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Jump Rope for Heart

The children had a wonderful time participating in their Skip-a-thon. Many

children had practised their skipping and got to show their skipping skills during

the Skip-a-thon.

It is now time for the children to collect their sponsorship money and bring it to

school in the Jump Rope for Heart fundraising envelope.

If you haven’t got the envelope, any envelope will do.

Thank you for supporting this fundraising event.

Mrs Stott and Room 21 - Jump Rope for Heart organisers

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COMING UP

WED 28 OCTOBER

Board Meeting at 7:30pm

THU 29 OCTOBER

World Vision Choir Rehearsal and Performance

Tip Top Factory Trip Rms 30 and 6B

Waterwise Room 6O

FRI 30 OCTOBER

Sports and Cultural Photos

Tip Top Factory Trip Rms 6G, 6S and 5G

MON 2 NOVEMBER

Tip Top Factory Trip Rms 5B and 5S

TUE 3 NOVEMBER

Junior Cross Country

WED 4 NOVEMBER

Botanic Garden Trip Rms 36, 24, 4 and 5

FRI 6 NOVEMBER

Tip Top Factory Trip Rms 5O and 6O

FOCBS MEETINGS

THURSDAY 26 NOVEMBER

WELCOME

Jimmy Lyons

Jaybee Ko

Michelle Li

Daisy Gibbes

TERM DATES

TERM FOUR 2015

12 October – 17 December

TERM ONE 2016

2 February – 15 April

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Reminders

This is a 'hat term.' Please ensure your child has their named school hat at school every day.

For the sake of safety we ask that you inform us ahead of time if your child is not going to be at school. Please use either the designated telephone number (410 9551) or the absence option on the tiqbiz school app. Haven't downloaded the app yet? Please see below how to do this. The app is an important communication tool.

Important 2015 Dates

Tuesday 1 December - Year 6 trip to Rainbows End

Friday 4 December - 2016 class placement information to go home to parents

Wednesday 9 December - 5.30pm Year Six Graduation Dinner (PA Rooms)

7.00pm Year Six Graduation Ceremony (Hall)

Friday 11 December - 2015 school reports to go home to parents

Monday 14 December - 5.00pm Years 0 - 2 end of year concert

5.30pm Years 3 - 6 (including kapa haka) end of

year concert

6.20pm Approximate end of concert

Please Note: (1) All times are approximate. (2) Should the weather not allow

the concerts to be held on the field the concerts will be held in the hall.

Thursday 17 December

12.30pm School year ends with a final assembly on the court area outside the

hall or inside the hall if the weather dictates this.

Carless Day Challenge

Wednesday 11

November

On Wednesday 11 November

Room 9 is challenging CBS

families to avoid using their cars

to drop children in the bus bay. It

is a ‘Carless Day Challenge! It is

a Travelwise challenge!

It will be ‘Wacky Wednesday’!

We want to give Mr McGowan a

day off! If you have to deliver the

children to school by car then

please drop them off safely in

Aberdeen Road, Beach Road or

East Coast Road.

Can we eliminate cars from the

bus bay? Yes we can!

You can’t be in the draw for

‘Wacky Wednesday’ prizes if you

are spotted getting out of the car

in the bus bay.

Be Travelwise! Walk, bike,

scooter, skate, bus, rideshare or

use the Walking School Bus to

get to school. Summer is almost

here. Exercise is cool!

Start organising your family now!

Be cool, please be Travelwise!

Thank you. Room 9

Fireworks Banned

The Ministry of Education forbids

the use of fireworks on school

property. Please respect this

rule. Should you see anybody

using fireworks on school

property please either ask them

to move on or contact our

security company, Campus

Security on 447 3222. Thanks

very much.

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FOCBS LADIES MOVIE NIGHT 22 OCTOBER

Thanks to all the ladies (and Mr McGowan - we

believe he was in his element in a room full of

women!), who supported the FOCB fundraiser movie

night on Thursday.

The movie was great (recommended for those who

were not fast enough to secure a ticket).

Special thanks to Bronwyn Johnson for making it

happen, and to our local businesses for donating the

spot prizes.

If you still need to pay for your tickets please do so now so we can finalise the

event. We estimate a profit of $800 for the school which is a great result, and

these profits will go towards authors for Book Week. FOCBS.

Further to the comments from FOCBS, I can recommend The Dressmaker as

an entertaining black comedy/drama for both genders! Thanks to FOCBS for

organising this event that provided an opportunity for our community to get

together. John McGowan.

CALLING ALL OLD MOBILE PHONES

It’s that time again to rummage around in your drawers

and toy boxes and bring into School/Kindergarten/

Creche/Playcentre any unwanted mobile phones you may

have at home.

It is estimated that each year up to three million phones

become obsolete in NZ. Of those only 2% are recycled.

Phones collected help our School/Kindergarten/Creche/Playcentre gain

valuable rewards and the environment benefits as well keeping our landfills free

of mobile phones and their array of hazardous toxic substances.

Please drop any unwanted mobile phones you may have in the collection box in

the reception area at School /Kindergarten/Creche/Playcentre.

Chess Club, Term Four

Weekly chess classes have

resumed for term four on Tuesday

lunchtimes in room 29.

All levels catered for except

absolute beginners.

In term four students will sit

official NZCF tests with those

passing earning badges and

certificates.

If your child would like to enrol

please collect a form from the

school office and return with the

term fee of $50.00.

Any questions please contact

Leonard McLaren on

mclaren@actrix.co.nz stating

‘CBS’ in the subject line.

Found School Fleeces

We have the following fleeces in

the school office with the following

names:

S Carter size 10

Jayden Scott size 10

Jamie size 8

These children have left the

school so possibly these fleeces

have been purchased second

hand. If they belong to your child

please collect from the office

ASAP!

Book Fair Dates

Dates for your diary!

Our Campbells Bay school book

week and book fair will be held

from Monday 30 November to

Friday 4 December.

Watch out for more information

coming soon.

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Service Quality Survey (Parents): Results of the Follow-up Survey

Results and analysis from the August survey were shared with our community via a newsletter last term. Following

analysis of the survey a further, more specific, survey was conducted to find out more about what parents thought about

two domains in the original survey, namely:

Reporting to parents of their child’s progress; and how the school can improve in terms of meeting individual needs of

their child.

The results of this latter survey form an attachment to this report. The leadership team is now analysing the data from this

electronic survey to determine areas the school can improve upon. Hence, you can expect further information on plans

we have to improve the school’s performance in these two domains. Please watch for this information in upcoming

newsletters. To view the data collected from the follow-up survey please refer to the attachment to this newsletter.

In summary, the feedback from the follow-up survey to the two domains (as listed above) was generally very affirming

but, of course, with room for improvement. Examples: 96.5% ‘felt comfortable and able to contact my child’s teacher

about my child for a meeting should I wish to have such a meeting.’ The December written report was found to be ‘very

helpful’ by 94.9% of respondents while 89.0% found the ‘next steps form the parent/caregiver interviews are based on to

be helpful.’ All very pleasing. Warranting further investigation were the realms of ‘being aware of school programmes that

assist specific learning needs’ with 70.9% of respondents agreeing they were aware while only 61.9% agreed the ‘next

steps interviews are about the right length: 12 minutes.’ We have a number of work ons and we share our thoughts once

we have thoroughly canvassed.

Student Success

Ryan Johnson won a silver medal at the National Karate championships last weekend.

It was a very proud moment for his parents and they would like to thank the school and Duncan Millward who suggested

they get Ryan in to Karate as a good way to learn focus.

Ticket Purchases for APPA Choir Festival

Tickets for our big night are still available from Ticketmaster - just enter ‘Town Hall’ in the search engine and the event will

come up.

We look forward to seeing you all there on Wednesday 18 November - it’s going to be an awesome evening!!

Jenny Watt

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Sports News Weekly sports results can be found on the following link:

https://sites.google.com/a/cbsprimary.org/campbellsbayschool/sport/sports-results

Would all managers of sports teams please email weekly news and results to our new sports email address:

sports@campbellsbay.school.nz

Sports/Cultural Photos

Friday 30 October

This is for all the touch teams, summer hockey, summer netball, gymnastics teams, swimming team, cross country, Mid

bays choir, orchestra & world vision.

Touch Rugby

Any year 3 or 4 pupil wanting to play Touch Rugby this term please contact sports@campbellsbay.school.nz asap as we

have some spaces available.

Season runs till 17 December, with games every Thursday at Becroft Park, start times between 3.45pm - 6.15pm

depending on age and grade.

For more info go towww.localtouch.co.nz

Waterwise Session Dates Term Four

Reminder for year six parents of the Waterwise dates for Term Four. Any assistance you can give on these days would

be greatly appreciated.

Thursday 29 October Room 6O

Thursday 12 November Room 6S

Thursday 19 November Room 6B

Thursday 26 November Room 6G

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THIS YEAR’S BLOCKBUSTER LINE-UP:

Minions

AntMan

Fantastic Four

Inside Out

Jurassic World

The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

WILLOW PARK SCHOOL GALA TRADEME CHARITY AUCTIONS

FROM THURSDAY 29 OCTOBER @ 9PM

over 50 fantastic auctions will go live & run for 10 days - Including a 2015 Volkswagen Comfortline Polo!!

Some priced at a $1 RESERVE!! Some with a BUY NOW!! All bidding online.

trade.me/willowparkgala www.willowparkgala.org

Or come to WILLOW PARK SCHOOL on the GALA DAY Saturday 7 November from 10am to 2pm to view.

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