Welcome back

A great big welcome back to all of our children who have started school today, and a warm welcome to our new families and their children.

We are in for a great term.  Remember, the uniform shop is open from 2.45 - 3.15 pm on a Tuesday and from 8.30 - 9.00 am on a Thursday.


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Start Day for Ashburton Netherby School

Kia ora.

Ashburton Netherby School will open on the 1st February 2016.  We look forward to seeing you all then.  Have a great Christmas break and New Year.

From the teaching team at Netherby.
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School Pet Day

Mrs McCully has been kindly organising a Pet Day for our school.  You should have a notice at home already that explains the day in its entirety. If not, ask your child, it is likely deep down in the bottom of their bag. It should be a great day, and thanks to Mrs McCully for going that extra mile to organise something like this so your children can experience it.  It all adds to the rich broad learning experiences we aim to give your children. Remember, you do not need a living pet to participate.  All of this is explained in the notice.  We look forward to the Pet Day afternoon on Thursday 29 October.  
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Physical Education Assessment

In Term 3 we looked at physical education as an area of in-depth assessment to see how we are achieving. It does not come as a surprise to me that our children are generally achieving very well in the area of physical education.  We have a great programme in place at our school, and this is certainly paying dividends in our children’s locomotor, co-ordination and sports skills development.  In summary 90%+ of the school achieved at or above the specific learning outcomes derived from the New Zealand Curriculum.  The assessment criteria in concise terms were;
1.     Movement and the language of movement
2.     Safety in sports
3.     Demonstrating movement on bars and different types of movement
4.     Varying body position and transferring skills into other sports and physical activity


The full assessment is available from me if you would like to look at it.  You’re most welcome.
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Athletics with Fairton and Chertsey


As most of you know we had our school athletics day with Chertsey and Fairton on Wednesday. The children for Counties Athletics will be selected from this meeting, with Miss Sloan and Mrs Oakley looking at the qualification standards and making decisions based on those standards.  A big thank you to both Miss Sloan and Mrs Oakley who organised such a fantastic Athletics Day.  It literally ran like clock work.  Also, well done to the Netherby children who behaved with such wonderful manners.  I know as a teaching staff we were all very proud of your perfect manners and behaviour.  You did yourselves proud, and us proud too.  The Home & School was super organised feeding the masses of people.  Again, behind the scenes the Home & School was a well-oiled machine cooking, sorting and organising food and drinks.  Also a great big thank you to Fairton and Chertsey for coming to our school to support what truly is a fun day for all three participating schools. Also cheers to the parents who came and supported the day. We really like your presence and appreciate the support you give our school.  You’re welcome here all of the time remember.
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Educational Tip for the Week



The following tip is in light of a Nation Wide issue and an issue, which is having a negative impact on our childrens schooling. We know Winter is here, and the mornings are cold and dark. But we really need all children at school on time, before 8.45 am, so they can get organised and be ready for tuition at 8.55 am. Late children disrupt the class so much as they need to be instructed on what is happening, they need to unpack, which all takes away teaching time and learning involvement from them and the other children. We encourage you to be ready and have your children prepared to leave home at 8.20-8.30 am so they will be here on time. As a partnership between home and school, to give your child the best education, please have your children at school in the gate before 8.45 am. Thanking you. 
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Pedestrian Crossings and Crossing the Road

I am pleased to be able to say most children are walking sensibly from the school gate to the pedestrian crossing and across the pedestrian crossing.  Remember we enforce a no ride zone from the pedestrian crossing to the school gate from 3pm to prevent accidents and injury.  A no ride zone means children are expected for the purposes of respect and safety to push their bikes or scooters from the school gate to the zebra crossing.


Recently a few children ran out in front of a car and were nearly bowled.  It is for this reason I ask please ensure your children know how to cross a road safely, or better still cross them yourself, or cross them at a pedestrian crossing.  We do our part here through teaching road safety, but need the safe practice reiterated at home.  If your child needs to cross the road away from a pedestrian choose a place with good visibility first, look right, look left, look right and if there is no traffic cross by walking promptly across the road.  
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Tip For Parents

Give your child every opportunity to read to you daily. Ten minutes of reading five times a week = 50 minutes of reading time a week.

If you did this for a minimum of 35 weeks a year we have your child engaging in text for 29 hours extra every year! That 29 hours helps your child read better because they do more miles, are exposed to many words, and importantly are exposed to many ideas through the text.

It is a win - win for all concerned!

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