EPRO8 Technology Challenge
Dear Parents and Caregivers
Tenei te mihi atu kia koutou
Welcome to the following students who have joined us recently: Tom L, Ted M and Benjamin P.
Principals Summary
- Learning Conferences
- International Visitors
- Quiz and Raffle Tickets
Learning Conferences Tuesday 4 and Thursday 6 July.
On Wednesday you would have received an email with instructions about how to book a Learning Conference using our online system including a school specific code. If you are have any issues with this please contact the Office. Online bookings close at 9am on Monday 3 July. Any bookings after that will need to be made directly with your child(ren)’s teacher.
Please note that classes will cease at 1.30pm on both days. Once again we will be providing supervision in the Hall Foyer for those children that cannot be collected at this time. Please contact the Office if you would like to add your child to the supervision list.
International Visitors
At 10am on Monday (19 June) we will be welcoming our visitors from Riverdale Country School (New York) and Punahou School (Honolulu) with a mihi whakatau in the hall. You are most welcome to join us for this if you wish.
On Tuesday night at 7.30pm, students and teachers from both schools will be presenting to our community about Character, Context, Struggle, and Strength: Using strengths when faced with challenges.
This session will shed light on how to identify and use character strengths when faced with challenges. The presentation will also feature Karen Elizaga (author of Find Your Sweet Spot), Dr. Lucy Hone (author of What Abi Taught Us), and Dr. Billy Osteen (University of Canterbury lecturer).
According to the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, resilience is struggling through and learning from adversity by tapping into our strengths. The VIA Strengths Finder can help us rank order our strengths within the serenity of filling out the survey but what really comes to the fore when we’re in the middle of a battle? Further, are there strengths, particularly culturally situated ones, that we use that aren’t on the VIA list of 24?
To prepare for the session, please take the free Character Strengths Survey at: http://www.viacharacter.org/www/Character-Strengths-Survey and bring your results.
Entry is free. The doors will be open from 7.20pm
Quiz and Raffles Tickets
Thank you to the people who have already returned their raffle money and tickets. These need to be returned to school by next Thursday (22 June) please. As the PTA mentioned in their email last week, the raffle alone has the potential to raise over $8,000 for our new Library/Wellbeing Centre.
Like our fabulous Hall, the new Library/Wellbeing Centre will be a valuable resource not only for our children but also for the wider community for years to come. Given the limitations of the property budget we are working with, a large proportion of the new Library/Wellbeing Centre will need to be paid for through Board funds, so every last bit counts!
Another way of supporting this fundraiser is to send your child along to school with a small item for the class gift basket. This could be anything for example a bottle of wine, a movie voucher or a scented candle. We know from previous years that if everyone contributes something little, the gift baskets can end up being a veritable treasure trove for the lucky raffle winners.
Tickets for the Quiz Night are still available from the Office ($15 per person - maximum of 6 per team). If you would like to come along but are struggling to make up the numbers for a full team, please contact the office and we may be able to help with this.
Thank you for supporting this fundraiser. I look forward to seeing at the Quiz next Friday night.
Have a great weekend.
Ngā mihi
Stuart Cameron
Principal
Spotlight on Excellence
Congratulations to the following students who received Surfer Awards at the assembly on Monday:
Unity: Lily T for consistently working well in collaboration with others. She is a team player who always considers her classmates.
Unity: Lucy K for building a united team of workers who she leads with respect and tolerance while also kindly giving up her time to ensure the PE shed is clean and the roster is always filled.
Fairness: Isolde J for always showing fairness towards others in and around the classroom.
Empathy: Jazmin H for consistently displaying self regulation and determination in all tasks while role modelling the right behaviour at all times.
Respect: Blake B for respecting others in and around the classroom.
Respect: Jesse P-J for consistently demonstrating a respectful and mature approach to his learning opportunities, and a willingness to work collaboratively with others.
Respect: Guy T for always displaying respect in and around the school and on the sports field. Guy is a team player who respects and values everyone in the team.
Congratulations to the following students who received Surfer Awards at the assembly on Monday:
Unity: Lily T for consistently working well in collaboration with others. She is a team player who always considers her classmates.
Unity: Lucy K for building a united team of workers who she leads with respect and tolerance while also kindly giving up her time to ensure the PE shed is clean and the roster is always filled.
Fairness: Isolde J for always showing fairness towards others in and around the classroom.
Empathy: Jazmin H for consistently displaying self regulation and determination in all tasks while role modelling the right behaviour at all times.
Respect: Blake B for respecting others in and around the classroom.
Respect: Jesse P-J for consistently demonstrating a respectful and mature approach to his learning opportunities, and a willingness to work collaboratively with others.
Respect: Guy T for always displaying respect in and around the school and on the sports field. Guy is a team player who respects and values everyone in the team.
Supervision on the School Grounds
A reminder that the school operates between 8.30am-3.00pm. Children should not be on the school grounds without adult supervision before and after these times. Our staff are not in a position to supervise children before 8.30am and/or after 3.00pm. If you are unable to pick your child up from school at 3.00pm please make alternative arrangements for them to be collected. A reminder that MASH (My After School Home) is available for before and after school care if needed.
A reminder that the school operates between 8.30am-3.00pm. Children should not be on the school grounds without adult supervision before and after these times. Our staff are not in a position to supervise children before 8.30am and/or after 3.00pm. If you are unable to pick your child up from school at 3.00pm please make alternative arrangements for them to be collected. A reminder that MASH (My After School Home) is available for before and after school care if needed.
Redcliffs School Submissions
Our friends at Redcliffs School have the final part of their campaign to get their school back to Redcliffs going on at the moment. It would be great if we as a Cluster/Community of Learning could get behind them and spend literally two minutes filling in the submission form in support of their return to Redcliffs. You can do so now via the link below. Please add a short comment as this will be important during the decision making process. Please ask your friends and family to do so too. This process runs until the 26 June.
https://ccc.govt.nz/the-council/have-your-say/consultations/show/33
Our friends at Redcliffs School have the final part of their campaign to get their school back to Redcliffs going on at the moment. It would be great if we as a Cluster/Community of Learning could get behind them and spend literally two minutes filling in the submission form in support of their return to Redcliffs. You can do so now via the link below. Please add a short comment as this will be important during the decision making process. Please ask your friends and family to do so too. This process runs until the 26 June.
https://ccc.govt.nz/the-council/have-your-say/consultations/show/33
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EPRO8 Challenge - Week 6 Eight representatives from the Years 5 and 6 Team and four participants from Years 7 and 8 participated in the EPRO8 Challenge, which is an engineering, problem solving and innovation competition. The teams worked for two and half hours independently to build a variety of structures earning them points. Great fun was had by all. Congratulations to the Years 7 and 8 Team who placed 2nd and have qualified for the semi-finals. 
Next PTA Meeting - Monday 7 August 7-8pm in the School Staffroom Join the PTA! Because many hands make light work…. All school parents are welcome to ANY PTA meetings. You can choose to officially join in our meetings and have a specific role, or just be someone who helps out with special events from time to time. Fresh faces and bright ideas are always welcome!! Please feel free to contact Amanda Price for any information about the PTA on 027 4888117 or via email pta@sumner.school.nz Join our PTA Facebook Page Sumner School PTA to keep up to date with all our events. |
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Board of Trustees Meeting
A reminder that the next Board meeting will be held at 7pm in the Staffroom on Wednesday 21 June.
Wig Wednesday
The School Council are supporting 'Wig Wednesday' on 21 June to help raise awareness and support for the Child Cancer Foundation and raise funds for Kiwi kids with cancer. Wig Wednesday encourages children to don a wig for one day and fundraise. The School Council would like students to come to school wearing a wig or with wacky hair to show their support and bring a $2 donation for Child Cancer Trust.
Scholastic Books
If you ordered Scholastic Books earlier in the term they should have come home this week with your child. Please contact the Office if you have any queries: admin@sumner.school.nz
Many thanks to parent Chris Rowe who has been generously donating her time for the past 6 years to organise this great fundraiser for our school. She is ready to pass on the responsibility of this role to another parent or caregiver and she is happy to supervise a handover for anyone that might be interested. Please contact the Office for more information.
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Love Books? Love Pizza?
Hell Pizza has partnered with the New Zealand Book Awards Trust to sponsor the Hell New Zealand Reading challenge –the Reading Challenge is a well established programme, now in its fourth year, which has been hugely successful in getting kids reading and enjoying the pleasures of stories — with the bonus of free pizza rewards. Read seven books, complete a small task and receive a voucher for a free 333 Hell Pizza! For interested children in Years 3-8, Pizza/Book wheels will be available from Susan in the library. Children have until 3 December 2017 to complete the challenge. Participation is entirely optional. Please let your child’s teacher know if you want them to participate in the challenge. |
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Collect, Sow and Grow Project The Gardening Group have been working with Christchurch City Council to help rejuvenate the Port Hills following the devastating fires that started in February this year. A thousand hectares of land were destroyed in the fires, wiping out native plants such as Poroporo. During the ‘Collect, Sow and Grow’ project, the Gardening Club have collected Poroporo fruit, peeled it, found the seeds, sowed them and are now waiting for the seeds to germinate, so that in November it can be replanted back in the Port Hills. 
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Poroporo planting - Week 6
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2017-2018 Entertainment Books
Sumner School PTA is happy to be selling the new Entertainment Books where all money raised will go directly to the school and the new Library/Well Being Centre.
To pre order your Book or Digital Membership giving you up to $20,000 of value please order online here New display book will be at the School Office soon for you to check out.
For any questions please phone Jo Newsham 022 1612851.
Fuse after school Programmes are on and running strong!
Every Monday we have Flux! This programme has a fun relaxed atmosphere where we will hang out with your kids and Jam the Xbox’s and other games here at Fuse.
On Tuesdays we have Blank Canvas, this is our arts based programme! All materials and afternoon tea are provided and theres something to take home most weeks, we have a brand new rebooted programme for term two so come along and check it out!
Email us at: shoreline_youth_trust@hotmail.com
Also you can check Fuse out on Facebook come along and give our page a like!
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