Newsletter

21 May 2015

MANUREWA EAST SCHOOL

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Kahunui Camp
On Monday 18 May, 31 of our students travelled by bus to Camp Kahunui along with Mr.
Arthurs, Mr. Leilua and Miss Cox-Wright and parent helpers Mr. Rawiri and Mrs. Miller.
They are having a great time there in the Urewera, and I know that they will be very
excited to be in such a beautiful remote part of New Zealand.
Just a cautionary note to parents of students returning from camp. On Friday 22 May
when they return home, some staff will be down at the hall gate to assist with unloading
the bus and to ensure student safety. Please support staff and students as best as you
can.
Soccer Tournament
On Tuesday 19 May our school participated in the Manurewa Zone Football Day at the
War Memorial Park in Manurewa. It was organised by Mr. John Robinson, Principal of
Everglade School and was a really well run day. We entered two teams, one who had
played a bit of soccer and the other who had hardly played at all. The Tirst team was
third in Division One and our second team was fourth in Division Four. Unfortunately our
experienced players were at camp for this tournament.
Scooters
From time to time I hear that scooters have gone missing. We have provided the
students with good quality scooter racks. For the security of all scooters please name
them clearly and have locks for them. The school can not take responsibility for scooter
security other than that.
Road Safety
You may have seen the report in the media this week where a child was badly injured
while crossing the road near Takanini School. It was wonderful that a Sikh Indian man
used his turban to support the childs head through this very sad ordeal. However the
fact remains that cars travel too quickly around schools. We all need to remind children
not to run across the road. These messages need to be told to all children every single
day, by both parents and teachers or we will suffer a similar tragedy.

BOOK
CHARACTER
DAY!!
Thursday 28th May
M.E.P is holding a
book character dress
up day. Come to
school dressed as
your favourite
character from a book.
There will be a parade
where you can show
off your fantastic
costumes.
Date: Thursday, the
28th of May
Attire: Your favourite
character from a
book

Reading
With our focus on Reading this year we are encouraged by the fact that many parents are
behind us in supporting reading in the home.
Last night I ran a reading session to give some tips on how to help children to read. I may
run another session late in the year. We do have an amazing program at our school called
the Quick 60 program, and we have a number of teacher aides who use this program to
signiTicantly raise reading levels. Forty students will be undertaking this programme,
which aims to move students from 2 levels below their chronological age up to their
chronological age after they have read the 60 books in the program. Next year we will try
to have even more students participating. However like all reading programs, they are
more effective and successful when they are combined with reading in the home every
By the time students leave us
night, including weekends and holidays.
in Year 6 we want them to be
confident, inquisitive,
articulate problem solvers,
who can use a varity of
communication tools to make
sense of their world
MANUREWA EAST SCHOOL

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Acoustic Poems By B2
T is for the tallest giant that i've
seen.
H is for hairy and smelly nose hairs.
E is for elephant ears that are bigger
then a human
B is for big bald head
I is for incorrect spelling
G is for gobbiling snozzcumbers
F is for friendy all the time
R is for really rotton teeth
I is for I like the different characters
E is for every giant eating humans
N is for needs proper food
D is for dreamingthe dreams of
children
L is for liking to catch the dreams
Y is for yummy frogscottle
G is for grabing and stealing a
human for the first time
I is interesting giant
A is for allways doing the right thing
N is for nicest giant in the world
T is for tight clothes

21 May 2015

Health Curriculum
Health Curriculum consultation with parents 6.00pm Wednesday
3rd June with Kathlene Porter Deputy Principal and Phil Palfrey
Principal. All welcome.

BUDDY CLASS READING

B2 and E3 are lucky to be buddy classes, and every week we
meet to do something fun. This week E3 brought their book bags
and came to read to their buddy. The buddys job was to listen
carefully, help if needed and then ask questions about the book.
Some of the questions that we came up with where
- What is the characters name?
- Can you describe the character to me?
- What is the title of the book and where can you find it?
- What was a tricky word?
- Where did the story take place?
After E3 read so well, it was B2s turn to read to their buddy, and
B2s job was to read with expression. Both classes did an excellent
job reading

By Isaiah B2

T is for the very, very tight clothes that

he wears
H is for a hairy and smelly nose hairs
E is for elephant ears that are bigger
than his head
B is for big bald head that he never
washes
F is for farting out frogscottle
G is for grabbing and stealing a human
for the first time ever.
By Mason B2

MANUREWA EAST SCHOOL