Week 6, Term 4 2018

Sorry for the delay in sending this out!  We hope you all had an enjoyable long weekend.

* End of Year Assembly - this is on Monday 17 December at 6pm.  It is expected all Year 7 and 8 students will attend.



What's happening in Week 6?

Monday and Tuesday:
* Tough Kids notices must be returned tomorrow - thank you to all those who have done so already.
* Read a Thon fundraising money needs to be returned ASAP

* Library books - please check at home for any school library books and start returning these

Wednesday:
Tough Kids - for those attending, we will be leaving Avonhead at 830am.  Please come to school in your costume or gear to complete the Tough Kids event in.  Please also remember to bring a towel, complete change of warm clothes, plastic bag (for your wet clothes), and something to eat and drink.

For those not attending, it will be school as usual.  Mr Rodger will be staying behind with you.

Friday:
Disco for the seniors is 7:30 to 9:30pm.
$4 (tickets available outside the library or at the door).
Food and drink is available.

Have a great week :)

Week 5, Term 4 2018

We had a busy week last week with our Zone athletes out on Tuesday and our Summer Tournament teams out on Wednesday.  Both groups of students conducted themselves extremely well and the teachers who accompanied them were very proud of their behaviour, attitude and effort!  Please see previous posts for a lowdown and some photos!


What's happening in Week 5?

Monday:
We continue with our end of year testing - asTTle Maths this week, as well as any catch ups of reading and PATs.
Sexuality Road continues

Wednesday:
Industrial Strike action - school will be closed for instruction.  Please see the email sent last week from the office regarding this.  There is a document for you to fill out to let the school know whether your child will be coming or not - this is to help with planning of staffing for the day.

Friday:
Canterbury Anniversary Day / Show Day - public holiday for Canterbury.

* Please return all Read-a-thon documentation - all students should have been keeping a reading log up to date for the past week - these need to be brought back to school please.  If your child was fundraising, please encourage him/her to collect their money and return it to school.

* End of Year Assembly - this is on Monday 17 December at 6pm.  It is expected all Year 7 and 8 students will attend.

* Library books - please check at home for any school library books and start returning these.

Zones Athletics results

What an amazing day of results at the Zones Athletics...

Congratulations to everyone who attended the meet and a special congratulations to the following students who placed on the day:

Year 7 Girls 100m 3rd             Andy
Year 7 Girls 1200m 2nd          Nicole
Year 7 Girls High Jump 1st     Tulani
Year 7 Girls Discus 2nd          Skye
Year 7 Girls Shot Put 1st         Zoe
Year 7 Girls Shot Put 2nd        Sai

Year 7 Boys Discus 2nd          Kevin
Year 7 Boys Shot Put 1st        Kevin

Year 8 Girls Relay team 1st           Izzy, Kahu, Tayla, Jackie
Year 8 Girls 100m 2nd                   Ilze
Year 8 Girls 100m 3rd                   Tayla
Year 8 Girls 1200m 2nd                 Izzy
Year 8 Girls High Jump 1st            Kahu
Year 8 Girls Long Jump 2nd          Barbie
Year 8 Girls Long Jump 3rd           Ilze
Year 8 Girls Discus 1st                   Nadia
Year 8 Girls Discus 2nd                 Kahu
Year 8 Girls Shot Put 1st                Nadia

Year 8 Boys High Jump 1st            Kodee
Year 8 Boys High Jump 3rd           Isaac E
Year 8 Boys Long Jump 1st           Kodee
Year 8 Boys Discus 3rd                  Ale
Year 8 Boys Shot Put 1st                Ale
Year 8 Boys Shot Put 3rd               Misha

Mrs Moore was lucky enough to join the team of HQ students and commented how proud she was of their sportsmanship, encouragement of one another and ability to get to the right events at the right time.  Everyone game it their very best and the results support this!  Here are some action shots:

Summer Tournament

What a great day we had down at Hagley Park - thank you to the weather for putting on perfect conditions!  This is a brief report from Slowpitch and Cricket - we will hear from Golf and Tennis in the next day or two.  Congratulations to both teams for showing amazing sportsmanship.

Our Slowpitch team finished 1st over all!  They actually came first equal with Ellesmere College and Little River School - all three teams having seven wins and one loss.  On the count back, Ellesmere had 77 runs in their 8 games, Little River got 100 and Avonhead got to 122!  Congratulations team :)

Our cricket team played 6 games in a modified 6 aside tournament.  They won two games.  In a version of the game where extras can be costly, there was some very accurate bowling and some big hits.  Daniel S finished the tournament in great form and was the only player to have to retire once he reached 25 runs.  Congratulations to the whole team and to Daniel who was named Player of the Day!
Your support of each other and respect for your team mates and your opposition made me incredibly proud :)  It was a pleasure to accompany you to the competition.  Mrs B

Week 4, Term 4 2018

Hello and welcome to Week 4

We farewell our wonderful student teachers at the end of this week and wish them all the very best for job hunting and their future careers.  They have fitted in as part of the team and we have certainly appreciated everything they have done, especially during Seussical Jr :)

This week is quite busy...

Monday: 
We begin our asTTle Maths and Reading testing

Tuesday: 
Zones Athletics - Mr Rodger and Mrs Moore will accompany the team.  All the very best to our athletes.
HQ1 and 2 visit to Riccarton Library - we will be walking (weather permitting).  Please bring your library card.

Wednesday:
Summer tournament - Mr Rodger and Mrs Busfield will be accompanying the teams.  We have teams entered in golf, boys cricket (team will be announced on Monday), tennis and slowpitch.  Good luck to all the students taking part.  A notice came home on Friday (apart from cricket players who will receive a notice on Monday)

Thursday:
HQ3 and 4 visit to Riccarton Library - we will be walking (weather permitting).  Please bring your library card.


Other notices:
If you are in Year 8, please email a photo of yourself in the year you started school (or as close to this age as possible).  This is for the Year 8 leaver's assembly.  Alternatively you could bring the photo to school and Mrs Busfield will scan it for you.  Emailed photos are to be sent to Kennadie please k.smith@avonhead.school.nz

If you are in Mrs Ellison's 'beeswax' group for Choice Writing, please remember your $2 for her.

Have a great week everyone :)

Week 3, Term 4 2018

Unfortunately our run of lovely weather came to an abrupt halt...just in time for Athletics Day.  Luckily we managed to squeeze in two rotations on Thursday which meant we were able to finish the other rotations on Friday, just leaving the sprint finals for Monday afternoon.  These will be held after lunch on Monday.

Last week we sent home a letter as we will be starting our Changes at Puberty unit in Week 4.  Please ask you child for this letter if you haven't seen it already!

We will start our end of year testing this week, with PATs in maths and reading.

On Tuesday and Thursday afternoon this week we are planning on walking the students down to the Riccarton Library.  Two classes will go on Tuesday and the other two on Thursday.  If your child has a library card, it would be great if they can bring it please.

Finally a huge congratulations to Bhavil and Shivam who have been competing in Auckland over the weekend, in a national chess competition.  I have heard from both boys and it sounds like they have both really enjoyed the experience, and both have been awarded credit certificates!

Have a great week :)

Term 4, Week 2 2018

Welcome back to Term 4.  We have a new addition to the HQ - some sliding doors in between the Kitchen and Meeting spaces and also between the Meeting and Info spaces.   Please feel free to pop in and have a look - we are loving the extra flexibility these doors are offering.  Now a class can be having a discussion, and the class next door doing some quiet work, without anyone feeling guilty that their class is disturbing the other!  The doors will be closed as the teachers see fit during our morning lessons in writing, reading and maths, but will generally be open for our more collaborative afternoon sessions.

I hope you all received the email directing you to the wonderful photos from Seussical Jr that Ana Stevens took.  If you did not receive that email, please contact me on dbusfield@avonhead.school.nz and I will send it through to you.

This week is Athletic Sports - these will be held on Thursday and Friday this week.  We have been practising every afternoon during week 1!

Following on from athletics training we will begin our Health topic - Changes at Puberty - a letter outlining this will come out this week.  We hope to have two sessions a week for Health and the other two we will look at Careers.

Last week some information came home about a school wide read-a-thon.  The slips on the bottom need to be returned to school please, whether or not your child is taking part. If the letter did not make it home, please email me and I will send you a copy.

We hope you all had a nice break with your children, and we are looking forward to this term :)