Planting of manuka, kanuka, pohutakawa and harakeke will continue at Urquharts Bay to Home Bay.
When: Sunday 13th May from 9.00am until 12 noon. Meet at Urquharts Bay Car Park.
What to Bring: warm clothes and gumboots, water etc.
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Planting at Bream Head
Kiwi Listening Night
Whangarei Heads Landcare Forum invites you to join them for a kiwi listening evening on Saturday 12th May at 5.30pm here at school.
Come along and hear about the kiwi, why they call and how to tell the male and female calls. Then listen for some wild backyard kiwi calls. There will also be a sausage sizzle for a gold coin donation.
Remember to bring warm clothes.
If the weather is wet or too windy we will postpone until Saturday 19th. This will be on the www.backyardkiwi.org.nz website.
KEY COMPETENCIES
This term we will be studying the Key Competencies as a whole school unit, incorporating Mount Manaia to represent the competencies.
GO FOR GOLD
This term we will be launching "Go for Gold" which is a system to reward positivite behaviours. Each week at our sharing assembly, students who receive a gold award will be able to choose a special prize from the Golden Box and write their name in the Golden Book.
PASSION TIME
Passion Time will commence this term, to be held on Friday afternoons as from Week 3.
Teachers will be sharing their passions and students will be able to opt into the activities they enjoy.
Some of the past Passion Time activities have included cooking, mechanics, art and sport to name a few.
WHANGAREI HEADS SCHOOL ART EXHIBITION
This year's Exhibition will once again be held at Reyburn House, Whangarei from May 3rd to 30th.
The Exhibition is held every two years and showcases the student's art works. This year's theme for the Exhibition is "Our Harbour" .
Parents will have the opportunity to purchase their child's work in a professionally finished way and we are hoping to take a bus into town so that every student can visit and see their work displayed.
2012
TERM DATES FOR 2012
Term 1: Tuesday 31st January to Thursday 5th April
Term 2: Monday 23rd April to Friday 29th June
Term 3: Monday 16th July to Friday 28th September
Term 4: Monday 15th October to Friday 14th December
FUNKY FISHING AND DIVING COMPETITION
A big thank you to our wonderful sponsors for making the Funky Fishing Competition such a success.
Our major Senior Lucky Draw winner of air fares and accommodation in Vanuatu
was Mervyn Prinsloo.
The Junior Lucky Draw winner of the Underwater Camera was Oscar Mellor.
See full results of the Funky Fishing competition in this week's newsletter (22nd March)
The Incredible Years
The Incredible Years programme is a parenting programme aimed at helping parents have better relationships with their children, child's teacher; gain skills to feel more confident about their parenting and have a positive and nurturing parenting style.
The course is being held at school every Thursday morning weekly and will continue until the end of Term 2. Parents, grandparents and caregivers are welcome to attend.
If you wish to participate in the remaining sessions, contact Saffron at the Miriam Centre . The course is free and gives lots of valuable information.
The course presenters are all Miriam Centre trained facilitators.
OUTDOOR EDUCATION ACADEMY FOR YEAR 7 & 8 PUPILS
The official launch of the "Excellence Through Action"with our Outdoor Education Academy initiative took place at the end of Term 1.
Using our unique environment, the senior students formally presented their learning to the community and visitors. They spoke about water safety and what they had learned. They created water safety brochures and during the term taught water safety to the other students across the school.
Students also learned about Whangarei Harbour, studying commercial and recreational fishing and marine bio diversity. From this they published reports which were presented at the launch.
Congratualions to a great start on this initiative.
Next term the students will be learning about the history of Whangarei Heads, the mountains and bush, include safety aspects, and flora and fauna.
Upcoming Events
- Childrens' Art Exhibition(Now)
- Passion Time(Now)
- 3 Way Conferences(3 days)
- Key Competencies(8 days)
- Queen's Birthday(15 days)
- Last Day of Term Two(40 days)
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