Calendar: Calendar: Calendar: Calendar:: 10 February 2012
Calendar: Calendar: Calendar: Calendar:: 10 February 2012
Calendar: Calendar: Calendar: Calendar:: 10 February 2012
10 February 2012
Calendar:
Pita Pit Orders Every Monday Sushi Orders $5 Every Tuesday Subway Orders Every Wednesday Sausage Sizzle Every Friday $1.50 each 16 FebHouse Captains Leadership Day 16 FebCamp Helpers Meeting 21 FebYr 5/6 Road Patrol Training 22/23 Feb Three Way Interviews 12 MarBOT Meeting 20 Mar Athletics Day 31 Mar or 1 April Southland Athletics Day
Welcome back to another exciting year of teaching and learning, we trust that your child has experienced a smooth and happy start to the academic year. The Salford staff attended 3 days of professional learning prior to school opening. We joined with Waverley Park and Bluff Community schools for a workshop with Karen Boyes titled Enhancing Effective Classroom Dialogue. This covered a variety of strategies and timely reminders for teachers about strategies to implement in the classroom environment to create more opportunities for students to learn. One of the key messages for parents and caregivers is that Repetition is King. We are planning parent information evenings on how you can help at home, our whole school homework programme will encompass repetition of Basic Facts, Reading and Spelling. The reading can be either you reading to and with your child, your child reading independently or to you. Flash Cards These are a precious resource and must be returned or you will be charged $5.00 per set. They will be repeated sets of Numeracy Knowledge, necessary for instant recall, speed and accuracy. This knowledge is vital for all students, to scaffold Numeracy operations and strategy on. Your assistance in revisiting these is vital. The National Standards that all New Zealand schools are required to report student achievement on, mean that we will require an effective working partnership with home and school. Please ask us at any time if you have questions about your childs learning. Homework should only ever be age appropriate. For example if your child is in year 1-2 they should spend 6 minutes maximum on learning. Remember Homework should NEVER be stressful. The brain requires rest time and down time to process the learning of the day. Stress and subsequent adrenaline is detrimental to storing and processing information. We are going to use a new spelling programme called Switched on to Spelling. Years 1 2 will be learning high frequency words, and then lists associated with the sound. Mr Hanna is testing Year 3 6 students, when the baseline testing is completed, All students will have words to learn weekly. We have started our school year with a 3 week Art Attack. Each teacher has selected an artist and they are analysing and discussing their techniques and style. You will hopefully hear about this from your child, as they are all engaged and excited about this new learning! Our Term 1 Inquiry will then begin, this is a Health & Physical Education throughline:
STAFF 2012
Marlene Campbell Craig Tucker Paula Wheeler Emma Trotter Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Room 5 Room 6 Room 7 Room 8 Room 10 Room 11 Darryl Mulvey Sharon Faul Jo Turner Gaye, Julie & Angela Principal Deputy Principal Assistant Principal Senior Leadership team Emma Trotter/ Louise Rutledge Tracy Sherlock Tegan Smithies Jan Bartlett Nicole McMath Craig Tucker Tyler Allen Sharon Soper Monique Stevenson Paula Wheeler / Hayley Paterson (3rd Yr Student) Learning Support teacher Reading Recovery / ESOL Numeracy Support Teacher Aides
Provisional Release teachers Phillippa Macdonald, Merv Hanna, Donna McKenzie, Heidi Gentle and Lisa Tou Office Manager After School Care Caretaker Judi Devine Gaye / Gaylene Norman Shaw
AFTER SCHOOL CARE REMINDER If your child is booked into after school care you MUST advise the school if they are not attending. STUDENT ABSENCES
If your child is going to be absent, please call the School Office and advise before 9:00am so the Class teacher can be advised for roll marking.
SPORTS REGISTRATIONSTERM 1:
Touch Football Competition commences
Wednesday, 15th February
Junior Flippa Ball Competition commences Friday, 17th February Senior Flippa Ball Competition commences Friday, 17th February Cricket: Competition commences Yr4/5/6 - Friday 17th February Kiwi 8sMonday 13th February Have a GoSaturday 18th February Thank you to everyone who has put in their registration for sport early. For organisational purposes this has been very helpful. If you still have to do thisthen this
GECKO BABIES
Normie and Maisie are the proud parents of 2 baby Geckos! They have been in the wonderful care of Mr Melgren, our resident Gecko Expert ( AKA Steve Irwin). They are being kept in a separate house in case the adults eat them! We require live Moths for the Geckos, as long as you are in a spray free environment. We are seeking names for the babies! Place your suggestions in the box on the counter in the office. We dont know yet if they are girl/boy so think really hard for names that are very special. Competition closes Friday 24 February.
Term 1 Week 2
.ACCOUNTS
SUPPLEMENT
10 February 2012
Term 1 Donation accounts along with Reading Log, and New Entrant Stationery accounts will be issued in Week 3. If you have any queries please contact the office.
Your support is appreciated by the Board of Trustees in bringing the many varied and extra programmes throughout the year.
REMINDER TO ALL
All forms, notices etc are loaded on the Salford School website. If your child misses a newsletter, class notice, or sports noticeplease visit www.salford.school.nz and you will be able to down load.