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 or rvivien@edendale.school.nz •

Website: http://www.edendale.school.nz/

Edendale News

THE EDENDALE EXPERIENCE: THINKING, LEARNING, CREATING

14 June 2013

Next issue: 26 June 2013

Message from the Principal

Kia ora, Kia orana, Namaste, Talofa lava, Malo e lelei, Ni hao ma, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Asalam alikum!

Congratulations to our Awesome Musicians!

Our group (far left) that performed ‘Paradise’ on Good Morning last week sounded wonderful. Well done everyone! If you missed the performance you can click below and watch. Thanks to our music teacher Jeremy Hantler for working with the group and accompanying them on guitar! We also sang together as a school for our celebration of NZ Music Month! Well done everyone!

You sounded amazing! http://tvnz.co.nz/good-morning/extra-nz-music-month-paradise-video-5452780

Reporting and Three-way Conferences

Teachers are currently writing mid-year reports for students; these report about Reading, Writing, Mathematics, Personal/Social Development and Attendance. Reports will come home on Friday 28th June. Three-way conferences will be held on Tuesday 2nd to Wednesday 3rd July school finishes at 2.00pm on these two days, post school will operate as normal from 3.00pm. We look forward to meeting with you so that students can share their learning and teachers can also share with and answer any questions you may have.

Surveys and Consultation

During the remainder of the term we will begin to survey various groups of students to seek their views about their learning and activities at Edendale. We’ll also be consulting with our Maori and Pasifika communities, initially via a survey. We’ll conduct a whole-school community survey after the Three-way Conferences. Surveys will come home via an email link in early July.

National Standards information: PTO Rosemary Vivien, Principal

Announcing our Newly-elected Board of Trustees

The following candidates were elected to our Board for the 2013-2016 term:

Khylee Quince and John Marsh who continue into their second term

Carolyn Bielby, Catherine Oxenham and Gregor Paul who are new trustees

Ritesh Chand was elected unopposed as the staff trustee

Thank you to all candidates who agreed to stand for election. The count of returned forms showed that 22% of eligible voters participated in the process, each voting for between one to five candidates.

We look forward to working with our new Board over the next three years.

Reminder: New Parents Morning Tea

Friday 21st June School Tour starts 9.45am

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 or rvivien@edendale.school.nz •

Website: http://www.edendale.school.nz/

School Information • Programmes • Awards

Prepaid PhotoLife Portrait Class and Sibling Photos These will be taken on Thursday 20th June, starting at 9:00am. Prepaid envelopes were distributed last

week. ‘Sibling’ envelopes can be collected from the school office. No photos will be distributed without a prepaid envelope. Please return orders/payment envelopes to your class teacher by Wednesday 19th June.

Safety in School Grounds Any child cycling to school MUST have a bike permission slip, available from Mr Chand in Room 26. Year 5/6 students ONLY are allowed to cycle unsupervised. All bikes must have a lock. You may not ride your

bikes or scooters through school grounds and you must walk these across the road. All scooters must be taken home by caregivers/parents.

Edendale Playground Taonga Winners (Positive Behaviour Tickets)

The following students were recently spotted and have sports equipment for their class for the next fortnight :

Taonga Winner: Ashtyn—R10

Keeping our grounds clean and tidy: Jeffery—R5, Mariam—R28, Betty—R15, Sadie—R16

Playing nicely with others: Samantha—R2, Gus—R6, Brooklyn—R27, Leo—R25, Nyra—R1

Being thoughtful: Ashtyn—R10

Our next school assembly will be held on Monday 24 June at 10:00am

Term Three: Science Open Week and Science-a-thon

Science Open Week will take place 27th-29th August with ‘hands on’ interactive displays and experiments happening in

all classrooms. The Science-a-thon is our major school fundraising event for this year. We wish to raise money to

purchase further equipment in the areas of Science and ICT. Science-a-thon packs, questions and sponsorship forms will be sent home on Friday 5th July. This will allow students plenty of time over the holidays to collect sponsors and to

research and learn the answers to the Science-a-thon questions. Students will be tested in Week Two of Term Three (Wednesday 7th August) and sponsorship money will be collected by Week 5 (Friday 31st August).

We are looking for scientists who would like to visit our school during this week!

If you would like to be involved in supporting our Science Open Week, please contact Shilpa Soysa (R21), Jackie Procter

(Deputy Principal Yr1-3) or leave a message with the office. Thank you in advance for your support with our major fundraiser this year. Our students are looking forward to showing you some of their amazing science learning.

Shilpa Soysa (Science Curriculum Leader)

Edendale National Standards Data: Public Reporting

You may have recently seen this data reported in the media. School statistics used were from 2010 and those reported

are at variance from our statistics in 2013. Ethnicities (%) at Edendale are as follows:

There is a variance between Edendale’s data for Reading, Writing and Mathematics as we reported to MOE and as

reported by the media (public reporting noted for Reading below). Either the data belongs to another school or else it

has been scaled in some way. We have not been informed of any scaling having taken place. We are aware that

e-asTTle scores were scaled down by MOE during the April term break, however we did not use the on-line test so that

should not have affected our students’ scores.

‘+’ ‘-’ shows where our percentages have been either

increased (representing ‘improvement’ only for ‘at’ and

above’ or decreased (representing ‘improvement’ only for

below or well-below). You can find our Annual Reporting

information as reported to MOE on our school website; go

to Information/Charter and follow the link. Thank you.

Maori 8% European 32% Pasifika 21% Indian 20% Other Asian 15% Other Ethnicities 4%

Reading

All Girls Boys Maori Pasifika

Above - 4.8% -3.6% -3.2% -19.4% -2.4%

At + 9.4% +13% +1.1% same +3.5%

Below - 6.3% -6.3% -7.6% +10.4 +2.2%

Well-

below

+ 1.7% same +3.5% +7.9% +1%

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 or rvivien@edendale.school.nz •

Website: http://www.edendale.school.nz/

School Information • Programmes • Notices

News from Edendale’s PTA Quiz Night & Dance - Friday 28th June Looking for a fun night out and to test your knowledge? Then bring your friends and family along to Edendale PTA’s annual Quiz Night. Get your fancy dress costumes on, old or new, and let’s have some fun, whilst raising money

to support the school. The venue will be Edendale Primary School Hall. Fun starts at 6.30pm and finishes at 11.30pm

$20 per person or $150 per table/team (8 people) Tickets are sold outside Room 9 before and after school. Hurry as numbers are limited!

We need your help! We need Auction and Raffle items for our Quiz Night by Monday 24th June.

All donations big and small are most welcome. Just a few ideas: Do you, friends or family work for a company who might donate an item or service?

Do you have a bach you could offer up for a weekend? Would you like to donate some yummy treats or items to add to raffle baskets?

What sport or after school activities do your children do? Could you approach them for lessons or other form of sponsorship?

We really appreciate your help.

All sponsors will be recognised on the night and in the Newsletter following the Quiz. Please email us, pta@edendale.school.nz, approach one of the PTA team or drop items off in the office for us to collect.

Thank you. The 2012 / 2013 Entertainment™ Book expired on 1st June 2013. The new book is bigger than last year. It is also filled with a huge range of discount vouchers for dining, travel and recreation. Books cost only $65.00 with $13.00 from each sale going to the school. To order books please see the

attached document.

PTA Meeting The next PTA meeting will be held in the meeting room Thursday 20th June at 7:00pm. Please come and join us.

Edendale PTA

Garden to Table We had a fabulous time in the garden last week and managed to have most of our lessons

outside with this great weather. We harvested a bumper crop of orange kumara (a total of

around 40kg from our one bed). The largest weighing in at nearly 4kg! This healthy crop reiterates our garden lessons of how we grow strong healthy plants and what we need to add

to our soil to make our plants happy. In the case of our kumara, plenty of Edendale compost, sheep pellets, healthy soil to begin with and a long hot summer. We also harvested some other known vegetables. Salsify is a root vegetable, it’s also known as the "oyster plant". When

you cook them you may well discern a subtle hint of seafood, as our students did when we turned them into fritters with thyme and parmesan. Also on the menu was celeriac, (this is another root crop related to celery) it has a large

bulbous root that we finely sliced; with crisp apples, Italian parsley and a zingy vinaigrette to go with our fritters. Finally we whipped up some spiced kumara cupcakes. Our focus was what nutrients are, where they come from, and the importance of a diet that includes eating a wide

variety of fruit and vegetables (the rainbow of fruit and vegetables). This is especially important to protect our immune system at this time of year! Are you interested in volunteering Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday for an hour or so? We would love to

hear from you; please contact Sarah or Jodie, srae@edendale.school.nz

Sarah and Jodie

Apple Stickers Please continue to collect Yummy apple stickers and barcodes from Yummy apple bags. Students can collect a sheet from the office or print out a sheet from home on www.yummyfruit.co.nz

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 or rvivien@edendale.school.nz •

Website: http://www.edendale.school.nz/

Board of Trustees

Next meeting will be held in the Meeting Room

Tuesday 25th June 2013 at 7:15pm

This is a planning meeting, not open to the public.

Edendale PTA

Next meeting will be held in the Meeting Room

Thursday 20th June 2013 at 7:00pm

All welcome to attend

School Information • Stories and Art • Advertisements

School Calendar 2013 Term 2: 6 May—12 July

Term 3: 29 July—27 September

Term 4: 14 October—20 December

Public Holidays falling on school days: Monday 28 October—Labour Day

Open Day and Evening

Thursday 8 August

Attention All Year 6 Students

Balmoral Intermediate 2014 enrolment process begins Term 3 Application forms, In Zone and Out of Zone will be available

from Monday 29th July More details can be found at www.balmoral.school.nz or

by phoning 09 638 7960

Colourful poster made for NZ

Music Month.

By Nishith R28

Food Revolution day—Collage by R11

Hello! I am a super power fruit. I am a round red

apple. My super duper powers are healthy vitamins. I keep kids healthy. I better run away

from the pineapples because they will poke me. By Subhash

Hi! I am a pineapple girl. I am

yellow and prickly. I have pineapple power which is

vitamin C. I taste very sweet and sour. By Stella

Kabila Team planting their vegetable

seedlings into planter boxes (by R9)

Students with Jodie choosing the vegetables

they want to grow.

This term Kabila’s inquiry unit is ‘Are we what

we eat?’ We have been learning about how

plants grow. We are currently growing our

own vegetables from seeds and we are

growing a class set of pre-brought seedlings.

Self-Portraits by R12

By Shafairy By Kaela