Newsletter term 1, No 4

School Website – Don’t forget to check out our website. You will find newsletters and other information at www.coroglenschool.co.nz

Energizer – Briar from Energizer spoke to the junior room this week about sweet drinks and how much sugar they contain. She asked the children to put the drinks into order from lowest sugar content to highest sugar content as pictured, with interesting results.


Pre-Season get together – A reminder to all players and coaches about our Pre-Season get together again, this Sunday 3rd March 2013, at the Rugby Club, at 4pm. Please bring water bottles, mouth guards and rugby boots. See you there on Sunday. Please contact Teremoana Johansen on 021 1294 626 ir 869 5578 or email me at [email protected] if you cannot make it. Cheers Tere

Charity Trail Bike Ride - Can everyone please return their forms by tomorrow as a note will come home this Friday with the roster for the volunteers on Sunday 10th March. Thank you to those few who have already done so.

Bee Stings - Is your child allergic to bee stings? If so, please let the school know, so we can be prepared in an emergency.

Paid Union Meeting for Primary Teachers will be on Wednesday 13th March at 1.30pm. Please arrange for your child/ren to be picked up from the school at 12.30pm. We will let you know what time the school bus will leave school on this day.

River Hopping - for the senior room, is planned for some time over the next week or two. Parent supervision will be required, so we will let you know as soon as we have a date.

Marine Biodiversity - The senior room will be looking at Marine Biodiversity with Greg Pilcher from Coromandel Peninsula EMR over the coming weeks. This is also open to parents who are interested in coming along. There is a class pool session booked for Monday 11th March, followed by a trip to Hahei on Monday 18th March. If you or your child own their own snorkel and gear, please bring these along to the sessions. Snorkel gear will be provided if you don't have any.

Macadamia & Scarecrow visit - we are still waiting for some transport and permission slips to come back. It would be a shame if your child was unable to attend this visit because we did not have their permission to attend.

Kiwi Golf - Sam Woodham from Kiwisport Waikato was at the school on Monday introducing the children to golf. He will be running these sessions over the next few weeks.

Pictured is new entrant Aria Macdonald as she lines up the ball.

Kiwi Golf

Shontelle Catton tries for a hole in one

Having a bit of fun learning about golf on Monday.

Tyrese Melde if first up

Big swing from Mateo Niclas

Awa Illingworth has a swing

Scarecrow Star Signs

  

The entire school has been busy creating scarecrows to visit the Macadamia Orchard in Cathedral Cove this year during the Mercury Bay Art Escape. The theme is Star Signs, so the children have looked to the skies for inspiration.

Our first group putting together their scarecrow

Super Saggy the Sagitarius!

Sprinkle the Taurus!

Sprinkle under way

Nos Vedanias getting stuffed

Nos Vedanias the Scorpio!

Newsletter Term 1, No 3

Wednesday 20th February 2013

Hello / Kia ora

Pre-season turnout for Mercury Bay Junior Rugby. We would like to thank everyone who turned up for our pre-season rugby. It was an awesome day. Our next one is on Sunday 3rd March 2013, at the Clubrooms, from 4pm-6pm. Please bring water bottles, hopefully our mouth guards will be here by then and rugby boots.

Mercury Bay Junior Rugby AGM. The Mercury Bay Junior Rugby is having an AGM, on Tuesday 26th February 2013, at 6pm, at the Clubrooms. Please contact Teremoana Johansen (Secretary) 869 5578 or 021 129 4626 or email me at [email protected] if you can make it.

The Incredible Years parent programme (for parents of 3-8 year olds) will start on Thursday 21st February at Whitianga Social Services Centre, 2 Cook Drive from 9.30am to 12 noon. To register or for further information please contact Christine Thomassen on 866 4476.

Paid Union Meeting for Primary Teachers will be on Wednesday 13th March at 1.30pm. Please arrange for your child/children to be picked up from the school at 12.30pm. We will let you know what time the school bus will leave school on this day.

Technology Fees for Y7 & Y8 are now payable to Coroglen School. This covers material costs for the entire year. Fees are Y7 $38 and Y8 $45.

Lawns donations for 2013 are also due. This covers the mowing of the school field etc. throughout the year. $30 for one child at the school, $60 for two or more children.

Charity Trail Ride 2013 – Sunday 10 March. We still need volunteers to help set up on Saturday 9 March, as well as help with the Marshals, Parking and Catering. Please remember this is a major fundraiser for our school, and will be lots of fun!

Pupils in the junior room observe the Monarch Butterfly as part of their study on insects and their life cycle.

Don’t forget to check out the Facebook site 

Coroglen Charity Horse Trek.

Curriculum - This year our targets are around whole school writing (English) and place value (Maths). In the senior room we are writing every day. On Tuesday the students were asked to write for 15-20 minutes on a time when they felt brave. Some students found this challenging and they were told they could write about a time they would have to be brave. They came up with some amazing ideas. I especially liked Khan’s writing about a parachute jump.

Brave

I felt brave when I went sky diving. It felt like I left my tum behind me. I felt the cold breeze going on my face, a whistle in my ear. All I could taste was cold fresh air rushing in to my mouth. I opened my eyes and the cars looked like ants. It was a nice birds’ eye view. I felt the warmth of the sun beaming on my back. I felt like I had my head out the window of a speeding train. I pulled my parachute I was pulled up as my parachute opened. Then I waited while I drifted to the ground.

                               Written by Khan Simpson Hibbert

Have a great week.

Ka kite ano

Penny Anderson and the team. 

Newsletter Term 1, No 2

Thursday 14^th February 2013

Hello / Kia ora

School Website - Don't forget to check out our website. You will find newsletters and other information at www.coroglenschool.co.nz

Pre-season Rugby - The Mercury Bay Junior Rugby Club is running a pre-season rugby game at Lyons Park this Sunday 17th February 2013, at 4pm and finishing at 6pm. Please players come with water bottles, rugby boots, something warm to change into and mouth guards. Contact Teremoana Johansen (secretary) on 021 129 4626 or 869 5578 for information or we will see you on Sunday. There will be a BBQ afterwards. Information has already gone out to all the Coaches in regards to this.

Go Girl Triathlon - We have entry forms available for this event at the school.

Swimming Dates -The Peninsula Central Cluster Swim-Off at MBAS will be on Tuesday 12th March. 

Thames Valley Swimming will be on Tuesday 19th March.

Waikato Full Primary is Wed 20th March.

Newsletter by email – If you would like to receive our newsletter by email please send a message to   [email protected] .

Possible power outage – We have been notified that there may be a power outage on Tuesday the 19^th of February between   9.15 and 2.15pm. In this instance we would need to close the school for the day. Our water is pumped to the surface and requires power. I have been in touch with Genesis who are trying to get this changed to after 3pm or a Saturday. Update – the lines company is looking into providing us with a generator for our water. I will update you again as soon as I know for sure.

Curriculum – Both classes have been setting goals for the term. The senior students were asked to set 4 goals. - English, Maths, Organisation and Personal. After identifying their goals they then had to think about how they would achieve them. Finally they identified how they could assess whether they had achieved them.  The next step is to share their goals with you.

Homework – The students have homework every night. The seniors have spelling homework every week. They also have maths homework that should be done daily. They are brushing up on their times tables. Many students are also doing very well on the IXL site www.IXL.com  .Students can bring current events discussion starters. This can be from local papers or radio or TV news. At times the TV news contains graphic scenes and we understand that you may prefer that your child doesn’t watch the news.  

It is important that students bring their homework books every day so we can monitor the progress and add tasks. Students should be reading every night – set texts or library books.

Junior students have reading homework daily and some also have spelling words to learn.

Fundraising Team – Please find attached a Trail Ride Helpers Form – This is a major fundraiser for our school and has wonderful potential as a regular spot on the calendar. This year we have it on good authority that the weather is going to be great.

Please complete the form and return this week. If you do not fill it in we will put you in where needed. Thank you in advance from the Fundraising Team.

Please also check out the Facebook site Coroglen Charity Horse Trek.

Ka kite ano

Penny Anderson and the team.

The juniors looking up in wonder at their wonderful sunflowers grown from seed.
Thanks to Jessie for giving them some much needed water during the holidays.

Newsletter Term 1, No 1 2013

Thursday 7th February 2013

Hello / Kia ora

Welcome – We have begun the year well and everybody has grown over the holidays, Special welcome to Nixxon Kereopa who is five and has joined the Junior Room.

School Website – Don’t forget to check out our website. You will find newsletters and other information at www.coroglenschool.co.nz

2013 Term Dates
Term 1 11wks	Thursday 31 January to Friday 19th April. Waitangi Day 6th February - Easter Holidays –Good Friday is 29th March to Tuesday 2nd April.
Term 2 10wks	Monday 6th May to Friday 12th July. 31st May is a staff development day so school is closed. (Same as MBAS); Monday 3rd June is Queen’s Birthday holiday. i.e. a four day weekend– Friday—Monday.
Term 3 9 wks	Monday 29 July—Friday 27th September
Term 4 10 wks	Monday 14 October to Tuesday 17th  December. Labour Day is 28/10.

Thurs 31st Jan	First Day of Term 1
Friday 8 Feb	Technology for Y7&8 at MBAS begins
Wednesday 6th Feb.	Waitangi Day—school was closed
Tuesday 26th  Feb	Country Schools’ Central Swimming Sports—MBAS (Y4-8)
Wednesday 27th Feb	Bus Warden training with Constable Maryanne Kerr
Sunday 10th March	Trail ride – this is an important fundraising opportunity.
Friday 29th March-Tues 2nd April	Easter holidays
Friday19th April	Term 1 finishes

Swimming – All students at Coroglen have swimming every day. Please check that your child has their swimming gear at school daily. We would also ask that all hair is tied back or in a swimming cap. 

IXL-The senior students have access to a fun and educational maths review site. They have their own logins and their progress is monitored. They can access the site from any home computer. The site is adaptive which means the site will adjust to the individual child’s demonstrated ability level. If used regularly this programme has a proven track record lifting student achievement and understanding. www.IXL.com

Women’s Triathlon – Sunday 03 March. Entry forms are available from Te Korowai. 275 metre swim, 10 km bike ride and 2.8 km run. This is a fundraiser for a local health project.

Fundraising Committee – A huge thank you to Jessie Lockhart and Lloyd McQueen, for donating $1000. They ran the parking at the pub for two band nights. A great start to the year.

Please remember the 10^th of March for the trail ride. There is a slight track change that will mean there are marshals on the course this year for a road crossing. We will keep you informed about the jobs that need to be filled. This is a major fundraiser for our school.

The fundraising committee donated $5000 to the School. Great work everyone for a successful 2012. Let’s make 2013 another great year.  Fiona Illingworth

The staff and students of Coroglen appreciate the hard work the Fundraising Team do to help us fund our school activities. Kia ora. Thank you.

Ka kite ano

Penny Anderson and the team.

Year 8 leavers speeches

And now a word from our year 8 School Leavers

The Senior class perform

Then the Senior class sing "I'm yours"

and another song from the Senior class

Juniors end of year performance

The junior class sang beautifully at the end of year performance. Singing "Found a Peanut"