Kia ora, 

Thank you to Pōhutukawa for their assembly last week. We welcome student teacher Mrs Escudero from the college who is working with Manuka over the next five weeks. Congratulations to all those who competed at Counties in the cross country today. 

Upcoming dates:

1st June- Kings Birthday- no school

2nd June- Teacher Only Day- no school

5th June- School Disco

3rd July- Last day of Term 2.

Kind regards,

Jason 

Kia ora whanau,

Welcome to week 6!

Teacher Only Day: Tuesday 2 June. This makes for a 4 day weekend over Kings Birthday weekend.

Tissues: As we move into the season of sniffles and coughs, we would appreciate it if each student could bring along a box of tissues for the classroom. Thank you.

Sausage sizzle:  Sausage sizzle - Your child will have come home last week with a paper slip for ordering sausages on a Friday for this term. All the relevant information is on the slip. Spare slips are at the office. Forms and money are to be dropped to the office please.

Lucky Book Club: Orders are due by 29th May.

Have a great week!

Ngā mihi,
Amy

Upcoming dates:
1st June- Kings Birthday- no school
2nd June- Teacher Only Day

Kia ora,

Cross Country is on today- I know it is raining but the call yesterday is we go ahead. Please let me know ASAP if your child is needing to be taken down to the Showgrounds. Otherwise students are meeting up at the office at 12:15.

Students need to wear appropriate footwear and have a change of clothes if they get wet. 

I will be at the bottom of the stands handing out their name badge. This is the entry into the event. 

Please send me an email or contact the school phone if you need me

Ella Shapland

ella.shapland@ashborough.school.nz

Hi Everyone,

Just a few events to give you a heads up about.

Science Fair

All the Harakeke students are going to be carrying out a science investigation which will then be exhibited at the local Science Fair to be held in Term 3. At this stage they have been asked to come up with an idea of something they are keen to investigate, in the form of a question. Their topic will then be okayed by Tania and I, and we will guide them through the process. It is expected that most of the work will be done at school. Here is a link to a set of criteria that I think is similar to what will be expected for the local Fair: Science Fair Criteria

Matariki Sleep Over & Breakfast

We have started planning for this event to be held on July 2-3 at the end of this term. We thought we would start with a simple pizza dinner (or similar), some night activities and a sleepover in the classrooms for those students who are keen. We will need 2 or 3 adults to stay with us as well. We would then get up the next morning in time to (hopefully) view the Matariki (Pleiades) star cluster and then invite all families to a shared Matariki breakfast. Times and more details will be sent out soon.

Epro8 Competition

Our Year 5-6 Epro8 team (Raine, Jackson, Angus & Heidi) won the Borough in-school competition last Thursday, and will now be competing against other Ashburton District Schools in the Inter School Competition to be held on the 30th June at Ashburton Intermediate. They will be practicing hard between now and then, and the rest of the class will also have time with the equipment which is a wonderful way to build engineering, problem-solving and team work skills.

Up Coming Dates

1st June: King's Birthday Holiday

2nd June: Staff Only Day (no school for students)

3rd June: Council Rep meeting (Raine & Kacela)

25th June: Lagmhor Assembly

2nd July: Whole School Sleepover (optional)

3rd July: Matariki Breakfast

4 July: School Holidays begin

All the best,

Wendy

Kia ora everyone!

Sausage Sizzle: Your child will have come home with a paper slip for ordering sausages on a Friday for this term. All the relevant information is on the slip. Spare slips are at the office. Forms and money are to be dropped to the office please.

Junior Assembly: This is tomorrow in Rimu class - 2:30pm. You are welcome to join us.

Lucky Book Club: It's the last week for Lucky Book Club! Orders in by Friday.

A reminder that there is a Teacher only day on Tuesday 2nd June - This makes for a 4 day weekend on top of King's Birthday.

A few general notices

• The school day starts at 8:55am. Being in the classroom prior to this time gives students time to settle in and ensures that they do not miss the start of the day notices/routines etc. 
• We have had a few jerseys go missing or be misplaced. Please take the time to name jerseys at home or come see me and I can write it on with a vivid.
• The weather is getting colder and it already seems like there is a lot of bugs going around. Please keep students at home if they are unwell.
• We are a water only school and please no lollies in lunchboxes

As always if you have any questions or concerns, please make contact via email - eirinn.maclean@ashborough.school.nz

Enjoy your long weekend!

Eirinn

Upcoming dates:

1st June- Kings Birthday - no school

2nd June- Teacher Only Day - no school

5th June - School Disco

3rd July - Last day of Term 2.