22 November 2023 Week 7 - Term 4

Principal's Message

Kia ora Koutou

We welcome Arthur to Team Ruru, welcome to our  Northland School community. 

Yesterday we had 23 students participate in the Interzone Athletics at Newtown Park with everyone feeling they tried their best, particularly our year 8’s who wanted to complete primary school competitions for the last time.

Today we have been grateful for the sun so the Year 1-3 Athletics could go ahead. Again it was great to have parents supporting children as they ran the cross country, then enjoyed a rotation of skills. Our Year 8’s students were fantastic support for the younger students and made sure they followed the route to return to the park safely.

We are farewelling a number of staff at the end of the year. Jane Batchelor, after many years of dedication to teaching and leading at Northland School is leaving to teach at Paparangi school. Fiona Valentine is making a move to Gisborne and has a position at Gisborne Intermediate. Emma Muirhead has completed her first two years of teaching with us and has a position at Kahurangi school. There will be opportunities to acknowledge all the contributions staff have made before the end of the year. 

We are currently recruiting for these positions and will be able to share our new staff with you in the coming weeks and will be appointing a Deputy Principal to join Judith and myself as part of the leadership team. 

We have planned our organisation for classes for 2024. We are currently developing our class lists and making sure information for a successful transition is well documented for the 2024 teacher.  

The school will be organised in the following way for 2024. We have ten classes and are now looking at the placement of teams in our buildings. We are hoping that Ruru iti will be able to return to Rooms 1-3 for the start of the year.

Year 0-3

Year 1

Year 1/2

Year 2/3

Year 2/3 

Year 4 - 6

Year 4

Year 5 / 6

Year 5 /6

Year 7 - 8 

Year 7-8

Year 7-8

Year 7-8

We are beginning to feel the end of year pace and to keep everyone informed of events or information about appointments we will have a newsletter each week for the remainder of the year.  

Please look at the calendar and events. Each team will be sharing highlights in hui and we will have a full school end of year assembly on December 15th at 9:30 am at the community center. We hope many parents will be able to attend.

As always if you have questions or concerns or would like to have a conversation about our school please get in touch.

Ngā mihi nui

Andrea

Board of Trustees

Northland School  Board of Trustees’ Election - Declaration of Parent Election Results

Parent Representative votes:

Gibson, Imogen                   50

May, Richard                         80

Phillips, Jacqueline             75

Invalid votes                            4

I hereby declare the following duly elected

Richard May
Jacqueline Phillips

 
Julia Truesdale

Returning Officer

We Need Your Help

Native Planting

Are you an experienced gardener or perhaps have some spare native plants, cuttings or compost/top soil? 

Northland School is in desperate need of some fresh native greenery to break up the vast amount of concrete. We would prefer smaller native plants/shrubs, however we aren't too picky on what they look like. Please help a small passionate group of Team Kākā turn this concrete bound school into a luscious green learning community. Let's do this!  Email lyndseyb@northland.school.nz to let us know how you can help us! 

Team Kākā would like to say a huge thank you to Mitre 10 at Crofton Downs who have donated us $150 worth of native plants for our school redevelopment project. Ka rawe! 

Pest Control

Our school is working on a project about pests in our area. This project is where we place different kinds of tracking tunnels and traps around the community of Northland so we can see what kind of predators there are in our surroundings. We are doing this so Northland can become a predator free community. We kindly ask that everyone please not touch the traps so that they do not get damaged or ruined, we also would appreciate any donations of cardboard boxes or corflute signs. If you are able, we would like a few traps donated so we can set them up around the school. Email rachelp@northland.school.nz for more information!

Sports News - Results

SCHOOL SHIRTS - Can all Northland School Shirts please be returned to the office, clean and ready for the next event, thank you.

Weetbix Tri-athalon

I have created a Weetbix Tryatholon school group, so please make sure to sign your student up through our school group. The tryatholon is on Sunday the 17th of March 2024. It's an engaging and fun event for kids of all ages. More information can be found here: https://tryathlon.co.nz/locations/wellington/ 

email   rachelp@northland.school.nz  

Interzones Day - What a fantastic Wellington day in the Fog - thank you to all our parent supporters for transporting and supporting our amazing Students.

A special congratulations to Roman who went to WZ and competed against other AWD and did very well by coming 3rd in his sprints. He had a great time and worked really hard.

Music Group

Our talented music group is nearing the completion of their latest cover album, a project that the children have dedicated themselves to throughout the year. This time, we are proud to announce that we are fundraising for the NZ Brain Tumour Support Trust. Keep an eye out for posters featuring a QR code for easy album purchases, which will be displayed in the coming weeks. Additionally, we will provide information on how to purchase the album through Bandcamp in our final newsletters of the year. We really appreciate your support and will be sure to perform a few of the my popular songs at end-of-year assembly.

Community Christmas Carols    Saturday 9 Dec  5pm 

All Welcome to the Northland Community Christmas Carols event at 5pm on Saturday 9th December at the Northland Community Centre on Woburn Road. 

This is a community event, the carols component of the event finishes at 5.45pm or you can stay on and enjoy the whole event until it finishes at 7pm. Refreshments and a sausage sizzle will follow the carol singing until 7pm.

Our Choirs will be performing from 5pm, this includes the Music group which will perform some of there songs from their album.

Library News

Library News

Scholastic Book Club Term 4 2023 - Issue 8 is out now!
Term 4 Issue 8 2023 catalogues have been distributed in your child's class. Deadline for orders is on 24 November .  Please note that we do not take paper order forms or cash payments - all orders are done online via LOOP. Please go to https://mybookclub.scholastic.co.nz/Parent/Login.aspx to register. 

Should you wish to gift the books you ordered to someone, please place your order then email Erwin so she knows.  When the order has arrived, she can then put it aside and get in touch with you so you can come and pick it up. Any other queries to Erwin Palado by emailing librarian@northland.school.nz 

Northland School Champs PB4L

We are Northland CHAMPs! 

We are excited to continue on our Positive Behaviour for Learning (PB4L) journey and make it visual around the school. Our values are a key part of what PB4L will look like at Northland School and will underpin decisions we make. To keep them front of mind, we have been able to make the perfect acronym to describe what we want to be. 

C - confident (whakamanawa)

H - hikohiko (active)

A - auahatanga (creative)

M - manaaki (kind)

P - pataitai (curious)

As part of our PB4L journey, we have been starting to talk about expected behaviour in different areas in the school. We have started with the playground, office and library, as well as talked about expected behaviour during eating time. We have made matrices of expected behaviour using CHAMP which will start to appear around the school. 

We want CHAMP to become part of our everyday school language as a way of acknowledging students. For example, being a classroom CHAMP, a library CHAMP, an athletics CHAMP or a friendship CHAMP. We look forward to encouraging many different types of Northland CHAMPs. Keep a lookout for our community workshop.

Home & School - Fundraiser Shop

We've registered with The Fundraising Shop  - We're excited to let you know we've registered our school with www.schoolfundraisingshop.org.nz  When completing online shopping, the shopper selects "Northland School (Wellington)" at the checkout and we receive 10% of the purchase price! So if you, family or friends are starting your Christmas shopping, or just tempted by great products, check out this website. They've got a great range from greeting cards to deodorant, gloves to clocks and lunch boxes to puzzles.
If you have any questions please contact homeandschool@northland.school.nz

BSC - Before School Care

Before School Care.  The cost from 7:30-8:30 is $10 or  from 8-8:30, the cost is $5. We are fortunate to be able to continue to provide this for you to make your mornings run well. 

Our Value Active- HikoHiko

Our quality is   Tact  

Tact is telling the truth kindly, with consideration for how your words will affect others. It is knowing what to say and what is better left unsaid. Tact is thinking before you speak. When you are tactful, you don’t tease or point out people’s differences to embarrass them. You are as careful about others’ feelings as you would like them to be of yours.

Term Dates

Term 4     Monday 9 October - Friday 15 December  12pm             TOD  24 November    Curriculum Refresh

2024 Dates 

Tuesday 30 January Open day for families from 1pm 

Term 1 Wednesday 31 January-Friday 12 April      TOD 28 March   

Term 2 Monday 29 April - Friday 5 July                   TOD 31 May 

Term 3 Monday 22 July - Friday 27 Sept 

Term 4 Monday 14 October - Wednesday 18 Dec

2 more TOD dates will be confirmed by the MOE 

Community Notices

Check out our  New Notice Board in the school office, come in out check it out !