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Connect Communication
24th February 2021
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It was lovely to see so many of you at our first event for the year, the 'Meet the Team Picnic'. We were blessed with a warm evening and it was great to see many learners having fun at school. It is always a good sign for us that they are reluctant to leave. Teaching teams gave an outline of their programmes and expectations.
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Over the next two terms, you will receive updates on your child's learning in the areas of caring, curiosity and capability. Before the end of term two, there will be comments on their reading, writing and mathematics capability. We will invite you to meet with the teacher towards the middle of the year. But remember, you can request a meeting at any time.
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On Monday we held our first swimming sports at Halswell Pool, thanks to Matua Blair for the organisation of this event and we will post results in the next newsletter. Today our Year 5 and 6 learners boarded the bus to Hanmer Springs. I will join them tomorrow and look forward to seeing all the learning that takes place in an outdoor setting. Thanks to Sam, Hinehau, Carolyn and our wonderful team of parents supporting this event.
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The structured literacy spelling approach involves explicitly teaching tamariki how to encode (spell) the English language. It connects the reciprocal nature of reading and writing together. English is an Alphabetic Code It uses symbols of the alphabet (letters or graphemes) to represent speech sounds (phonemes). There are 26 letters and 44 speech sounds in the English language however there are …
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Dates to put in the diary:
There are dates to diary for the next two weeks below but please be aware that we also put events on a community calendar, this is linked to our website.
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Friday 26th February - Hui - 9:15 am
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Sunday 28th February - Weetbix Triathlon
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Tuesday 2nd March - K1/K2 McHughes Forest Plantation Visit
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Wednesday 3rd March - K3/K4 McHughes Forest Plantation Visit
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Tuesday 9th March - Lincoln Zone Swimming
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Thursday 11th March - Whanau Groups
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Wednesday 17th March - Y7/8 Camp
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Thursday 18th March - Y0/2 Sport Spectacular
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As we have a few very busy weeks, we thought we would remind you that most school communication from teachers comes through our HERO app.
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If you haven’t installed the HERO app on your phone or logged in via a browser - please read the attached instructions, use the email address that you gave on your enrolment form to register and contact Trine if you aren’t able to connect to HERO.
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Welcome to...
Huarapa welcomes Avalie, Amber, Edith, George, Greta, Joshua and Lydia.
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We hope you have all settled in and made some new friends and that you will soon love Ararira as much as we do!
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If you know of a family in Ararira Springs Primary enrolment zone with children aged 3 - 5 or know someone moving soon, please forward this newsletter to them and ask them to complete an enrolment form or call us on 420 0888 to help us with our planning for 2021 and beyond.
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Student Privacy
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With lots of events happening in and around the school at the moment, we have lots of great photo opportunities. We are happy for you to download a copy of any photos for your own use but please do not reproduce them, forward to other people or post on social media if they include children other than your own without the permission of any other children's parents.
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Have you moved house or job?
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Please ensure that you email office@ararira.school.nz to let us know if your address, phone number or email has changed so that we can update our records.
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Medical records
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Has your child's health needs changed over the holidays - please let us know if this is the case!
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Inquiry Learning About Tuna | Eels
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As part of our inquiry towards the end of last year, the NE children studied tuna (eels). As part of an action to protect these species, some of the children made some artwork to encourage the community to do the same. A big thank you to Helen Lee from "Tall Poppy Real Estate, in Lincoln" who without hesitation, printed our boards for us. These are now along the Liffey Springs walkway, outside our school. Please have a look at these on your way to and from school and ask your child about the mighty tuna!
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Te Hapori Tautoko |THT
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Tuesday Morning Coffee Group
Anyone is welcome to come along for a cuppa and a chat. It is a great way to meet new people in our school community and preschoolers are welcome to come along.
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When: Starting from 8.45 am
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Next THT Meeting
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Our next meeting is on Thursday 25 March starting at 7 pm in Pūtahi | Library.
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Anyone is welcome to come along and see what Te Hapori Tautoko (THT) is all about and help support our wonderful school community.
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When: Saturday, 20 March 2021 from 3-6 pm.
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THT have organised a Karma Keg fundraising event to be held at The Laboratory, Lincoln and would love you to come along!
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This is a fantastic opportunity to socialise whilst raising funds for the school as ALL proceeds from the sale of the Karma Keg beer purchased during 3-6pm on the day go to Ararira Springs Primary. The Karma Keg beer of the day will be advised in due course.
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Feel free to share this with your family and friends who are welcome to come along and join us.
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Are you interested in helping at school?
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We would love for you to be involved in school life if you would like to. Teachers will soon put the call out for classroom helpers and many of you already are regular helpers on trips, visits and camps.
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More specific ways of helping may be road patrol or helping to run a curiosity club. Road patrol involves the commitment to one session a week, either in the morning from 8:30 - 9 or in the afternoon from 3-3:15. You can offer this help on a term by term basis and don't have to sign up for the whole year.
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Curiosity Clubs run for 8 weeks of a term on Fridays from 9:30 - 10:30. You might like to offer an activity or help out. By helping out it enables to make our more popular groups bigger and you would work alongside a teacher. In the past clubs have included hockey, netball, knitting, crafts, science, chess, movie making, wheels and scooters, baking and wearable arts. We are only limited by our abilities or confidence.
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If you are interested in volunteering in the classroom please contact the class teacher. For road patrol or curiosity clubs please contact Donna, donna.frame@ararira.school.nz.
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Our Year 7 & 8 students attend Technology lessons at Lincoln Primary School on Wednesday mornings. The technology bus leaves at 8.45 am and returns to Ararira Springs around 12 noon. Please ensure that your year 7 and year 8 students arrive in plenty of time to catch the bus! The cost of materials used for take-home projects is $42 per student - this will be added to your school account.
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KELLY CLUB
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Next week at Kelly Club it is Wildlife Week, get ready to get wild and learn about lots of cool animals! To book online head to www.kellyclub.co.nz
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Lincoln Netball Club – Dates for 2021
8 February 2021: Registration Opens
14 March 2021: Registrations Close for Year 7 & 8
26 March 2021: Registrations Close for Year 1 - 6
Year 7 & 8: Trial Dates
Sunday 21 March @ Lincoln Netball Courts
10am - 1pm
Thursday 25 March @ Lincoln Event Centre
5pm - 8pm
Year 1 – 6
These year groups are placed into teams based on their age and friendship groups (as much
as we can!)
Further information is available on our website: www.sporty.co.nz/lincolnnetball
Updates are announced on our Facebook page.
Alicia Hopping
Registrations Co-ordinator, Lincoln Netball Club
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