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P: 06 8584228 E: office@elsthorpe.school.nz www.elsthorpe.school.nz

Weekly Newsletter Term 3 Week 4 12th August 2019

The Principal’s Message Dear Parents, Caregivers and whanau - Tena koutou katoa, talofa lava

Last week we were lucky enough to have children’s author (and Hunter and Drover’s Granny), Jo Guy visit us to read one of her books Snooty Cat. Jo has written several children’s books and it was a great treat for the Junior and Middle classes to be able to listen to a real author and ask her questions. Jo’s books are fantastic and all have a moral or set of values they teach through the text. Snooty Cat fo-cused on the importance of treating others as you wish to be treated. We would like to thank Jo and Bryan Guy for coming in to share their books with our children. MOE School Bus Review - Public Meeting This is a Notice of Intention of a public meeting which we the Elsthorpe School Board of Trustees will be holding in the near future concerning the Ministry of Education’s intention to change the Kahuranaki bus route. Full details will be shared at the school meeting but in short, the MOE want to stop the bus at 1234 Kahuranaki Rd thus affecting not only Elsthorpe pupils but also Havelock High School students and their families that use this route on a daily basis. We the Board have written to the Ministry last week with our con-cerns regarding this issue and have highlighted the effect this intended change will have not only on our School commu-nity but the wider community in general. We have also written to Lawrence Yule, theTuki Tuki MP and Alastair Scott Wairarpa MP to gain their support on this issue. If the Ministry get their way their revised bus route will be implemented quickly. This pro-active Board has acted swiftly on this issue and is hoping the Ministry will see sense and leave the route as status quo. If they reject our response to the proposal, we feel we need as much support from not only the School Community but the wider community as we can get. We will call a General Public Meeting at the School regard-ing this serious matter to ask for all of your support. This is an urgent matter. If the Ministry get their way they could start looking at reducing all bus routes that concern families in this community. We will keep you informed as to where we are at with this issue via the Newsletter and if we have to call a public meeting all details will be on the School Web-site, the Newsletter and the School and Community Facebook pages. Thank you. Elsthorpe School Board of Trustees Elsthorpe Senior students had a great day at the annual Ongaonga 7s last Wednesday. We took a Yr 5/6 rugby team, a hockey team and girls in a combined netball team. There was an impressive opening ceremony with powhiri, a flame relay and pigeons being released. All teams played really well and were extremely competitive. There was fantastic team play on the rugby field, outstanding defence on the hockey turf and terrific commitment on the netball court. Once again Elsthorpe punched well above their weight on the sports field. A big thank you to Logie, Fi, Horiana, Carla and Gerry for their support and Haylee for her organisation of the teams. Our students have been offered the opportunity to have 5 tennis lessons this Term provided by a professional tennis coach. These lessons start this Wednesday afternoon and run for the following four Wednesdays. Kiwisport are funding the majority of the cost of the lessons and ask that each child contribute $4 towards the lessons. We would appreciate if this could be paid to the School Office by the end of August. Our School values are Trust, Honesty, Respect, Inquiry, Valour and Endeavour. Our value focus for this week is Honesty - tell the truth and be honest with others. Have a great week. - Sandy Crawford - Principal

The Weekly Roundup

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Weekend

Week 4

12-16th August

School singing with Patrick Power

Tennis coach-ing begins

2.30pm Assembly

Week 5

19-23rd August

Singing with Patrick Power

Tennis coach-ing week 2

Cross Country Omakere

Elsthorpe School in Action! Term 3 Dates

23rd Aug Cross Country at Omak-ere

25-27 Sept Senior Class Camp Tuti-ra

ASSEMBLY AWARDS - Term 3 Week 4

Senior Room: Bailey Littlejohn for the great strategies she uses to understand the new vocabulary she reads.

Haruchika Izume - Trust Value Awards

Middle Room : Christine Keil for working hard to use all your strategies to work out new words.

Hirotaka Izume for Trust Value Awards

Junior Room: Beth Hunter - for being a helpful, supportive class member who sets examples to others

Clara Ferguson - Trust Value Award

HOCKEY NEWS Hockey Outdoor - Elsthorpe 8 vs Waipawa 0 ! Awesome game kids. Well played. Everyone deserves a pat on the back! Well done! Gerry & Hori Indoor Hockey - Senior Team - Elsthorpe 9 vs Waipukurau Knights 0. Thanks to the 2 Argyll players who filed in for our team. Well done everyone! Horiana

Our next major school sporting event is Cross Country. It will be held on Friday 23rd August at Omakere School. The children will

be training hard for this over the next few weeks so they must make sure they have their running shoes at school every day. Elsthorpe School have recently started the journey to become a PB4L School. PB4L stands for Positive Behaviour for Learning. PB4L is a school wide, structured programme that helps set up sustainable systems for behaviour and to improve the wellbeing of our children. PB4L’s programmes are for all people throughout our School community. Further information regarding up-coming PB4L community engagement meetings will be out later in the Term.

Patangata Tavern 1204 Elsthorpe Road, Otane, Hawke’s Bay 4277

The Patangata Tavern is an ideal place to come and relax on those long road trips out of town. With a massive garden bar/outdoor area, it is the perfect venue for hosting gigs and shows to an intimate crowd while they enjoy some of the best signature seafood dishes and quality bev-erages. See the stunning Central Hawke’s Bay scenery and farmland while also enjoying some of the best Central Hawkes Bay hospitality. We also specialise in takeaway meals and off li-cence service making the Patangata Tavern an all round quality establishment. We take book-ings, walk-ins welcome, great for groups or parties, child friendly, takeaway and outdoor seating, lunch, dinner and drinks. Your hosts are Aaron & Rhonda Bartlett. Monday - closed. Tuesday - Sunday - 11.00am - Close Phone : 06 8568030 http://www.patangatatavern.co.nz Facebook : @PatangataTavern

Elsthorpe Community Playgroup

This is held every Wednesday (Term time

only) from 9.00am - 11.30am

Any enquiries please phone

Ange Scott

06 8584262

Dental Clinic

5 South Service Lane, Waipukurau

06 8586725

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Elsthorpe School 4 Year Old Visits

Bring your 4 year old along to Elsthorpe

School’s next 4 year old morning School visit (9.00am - 10.30 am) - held every second Wednesday of the month. (mostly!)

4th September 2019

VAN FOR

HIRE Evenings, weekends or school holidays - 12 seater. Contact Elsthorpe School -

8584228

COMMUNITY NOTICES:

HIGH TEA - PAFS FUNDRAISER - With thanks to Rhonda and Aaron, PAFS will be hosting our 3rd biannual High Tea at Patangata Tavern on Saturday 7th Sep-tember. This is a very popular event and brings quite a number of people back to the district for a catch up over tea/coffee and delicious little morsels. This is where we appreciate the support of our fantastic school families in the way of baking and help on the day to make it a great success. Please let me know how you can help and also if you have any teacups and saucers or tiered cake stands we would be very apprecia-tive if we could please borrow them for the day. Contact Fi Strong 8584184 fionastrong@ruralkiw.com

A big Thank You goes to Rhonda and

Aaron for everything they do for us at

Elsthorpe School!

Wow didn’t our hockey team do well!

Congratulations!