Rosemary Vivien Principal • Edendale Primary School, 419 Sandringham Road, Sandringham, Auckland 1025 Telephone: 09 846 6340 • Facsimile: 09 846 3997 • Email: [email protected]• Website: http://www.edendale.school.nz/ Edendale News THE EDENDALE EXPERIENCE: THINKING, LEARNING, CREATING 2 May 2012 Next issue: 16 May 2012 Principal’s Message Kia ora, Kia orana, Namaste, Talofa lava, Malo e lelei, Ni hao ma, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Asalam alikum! Welcome A warm welcome to all new families who have started at Edendale this term! A special welcome also to our newest staff members; Rosie Cook who is teaching in Room4, Angela Lythgoe who has joined our office staff and Tom Foster, our new caretaker. We are delighted that you have joined our school family and look forward to getting to know you all. Morning tea for parents new to Edendale There will be a morning tea to welcome all families new to Edendale on FRIDAY 18 MAY at 10:15am in the staffroom. Do come along so we can have a chat and get to know you. KnowledgeNET Evening Thank you to the forty-five parents who came along to the parent education evening held in the hall last night to learn about how KnowledgeNET works. We hope you found the evening useful and informative. Our thanks to Annette Herbert and her KnowledgeNET men- tor team for their preparation and presentations. We appreciate the additional work you put in! School Playground After Hours A reminder that our adventure playgrounds will close at 3:30pm daily. Please note that students playing on school equipment after hours must be di- rectly supervised by parents/caregivers. Footsteps Dance Company A teacher from Footsteps Dance Company , (currently setting up in NZ) will be coming to Edendale on the morning of 18 May to give all our students the opportu- nity to participate in a free 30 minute dance lesson. Student groups will be rostered in team/class groups during the morning. Please talk to you child about the lesson afterwards. If there is enough community inter- est, we may be able to offer dance lessons on a regular basis (lunchtime or after school). This would be an at- tend by subscription programme (similar to music/ gymnastics that are currently offered at Edendale). Enjoy your week! Rosemary Vivien, Principal Term Two Community Dates PARENT EDUCATION SEMINAR Coming up next week! Wednesday 9 May 8.30—9.30am Reading Writing Maths (Year 1-3) Bring your queries about core curriculum to the Meeting Room (next to the foyer). All welcome! Jackie Procter will be leading this discussion. Friday 11 May - Reminder! TEACHER ONLY DAY - Students stay home Professional Development: Reporting to families Friday 18 May - 10:15 Staffroom Morning tea for new families Friday 18 May Footsteps Dance Lessons Tuesday 26 June 5:30pm & 7:00pm Hui and Fono Edendale Student Code I am an Edendale student. Therefore, I show respect to everyone; I am kind to others; I behave in a sensible way. I take care of my school, my belongings and the environment. I am honest and reliable; I am responsible for my actions. I have fun with my learning; I participate at school and try my very best!
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Rosemary Vivien Principal • Edendale Primary School, 419 Sandringham Road, Sandringham, Auckland 1025
At the end of Term 1 we celebrated with a cupcake stall and were nearly swamped by the rush! Many a pleased person devoured the delicious passionfruit cupcakes. The cupcakes raised nearly $500 to-wards Garden to Table resources and allowed students and parents from across the classes to sample baking incorporating our orchard harvest.
Show the love! Missed out on a cupcake? Then you’ll know to be quick for the Mothers Day stall, on after school on Wednes-day 9th May. Bring your loose change to buy strawberry plants and preserves - great presents for mum!
Thank you Many thanks to the Telecom Gen-i staff who shoveled, barrowed and raked a huge pile of mulch onto the new Pollinators Gar-den. They enjoyed working alongside staff and students – and were also treated with some of the popular cupcakes!
Thanks too to our weekly volunteers. We’re pleased that all 10 of our
volunteers are coming back for Term 2! We still need a more volun-teers so anyone who’s interested please contact the school office.
What’s a Pollinator Garden?
The sloped garden (beside the drive to the bottom field) will become a lush and flowery year-round refuge for pollinating insects. Flower polli-
nation by insects is essential for many plants to bear fruit, so the more pollinators we entice to the school the better our harvest. This topic will be focused in on Term 3’s ‘Friend or Foe’ theme.
This Term But before we get to Term 3 we have Term 2! Students’ creativ-ity will be coaxed out as they design, build and plant their own
gardens outside classes 23 – 28. In the kitchen students will whiz up some scrummy savory quiches and muffins using the schools’ autumn harvest of pumpkin, broccoli and feijoa. No wonder there’s so much enthusiasm in our classes!
Jodie and Sarah
Yummy Apple Stickers
Last year we raised $500 worth of sports equipment
By collecting yummy apple stickers and bags, let’s see if we can better our total for 2012
Please continue to collect yummy stickers / barcodes from plastic yummy bags.
There will be a surprise for the student and class which collects the most completed sheets.
Students can collect a sheet from the office / or print out a sheet from home on www.yummyfruit.co.nz
EDENDALE ARTISTS at OKRA
1-24 June
Okra Espresso Lounge & Gallery
A worm’s eye view of our orchard and
edible gardens by 5-year-old photog-
raphers in Year One! Go for coffee and
see the exhibition! Opens 5pm 31 May
Rosemary Vivien Principal • Edendale Primary School, 419 Sandringham Road, Sandringham, Auckland 1025
If you know your child will be absent from school during term time, you must send a letter to the office
explaining the reason for the absence. If your child is absent for more than 20 days, you need to bring a
current rates, power or phone bill in to the school office on the first day that your child returns to school
to confirm that you still reside within our school zone. This proof of address must be no older than one
month and we do not except photocopies or downloaded copies. Your child will not be able to attend
class until we have seen this documentation. Thank you for your co-operation.
Newsletter Delivery
Our newsletter is distributed fortnightly. Families
who do not have email at home will continue to
receive a paper copy. If you do have an email
address and do not receive an electronic copy,
please contact the school office with your child’s
name, room number and your email address.
Year 3 and 4
Thanks to all the girls who turned up on Monday for our first set of trials. What a great response! This year, due to parent interest, we have decided to put together a Year 3 and 4 netball team. This will be during school lunchtimes, where the girls will practice and hopefully play in an inter-school competition, with 4 teams playing each other in rotation every second week. This will run over Terms 2 and 3. Girls will be expected to turn up for trainings and games every Monday after lunch eating time. They will need to bring sports shoes (no jandals), a drink bottle and a great attitude. Parent help is welcome. Please see Libby Snushall in Room 28 or email on [email protected] if interested.
Pastel and Dye – By Room 3
Last term we were learning about sustainabil-
ity. We decided to use insects as inspiration for
our art work.
Andrew Rm 3
Mahnaz Rm 3
Georgia Rm 3
Fran Rm 3
Netball 2012
Year 5 and 6 We had a great turn out for our netball trials the first week back of term one. There was a lot of talent which made it hard to pick our two teams. Our teams are as follows The following girls are in the A team (Year 6): Eva (Rm 25), Alyssa (Rm 26), Zoe (Rm 25), Lydia (Rm 25), Rose (Rm 25), Una (Rm 27), Katie (Rm 28), Maddison (Rm26), Caprice (Rm 27), Zheina (Rm26), Terry (Rm 26) The following girls are in the B team (Year 5 & 6): Winona (Rm 25), Kaisarina (Rm 25), Caroline (Rm 23), Lina (Rm 25), Emily (Rm 23), Letele (Rm25), Siutaisa (Rm 26), Rebecca (Rm 26), Joan (Rm 23), Ella (Rm 27) Thank you to the parents who have volunteered to help with coach-ing and managing our teams this year. It is wonderful to have the support and give our girls the opportunity to play. A big thank you to our team coaches and managers
Coach A: Miss Snushall Manager A: Bridgit Williams Umpire A: Sana Finch Coach B: Folole Sialafau Manager B: Catherine Oxenham Umpire B: Folole Sialafau
Committee members: Kathryn Wealthall and Catherine Oxenham Games will begin on Saturday 12th May at Mt Roskill Intermediate.
CLASS GROUP
PHOTOGRAPHS
Class photos will be taken on Wednesday
23 May 2012
Rosemary Vivien Principal • Edendale Primary School, 419 Sandringham Road, Sandringham, Auckland 1025
