Rosemary Vivien Principal • Edendale Primary School, 419 Sandringham Road, Sandringham, Auckland 1025

Telephone: 09 846 6340 • Facsimile: 09 846 3997 • Email: office@edendale.school.nz • Website: http://www.edendale.school.nz/

Edendale News

THE EDENDALE EXPERIENCE: THINKING, LEARNING, CREATING

30 May 2012

Next issue: 13 June 2012

Principal’s Message Kia ora, Kia orana, Namaste, Talofa lava, Malo e lelei,

Ni hao ma, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Asalam alikum!

Welcome

We will be welcoming Stephanie Burgess tomorrow, as

a relief teacher for Room 20, as the class teacher has

taken long-term leave. We hope that Stephanie will

enjoy being a part of the Edendale team.

Thank you

To the parents who attended the morning tea for new

parents last week. We hope that you enjoyed the tour

of our school and we enjoyed the invigorating

discussion that took place during the morning tea. We

look forward to getting to know you better.

Class Sizes

There has been much about up-coming changes to

class sizes in the media in recent days. I received an

email from Ministry of Education (Secretary for

Education, Lesley Longstone) about these changes on

Monday, I have copied a paragraph from that email

below.

‘Firstly, I want to reiterate that the Ministry of Education

is dedicated to improving the educational outcomes of

all learners, with an intense focus on those who are

currently underserved by the education system, such as

learners who are Māori, Pasifika, have special needs or

are from low socio-economic backgrounds.’

‘Over the past decade, teacher numbers have increased

at a much greater rate than learner numbers, but we

have not seen the gains in student outcomes that we

might have hoped for, nor made the inroads that might

have been expected for those children who are Māori,

Pasifika, have special needs or are from poorer homes.’

You can read the email in full on our news blog. I have

asked for clarification about the under-serving of

students with special needs and those from poorer

homes (an interesting choice of phrase) and will let you

know the response once I receive one; this is expected

to arrive, I am told, later in the week. Might this mean

funding will be increased to support learners, but we’ll

have to wait and see.

It is hard to determine yet, the effect reduced staffing

will have at Edendale, however we currently fund

part-time teachers for literacy support, our SENCO and

ESOL teacher from our staffing allocation. Information

in the media changes daily at present. According to

reporting I have read on-line, schools could lose

between one-four teachers. Please make your views

known to our local MP. I would also be interested in

hearing your views so do email me at

rvivien@edendale.school.nz or comment on our newest

blog.

Edendale News Blog

Over the next few days I will be setting up a news blog

where you will be able to read current news and

educational articles both topical and of interest. This

will be in addition to, (for now) but eventually may

replace our current newsletter. This will give you the

ability to comment about each entry, ask questions

and will encourage dialogue between school and

community. I encourage you to ‘follow’ the blog as this

will give you automatic updates. Please bear with us as

we get this underway.

KnowledgeNet

Thank you to Annette and her team for running the

practical parent workshop regarding the use of

KnowledgeNet last week. Please do get into the habit of

logging in to see what your child/your child’s team is

doing at school.

Garden to Table Blog

Garden of Eden Blog

Edendale News Blog

Edendale’s Website

Enjoy your week!

Rosemary Vivien, Principal

Edendale Student Code

I am an Edendale student. Therefore, I show respect to everyone; I am kind to others; I behave in a sensible

way. I take care of my school, my belongings and the environment. I am honest and reliable; I am responsible

for my actions. I have fun with my learning; I participate at school and try my very best!

Rosemary Vivien Principal • Edendale Primary School, 419 Sandringham Road, Sandringham, Auckland 1025

Telephone: 09 846 6340 • Facsimile: 09 846 3997 • Email: office@edendale.school.nz • Website: http://www.edendale.school.nz/

School Information and Programmes

Edendale Playground

Good Behaviour Tickets

Taonga Winner: Finn-Kelly Sheenhan—Rm1

These children were seen...

Keeping our grounds clean: Zaima—Rm12,

Lae—Rm11, Eklavya—Rm8, Samira—Rm19,

Finn—Rm1,

Being thoughtful: Melanie— Rm7, Ruby—Rm21

Playing nicely with others: Nishilt—Rm2,

Stella—Rm15

Sharing with others: Griffin—Rm26

Helping Others: Xavier—Rm19

Talking nicely to others: Lauren—Rm28

S P O R T S N E W S

Soccer Coaching

Soccer coaching will be on

Wednesdays (from 2 May)

3:15-4:15pm on the bottom

field. Cost: $8 should be paid

to Mr Wilson in Room 24.

Children must be collected

afterwards by 4:20pm, forms on table

at reception.

Rainy Day

Notice will be given to cancel

due to weather at 2.30pm on

the day of coaching, and a note

will be put on the ‘ticker’ on the

Edendale KnowledgeNET

page.

Please check online.

Yummy Apple Stickers

Last year we raised $500 worth of sports equipment

By collecting yummy apple stickers and bags, let’s see if we can better our total for 2012

Please continue to collect yummy stickers / barcodes from plastic yummy bags.

There will be a surprise for the student and class which collects the most completed sheets.

Students can collect a sheet from the office / or print out a sheet from home on

www.yummyfruit.co.nz

Garden to Table

Kia ora

Another adventurous week at Garden to Table.

Thanks to all who purchased strawberry plants,

chutney and jam from our Mothers day stall. we

have a new wheelbarrow that we have been

putting through its paces!

We welcome a new volunteer Virginia Hewin who is helping

out in the kitchen on a Tuesday morning session. More

volunteers are very welcome!

Please contact Kim at kimstretton@ymail.com for details.

During the gardening class we have been working on a design

for the Endeavour garden. What creative kids we have!

We are also designing mosaic artworks made from plastic

bottle tops. We would love to have your plastic bottle tops

from milk, cream, drink bottles, jars etc, and have a drop off

area for them beside the garden shed under the blue

staircase, we appreciate your plastic donations, yay for

creative recycling!

In the Kitchen we have been harvesting silverbeet,

spinach and rainbow chard and making delicious

silverbeet, potato and thyme tortes with olive oil

pastry. The rainbow chard looks stunning in the

tortes. (recipes coming up soon on our blog!).

We are continually impressed at the children's

increasing cooking and gardening techniques, not to mention

their extending taste buds!

Thanks Sarah, Jodie and Kim

CLASS GROUP

PHOTOGRAPHS

tomorrow

Starts at

8.50am

Travel wise 2012

roll survey results

Please see attached flyer

for further details

Rosemary Vivien Principal • Edendale Primary School, 419 Sandringham Road, Sandringham, Auckland 1025

Telephone: 09 846 6340 • Facsimile: 09 846 3997 • Email: office@edendale.school.nz • Website: http://www.edendale.school.nz/

Tiaki Artists and Authors • Notices

We love to celebrate the cultural

diversity of our school and we need your support. If you have any cultural

items to donate please bring them to Room 25 where they will be collated and used regularly by different year

levels throughout our school.

Thank you in advance for your

support.

Desma Lai

The children of Room 22 are learning

about healthy food

Vegetables help us to grow. I eat vegetables

every day to grow strong and healthy.

Yusra Rm22

Meat is good for my body because it has

protein in it.

James Rm22

Lettuce helps my body to grow strong so I

eat lots of it.

Isabella Rm22

Zoe Rm 21

Jamie Rm 21

A Whanau and caregivers guide

to safer journeys for school children

Hike it, scoot it, bike it, skate it

For further details, please see leaflets in reception

Last Thursday 3 teams were chosen for the Eden/

Albert Rugby tournament. These teams were the

under 40’s, under 50’s and open grade. When we

arrived at May Road Reserve we trained with

Mr Tuala. Then the open grade played their first

game against Owairaka. The boys in their team

were big and bulky making us look tiny. But soon

enough we found our courage and won 2-0.

Mr Wilson, Mr Hall and Mike were cheering us on,

on the sidelines. The open grade was on a roll

and unstoppable (for now). They won all the rest

of their pool games and made it into the final

against Mt. Albert Primary. They had a mix of fast

boys and huge, strong boys. The pressure was

on. Jayden from Room 28 scored the first try.

Then they scored twice to put them in the lead.

Then Kisepi scored and set up another with a

beautiful long pass to Jeffery who slid over the

line. The game ended with a 15 all draw. Then we

went into extra time were no points were scored.

At the prize giving a coin was flipped to see who

would take the trophy home first, unfortunately

we lost the coin toss. But we get the trophy in

two weeks time. Thanks to Mr Wilson, Mr Hall and

Mike for taking us there.

By Kisepi, Lawrence,

Joshua and Malo

Rosemary Vivien Principal • Edendale Primary School, 419 Sandringham Road, Sandringham, Auckland 1025

Telephone: 09 846 6340 • Facsimile: 09 846 3997 • Email: office@edendale.school.nz • Website: http://www.edendale.school.nz/

See our website for info on upcoming events, BOT news and more! www.edendale.school.nz

Board of Trustees

Next meeting will be a planning meeting

Tuesday 26th June at 7:15pm

Edendale PTA Next meeting will be held in the Meeting Room

Thursday 21st June at 7:00pm

All welcome to attend

2012 School Calendar

Term 2: 23 April - 29 June Term 3: 16 July - 28 September Term 4: 15 October - 18 December

Public Holidays falling on school days: Monday 4 June - Queen’s Birthday Monday 22 October - Labour Day

EDENDALE ARTISTS at OKRA

1-24 June 2012 Okra Espresso Lounge & Gallery

A worm’s eye view of our orchard and edible gardens by

5-year-old photographers in Year One!

Go for coffee and see the exhibition! Opens 5pm 31 May 2012

Quiz Night & Fundraising Auctions Friday 8 June in the School Hall. Bring your friends and family along for a fun night out and test your knowledge. Fun starts at 6.30pm. $20 per person or $150 for a table/team of 8. Tickets are being sold outside Room 9 before school. Please don't forget your gold coins for the coin toss. Thank you to the many parents who have generously gifted their time and auction items towards our Quiz Night already. All donations welcome, please contact Kathy White, our Quiz Night Co-ordinator, on 021 212 0271 or email pta@edendale.school.nz. Parent Class Representative Consent form Please remember to fill in the above form sent out to all students last week and return them to your class teacher or office asap.

New PTA Members A big thank you to the new members who joined our last meeting. If you would like to help out, we always appre-ciate new members joining the PTA. We meet once a month. Turn up to our next meeting Thursday 21 June in the meeting room (off the office foyer) at 7:00pm. Entertainment Books Available Now Come and purchase a 2012/2013 Entertainment Book. This book is crammed full of a huge range of discount vouchers for dining, recreation and travel and is only $65, with $13 from each sale going to our school. Order forms available from the school office. Shared Lunch recipe books $3.00!! We still have a few copies left for sale, if you’d like to see a sample copy, please see Chriss in the office. First in, first served. Cash or cheque only. Tom Cooper & Aamel Rahmati Co-Chairpersons

WANTED MARCHING GIRLS

For Rosedale Kilties under 12's Marching Team based in Invercargill. Girls aged 8-12yrs old also girls aged 5+ for a Kiwi Team wanted as well.

We will be having a have a go day soon where girls can come and have a try and see if they like it.

Girls from Wyndham/ Edendale /Mataura welcome

as both coaches will travel from Mataura and Edendale and can transport girls to practice.

Please ring/txt Sarah Mcgregor 0274211523 or

032066776 for more information.

News from Edendale’s PTA

FRUIT FLY INFORMATION

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support and patience in the Queensland fruit fly response May 2012.

While the fruit fly restrictions have been lifted MPI will still undertake fruit fly surveillance in this area on a reduced scale.

Is your child a musician?

They can be!! Book them in for a violin lesson

now. Contact Laurel 0210307572 /

lelienz@yahoo.co.nz MOTAT

Is inviting everyone to visit for free from 1-30 June 2012

To celebrate June’s Volunteer Awareness Week, to experi-

ence and appreciate the work that their 300+ volunteers do to ensure the collection is beautifully restored and main-

tained. For more information visit our website www.motat.org.nz.