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Newsletter Term 2 No 4 - 26 May 2011 |
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Term 2 No 4 - 26 May 2011
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Dear Parents,
Parents ICT Workshop
On Wednesday 15th June at 7.00pm we are holding a Parents’ ICT Workshop at school. We hope that as many of you as possible will want to attend and find out more about one of the most exciting areas of our school curriculum.
The format of the evening will be somewhat fluid, and may well be influenced in part by the numbers of parents attending, however we hope to cover the following areas:
- Our school’s vision and strategic goals in this area “To provide a school ICT environment that enhances opportunities for inquiry and learning, facilitates collaboration, and improves management and communication systems.” – VAS School Charter
- An introduction to our new Learning Management System, Ultranet, which is being developed in the school this year.
- The opportunity to try first-hand, various elements of Ultranet. Explore the technology of our Class Spaces, Uspace and our Parental Portal.
- Hear from Martin Cocker (Martin is a VAS parent and Executive Director of Netsafe) – He will will talk about our collaboration with Netsafe, and the Digital Citizenship in New Zealand Schools programme Learn, Guide, Protect.
If you intend being present at this workshop please can you let the office know
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as soon as possible as this will enable us to make appropriate arrangements for the evening.
Pre-Schoolers Library Initiative
Earlier today at our Kindy Kids morning tea, we launched our new Pre-Schoolers library initiative. We would like to invite parents of children enrolled to start at Victoria Avenue School the opportunity to use our school library and borrow books.
Jane Clark (school librarian) will open the library from 8.30-9.00am each day for parents to bring along their pre-schoolers. You are welcome to browse the collection, read stories with your child and borrow books. If you are interested in this initiative please visit Jane in the library and register your pre-schooler as a user on our library system.
All children currently have a library bag for keeping their library books safe as they transport them between home and school. We would like you to purchase a school library bag for your pre-schooler too if they wish to borrow books.
In addition to encouraging a love of books in the younger members of our wider school family we also hope that this initiative will be another part of making your child’s transition to school a happy and successful one.
Kind regards
Allan Short
Principal
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The Week Ahead: World Environment Week
Monday 30 May: Class Photos
Tuesday 31 May: Winter Exchange - more info on Monday
Wednesday 1 June:
Pasifika Parents' Meeting @ 7.00pm
Upcoming Events:
Monday 6 June: Queen's Birthday weekend - school closed
Tues
day 7 June:
Grandparents' day
Friday 10 June: Disco
School calendar is
on:
http://victoriaave.com/school-calendar
IMPORTANT DATES AND TIMES
School Times
School starts: 8.50am
Interval: 10.40-11.00am
Lunch: 12.30-1.30pm
School finishes: 3.00pm
Stationery Sales
Tuesdays and Thursdays: 8.30-8.45am
Uniform Shop
Fridays only: 8.30-9.00am
Orders and payments for uniform can be made online on our website http://victoriaave.com/school-shop
Lunch Orders
French Lunches: Tues only
Subway: Wed and Fri
Sushi: Thurs only
Order forms/Instructions
http://victoriaave.com/our-school/lunch-orders
School Banking Wednesdays before school in Room 4
Term Dates 2011
Term 2 Mon 2 May to Fri 15 July 2011
Term 3 Mon 1 Aug to Fri 7 Oct 2011
Term 4 Tues 25 Oct to Fri 16 Dec 2011
Term Dates 2012
Term 1 Thur 2 Feb to Thur 5 Apr 2012
Term 2 Mon 23 Apr to Fri 29 Jun 2012
Term 3 Mon 16 Jul to Fri 28 Sept 2012
Term 4 Mon 15 Oct to Wed 19 Dec 2012
MONDAY (30June)
CLASS PHOTO DAY!!!!
BREAKING NEWS
Mathletics Success!!!
Room 16 is at present 7th in New Zealand - congratulations.
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VAS ENVIRONMENT AWARENESS WEEK
Next week (30 May- 5 June) at Victoria Avenue School we will be having an Environment Awareness Week. This week is timetabled to tie in with World Environment Day on the 5 June and aims to encourage us all to think about the importance of caring for our environment and the ‘footprint’ we make.
This year, World Environment Day supports the UN’s International Year of Forests with the theme, Forests: Nature at Your Service, which underscores the many essential life-sustaining values that forests provide and the intrinsic link between our quality of life and the health of forest ecosystems.
To support World Environment Day we encourage all children to walk to and from school. If your child lives too far to walk perhaps they could be dropped off before the school gate and walk part of the way. For information about one of our six Walking School Buses please check here on our website. After walking to school your child can add their name to one of the Walkers Trees in the hall. There will even be some spot prizes for some lucky walkers.
As part of an Environment Week we are also having a class Rubbish Free Lunch Challenge. Each day teachers will be checking lunchboxes to see how many rubbish free lunches there are. There are now many products available to help reduce packaging and waste such as on this website. Classes with the highest percentage of walkers and rubbish free lunches will win a tree to be planted in our school forest.
On Thursday 2 and Friday 3 June we will have the Tread Lightly Caravan at school to run classroom sessions with our Year 5 & 6 students. This is a new mobile environmental classroom, jam-packed with interactive exhibits and experiences that have one key educational message – our every day life style choices make a difference and we need to work together to protect our environment.
We will celebrate our environment week with a GREEN DAY on Friday 3 June where children can dress in GREEN, think green and be GREEN. Perhaps this is the day to switch off another light, pack a rubbish free lunch and pick up some rubbish while walking the school. |
OUTLINE OF GRANDAPARENT'S DAY ~ TO BE HELD ON 7 JUNE 2011
Grandparents of Senior Syndicate pupils and those in Rooms 19-21 will be invited to our morning session and those with grandchildren in the Junior School and Rooms 16-18 will be invited to our afternoon session, of course some may qualify for, and wish to attend, both sessions! (Please note to even up numbers the Middle Syndicate has been split with three classes in the morning and three in the afternoon)
The day will begin with an assembly, lead by the Principal, followed by a small concert where the children will perform a number of items for grandparents. After this grandparents will accompany their grandchildren back to their classrooms to meet their teachers and look at their work. Children will then give their grandparents a tour of the school, finally arriving back at the hall where we will have morning/afternoon tea together.
Programme times are as follows:
- 9.15am Welcome and Assembly (Year 4-6)
- 9.55am Grandparents to visit classrooms and tour the school with their grandchildren
- 10.30am Morning tea for grandparents in the hall
- Early Lunch 12.00-1.00pm
- 1.15pm Welcome and Assembly (Year 1-3)
- 2.00pm Grandparents to visit classrooms and tour the school with their grandchildren
- 2.30pm Afternoon tea for grandparents in the hall.
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SPORTS NEWSLETTER:
Netball Results:
Winter Sports Exchange:
Next round is being played on Tuesday (31 May) afternoon. They will be scheduled locally and you will be notified of the venues and details as soon as they come to hand.
Photos of the Winter Sports Exchange Teams are now online - our thanks goes to Rachael McLaren for her great photos:
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