RUAHINE SCHOOL Community Newsletter Wednesday 10th December 2014 2015 Stationery Orders Stationery lists for your child/ren will be sent home along with their end of year report on Tuesday 16th December. All stationery will be available at our local Paper Plus store. Lunch Orders  Mince Pie $2.50 Principal’s Report  UPCOMING Mince & Cheese Pie $2.50Sausage Roll $1.50 EVENTS Thursday 11 December 2014  Chocolate Muffin $1.50 Kiaorders ora koutou. Warm to our families, whānau and community. All to be made & paidgreetings for on THURSDAY mornings. Our school and community are for the very sad loss of Rob Christian who Sorry, no IOU’s will be grieving given.  Friday 12th December No money, no order. as the result of a tragic accident. Our heartfelt passed away on Wednesday morning School Picnic condolences and thoughts are with Nikki, Lachlan, Connor and family. May loving  Tuesday 16th December memories bring you comfort. Reports sent home Next Wednesday, 17 December Lunch Orders at 11.00am, we are hosting a ‘thank you’ morning tea  Mince Tuesday 16th December  Pie $2.50 in our school hall for everyone in our community who has supported us in any way during School Prize Giving  Ruahine Mince & Cheese Pie $2.50 the year. So if you have coached a team, run a sausage sizzle, organised lunches, helped  Sausage Wednesday 17th  Roll $1.50 out on a school trip or at any of our many school events, put books away, assisted in a December  Chocolate Muffin $1.50 classroom or elsewhere in the school… the list goes on... we would love you to come along All orders to be made & paid for on THURSDAY mornings. Thank You Morning Tea 11.00am and join us in aSorry, celebration/thank morning tea - from all the staff at Ruahine School. no IOU’s will be you given.  Thursday 18th December money,you no order. We look forward toNoseeing there! Term 4 Ends School Closes at I give my very sincere thanks to our amazing teaching and support staff at Ruahine 12.30pm School. It takes a really dedicated and innovative team of people to run a school well –  Monday 2nd February and we certainly have that team at Ruahine – thank you so much to every one of you. My 2015 sincere thanks also go the Board of Trustees – thank you for your continued commitment, Beginning of Term 1 support and vision to continue to grow our school and work alongside us so effectively as a team. Our PFK are an amazing team of devoted parents who we are so very grateful for – you work tirelessly for our school and for the benefit of our kids – THANK YOU! Thank you also to all of our families and our community; we are a rural school - the hub of our community - and we rely on, and sincerely value and appreciate our community support. Whole School Picnic Friday 12th December Last but certainly not least – thank you to our children – you are the reason we are all here at Ruahine School and it is the joy and excitement of sharing your learning and growth that inspires us every day. Ruahine kids ROCK! This is a really fun day and we Teacher planning and preparation is well underway for 2015. We welcome two new look forward to seeing as many teachers to our staff next year; Mrs Jacqui Frost and Miss Nicole Bourke. We are thrilled to parents/grandparents/whānau have Mrs Lee Gibbs in a permanent teaching position at Ruahine School from next year. as possible enjoying the day Our 2015 teaching staff is listed below. with our Rockers. Room 1: Miss Kate Dare (Deputy Principal) - Year 6-7 Room 8: Mrs Lee Gibbs (Team Leader) – Year 7-8 9.30am: Whole school to meet Room 2: Mrs Jacqui Frost – Year 5-6 at the Sports Stadium for roll Room 3: Mrs Iveta Senior – Year 3-4 call. Children will then be put Room 4: Miss Nicole Bourke – Year 3-4 into House groups. Room 5: Mrs Jo Brown – Year 1-2 9.45-11.15: Takapari and Rokai Room 7: Mrs Janet Tolley – Year 1 will go to Wai Splash. Whariti Reading Recovery release & Learning Support teacher: Mrs Janine Castles and Matanginui will have We farewell Miss Sophie Cudby and Mr Ben Valentine from Ruahine School, at the end sports in the Stadium of the term. We sincerely thank you Sophie and Ben, for your commitment and 11.15-12.45: Takapari and contributions to our school. Sophie has been our lead teacher in Kapa Haka and, with the Rokai will have sports in the support of Les Hoerara, along with her wonderful skill and motivation, has admirably Stadium. Whariti and grown our Kapa Haka group this year – thank you Sophie. Matanginui will go to Wai We wish Sophie and Ben the very best in their future careers and ventures. Splash. I wish you all a very safe and very happy Christmas and summer holiday with family and 12.45-1.30: Picnic at the friends. Sports Stadium. 1.30-2.30: House Competitions 2.30: Whole school roll call. All Warm regards Leanne Angland students leaving with parents Principal need to be marked off with their teacher. End Of Year Stuff    Please make sure you hunt out any sports uniforms or blue Ruahine cross country tops. We still seem to have a lot of these missing. Now is the time to look for library books, reading books or school journals that may be lying around. These need to be back by the end of this week please. Lost Property: our bins are nearly too full to close. Please take the time to look. Any unnamed items will be binned at the end of the year. A Message From Go Bus Go Bus wish to remind parents that on the last day of term, Thursday 18th December, buses will run as normal in the morning. School closes at 12.30pm and the buses will be available to collect children at that time. However, the connecting bus at the Rua Roa Hall will not be available. Parents will have to make arrangements to collect their children at the hall. This will only affect children on the Northern Bus. The Southern Bus and Town Bus children will be combined. This means Townie Kids will be in Dannevirke by about 12.50pm Indoor Mini Sticks Hockey Champions Congratulations to Brock Castles, Preston Stephenson, Ashlee Filer, Ashley Southgate, Trey Castles and Connor Christian. You guys ROCK From The PFK EZ COVER Enclosed with this newsletter is a flyer for Ez Cover. Ez Cover is a wonderful, reusable, recyclable way to cover school books. Just $1.40 per cover and no more battling with the dreaded Dura Seal! Go online to order, select our school in the drop down box and quote the special code. This will earn the PFK 10 cents for every cover ordered. There are heaps of cool designs to choose from and the kids will be able to cover their own books! We have a sample cover on display in the school office. ******************************************* HAY FUNDRAISER Once again the PFK are organising their hay fundraiser. This will involve a team of men and their trucks to come in and pick up conventional hay bales in the paddock and stack them in your hay shed. The cost to the farmer is $1.40 per bale. All proceeds go to the kids of Ruahine School. If you are interested or you are willing to be part of the team please ring: Rachel 374 7978 Kelly 374 5069 Baking and Meals for the Christian Family If you wish to prepare food for Nikki, Lachlan and Connor you are welcome to drop it at the school office and a PFK member will then deliver it to the Christian family.