PRINCIPAL’S AWARDS Our Principal’s Awards are currently focusing on the following:I am powerful... - I can think about overcoming
challenges
- I am excited about new
learning and I challenge
myself
- I do not give up
- I understand that not
knowing is good
- I take action
- I can make decisions
about my environment
(sustainability)
Autahi and Tautoru Konrad, Oliver, Phineas, Sasha, Dylan, Eloi, Rhosyn and Ridley. Matariki and Mahutonga Alba, Bella, Daisy, Gemma, Isaac and Sophia.
Updated Letter from Stephanie Hayes' ParentsDear Worser Bay School families It’s been just over a year since Stephanie was diagnosed with leukaemia (a type of blood cancer). She is responding well to treatment in the Maintenance phase and still has regular hospital appointments and medication. It’s been a very challenging year for us. Thank you so much for your support – thanks for the parcels and cards while we were in Christchurch; thanks for organising and supporting The BFG movie fundraiser; thanks for joining in Wig Wednesday. We have drawn strength and built resilience from the school and the wonderful adults and children within it. The WBS community has a lovely caring spirit and supportive attitude. Huge thanks to all of you. Thank you also for being so vigilant about your children’s health at school and keeping the school informed of illnesses. It means so much to us. Steph was at school for virtually all of term 3 – she went to the disco and the year 3/4 sleepover – both events that she missed earlier. Please remember that Stephanie will continue to have low immunity for the next one and a half years. Lowered immunity means she is more susceptible to illness than other children. In particular, chicken pox, measles and the flu can have serious consequences for her. Please continue to notify the school immediately if there is chicken pox, measles or flu within your family. It's very important that you do not send your child(ren) to school if they are unwell. Many thanks again for your ongoing support. We’re very much looking forward to seeing you at the school fair this year!
Kind Regards Cath Peebles and Dave Hayes (Stephanie's parents)
Measuring  We have started to explore measuring. We discovered you can use lots of different things to measure with. There are lots of times we need to be able to measure - when building, cooking, painting and loads more! Powerful Learners We spent a lot of time this week discovering and practising what it really means to be a learner! Have a look at our blog to find out more!
 We have been involved in a story project called Travelling Tales. This time we wrote the beginning of the story, then it was sent off to a school in Luxembourg and then to Island Bay School, then to Luxembourg and then back to us. Watch and listen to the story on our blog. Haiku On Tuesday Shona's literacy group joined forces with the Earth group. We worked on counting syllables and reading haiku poems. We spent time outside with a buddy to write our own. Check out the blog for more examples. Bark ChipsBrown crusty light Millions and millions Lost in a group by Hunter T, Pyrenees and TaigaMystery Skype with Bailey Road School This was lots of fun. Read Liam and Hadley’s post on our blog.  We skyped with Chrissy and Nyala this week. We were all excited to meet the baby!
Diwali We have been learning a little bit about Diwali and wished Bukit Timah School in Singapore a “Happy Diwali.” Students from Worser Bay shared how they celebrated Diwali. Read these on our blog.
International Friendship Day 2017  In October, Nicola visited Singapore as part of an Asia NZ Foundation delegation. Nicola visited Bukit Timah School. Worser Bay School have continued to connect and collaborate with Bukit Timah. Inspired by the way that Bukit Timah School celebrate culture and diversity, Worser Bay are going to celebrate International Friendship Day next year. "International Friendship Day" is celebrated in Singapore. This day is dedicated to the understanding of Singapore’s relations with its neighbours and aims to nurture the spirit of friendship and collaboration among different people. International Friendship Day is celebrated in schools in Singapore in April. Worser Bay School will celebrate International Friendship Day in 2017 and have started a project for 2017. Schools around the world will make short movie about their country and culture. Schools have signed up from across the globe. The schools that have signed up are from: Ireland, England, USA, Canada, Moldova, Trinidad, Singapore, Thailand, South Korea, Canada, Luxembourg, Australia, Philippines, China, Romania, Taiwan, The Gambia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Morocco, United Arab Emirates and Japan. Our students have been designing logos for international Friendship Day. Students from Auroa School in Taranaki have also been working on logos. Watch this space...
Dress Up Day On Monday part of the Social Group of the Student Council organised a Dress Up Day to celebrate Halloween. Have a look at the blog to see a video that Charlie and Evie made to remember the parade. Learning about Money
We have been learning about how money works and some basic principles of economics; want and need, supply and demand, profit and loss and so on. The ideas and concepts related to money have been processed and turned into diagrams to represent the ideas. We have then been teaching others in the class about what we have learnt. These are some of the diagrams we have made.
Scarcity and Choices Flow Diagram Mahutonga/Matariki InquiriesBusiness Time We have launched into a new Inquiry "Business Time", looking at how money works and asking the question, "How do people conceive and develop ideas for businesses?" To give our kids hands on experience with this, we have planned for them to begin their own business venture. To do this, they will need a budget. We thought a reasonable amount would be $10 as seed money. These businesses will all be a roaring success at our Market Day which will run from 1pm to 3.30pm on Friday 18 November.
Please make an arrangement with your child/ren in Years 4-6 to spend up to $10 to establish their business. We hope that this will be reimbursed to you at a later date. Please help your child source the materials. Do not spend more than $10, however items from cupboards at home may be either given in kind or treated as part of your $10.
Snorkelling As part of our final Inquiry of the year, "Tangaroa and Tane", we will be returning to the Island Bay Marine Centre on Thursday 8 and Friday 9 December (one group per day), this time getting in the water. The progamme includes a "Learn to Snorkel" session at Kilbirnie Pool on Friday 2 December, snorkelling at Worser Bay and then at Island Bay in the Marine Reserve. We are still finalising the costs for this programme but with buses and everything else it could be up to $50-$60. We feel the programme is a great learning experience and really supports the learning we were involved in at the beginning of the year, looking at the balance of our Marine Environments. EOTC (Education Outside the Classroom)We hope to run a series of other water based and Outdoor Education experiences. Last year this included sailing, kayaking, beach volleyball, mountain biking among other things. The cost for this will be around $10. Please keep an eye out for further details in later Newsletters. All of these beach based activities will run over the last 3 weeks of the school term. More details about payments and parental permission via Wrap it up will follow. We don’t want to create any stress regarding payments (given the time of year), so please discuss options at the office, if you need to. There is no end to the excitement!
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