5 Girls
1st
Place - Izzy Lewis
2nd
Place - Willa Velvin
Year
5 Boys
1st
Place - Noah Carian
Year
6 Girls
1st
Place- Edith Janssen
Year
6 Boys
2nd
Place - Aubrey Chunga
SCHOLASTIC
BOOK ORDERS
Scholastic
Issue four is now available and orders will be closing on Friday the 21st of
June. Your order can be done either online at this link https://mybookclub.scholastic.co.nz/Parent/Login.aspx or by filling in the paper form in the catalogue and
sending it with the payment back to the school office. Please make payment by
cheque to Scholastic NZ as unfortunately we do not accept cash payments through
the school.
STARTING
SCHOOL AT FIVE
The
'Starting School at Five' information evening will be next Wednesday June 12th
at 7 p.m. in the school staffroom. Parents of pre-schoolers about to turn five
are cordially invited to attend. For any questions please contact Maureen
Buckley buckley@muritai.school.nz or Jess Richards jrichards@muritai.school.nz
LOOKING
TOWARDS 2020
If
you have a preschool child who will be turning five between now and December
2020 and would like them to attend Muritai School or have any questions
regarding this, please contact our school office on 04 562 8409 or Maureen
Buckley on buckley@muritai.school.nz to ensure their name is on our
list. Please also let your neighbours know especially if their child attends
preschool out of the Eastbourne area.
TERM 2 2019 DATES
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11 June
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Year 7/8 Basketball
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18 June
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Walk and Talk with Bec Power
(9am)
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18 June
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Inter-Zone Cross Country
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20 June
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PP date for Inter-zone Cross
Country
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20 June
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BOT Meeting 6.15pm
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2 July
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Regional Cross Country
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2 July
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Walk and Talk with Bec Power
(9am)
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5 July
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Last day of Term 2
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22 July
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First day of Term 3
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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
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