Rosemary Vivien Principal • Edendale Primary School, 419 Sandringham Road, Sandringham, Auckland 1025

Telephone: 09 846 6340 • Facsimile: 09 846 3997 • Email: office@edendale.school.nz • Website: http://www.edendale.school.nz/

Edendale News

THE EDENDALE EXPERIENCE: THINKING, LEARNING, CREATING

27 June 2012

Next issue: 25 July 2012

Principal’s Message Kia ora, Kia orana, Namaste, Talofa lava, Malo e lelei, Ni hao ma, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Asalam alikum!

Farewell

Friday, 29 June is Sangita Parbhu’s last day at Edendale as she is leaving to teach at another Auckland school; we know she’s looking forward to less travel each day! Our very best wishes go with Sangita and we wish her the very best for her new teaching experiences and the future.

Last week, Ahi Pere resigned from teaching at Edendale for personal reasons; she has been on leave for the past month. We also wish Ahi the very best for the future.

Appointments and Welcome

Sixty further teachers applied for a Y0-1 and a Y2 position when they were re-advertised; we were able to short list four candidates and make three appointments.

Next term we will be delighted to welcome the two new teachers to Edendale who will be joining our team for the final two terms of this year. Shannon Andrews will be teaching our newest Y0-1 class in Room 29. Kirsten Ngan will be teaching in Room 9 in Y2.

Special congratulations to Stephanie Burgess who is currently relieving in Room 20 and has won the Y2 position in Kabila team to start in January 2013.

Three-way Conferences

Thank you so much to our parents and caregivers who came along to Three-way conferences earlier in the week. We believe it’s important to hold these as soon as possible after families receive reports so that students and teachers can share current learning information and you can ask questions. Overall team attendance was as follows:

Hui and Fono

Tuesday night was a busy one for our Maori families many of whom were unable to attend our Hui so we are pleased to reset the date as Tuesday 31 July from 5:30-6:30pm. Team leaders will contact all families early next term.

We had a great response to our Fono; thank to the many families who came along to share discussions about student learning, ask questions and provide us with feedback. We are pleased that the achievement booklets were useful and hope that you take up our offer to hear more about achievement information at up-coming meetings as we discussed.

We will hold end-of-year Hui and Fono in November; more information later.

Community Survey

Thank you to the thirty-six parents who have responded to our community survey to date; we appreciate your feedback. We do hope that many more of you choose to complete the survey; if you would like to complete it at school, please call Zoe in the office and she will arrange a time for you to use a computer. If you would like a paper copy, please telephone Chriss in the office and she will organise a copy to go home with your child.

Please note that the intention of the survey is for families to provide constructive feedback and ask questions about life and learning at Edendale. Please make an appointment to come and have a chat if you have issues or concerns that really worry you. You can also add your name to one of the comment boxes with a contact phone number if you wish to have one of our senior leaders contact you.

Have a safe and enjoyable holiday!

Our teachers will be participating in a professional development programme during the term break; the focus of this will be continued development or our ‘Teaching as Inquiry' at Edendale School. This profes-sional development programme is in its third year and is led by well-known educator Jan Hill from The Education Group.

Rosemary Vivien, Principal

Links

Edendale’s Website

Garden to Table Blog

Garden of Eden Blog

News Blog

School-wide totals

Team Students Caregivers Percentage

Tiaki 61 56 92%

Manuia 69 63 91%

Kabila 88 78 89%

Tarai 96 86 90%

Manaaki 97 85 88%

Endeavour 167 150 90%

School-wide 578 518 90%

Rosemary Vivien Principal • Edendale Primary School, 419 Sandringham Road, Sandringham, Auckland 1025

Telephone: 09 846 6340 • Facsimile: 09 846 3997 • Email: office@edendale.school.nz • Website: http://www.edendale.school.nz/

School Information and Programmes

Edendale Playground

Good Behaviour Tickets

Taonga Winner: Maanav—Rm8

These children were seen...

Keeping our grounds clean: Aditya—Rm25,

Jaden—Rm11, Yusro—Rm22, Cyrus—Rm15, Zi—

Rm13, Sachin—Rm16, Amann—Rm7, Charlie—

Rm5, Sean—Rm28, Samira—Rm19, Denzel—

Rm9, Rodney—Rm11, Nyra—Rm7,

Muhumad—Rm3, Katie—Rm12, Olivia—Rm18,

Laila—Rm18, Yusra—22, Derya—Rm2, Moanav—

Rm8

Playing nicely with others: Amy—Rm20,

Eva—Rm1, Rain—Rm21

Other great behaviour: Nishant—Rm2, Ja-

red—Rm12, Anton—Rm21

Helping others: Sean—Rm28,

Being thoughtful: Samira—Rm19,

Garden to Table It’s a wrap Term Two’s Garden to Table classes are now all completed. Last fortnight’s kitchen classes used the great winter staple spinach to make Greek dolmades. The leaves wrapped a yummy mix of cooked rice, spices and herbs (from our garden, of course), that were then cooked in pureed tomatoes. They were gobbled up very enthusiastically! Newly made beds You may have noticed the three new raised planter boxes outside Room 22. These new additions to Garden to Table have been donated to the school by Marketplace Media, we would like to thank them for their kind donation. In Term Three the garden classes will plant up these beds, preparing for a bumper spring crop. New arrival As you arrive through the front gates you may notice some changes (see the office foyer). The plan Opus has sketched up is now being put into place, starting with a Griselinia hedge. It’s an exciting step towards the front of the school going green. Griselinia is a native plant, low maintenance and clips nicely to form a dense attractive hedge. The Garden to Table team and volunteers have helped get it started, now we’ll like some help to complete it. Everyone’s welcome to be involved! Please con-tact Kim if you are interested kstretton@edendale.school.nz Stay tuned for more cooking and gardening news in Term Three. Jodie, Sarah and Kim

Lost Property

Please check for any

items of lost property

in the cupboard (by

the office). We will

dispose of any clothing

left unclaimed after

2pm Friday 29 June.

Calendar

29 June David Shearer to visit Endeavour

Team (Q & A)

29 June Last Day of Term Two: 3pm finish,

No Post school

16 July First Day of Term Three

31 July ICAS English exam

31 July Hui in the staffroom at 5.30pm

31st July Board of Trustees Meeting at

7.15pm

14 August ICAS Mathematics exam

Now Available A selection of Toasted Sandwiches. Prices from $2-4.

Please send your child with the correct money for the lunch order.

No Eftpos, cash only. Sorry credit not available

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

ASB school

banking competition

There is still time for our school

to go into a draw to win $500.00 worth of library books and a St John Emergency grab kit. Hurry and bank your deposits

now! ASB deposit box is located

at the office.

SPORTS NEWS Soccer Coaching Soccer coaching will resume on Wednesdays (from 18 July) 3:15-4:15pm on the bottom field. Cost: $8 per session. This should be paid to Mr Wilson in Room 24. Children must be collected afterwards by 4:20pm; forms are on the table at reception.

Rosemary Vivien Principal • Edendale Primary School, 419 Sandringham Road, Sandringham, Auckland 1025

Telephone: 09 846 6340 • Facsimile: 09 846 3997 • Email: office@edendale.school.nz • Website: http://www.edendale.school.nz/

Kabila Artists and Authors • Notices

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!

The Orchard Today, my class, room 12 went to the Orchard. My friend Jessica and I were interested in the caterpillars. Last term we saw crab apples. I wonder where they are gone now! We adopted a tree in a big, wooden pot. The name of the tree that we adopted is called ‘The Mandarin Sweetie’. By Heather—Rm12 Where does Natural Food Comes from? First, vegetables grow in farms. Then it is taken to the packing centre. Then they get picked by big trucks or sometimes small trucks and taken to the supermarket. We buy vegetables from the supermarket. By Jessica—Rm12 Making Juice This is how to make juice. First, we plant tiny orange seeds. Next, it will grow into an orange tree. Later, we pick the oranges from the tree. After that, we squeeze the oranges to make juice. By Poppy—Rm12

Adopt a Tree As part of the Food for Thought programme classes are able to

adopt one of the fruit trees that have been planted around our

school. This is to help the volunteers look after them and a fun

way of teaching the children how to grow and care for fruit trees.

Room 10 have adopted Tree No.18 a Mandarin Sweetie. Mandarin Sweetie

Today Room 10 went outside and measured our mandarin tree.

It was 92cm and it has no mandarins on it. We are adopting this

tree.

By Jason—Rm10 Mandarin Sweetie Tree

This morning the class went to check on our tree we have

adopted. Our tree is number 18. It is ninety two cm. Our tree

has no mandarins. We looked at a bud and it had a tiny little

mandarin.

By Marcelle—Rm10 Mandarin Sweetie

A Mandarin Sweetie is a type of tree that has mandarins on it. It

is ninety two cm and it has a bar holding it underneath it.

Mandarins are a fruit that comes from a tree that is different

from other trees. We look after our tree, it is special to me. It

had a number 18 on it.

By Rob—Rm10 Adopting a Tree

We went outside and measured our Mandarin Sweetie. It was

ninety two cm tall. The Mandarin Sweetie was number eighteen.

No mandarins were ripe. There were about twenty two buds on

it. There were flowers, these are the baby mandarins. The baby

mandarins weren’t ripe yet so we couldn’t have a taste of one.

By Tasman—Rm10

Matariki Last week it was Matariki and Matariki is very special. it is a special day for Maori peo-ple Matariki is special because in the sky at night there are seven stars and those seven stars are the seven sisters. Matariki is also the Maori New Year. When it is Matariki it is a time for Maori people to celebrate the beginning of their new year. By Nicole—Rm9 Matariki Matariki is a group of seven stars. They disappear in late April and come back in early June. Matariki is also the Maori New Year, like Chinese celebrate the lantern festival. The seven sisters are the seven stars. The Maori celebrate Matariki by catching fish and Kaimoana, carving and weaving, making and flying kites, planting trees and winter crops, learning about the land and how to look after it and sharing family stories. By Beth-Anne—Rm9 Matariki Last Thursday was a special day because it was Matariki. The stars disappeared in late April. The Maori people celebrate, fish and gather Kaimoana. After they have celebrated they look at the seven stars By Benjamin—Rm9

Amber—Rm10

Marcelle—Rm10 Grace—Rm10

Isla—Rm10

Adopt a Tree

Rosemary Vivien Principal • Edendale Primary School, 419 Sandringham Road, Sandringham, Auckland 1025

Telephone: 09 846 6340 • Facsimile: 09 846 3997 • Email: office@edendale.school.nz • Website: http://www.edendale.school.nz/

See our website for info on upcoming events, BOT news and more! www.edendale.school.nz

Board of Trustees

Next meeting will be held in the Meeting Room

Tuesday 31st July at 7:15pm

All welcome to attend

Edendale PTA

Next meeting will be held in the Meeting Room

Thursday 26th July at 7:00pm

All welcome to attend

Sausage Sizzle A very successful Sausage Sizzle was held on Friday 22nd June. We raised $780. A big thank you to all those wonderful parents who helped with this fundraiser!

The sausages came from Sheffco Halal Meats Ltd, in Stoddard Road. Movie Night Due to the huge success of our last Movie Night, the PTA will be hosting another Movie Night at the Capitol on Sunday the 26th of August. Please put this date in your diary and be assured it will be a fabulous night out! More information will follow in the school website calendar and the next

newsletter.

New PTA Members We always appreciate new members joining the PTA. If you would like to join us you can either email us on pta@edendale.school.nz or come to our meetings. We meet once a month. Our next meeting is Thursday 26

July in the meeting room (off the office foyer) at 7:00pm. Entertainment Books Available Now Come and purchase a 2012/2013 Entertainment Book. This book is crammed full of a huge range of discount vouchers for dining, recreation and travel and is only $65, with $13 from each sale going to our school. Order forms available from the school office.

Tom Cooper & Aamel Rahmati Co-Chairpersons

News from Edendale’s PTA

Edendale School OSCAR-approved Holiday Programme

2nd July – 13th July

from 9.00am – 3.00pm

for children aged 5 – 12 years

There will be craft activities and trips out. Pre-care and Post-care is also available. Enrolment brochures are now available from the office. For all queries, please ring the school office on 846 6340 or 021 124 7571.

Wanted! Small clean and empty yoghurt containers for craft activities for the Edendale School Holiday Programme. Please leave at the school office.

2012 School Terms Term 3: 16 July - 28 September

Term 4: 15 October - 18 December

Public Holidays falling on school days: Monday 22 October - Labour Day

PLAYBALL

HOLIDAY PROGRAMME

Playball is a sport and movement programme for 2-8 year olds. The main objective of Playball is not to create superstars, but rather to provide children with the

opportunity to develop a host of necessary social, educational and personal skills. By giving children competence in sport, they will develop skills that are not associated with sport at all. From a child's perspective the most important element of our programme is fun! For many children their Playball lesson is the highlight of their week! For more information visit www.playball.co.nz

Please see attached flyer for more information

Four Square 88th Birthday 2nd July—15th July

To celebrate, Four Square are running a competition that gives away five prizes of $500 Four Square vouchers (to winning customers) and $1000 Rebel Sport Vouchers (to a school of your choice). Please see attachment about how to enter.

Louis Pearl The Amazing Bubble Man

11th—15th July

The Civic Auckland

Please see attachment for

further information

The Magic Chicken BY THEATRE BEATING

July school holidays

Auckland Town Hall

Please see attachment for

further information