Jump Rope for Heart COMING UP WED 28 OCTOBER Board Meeting at 7:30pm THU 29 OCTOBER World Vision Choir Rehearsal and Performance Tip Top Factory Trip Rms 30 and 6B Waterwise Room 6O FRI 30 OCTOBER Sports and Cultural Photos Tip Top Factory Trip Rms 6G, 6S and 5G MON 2 NOVEMBER Tip Top Factory Trip Rms 5B and 5S TUE 3 NOVEMBER Junior Cross Country WED 4 NOVEMBER Botanic Garden Trip Rms 36, 24, 4 and 5 FRI 6 NOVEMBER Tip Top Factory Trip Rms 5O and 6O
The children had a wonderful time participating in their Skip-a-thon. Many children had practised their skipping and got to show their skipping skills during the Skip-a-thon. It is now time for the children to collect their sponsorship money and bring it to school in the Jump Rope for Heart fundraising envelope. If you haven’t got the envelope, any envelope will do. Thank you for supporting this fundraising event. Mrs Stott and Room 21 - Jump Rope for Heart organisers
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FOCBS MEETINGS THURSDAY 26 NOVEMBER
WELCOME Jimmy Lyons Jaybee Ko Michelle Li Daisy Gibbes
TERM DATES TERM FOUR 2015 12 October – 17 December TERM ONE 2016 2 February – 15 April
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Reminders
This is a 'hat term.' Please ensure your child has their named school hat at school every day. For the sake of safety we ask that you inform us ahead of time if your child is not going to be at school. Please use either the designated telephone number (410 9551) or the absence option on the tiqbiz school app. Haven't downloaded the app yet? Please see below how to do this. The app is an important communication tool.
Carless Day Challenge Wednesday 11 November On Wednesday 11 November Room 9 is challenging CBS families to avoid using their cars to drop children in the bus bay. It is a ‘Carless Day Challenge! It is a Travelwise challenge! It will be ‘Wacky Wednesday’! We want to give Mr McGowan a day off! If you have to deliver the children to school by car then please drop them off safely in Aberdeen Road, Beach Road or East Coast Road. Can we eliminate cars from the bus bay? Yes we can! You can’t be in the draw for ‘Wacky Wednesday’ prizes if you are spotted getting out of the car in the bus bay. Be Travelwise! Walk, bike, scooter, skate, bus, rideshare or use the Walking School Bus to get to school. Summer is almost here. Exercise is cool!
Important 2015 Dates Tuesday 1 December - Year 6 trip to Rainbows End Friday 4 December - 2016 class placement information to go home to parents Wednesday 9 December - 5.30pm 7.00pm
Year Six Graduation Ceremony (Hall)
Years 0 - 2 end of year concert
5.30pm Years 3 - 6 (including kapa haka) end of year concert 6.20pm
Thank you. Room 9
Year Six Graduation Dinner (PA Rooms)
Friday 11 December - 2015 school reports to go home to parents Monday 14 December - 5.00pm
Start organising your family now! Be cool, please be Travelwise!
Approximate end of concert
Please Note: (1) All times are approximate. (2) Should the weather not allow the concerts to be held on the field the concerts will be held in the hall. Thursday 17 December 12.30pm School year ends with a final assembly on the court area outside the hall or inside the hall if the weather dictates this.
Fireworks Banned The Ministry of Education forbids the use of fireworks on school property. Please respect this rule. Should you see anybody using fireworks on school property please either ask them to move on or contact our security company, Campus Security on 447 3222. Thanks very much.
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Chess Club, Term Four Weekly chess classes have resumed for term four on Tuesday lunchtimes in room 29. All levels catered for except absolute beginners. FOCBS LADIES MOVIE NIGHT 22 OCTOBER
Thanks to all the ladies (and Mr McGowan - we believe he was in his element in a room full of women!), who supported the FOCB fundraiser movie night on Thursday. The movie was great (recommended for those who were not fast enough to secure a ticket). Special thanks to Bronwyn Johnson for making it happen, and to our local businesses for donating the spot prizes.
In term four students will sit official NZCF tests with those passing earning badges and certificates. If your child would like to enrol please collect a form from the school office and return with the term fee of $50.00. Any questions please contact Leonard McLaren on mclaren@actrix.co.nz stating ‘CBS’ in the subject line.
Found School Fleeces We have the following fleeces in the school office with the following names: S Carter size 10 Jayden Scott size 10 Jamie size 8
If you still need to pay for your tickets please do so now so we can finalise the event. We estimate a profit of $800 for the school which is a great result, and these profits will go towards authors for Book Week. FOCBS. Further to the comments from FOCBS, I can recommend The Dressmaker as an entertaining black comedy/drama for both genders! Thanks to FOCBS for organising this event that provided an opportunity for our community to get together. John McGowan.
These children have left the school so possibly these fleeces have been purchased second hand. If they belong to your child please collect from the office ASAP!
Book Fair Dates
CALLING ALL OLD MOBILE PHONES
It’s that time again to rummage around in your drawers and toy boxes and bring into School/Kindergarten/ Creche/Playcentre any unwanted mobile phones you may have at home. It is estimated that each year up to three million phones become obsolete in NZ. Of those only 2% are recycled. Phones collected help our School/Kindergarten/Creche/Playcentre gain valuable rewards and the environment benefits as well keeping our landfills free of mobile phones and their array of hazardous toxic substances. Please drop any unwanted mobile phones you may have in the collection box in the reception area at School /Kindergarten/Creche/Playcentre.
Dates for your diary! Our Campbells Bay school book week and book fair will be held from Monday 30 November to Friday 4 December. Watch out for more information coming soon.
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Service Quality Survey (Parents): Results of the Follow-up Survey Results and analysis from the August survey were shared with our community via a newsletter last term. Following analysis of the survey a further, more specific, survey was conducted to find out more about what parents thought about two domains in the original survey, namely: Reporting to parents of their child’s progress; and how the school can improve in terms of meeting individual needs of their child. The results of this latter survey form an attachment to this report. The leadership team is now analysing the data from this electronic survey to determine areas the school can improve upon. Hence, you can expect further information on plans we have to improve the school’s performance in these two domains. Please watch for this information in upcoming newsletters. To view the data collected from the follow-up survey please refer to the attachment to this newsletter. In summary, the feedback from the follow-up survey to the two domains (as listed above) was generally very affirming but, of course, with room for improvement. Examples: 96.5% ‘felt comfortable and able to contact my child’s teacher about my child for a meeting should I wish to have such a meeting.’ The December written report was found to be ‘very helpful’ by 94.9% of respondents while 89.0% found the ‘next steps form the parent/caregiver interviews are based on to be helpful.’ All very pleasing. Warranting further investigation were the realms of ‘being aware of school programmes that assist specific learning needs’ with 70.9% of respondents agreeing they were aware while only 61.9% agreed the ‘next steps interviews are about the right length: 12 minutes.’ We have a number of work ons and we share our thoughts once we have thoroughly canvassed.
Student Success Ryan Johnson won a silver medal at the National Karate championships last weekend. It was a very proud moment for his parents and they would like to thank the school and Duncan Millward who suggested they get Ryan in to Karate as a good way to learn focus.
Ticket Purchases for APPA Choir Festival Tickets for our big night are still available from Ticketmaster - just enter ‘Town Hall’ in the search engine and the event will come up. We look forward to seeing you all there on Wednesday 18 November - it’s going to be an awesome evening!! Jenny Watt
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Sports News Weekly sports results can be found on the following link: https://sites.google.com/a/cbsprimary.org/campbellsbayschool/sport/sports-results Would all managers of sports teams please email weekly news and results to our new sports email address: sports@campbellsbay.school.nz
Sports/Cultural Photos Friday 30 October This is for all the touch teams, summer hockey, summer netball, gymnastics teams, swimming team, cross country, Mid bays choir, orchestra & world vision.
Touch Rugby Any year 3 or 4 pupil wanting to play Touch Rugby this term please contact sports@campbellsbay.school.nz asap as we have some spaces available. Season runs till 17 December, with games every Thursday at Becroft Park, start times between 3.45pm - 6.15pm depending on age and grade. For more info go towww.localtouch.co.nz
Waterwise Session Dates Term Four Reminder for year six parents of the Waterwise dates for Term Four. Any assistance you can give on these days would be greatly appreciated. Thursday 29 October
Room 6O
Thursday 12 November
Room 6S
Thursday 19 November
Room 6B
Thursday 26 November
Room 6G
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THIS YEAR’S BLOCKBUSTER LINE-UP:
Minions AntMan Fantastic Four Inside Out Jurassic World The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
WILLOW PARK SCHOOL GALA TRADEME CHARITY AUCTIONS FROM THURSDAY 29 OCTOBER @ 9PM over 50 fantastic auctions will go live & run for 10 days - Including a 2015 Volkswagen Comfortline Polo!! Some priced at a $1 RESERVE!! Some with a BUY NOW!! All bidding online. trade.me/willowparkgala www.willowparkgala.org Or come to WILLOW PARK SCHOOL on the GALA DAY Saturday 7 November from 10am to 2pm to view.
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