KKPS Newsletter, Issue 6, May 13, 2016

Inspiring Learning
Akoana ki te Whakaara

Hone Heke Rd
Kerikeri
Phone: 09 407 8414
School txt: 0211242836
email: admin@kkps.school.nz
www.kerikeriprimary.school.nz

From the Principal...

Tn koutou katoa,
Welcome to Term 2 at Kerikeri Primary School.
Another busy term of learning is underway and it is
great to see the children and staff back refreshed and
ready to go! This term we welcome Miss Rebecca
Young who has opened a new entrant class in Room
9. We also welcome Mrs Denise Barrington who
is taking on the role of 'Targeted Intervention for
Accelerated Achievement' Teacher. This means Mrs
Barrington will be working with teachers and learners
to support new and innovative ways to accelerate the
progress of children who are not achieving desired
levels in Literacy or Numeracy.

Congratulations to our Kerikeri Primary School Lit Quiz

team who won the Northland Heat in the Year 6 Division
of the Annual National Lit Quiz Competition this week.

Accelerated Literacy Learning (ALL): This year we

are taking part in a Ministry of Education ALL initiative.
Mrs Rosemary Murphy and Miss Alice NicholsonByers are our ALL teachers. The Ministry of Education
is supporting them to adopt approaches to accelerate
learner progress. They are trialing these with a target
group of children, aiming to spread the successful
practices across the school and to ultimately support
all teachers in accelerating learner progress.

Our winners are: Lauren Jackson, Jade Sceats, Cameron Willis, Zoe Ackers, Analise Barnett-Moody and Joe
Lankshear.

ART ATTACK: We have scheduled a schoolwide

Visual Art focus for Week 4 Term 2 from Monday
23rd to Thursday 26th May. We will be creating a
range of artworks for the school environment and
would love your help. Managing large numbers of
small children with paint and art supplies is quite an
undertaking so if you have some time you can spare
to be rostered on to support a teacher and group of
children we would love to hear from you!

Please see Page 2 of this newsletter for more information on the upcoming cross country events and
other child-led initiatives that are happening on in
the school. Dont miss the Choc Chip Cookie Student
Leader fundraiserthey are raising funds to support
the purchase of unicycles for the school.

A big thank you goes to Mrs Sharlene Muller who guided these young enthusiastic readers into becoming
winners on the day. Sharlenes son, Andrew, was one of
the overall winners on the Kerikeri High School team as
well. Well done!

Have you got your tickets for the Nothing Trivial

Board of Trustees Elections: Nominations are open Evening and Not-so-silent Auction? 28th May in the
KKPS Hall. This is guaranteed to be a highly enterfor the Board of Trustees parent representatives. A
taining evening with delicious platters and refreshnomination form and a notice calling for nominations
have been posted to eligible voters. Nominations close ments available at the cash bar. Book a table and
make a night of it! Contact the office or PTA for ticket
at noon on Friday 20th May. They can be posted into
info.
the secure box in the office foyer.

You may even be keen to take small group of children

and produce an artwork with them. If you are able to
do either of the above, please do email Justine Strang
justines@kkps.school.nz and we will get back to
you.

Heoi an tku m nianei; thats all for now.

Andrew Read and the KKPS Team.

KKPS Newsletter, Issue 6, May 13, 2016

Senior Cross-Country
Kerikeri Primary School will be holding its annual senior cross-country
event at the Kerikeri Domain on Tuesday June 7 from 10:30am to
12noon. The course follows the edge of the High School fields, travels The Middle and Senior Teams of KKPS currently have a free trial of
along Hawkings Cres, goes along behind the Retirement Village, down Maths Buddy. Senior Team Leader Mr Michael Baty says the school
has now managed to secure a free trial until the end of Term 2.
Wendywood Lane and finally back onto the Domain.
www.mathsbuddy.co.nz. Maths Buddy supports the New Zealand
All children will come to school that
Maths Curriculum. It is highly recommended as a useful tool to support
morning as per usual and will walk
your child in Mathematics.
over to the venue just after 10.00 am.
Your child already has a username and password. Have you had a
Once there, Sports Leader Mr Dave
look? As we now have Term 2 free children will only need to pay $12
Kirkland says children will assemble
to continue Maths Buddy access in Term 3 and Term 4.
with their teachers and find their desigIf you would like to sign up you can either pay at the school office or do
nated spot. Races will begin from
it through online banking. Bank a/c 123-091-0080301-01. Include the
10.30 am. Spectators are most welwords Maths Buddy and your child's name in your payment.
come from 10.30 onwards.
Ages will be as of the 1 Jan 2016 with the following approximate startChoc Chip Cookie Craziness
ing times: 10.30am 8yr old girls; 10.45am 8yr old boys; 11am 9yr old
girls; 11.15am 9yr old boys; 11.30am 10yr old girls; 11.45am 10yr old
On Monday 23rd May, KKPS School Leaders will be going COOKIE
boys. Note: 7yr olds will be racing in the junior cross country scheduled CRAZY!
for Tuesday 14 June.
We will be running a cookie delivery to your childs classroom. Students
Grocery Raffle @ Nothing Trivial 4
will need to pre-order cookies which will cost $1.00 each. Your child will
need to bring $1.00 to their class by Wednesday 18th May.
The PTA would love to raffle a grocery box at this years Nothing Trivial We are only selling Chocolate Chip cookies which contain: Eggs, Sugfundraising event. This has always been a huge attraction at Nothing
ar, Butter, Chocolate Chips and Flour. In some cookies bags there will
Trivial events in the past. The PTA would really appreciate any grocery be a winning ticket!!
contributions.
If your child discovers one of these in their cookie bag they will go to
Rm 4 to collect their prize.
Rooms 1,2, 3
Baking goods and cereals
The money will go towards buying the cookie ingredients and all profit
Rooms 4, 5, 6, 7
Snack foods (chips, nuts, crackers, muesli bars)
The KKPS Unicycles Project (more to come on this).
Rooms 8, 9, 10, 12, Tinned foods
Thank you for your supportElla Parker, Sam Ashton and the KKPS
Rooms 13, 14, 15, Drinks (cordial, fizzy, water, tea, coffee etc)
Leaders!
Rooms 16, 17, 18, Pasta. rice, noodles, quick meals etc
WANTED - For KKPS Art Attack week: We want your
Rooms 19, 20, 21, Sauces, herbs, packet mixes etc
old pots, pans, buckets, watering cans, metal drums for an exciting
Rooms 22, 23, 24
Biscuits, lollies, chocolate
project. Please take all donations to Mrs Rebecca Thomas in Room 4
Please make sure the best before date is at least July 2017.
or Miss Claire Brooks in Room 17.
Items to be delivered to Miss Claire Brooks in Room 17 or Miss Davina
WANTED - As part of an exciting new learning opportunity Room
Derecourt in Room 26. Please DO NOT take them to the office.
10 and Room 17 are looking for a broken and unwanted X-Box, Play
Station or similar for our children
to dismantle and learn from. If
you have a gaming device you
no longer want or need we
would LOVE to have it. Thank
you Miss Nicholson-Byers Room
10 and Miss Claire Brooks Room
17.

KKPS LEGO CLUB

The Lego Club would like to
thank you for supporting the
Lego Raffle.
We are looking froward to starting the Lego Club and using the
awesome Lego we are going to
purchase with the money we
have raised. Thank you
The Lego Club Founders Liam
Parker, Benji Ellicott and
Marshall Den Boer.