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06 3880130

26 Huia Street

Taihape, 4720

www.tas.school.nz

TAS Radio - 88.1FM

Principal: Richard McMillan

rmcmillan@tas.school.nz

Lead Me to Lead My Learning

Taihape Area School

Monday 22nd May, 2017 Term 2 – Newsletter Number 4

Important Dates

This Week Monday – Thurs Life Education Classroom

Tuesday 234rd Year 9-13 Cross Country

House Colour Mufti-Day (free)

Thursday 25th Wanganui Secondary Schools

Cross Country

Friday 26th Pink Shirt Mufti-Day

Next Week Thursday 1st Tongariro Exchange

Friday 2nd Mufti-Day Westpac Chopper

Appeal

Monday 5th Queen’s Birthday

Tena koutou katoa

Welcome back after the Weekend. We have another very busy week ahead with the Life

Education Classroom here until Thursday (for Year1-8 children), the Year 9-13 Cross

Country tomorrow, the Wanganui Secondary Schools Cross Country on Thursday, and a Pink

Shirt Day (stand together against bullying) Mufti-Day on Friday.

Sadly this week we farewell our AFS Student Alex Potie. Alex returns to France after 12

months living here in Taihape. He has been an outstanding ambassador for his family, and his

country, and has been one of the very best Overseas Students we have ever had. Alex has

totally immersed himself in School Life, has been part of Football and Tennis Teams, as well

as participating in a wide range of camps and excursions during his time here. One of his

endearing qualities is his ability to relate to everyone, from 5 year olds to adults, and he has

made a massive contribution in and around the School, including in the playground. He is just

a super young man, with a very positive attitude towards life - we will miss him.

As is normal for this time of the year, life at school has been disrupted by the customary

range of colds, flu, and illnesses that always seem to strike during winter. Absenteeism can

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severely disrupt a student’s learning, as well as impact upon their involvement in school

events and activities, in particular their academic endeavours and sport.

A number of students have been absent due to various illnesses. The following extract has

some very sound advice from the Director of Public Health – please note the emphasis on

personal responsibility for promoting basic hygiene practices.

“Schools and early childhood services by their nature are susceptible to many viruses and

influenza in particular is readily spread by children. Dealing with any health issue like this is

problematic for schools and early childhood services, although there is evidence that

suggests that some basic measures will slow down the spread of viruses like influenza.

The key to prevention still lies with the promotion of good infection control messages: -

regular and effective hand washing;

when coughing or sneezing cover your mouth and nose with

a tissue, and afterwards promptly dispose of the tissue, and

wash your hands - or cough into your arm;

keep your hands away from your mouth, nose, ears and eyes

as mucous membrane can let the virus into your body

through your airways or eyes; stay at home when unwell

with flu-like symptoms.”

- Dr Mark Jacobs (Director of Public Health).

It is essential effective infection control practices are encouraged at home, as well as at

School. We all tend to get run down from time to time, and are therefore susceptible to the

various bugs, and illnesses that do the rounds. By promoting

healthy living and healthy practices, we may be able to at least

minimize the damage.

Another concern is that there are a number of students who

arrive at school tired, and often without breakfast. Breakfast is

the most important meal of the day, but the meal most often

skipped.

The following paragraph outlines the importance of breakfast

for children. “Adults skip breakfast for a wide range of reasons, including not feeling hungry,

lack of time, and a dislike of "breakfast foods''. Establishing the habit of eating breakfast in

childhood is very important.

A good example should be set by the whole family in order for our kids to develop good

habits, just like any other behaviour (you can’t expect your child to develop the breakfast

habit if you don’t eat breakfast yourself)”. Have you heard the expression: - "Eat breakfast

like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper" - Adele Davis.

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To this end the School Café is open in the mornings, and free milo, toast, Weetbix, and fruit

is available for everyone. This has actually created a warm, inclusive, and very social

atmosphere, and a popular place to begin the School Day. Tracey Murrell, with support from

Browyn Troon, ensures this operates each morning.

Have a great week.

Regards

Richard McMillan - Principal

The TAS School Wide Behaviour

Expectations are:- Rangatiratanga: Whanaungatanga:

We are Learners We are Caring

We show Rangatiratanga We show Whanaungatanga

Wairuatanga: Manaakitanga:

We are Reflective We are Respectful

We show Wairuatanga We show Manaakitanga

Tall Poppies The following Taihape Area School Students rose above the Crowd last week as outstanding

achievers, and members of our Learning Community:

Eva Westgate (Room 3) - for making a very positive start to room 3;

Taylor-Jane Nelson (Room 4) - for effort with reading;

Keelan Kelly (Room 4) - for hard work with writing;

Emily Waldron (Room 5) - for showing her caring nature towards one of her classmates when

they forgot their bag when getting on the bus. Well Done Emily;

Jesse James (Room 5) - for stepping up and helping a new student settle into TAS school

life. Thank you for being so responsible Jesse;

Zoe-Leigh Sciascia (Room 6) - for always showing the TAS values;

Arapeta Steedman (Room 6) - for always being enthusiastic during our Te

Reo lessons;

Jerome Thompson and Monique Webb (Room 79) - for always using our

TAS Values;

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Bailey Rata-Hall (Year9) - for demonstrating perseverance and producing high quality art

work.

Tall Poppies from Learning Street – Week 3

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Funding Support for Travel One of our perennial challenges is to reduce the impact of the cost of travel on sports subs.

Without grants subs for most codes would be at least doubled, and therefore unaffordable for

many.

We have been fortunate this year to receive the following funding assistance:

$5,746.55 from the Sport New Zealand Rural

Travel Fund; and

$3,300 from Sport Wanganui.

This is massive for us and definitely makes

participation in organised sport more affordable

for our students. This funding is shared amongst

all teams that travel on a pro-rata basis.

Unfortunately it is getting harder and harder to access funding support and the amount

received is down slightly on previous years.

Student Accounts

Students Accounts will be send out this week. These will include the travel component which

can be added now that we have received our final grants allocation (see above).

Year 9-13 Cross Country The Year 9-13 Cross Country is tomorrow, @

11.30, @ the Rec. All Students are expected

to participate.

This is a House Colour Mufti-Day for

everyone, no charge.

N.B. The Wanganui Secondary Schools Interschool Cross Country is on Thursday.

Othello Trip to the Pop Up Globe As part of the Level 3 English studies, the Year 13 English Class along with a few Year 12

students road tripped to Te Aroha (on the 10th of May). Te Aroha College were amazing

hosts by letting us stay in their School’s Library overnight, as well as putting on both supper

that evening, and breakfast the next morning.

We woke up on Thursday bright and early to travel to Auckland’s ‘Pop Up Globe’, the

World's first full scale temporary working replica of the second Globe where many of

Shakespeare's works were performed.

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Arriving only just in time, we were ushered to the second story of the Globe, and took our

seats to watch ‘Othello’. We had an amazing view not only of the actors, but also of the other

audience members called the ‘groundlings’ who stood directly in front of the stage for an up-

close experience. The actors managed to capture our full attention through the use of direct

eye-contact and interaction with the crowd.

The cast did an amazing job of portraying

characters from the Shakespearian era, yet were still

able to throw in a bit of a New Zealand edge. The

tragically funny Roderigo (Kieran Mortell) was an

obvious audience favourite, as well as Othello (Te

Kohe Tuhaka), Desdemona (Jasmine Blackborow),

Emelia (Roimata Fox), and Iago (Haakon Smestad).

However, my personal favourite had to be the

overly dramatic Bianca (Victoria Abbott).

The show left us inspired, with lots of discussion

about the themes of jealousy, envy, love and racism

on the way home in the vans. We all look forward

to continuing our study on ‘Othello’ later this year.

- Report by Lily O’Brien (Year 13)

Scholastic Book

Club

Scholastic Lucky

Book Club closes on

the 22nd June

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THE LIFE EDUCATION TRUST

CLASSROOM This week the Life Education Trust Classroom is visiting to spend time working with the

Junior Classes. The Life Education Trust is a Charity that educates and empowers children to

make healthy choices so they can live full and healthy lives. Every year they teach over

250,000 children about their body, friendships, their identity, food and nutrition and helpful

and harmful substances.

LIFE EDUCATION TRUST GOALS

Vision

To enhance the quality of children's lives.

Purpose

To educate and empower children to make healthy choices so they can live full and healthy

lives.

Philosophy

Our philosophy is the essence of everything that we do, our three philosophical principles are:

You are unique – we aim to make each child comfortable with their identity. In the whole

world there will never be another you. You are unique, you are special. It's OK to have

freckles, be tall or short, have big ears or nose, different coloured skin or hair. We keep

reinforcing to little children "you are very special."

The human body is magnificent –we show children the magnificence of the human body –

its sensory, circulatory and digestive systems, showing how the body functions and what its

needs are – food, oxygen and water. We illustrate how the earth provides these needs and

teach how we should protect our internal and external environments.

We need to support and respect each other – because of the delicate and complex nature of

life itself, we need to support and respect each other and every other person, regardless of

sex, race, religion or beliefs.

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The themes to be covered this year are Digital Citizenship, All Together, Happy and Healthy,

and Friends.

Rippa Rugby When we walked on to the field we were very, very cold. We felt

like Ice cubes. We trained, and then the First game was St

Joseph's B v’s TAS A. The score was 7-5, TAS got the win.

Then we did some training for the next game. Then it was TAS B

v’s St Joseph’s A. The score was 6-3 to St Joseph’s A’s.

The next game was St Joseph’s A vs St Joseph’s B, the score was

7-5.

The next game was TAS A vs TAS B - it was quite an easy game

to TAS A 9-2.

The next game was TAS A vs St Joseph's B.

Then onto the final - St Joseph’s A vs TAS A. It was a hard game for TAS A. The score was

7-5 but it was FUN!!!

- by Ashton Wirori and Ezrah Hopa-Cribb

Junior Rugby (from Sat 20th May) Taihape Under 13's 105-7 v Kaierau, Taihape Under 10's 6-8 v Kaierau, Taihape Under 11's

20-8 v Kaierau.

Supporting Your Child’s Learning An emphasis in Mathematics Teaching is placed on using mental calculations where possible,

using jottings to help support thinking. As

children progress through the school they are

taught more formal written methods, and to

think about mental strategies they could use

first. They use written methods for calculations

they cannot solve in their heads.

It is important that children are secure with

number bonds (adding numbers together and

subtracting them e.g. 10 = 6 + 4, 13+7 = 20),

and have a good understanding of place value

(ten and units etc.) as they embark on formal

written methods.

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Check this site out on Number Bonds to help your child:-

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/amble web/mentalmaths/numberbond.html

Young Leaders Day 2017 Last Monday 11 Year 5-8 Students travelled to Palmerston North to attend the

Annual Young Leaders Day. The following extract is from stuff, and

features comments from our own Leah and Emma Collings, and Kierah Hay-

Martin.

“About 2,000 pupils filled the for the National Young Leaders Day event.

Palmerston North's youngest and brightest are being motivated to reach for

the stars, as a leadership day rolls into town.

Central Energy Trust Arena was packed

with about 2,000 school children on

Monday for a National Young Leaders Day

event.

An array of guest speakers, including

company executives, actors and sporting

stars, shared stories with pupils and

encouraged them to reach their full

potential.

Aokautere School Teacher and parent Mandy Mori said the event was "really

inspirational" for pupils, parents and teachers taking part. "It's not just about

[careers]. It talks more about you as a person and growth, and what you can do

in your own life and your own community, and in the whole world."

She also thought it was great for both young boys and girls to hear from an

influential female speaker, Trina Tamati, who was the former Chief Executive of

the NRL Auckland Nines.

Taihape Area School Assistant Principal Leah Collings said her pupils also felt empowered

by the event. Although Taihape was a small town, there was a lot of potential for pupils to

take up leadership roles and contribute to their community, she said.

Year 5 pupil Emma Collings, 9, said she liked learning from the speakers.

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After listening to Shortland Street actor Aaron Jackson, Emma said she felt inspired to

become an actor too.

Twelve-year-old Taihape pupil Kierah Hay-Martin said she felt motivated, and wanted to

take her ideas from the event back to school to work on them.

Organiser Te Waka McLeod said the event aimed to give school-aged children

positive messages about personal growth, leadership and giving back to their

community.

Last year, five young girls felt inspired after the event and created

a programme to save dolphins, which raised about $700, she said.

McLeod said there were a lot of false or "perfect" images in society that could

influence children. But really, children

needed to be encouraged to be the best

version of themselves.

Some of the day's themes included

children feeling invisible, personal growth,

environments and creating greatness.

National Young Leaders Day events are

travelling around the country, visiting

seven cities in three weeks. About 12,000 pupils are expected to attend the

range of events this year.”

Hockey Draw - Tonight No game tonight as Manawatu College defaulted to TAS.

Draw – Next Week TAS v Dannevirke High School, on Turf 2 @ 4.15pm.

Quotes of the Week

“If you care about something you

have to protect it – If you’re lucky

enough to find a way of life you

love, you have to find the courage

to live it” ― John Irving, A Prayer

for Owen Meany.

“The true soldier

fights not because he

hates what is in front

of him, but because

he loves what is

behind him” ― G.K.

Chesterton.

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TAS Behaviour

Expectation Rangatiratanga

We are focused learners. This looks like

We participate actively in tasks;

We stay on task;

We follow instructions;

We work towards our goal / achievement criteria;

We complete tasks on time and to the best of our

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Message Delivered by Student Leaders

to the TAS School Community

"Pink Shirt Day, represents something very important, and something we should do every

day. We all should: -

Speak up! Stand together! and Stop bullying!

What is bullying? – it is a behaviour that is harmful, unwanted, and continues to happen over

time. There are three types of bullying:-

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Verbal bullying is saying or writing mean inappropriate things. Verbal bullying is when

someone keeps on:-

· Teasing;

· Name-calling;

· Taunting;

· Threatening to cause harm.

Social bullying involves hurting someone's reputation or relationships. Social bullying keeps

happening over time when someone continuously: -

· Leaves someone out on purpose;

· Telling other children not to be friends with someone;

· Spreading rumours about someone;

· Embarrassing someone in public.

Physical bullying involves hurting a person's body or possessions. Physical bullying is when

someone continuously keeps: -

· Hitting/kicking/pinching;

· Spitting;

· Tripping/pushing;

· Taking or breaking someone's things;

· Making mean or rude hand gestures.

What type of person are you?

Are you a bully who keeps verbally, socially or physically over time hurting someone?

Are you an assistant who joins in with whats inappropriate and helps the bully?

Are you a reinforcer who laughs and encourages the bully but doesn't personally say or do

anything to the target?

Are you an outsider who doesn't get involved but see's what is happening and just lets it

happen?

OR are you a defender who tries to stop the bullying on behalf of the target by telling the

bully to stop and tells someone what is happening?

Be a defender and speak up, stand together, and stop others from

being bullies!!" - TAS Leadership TEAM 2013.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3Rf5qDuq7M You Tube Clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-WDHtEiH3w Lyrics