PB4L-SW@LNS – Week 11 This week our focus is: Be Respectful – Move appropriately to the area What does this look like at home?

Þ Encouraging your child to be safe where ever they are Þ Praising your child when show awareness of what is going on

around them Þ Modelling how to move around different areas safely e.g. looking out for others,

walking at the swimming pool Taha Maori Focus

Each week we have a Maori phrase which we try to align with our PB4L focus. This week’s phrase is: Kaua e oma i te wāhi ngā – Do not run in the Shared Space (Learning Centre)

Parent Diary for School Events

This Week

Tomorrow 8.30am St Chad’s Breakfast Club in the Kidsbase Room Term 1 Learning Journals returned to school 2.30pm Whole School Gold Awards Learning Celebration Last day of school for Term 1. School closes at 3.00pm

Term 2 Week 1 Monday 30th April

Monday 30th April Wednesday 2nd May

All students to wear Winter uniform this term Aquagym Swimming – Please ensure payments are made before the end of Term 1 to ensure your child swims on Day 1. Te Mapua Trust Breakfast with Mrs Jo in the OSCAR Room

We value Being Respectful, Being Responsible and Being a Learner

LINWOOD NORTH SCHOOL

NEWSLETTER Newsletter No 11: Thursday 12 April

Take care of our children. Take care of what they hear, Take care of what they see, take care of what they feel.

For how the children grow, so will be the shape of Aotearoa’. Dame Whina Cooper

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From the Principal’s Desk Dear Parents, Carers and Friends of Linwood North School Kia ora koutou katoa! Talofa lava! Mālō e lelei! Greetings everyone! After a very busy and often challenging term of eleven weeks, both the students and the staff are ready for a well-deserved break and enjoy our first school holidays. Hopefully the weather will be much kinder than it has been this week! Remember whatever the weather, and even if you are still working, to relax away from the routines of school, rest, keep well and spend time having fun with your lovely children. Do remember to keep up their daily reading with them. It is well known that children who continue practising their reading over the holidays keep achieving at their current level and do not experience the ‘holiday slump’ in progress. Enjoy rereading those favourite books and borrowing new books from our wonderful Christchurch City Libraries. Term 2 Next term, all children are required to wear their Winter uniform from Day 1, including their Kids Can rain jackets on wet days. We would like all students to be ready to participate in their daily Aquagym Swimming lessons for the first two weeks of term. Students who have not had payments organised by the end of Term 1 will not be able to swim and they will remain at school. We are thrilled to have the support of the Te Mapua Trust and welcome Mrs Jo to Linwood North. They will be providing a breakfast in the OSCAR Room on Wednesday mornings from 8.30am – 9.00am and everyone is welcome to come along. Congratulations to Ryan McNicoll in Room 2 for his Principals Award for his fabulous story writing Class Changes We are pleased our school roll is growing and we are welcoming many new five year olds to our school. During this term we have also enrolled many additional students at various other levels of the school. Next term we already have 10 students enrolled to start in Week 1 at various levels of the school; and 8 further students to start during Term 2. At the start of Term 3 we will be opening our 13th class in Room 1. We have identified the need to balance class sizes throughout the school, to make all class sizes equitable for all learners and all teachers. We actually need to reduce the size of some classes and to increase the number in others, so it is necessary to move a group of children from their present classroom. This transfer will ensure all class numbers will be kept at an acceptable size for student learning following the Ministry of Education staffing implementation guidelines which is 1 teacher to 23 students for Year 1 to 3; and 1 teacher to 29 students for Years 4 to 6. All parents and carers who have children transferring classes have been notified individually. Congratulations to Room 8 They were first last week in our School Newsletter Return Competition with 83%! Well done!

A very warm welcome to Linwood North School….. We warmly welcome the following student who has enrolled at our school recently. We trust you and your whānau will find our school an awesome, caring school where you will be ‘learning to take us places…!’ Room 5: Elsie King Kindest regards everyone Sandra Smith JP

PRINCIPAL – TUMUAKI Weekly Principal’s Class Awards These awards are presented at Team Whānau Time on Monday mornings at 9am. Families are most welcome to attend. Class Awards for ‘Caught Being Good as Gold’ using our school Values. Merkoriwos Mengistu Room 2 For working hard on learning our classroom routines & joining in with learning Madi Flint Room 3 For being Responsible & Respectful when using classroom equipment Mackenzie Craig SKK For her positive attitude in class Frank Austin SKW For his effort to show kindness to others & for making positive choices in class Israel Searle Room 4 For always being kind & considerate & being a good example to others Shyla E-NR Room 5 Has wonderful manners Billie Rochford Room 6 For showing Respect & Responsibility during all Kapahaka & Pasifika sessions Emma Adcock Room 7 For being a kind and caring classmate Mraz Hingano Room 8 For working hard on being a leader, not a follower Govind Sharma Room 9 For always setting good daily goals Arnika Teokotai Room 10 For having an improved attitude to her school work Aroha Kerr Room 11 For making such positive behaviour choices & being an awesome role model in the playground Class Awards for Literacy and Numeracy: Jack Walters Room 2 For his effort in Maths and Reading Kailani Clough Room 3 For showing improvement in her Maths, counting numbers higher than 20 Cassidy Hall SKK For her effort in Reading Marieka Greene SKW For her effort and dedication in Reading Jayziah Galovale Room 4 For trying hard to improve himself in Writing. Ka Pai! Lyrik Nathan Room 5 For her amazing story writing Jaedyn Tuhoro-Williams Room 6 For making sure he rereads his Writing during and after Lorenzo Timo Room 7 For starting to add more detail to his Writing

Piripi Giles Room 8 For outstanding perseverance on his recount Writing Sam Fifita Room 9 For making huge improvements in his Handwriting Hanatia T-W Room 10 For taking risks with her Writing Isis-Anne Carruth Room 11 For taking risks & having an improved attitude to Writing! Awesome creative work! Mathletics Results for Week 10 At Linwood North School the Board of Trustees fund Mathletics for each child to access online in class and at home. This means that learning can be ubiquitous, learning can happen at home, at school or anywhere. The top Mathletics Classes were: Karawha Block: Room 4 Kokari Block: Room 10

The top Mathletics students were: Karawha: Lourdaz Timo (R4) Kokari: Priyanshu Dalai (R10)

News from the Karawha Team and Mrs Cherry We have had such a busy Term with lots of learning and great things happening within the classrooms. The children loved receiving their Duffy books and this is always a highlight for them and the teachers listening to the Duffy Role Model and how reading has been so important in his life. We have also had the wonderful Murray Gadd visit and inspire both the children and teachers with his writing. The children were thoroughly engaged in what he was teaching and so keen to get pen to paper. The PJ night was a wonderful celebration of our Learning about Sleep so thank you to our parents for coming along to this and enjoying milk and cookies and some lovely stories with us. it was lovely to have such a relaxing time with our children in their pyjamas.

News from Room 11 and Mrs Walters The final weeks of Term 1 have been busy in Room 11. We have been finishing samples for our Learning Journals and have been super proud to share these with our families. Thank you for all the wonderful comments proud caregivers have made! It is exciting to share these. Some excerpts from our wonderful writing about WW1 and ANZAC day are below. Have a wonderful, safe and restful holiday. I am looking forward to seeing you all back for an amazing Term 2 on Monday April 30. Kate Walters. Kokari Team leader/Room 11 teacher. "I eat the last of the ANZAC cookies my wife and kids sent me, I pulled out the last picture I took of my family. Zac who cries and misses me, Dan who misses me, and my beloved wife that always makes me proud. I hope I don't die. I am scared but this is for my country.........." Dviah "Harriet woke with a boom and screams ringing in her ears. She put her boots on and rushed to the dusty, messy hospital tent........." Jenny "Stephen was far away from his loved friends and family. He had to go to war. He really missed his wife and his kids. He was 29. It was hard being at war. All of the dead. It smelt so horrific....." Georgia "I woke up. I heard gunfire. The second I heard "All right boys, time to go to war, this might be the battle that saves the world!" I was nervous, the sound of the bombs exploding shook me to pieces....." Gemma "I was so scared I ran along the top of the trenches. I was surprised I was still alive. I was more worried about my family back in New Zealand though. I was in Gallipoli fighting the Turkish soldiers. I felt sick, afraid, war was a horror......." Tama Staff Profile: Mrs Teresa Geal – Teacher in Room 5 Kia ora Te Whānau , My name is Teresa Geal. I have been teaching at Linwood North for quite a few years now. I am married to Stuart and we have two adult children – Brendan and Rosemary. We live out of Christchurch, near to Leeston, on a lifestyle block. This makes for a long trip into school which I enjoy in the Summer but not so much in the Winter. In my spare time I love to read, walk our dogs, try to tame my large garden and catch up with my friends. This year, after a long time in the senior school, I have returned to the middle school where I am thoroughly enjoying working with the Year 2 and 3 children. Community Notices FREE HAIRCUTS At Christchurch City Mission Community Room, 276 Hereford Street on Sunday 15 April 2018 from 10am-2pm. Some light refreshment will be provided. Please come with freshly washed hair. Last haircuts will be at 1.50pm. First in, first served. All Welcome – Men, Women & Children! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - WEEKLY SCHOOL NEWSLETTER RETURN SLIP: Newsletter No 11

Please sign and ask your child to return this section to their class teacher. There will be a class weekly treat for the class who has the most returns. Your child will receive 5 house points and enter their slip in the class box for their class lucky book draw at our monthly Gold Awards Learning Celebration.

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