25 May 2017

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK...........

Dear Parents, Caregivers & Community members

Kia ora kotou on a beautiful, sunny late Autumn day. It’s hard to believe the 1st of June is nearly upon us. If you know of any new families moving to the Woodlands area on Gypsy Day, please do encourage them to get in touch with us to come and have a look around.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the survey we sent out about the school swimming pool. We received many excellent ideas and comments. One of the main points made was that the community should be involved in the running of the pool. The Board of Trustees is now going to set up a committee consisting of some trustees, staff, PTA and community representatives. If you would like to be part of this group, please let Nicky in the office know. We would appreciate your input into developing a plan for the pool going forward and making things happen.

Congratulations to last week’s winner of the Principal’s Award for

Caring, Grace Hourston. Grace has such a happy, positive

attitude. She gives everything 100%. Grace has a lot of friends

because she is so kind, caring and considerate.

There are a lot of bugs around just now. Please remember that children should stay at home if they are not very well. Up until now we have been providing tissues for classrooms and it is phenomenal just how quickly we go through these!! It would be helpful if you could provide your child with a named small box of tissues to keep in their desk or tote tray for their own use.

This week is Bully Free NZ week. Go to the website www.bullyingfree.nz. It has a helpful

section for parents & whanau. There is some excellent information to help everyone

understand what bullying is and what can be done about it. I encourage you to have a

look. Bullying is something we take seriously at school and later this year we will teach the

Police Education anti-bullying programme Kia Kaha.

Have a great week and may your June 1st dairy farm activities go smoothly.

Regards

Fiona

26 May Fruit Orders due 12pm Pita Pit delivered www.lunchonline.co.nz 29 May Bookbus 2 -4pm 30 May Fruit Orders delivered 31 May PTA AGM 7pm (please note change of date) 5 June Queen’s Birthday (school closed) 9 June Southern Zone Cross Country (Woodlands Ag Research Station) 12 June BOT Meeting 7pm 16 June Pita Pit delivered www.lunchonline.co.nz 7 July End of Term 2 24 July Start of Term 3

School banking is done every Tuesday morning through ANZ Bank. If you would like an application form for an ANZ Bank account for your

child/ren, ring the bank on 0800 269 296.

The following awards were presented at assembly

last week:

Learning Certificates: Whio Room Lachlan McIntyre & Lottie Ward

Kakapo Room Nell Johnston Pukeko Room Mackenzie Milne Tui Room Olivia Burgess Kea Room Brendon Bagaoisan

Values Certificates: Whio Room Melissa Crean & Ella Dillon Kakapo Room Jack Brock Pukeko Room Ben Topp Tui Room Harrison Milne Kea Room Elvis Kunisch

Principal’s Award for Caring Grace Hourston Spirit of a Nation Daniel Crack

NETBALL Y5-6 Future Ferns Netball Results for Tuesday 23rd May: Woodlands won 16 – 2 against St Patrick’s Steel. Player of the Day was Blake Shaw. Next week they will play St Theresa’s Silver at 4:10pm on Court 7. HOCKEY Y1/2 were a bye so did not play. Y3/4 won 5 – 4 against Windsor North Yellow Yaks. Player of the Day was Cammy (Tokanui School). Y5/6 drew 2 – 2 with SACS Cheetahs. Player of the Day was Manea (Tokanui School).

Parents, please let the school know when your child is absent. When a child is not at school, and we don’t know why, Nicky has to spend quite a bit of time ringing parents. This is a “must do” for the safety of your children. If ringing the school is not always the easiest option, you can email office@woodlandsprimary.school.nz or text us on 027 758 1503.

Pita Pit Lunches

Delivered Friday 26th May Order online until

9am TOMORROW Friday 26th May www.lunchonline.co.nz

We hope this photo helps you put faces to names.

Back L-R: Fiona Murray (Principal), Arjan van der Straaten (Chair), Rangi Winiata, Nicky Wallace (Minute Secretary), Jenane McMurdo, Barry Crean Front L-R: Joyce Wakelin (Staff Rep), Linnet Burns, Lisa

Stuart

Wednesday 31st May 7pm Woodlands School All Welcome – a special warm welcome extended to all the new Woodlands families ☺

Room Kea (5 year olds) This Term we are doing science experiments. We are learning about chemical and

physical changes.

One of the experiments we did was to see the chemical change that occurs when

you mix baking soda with vinegar. This produces bubbling which is the carbon

dioxide gas being released.

our thanks to Max Anderson & Ray McKay,

your friendly rural delivery mailmen, for

donating their time to deliver our

Community Newsletter

CHILD CARE AVAILABLE Before and After School Woodlands Village area Ph Hazel 027 928 0934

Southern Zone

Extra Cross Country Training Sundays 9am

Seaward Bush

(Mason Road, off Mill Road South)

Led by Sports Co-ordinator,

Snow Devery

Parent and Teenager help welcome

KAPA HAKA Our students have formed a Kapa Haka group and intend to enter Polyfest this year. They wonder if anyone in the community is able to help with costume making/weaving.

Please contact Tina Tuliau or Amy Kerlsake if you can help.

Room Whio (10 - 13 year olds)

Room Whio has enjoyed getting outside during learning time, making the most of the cool autumn mornings before winter sets in. We decided to produce some artwork that was reflective of autumn. We talked about the types of colours that you generally see in autumn (warm colours) such as

orange, reds, yellows and browns of all shades and tones. We have produced some Aboriginal Autumn Leaf Art, combining autumn colours with the dot technique used by the Aborigines in Australia. We then mounted our leaves onto cooler colours to show the difference between the changing seasons. As we found out, using the techniques of Aboriginal artists takes a lot of time and patience but our persistence certainly paid off. Check out our AMAZING works of art!

This term Room Kakapo has been taking part in a variety of exciting chemistry experiments. We have learnt

about chemical changes and physical changes as well as lots of new science vocabulary when observing materials

as they react with each other.

“We placed an egg into

vinegar for 3 days. When we removed it we could rub off the shell and the egg felt squishy. Our egg could

bounce a metre high before splitting!” By Nell Johnston

“My favourite experiment so far has been the lava lamps because I loved it when the bubbles of oil floated up to the surface of the water. The oil is less dense than the water so it floats on top.” By Tessa Burgess

“In the fizzing and foaming

experiment the cup overflowed

because the vinegar and the

baking soda reacted and

produced carbon dioxide gas.”

By Taine Byrne

“We made raisins dance in

lemonade. The carbon dioxide

bubbles latched onto the surface

of the raisins making them float

to the top of the glass. When the

bubbles popped, the raisins sunk”

By Michael Crean

Room Kakapo (8-10 year olds)

Room Pukeko (6-7 year olds)

This term our inquiry focus is

Science: Chemistry. We began it with a BOOM and

BANG! Using a combined mixture of paint and citric acid, we made paint bombs. We observed and

described the process of what happened inside the container until it finally exploded high into the sky.

Check out our super exploding

paint bomb art below!

At the end of last term Room Tui created some Easter art. We created Easter art so the Easter Bunny would come and visit us. And he did!!

Room Tui (5-6 year olds)