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Newsletter No14

Value for the Week: Commitment We show commitment by completing tasks fully.
Book WeekWhat a great week it has been. Stu Duval started the week off on Monday. He was entertaining and very talented. Following his storytelling to the whole school, Stu spent time with the senior classes. These workshops focused on key ideas to use when planning and writing stories. Character and Costume day on Tuesday brought out some fabulous outfits. More pictures are on the website. All staff and students dressed as their favourite book characters and had to present to their classes and school. ICT SurveyThank you for the responses to the survey. If you have promised me your survey you still have time, the more comments and feedback, the better! I am talking to you Mr Poynter! I will share the general findings of the survey in a later newsletter. Fordell Cross Country was a success. Not only were we blessed with a beautiful day the effort and determination on display really made me proud. Our Value last week was Pride and doing our best it was pleasing to see the our students display this value. Parent Conferences are coming up next week, 17th and 18th September. Notices went out during the week. It is an excellent opportunity to hold a conversation about your child/s learning, celebrate successes and work towards next steps. Mathex was last night! What a great night for Fordell School. Congratulations to all the teams for their positive attitude and achievements. Well done Mr Reddish on leading this group of high achieving students. The Results: Phil WalkerPrincipal

Thursday 12th September 2013 Term Two

Providing a quality Education that develops confident children.


Mission Statement

Our Values
Compassion Responsibility Respect Confidence Pride Honesty Courage Commitment

Important Dates for Term Three


Book Week 9/9 Stu Duval in school 10/9 Costume/Character Day 11/9 Mathex 5pm Start Y5 12/9 Big Book House Challenge 13/9 10am Cluster Cross Country 2.30pm Assembly 14/9 Mangamahu Cross Country 10am start2pm return 16/9 Room 2 Mountain Day 17/9 Aranui Cross Country Art Gallerymorning Room 3, afternoon Room 4 Parent Conferences 18/9 Parent Conferences Room 4 Art Gallery 19/9 Art Gallery R2 20 /9 Loud Shirt Day School PhotosUniforms needed Room 1 Art Gallery 23/9 School Council Meeting 24/9 BoT Meeting 7pm Fordell Speech Comp 25/9 Production at Hall 6.30pm 26/9 Cluster Speeches at Kaitoke 5.30pm 27/9 Last Day of Term. School Gym Trip (to be confirmed.)

Week Seven

Week Eight

Year 5 WINNERS Year 6 Second Year 7 Second Year 8 5th equal place

Week Nine

Fordell Learning Skills. This is the 1st week focusing on the skill of Thinking .

Student of the Week.


In the last two assemblies the following students have been acknowledged by their teachers as being outstanding Students of the Week!

Room 1: Room 2: Room 3: Room 4:

Nikita HopewellFor being a great example to others in her work, especially Writing. Caleb BennFor all round effort but particularly in Cross Country. Caitlin ONeillFor consistently striving to improve in Maths. Libby FirminFor taking greater responsibility and pride in her work. Caleb HoulahanFor excellent concentration and good manners. Andrew GriceFor an excellent first full year at school and for always showing compassion. Heike ReitsmaFor showing great confidence and attitude with everything he does. Georgie RossFor working hard and finishing her work on time.

Values: These students have displayed the values, that as a school we believe are extremely important: Jimi Blinkhorne, Ronan Shaw, Thomas Dickon, Florian Schwarz, George Reddish, Amelia Bryant, John Bryant, Bridgitte OLeary, Larissa Benn, Gemma Shaw, Olivia Zinsli, Tineisha McDougall, Ryan Bayler, Nathan Vincent, Caleb Houlahan, Luke Smillie, Darline Sklenars-Quilter, Alexandre Knopf, Georgia Cossey, Anzac Rose, Rebekah Bayler, Sam Wyatt-Ross, Rose Raikes, Ari George, Isaac Kosena-Newman and Max McGregor.
Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu (Te Kura) The Correspondence School Early Childhood Programme. Did you know that Te Kura provides a free early childhood programme in your home? Your 3 to 5 year old child may be eligible if: you live more than 6kms from your nearest licensed early childhood centre they attend a licensed early childhood centre for less than 8 hours per week they have high health needs, special educational needs or there are special family circumstances preventing attendance at a face to face early childhood centre. You will receive a personalised programme prepared by your trained registered early childhood teachers based in Wellington. Teachers work in partnership with families, providing support through maintaining regular contact via free phone, email, letters and events held in regional areas. The programme includes learning materials for your child, leaflets for parents and whnau which contain information on childrens development and ideas for activities using resources from your own environment. For further information please call Te Kura on 0800 65 99 88 extn 8699 (Jenny Hayes ECE manager) or visit our website www.tekura.school.nz/ech Room 4 have been doing some collage of the planets in our solar system for our classroom display. They are progressing well, come have a look.

Science Fair. We received special recognition for impressive first up efforts from the Science Fair judges. Ryan Bayler and Adam George received a Certificate of Achievement for their experiment. They trialled 5 different styles of paper planes for their flying ability. The presentations can be seen in the Tin Shed.
Birthdays Birthdays for early September were: Andrew Grice, Bridie Knapp and Javan Janse Van Rensburg. Ethan Coffey is having his birthday on the 14th also. Happy Birthday team!

Art Gallery
All classes are off to the Art Gallery next week. They are learning to make alien faces using Clay. It should be a great experience for all the students...

Cotton on Quilters. Barbara Clarke from Cotton on Quilters donated a quilt to the school. This beautifully coloured quilt is for the sick-bay for students not feeling well. Cotton on Quilters have donated a quilt to 38 schools in and around Wanganui this year. It is stunning, Thank you.

Sport results:
Fordell Blue 0 v 3 Waverley Netball A Team 11 v 5 St Annes Netball B Team lost to Tawhero. Fordell A netball are playing their final against Ruapehu at 11.15am come along and support!

Fordell School - A great place to be!

Book Week has been really fun and so much has been going on. Book quiz, swapping books, book sale, costume day and more! Here are some of the costumes that Room 4 came up with arent they cool.

Book Week this week


Stu Duval opened book week with a BANG! The talented artist, author and storyteller captivated the school for an hour narrating an engagingly imaginative story, based around ideas and characters the students suggested. Later in the morning he spent time with the senior classes and conducted workshops on using our imagination and rules when writing.

Wednesdays

Book Quiz
was a close contest. Tawa coming out the victors. Juniors and Senior school had separate question...

Book Exchange was a huge hit nearly 200 books were swapped! All sorts of pre-loved books were exchanged. It was a bit of a stampede but lovely to see students so fired up about books.

Character and Costume Day.


On Tuesday the school were dressed up as their favourite Book Characters. The winners from each class were: George Reddish (R1), Lauren Phillips (R2), Hamish Cranston (R3), Rose Raikes (R4). The criteria was not only the costume but also how they presented their character and what they could tell us about the stories their characters were in. There are some great photos on our Website. Dads Reading in Classes. Thanks to the Dads and the odd Poppa for reading to classes during Book Week. You are all great role models for our students, displaying a love for reading...

House CompetitionBig Book. Each house made a big book. Their books had to have a story and pictures. The judges are Room 3, so the book had to be engaging and interesting for them to read! Books will be laminated and placed in Room 3.

Fordell School - Quality Education; Confident Children

Ag and Pet DayFriday 15th November


An update on events and ideas for the day Fordell Preschool are invited to participate with their caged pets! There will be dress up lamb and calf competitions. Dog whistle challenge for the middle school students Gumboot throw challenge Some of the house challenge activities that we are planning to incorporate: House teams (Juniors) Dress up a sheep/calf in a theme, House teams (Seniors) Sheep processing race against the clock and drenching (with H2O) Draft and age a small mob as fast as you can Caged pets in the Tin Shed Junior Farmer Competition with events run during the week and finals on the day. Everyone come dressed as a true kiwi farmer for the day! Loads of prizes, ribbons and certificates! This is shaping up to be a great day, if you would like to help please let Juanita know at the office. We are looking for a set of portable yards for lamb/calf judging and also for the house challenges, can you help?

Three Things that Really Annoy Me (An unassisted writing sample by George Reddish) Many, many things in my life annoy me. In fact, I have hundreds that make me cringe. But the top three put me in a state of apoplexy, or make me want to find a club and start beating myself with it. As I said, there are hundreds of reasons I could strangle someone every time I see it happen, but here are the top three. Have you ever done something out in the public eye with a tons worth of adults around you? Well, I definitely have. And one thing I cannot stand is when an adult whom you dont even know tells you off. This makes me cringe. Half of the people who get at you are old, grumpy, fat and dont have their own kids to tell off so instead they get in a fit over something youve done. Secondly, I despise waiting in line for a chairlift, or anything else that is slow. Fat, sweaty, inexperienced men and women push you around. Does anybody want that to happen? Well, it gets worse. The closer you get to the front, the more impatient everyone gets. Imagine this youre casually waiting in the line, edging forward every few seconds and slowly pushing in through the gaps. Then an obese, stink-drenched oaf comes barging past, crushing anybody else in their way, gradually knocking everyone onto their backsides. Well, that is what my life is filled with. The last item that drives me to utter torment is slovenly table manners. Take this for example. The person opposite you at the dining table has a mouthful of custard and ice cream stuffed in their face. Then someone cracks a joke and the person opposite starts laughing. Spittle flies everywhere from his trap, including all over your food. Next round. Food disembarks their gob and lands exactly where you dont want it to go your face. Next you see brown slop swishing around in their pie hole and you get ready to get splattered again. As you can tell, I dont get annoyed over things that easily, but there are some things in this world that I could definitely live without.
We had our first Grandparents Day on Wednesday which was amazingly well attended. The children loved showing off the school. Thanks to all who helped.

The Mighty Writers from Room 3 Mars is a red planet. The Sun is red. Venus has a volcano. We cant live on Mars. By Niko Saturn is a very cold planet and I would take some socks and a hat and an ice block and some gloves and some slippers! By Andrew When I go to Mars I will take some food, some water, a lot of ice and lots of chocolate. I will take my space suit, a rocket, a banana, an orange, a tin of cookies, a lunch box and a drink bottle. By Coral Mercury is the smallest planet. The Sun is really close to it and it is very hot because it is near to the Sun. I dont want to go there because I would sizzle like a sausage. By Jaeella I finally got on Mars. It is hot and I have got sunblock.

Room Four have been working hard on their posters. Rebekah is busy cutting out some pictures of planet earth to go with her interesting facts. These projects have taken a bit of time with the students having to use research and presentation skills.

Fordell School - Confident, Connected, Life - Long Learners.

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