The school newsletter provides information on upcoming events and notices for parents. It reminds parents that students must wear their uniforms and sunhats, and to label all personal items. It announces vegetables harvested from the school garden will be for sale the next day. It also discusses establishing routines, monitoring student lateness, traffic safety in the school parking lot, and invites parents to an upcoming meeting to discuss road safety and reducing the speed limit near the school.

1. Absences
Please text your child’s
absence to
0272542430
State:
Name,
Room Name
Reason for absence.
Term 1—2015 No.2
P R I N C I P A L ’ S R A M B L E
Next Newsletter:
05 March 2015
Remember:
School Hours:
8:45 am to 2:45pmOur Mission:
Developing Confident, Resourceful
Life-Long Learners.
WHAT’ S HAPPENING:
February
24 Mtg re Road 3pm at
School
March
2 Sthn Zone Athletics
4 Postponement Day Sthn
Zone Athletics
5 Public Health Nurse Vis-
it
17 Duffy Theatre
18,19,20 School Swim-
ming
24,25,26 School Swim-
ming
31/3,01,02/4 School
Swimming
28 Sthld Athletics
Updating School Records
sheet. Please make any
changes and return to
school. It is important
that we have the most up
to date phone numbers,
contacts etc for students.
Focus :
Key Competency
Managing Self
Value : You:
Meaning
Only YOU can be responsi-
ble and show respect in
being a good citizen
Kia Ora, Talofa and Welcome
We are now heading into Week 5 - not long now until Athletics at Surrey Park - watch
out for some notices next week with all the details and asking for parent support with
the running.
It is great to see all our students wearing their uniforms - but this is a GREAT BIG RE-
MINDER to name all items of clothing. The school does not have a lost property box
(after removing the lost property box last year - there were only two tops and some
socks left at the office:)). Our Senior Students, called “Tidy Kiwis”, - go out after lunch
and do a sweep around the playing field for anything items of clothing and take it to its
owner. This has been working very well. Staff keep reminding children to put any
clothing they take off in their school bags and zip them up.
Sun Safety : Staff are asking students to keep their sunhats in their school bags -
school does not own them and therefore ask that students be responsible for their own
property - ie, keep their hat in their bag (the new hats are much smaller and easier to fit
in bags) and bring it to and from school daily. Under our sun safe procedures, children
are to wear the School Sunhat when outside during Terms 1 and 4 - and the saying is :
“no hat no play - sit under the veranda”.
School Work : Staff have spent the first three weeks really getting to know their clas-
ses and establishing routines and expectations. It is really important that these founda-
tions are in place to ensure good on-task learning can occur. During this time lots of
reading and math mileage has been occurring - mileage includes revisiting books and
games that are familiar to students. Over the next two weeks teachers will be determin-
ing math, reading and writing groups to move forward in our students learning.
Meet and Greet : This has been a great opportunity for the whole school to start the
day together with a song or two. It also has helped all the students get to know all our
new staff and alert them to any daily school notices.
Lateness : from Week 5 - I will start to check out the lateness on our recording system -
please remember the bell for school to start rings at 8:45am - all students should be at
school before this time, ie 8:40 at the latest. It could be as simple as leaving home five
minutes earlier.
Entering School Grounds - I have been asked if it is ok for students to be in the
school grounds before 8:30am - the answer is yes - the only thing is that we do not take
“parental” responsibility for students until 8:30 and the doors of the school are not open
until 8:30am.
Car Park - I have had lots of parents talk to me about the “driving” of some of our par-
ents in the carpark - to me it is about being a courteous driver, checking your surround-
ings before leaving a park or backing out of a park, parking across in the playing field
and walking to collect your child. Thank you to those who are doing this, it does save a
lot of congestion. Also thanks to those parents who just stagger their time to collect
their child(ren), ie. they wait until 3:00pm when there are less vehicles around.
School Garden: Tomorrow the students will have some vegetables from the garden for
sale. We are asking for a gold coin for anything purchased and it is hoped that we will
be able to buy more plants to grow. So watch out for from 8.30am.
Bags of Potatoes / Peas / Marrow, cauliflower, broccoli, radishes, and Kale
Until next newsletter
Kia Kaha Andrea and Staff - Live a Little - Laugh a Lot:):):)
TISBURY

2. COMMUNITY NOTICES:
Southland A & P Show—Saturday 7 March 2015
Heritage Harvest Festival 28th/29thMarch Held at Apari-
ma College, Leader St Riverton
Elles Road Bible Chapel—Boys Rally 2015 Contact Shel-
don Hutton 216 9511 or 027 308 9020
Children’s Day at the Fire Station Sunday 1st March
11.00am Jed St, Invercargill
Family Bike Day Sunday 11 February 12.00pm Queens
Park bank Rotunda
Family Works—various programmes available, contact
211 8200
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Tisbury School’s
Assemblies
Fridays: 11.30am
All Welcome
2015 TERM DATES
Term 1: 29 January –02 April
Term 2: 20 April—3 July
Term 3 :20 July -25 September
Term 4 :12 October—TBA
Thursday Canteen Dates
Term 1
26 Feb—Subway
5 March—Sausage Sizzle
12 March—Pita Pit
19 March—Cherillo’s
26 March—Subway
2 April—Sausage Sizzle
No Noodles at school
Tisbury Kids
Can Do Any-
thing – Watch
Us Try!
Sunhats compulsory Term
1 & 4
Please remember to have a
spare set of clothes in your
child’s school bag for emer-
gencies. (especially the
younger students).
There is a growing number of students
who are losing items of uniform, please
check your child has there own polar
fleece, sunhat etc.
Archie—sunhat
Jim– polar fleece x 2 size 8
Luke—polar fleece size 6
Parents desperate to have returned
Students harvesting the
garden today.
We would like to invite parents and
teachers to a meeting at the school
to discuss improving the safety of
school traffic and reducing the
speed limit around the school. 3pm
Tuesday 24th February 2015 in the
library.
School Traffic
Basic Principal of
Good Parenting:
Establish and Set
Rules.
If you don’t manage
your child’s behav-
iour when they are
young, they will
have a hard time
learning how to man-
age themselves when
they are older and
you aren’t around.
Any time of the day
or night, you should
always be able to
answer these three
questions: Where is
my child? Who is
with my child? What
is my child doing?
The rules your child
has learned from you
are going to shape
the rules they apply
to themselves.
Vegetables for Sale—gold
coin donation tomorrow
8.30am