I am planning on doing papier mâché for Electives in a couple of weeks time. If you have any of the following that you don't mind donating, I'd be really grateful:
* toilet rolls (empty!)
* newspaper
* shoeboxes or cardboard boxes
* old plastic bowls
* wool
You can drop them off to me (Fiona) in Harakeke, or leave them in the Harakeke team space.
Thank you very much.
Fiona White
Our living newsletter
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Monday, May 13, 2013
Drop Off Zone - No Stopping Area
Just a friendly reminder that the drop off zone outside school is strictly a no stopping zone. It is imperative that this area is kept free flowing for it to work properly. If you need to wait for more than a couple of minutes, please park your car in one of the spaces provided. If there are no spaces available, you must park on Amesbury Drive - not in the drop off zone.Please help us to keep all our students and families safe.
Many thanks
Gail
Indonesian Evening at Amesbury School - A Johnsonville Rotary Club Event
The President of the
Rotary Club of Johnsonville extends a warm invitation to an International Evening – a
celebration of Indonesian music, dance and food.
His Excellence the Ambassador of Indonesia will be the
keynote speaker
Date: Monday
17th June 2013 at 7:00pm (arrivals 6:50pm)
Venue: Amesbury
School Hall
Cost: $25.00
per person
If you are interested in buying tickets, please email office@amesbury.school.nz with your name and number of tickets required. Details of how to pay and collect
tickets will be sent to you with confirmation of your request.
Noho Marae 2013
Kia ora,
It appears that a number of people have been having problems accessing the previous acceptance form for the Noho Marae. Instead of embedding the form on the blog, we have now included a link to the reply form.
Click here to access the form, then submit once completed. As we need numbers for catering, we would appreciate it if you could let us have this information as soon as possible.
Many thanks,
Crisanna
It appears that a number of people have been having problems accessing the previous acceptance form for the Noho Marae. Instead of embedding the form on the blog, we have now included a link to the reply form.
Click here to access the form, then submit once completed. As we need numbers for catering, we would appreciate it if you could let us have this information as soon as possible.
Many thanks,
Crisanna
Friday, May 10, 2013
2013 Trustee Elections - Nominations to Date
The following nominations have been received to date for the parent representative positions (nominations are listed alphabetically by surname):- John Bunting
- Steven Dunbar
- Mark Gilchrist
- Simon Law
- Lorraine Walmsley
- David Waters
Nominations close at 12:00 noon on 16th May 2013
An election will be held. Voting papers will be sent out by 21st May 2013.
An election will be held. Voting papers will be sent out by 21st May 2013.
Monday, May 6, 2013
School Trustee Elections 2013
REMINDER: NOMINATIONS CLOSE AT NOON ON 16TH MAY 2013!
Board Triennial Elections
– 30th May 2013
Our communities
need great boards to help build great schools
The Board of Trustees makes important decisions about a school's
strategic direction, student achievement outcomes, resources, staffing and much
more. Being a trustee is an important and rewarding role. Parents, families,
whānau and people from the wider community can all be trustees. We're looking
for a range of people with a variety of skills, experiences, and attributes who
believe in making a positive difference to our children’s learning.
Nominations forms have been posted out. If you have not received one
please contact the office.
The
Requirements of a Board Member:
Time requirements: There is generally one meeting per month. This
can vary from month to month depending on what projects the BoT is running.
Meetings are held in the evenings to take into account the fact that BoT
members also have other paid and non paid commitments.
Communication skills: Board members need to communicate their thoughts
and ideas in meetings. They need to have the ability to work within a group and
to work with other individuals on the board.
Governance: A need to understand the difference between governance and management.
BoT members need to be able to see the ‘bigger picture’ and be forward
thinking.
Finance and Business: It is not essential that every BoT member have
these skills. The BoT needs to have some members with these skills but we also
need to have members who have other life skills and expertise to bring to the
BoT.
Do board members need to have a child at the school?: They do not need to
have a child at the school to be a BoT member. Community members are welcome.
Training:Training is available for any BoT member and new members are
encouraged to attend these evening meetings to ensure they understand their
roles.
Commitment: The term for a BoT member is three years. It takes at least 6
months to understand the role and the issues that the BoT has to deal with.
If you can share
your skills, and you believe in making a positive
difference to our
children’s learning, you can be a trustee.
What have our teachers been up to?
Our teachers have been pretty busy getting out and about.....
MATT: This week Matt will be away for most of the week attending the Google Certified Teacher Course which is being held at Google in Sydney. It is a huge honour for him to be chosen as only 50 applications from around the world out of 500 were successful and Matt was one of them. Generally only 5 or so kiwis are chosen to attend. However, such was the quality of NZ applications this year that 9 New Zealanders will be attending. If you have not seen Matt's (one minute) application video, check this out....
Also, check out this fly through of Amesbury School that Matt put together for various presentations we have given.
DEMELZA, MATT, ANGELA AND FIONA presented at a Maths symposium on the last Friday of term. Their presentation was entitled: Maths@Amesbury: Exloring the Equilibrium. The team received very positive feedback from those who attended.
ANGELA, MICHAEL, MERRICK, LISA, FIONA, AMARIA, MATT and DEMELZA attended the Ignition Unconference held at Albany Senior High in Auckland on Monday/Tuesday of the first week of the holidays. This was an opportunity for them to gather with like-minded people and "chew the fat" about 21st century learning. Our teachers really enjoyed it and came away with some ideas that might assist our ongoing development at Amesbury School. Several teachers also presented sessions.
LESLEY and Whanau had a busy time over the holidays with the the wedding of son, Sebastian, to Jess. The wedding service was held at David and Cathy Waters' beautiful property on an almost perfect Wellington day and the reception was held at Amesbury School. It was a very special day.
On Thursday morning, LESLEY gave a keynote to the Wellington Kindergarten Headteachers' Hui where she outlined a framework for thinking about "humanising education." Lesley acknowledged that ECE has been strong in this area for a long time with their curriculum, Te Whariki, but gave a challenge to, "Do it more and do it more deeply."
LESLEY, URS and ANGELA travelled to Ashburton where they presented a keynote to about 200 mid Cantebury teachers, school leaders and educational consultants. They followed this by taking a workshop for interested attendees. People were very interested to find out about what we are doing here at Amesbury School. Lesley, Angela and Urs took the opportunity to spend a day looking around Christchurch and they were shocked at the devastation and how unrecognisable the city centre is.
LESLEY was informed over the holidays that she has been awarded a grant to attend the Asia Education Foundation National Conference in Melbourne. This conference takes place in August. She is really looking forward to attending and gathering information and ideas to help us become more "Asia Aware" as a school.
MICHAEL and CHRISSEY, moved into their first own home over the weekend. Needless to say, they are very excited and feel very grown-up all of a sudden!
CHARLIE (Matt and Jenna's son) continues to grow and he is even studying Te Reo Maori!
MATT: This week Matt will be away for most of the week attending the Google Certified Teacher Course which is being held at Google in Sydney. It is a huge honour for him to be chosen as only 50 applications from around the world out of 500 were successful and Matt was one of them. Generally only 5 or so kiwis are chosen to attend. However, such was the quality of NZ applications this year that 9 New Zealanders will be attending. If you have not seen Matt's (one minute) application video, check this out....
Also, check out this fly through of Amesbury School that Matt put together for various presentations we have given.
DEMELZA, MATT, ANGELA AND FIONA presented at a Maths symposium on the last Friday of term. Their presentation was entitled: Maths@Amesbury: Exloring the Equilibrium. The team received very positive feedback from those who attended.
ANGELA, MICHAEL, MERRICK, LISA, FIONA, AMARIA, MATT and DEMELZA attended the Ignition Unconference held at Albany Senior High in Auckland on Monday/Tuesday of the first week of the holidays. This was an opportunity for them to gather with like-minded people and "chew the fat" about 21st century learning. Our teachers really enjoyed it and came away with some ideas that might assist our ongoing development at Amesbury School. Several teachers also presented sessions.
LESLEY and Whanau had a busy time over the holidays with the the wedding of son, Sebastian, to Jess. The wedding service was held at David and Cathy Waters' beautiful property on an almost perfect Wellington day and the reception was held at Amesbury School. It was a very special day.
On Thursday morning, LESLEY gave a keynote to the Wellington Kindergarten Headteachers' Hui where she outlined a framework for thinking about "humanising education." Lesley acknowledged that ECE has been strong in this area for a long time with their curriculum, Te Whariki, but gave a challenge to, "Do it more and do it more deeply."
LESLEY, URS and ANGELA travelled to Ashburton where they presented a keynote to about 200 mid Cantebury teachers, school leaders and educational consultants. They followed this by taking a workshop for interested attendees. People were very interested to find out about what we are doing here at Amesbury School. Lesley, Angela and Urs took the opportunity to spend a day looking around Christchurch and they were shocked at the devastation and how unrecognisable the city centre is.
LESLEY was informed over the holidays that she has been awarded a grant to attend the Asia Education Foundation National Conference in Melbourne. This conference takes place in August. She is really looking forward to attending and gathering information and ideas to help us become more "Asia Aware" as a school.
MICHAEL and CHRISSEY, moved into their first own home over the weekend. Needless to say, they are very excited and feel very grown-up all of a sudden!
CHARLIE (Matt and Jenna's son) continues to grow and he is even studying Te Reo Maori!
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