RD5 Ashburton Phone 303 6214 027 3209802 www.mayfieldschool.co.nz email:principal@mayfieldschool.co.nz Mayfield School Newsletter 15th October 2014 Dear Parents and Community members, Principal’s messages: Welcome back to Term 4. Hopefully you and your children managed to spend some quality family time together in the holidays. This term is another busy one. We have the Life Education caravan visiting us this Friday and next Monday. We have started practising both for Athletics which will be at Hinds schools on Tuesday 28th October and the end of year production, the Button Box. You can help us by encouraging your child(ren) to practice their lines and songs at home. Later in the term we have a week of swimming for both the Juniors and Seniors and the Room 2 camp which is on the 10th and 11th November. In the holidays the staff were involved in professional development. We met with outside facilitators to look at our school curriculum to review what we are doing and the way forward in the future. We also looked at our how well we are incorporating information technologies into our classroom programmes and how we can improve in this area. This term we require children to wear a wide brimmed hat. We have sunscreen available in all classrooms. From now on our school newsletters will come out fortnightly. We will still continue to communicate via email about important events. Individual class notices will still go out as usual. Kind regards Richard Kidd. Principals Awards Week 10 Term 3 2014 Room 1- Week 10- Kimberly Mallari-excellent presentation in her English Room 2 – Week 10- Nicholas McDowell-working well as part of a team to get the job done. Room 4 – Week 10- Hannah Kidd-being a valuable team member in Room 4-always making good choices. Room 5- Week 10- Nico Rejas- for the great effort you have put into your work. A great week for you. Well done to these children, they have lived up to our HEART values in the last week. Pictured with Miss Bunting is Jill Ludeman who was the winner of the Room 2 Instant Kiwi fundraiser. Thanks to the wonderful fundraising efforts of the Room 2 parents over $900 has been raise for their camp in November. IMPORTANT DATES 15th October 20th October 21st October 21st October 27th October 28th October 4th November 10th November 14th November 17th November 23rd November 24th November 12th December 15th December 16th December Year 7 and 8 manual BOT mtg @7pm Kids can cook visit Home & School Meeting 1.30pm Labour Day Athletics Day - pp 30th Oct (more information closer to the time) Counties Athletics (for those who have qualified) PP 5th & 6th Room 2 Camp @ Peel Forest Eco Lodge (2 days) Christchurch Show Day – NO SCHOOL Junior Swim Week in Ashburton (pm) 17th – 21st Home & School Family Portraits for Christmas – more info to come. Senior Swim Week in Ashburton (am) 24th – 28th Button Box Production 1.30pm & 6.30pm Final School Assembly and Awards @ Mayfield Hall - Everyone welcome! Final Day. Half Day. Kids can Cook Next Tuesday we have Kids can cook visiting our school. The kids can cook programme is about providing a fun and educational lesson on cooking local, regional and seasonal foods. Children will be involved in hands on activities and even get to taste the food. House for Rent: To rent in the Mt Somers/ Mayfield area a comfortable 3 bedroom country house. It has 3 living areas, double garage and access to farm buildings. It has lovely views. Enquiries to Sarah Gallagher on 02102231522 or 0210561616. Images from the Sharing Assembly Last Term MID TERM BOARD OF TRUSTEES ELECTIONS There are 2 positions available for this election. Fixed Election Dates Event Date Close main roll October 14th, 2014 Call for Nominations from October 16th, 2014 Close supplementary roll October 28th, 2014 Nominations Close October 30th, 2014 @ 12 noon Voting Papers Sent by November 4th, 2014 Voting Day November 13th 2014 close @ 12 noon Count Votes November 19th, 2014 Board Takes Office November 20th, 2014 If you have any questions regarding these positions please feel free to contact the current board members. Brent Austin 3025650, Abby Homer 3036391, Mike Farnell 3036070 & Mark Williams 3026083. Ski club – please remember to return your ski vests to the school office ASAP. *****MUFTI DAY 24TH OCTOBER***** PIE WARMER – This will be operating on Fridays only for Term 4 2014 and Term 1 2015 2014 Junior Cricket - It is not too late for anyone interested in playing Junior Saturday cricket. Anyone interested in playing, can contact Richard McClea of the Coldstream Cricket Club at rmcclea@vodafone.co.nz or 308 2329 The Coldstream Cricket Club provides cricket for junior players south of the Ashburton river and will have teams in the following Saturday (hardball) grades; 4th Grade Years 7 & 8 - played in the afternoon th 5 Grade Years 5 & 6 - played in the mornings 6th Grade Years 4 & 5 - played in the mornings,anyone interested in “Have a Go” cricket which uses the coloured plastic balls and bats can also contact the above address and if numbers are sufficient we will arrange a suitable time and venue. This caters for first time and younger players (years 2-4). BEGINNERS GUIDE TO ATHLETICS! Each year the combined school athletics are held down at Hinds School. There are many schools participating on this day which makes this a very busy day. Here are a few tips to help make your day run a bit easier… # There is a timetable and a map of where each event will take place and a sports card for each child participating to keep track of how they have done. This will be sent home with your child the day before athletics. # There are no buses running on this day. Parents are to transport their children to and from the event and are responsible for your child/ren throughout the day. # You can get to Hinds school by taking the Lismore Mayfield Road all the way till you come to Fountains Road and then turn left. Follow Fountains Road until you get to Hinds Lismore Road and turn right. This will take you into Hinds and you will see the school on your right. # Mayfield School will have our banner there so you can put all you bags etc by our next to it when you arrive so this way you will know where everything is come morning tea and lunch time. # Children must be in the Mayfield School Sports uniform which is the Mayfield Sports Top (handed out the Friday before), navy shorts and sports shoes. Sometimes the weather can be changeable so bring something warm as well as sunscreen and a hat. # Remember to bring morning tea and lunch for yourself and your child/ren. Hinds school will be running a BBQ so you can buy some lunch there but this must be done before the sports start in the morning. You will be issued with a ticket to confirm your order on collection at lunch time. Bring something to sit on as the ground may be damp and don’‛t forget to bring water for your child. # Sports starts at 9am sharp and is finished by 3pm. This is a family day so grandparents etc can come along too! Good luck to all the children participating and have a great day.