Newsletter 3, Term 1 Week 6 2020

GAS REPAIRS ON PADNELL CRESCENT

THIS THU 12 MARCH AND FRI 13 MARCH

As advised on Monday, vehicles using Padnell Crescent will be affected by this work between 9 am and 2.30 pm on both days. We ask that those who drive to school please be patient and courteous to the roadworks team. It would help if you avoided coming through this section of the road on these 2 days – allow extra time to park further away and walk. Thank you for your support.

BOARD NEWS

Community Curriculum Evening –

TONIGHT – Wednesday 11 March @ 6 pm

We have had a great number of responses – don’t miss this opportunity to meet the experts working with us to develop our own localised curriculum. Mark Treadwell (C21 Learning), Michelle Thwaites (DIMC maths) and Sarah Aiono (Longworth Education- Learning through Play), will be speaking and answering any questions that you may have. Free childcare is available in the hall for school-aged children whilst parents are at the Community Curriculum Evening – you must have pre-booked a space for your child.

Property Developments

We have been working hard in the background applying for MOE funding to support fencing modifications and a new sensory room for students whose learning would benefit from this. A substantial contract has been awarded to our school and we expect that work will begin in our playground very soon. As soon as the plans have arrived from our property managers, we will display them in the Office area for our community to view. The sunshade sails are also expected to be installed very soon!

Scholastic Book Fair Sales

Thank you to every family purchased from the school’s book fair. We sold an incredible $1500 worth of books, giving us purchasing points to buy new stock for our school library. Thank you for your generosity, especially families who gifted a book purchase to the school. A huge thank you to Claire (our librarian), and Alana (one of our student librarians), for making this such a success.

After School Care Programme (ASC)

Our ASC programme continues to offer our community a wonderful service. We are very pleased to announce that we have filled the supervising role – Frances Prowse has joined the team to share the Supervisor role along with Tonni Wilson, to ensure that we can continue to run this valuable programme. Please note that a holiday programme is not currently offered. 

Term 1 School Policy Reviews

The following policies are being reviewed online at SchoolDocs by our community this term:

• Recognition of Cultural Diversity
• Staff leave
• Separated parents, Day-to-Day care, and guardianship

Please email office@rewarewa.school.nz for login details to SchoolDocs.

Mark Williams (Board Chair), Naomi Godfrey, Ambresh Kapoor & Angela Schleif

COVID-19 Update

For the most up to date information on how schools are preparing for this, please see the letter emailed yesterday, available on the What’s On page of our website under Notices.

If your child is unwell for any reason, please keep them home from school and call or email the Office each day they are away.  There seem to be a high number of children with coughs, colds and sore throats currently. We ask that you keep them comfortable at home until they are feeling well and can return to school.

A warm welcome to Jacob & Khubaib and families.  We hope you enjoy learning at Rewa Rewa School!

Staffing

We welcome Helen Pine as a permanent member to our teaching team. We are in the process of appointing a fixed term teacher for Kahurangi in term 2, whilst Charlotte Hills is Acting Principal. Our principal, Jan Otene, has been awarded a ministry sabbatical to undertake educational study. Her research will look into the types of initiatives used to build our personal Wellbeing skills.

Home & School Parent Group

Our first meeting of the term will be held 6 pm Wednesday 18 March in the staffroom. This is an ideal way to meet other parents at our school and for parents to start to feel that they belong to the school. Everyone is welcome! Existing members – see if you can bring a new person to this meeting.

Naomi Godfrey (Chairperson)

Student Leaders

We congratulate the following students who have been chosen by their classes to be our first student leaders for 2020. They are already starting to plan how they can make a difference in our school:

Raffy (Yr 6), Shadaye (Yr 5), Pranesh (Yr 5), Ananyaa (yr 4), Clara (Yr 3), Mathius (Yr 2)

Peer Mediators

Our Peer Mediators play a huge role in assisting their peers in the playground to resolve any conflict during play. They are easily identified by the yellow vests that they wear whilst on duty and our students know they can approach them at any time for help and support.

Andrew, Ben, Cole, Danny-Lee, Mary, Matilda, Muhummad, Pharoah, Raffy, Teina & TJ

Supporting Students with Talents and Special Abilities

Initiatives such as Otago Maths, EPro8 and Mathswell give our senior students the opportunity to shine in the wider community. Yr 4 – 6 students will again be offered the choice to participate in the Australasian ICAS competition this year. In the past, our students have achieved many High Distinctions and even a gold medal! Watch out for the enrolment form with entry fee information coming home soon.

We encourage all of our students to share their amazing talents with us at either assemblies or in this newsletter. So, don’t forget to let us know!

Happening in Our School

A very enthusiastic Garden Club session – 30 lettuce plants planted, vege plot weeded and the office garden weeded. They were rewarded with the fruits of their labour, eating strawberries, tomatoes and broccoli – yum!