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Term 3 Week 7 13 September 2013

Kia Ora Tatou

Well this week we have had the worst illness statistics for the entire winter! Three different bugs are in action and ourabsences have reached an all time high. Thankfully we managed to get school photos completed prior to this.

A huge and sincere congratulations to Peter Excell, Brad Fallow, Tom Black, our staff, parent helpers and the Salford PTAfor an exceptional effort in re establishing the Jungle Gyms into the new playground. The students are already enjoying the

opportunity to develop a range of challenging motor skills using this equipment! Thank you, thank you , thank you!

We are hosting Wilson McCaskill again for a FREE PARENT EVENING in the Salford School Hall Thursday 26 Septemberat 7pm. Please come along and hear Wilson discuss the parenting challenges we all live in and some strategies to assist usall. We are experiencing excellent results with his posters underpinning our school values and behaviour managementsystems. Students are familiar with the language on the posters and use this when discussing peer issues. We have beenre visiting the YELLOW Poster which states

We do the right thing because it is the best thing to do.IT TAKES GREAT STRENGTH TO BE SENSIBLE.

We look forward to seeing you there. This event is generously sponsored by the Invercargill Licensing Trust.Wilson is also speaking at the I Love Teaching conference Monday September 30 Tuesday October 1.All Salford school classroom teachers are attending this event.

We have entered the Parmco Lets Cook Challenge; we have a team of 4 year 5 students, and we have a teachernominated in the Warehouse competition, NZs Most Inspiring Teacher - Monique Stevenson Room 9.

Community Votes ONLY win the competitions.

Please visit these links and vote for our school, there are fabulous prizes to win.

http://www.letscookwithparmco.co.nz/class-of-2013?name=salford&regionId=30&categoryId=9Each week a new recipe is sent to us to make. The recipes are designed to be healthy options with a low fat and salt con-

tent. These challenges show kids just how exciting cooking can be, and this year, Healthy Food Guide have helped designthe recipes to ensure that our recipes are healthy as well as delicious.

http://www.inspiringteachers.co.nz/teachers/2011/monique-stevenson/

The final 2 weeks of term are action packed with the Choir performing at Sing Out, Market day for all ourfamilies to attend, and the Jump Jam team attending the Regional Competition in Christchurch.Good luck for these events to all the people involved, we wish you well!

Finally we hope to see many of you at the Market Day 25 September 5.00pm 6.30pm.

Go Team NZ! regards Marlene

Just a reminder on Friday the 20th ofSeptember is Loud Shirt day. So pleasecome along with your funkiest t-shirt.

Wear school uniform on your bottomhalf. Bring a gold coin along, to help usfundraise for the deaf kids. House

Captains will come to your class to collect

your money. Thank you.

Salford School Gifted & Talented Programme 2014The Board of Trustees has made a decision for the allocation of fundingresources for the 2014 Gifted and Talented Programme for SalfordSchool students. We have allocated an amount for the schoolmanagement to use that allows the students to continue to attendEnrich@ILT as a part of that programme. This means all students cur-rently attending will continue in 2014 and the opportunity for screeningwill resume in 2015.

Board Review Cycle

The Board is currently undertaking a review of the schools PriorityLearners (differently abled learners from both ends of the continuum) to

ensure we continue to best meet the needs of all our students.Also as part of the Boards review cycle we will be conducting a survey inTerm 4 of the parents of students attending Enrich@ILT for 2013.

If you have any questions please see Marlene or myself.Regards Chris Cole, Board Chair

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REMINDERS: Pita Pit Orders - Monday Subway OrdersWednesday Sausage Sizzle - Friday $1.50 each PTA Walking GroupFriday 9am (Flagpole)

18 SeptSing Out

20 SeptLoud Shirt Day 20 SeptSchool Spell-a-thon 20/21 SeptJump Jam Regionals ChCh 23 SeptPhoto orders return 24 SeptPTA Mtg 25 SeptMarket Day 26 SeptWilson McCaskill evening7.00pm 27 SeptTerm 3 Ends 14 OctTerm 4 Begins 21 OctBOT Meeting VOTE EACH WEEK FOR ON THE PARMCO

LETS COOK CHALLENGE. YOU + 2

FROM THE PTA NOTEBOOK

Jungle GymsAfter several years of fundraising and many hours of investigating and researching we haveour Jungle Gyms back. The original impetus came from the students a couple of years ago.They asked and asked for us to get them back out. And now we have!!!!!

Thanks go to the whole community for supporting our many events - from "A Pie and A Pintwith Buck" to Quiz nights with Dessert Auctions to raffles.

Special thanks now to Mr Excell and his team of PTA, several Staff and parent helpers for

spending last Saturday morning digging and shifting dirt and dealing with bark chips. Thanksalso to Ms Campbell for her support to get this project finished.

Spelling BeeI hope houses are buzzing with new words and proud kids as they mastertheir significant spelling lists. Some will be counting up their potentialearnings too I bet! Once tests are done and money is collected fromsponsors we will have money to count and bank.

If you have 30 minutes any time of the day in Week 8/9, please give yourname and contact number to us via the office. More details later.

Jump JamWe are delighted the Jump Jam team approached us for assistance with

their trip to the National competition in Christchurch. We have thecapacity to help with travel or uniform costs for teams representing theschool at National level and so have given $50 towards each studentscosts.

We hope there will be other Salford School students representing theschool at National Competitions that we can assist in the future.

UniformDo you have any uniform items at home that your child no longer fits?We have a waitlist of Parents wanting uniform items of all sizes.Please check and bring along to the office.

Enjoy those Monkey Bars everyone!!!!

Regards Lyndal Ludlow

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Board of TrusteesAs part of The Board of Trustees ongoing self reviewwe have recently conducted a review of the SalfordSchool After School Care , and the Holiday Careprogrammes.

Thank you for your feedback.

AFTER SCHOOL CARE:The Board appreciates your very positive commentsand ongoing support of this service. The survey clearlyshowed that our families are happy clients and the

children enjoy the variety of activities.HOLIDAY CARE:A Holiday Care programme, has been provided duringterm breaks and the six week break at Christmas time.It is with regret, that we advise this programme willnolonger be continued.

The Board acknowledges that families also valued andappreciated the convenience of this service. TheBoard cannot however, meet its obligations under theHealth and Safety Act, and therefore the difficultdecision to discontinue the holiday care programmewas made.

The Board would like to express their sincere thanksto Gaye and Gaylene for their superb service, and welook forward to this continuing in the future with theAfter School Care serviceterm time only.

Regards Chris Cole, Board Chair