Tuesday 4 August 2015 Kia ora whanau! Crikey it is all go, go,
go and the kids have had a busy, fabulous start to the term! Book
Launch at the marae:
We had a great start to Week 1 of the term with the book launch
at the marae. We are so privileged to have been given some amazing
books with local legends that they have produced for us to use. We
are fortunate to have phenomenal support from our local runaka and
marae as we work towards meaningfully integrating things Maori and
local into our school a great example of a community at work! We
are really excited to use these stories in everyday interactions in
the classroom the kids love the illustrations and the understanding
that the books develop. Thanks so much to Bubba for working on this
for us!
Hapori awhina Update: This community time/service with our Year
4-8 students is going really well. The students take ownership of
our school and help run things in an age appropriate way. All our
senior students have completed a series of 8 leadership workshops
about how to run groups, meetings, manage people, time management
etc. This is such a fabulous opportunity for our seniors to take
charge and develop as leaders. They have been doing a great job and
are getting better at this all the time. We have decided that from
this week we will be growing this to include the whole school so
stand by for chaos! We will be having groups in charge of lunchtime
entertainment, the school fruit, teacher assistants, school media
team, school gardeners, caretaker assistants etc. It is a
phenomenal team building time on a Friday afternoon and quite
intense as all their ideas percolate and they work out how to make
it happen!
The lunchtime Entertainment Group this week ran some sack races
that were great fun!
The Event Management Group are planning:
A DISCO! Date to be announced very soon
Will be a gold coin entry
Superhero theme Prizes for best superhero!
Start planning your outfit now! Disco will be in a few weeks
once they sort the dates the venue is
available! Generosity: Polyfest Dates: We are truly blessed to
have the support we have for our school as shown by these generous
people:
For your diaries: We are all performing (at least the kids are!)
on: Thursday 27 August We start at 9.20 and it is a Bluff take over
as all 4 of our groups will perform one after the other from this
time until 10.00ish. It will be early start at school to get
everyone ready!! more details to follow later
The Golden Age Gifted us $400 as their local charity of the
month for their raffle. Thanks!
Just granted us $5,500 for maths equipment just phenomenal!!
Remember - There are regular updates on our facebook page that
anyone can view https://www.facebook.com/bluffschool
Netball Results:
A GREAT season had by all! Grade wins by both our Saturday
morning teams!!
Awesome to see our kids holding their own against the town
schools!
Thanks so much to our coaches Katie and Talia we really
appreciate all the time you put into our kids!
Kids Writing: As always, we work really hard to provide extra
opportunities for kids and try to juggle staffing and money to make
this happen. Part of this is Emma taking a senior girls writing
group these are called Wonderings Dear Galaxy I admire your soft,
pale stars I love the way your colours light up at night like a
beautiful rainbow, dancing across the sky. Its a ritual, night,
day, night, day Your patterns are like a sea of colours But let me
ask you a question How are you not falling down? Brooke Biahn
Dear Sky I love how you are blue during the day It is always
amazing when you allow the moon to show with a light fade The
clouds dress you up so well that it hides you sometimes I can never
wait for you to return The sun always lights you up but at night
you disappear At dawn you are making yellow, light pink and a bit
of green Whey do you let those clouds cover you up? What makes you
blue? Please tell me in the day. Jordan
Dear Chicken How I admire your delicious creations How your
feathers look like a Maori cloak I like that you come in many
shapes and sizes and no matter what, you are always the same. But
let me ask you what came first, the egg or the chicken? Brodie
Dear Sea I notice your gorgeous shell fish crawling amongst you
I take time to notice your beautiful paua, while its horrid outside
puts me off, the inside tells me something else All the stunning
colours pulled into one I have one question How do your amazing
paua get their amazing shells? Kaiah
A couple of bits:
As always: To reiterate a message that we try to reinforce
constantly if there is anything you want to know about the
school
or if you have any feedback anyone is welcome to pop in or
ring at any time.
We work to contact you if we think your child has done
something
amazing or if we have a concern, so would
appreciate the same courtesy in return.
Its about keeping in touch and working
together!
Alison
