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Market DayWell done to all the Year 6 students for running another great 'market day' on Monday. They had a lot of fun and raised $1153 towards helping meet some of the extra cost around camp for this year. A big thank you to all the parents who helped them get their stalls sorted and to everyone who sent their child along with a few dollars to spend on the day!

School Resourcing, your Accounts and DonationsRecently we have received our notification of what our staffing and funding will look like for the 2013 school year. As always being a decile 10 school our per student funding in both money and staffing is less than what a lower decile school receives. For example, a decile 3 school that is around the same size as us will receive nearly $50,000 more in operational funding and staffing that equates to at

least one more teaching position. Our school therefore does its very best to 'push the envelope' and provide as much teaching resource, and monetary support, to give as many enriching learning opportunities and support across the different curriculum areas. This is where your school account payment, and the decision to make your family donation, helps immensely. Your school account is itemised so you can see exactly what you are paying for. Payment of your school donation gives our school the ability to put more money towards the resources that support our teaching and learning programmes. It doesn't get banked for a rainy day and it doesn't get spent on toilet paper. The more we get, the more we can do for our children. Thank you to all our families for your continued support with these payments.

Teacher Contract MeetingsOver the last couple of weeks our teachers have attended their contract meetings. By buddying up senior and junior classes for the two afternoons concerned we were able to meet our legal obligations of giving them the chance to attend the meeting while still keeping school open. If you have been keeping up with some of the education news around the different issues that are topical at the moment you will know that there is not much good will existing between the Ministry and teachers. The current contract for teachers and principals ran out in August of this year and if negotiations continue in the same opposing way then the new year could be interesting.

RegardsTim LovelockPrincipal

Myross Bush SchoolNewsletterFind out more at www.myrossbush.school.nz

Year 6 Market Day was held on Monday as a fundraiser for their camp to Borland next month. This is just 2 of the stalls that did a roaring trade for the afternoon as they raised $1153!

Kia tu Pakari From strong foundations we grow and stand tall together

Community:  

Gladstone Tyres and Mags: Get the school rewarded - $5 back to the school on every tyre purchase - drop a copy of your invoice into the school

Found: Baby’s Bonnet found on Pet Day. White with pom pom. It’s at the office waiting to be picked up.

Southland Boys High School: is looking for both short and long term homestay accommodation for several international students we are expecting next year. Weekly board will be paid. If you are interested in hosting an international student, please telephone Jill Hoffman, 2113 003 ext 809 or email, jill.hoffman@sbhs.school.nz for further information.

Phoenix Synchro Christmas Show: Sat 8th Dec 6pm Tickets $6 available from Splash Palace and Glowing Sky.Your chance to watch some of the best synchronised swimmers in the country. Proceeds towards the 20113 Worlds Team. Invercargill Kennington Pony Club: Fundraising chocs available at the office. $2.50 - correct change needed.

Every year the Year 6 children have a full day first aid course with Red Cross to help develop their understanding of what to do in emergency situations.

School News:

Assembly: Rata

End of Year BBQ: Thursday 13th December. We celebrate the end of with our Year 6 leavers, this is followed by a community BBQ selling sausages and burgers. A great last community get together for the year. Mark the date in your calendar.

Camp Notices: • A reminder that all payments are due this Friday.

• A gear list for campers will be sent home next week.

• The meeting for parents going on camp will be held next Wednesday at 7.30pm in Room Kauri.

Reports: Will be going home on Thursday 13th of December.

Friends of the School:

Blue River Dairy: It was a great night with lovely cheeses, ice cream and wine. Thank you to all those who came along and supported the evening.

Sports Notices:Touch: MB Stars v Tisbury Blue Won 8-3POD Finn Young

Basketball: MB v Otatara Won 26-6POD Bradley Hay

Soccer: MB Phoenix v Woodlands Won 4-1POD Tayla Willis

Flippaball:POD MB Blue - Cassie Gray, Bradley HayPOD MB Yellow - Amy Phibbs-Geisser, Hannah Symon

Sports DrawsFlippaball:MB Yellow 5.30MB Green 5.10MB Blue 4.40MB Gold 4.20

Touch Rugby: Please look at the touch website www.touchsouthland.co.nz. for game times.

Cricket: 3.45 Ground 3 - Donovan Black Caps

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Shaving cream pies was a popular thing to spend money on at Market Day.

Week 6 Term 4MANUKA are working on using the design process we learnt while making boats, and are applying the skills of imagine, plan, create, test and improve, to a christmas present for someone special. We need a photo of this special person preferably with your child. It could be a parent, grandparent, sibling etc. It would be great if you could email a photo to jan@myrossbush.school.nz or send one in that can be used as part of the gift. Each child will be writing some questions to ask their special person and bringing these questions home in the weekend in their published story books. We appreciate the support you give your child to find the answers to their questions. They will be finding out about favourite colours and what their special person likes so they can then decorate their project with these things.

Certificates: Charlotte Morris and Hadlee Byers for a fantastic start to their school days.

KOWHAI The Kowhai kids really enjoyed market day on Monday. Thanks to the senior children for their hard work. Yesterday we had an unexpected hatching of a cocoon that Amilea had brought to school weeks ago. After some inquiry thinking, we discovered it was not a butterfly like we thought, but a magpie moth that flies during the day. We are finding out about clocks and telling the time to the hour and half hour this week. What clocks do you have at home? We are also looking at the design process again and thinking about some new projects to create. Keep up the great work at home with the maths flash cards. With lots of practice at home and school we are getting faster and more accurate with our basic facts!Certificates Scott Hoffman

RIMU We are all very excited this week as we had Market Day on Monday and we are presenting assembly on Friday. We have had fun writing 'boring' stories and are now writing exciting stories. We hope to share some of these on Friday. We hope that lots of parents will come to assembly as the children really appreciate the support. We are practising our Family of Facts for maths and we move on to making fractions of sets soon.

Certificates: Magnus Jamieson, Logan Thornton

RATA Over the last couple of weeks the children have really enjoyed making and modifying, 'a boat that will go'. It has been exciting to see the children problem solve and share their joy of coming up with a solution. This has been a successful way for the children to learn about the design process. The children will now use the design process to design and make a Christmas gift. It would be helpful if you could send along empty cereal boxes etc to school. Thanks Evelyn

MIRO It is fantastic to see everyone in Miro with their sun hats. Thank you for your support with this. A wee reminder that homework went home yesterday with new spelling words and a

geometry practice sheet.Our passion projects are underway and the ideas and designs the children have come up with are amazing. We look forward to show casing these later in the term.• Market day was really fun. Jackson• When I played Duck hunters I got in the draw to win a block of chocolate. Olivia• I got soaked and it was fun. Joel• I liked market day because there were two raffles. Georgia• I enjoyed it even though I dropped my wallet in the chilli bin. Timothy

Certificates: Georgia & Adam

TOTARAWe are enjoying creating our photo frames for our Inquiry into the technological process, some students are even developing their handy skills with a saw! We are looking forward to sharing these with you at our end of year sharing celebration...details to follow...so keep an eye out! Remember to have sunhats and a clean water bottle at school.

KAURI Market day was great, thank you for all the contributions from parents and families of our year 6 students. I think we have some wonderful entrepreneurs at Myross Bush School! There was a lot of time and effort put into producing the fabulous food and products to sell. This week we are starting to make our gifts that we have been designing. We are very excited about the production stage of our gifts.

MATAI had a great day on Monday, selling you all lots of goodies! Thank you to all the parents who put in a huge effort baking, making and bringing equipment to school - including the ponies! We raised over $1000 which was a great effort.

We are well under way with our passion projects and this week the students are working towards having a test and working out what they can revise and improve. We are looking forward to sharing our journeys with you at the technology expo in Week 9. You will be able to see our products as well as the process that led us there!

Special thanks to the ILT...

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23rd Fri

Last day for Camp payment

3rd - 6th

Year 6 Camp

Feb 4 - Apr 19 Term 1

May 6 - Jul 12 Term 2

Jul 29 - Sep 27 Term 3

Oct 14 - Dec 18* Term 4* To be confirmed

28th Wed

Camp Parent helpers meeting 7.30pm

5th Wed

School accounts due for payment

13th Thurs

• End of Year BBQ and Year 6 Farewell 6pm

• Student Reports go home

17th Mon

Last day of Tm 4

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