TE RM 2

3rd June
Nelson Central School
200 9 We e kl y N e ws l e tt e r
Nga mihi nui ki a koutou katoa te whanau whanui o te The second was Rippa Rugby where one of our teams came
Kura Tuatahi o Whakatu – Greetings to friends and third.
family of Nelson Central School.
Alton Street
Ne w classes Many of you will know that the board of trustees has been
When we opened Renwick 3 in late February we thought working with the Nelson City Council on a plan to help
we had all the enrolments we were going to get for some make travelling to school safer for children. T he major
time. However, in April it became obvious that a new class problems occur in Alton Street in the mornings between
would be needed. At the start of this term we started a new 8:30 and 9 am and again in the afternoons between 2:45 and
class of five year olds in Room 10. Although pre- 3:15 pm. The board of trustees is considering a council
enrolments are not strong at present it is possible we will proposal to make changes in Alton Street. That will include;
have to open another class for five year olds during term 3 installing a speed hump at the entry and exit to Alton Street,
or term 4. putting curb and channel on both sides of the street,
reducing the number of car parks on the east side of Alton
Usually new enrolments would be more of a blessing than Street and introducing angle parks on the school side of the
a problem. However, we are short of suitable space in the street; parking restriction will be retained. A barrier will be
school and are having to do the best we can with what we erected on the curve from a point outside the main office
have. Room 10 is a smaller than desirable space but and continuing around the bend to a point near the last
T eressa Kundycki-Carrell is gradually bringing it up to house on the east side of Alton Street. There will be an
speed. opening to allow authorised traffic to enter the school
grounds. The street outside the main office will be narrowed
It’s just as well we managed to repair the doors and to encourage traffic to move along the street to angle park
windows and complete painting the exterior of the building drop off zones.
before we needed it for a classroom. Unfortunately it has
meant relocating two of our programmes to an even less Commenting on blogs
attractive part of the school. Thankfully we have patient Children are doing a great job of their blog sites as they
and accommodating staff. create records of their learning. T here is something families
can do to encourage them in their work – leave comments
How will we cope if we have to open another classroom? on their blogs. I know people find that harder to do than
The next space we will resort to is Renwick 1. We know say! However, here are four simple things you can do:
that is not an ideal sized space but we have made it a ♦ Leave a simple statement to say you visited the
comfortable, workable teaching space for a smaller group blog
of children. ♦ T ell children what you found interesting
♦ Comment on any pictures you see
The good news is that the Ministry of Education has made ♦ Make a suggestion about what else they could
funding available to create 90 m2 of classroom space. At have told you that you might have found
present board members David Gray and Eric Ripley are interesting.
working out how we can work within the financial and
property constraints to create the space we need. The board Inte reste d in Keas?
will do its best to avoid diminishing grassed and concrete Keas are for children boys and girls aged 5 1/2 - 8 or year 1
play areas. to year 3. It is 1 hour every week, during school terms. Kea
Scouts is based on a programme of Discovery, with heaps of
Found fun activities around a themed programme.
3 scooters have been found – if you have lost a scooter
please call at this office this week to claim it. If they A meeting with interested parents will be held on 11 June at
haven’t been claimed by the end of the week they will be 7pm at Iron Duke Scout Hall, (coming off Queen Elizabeth
passed on to the recycling centre since we don’t have the II Drive, turn into Wildman Ave, then turn right into
capacity to store items on a long term basis. Akersten St, follow the road right around until you go past a
motor boat engine shop, turn left into the carpark, and it’s
Sports succe ss
Last week we had children participating in 2 inter-school Our weekly newslett er is kindly
events. The first was the Interschool cross country held at sponsored by -
Brandford Park. We had several students take part. T HE DOC U M EN T COM P A N Y

7 0 N i l e S t r e et, N el s o n - Pho ne 03 548 497 2 - F ax 03 548 4483 - E m a i l s t a f f @ n el s o n c e n tr a l . s c h o o l . n z

Principal: tumuaki@ts.co.nz Secretary: secretary@nelsonc entral.school.nz BOT Chairman: Geoff Clark 545 8010 Website: www.nelsoncentral.school.nz
the building to the right of a green shelter). **Reminder **
If you require any more information regarding Keas, please
contact Bridget, on 547 0664, or email:
The money for
biddyandmikescouts@gmail.com
World Vision is
Te rm Eve nts
3 June – School Cross Country
due in this
4 June – Runanga Matua Hui at Whakatu Marae Friday.
5 June – Arbor Day & World Environment Day
8 June – World Ocean Day
10 June – ICAS Science
17 June – BOT meeting, School Library Piano and Keyboard
18 June – Human Rights in Education – information for Lessons
parents
23 June – ICAS Spelling & ICAS Writing Rosemary McIver
23 June – Choir Musical Evening Dip. Teaching A.T.C.L.
24 June – Matariki
Phone 5394009 to enrol
3 July – T erm 2 closes
for 2009
Dr Paul Potaka
PRINCIPAL
Push Play Families
Can anyone help?
Whispering Falls Walk
We are hoping that local businesses can **REMINDER** **REMINDER**
donate raffle prizes to go in a raffle at SUNDAY, 7TH JUNE 2009
the choir concert in a few weeks to raise
money for the music department. The All Central School families are invited to join us on a walk to
theme for the concert is NZ / Nelson so Whispering Falls . Meet at the Hackett Picnic Area, at the
end of Aniseed Valley Road (left off the main road at Hope)
any local produce would be great.
at 10.15am. The walk is 1½ hours each way with a stop at
Please Contact Kathryn on 5457009 or the waterfalls picnic area for lunch. It’s a well graded walk
school office. with a few bridges & a long swing bridge, which the kids
find quite cool. Bring good footwear, your lunch and water.
After School Care
Any further info
required phone Kathryn
Chipmunks Nelson has
5457009
spares for afterschool
care. The cost is Postponement date if
$5.50 per hour. Please wet - 14th June.
call Jo Rose on
5487055 or email nelson@chipmunks.co.nz

Social Skills
How do We React to Conflict?
As part of our social skills programmes all classes are discussing
conflict management skills that create win/win situations
for students, teachers, parents and caregivers.
When involved in a conflict there are various responses that are adopted.
The three main responses are:
Denial Aggression Problem solving
 Inter School Cro ss Count ry

Last week a team of 44 y ear 5 and 6 students attended the Inter Sc hool Cross Country
Championships held at Branford Park. Sc hools attending were Central, Hira, Auc kland Point,
Hampden Street, Clifton Terrace, Vic tory and St Josephs. Conditions were perfec t and the teams
raced over a c hallenging 1.5km c ourse through different terrain, ditc hes and over fences. All the
runners performed extremely well and were a c redit to the sc hool. The following runners finished
in the top ten of their sec tion:

Year 5 girls Year 5 boys

3rd Joey Vining 3rd Dev on Blac kbourn
4t h Ella Middleton 6t h Nic Clark

Year 6 Girls Year 6 Boys

5t h Tay la Hampton 6t h Callum Wilkie
7t h William Wallac e
Many thanks to all the parents/c aregivers who transported the
children to and fro m the event, for taking photos and for
supporting them on the day . Thank y ou to the parents and the
boy s from roo m 2 who helped with the setting up and
dismantling of the c ourse. Your help was inv aluable.

NELSON MINIBALL – TERM 2 2009

Games are 12 minute halves. 1 minute half time . Substitutions can be made on any whistle.
Afte r a baske t is score d the playe rs must go back to half way be fore picking up their player.
An automatic 2 points is score d if a player is foule d while shooting. Playe rs must defend the opposing player who
is wearing the same colour band. If a playe r is on a fast break to score a basket the ne arest colour band may
de fend this player. Players must then pick up their own colour band after stopping the fast bre ak.
FULL CO URT: T he same rules as above for T erm 2.
5 JUNE 2009
Time COURT 1 - TOWN END Time COURT 2 – RICHMOND END
3.45 STOKE SHOOTERS – EG MINI GIANTS 3.45 NAYLAND DEV ILS – CENTRAL SPURS
4.15 CLIFTON TERRACE – HAMPDEN ST MINI 4.15 ST JOSEPH’S WILDCATS – VICTORY
GIANTS
FULL CO URT
4.45 BIRCHWOOD JUMPERS – TA HUNA NUI GIA NTS

5.15 HAMPDEN ST COUGARS – BIRCHWOOD GIA NTS

5.45 NAYLAND BLUE SA INTS – EG SHORT BLACKS
6.15 HAMPDEN ST HOTSHOTS – HA MPDEN ST DAREDEV ILS
6.45 EG ALL STARS – TAHUNA NUI DUNKERS
7.15 NAYLAND GIRL POWER – STOKE TUMEKE
CENTRAL SLAM – BYE
 Netball Year 6 WEEKLY SPORTS RESULTS
DRAW FO R 06/06/09 Week ended 31st May

Venue/T ime T eam 1 T eam 2 Nelson Schools Cross Country

League
Nelson Central Sting *BYE* Race 2
Ct11 8:30am. Clifton T errace Cheetahs v Henley Flames Primary Boys
11th David Zohrab
Ct8 9:25am. Brightwater Emeraldz v Henley Stings
16th Devon Blackbourn
Ct11 9:25am. Murchison Flyers v Hampden Street Flames 20th Tom Zophrab
Primary Girls
Se ction Three DRAW FO R 13/06/09 14th Hayley Goldthorpe
Venue/T ime T eam 1 T eam 2 18th Aimee Hobbs
League Standings
*BYE* v Hampden Street Flames
Primary Boys: Ne lson Central 3rd
Ct10 8:30am. Brightwater Emeraldz v Clifton T errace Cheetahs Primary Girls: Nelson Central 7th
Ct12 8:30am. Nelson Central Sting v Henley Flames Netball
Central Sting - No ga me due to Queens
Ct9 9:25am. Murchison Flyers v Henley Stings Birthday
Central Magics v Ranzau A. Magics
Nelson Netball won 3-2.
Se ction One DRAW FO R 03/06/09 Player of the day: Victoria McLaren.
Venue/T ime T eam 1 T eam 2 Central Stars v St Joes Monkeys.
v Mapua & Districts Minie Saint Joes won 10-0.
Ct7 3:45pm. Enner Glynn All Stars Players of the day: Oonagh Graham,
Mighties
Pearl Philavong.
Ct9 3:45pm. Nayland T actix v St Joseph's Monkies Central Stars won Subway vouchers
Ct6 4:25pm. Brightwater Rock Stars v Richmond Ferns for team of the day.

Ct9 4:25pm. Nelson Central School Magics v Nayland Mini Ferns Miniball
Se ction Three DRAW FO R 03/06/09 Central Spurs - No ga mes due to
Under 19 Nationa l Cha mps
Venue/T ime T eam 1 T eam 2
Ct2 3:45pm. Wakefield Primary Force v T ahunanui Keas Soccer
No soccer due to Queens Birthday
v Nelson Central School
Ct5 3:45pm. Henley Diamonds
Stars NELSO N SCHOOLS
Ct8 4:25pm. Birchwood Stars v Richmond Shooting Stars CROSS CO UNTRY LEAGUE 2009
A series of 4 races held on Saturday
Ct10 4:25pm. Hope Hurricanes v Stoke Comets afternoons
Se ction One DRAW FO R 10/06/09 Primary School boys and girls - 1km
Venue/T ime T eam 1 T eam 2 Intermediate (Yr.7/8) boys and girls -
Ct3 3:45pm. Nayland T actix v Nayland Mini Ferns 2km
v Mapua & Districts Minie College boys and girls - 3km
Ct12 3:45pm. St Joseph's Monkies
Mighties
Race 3 : Saturday 6th June ,
v Nelson Central School Saxton Field
Ct8 4:25pm. Brightwater Rock Stars
Magics Race 4 : Saturday 13th June ,
Ct9 4:25pm. Enner Glynn All Stars v Richmond Ferns (venue to be confirme d)
All races start at 3pm.
Se ction Three DRAW FO R 10/06/09
Venue/T ime T eam 1 T eam 2 Registration not required. No entry fee.
No limit on numbers from each school.
Ct5 3:45pm. Nelson Central School Stars v Richmond Shooting
Trophies awarded for all grades.
Ct6 3:45pm. Birchwood Stars v T ahunanui Keas
For more details phone Dave on 547
Ct7 3:45pm. Henley Diamonds v Stoke Comets 1699 or email dixond@clear.net.nz
Ct2 4:25pm. Wakefield Primary Force v Hope Hurricanes