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25th (Thurs) TOMORROW

Year 3-6 Ski Trip paymentsand return slip due back.

Please Note: If paying byinternet, payment needsto be made today so thatit shows on the banktomorrow and the slipneeds to be returned tothe office.

2nd (Fri)

Year 3-6 Ski Trip

5th (Wed)

Myross Bush WOW nightat Civic Theatre

26th (Fri)

FOS CHALK TOYCATALOGUE orders dueat office with payment

12th-16th

Book Fair Week - moreinfo later

7th (Fri)

End of Term 3

16th (Friday night)

School disco - more infolater

24th (Mon)

Labour Day

22nd (Thurs)

Lifestyle Portraits - moreinfo later

25th (Tues)

Term 4 begins

November December

7th (Mon) Pet Day 16th (Fri) End of Term 4

(to be confirmed)

22nd-25th (Tues - Fri)

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Welcome to Magnus Jamieson,Danyas little brother, Lauryn Fleming,Thomas and Andrews little sister andAbbey Glover, Katies little sister toRoom 2 already this term. Welcomealso to Ethan Mitchell, Blakes littlebrother, who starts next week. We willwelcome another 5 New Entrantsbefore the end of the year.

Last week at the Board meeting we

discussed the collated mid yearassessment data. This was where

every individuals report across the

different foundation learning areas -

Reading, Writing, Spelling and Maths

into an overall school picture of

achievement. I would like to share

some of that evidence and discussion

with you to celebrate the progress and

achievement of our children and the

partnership of our teachers and

parents effort to support and enhance

that.

Below is a quick summary of theoverall percentages while over the

page are the graphs that further

example our high achievement.

Achievement Levels across the

school:

Reading: 93% achieving 'At' or 'Above'

school and national expectations

Writing: 92%achieving 'At' or 'Above'

school and national expectations

Spelling: 93%achieving 'At' or 'Above'

school and national expectations

Maths: 88%achieving 'At' or 'Above'

school and national expectations

Some of the supporting analysis from

the mid year data report made thefollowing points:

* Mid year data is used as formativeassessment in syndicates especiallywith the beginning achievementstudents to set goals and direction forintervention.

* Large percentage of students at /above in Reading, Writing and Spellingis indicative of the developmentemphasis between 2006 - 2009 of ourLiteracy programme (with Ministryfinancial support in the Literacycontract 2006-2009) and thecommunity support for our literacyprogramme in the home environment.

*Children identified as 'beginning' havereceived numeracy support duringTerm 2 (both with Numeracy Clustersupport - Year 3&5 groups and inschool numeracy programme support -Year 4&6). These children haveimproved achievement with numberknowledge and basic facts.

*Shifts towards independent /personalised learning in teachingpractice is catering for studentextension in classroom programmes.

I believe it is important to reflect and

respect these very positive results from

our partnership in our children's

learning journey. We are currently in

an increasingly 'sound bite' education

system with recent media and Minister

of Education comment. We continue to

hear statistics that don't apply to all

schools and communities. The

uniqueness of each school is why we

have a local Board of Trustees, our

own charter and achievement targets

for our students. What works for

Myross Bush School and itscommunity is not the same as what will

work for a school in Wellington, or

north of Auckland etc.

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School Notices:Thank you to: Cristy Henderson andPaula Stewart for helping to wash theMoffett Cup rugby jerseys.

No Assembly this week. due to classrefits.

Email addresses: If your addresschanges we ask that you advise theschool office. Thank you.

Rugby World Cup Flags: Any furtherorders? $25 per 10m, 40 flag bunting.Please ring the office tomorrow at thelatest.

Sports Notices:Summer Football: Slips have gonehome today. Please have thesereturned by Friday 2nd of September.Spare notices are kept on the notice

board in the office.

Hockey

MB Champs V Fern Sticks Lost 6-1POD Katie Jukes, Hannah Corbett,Tarrah Shirley, Ethan TuffleyMB Legends v St Theresas LostPOD Harriet Stevens, Liam Devery

No Hockey this week due to aSecondary School Tournament.

Netball

MB Shooters v Waihopai Lost 4-2POD Simone Caughey

Well done to Gabby Schuck andSophie Sinclair who were in theSouthern Zone Year 5 Netball Teamwho came 3rd overall in the SouthlandZone Tournament . Also to SimoneCaughey, Devon Grey and OliviaFraser whose Year 6 team came 11thin their Tournament.

Thank you to: FOS, RichardStodart and Nan Sinclair fororganising the awesome netballpoles and new basketball hoops.

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The sound bite of '1 in 5 failing in reading,

writing and maths' is made across all

primary and secondary schools when it in

fact relates to the number of students

leaving school without a NCEA Level 2

qualification. Primary schools are notfailing 1 in 5 students. If you broke down

our schools data to make a comparison to

that sound bite it would look like this:

Those working at or above the expected

level at Myross Bush:

Reading: 14 out of 15 at or above

Writing: 12 out of 13 at or above

Spelling: 14 out of 15 at or above

Maths: 8 out of 9 at or above

Our staff use every individual's data to

analyse what progress and achievement is

happening across the whole school. We

then work together on how to target our

teaching and school resources to ensure

that continued opportunity for progress

and achievement is possible for all our

learners.

We take great pride in every child's

progress and achievement. We are a

high performing school with high

expectations for our students and our staff.

Together, with you, we are giving our

children a strong foundation from which

every child can grow and stand tall

together. Thanks to everyone in our

community for their support and assistance

in making this continued success possiblefor all our children.

Next week sees the start of our classroom

upgrade project. Stage 1 of this project iswhere each of our classroom learningspaces gets a revamp with an internal fitout. Rooms 2 & 3 will be shifted into theactivity centre this Friday afternoon for the

next week or two. This will be their

classroom and their learning programmes

will continue in partnership with each other.

Please note there will be no Assembly

this week and we will be touch about an

alternative arrangement once we see how

the work progresses. We are excited

about this development and thank you for

your support and understanding during this

transition time.

Regards,Tim Lovelock

Principal

BLU = Beg RED = At =Above

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Week 4 Term 3

Room 1 Mrs Lemin and Miss McBeth arehaving a lovely time working with the childrenin Room 1 this week. We can't wait to hear allthe exciting things Mrs Forde has beenlearning about when she gets back. Our focusfor our writing continues to be narratives

(imaginative stories). The children are havingfun writing problems in their stories andcreating interesting solutions for them. Lookout for the stories in their published story booksthis Friday. Our inquiry has an 'icy' focus thisweek. The children are exploring ice and how itturns into water. Ask your child what pouringwater onto ice does?Certificates: Sarah Hay - fantastic hockey skills& Elizor Ringor - showing kotahitanga

Room 2 is excited to be on the move to theActivity Centre on Friday while our room isrenovated! We will have some great

adventures as we share the space with Room3 over the next few weeks, and we are lookingforward to the fresh new room we will return to.Welcome to Abbey Glover and her family, who

joined our team this week. It has been lovelygetting to know the fresh faces and keenlearners who have joined us over the last fewweeks! Our little scientists have been makingpredictions and honing their observation skillsas we conduct some ice experiments thisweek, and we have been learning to writesimiles to make our narratives more interestingfor our readers. What a busy class!

Room 3 are all very excited about the moveinto the Activity Centre on Friday. We havepacked up a lot of boxes and are nearly readyto go. Room 2 will be sharing the ActivityCentre with us and we will be working togetheron some tasks together which will be great fun.When our classroom is refurbished we get tomove back into a beautiful new learning space.Certificates: Lucy and Liam

Room 4 have had a busy start to this week. Wehave started looking at length for Maths anddone some comparing of the size of our feet.We also made as fabulous adjective tree to

help make our narrative writing moreinteresting. I am enjoying being in Room 4 thisweek. Rowena Hughes

Room 5 are having a busy week from writingnarratives to learning about separating coloursin science. Look out for our science display onchromatography outside Room 5. What afantastic bunch of children to teach, they are allso motivated and hardworking- it will be hard tohand them back to Mrs Kahukura at the end ofthe week! Mrs Wilcox. I have enjoyed doing the science experimentswith Mrs Wilcox. I learnt that oil is less dense

than water. Katie Heads. In Maths we made symmetry monsters andwe had to reflect our shapes. My monster wasmade up of triangles, squares and had claws.Emily Hay

I never knew that colours are made up ofdifferent pigments. It was fun learning aboutchromatography. Brock Rogan Writing narrative stories has been cool. Mineis a story about when some parents don't let agroup of children eat junk food, so the children

come up with a plan to defeat the adults.Cassie Gray

Room 6 We made name bugs and they looked funny.Ben Weve been doing nasty narratives in Room6. I like nasty narratives. Louis I liked making a tee-shirt for my dad forFathers Day. George We made colourful pictures which wescratched to put in pictures that are special tous. Holly I really enjoyed making the scratched

pictures. Jack

Room 7 are half way through their legoanimations on "I Can Animate", with manygroups finding that to get a realistic lookinganimation, it takes a lot of patience and veryco-operative group skills. Once these are allrecorded we will be starting workshops on "IMovie".Don't forget to hand in you SKI PERMISSIONSLIP tomorrow if you are going.Certificates: Hannah Fitzgerald & BradleyCorbett

Room 8 Kees - We're doing lego animations about theHabits of Mind. Our one is on persistence. I'velearnt how to do animations and make it lookclear and not blurry. Sean - We've been learning about hockey forP.E. I've learnt that you don't make the stick goover your head but that it's just a flick. It's reallyfun! Mr Herring - We'll be posting our animationson youtube.com and having an award for themost viewed. Visit our classblog for the linksand vote for your favourite ones in 2 weeks!

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