8 December 2014 Kia ora Koutou Ladbrooks Community What an eventful week! First up, I would like to congratulate our athletics team who represented Ladbrooks School at the Canterbury champs at Ashburton last week. Well done Alice B, Louis H, Nicole T, Sam D, Samantha Mc and Lexi G. This was a huge achievement. We are especially proud of Sam D who won the 12yr boys high jump event – Awesome! TERM 4, 2014 ISSUE No:9 8 Hakihea (December) MISSION STATEMENT ‘Learning Together’ Ako Tahi OUR VISION We prepare ‘Ladbrooks Learners’ by developing Values, knowledge and competencies to allow them to confidently and actively connect and contribute to their community, now and into the future. REMINDERS THIS WEEK - Parent Helpers morning Tea. th Tomorrow 9 @ 10:40 in the staffroom. Everyone who has helped at Ladbrooks during 2014 is most welcome. - Wednesday – whole school picnic at Spencer park, so no whole school assembly - School Banking on Thursday - Sausage sizzle Thursday – see page 2 - End of year Prize Giving next Tuesday, please see school notices section of this newsletter for all the details - School finishes at 12 noon next th Friday 19 for the year The TLC had amazing Education Outside the Classroom experience on Thursday and Friday. I was lucky enough to join in on the fun on Thursday afternoon/night. A big thank you to Amy, Ali and Keryn for the huge amount of effort that went into preparing this event and all our parent helpers who did an amazing job (especially acting in the play). Writing this play is an Ali Duncan tradition! Well done to all the students who entered in the garden competition this year. A big thanks to Malcolm and Pauline Lay who judged each garden. I hear the standard was very high! On Tuesday Lesley Smeith dropped in a new trophy which we will be presenting at the Prize Giving next Tuesday. One of our Year 8 students will receive the Ashley Smeith Memorial Trophy for Leadership. Ashley would be proud of this student. This Wednesday our Board of Trustees will be meeting for the last time for 2014. At this meeting we will be discussing our end of year Student Achievement Data which I have been analyzing over the last week. A great number of our students have made great progress in reading, writing and mathematics throughout the year. On Friday the year 5-8 students received their final student achievement reports. Today the year 4 students and some of the Year 1-3 students will be receiving their interim or final reports. Please take the time to read the information in these reports carefully and feel free to contact your child’s learning area teacher if something needs clarified before the end of the year. The ‘Secret Garden’ is looking awesome. Well done Frana and the Nature Ninjas! 9 Barnes Road, RD4, Christchurch 7674 p: 03 329 6885 e: [email protected] www.ladbrooks.school.nz SCHOOL NOTICES SCHOOL PRIZE GIVING Date: Tuesday, December 16. Venue: Lincoln Primary School Hall – Boundary Road, Lincoln. Time: We ask that the children arrive at 6:00pm.On arrival please ask them to report to their learning group teacher and for TLC – to their Colony teacher. Prize Giving will start at 6:30pm. Because we have a larger venue this year, please feel free to invite Grandparents etc. The children are to wear tidy mufti. Can you please bring a plate for supper either suitable for children or adults. Please also, if you are able, assist us with clearing and tidying the hall at the evening’s conclusion. SCHOOL POOL – Now open. Pool keys can be hired for the season subject to acceptance of conditions and rules for hire. Key hire will be $50 for the season. Accounts owing to school must be paid before hiring a key. Key hire can be arranged until Mon 15 Dec and only when Dot is in the office so Mon Tues, Thurs from 8.am – 3pm and Fri only at the start of the school day. TERM 4 ACCOUNTS – Thank you to those who have paid these so quickly. Please remember to have all accounts paid before the end of term. LIBRARY BOOKS – all borrowed books from the Ladbrooks School library are now overdue, please return any at home urgently to school. TIME OUT CLUB SAUSAGE SIZZLE FOR WHOLE SCHOOL Sausage and bread for each child at Ladbrooks this Thursday 11 December. Adjust lunch volume for children if you need to. CONGRATULATIONS TO …  Alice Bain who has been selected for the Ellesmare Under 14 Tennis team  Georgia Adams, Ryan Bellamy, and Stephanie Bain (ex pupils) who received awards at the Lincoln High School Prize Giving last week! GREAT NEWS ABOUT NOWRAPVEMBER! Hi All, sorry the results for the challenge took a while as we have been hoping more information from the other schools would come in, but sadly we have not heard from the others to add them into the running (which is a great thing for you all!!) So firstly thank you for joining in and helping in the efforts to reduce our effect on our environment through reducing the amount of waste we bring with us in our lunch boxes every day. We hope this has helped start a change in the way families send lunches and that the wrapper free lunches continues on!! We look forward to more challenges next year!! We heard back from one class at Lincoln Primary school, Springston School and Ladbrooks school, so you all get a Bukashi bucket from Selwyn Council for participating. Hopefully this will be helpful with your food scraps to make compost. I will be dropping those off to you next week. We would like to congratulate you all for a great effort. The trophy this year is going to…. LADBROOKS who on average had 2 wrappers per child for the month of November. Great effort. I will try and get the trophy (which our children made last year) to you with your Bukashi Bucket on Wednesday afternoon next week along with your Ice cream which you can decide what and when to have. Well done again all and we look forward to more efforts to care for our environment next year. Have a restful Christmas, you all deserve it!! Kind regards, Jeanne Williams, Head teacher Kidsfirst Kindergartens Lincoln BOARD OF TRUSTEES UPDATE The Mid Term election process has been completed. This week the Board of Trustees will welcome Jason Palmer to the team, Jason, we look forward to working with you. A huge thank-you to Andrew Lepper for his time and commitment to the school, Andrew you have been an important part of the team over the past three years and we have enjoyed working with you. LEARNING IN KIWI During the last 5 weeks Kiwi and Kereru class have been working on Science in a collaborative way. The term began with a variety of Science Experiments and we worked in groups to carry out the experiments. We learnt how to write up scientific reports with a hypothesis and results. After this we were presented with a crime scene and embarked on investigations within Forensic Science. We had a visitor from ESR, Lauren is a forensic scientist, and then the following week we had a visit from Bryan, who is a SOCO, (a Scene of Crime Officer). We learnt a lot from these two visitors. Next we decided on our own investigation about the crime scene. Some of these are as follows: Finger prints, blood splatter analysis, DNA, handwriting analysis, foot prints and crash scene investigation. We all enjoyed our chance to investigate new studies which we usually just watch on TV. We also learnt a lot about working with other people. Some of us would love to be Forensic scientists when we leave school. 9 Barnes Road, RD4, Christchurch 7674 p: 03 329 6885 e: [email protected] www.ladbrooks.school.nz . TERM DATES FOR 2015 Term 1: Wednesday February 4 – Thursday April 2 (82 ½ days) Term 2: Monday April 20- Friday July 3 (106 ½ days) TERM 4 CALENDAR Term 3: Monday July 20 – Friday September 25 (100 ½ days) Term 4: Monday October 12 – Friday December 18 (96 ½ days) 9. Dec 8-12 THANK YOU THIS WEEK TO …. Malcolm and Pauline (our neighbours) who donated another microwave to our school. I am sure it will be put to good use. Spencer Park Whole school trip 10. Dec 15-19 th 16 Dec, Prizegiving at Lincoln Primary School Hall, 6pm 18th Mobile library 12.40pm BOT Meeting Time Out Sausage Sizzle th Last day (19 )children finish at 12pm. REQUEST Have you got any old keys at home that you no longer need? We are planning to make an art work using these. Please leave in the container in the office. CANTERBURY ZONE ATHLETICS PIANO RECITAL Thank you to Alys, her piano students and parents for supporting this fantastic afternoon, $41.00 in donations was received for Ladbrooks School. VALUE OF THE MOMENT This term we have a new school value that we will focus on: AROHA Don’t forget the quote challenge! 9 Barnes Road, RD4, Christchurch 7674 p: 03 329 6885 e: [email protected] www.ladbrooks.school.nz FUNDRAISER New Zealand Middle Rindless Bacon for sale! The bacon is packaged in 1 kg froze packs. Price is $15 per kg (1 pack). Orders can be made in quantities of: 5 (5 x 1kg packs) $75 10 (10 x 1kg packs) $150 20 (20x 1kg packs) $300 Please see Bridget to order or email [email protected] or call/text on 027 281 4282 Please place orders by the last Friday of the month and the bacon will be distributed soon after. 10% of sales will go to PALS to assist the ongoing funding that is used to benefit the Ladbrooks children and school community. Bank A/C: 03 0767 0459247 017 Thank you to Bridget & Jason for coordinating this! Community Notices Surfkids Summer Holiday surfing programme. Learn the skills of Surfing in a fun, safe environment. All equipment provided and professional instruction from Aaron Lock and team. For kids 8 -14 years, Sundays at 10 am – 12pm School Holidays 10am -12pm Dec /Jan 19, 21 - 24 Dec 27 -31 Dec 12 -16 Jan 19 – 23 Jan 26-29 Jan Cost $30 per day or $135 for five. Bookings essential. Venue :Sumner and New Brighton Call Aaron on 0800 80 SURF (7873) or register online at www.surfcoach.co.nz Good News to All in Selwyn! Christmas Day Community Lunch Lincoln Baptist Church 530 Birchs Rd 12:00 – 3:00 pm Thursday 25th December All welcome. No cost. Lunch provided. RSVP essential by Tue. 16th Dec Phone Karen ~ 3253396 This will be an alcohol-free event. 9 Barnes Road, RD4, Christchurch 7674 p: 03 329 6885 e: [email protected] www.ladbrooks.school.nz