11 March 2019 Safety at the School Gate
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Safety At The School Gate COMING UP Every Thursday, Travelwise Reps are acting as Parking Officers and handing TUE 12 MARCH out postcards they have designed to remind you to park legally and keep us Plant to Taste Room 11 safe. 9.00am – 12.30pm Year 6 Water Safety at Unfortunately four postcards were issued last week and some dangerous MISH manoeuvres were observed. WED 13 MARCH Year 3 and 4 Swimming Please keep us safe at the school gate. Lessons Rooms 12, 13 qnd 14 Road Safety – Scooterwise Plant to Taste Room 19 9.00am – 10.30am THU 14 MARCH Year 3 and 4 Swimming Lessons Year 5 Water Safety at MISH FRI 15 MARCH Room 14 Water Safety at MISH Year 4-6 Zone Day Tennis Tournament Save Day – selected students MON 18 MARCH Rooms 14 and 7 Swimming Lessons commence Year 5 and 6 Bike Safety Year 3-6 Swim Trials at MISH – registered students only TUE 19 MARCH Rooms 14 and 7 Swimming Lessons Plant to Taste Room 12 9.00am – 12.30pm Year 5 and 6 Bike Safety WED 20 MARCH Rooms 14 and 7 Swimming Lessons Plant to Taste Room 20 9.00am – 10.30am Year 5 and 6 Bike Safety NUMBER 6 11 March 2019 Emails to Staff School Pool Closed We have been reviewing our email communication guidelines across the Due to unforeseen school. In the context that we want to ensure the very best for staff well circumstances we have had to close the school pool until being, we want to make sure that all staff have the opportunity to have a work life balance. Therefore we ask that you respect the following protocols, Wednesday this week. in the context that this should enable high quality communication between The lessons will be made up on home and school. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week. All parents have access to teachers’ school email addresses at the start Rooms 14 and 7 will start their of the year. wimming on Monday 18 March In view of staff well being emails should be sent to staff inside working and finish on 27 March. hours. This means before 5.00pm or after 7.30am on weekdays only. Emails will be answered by the teacher within two school days. For anything urgent, parents can phone the school and the office will direct the message/call to the teacher or appropriate staff member. NB: classroom teachers cannot take phone calls while teaching, but the office can get messages to them that are urgent. Please contact the office to pass messages onto your children. Teachers Sporting Highlights are teaching during the school day and are unable to ensure any information received via email can be given to your child on that same day. Cricket see page 7 Any email longer than two paragraphs may result in the teacher making a time to meet with you. (A suggestion is that if the content of your email is longer than this, it might be a good indicator that a face to face meeting is timely). Sensitive issues and information can be difficult to communicate via email. As an alternative we will call you or invite you in for a meeting. Any abusive, discriminatory, aggressive or inappropriate emails will not be tolerated. Staff will not reply and instead, they will forward these to senior management. Emails are only one tool to provide equitable opportunities for families and teachers to build positive partnerships to support students and their learning and development, we also have: ‘Getting to know you’ meetings in January ‘Next Steps’ meetings with the teacher twice a year Yachting see page 8 Phone calls Class and school newsletters Additional scheduled meetings Before/after school visits to the class Parent help for sports/cultural groups Team learning celebration events for inquiry School trips Parent information sessions NUMBER 6 11 March 2019 Industrial Matters: Teachers 2019 TERM DATES In the context there has been no resolution to the negotiations between the primary teachers’ union (NZEI) and the Ministry of of Education, the union has TERM ONE called for teacher members to attend paid union meetings during the week 18 - 4 February – 12 April 22 March. TERM TWO 29 April – 5 July In order to reduce disruption to schools the union will be holding a series of TERM THREE meetings in our area. This means teachers will go to meetings at different times during the week meaning it will be straightforward to cover their absences. 22 July – 27 September Hence, the school will remain open at all times during the week of 18 - 22 TERM FOUR 14 October – 19 December ANZAC Commemoration PROFESSIONAL The commemoration will be held from 9.30 am on Friday 12 April DEVELOPMENT DAY on the netball court and in the hall if wet. All members of our community are very welcome to attend. Campbells Bay School is part of the Mid Bays Schools’ Cluster of Schools (Kahui Ako) that includes all state schools from CBS to Browns Bay and includes Murrays Bay Intermediate School and Rangitoto College. The intention of this Ministry of Education approved grouping is to increase communication AN AMAZING EVENT FOR ALL STUDENTS FROM YEAR 0 TO YEAR 6 AND THEIR amongst the schools in order to FAMILIES. learn from one another and to Timed Run Ticket Registrations closing 17 March (this Sunday). achieve as seamless a pathway as possible through the 2 weeks left to enter you and your family in the Fun Run. compulsory education sector for Amazing prize up for grabs for the best dressed up family: students. One of the ways of 2 nights stay at Tongariro Chateau. Breakfast included and a rental car. doing this is through the annual Campbells Bay School has been involved with the Shore to Shore Fun professional development day Run/Walk since 2004 and will be participating again in the Shore to Shore Fun that brings all staff together for Run/Walk on Sunday 31 March, 2019. intensive professional This is John McGowan’s last year participating in the event as principal of the development sessions so school. He has volunteered to meet all the students and their families at the everybody hears the same finish line. If we meet our goals he will also dress up for the students. messages. This year we have a target of 1000 entries. Watch this space for more This means that on Friday 31 information and surprises. Entries are now open; you can register and find May (the Friday before Queen’s further information at http://shoretoshore.co.nz/register/ Birthday Weekend) the school will be closed. Free Sausage Sizzle & Drink Station for all CBS Whanau participating in Shore to Shore, thanks to Kris Cunningham & Jonny Broderick. As required by law, we will meet our obligations to be open for the The Cunningham and Broderick Families will be back again for the 4th year requisite number of days in 2019 running, kindly sponsoring a free sausage sizzle and juice and water stations at as this professional development the finish line for all of our wonderful CBS Whanau. This will be their biggest day was factored into the year yet, with over 1000 entries as the target, that’s a lot of sausages!!! Luckily calendar when the calendar was they will be supported by a crew of our amazing teachers and Mr McGowan created for this year. himself may even be found manning the BBQ!! NUMBER 6 11 March 2019 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 2019 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. WELCOME To the following students who have started at Campbells Bay School: Violet Winter, Jamie Winter, Leanne Rojen The 2019 Board of Trustee elections are to be held in June this year. Campbells Bay School will be looking for five parent representatives and one staff representative for a three year term. We would like to really encourage our school community to participate in this election. You are warmly invited to attend the next Board meeting held in the Conference Room at 7.30pm on 27 March if you are interested. Information will be available on the role of a trustee and what skills are involved in the upcoming school newsletters. Please make sure that the office has your current address details as all nomination and voting papers must be posted home. Kind regards Karen McNair - Returning Officer NUMBER 6 11 March 2019 Bikes, Scooters and Helmets At CBS we expect children and parents to wear helmets when riding their bikes and scooters. Our Travelwise Reps will be out and about checking to see if you ride bikes or scooters to school you are wearing your helmets. Please do not ride your bike and scooters around sneaky corners at CBS. Get off and walk your bikes and scooters and keep yourself and others safe. Constable Murray Fenton is working at CBS and checking that scooters and bikes are safe. He is also checking to see helmets are worn correctly. Constable Fenton says, “Wear your helmet. Wear your helmet right.” Keep yourhead and brain safe.