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Mt Maunganui Intermediate School, 21 Lodge Avenue, Mt Maunganui 3116 Phone 07 575 5512 Email: [email protected]

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IN THIS ISSUE

From the Principal

Coastal Values

Whanau 15 Learning Page

ICAS Information

Year 7 Vision Testing

Bus Card Information

Useful Information

Sports Information

New School App “BEEP”

MMI Community News

Sponsors

C O M I N G E V E N T S 2020

JULY 2020 3 Term 2 ends

20 Term 3 begins

20, 21 Science Fair in Hall

24 Super 11 Basketball

24 ICAS Registration Close

29 Mt College Open Evening 6.00pm-8.30pm

31 Super 11 Winter Tourney

AUGUST 2020 3 PSG Meeting

3-7 Sports Camp

10 Teacher Only Day ACCORD - COL

MT MAUNGANUI INTERMEDIATE

3 July 2020

Newsletter

No. 18

WOW! Our community support is fantastic. The book fair was again outstanding. Thank you to all the wonderful families that come through the fair, encouraging the love of reading and reinforcing how essential reading is.

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FROM THE PRINCIPAL Lisa Morresey

Kia ora koutou, Yesterday, we held the school cross country. It was a glorious day. The sun was shining, the student’s participation and behaviour was outstanding. School spirit was well on display. Congratulations to all who participated and thanks to all the Mums and Dads who came to support us. It was a massive turn out. As communicated via email, over the past two weeks there has been a number of stand downs and suspensions for discipline purposes. We are pleased to note that this has made a significant difference to the look and feel of the playground. We will continue to work on ensuring that the school is a safe place for all learners. Apart from five days for Easter and despite COVID-19, many of our staff have worked 22 weeks straight. So, staff are tired. Interestingly, students are really tired as well. So this holiday it will be really important for students to get a balance of rest and recreation. Have a great break and we will see you back in term three. Ngā mihi Lisa Morresey




COASTAL VALUE CERTIFICATES 2020 Term 2 – Week 12

1 McKenzie Moyle For extending your writing by using complex vocabulary and incorporating explicit explanation text features.

3 Lynn Max Imhof Thank you for always being so positive! You are an important part of Whanau 3 and we will miss you a lot. We wish you all the best for your journey home.

4 Lulu Boorman For your exceptionally smooth transition into Room 4. Your energy and willingness to participate and contribute is to all class activities is greatly appreciated.

5 Cameron Armstrong

For the improved effort and attitude towards your learning this term and the great progress you have made. Tino pai tō mahi!

6 Abbie Murrell For being a beautiful member of whanau 6 and MMI. I love how you are becoming more confident in all areas of school life. Keep working hard Abbie!

7 Oli Hansen For your developed leadership in our Ultimate Frisbee team. You showed initiative and resilience. You have been working hard in class too and have seen great growth.

8 Oliver Pepers For showing leadership and compassion. Oliver you are always thinking of others and try your best to be fair and helpful.

11 Millie Rogers For the leadership you have shown in and out of class along with the increased maturity you have shown in your learning. Kei runga noa atu koe!

12 Jade Toi A huge shift in your attitude towards learning. I am really impressed by your growth and new positive attitude towards learning. Kei te whakahīhī au ki a koe!

14 Taimania Horne For sharing your gift of knowledge and skills towards te ao Māori with Matariki. Ngā mihi nui Taimania, whāia te iti kahurangi e hine!

15 Kadin Robinson For you the improved effort you have put into all your learning lately.

16 Axyl Wilson For a great week at school. You have been calm and settled and following the MMI Coastal Values. Well done Axyl!

17 Luisa De Souza Vidal

For your consistent kindness towards others and the consistent effort that you put into all of your learning.

18 Alexus Ten Boom For working hard in class and achieving your full classroom license.

19 Jade Kelly For growth of confidence to attempt new tasks and concepts, and perseverance to apply, more accurately, the learning

20 Krista Bennett For your fantastic leadership skills shown during the creation of the Matariki play. Miharo Krista!

21 Matamitchell Rikirangi-Ben

You have had a fantastic term, you are consistently kind and caring towards everyone. We appreciate you and lucky to have you in Whanau 21. Kei runga noa atu koe!

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22 Hemara Nicholls For always offering to help out around the class and for your effort in Cross Country. You have really stepped it up this year and I am proud of you!

23 Sam Hunter The positive attitude you bring to the classroom every day, treating your peers with respect and showing great research skills in Inquiry this term. Great work Sam!

24 Lou Reymondin For your Kiwi Can Do attitude towards all our learning while at MMI. You have been an excellent class contributor, and we will miss you. Ka pai tō

mahi! Good work Lou 👍

25 Lexi Cramond For the leadership you have shown in and out of class along with the increased maturity you have shown in your learning. Keep up the great work Lexi

26 Frank Danby For stepping up to the role of tuakana in our class, especially in maths with our self-directed learning. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with your classmates, we all really appreciate you!

Visual Arts Milina Selau Room 1

For your positivity, conscientious attitude and helpfulness around the classroom, thank you!

Digi Tech Bruno Wood Room 23

For your engagement and persistence when building and programming your EV3 Mindstorm robots.

Hard

Materials

Stephan Cato Room 3

For being supportive and helpful to Austin by helping him finish his lamp project.

Music Raven Crackett-Crosby Room 1

For being an engaged worker in class and always supportive of others.

Dance &

Drama

Cole Frazer Room 4

For using a nice loud and clear voice in your play performance this week. Well done to you! Ka rawe Cole!

Food Tech Levi Looker Whanau 13

For always being ready to fill your basket of knowledge - whaowhia te kete matauranga.

International Jayden Kwon Room 12

For impressing us with your effort to learn English since lockdown. Great work Jayden!

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ABOVE: Self-portraits done in art class




ICAS TESTING INFORMATION FOR 2020

We have received information regarding the 2020 International Competition & Assessments for Schools (ICAS) for Science, Spelling, English, Digital Technologies and Mathematics. Unfortunately Writing will not be offered in 2020.

Student involvement is voluntary and not a school requirement. Every year a large number of our students choose to sit these tests. Involvement allows our students to challenge themselves in specific learning areas, and to gain a measure of their achievement levels against other New Zealand students. Entering these tests can, for many year 7 and 8 students, be perceived as taking quite a risk – it may well be the first time they take on such a challenge in an academic area. We encourage them to take up this academic challenge. Please be aware we do not do any in-school tutoring for these assessments.

This year the assessment period has changed. All tests are now online and are spread over three weeks in late August/early September.

Each student who participates will receive a certificate and a detailed results letter indicating which questions they answered correctly, as well as the average mark for students from New Zealand who sit the test.

Those students from our school who achieve High Distinction and Distinction are acknowledged and congratulated in front of their peers at assemblies. These students, along with those who achieve Merit are acknowledged in our school newsletter.

Competition dates and costs are as follows:

Assessment Date

Science 18 August

Digital Technologies 25 August

English 26 August

Spelling Bee 1 September

Mathematics 3 September

Each ICAS Assessment cost is $16.00.

The closing date for entries of Mount Maunganui Intermediate School students is Friday 24 July (Term 3 Week 1). This is to allow administration time for ordering and payment of entries.

Privacy notification

UNSW Global stores, uses and modifies the ICAS Assessments data in order to generate reports, conduct research and analysis, and improve its products and services. UNSW Global will not hold or use ICAS Assessments data that constitutes personal information for longer than 15 years. As the parent or guardian of a student who intends to sit ICAS Assessments, you consent to the school collecting the ICAS Assessments data that relates to the student, disclosing it to UNSW Global and to UNSW Global’s use of it in the manner outlined above. You also consent to the school assigning this consent to UNSW Global.

We are proud to partner with UNSW Global in offering the ICAS Assessments, and look forward to some fantastic results later in the year.

Please do not hesitate to contact the school office if you have any questions.

If you wish to enter your child in any of these competitions, please complete the online form (link below) and follow the instructions to make payment to our school account (you cannot pay via this link).

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sp=sf_link

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YEAR 7 VISION TESTING OPT OUT FORM BELOW

Please return this form by Wednesday 12 August, if you DO NOT wish your child to have their vision tested.

YEAR 7 VISION SCREENING

Dear Parents/Caregivers On Monday 17 August 2020, the Vision Hearing Technicians, from the Bay of Plenty District Health Board, will be visiting our school to carry out routine distance vision screening. All students in Year 7 are included in this as part of the National Screening Programme. The screening test used checks distance vision only. It is NOT a full eye examination. (If you have concerns about close vision, please take your child to an optometrist).

- The student covers one eye and reads letters from a chart at a distance of 4 metres. - You will be notified, by post, only when the screening results require further testing

by an optometrist. If you DO NOT wish to have your child’s vision tested for any reason, please sign the form below and return it to school before the testing date. Students who already have prescription glasses, do not need to be tested but DO need to return the below form.

Please cut here and return slip -----------------------------------------------------------------

REQUEST FOR ‘OPTING OUT’ OF VISION SCREENING I do not wish my child _______________________________________________ to have a vision test at school. Parent/Caregiver’s name: ____________________________________________ Signature: _______________________________________________________ Room Number: ___________________________________________________




NEW BUS CARDS WITH BAY HOPPER – FROM 27 JULY

We are excited to be very close to launching our new ticketing system, which goes live in Tauranga on 27 July. Before that date, we want to encourage everybody to go to the website www.beecard.co.nz and order a new card. For students, they need to register their card and enter their birth date, and then they will automatically receive free travel before 9am and between 2.30 – 6pm on school days, and automatically receive the child fare of $1.60 per trip at other times. Without a registered card they will be charged a cash fare ($2) per trip on the yellow Bayhopper buses. The blue Bayhopper buses will not have the new ticketing system installed – these will remain free to students at all times. If students only use the blue buses they do not need to have a Bee card. A big advantage of the new system for families is that they can create a family account, and then add all their family cards to the same account. That makes it far easier for them to keep track of balances and arrange top ups (including an auto topup facility).

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USEFUL INFORMATION

SCHOOL TIMETABLE School Starts – 8.45am

Morning Interval – 10.25am Lunch – 12.20pm

Dismissal – 2.45pm

ABSENTEE INFORMATION Please inform us of your child’s absence by using one of the following ways:

Text – 027 232 0446 Phone – 575 5512 ext 1

Email – [email protected] Use the BEEP app

BUS INFORMATION Web - https://www.baybus.co.nz/schools/school-bus-routes-2020/mount-maunganui-intermediate/

MEDICATION If you child has a severe medical condition or needs to take medication at school please contact the office.

TERM DATES REST OF 2020 Term 3 – 20 July to 25 September Term 4 – 12 October to 16 December Start date for 2021 Term 1 – 2 February

DROPPING YOUR CHILD TO AND FROM SCHOOL These are NOT drop off zones:

Lodge Avenue Staff Carpark

Lodge Avenue Turn Around

The Busy Bay on Links Avenue For the safety of your children, when dropping off or picking them up. Please refrain from entering and parking in these areas.

SCHOOL TELEPHONE The school office telephone is for emergencies only. Please make sure your child knows what their after school arrangements are before they come to school. These calls are at a cost to the school.

PARENT SUPPORT GROUP We are calling for anyone interested in being part of the parent support group (PSG) to contact us. They are always looking for volunteers to join their team. Please email if you are interested: [email protected]

ONLINE PAYMENTS SPORTS FEES/OPTIONAL TRIPS ETC - If you wish to pay online or by automatic payment you are encouraged to do so. Our bank account number is:

12 3146 0104711 03 Please put your child’s name as the reference

CANTEEN We operate a lunch online system. The website for this is: www.lunchonline.co.nz. You can order lunch online on the following days of the week: Wednesdays – Subway only Thursdays – Bakers Delight only Fridays – Subway only

CHANGE OF DETAILS It would greatly assist us if you could please advise the office if you have any changes of address, phone numbers, email addresses and emergency contact details. In the event of an emergency, sickness or injury we need to be able to contact someone who can collect your child.

COMMUNICATION Checkout out our website, newsletters, daily notices and Facebook links. https://mtint.school.nz/ https://mtint.school.nz/daily-notices/ https://www.facebook.com/Mtint.school.nz/ https://mtint.school.nz/newsletters/

SUBJECT FEES Click on the link below to read about our school donation scheme: https://www.education.govt.nz/assets/Documents/School/donations/MOE-Donations-Scheme-Info-A3-FA-Web-2-DEC.PDF

We offer the following specialist subjects here at MMI:

Food Technology Hard Materials/Electronics

Media Studies/Robotics Music

Visual Arts Dance and Drama

Specialist Take Home Component Parents/caregivers may choose to pay a contribution towards the take home component of our specialist programme. This is optional and is set at $30.00 per student.

TERM 2/3 UNIFORM/SHOES Beanies can be purchased from the school office for $10.00. Only plain black beanies can be worn. We appreciate your child may have specific footwear requirements, due to severs, or other conditions. Please consult with us before you purchase shoes that may not fit with our uniform requirements. All shoes must be plain black. To register for NZ uniforms to be able to save for your child’s uniform, click on this link: https://www.nzuniforms.com/pages/uniform-club.htmx

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SPORTS INFORMATION

SPORTS CAMP

Our MMI Y8 sports camp team of 40 students is below. They will be heading over to Totara Springs Sports Camp, in Matamata, in week 3 of term 3. Monday 3rd - Friday 7th August. The week will have them competing against 9 other school teams, in at least 40 different sport code events, ranging from chess and shooting to athletics and rugby. We had 90 students apply, so for the 40 named, we will make sure we represent MMI with pride.




2020 CROSS COUNTRY RESULTS




SUPER 11 MOUNTAIN BIKING 20 riders headed to Taupo on Friday 26th June and had a great day competing at the Craters of the Moon tracks. Congrats to the following team that gained 3rd place overall: Taine Roy, Jayden McQueen, Nevan Fullerton, Griffin Hunt and Sophie Loader. Our best boy individuals, in a field of 84 riders, were: Taine Roy - 7th Jayden McQueen - 12th Nevan Fullerton - 14th Jaxon Willows - 16th Thank you to Alisha Grimmer and the parents who looked after the team for the day.




BASKETBALL REPORT – THE COMETS The Comets played an amazing game last night. Several points down in the 1st 2 quarters but made an amazing comeback in the 2nd half. Not a win, but great teamwork and perseverance! Lost by only 2 points.....nail biting stuff!! Thank you to Morgan for coaching the girls and to all the parents for their support and help. Well done Comets!!!




SMART SCHOOL-TO-HOME COMMUNICATION WITH “BEEP”

We are pleased to advise that we are now setup to communicate with you through BEEP. This

smartphone app is from School-links, New Zealand’s leading communication provider

and…..it’s FREE!

This will enable you to:

receive news, newsletters, emergency alerts and important messages straight to your Smartphone

receive group messages for teams, clubs and special interest extra-curricular groups

securely send in an absence note for your child to the office

You may also find your other children’s schools and early childhood centres using the Beep app – all communications

in one place!

To download the FREE app:

1. Go to Google Play (Android)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nz.co.beep.android.beep

or the App Store (iPhone)

https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/beep/id1201078200

2. Enable push notifications in your settings:

Settings > Notifications > Select Beep > Allow Notifications

How much will it cost you?

The Beep app is free and the push notifications to your phone will use only a tiny amount of your mobile

data, or you can use your home Wi-Fi network.

You don’t have a Smartphone?

The School-links software recognises those caregivers who have not downloaded Beep and will send emails instead

of the Beep notifications.

We will continue to send all emergency alerts and absence notifications via email, as well as Beep, to ensure that

we get critical messages through to you.

Want to learn more?

To learn more about School-links or Beep visit https://school-links.co.nz/beep-notifications/

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Dear Teachers, Parents and our Tamariki

We are the first theatre tour to return to New Zealand theatres post-lockdown and the great news is we’re doing a show for our Tamariki.

Details can be found by going to catinthehatlive.com or hitting the Learn More button.

Many thanks and enjoy your last week before holidays.

#TeamCatInTheHat

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