students in the Year 1-8 classes, establishing a solid foundation and

understanding of the basics of literacy and numeracy is absolutely critical. These tools Area School are essential for their learning and development in the Senior School, and Monday 20th May 2013 enable them to tackle the demands of NCEA, and beyond. Term 2 – Newsletter Number 3 Of all the skills we learn in life the ability Phone - 06 3880130 to read must be near the very top of the Email – [email protected] list. For people who can read fluently, and

[email protected] who have the ability to comprehend the written word, there are few barriers to Website - http://tas.spikeatschool.co.nz their learning and personal growth. Tena koutou katoa Reading is a wonderful recreational Welcome back to another very busy week. option, and for many of us the holidays The term has settled into a nice rhythm wouldn’t be the same without the with indoor core curriculum business company of a good book. As a parent complemented by a high level of student sharing a bedtime story with your involvement in extra-curricular activities, child/ren is the icing on the cake at the including sport. Most days after 3pm, the end of an inevitably school is a real hive of activity, with sports busy day. Watching a practices scheduled for the various winter child curled up on the codes. sofa engrossed in a book is a treasure. As well Learning Conferences are being held. These Conferences are an essential As well as reading for opportunity for parents to get alongside pleasure, the ability to read opens up the their children and classroom teachers, or boundless world of knowledge. Reading deans, to discuss progress made, and set enables the mind to think over objects of goals for the way forward. This interest, which enable a person to make partnership is crucial to enhance the informed decisions; its food for the soul, personal growth and development of our for it nourishes the human intellect in young people. probing things deeper, and analyzing things; and it provides guidance to people, For all students each step through the to occurrences they have not yet been school system is increasingly important as exposed to in life. Reading keeps your they come to terms with the benchmarks brain working and keeps you up to date associated with that particular phase. For with language and modern vocabulary or slang. Reading expands your imagination when speaking your mind or making your and your knowledge. choice”. From Yahoo -“Reading books has many Reading is without doubt an essential and benefits both mentally and morally. Firstly, extraordinarily important life skill. your mind will be active and engaged into Have a great week!! old age, and reading can help you forget Richard McMillan the problems in your life, and get you Principal captivated by the adventures of someone else. School Closed Reading from adults also helps set a good, Please note that School will be closed on mentally engaging example for the new the following dates: generation. And reading has benefits that rd Monday 3 June Queen’s Birthday can help with everyday activities. With Tuesday 4th June Queen’s Birthday st more reading come better reading skills, Monday 1 July Teacher Only Day (NCEA Realignment) thus allowing easier comprehension of, oh, say, instructions on Board of Trustee how to build something or warnings Elections on chemicals. Reading is a fun and great way Key dates for the forthcoming Board of to leave the stresses of Trustees Election: May your life and just 21st May Election papers sent out unwind”. 30th May Election Day To quote an unknown source - “the more June 5th June Votes counted you read, the more you know; 6th June Trustees take Office the more you know, the smarter you grow; Boards are elected for a 3-year term. If the smarter you grow, the stronger your interested, but unsure of what is involved, voice; please contact a current Trustee, or Principal, Richard McMillan. Quotes of the Week

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.” ― Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet in Heaven).

“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.” ― Stephanie Perkins (Anna and the French Kiss). This Term May

Wednesday 22nd Wanganui Secondary Schools Cross Country

Monday 27th Celebration Assembly

Thursday 30th BOT Election Day

June

3rd & 4th Queen’s Birthday Weekend (School Closed)

5th – 7th Peoples Saver Course (Rooms 4, 6 & 9)

Tuesday 11th Primary Schools Young Leaders Conference

11th – 13th Year 10 English Noho

Wednesday 19th June School Photo’s

24th – 26th Year 11 Camp

July

Monday 1st Teacher Only Day

Wednesday 10th Mufti Day- Cancer Society Fundraiser

Thursday 11th Celebration Assembly

Friday 12th End of Term 2

Supporting Your Child at • Allow your child access to books of high interest to them e.g. books from home, Home – Reading school library or town library. • Use sites such as www.readingeggs.co.nz • Listen to your child read regularly. In or www.sunshineonline.com.au. Years 1-2, they should have a book from

School - encourage and praise their efforts.

• Read to your child - this models the skills of reading for them.

Hockey Rugby

Last week we played the Freyberg High TAS 37 FREYBERG HS 07 School Mixed Team winning 10-4. The game started quickly with TAS scoring 3 11 May 2013 was supposed to be the quick goals. Freyberg fought back however start date for all secondary school’s and levelled the scores at 3-3 just after rugby throughout the land all except halftime. However some dominant play for us, TAS, who after many weeks of from the Taihape players converted gathering players had a few obstacles pressure into goals, with 7 more scored in our way like for instance the before the final whistle. numbers to field a full complimentary This was an excellent team performance, U14 or U16 team, Area School just with long periods of fluid, controlled, and didn’t have the population to do this mature hockey. Rowan Bradley, Bailey adequately and then with Ruapehu Nathan Max Sage, Kerryn Clark, and Josh College who formed the very Fellingham dominated the mid field, successful Northern Rebels rugby working hard, passing well, and creating team along with the TAS contingency countless scoring opportunities. Jonny were not to be in the mix this year. Sage demonstrated excellent positional play to score his hat trick, James Hamilton Of course being the mild, mannered scored his first goal with determined play and well balanced and now in the attacking circle. Gina Swanson, and experienced manager of a season past Amy Bradley worked hard on both attack calm and serene totally unflappable and defence, while James Morrison and person went into “Never fear Batman, Nicole Rees provided a secure backline. we will call in the A Team” mode and Although only the second game of the you guessed it the magic began. A season, this TAS Team shows considerable couple of txt to our HOD of sports and potential, and with significant room for “Bob’s your Uncle” we had the on-going development. beginnings of the Taihape Area School Summary U16 Rugby 2013. Taihape Area School 10 (Rowan Bradley, Josh Fellingham 3, Jonny Sage 3, James Hamilton, and Now as I stated in the first paragraph Bailey Nathan goals) defeated Freyberg High 4 11 May 2013 was the date for

Draw secondary schools rugby to start and TAS v Awatapu on turf 2 @ 4.15pm. we were to be playing U16 this of course did not Next Week TAS v PNBHS on turf 2 @ 4.15pm. eventuate as Rangitikei withdrew their team on the 11 hour and this information was received via txt, as All hockey information, including the draw and politics go this was cause for some results, can be found on the Hockey Manawatu urgent phone calls and some Website (path: - Competition - Draw/fixtures - explanations as we were also to find Secondary Schools - Monday draw). out that Ruapehu College would not be fielding a team in this competition as had been eluded too this left little using a large amount of intimidation to no competition for a TAS rugby on some of our smaller, lighter and team who had been training for weeks less experienced players were made to now, so for Area School our rugby pay time and again by the elusive looked bleak to DOOMED needless to captain Jesse Theobald and Robbie say TAS never got started. MacFarlane who continued to run and hit hard up front to allow the After some fierce phone conversations tries to keep building. Kamryn Mosen and emails to the rightful ears TAS getting a “hat trick” on his Manawatu got a deserved break and that came debut, Joseph Cowley making some from the Manawatu Rugby Union who fantastic runs and has a pretty good found no problem in allowing us to fend as well, Cully Noble who featured move from Wanganui Union to be part at halfback a position he is new too of their competition and it went showed he is able to get in there and without saying there was a HUGE what he may lack in sheer bulk sigh of relief and gratitude from The makes up for in aggression as does “A-team and some resounding shouts his pal Aaron Chapman another who of “SHOT” and “Chur” from some very is not to be taken for granted as he is despondent players. explosive and from the sideline this 18 May 2013, our new strip designed player shows he has no fear the by student Tohiora Gilly Barns finally saying “the bigger you are, the more unveiled looked awesome and this it’s going to hurt when I take you was going to be a day of many firsts down” comes to mind when you for TAS rugby. watch this dynamo. When it comes to line outs you need someone who is First time in Manawatu and our first accurate and can throw the ball game is against straight and to the intended player at Freyberg. I am going to say that a this along with consistency is what huge case of nerves and the fear of you can expect from a young Liam the unknown could be accountable Fellingham. The props are not the for our game. An absolutely brilliant glamour boys of the game you don’t start to our new beginnings came see them blazing their way up the within the first minute of the kick off paddock from the halfway mark but whistle with our captain Jesse you do see the strength and the grunt Theobald winning the ball and these boys have they are your power running in the first try of the game houses when it comes to packing and followed by a conversion from the down and it’s for this reason I very young Leo Wiki. acknowledge our newest and A stunned Freyberg High School youngest players Jack Fleury and which by sight looked to easily Antonio Wanihi who put in a great outweigh TAS by bulk and power were game even though they were the least to come back hitting hard and making experienced against a massive a right nuisance of themselves and Freyberg pack and showing that in most cases it is never wise to “poke a sleeping giant” Freyberg were A CHALLENGE for the week lads see eventually going to find this out. if you can use it at least once and if you don’t know the meaning ask Mrs. As the title says TAS had a great win Adams or consult a dictionary. and a first over the larger Freyberg side but the game was not as easy as Word is: AMORPHOUS the score suggests, there were many moments of absolute disjointedness Sports Results and it was very frustrating to watch, we made it hard for ourselves and FOOTBALL discipline is an issue that will need to be worked on as this was a huge TAS United Football has a loss of 8 /0 factor and made for a very ugly game. against . With 1 A reminder to ALL players any form of player short on the field and no subs disrespect which includes physical they never gave up. A tough game well and verbal abuse towards your team fought by TAS. mates, opponents, spectators, refs or management can and will have NETBALL consequences attached this also Senior A – played Feilding Ag High School applies to management/coaching and in cold wet conditions. After a slow start support we are a TEAM and the efforts of one can affect ALL. they managed to pull back to win by 10 goals. Final score - 21 – 11. I will finish here and will endeavor to encourage our TEAM to write up the MVP – for this game was Jess Elwin, who team report each week giving you played an outstanding defensive game. another’s perspective of the game. Well done 

See you all at training on Thursday Senior B – played Feilding Ag Snr Red, any concerns or issues or you just going down in a close game 19 – 16. want to say hi call in on our face book page Taihape Area School Rugby and Year 9 – played PNGHS 9B1 – with the leave a message and while there look final score 17 – 8. through the photo gallery of all games past and present, or you can TAS Navy played TAS Gold won 21- 6 txt/phone Shelley 027 455 0702 or TAS Ferns played Thunderbirds lost 17-0 leave a message for Jason at school. TAS2 played Country Mystics lost 30 -3

TAS1 played Country Pulse won 17-15

"The parents aren't monitoring that and Parents use Smartphones aren't even realising they are coming to like a Digital Dummy, say school tired." Heads This meant children sat in class yawning By Hannah Richardson BBC News, in and not performing at their best, and also that the teacher had to go over things Birmingham repeatedly.

Ms Hunter said parents of all backgrounds were making such mistakes, with some of them deliberately using smartphones in the daytime like a "digital dummy".

"It's a soother, it's a pacifier. They know it will keep them quiet," she added. Children and teenagers who use electronic NAHT vice-president Gail Larkin said she devices at night can be too tired to learn, thought it was sad that so many parents say heads arrived at school pick-up clutching their Computers and smartphones have mobile phones, and carried on talking into become a "digital dummy" used by them once they had picked up their parents to pacify their children, says a children. She said: "I just wonder who is head teachers' leader. talking to these children?"

National Association of Head Teachers' The comments came at the NAHT's annual president Bernadette Hunter said children conference in Birmingham, where the were left unmonitored in their rooms at association teamed up with charity Family night playing on electronic devices. Action to publish a series of leaflets offering advice to parents on school She said it was interrupting their sleep, readiness. leaving them too tired to learn. The leaflets recommend up to 15 hours' Primary school children needed at least 12 sleep a night for under-fives and at least hours' sleep, she added. 10 hours for primary-age children.

"Children are coming to school tired "It might seem obvious," said Ms Hunter, because they have stayed up late "but we have a significant number of watching TV or playing on electronic children who are arriving in school who devices like computers and PlayStations in haven't had enough sleep or they haven't their rooms," she said. had breakfast or they don't have the right equipment." 'Technology trouble' The leaflets also call for parents to "set aside time for talking - without being interrupted by phones, TV, radio, cream our science staff can eat so WE computer". NEED YOU! If you have any ice cream containers, please leave them at the office Ms Hunter criticised parents who allowed their children to be repeatedly late – they will be much appreciated. Thank because they were so disorganised. you, Harry Nichol.

"Children don't get themselves to school at this age - parents do, and if they are not organised and they're late then they miss their learning." Taihape Dance/Drama YUMMY APPLE Group “The Taihape Drama Group is hoping to PROMOTION re-ignite interest in this form of Culture/Recreation/Entertainment, and are It’s that time again to start very keen to involve new thesbians and provide quality coaching. collecting Yummy stickers for our

Wendy Revell has agreed to come back to chance for free sports gear. Taihape to Produce this Show making this a great opportunity to learn from a master. When you need more sheets see

Year 12 Students and every one above will Whaea Janice at the office. be considered for the stage.Back stage people are also needed. 'People Savers' First Aid Best wishes, Gill Duncan.” Course - Rooms 4, 6 and 9

Just a friendly reminder, as a follow-up Wanted from the newsletter sent out last term, that this course is running in early June for Ice Cream Containers Wanted the above classes. The $5.00pp please needs to be paid to the school office as The Science Dept. soon as possile, but by Friday May 24th at needs ice cream the latest if it hasn't been already. containers again to keep our myriad lots of bits and pieces in, such

as small bottles of chemicals etc for the students use in the lab – the old ones die and need to be replaced and there’s only so much ice Thank You

GUMBOOT DAY 2013.

Thanks to every student who participated in A3 paper gumboot, and decorate a real gumboot, and too all the teachers and parents for getting it done.

The quality of our entries was amazing and our entries were up too!

Thanks to everyone who helped set up the art competitions; an awesome group of helpers, Bronwyn, Curly and Samuel Troon, Nicole, Salem, Mary Strange and

Katene Peretini.

Thanks Warrick Greaves for making the stairs for the wearable art competition.

To yr 12 for supporting Rotary in Bekina Gumboot Throwing competition.

To TAS for lending me everything I needed for displaying art & wearable art entries.

To Colin Thomas and Darryll Hesketh for taking everything back to TAS.

This Iconic Taihape event started in 1985, every year it grows, next year’s

Gumboot Day will be March 8 2014. So get planning now for our art competitions.

A3 paper Gumboot, Decorate a Real Gumboot, Wearable art, Headwear and Taihape photograph. We have applied for funding to run a series of workshops, early next year.

Board of Trustee Candidates

At the close of Nominations last Thursday there were 8 nominations received for 5 positions on the Board of Trustees so a voting election will be held.

Voting papers will be mailed to parents and caregivers on Tuesday 21 May.

If you do not receive a voting paper and you believe yourself eligible contact the school.

This is a postal vote so your completed vote must be returned in the sealed voting envelope included. Do not put any other correspondence with the voting paper as the envelope is not opened until May 30th and is opened by the Returning officer.

These awesome people are the candidates.

Their profiles have been mailed out to voters and can also be seen on the notice board in the foyer at school.

Karen Meadows Tania Paki

Shari Chase Michelle Fannin

Andrew Fleury Davina Witika

Shelley Noble Allison Bowsher

Our Student Leaders

Kerran Clark

Manu House

Why you decided to become a leader:

I would like to take on a leadership role in 2014. I believe that being a house leader will assist me in reaching this goal.

Interests:

I like sports such as hockey, cricket, soccer and skiing

Aspirations:

I want to ski around the world and get a good career.

An interesting fact about yourself:

I once dislocated two shoulders at one time.

What would you like to achieve as a leader in 2013:

I would like to bring my house closer together. I would also like to be the winning house at the end of the year.