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Campbells Bay School
77 Aberdeen Road, Castor Bay, Auckland City 0620 Ph 09 410 7444 : Fax 09 410 5963 : Safety Check 09 410 9551
Email [email protected] : Website www.campbellsbay.school.nz https://sites.google.com/a/cbsprimary.org/campbellsbayschool/
Number 21
27 July 2015
Welcome
Scarlett Mullard Min Ho Mun Wanjing Ye Jake Chen Soo A Lee
Soo Min Lee Michaela Billie Andrew Zhang Yu Chen Qian Greta Hutton
Eliane Thpmpson Samuel Thompson
Coming Up
Tuesday, 28 July NSW English Parent/Teacher Interviews
Thursday, 30 July Sports Photos - Day One Ma’a Nonu Visit
Tuesday, 4 August 2nd Hand Uniform Sale 8 - 9am
Thursday, 6 August Rugby Tournament
2015
Term 3 20 July—25 September Term 4 12 October—17 December
2016 Term 1 2 February—15 April Term 2 2 May—8 July Term 3 25 July—23 September Term 4 10 October—16 December
Next Steps Parent /Teacher Interviews - Release Details
Parent/Teacher Interviews on Tuesday: 3:00pm release
The following classes will be released from the hall at 3:00pm tomorrow: Rooms 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 20, 30, 5S, 5G, 5O, 6O, 6S, 6B, 6G All other classes will be released from their classrooms as usual.
Mathathon
The mathathon is well underway and should be homework for your children over the next few weeks. Errors have been detected and rectified, well done those students who spotted them quickly! All the best students with your learning and the upcoming test on Friday 7 August.
Intermediate Information Evening Reminder
To be held in the Performing Arts Room from 7:00pm on Tuesday 4 August. All parents of 2015 year six students are most welcome.
CBS Ice Skate Tour - Thursday 13 - Sunday 16 August
A Pop up Ice Rink will be in the CBS hall during the above dates.
Thursday 13 August 3 - 8pm. OPEN EXCLUSIVELY TO CBS FAMILIES For an afternoon of fun. Come for an afternoon of skating and a sausage sizzle. The Coffee Guy will be there!
Open to the Public - visit again with your neighbours, friends and family: Friday 14 August: 3 - 8pm Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 August: 10am - 5pm Please look out for notices in your child’s book bag - parent help is required to ensure Thursday afternoon’s food provisions can be delivered. This is a fundraiser for the school so please support this fun community event and help raise money for books and IT equipment for the school.
To Numerate…… See pages 5—6
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Care Share Wear - 2015
Thanks for your generosity over the last three years to this project. Each year CBS Volunteers collect unwanted clothing and blankets from CBS families and distribute These to families in need in other schools. We are still collecting clean used clothes (babies to teenagers) for distribution to children in Auckland needing clothes. Please bring them to the office by Tuesday 4 August.
Care to help others, Share your unwanted clothes, and other families will Wear the clothes.
Great recycling and de-cluttering in your home! A great start to the MAORI New Year! Kia Kaha Euphymya Lavelle - FOCB 0274 541072 [email protected]
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 news / results to Nicola Livingston, [email protected] RUGBY
Please remember that the Primary Schools’ Rugby Tournament Round 3 (final day) at Windsor Park is Thursday 6 August. Our Rippa Girls team are running short of players for the next tournament day. If your year five or six daughter is interested in playing rippa rugby at the next tournament day please contact Nicola Livingston. SPORTS PHOTOS Sports photos for the majority of our sports teams is scheduked for theis Thursday (30 July). Please ensure children in these teams (rugby, netball, hockey, cricket, miniball, flippaball, badminton, golf and scooer) come to school in full uniform on this day with appropriate footwear. No sports uniforms required. Children should listen carefully to the notices on Wednesday morning to see what time they will need to come to the hall. Any queries please contact Nicola Livingston (CBS Sports Coordinator) at: [email protected]
Kristin School, Kindergarten - Year 13, Open Morning - Wednesday 29 July 2015
Prospective families are very welcome to attend our Open Morning on Wednesday 29 July. There will be an introduction from our Principal and campus tours followed by plenty of time for discussion with students and senior staff members. For further information or to register for the Open Morning, please contact Linda Teagle, Registrar 415 9566 ext 2324 or [email protected]
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Friends of Campbells Bay - Second Hand Uniform Sale - Term 3, 2015
The Friends of Campbells Bay will be running a second hand uniform sale at school on Tuesday 4 August from 8 - 9am. Helpers for the sale: Tuesday 4 August at 7:45am in PA room to help sell. (email [email protected] or phone/txt 0274 541072 to let me know if you are able to help) Helpers get first pick of the items! Buyers Please come to the sale. Cash and cheque only. Sellers Please bring any clean unwanted uniform to the school office any day Please set a price for each item you wish to sell, taking into account the condition of the item.
Please price to the nearest dollar as this will help with change Safety pin a small square of cardboard (approx. 5cm square) with the following information - size,
description, price. An example below: Size 8 Sports Shorts $15 Place all items in a plastic bag with the completed registration form and leave at the school office The registration form is on the school website https://sites.google.com/a/cbsprimary.org/campbellsbayschool/pta Secondhand uniforms folder SecondhandUniformSaleRegistrationForm1.pdf Please ensure that you have completed all the registration information and securely attached your
pricing tag to your items. We need to be able to track each item sold or returned to the registration form to be able to pay you correctly
The Friends of Campbells Bay group will collect 20% of the sale price to cover any administration costs, and as a fundraiser for the benefit of the school. After each sale, we will pay you in cash for the items sold (ie, 80% of the sales price) or return your unsold items. Donations of Uniforms - The group will gratefully accept any donations of uniforms and will sell these and 100% of the sales price will collected for the benefit of the school. We aim to price donated good quality uniforms at half the price of new uniforms. Please drop off donated items to the school office.
Community Notices
Maths and English Tuition – Boost your Child’s confidence and education with NumberworksnWords specialists after school tuition. We provide individualised instruction in Maths and English for students who are struggling to keep up and those bursting to race ahead. Phone now for an assessment and introductory lesson. Phone 489-8388 or visit www.numberworksnwords.com for more information
The FLASH BANG SCIENCE Club are running a children’s science workshop in Potters Park Event Centre in Balmoral on Saturday 22 and 29 August for children aged 7 yrs plus. Bookings are essential as places are limited. For more information please check out: http://flashbangscienceclub.co.nz/, email: [email protected] or phone: 09 238 1939
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Eating for Immunity (source: ezlunch.co.nz enews)
Our lunch service, ezlunch.co.nz, just featured some handy tips for boosting immunity in their latest enews, which we’ve shared with you below – very relevant this winter! Go online to see their menus including a range of healthy, tasty and affordable lunches. To make sure you receive your copy directly next time, register at www.ezlunch.co.nz.
Having a good, balanced diet helps kids maintain a strong immune system, helping them fight off the winter nasties. Here’s some foods to include in their meals, and yours too! Alphabet vitamins... A B C D E Choose kiwifruit, capsicum, potatoes, citrus fruits, berries and tomatoes for an antioxidant Vitamin C boost and veges containing beta carotene (carrots, pumpkin or sweet potato) for Vitamin A. B vitamins can not only help the body fight off bacteria and viruses, but they can also help your immune system fight back when your child is unwell. Wholegrain breads and crackers are a good source. Vitamin D has been linked with everything, including the immune system – in New Zealand we get most of our Vitamin D from the sun, but when we have days without sunshine, eggs and fortified dairy products can help. Vitamin E is another powerful antioxidant, good sources include sunflower seeds, almonds, hazelnuts, avocados and peanut butter. Protein, Iron and Zinc Protein helps build immunity components, like immunoglobulins. Most of us get enough protein already, but it’s easy to add meat, chicken, fish, eggs, or legumes and nuts to lunches. Meat and legumes will pro-vide iron at the same time, while chicken and seafood help out with zinc – both of which help support the immune system. A great source of these minerals are green leafy vegetables, but if your child isn’t keen, a handful of dried fruit and seeds may be more popular. Our schools ezlunch menu includes Spaghetti Bolognese – a great choice for protein and iron from mince, Vitamin C from the tomatoes, and pasta for carbs. [Also available gluten free]. The ever popular Panini has roasted chicken and spinach inside, that's great for protein, zinc, iron, vitamins and much more. For a low GI protein packed lunch, try the Frittata with Spinach, Bacon, Tomato, Kumara, Egg and Cream... very yummy and packed with protein, minerals and vitamins. Cold options include the Garden Salad or the Chicken or Egg Vogel Sandwich, served with lettuce, cucumber, carrot and mayo. Team with a piece of fruit, fruit
salad or vege sticks to pack in those vitamins and keep well this winter.
Pita Pit has thousands of combinations available from their extensive list of veges and proteins that can be selected online. Good habits, like regular handwashing, also help the spread of infections, and just because the weather is cooler, let’s not forget about drinking water. Staying hydrated is a good idea all year round – so remind your child to have a drink during the day, make sure they have a water bottle with them or add a drink to your lunch order. Source: www.ezlunch.co.nz enews, July 2015
New South Wales Tests
ENGLISH: Tuesday 28 July MATHEMATICS: Tuesday 11 August
Fitness Classes 10 weeks of fitness at Campbells Bay School Hall starting July 20. Join a wonderful group of people for 45 minutes strength and cardio training sessions. Suitable for all abilities. Tuesdays 6:00am/Wednesdays 6.45pm/Thursdays 6:00am. If you are looking for a daytime option there is a Monday 9:00am class at Milford Reserve. Bring your littlies too! Contact Kathryn 021633508 to find out more details.
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To be or not to be…………….Numerate With apologies to William Shakespeare
Recently the New Zealand Initiative (NZI) published a report titled Un(ac)accountable: why millions on maths returned little. The report reviewed the consequences of the Numeracy Project, a nationwide centrally devised approach for improving maths. The Numeracy Project was an official (Ministry of Education) professional development programme for teachers in primary schools between 2000 and 2009. NZI reported the project ‘put more emphasis on teaching children a range of strategies for solving maths problems, with greater emphasis on mental problem solving and less on written methods’. NZI reports a decline in maths performance, although, according to the report the ‘decline has not been dramatic’ during the time of the Numeracy Project, raising the question of how well spent the $70 million was. In the Campbells Bay School context, as with many schools, the latest ideas (sometimes fads) are promoted as a way to achieve significant improvements in student achievement. We are always striving to investigate the merits of such promotions to determine whether they have a role to play in our school in the context we are the gatekeepers of the numerous mandates set forward as policies by the Ministry of Education. The Numeracy Project was not compulsory professional development for schools by the Ministry of Education but many costs were met by the Ministry in terms of the implementation at school level so it was an attractive professional development model for schools to use. Lane Clark, a person we have used for a number of years to provide us with targeted professional development has as her mantra and one that we have adopted: ‘What are the implications for the students if I choose this method of teaching and where is the evidence that this is what we should do?’ This was the approach we took when the Numeracy Project first came onto the professional development scene. As a result of our review of what was entailed in becoming part of a Numeracy Project contract we decided, on balance, not to participate in an official contract as we felt it was constraining and not entirely fit for purpose for our school. Hence, we used material from the Numeracy Project, in conjunction with the employment of mathematical advisors, as part of the development of our maths programme. Thankfully, because of the devolvement of governance and management to each school as part of the Tomorrow’s Schools reforms in 1989 this was a course of action open to all schools. Bearing in mind the need to continually review and, where necessary, update our teaching of maths, we utilized the new insights this project surfaced in mathematics teaching, as a tool to expand and develop our mathematics programmes, to become richer than they had been. From time to time there can be an inclination to ‘throw the baby out with the bath water.’ This is so mething that we strive not to do unless a complete change is warranted based on reputable evidence. However, anyone who has had anything to do with education in the past 15 years will have noted the shift from rote learning and algorithm’s to a style of logic and reasoning and a move to understand what 5 x 6 really means; skills that are arguably important. Peter Hughes, a mathematics lecturer at Auckland University, played a significant role in the development of the Numeracy Project (2001) and was quoted stating “Would anyone really believe that being able to work out 45,435.5 x 65 is important? In the real world, calculators and computers are doing this rote work, leaving people, hopefully, to think, rather than spend time on tedious labour.” A fair point. He is also quoted that he does not believe there has ever been a "golden era" of numeracy. It would seem balance is the key. This is what we strive to give your children. Material from the Numeracy Project has been and will continue to be used as a tool to enrich our mathematics programmes. We have always valued the need for knowledge and understanding. Using the latest brain research from academic researches such as John Hattie, Professor Melbourne Graduate School of Education and previously professor at the University of Auckland, we know that it is essential to build schema (a blueprint) for the brain to use as working memory, in order to achieve the reasoning and problem solving required to answer complex mathematical problems. This surface learning precedes deeper learning and is essential across all curriculum areas. Since the inception of the Numeracy Project we have employed maths advisors to tailor professional development for CBS based on the needs of students and their teachers. This tailoring of professional development to meet specific needs of our school and our community is of crucial importance in terms of improving teaching and learning.
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So, how does Campbells Bay School stack up in student achievement when it comes to maths? Please bear in mind one very large caveat, namely the data is from the Ministry of Education with the national data being that of all primary schools based on national standards criteria as at the end of 2013. Given it is widely acknowledged schools are interpreting national standards in numerous ways the following information is subject to this significant qualification in terms of reliability.
National Standards: Mathematics (%)
Well Below Below At Above
National 5.4 10.9 52.9 21.7
CBS 1.8 9.0 39.0 50.2
You would expect Campbells Bay to be performing well given the many advantages our students have in terms of the socio-economic environment they live in. They are very fortunate children. The data, in comparison to the national data, is encouraging but, given the aforementioned substantial caveat, we would not ‘bet the house on the accuracy of the data’ as a mean to accurate comparison making. In conclusion, we support any call to review current teaching practices and understandings if the data supports it. We are also cautious of pendulum swings, as balance is important. We support our teachers to acquire all of the necessary skills and competency to teach. We will continue to review and reflect our teaching methods with the intention being to seek to improve as we wish to be highly numerate. The next part of the debate lies in precisely how this can be accurately assessed.
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