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.

Week 6!

Maths- We have a focus week on mult/div.

Science - Students are testing different forms of paper planes. What forces are acting on them? How can we measure and record the data.

Reading - Guided group work continues...

Writing - A big focus on sentence structure, presentation and punctuation this week!

Sausage Sizzle: Every Friday, there will be a sausage sizzle at school, fundraising for the Borough Bus. Forms + money to the office.

A reminder that there is a Teacher only day on Tuesday 2nd June- No school the day after King's Birthday.

Enjoy the long weekend, 

Anna Davies

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.

Good morning,

Lateness - we have a number of children arriving daily well after our 8.55am start. 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. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help support this. 

Junior Assembly - Rimu will be hosting Junior Assembly on Tuesday 26 May at 2.30pm. Everyone is welcome to come and share in our learning. 

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.

Lucky Book Club: Orders are due by 29 May.

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

Rimu Reporters / News Days:

Week 6 - If I had a million dollars

Week 7 - What’s the best gift you’ve ever received?

Week 8 - Your favourite ice cream flavour

Week 9 - What’s your favourite thing to do in the summer

Week 10 - What’s your favourite thing to do in the winter?

Week 11 - Mystery Eggs/Clues

If you have any questions or concerns, please make contact via email rebekah.clement@ashborough.school.nz

Ngā mihi,
Rebekah

Upcoming dates:

26 May - Junior Assembly - Rimu
1st June- Kings Birthday- no school
2nd June- Teacher Only Day - no school

Kia ora, 

I've just had a message from Claudia about Cross Country tomorrow, 

"Unfortunately the weather at the moment for tomorrow is not looking fantastic in the afternoon. I know there is alot of organising that goes into changing buses etc if we were to postpone. My thought at the moment with the rain is that it is expected to be heavy at 4pm so there is a gamble there that it could come earlier and make those last races quite difficult. 
I am going to touch base with some people today for some advice on what to do and will send an email out at 1pm today if we are needing to postpone. "

If you hear from me again it will be postponed till Thursday, if you don't hear from me it will be on tomorrow the 26th May

Thanks

Ella