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Farewell Mr Pipkin Our caretaker of 18 years was fare welled from Campbells Bay School on Friday and what an 18 years they were!

Geoff brought great warmth and humour to the very important role of caretaker making many, many friends along the way. Geoff’s farewell provided an opportunity to reflect on his many contributions to the school and the impact he had on so many people. The role of a caretaker at a large school is not for the faint of heart. It requires an ability to stick to a routine while also being adaptable enough to break that routine when necessary. It also requires significant stamina and a sense of humour is a distinct advantage! It was wonderful to farewell Geoff with his family in attendance and with the school in full voice.

Thank you to Vicki Caisley, chairperson Board of Trustees, for her speech, to Joe Lanning and her speech and you really had to be there to appreciate the contribution of former parent and librarian (and now grandmother) of the school, Sharon Purchase for her speech.

Geoff is retiring but we do expect to see him back at school from time to time helping out. Thanks for your work and for the memories, Geoff

COMING UP TUE 31 JANUARY School starts at 8:55am

TERM DATES 2016

2017 TERM ONE 31 January – 13 April TERM TWO 1 May – 7 July TERM THREE 24 July – 29 September TERM FOUR 16 October – 15 December

See Page two for reminder re the start of 2017

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Reminder re Beginning of 2017 School Year

SCHOOL OFFICE OPEN

Between 9:00am – 3:00pm

Tuesday 24 January

Wednesday 25 January

Thursday 26 January

Friday 27 January (1:00 - 3:00pm

only)

Stationery, Annual Charges and Donation for 2017:

Purchase Stationery online through www.myschool.co.nz from December 2016. Instructions for ordering are included with your child’s Class Placement for 2017.

Annual charges and donation can be paid through our online payment portal.

Monday 30 January Holiday - Auckland Anniversary Day

SCHOOL AND SCHOOL OFFICE OPEN

Tuesday 31 January

Students go directly to their new classes in time to start at 8:55am.

Wednesday 8 February

This is a time for the class teacher to share their class programme with you in their classroom. In March parent/teacher interviews will take place. The 8 February meeting is not the time to exchange information on individual students.

Class Information Evening in classrooms

6.00pm: Teams 0/1 & 2

6.30pm: Teams 3 & 4

7.00pm: Teams 5 & 6

Parking!

We have received several complaints from residents of Aberdeen Road regarding illegal parking making it impossible for residents to enter or exit their drive ways.

Please respect the rules regarding parking and also the very reasonable rights of people to access their driveways when they need to. Parking illegally not only unreasonably inconveniences residents but it also reflects badly on the school. Please only park where it is legal to do so.

Library Cards

Please remind your children to keep their library cards in their bookbags if they are returning to CBS next year. These are for use for the whole time they are at Campbells Bay School.

Thanks Library Team

Absences If your child is going to be absent please let the school office know either by emailing safetycheck@campbellsbay. school.nz or by using the Tiqbiz app.

For extended holidays please email John McGowan for approval on: admin@campbellsbay.school.nzadmin@campbellsbay.school.nz

This is a Ministry of Education requirement.

Please do not just email class teachers.

Chess Club 2017 Weekly classes will start on Tuesday 14 February at lunchtime in room 29.

All levels catered for and the club is run by for NZ co-Champion Leonard McLaren.

To register your child please complete the form (available from the school office) and return the term fee of $50.

Any questions please contact:

mclaren@actrix.co.nz

stating ‘CBS’ in the subject title.

Police Vetting: Urgent & Important! Only adults who have had a police vet will be able to help with school activities from January 2017 onwards.

As obtaining a police vet takes time, if you are considering being available to help with school activities in any way in 2017 please act now, as follows......

Please go to the school website to ‘Police Vetting for Volunteers at CBS’ under Parent Information and complete the form and attach photocopies as per the instructions.

Please note a police vet remains current for three years after the date of issue by the police.

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School Uniform School uniforms can be obtained from NZ Uniforms, Unit F, 19 Orbit Drive, Albany. See their website for opening times. Note, from 9 January they are open from 9.00 am - 5.00 pm Monday Friday and from 9.00 am - 1.00 pm on Saturday moving to 9.00 - 4.00 pm on Saturdays from 16 January.

Footwear NZ Uniforms do not sell footwear. School regulation footwear is either black or navy blue sandals or shoes. (No other colours permitted.)

From that start of the 2017 school year there will be regular school uniform and footwear inspections in the context it is an expectation the school uniform will be adhered to. Should there be a medical reason so either black or blue footwear cannot be worn it is expected a note from an appropriate medical professional will be provided to the school.

It would be fair to say that adherence to the footwear policy re colour has slipped in recent times. As outlined this will be addressed in February 2017.

We ask for your cooperation re the adherence to the school’s uniform policy. Thanks.

Please note: non black or navy footwear can be worn when playing sport.

Schumacher Shines Thanks to author and parent of Campbells Bay School, Shiree Schumacher (the ‘other’ Schumacher) students at Manurewa East School have loads of her recent picture book to share with other these holidays.

Shiree visited the school last Monday, reading to students and answering their many questions.

Thanks, Shiree, for living our school motto of ‘Not self but service.’

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Carnival 2017 So many people commented so favourably about the family event on Wednesday following the concerts, we have decided to have a School Carnival on Friday 10 March 2017 starting at 4.00pm and ending at 7.30pm or thereabouts.

The twin aims for the carnival are for us to raise money for the anticipated refurbishment and extension of our school hall and for everybody in our school community to have fun; not bad aims!

This notice is simply to notify you to put the date of the carnival in your diary right now! In early February we will be outlining the format of the event and how you can be involved.

In the meantime, you could start putting some good quality items aside, that you no longer need, that somebody might be willing to pay for!

Look out for new of the carnival in the first school newsletter of 2017!

Laura Irvine

FOCBS Coordinator

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

campbellsbay.school.nz/sports-news/

Would all managers of sports teams please email weekly news and results to our sports co-ordinator:

kerim@campbellsbay.school.nz

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Community Notices Kristin School (www.kristin.school.nz )- Limited places are available for new students to join us in Year 7/2017.

For any further information including enrolment enquiries, please contact the Registrar, Linda Teagle 415 9566 ext 2324 or admissions@kristin.school.nz

Speech, Drama, Public Speaking and Communication Lessons Are you looking to improve your child’s public speaking skills? Improve their speech and diction? How about confidence and communication skills? Tailored individual or paired lessons available for children and teens aimed at improving public speaking, speech, drama and communication skills.

Free trial lessons for new pupils!

For more information & to book your trial go to www.speechdramaauckland.co.nz or email melissa.ea.rouse@gmail.com

Campbells Bay Tennis Club Xmas and New Year Holiday Program

19 – 23 December – half day or full day

9 – 27 January – half day or full day

BOOK EARLY by phoning or texting Graeme on 021 206 2177 or Adam on 021 026 11179

$30 for half day and $60 for full day

Glenfield Music Centre is a government-subsidized music school, funded by the MOE Out of Hours Music and Arts scheme. Part of our criteria is that we must make these classes available to all local children. We are hosted by Glenfield Intermediate, and we have students attending from more than 40 local schools.

Lessons are from $120 for the year and our enrolments are open now for 2017.

We offer weekly group lessons in classical instruments to children from Year 3-Year 8.

Classes are on weekday afternoons or Saturday mornings.

www.glenfieldmusic.co.nz

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Fitness4Kids - After School Fitness Club at CBS! Registrations are now open for Term One 2017!

2016 has been an amazing year with our FitKids, helping them to develop and build their general

fitness and games skills through lots of different methods including use of hoops, bean bags, balls,

scarves, and the parachute.

We will continue with our passion to inspire and instil a love of fitness and movement in 2017,

working with our FitKids to improve fitness and strength as we look towards the 2017 winter sports

seasons.

As always we will have two trained coaches to lead, supervise and nurture each child at their specific

level. We always have fun and parents don’t need to fight 3pm pickup traffic!

Meet outside the PA Room, Thursdays 3-4pm

$100 for Term 1 2017 - email Tash at tashbart@gmail.com or Kath

at Kathryn@fitness4kids.co.nz

Kore Movement & Fitness with Kath and Tash! Term One 2017 timetable below:

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

6am CBS Hall Strength with Kath

6am CBS Hall

HIIT

with Tash

7.15am CBS Field Strength/HIIT with Tash/Kath

9.15am Kennedy Park Boxing/HIIT with Tash

9.15am Kennedy Park Strength Circuit with Kath

Pricing: One class per week $165 ($15 per class), 2 classes per week $275 ($12.50 per class) and 3 classes per week $363 ($11 per class), Casual rate $18.

9.15am classes will start Thursday 02 February but 6am classes will run the week before Christmas (Tuesday 20 & Thursday 22) and from Tuesday 3rd January. Holiday Special!! For the December and January classes it will be $20 for the two classes per week or casual rate of $12.

Please contact Tash at tashbart@gmail.com or Kath at kathrynhuish@hotmail.com for more details and to sign up.

Babysitter Available I am an ex Campbells Bay Primary School student now at Rangitoto College looking for some babysitting work.

I am 16 and have previous babysitting experience. I can get my own lift to and from your house if needed.

Please phone me on 0212630781.

Forrest Hill Milford AFC would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We look forward to seeing you at trials inFebruary 2017. Registrations open online from the second week in January. Trail dates will be published on the Club’s website and Facebook page in February.

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Watersafe Auckland is happy to announce once again that we will be running our FREE Splash-Breakaway Holiday Programme over two weeks in January next year (2017) near your local pool. Our main focus here at Water safe Auckland is “preventing drowning through education”.

With six locations all across Auckland we would love for your school to spread the word about this holiday programme. The programme includes multiple water activities, swimming skills, free lunch and most importantly water safety practices to keep you safe.

Locations below:

• Manurewa

• West Wave

• Parakai Springs

• Birkenhead

• Auckland Uni Epsom Campus

• Point. Erin

All venues will run from the dates 16th-19th & 23rd-26th January (Mon-Thurs). The times will also stay the same starting at 9am and finishing at 2.30pm.

http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/3103241/SPLASH-Break-Away-January-2017-Registration

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