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Outram School Newsletter Volume 1 Number 3 18 February 2010

Hello everyone,The Twilight Mardi Gras is going to be quite an event on Saturday

evening! There are a massive number of events, stalls, and

performers planned to be happening in different places around the

school grounds. There has been a tremendous amount of community

support and most families are helping out in some way or another. A

big thanks to all those who have volunteered their labour, contacts,

goods and services to the organising committee. We literally

couldnt do this all without you.

Our professional learning programmes are well in place for 2010 as

well as classroom programmes for the children. In order for our

children to be the best they can be we need to have our teaching and

support staff also being the best they can be. This involves asignificant investment by the BoT in professional learning for staff.

This year we have a focus on writing programmes as well as

secondary focuses on maths and our ICT programmes. Each year we

set goals related to student achievement and monitor how our

learning as a staff is having a direct outcome on the achievement for

children in the chosen areas.

We have high expectations for the children at Outram School, as we

know so do parents. We expect children to achieve and do well. We

also expect them to challenge themselves outside of the academic

arena and to explore their potential in the arts, sciences and in

physical activity. We also want Outram School children to be honest,reliable, show courtesy and consideration towards others and exhibit

all the social skills, empathy, etc that will make them worthwhile

members of our community as they get older. This is an essential

part of the Outram School Vision that is captured in our logo that

appears on the front page of each and every newsletter. It is why we

celebrate a wide range of achievements in our assemblies and in

many other ways. It is why we have the Allen Centre and the

wonderful programmes that pervade our classrooms and wider

programmes coming from this space. It is why we have the extensive

physical activity programme we do. It is why we believe in children

being inquiring as a key skill and why the Inquiry model is how weconduct our topic time.

A key component of childrens learning is the relationship between

home and school. If children went to school 24/7 from the beginning

of January the school year would finish before the end of February.

Home influence on learning is significant and children learn so much

better when we are all working together and towards the same goals.

Coming up we have the class meetings where we will outline the

class programmes for the year. This will also be a time to meet

teachers and ask any questions about how things work at school.

Please diary this now and make the time to come along.

Have a safe and happy week!

Greg Carroll, Principal

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1 March

2 March9 March

11 March22 March1 April19 April

Mardi Gras!!! 5 pmstartSenior swimmingsportsHOV vaccine for Y8girlsMeet the TeachersFOS Meeting 7 pm

BOT Meeting 7 pmAnniversaryLast day Term 1

Term 2commences

ANZ Banking - WednesdaysNational Bank Banking -

Thursdays

School contact details:1 Beaumaris Street, Outram.

PO Box 22, Outram 9062.Ph 03 486 1733Fax: 03 486 2147

Email: office@outram.school.nzWeb: www.outram.school.nz

Cell ph to txt absences 0212517990ASC Cell phone -0275861001

BoT Parent Reps:

Alex. Morton: 486 2525Su Miller: 486 2348Garth Mitchell: 486 26610274457683Murray Kirkness: 479 2573

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Richard Darby: 486 2342

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Yahoo! Not long now, guys! Thanks a million to everyone who is helping, youare all making a huge difference in how successful this Mardi Gras will be.Everyone that comes to our school will be able to see what a great communitywe have and how supportive our parents are. If it is wet we still go on. Fingerscrossed the day is gorgeous. We still have a few things we would like help withand they are:

Mystery Jars: We have about 100 mystery jars but it would be fantastic tohave lots more! If you havent made a jar before, it is simple! Fill a clean jar(size of a jam jar) with goodies that your children would like to receive. It is thatsimple. It doesnt need to be expensive I found some little cars my boys werepast playing with, a funky eraser and a few lollies etc. The kids love the jars,

they go fast and it is a good money spinner for us. If you havent made one ortwo, we would very appreciative if you could make some and bring them to theschool office.Picnic Tables: We could do with more picnic tables for our Mardi Gras and ifanyone has any they can lend for the night, that would be most appreciated!Wooden Chopping Board: In the Pizzeria area we are going to need largewooden chopping boards to cut the large pizzas. Could we borrow them for thenight, please? Another thought we would love to have a big pizza cutter tohelp speed up the pizza process. Are we lucky enough to have anyone outthere that has one, and could you lend it to us for the night? Contact: AlexMorton on: 4862525.

A special thank you to my Captains of Industry: Kellie Bain and RebeccaMitchell who have been working tirelessly to make this Mardi Gras happen. Alsoa huge thank you to the teachers, staff, pupils and parents of the school wemake a great team! We are all getting a bit on the tired side but we are nearlythere!

Last but not least, have a brilliant time Outram School. Kellie and I hope you allenjoy this Saturday and we look forward to seeing you all having a fantastictime at our schools Twilight Mardi Gras. A BIG Cheers to you all!

Thanks for your support Alex Morton 4862525 and Kellie Bain

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SPECIAL THANK YOU

A very special thank you goes to the good folk at OutramGarage who have made us a custom built barbeque,especially designed for cooking our sausages onWednesdays! This marvellous machine will eliminate the

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need to cook the sausages in the Workshop and means wewill get that true bbq flavour back again!

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ASSEMBLY TIME

This is now beginning at 2:20pm, aiming to be finished by2:50. This will help with thetidying of the hall and childrenbeing at bus lines on time.Classes with items in Week 2(12.210) and Week 3 (19.2.10)

have short presentations only.Roster:19.2.10 Rooms 6 and 426.2.10 Room 35.3.10 Room 112.3.10 Room 919.3.10 Room 526.3.10 Room 81.4.10 Room 10

Can you HELP? I am doing scrapbooking with some senior girlseach Thursday at lunchtimeand need more scrap bookingsupplies. If you have any scrapbooking materials that you nolonger need and would like todonate them to the girls couldyou phone Gwyneth 486 1312or drop supplies to the school

office

SCHOOL ACCOUNTSThe school donation for thisyear has been set at $60 for 1child families and $90 forfamilies with 2 or morechildren. (This is the same aslast year)This will be added to your

school accounts please notethat payment of this donation isvoluntary while other items onthe school account must bepaid for before the 20th of thefollowing month.On 16 March there will be aperformance of THENUTCRACKER at school. Thiswill be attended by the wholeschool and the admission

charge of $3 per child will be onyour account.

.DENTAL SERVICES

Robyn McDonald, our dental therapist, has advised thatthe cell phone number previously allocated to theOutram Dental Clinic will be discontinued. Pleasephone Silverstream School Dental Clinic, 489 4225 or0273849768, if you need to contact a dental therapist.

PLEASE WE DO NOT REQUIRE ANY MORE CANS OR

ICE CREAM CONTAINERS FOR THE MARDI GRAS.

MISSINGOutram School Sports Singlets used by our Touch/basketball teams have been misplaced. These are theblue and white singlets with a number on the back.Since last week we have had some returned but thereare still a number missing. Please have a check athome if you havent done so already we desperatelyneed these back!Please return to the school office no questions will beasked.Thank youCarolyn.

TOUCH SUBS MUST BE PAID AS SOON AS POSSIBLE PLEASE PAY THESE DIRECTLY TO THE SCHOOL OFFICEAS THEY WILL NOT BE ADDED TO SCHOOL ACCOUNTS

Sickness

Please remember that children who have had vomitingor diarrhoea have to stay away from school for at least24 hours from the last instance.Children HAVE to be out of the school pool for 48 hours- at least.School sores/impetigo is doing the rounds at themoment as well. These are extremely contagious andhave to be being treated and preferably covered forchildren to come to school please

Meridian Kids Bike JamsThese are a fun participation based national mountainbike series for kids aged 5 13. Each child participatingreceives a medal, water bottle and goodies. TheDunedin event takes part on March 28 and entry closeson March 22.Fo more information check it out onwww.kidsbikejams.co.nz or call at the school office.

BOT ELECTIONSTowards the end of next week, after all the excitement of

the Mardi Gras has died down, the school electoral roll willbe available for perusal. Please feel free to ask to checkthis addresses and other details may need to be amended.The election date has been set at 7 May and I will keep youposted with all other important dates pertaining to theelection from next week onwards.

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