REMINDER TIME!

1. Year 5-8 swimming sports are on tomorrow at Wharenui Pool.  Students need to wear school uniform to school but can have their swim wear underneath if they want to.  They also need to bring their house colour t-shirt to wear please.  
2. Any outstanding $5 and permission forms for this event need to be in the box in the office tomorrow please.  
3. Parents are welcome to watch - there are considerable road works around the pool venue so be prepared for parking to take a while!
4. Choir tomorrow morning in the hall - 8am start in the hall.

Thanks for being organised (students) and helping your child to be organised (parents)!

Week 5, Term 1 2017

The first few weeks of this term have flown by! Can't believe we are already gearing up for week 5.
This week we completed Kings Swimming and it was great to see such improvement from so many of you! Good effort everyone.

Swimming Sport
Thursday, March 2nd is our swimming sports event. Everyone should have signed up for something whether it be a competitive or non competitive event. The event goes from 10 am - 2 pm at Wharenui Pool. There will be a notice going out on Monday. There will be a cost of $5 to cover the pool and bus. These will be due back ASAP.

Huxster MTB
Huxster notices have been handed out and are due by Thursday, March 2nd. This event is happening on the 7th of April.

Family picnic is happening today from 5-7. Stop by for some good food and fun! Hope to see some of you there.

House Captains & Student Council Team for 2017

Congratulations to the students featured below who have been selected for our team of house captains and our student council for 2017.  We had many strong candidates and we thank all students who applied and spent time filling out application forms.  Remember our 'monitors & duties' get changed each term so there are always jobs, contributions and leadership opportunities available for people who are interested!

Week 4, Term 1 2017

Welcome all who may have just been hooked up to the blog! 

This week we had our open house and it was great to see several parents there. We also announced the outstanding students who were selected for student council and house captains. Congrats to all of those students!

Some notices for this coming week include:

Teacher Emails:

brodger@avonhead.school.nz

sgamperle@avonhead.school.nz

kmoore@avonhead.school.nz

hellison@avonhead.school.nz

kjakub@avonhead.school.nz

Kings Swimming

Kings swimming will be running for one more week. You must have togs/towels/goggles/etc at school ready to go for this everyday. On Wednesday, bring additional clothing for survival swimming. 

Chess Club 

Chess club sign up will begin on Monday. Sessions will run every Wednesday at lunch. Have a think about it this weekend if this is a club you may be interested in. We will be entering in different competitions later in the year!

Personal Reading

You should be prepared with a personal reading book everyday! If you don't have a book or perhaps aren't happy with the book you are reading, try visiting a library this weekend. There's a book out there for everyone!

Mrs. G. Maths

Must have task one and two completed by Monday.

Our thoughts are with everyone who has been affected by the fires this week. Hope everyone can have a relaxing and enjoyable weekend!

Week 3, Term 1 2017

Hello!
I hope everyone is finding they are settling in nicely to the Senior HQ and enjoying getting back into the school routine. This week we kicked off choice Friday with some neat extension topics to enhance our normal curriculum! I hope you are all looking forward to digging deeper into these sessions, I know I am.

Kings Swimming
Notices for Kings Swimming are due into the homeroom teacher no later than Sunday February 12 (scan and email ASAP). Each homeroom will be starting this on Monday and will go for two weeks. Make sure you come prepared with everything you need for swimming: bathing suits, goggles, swim cap, towel, etc (with labels!) Kings have said that parent parking provided is for mum's with bubs. We apologise but if you want to visit you will need to park on the road.

Meet the Teacher
Meet the teacher night is this Thursday February 16 from 5-6. First session is 5-5:30 and second session runs 5:30-6. This is geared towards parents to get to know the teachers, receive a full run down of our program and learn more about how the year will run this year in the HQ.

Technology Payment Forms
Payment forms for the materials used at technology have been handed out to all students in their homeroom. These are to be returned  directly to the office. These are due no later than March 3.

Mrs G's German Class
Don't forget to complete your German Title page by Friday.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend! See you Monday.
:)

Week 2, Term 1 2017

Welcome back to Week 2 in the Senior HQ.  We hope you had a lovely long weekend - the weather was certainly fabulous!

1) Please return the King's swimming assessment notice that went home last week asap.  We need to get these sent off to King's so they can group you accordingly.  Swimming starts Monday Week 3 and runs daily for a 2 week block.

2) All letters to the home room teachers are due tomorrow (Tuesday of Week 2).  These were set last week in your rotation sessions when you working with Mrs Moore and Mrs Ellison.  You need to set up your google doc in your 'writing' folder in drive, then write the first half of your letter about your summer and the second half about the things you are looking forward to this year in the Senior HQ.  These need to be shared (with editing rights) with your home room teacher please.  Home Room 3 your letter format is a little different - check your 'writing' folder/emails for the letter you are replying to please.

3) Each of you needs a personal reading book for personal reading time in the HQ which we started last week.  We hope to get to our school library this week, otherwise you can bring a book from home or one from a CHCH City Library.  It is handy to be a member of these as we do visit the Riccarton Library from time to time for a morning.

4) Homework expectations at this stage of the game are nightly reading (at least 20 minutes), notices returned and your letter completed and shared with your home room teacher.  If you are filling in a student council application or house captain application these need to be returned to the containers on the green table in the info space by Thursday of this week.

5) If you didn't have a beginning of the year interview with your home room teacher and parents/caregivers on Monday or Tuesday of last week, you need to get Mum or Dad to email us to make a suitable time as soon as possible please: brodger@avonhead.school.nz  sgamperle@avonhead.school.nz  kmoore@avonhead.school.nz or kjakub@avonhead.school.nz

6) Remember tomorrow (Tuesday) is our first technology session at Kirkwood Intermediate School.  The roll will be done by home room teachers at 8.30am sharp in the HQ so please be at school early.  The bus leaves at 8.40am or just after so you need to be organised on Tuesdays everyone!

Thanks for the wonderful start to the term!  We had lots of fun getting to know you and building our HQ whanau.  We were strong role models in both the powhiri and assembly last week - well done.  It was fabulous hearing so many of you putting your names forward for our services, duties and monitors last week.  We will be discussing these and making choices this week for our Term 1 students.

Have a great week.........Mrs Moore