Thursday 9th November 2017

Dear Parents/Caregivers,

Today at Garden to Table we picked our surplus silverbeet and took it to the Forrest Hill Retirement Home. They really appreciated receiving our lovely organic produce. The residents were looking forward to eating it for their lunch.

Mud Monster Lunch Club

Last term a group of 24 students with Ms Towner and Mr Phelan came together to design, create and build a mud kitchen to go in our glade area. The kitchen was created for students who were drawn to the area and enjoyed “outdoor baking”. Thanks to this creative and industrious group the glade area is now premiering the new kitchen. Thank you to kind donations from the Harrison and Robertson families who provided old kitchen pots and pans. We are hoping this will be a new fun addition to this area!

PTA NEWS Tuesday 14th November at 6.30pm - Last PTA Meeting for 2017 & Annual

Planning Meeting for 2018

We will be holding our last PTA Meeting with our Annual Planning Meeting on this night. All school parents and caregivers are welcome to attend. Our Planning Meeting is where we review all our fundraisers and events held this year and decide which ones to continue with in 2018. This meeting will be held in the school staffroom.

We will be running these two meetings back to back so will have an earlier start time of 6.30pm. Food and refreshments will be available.

* Please RSVP pta@forresthill.school.nz if you would like to attend by Sunday the 12th November to assist us with catering numbers.

School Disco'sThank you to all the families and students who supported the disco's last week. We hope you all had a great time.

And a big thank you to all our parent volunteers who helped us on the night. You helped make the night a big success.

2nd Hand Uniform Shop Term 4

As this is a short term, the 2nd Hand Uniform Shop will be open the following days:

Friday 20th October (8.30am to 9.00am)Friday 17th November (8.30am to 9.00am)Friday 15th December (8.30am to 9.00am)

YUMMY Stickers $1,374 Raised

Well done to everyone who has been collecting Yummy stickers, you have raised $1,374 dollars for the school to spend on sports equipment.

We are still collecting Yummy Sticker Sheets this term and they will go towards next year’s collection. Yummy Stickers can be collected when you purchase your apples and other YUMMY fruit products from Pak’nSave, New World and some fruit shops. Attach the Yummy stickers to the sticker collection sheet and once your sheet is full, return it to the school office.

Calendar Art

The first order of Calendar Art has arrived and they look fantastic.We will be doing a second order , if you missed out the first time or just want to order more for friends and family ( they make great Christmas presents) Please collect an order form from the school office. These need to be returned by Friday 17 th November. Please make sure that internet payments are made into the account on the form 123087 013085500 ref calendar and child’s name and room . Please do NOT make any payments into the school account as your order may be missed.

Big Thank You to New World Milford

Last Wednesday we were excited when Shivani Shah, Compliance Manager from New World Milford, arrived with another big bag of Little Garden seed pods and an amazing Leafcutter Bee Hive that New World have kindly donated to our school. Leafcutter Bees are fantastic pollinators and very rarely sting – perfect for the school environment and in particular to help pollinate the many beautiful gardens we now have around our school.Our caretaker Mr. Luke Phelan is currently working closely with our Garden-To-Table facilitator Mrs. Pauline Hall to find a suitable spot for the hive to be situated. From there it’ll be all up to the 75 bee cocoons to hopefully hatch and do their thing!We would like to express a massive thanks to Sarah Aston (Owner Operator at New World Milford) and Shivani, for their generosity in donating the seeds and hive, providing us with a fabulous learning experience and valuable addition to our Garden to Table project!

Room10 - Newsletter ContributionOn a sunny Monday morning Room 10 played football down on the field at school.We played Shark Attack and Cat and Mouse with Holly and Chris. I had to try to catch the ballwhen it rolled passed. By Josh Harvey-Lovell

Last week we went to Harold and Jenny’s caravan to learn how to fill people’s bucket so that they feel happy. I am going to fill my teacher’s bucket by sitting on the mat nicely and helping someone when they are not. By Cameron Macdonald-Pepper

Yesterday morning Room 10 saw Harold and Jenny in the caravan. We learned about filling people’s buckets by being nice and helping them. Room 10 saw the stars and Harold whispered in Jenny’s ear because he was shy.By Cleo Brown

On Tuesday we went to see Harold the Giraffe. We saw the beautiful stars and had to blow them out. We talked about doing kind things for others.By Kiyara Perera

Forrest Hill School Music News Term 4, week 4

Forrest Hill School Music has been happily humming along this term with lots of rehearsals and concerts, well done to all the students involved in the ASO Spark Concert and Kids For Kids Concert, you were all stars!Thanks too for all the fantastic parent support, we couldn’t do it without you!

Last week we took part in the ASO SPARK Trip at the Bruce Mason Centre with the Auckland Symphony Orchestra. Some of our FHS students performed on Marimba, Xylophone and Ukulele with the orchestra. Well done for performing so well up on the stage: Yuhan, Chloe, Elaine, Aaron S, Gilbert, Madi, Renad, Stella K, Salina, Emma, Eva, Nick L, Leo L, Kanna, Lauren, Jeffrey and Emily.

We also took part in an Art Competition against all the other schools. Congratulations to our 2 FHS students:Elaine Zhou who won the year 5-6 section Riya Ramasra who won the year 3-4 section. They will both receive Whitcoulls vouchers.

Kids For Kids Choir

What a fantastic day we had on Tuesday at Kids For Kids! After a long 3 hour rehearsal and 2 terms of learning all the songs FHS Kids For Kids Choir were absolute stars up on the stage at the Bruce Mason Centre on Tuesday evening. A big well done to Tara for her beautiful singing solo, Kanna and Salina for their ukulele performance, also Seoyeon and Jingyi for great Mod dancing! Here’s a few photos from the rehearsal and concert.

Last week we also had a fabulous professional Theatre Touring Group come to our school! NZ Playhouse performance of “Puss In Boots: Pet Detective”

Important dates for Term 4

Kiwi Kapers APO Concert

Date to put on your calendars: Wednesday 22 November at the Aotea Centre. Daytime concert for selected music students. https://www.apo.co.nz/community-education/schools/kiwi-kapers/

Ukulele Festival 2017, Kiwileles Homecoming

Date to put on your calendars for all enthusiastic ukulele players and spectators is Saturday December 2nd. http://www.nzukulele.org.nz/festival.html

If your child is keen to start learning an instrument please email Mrs Webster for more information about the lessons offered in school time for violin, piano, drums and guitar. Information for

private lessons on flute, oboe, trumpet and other instruments is also available.

Jacqui Webster, Music Teacher, Forrest Hill School jwebster@forresthill.school.nz

Congratulations to:

Ji Hyeon Ahn (Year 2), has been selected as a member of the Team New Zealand for the International Robot Olympiad 2017, which will be held in Qinhuangdao, China on December 16 to 20, 2017.

Ji Hyeon Ahn has qualified to join in the following games based on the NZ Robot Olympiad 2017. - Division: Junior League - Game: Battle Cube (Single) / Battle Cube (Pair)

Well done Ji Hyeon Ahn

Dates for your diary

10th Nov Athletics Day Year 2 - Year 610th Nov Whole school assembly 14th Nov PTA Meeting15th Nov Athletics Day Year 0 - Year 117th Nov Whole school assembly 22nd Nov APOPS Orchestra Trip24th Nov Whole school assembly 29th Nov Parent Helpers Morning Tea30th Nov Yr2 Mairangi Bay Beach trip7th Dec Christmas in the Glade8th Dec Whole school assembly 8th Dec Year 6 Monitors Trip 12th Dec Excellence Awards 14th Dec Yr 6 Graduation Ceremony

Marrzipan Drama Classes

Are you looking for a challenge? It’s not too late to join Marrzipan! We are looking for some awesome students to fill some parts in our play, which we will be performing for parents and their peers at the end of term. Come along to a Trial Lesson and see whether you like it! You can sign up for one directly via our website www.marrzipandrama.co.nz

2nd Hand Uniform Shop Term 4As this is a short term, the 2nd Hand Uniform Shop will be open the following days:

Friday 20th October (8.30am to 9.00am)Friday 17th November (8.30am to 9.00am)Friday 15th December (8.30am to 9.00am)

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15th DecemberLast day of Term 4

School finishes at 12.00pm

31st January 2018 First day of Term 1 2018