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MORRINSVILLE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL 14th June, 2012Ph 07 889 6629 Fax 07 889 5645 Email office@mi.school.nz

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Congratulations on receiving thefollowing M.I.S. Merit Programme Award:

Excellence Award

Georgia Robb Academic

Inter-Intermediate In-Line Hockey Team

The following students competed at the In-line Hockey

Competition held in Hamilton on Tuesday and finished in4th place. A full report will be in next weeks newsletter:

Jarrod Dixon, Kate Manunui, Kaleb Cleary, Garrett Hill,Sean Hammond, Laura Gilchrist, Chrystal Toner, MalyPhorn, Luke Phillips and Hafizi Shamsul.

TEACHER ONLY DAY- FRIDAY 22nd JUNE

Morrinsville Intermediate School will be closed on

Friday 22nd June for all students,

as teachers have a BOT approved teacher-only day.

Parents will have to make alternative arrangements

on this day, thanks for your co-operation.

Camp Instalments

A reminder the third camp payment of $60.00 is due to bepaid by 25.06.12 for those families who have opted to pay byinstalment. Payments can be made by direct credit, ouraccount number is 12-3437-0000031-00.

You will no doubt have heard the news last Thursday night that the Government has decided not to makeany changes to technology stang or teacher:student funding raos. As you can imagine, this news was well

celebrated by MIS students, sta and the Board of Trustees.

We would like to thank all school families and members of the community who aended meengs, wrote emails

or leers and generally sent the message to the Government that our community opposes cuts to technology

stang and an increase in class sizes. Without the support of parents naon-wide the budget cuts in educaon

would not have been reversed. Thank you all very much for speaking up when it come to quality educaon and

the future of all children.

MUFTI DAY TOMORROWStudents are having a mufti day tomorrow (Friday).Students will need to bring a gold coin to donate to astudent council chosen activity. Please wear clotheswhich are suitable for school and PE.

Some Room 4 students enjoying their One Pan Dinner in Food Technology which included mince, pasta and vegetables.During this lesson each group of students tested and trialed dierent combinaons of ingredients,

gave their dish a name and tasted each others creaons.

Congratulations to Mrs Corrigan

who was teaching in Room 4 in

term one on the arrival of her

beautiful twin babies. Hannah

Rose weighed 6lb 8oz and Jack Alexander weighed

6lb 15oz. We hear they are all doing very well and

look forward to seeing them soon.

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This annual concert will be held in our school hall on

Wednesday 20th June at 7.00pm.Students who take part in music tuition, school choir,

band and rock bands will be involved.

School Bus Usage Survey

The MoE is working to improve the school bus serviceby getting a better understanding of actual travelpatterns of students using the buses.

For a two week period (11.06.12 to 22.06.12) busdrivers from randomly selected Ministry contractedroutes will be collecting data which will include

students names as the students get o the bus in themorning and get on the bus in the afternoon. Tominimise delays from data collection the drivers willbe provided with data collection sheets which havebeen pre-populated with eligible students names.The following three bus routes have been randomlyselected from our area: 2144, 2155, 2147.

If you would like more information about this surveyplease go to www.minedu.govt.nz/schooltransport.

The next MI Mates meeting is being held on

Tuesday 26th June at 7.00pm in the staffroom. All

welcome.Thank you to everyone who supported our

Firewood Rafe which raised $1,000. Thanks to the

parents who volunteered to sell tickets outside Paper

Plus last Friday and Saturday and also to Kiwanis for

donating the rewood.

Last Thursday our Te Reo Extension Class had a hakari(feast) to celebrate the Maori New Year (Matariki). We had alot of visitors join us including my Nanny Martha.

The kai (food) we shared was a boil-up made from watercress,bacon, sausages and doughboys or Maori fried bread whichwas made by my Nan. The boil-up had a strong smell and

tasted quite salty.Wed like to thank all the ringawera (workers) for making this asuccessful hakari (feast); also, a big thank you to Mrs Daintyfor letting us use her kitchens. It was a fun experience andnew learning for some of us.

Report by Te Kawhi King-Tamihana-TobyOn behalf of Te Reo Extension

Absent StudentsPlease remember to phone to school office on 889 6629

by 9.00am if your child is away from school.Thanks for your cooperation!

Scholastic Book Club Orders in by nextMonday please.

Log-on to: www.schoolinterviews.co.nz

ParentTeacher Interviews are coming up;instructions are listed below on how to book. This

event will be live on the website from tomorrow.Interviews will follow Mid-Year Reports which willgo home with all students next Thursday.

Now you can book school interviews for the timesthat suit you. Simply log-on to the website listedabove and enter the school code (ZKE4B) andpress "Go".

You will be guided through three steps & you willget an email confirming your interview. If yourequire more help please phone the school officeon 07 889 6629.

ZKE4B

Clean plates after everyone enjoyed the boil-up!

Hub Report

Our school is currently 25th in the Colgate Race; we

have until the end of June to collect Colgate cartons sowe have a better chance of winning money for sportsgear, please keep them coming in!

Congratulations to the following students who wonprizes from the 60th Jubilee Colouring Competitionorganized from the Hub by Kylie Botes and DikshyaParajuli. These prizes will be presented at assembly.

1st place Jasmine Singh-Ark2nd place Elly Wilson3rd place Maly Phorn

Report by Jasmine Armstrong & Hannah Nicholson.

Sewing Badges

School badges will be sewn next Wednesday. T-shirts mustbe clean and badges attached by staple etc. A basket willcome around to collect them during the day. Thank you verymuch to Mrs Hart who has offered to sew them for us.

Te Reo Extension