13 June 2008

                                                                                                                                                                       

Dear Parents

 

As part of our Sustainability Unit we have been looking at how much rubbish we produce at school.  Increased transport costs now mean emptying the skip is a substantial expense out of our operational budget.  Classes and staff are investigating the possibility of children taking home all their lunch rubbish and recycling a lot of the daily classroom waste material such as paper and cardboard.

Since June 1 schools now have an obligation to ensure children have healthy choices as part of their diet at school. 

As part of this we will be reviewing our school policies in this area.  This may involve surveys developed by individual classes. 

We ask for your support with this.

 

SCHOOL SUNDAY MASS

A reminder about the school Mass on Sunday 22^nd June.  This is a compulsory mass and we expect all children to attend.

 

ORPHANS’ AID INTERNATIONAL

On Thursday this week, Sue van Schreven from ORPHANS’ AID INTERNATIONAL, came to school and spoke to the children about the help her group is providing for children in Romania.  As a result of this, Sacred Heart pupils have become aware of the needs of these children, many of whom are orphans and we have begun to discuss ways to help. Over the next couple of weeks the children will be involved in some form of fund raising.  Room 1 children will be having a  “Bring a Toy Day”.  They will be able to play with their toys at school if they bring some money to contribute to our fund raising effort.  They have discussed things they could do at home in order to earn money.   Through class notices or the newsletter, families will be informed of the efforts each class will be making.

 

BOT MEETING

The next meeting of the Board of Trustees is on Monday at 7.00 p.m.  All welcome.

 

ACTIVITY FEES

The children were given these yesterday.  If you have not received yours, please contact the office.

 

SCHOOL WEBSITE

Thanks to Mrs Stupples for re-publishing our school website.  This has made it a lot easier to update and ammend. 

www.shsinv.school.nz

 

SOUTHLAND CROSS COUNTRY

Congratulations to Tatiana Conway, Cassidy Mackie, Daniel Hogan and Michael Walker who have been selected to represent the Zone at the Southland Cross Country next Friday at Mossburn. 

Because of numbers we will not be taking a bus.  Could parents contact me if they will be taking a car, so we can car pool if needed.

 

AEROBICS & DANCE FESTIVAL

Good luck to the Aerobics teams taking part in the festival at the Stadium on Sunday:  Cassidy Mackie, Imelda Wilkes, Jamee Millynn, Abbey Pont, Paige Hansen, Tammy Honotapu, Mackenzie Wild, Maria Sutherland, Molly Stevens, Georgia Mackie, Briar Kilsby, Erica Forde, Bronte Adams and Shelley Mitchell.  A big thanks to Miss Kirkwood, Miss Swney, Mrs Sutherland and Isabella Forde for your input to the coaching and organising of the teams.  We hope you all enjoy the day.

 

RUGBY POSTS

Thanks to Craig Morton at Rugby Southland for the donation of a set of rugby posts.

 

NETBALL ACCOUNTS

Due to an increase in development levies, unfortunately the Netball fees have been increased to $20 per child.

These are now due at the office.

 

SCHOOL BOOKS

We are aware we are missing a large number of school reading books.  Could you please check at home and return these.

 

 

BNZ BANK ACCOUNTS

Mrs Downing and her staff will be in the school library Wednesday 18^th June at 2.45 p.m. to open bank accounts for pupils.

 

To open an account, please bring the following with you:
Child's Birth Certificate or passport and 2 forms of identification (including 1 with Photo) for parent / caregiver who will have signing authority on account.  (if already a Bank of New Zealand customer this is not required)
               

 

NETBALL RESULTS & NEXT WEEKS DRAW

Sting (Mrs Brown’s Team)                  Tuesday 10^th June won 10 – 0.  Player of the Day was Samuel Russell

                                                                        Tuesday 3^rd June lost.  Player of the Day was Reuben Brown.

                                                                        Tuesday 17^th June vs Bluff Green court 2 @ 3.30 p.m.

Steel (Mrs Russells Team)                  Tuesday 10^th June won 7 – 2.  Player of the Day was Bronte Adams

                                                                        Tuesday 3^rd June won 10 – 4.  Player of the Day was Caitlin Russell

                                                                        Tuesday 17^th June vs Ascot Angels court 4 @ 3.30 p.m.

Stars (Mrs Millynns Team)                  Tuesday 10^th June won 13 – 6.  Players of the Day were Tammy & Chelsea.

                                                                        Tuesday 3^rd June drew 8 – 8.  Player of the Day was Jessica-Lee Kyle.

                                                                        Tuesday 17^th June vs St. John’s Blue court 7 @ 4.30 p.m.

 

HEADLICE

This seems to be an ongoing problem at the moment.  We insist parents check their child’s hair and treat if necessary.

 

Invercargill Budget Advisory Service (Inc) is a free, confidential service offering personal and household budgeting for all ages.  We are available to talk to groups, organisations and schools about budgeting, savings, debt etc.  Contact Karen Ralston (Coordinator) on 218 7001 for further information.

 

PTA

FUNRAISER  ~  The meat from Woodlands Butchery will be at school on Tuesday 17^th June from 2 pm.  Please make sure you are there on the day to collect it as we have no freezer storage available.  You are responsible for delivering the meat you sold. 

Thank you for your support.

 

FAMILY NIGHT OUT  ~  Mystery Movie Night 28^th June.  Suitable for all ages $5 per person.  All children must be accompanied by an adult.  Sausage sizzle and other treat food will be available !!!!!

 

 

Class Happenings

 

Room 3

Three weeks ago, our class, along with Rooms 8 and 9 went to the Transfer Station, the Garage and the Recycling Centre.  We would like to thank you all for the offers of help that we received for our trip and to those that came with us.  Here is a selection of our stories about that trip.

 

Room 3 went to the Transfer Station.  We learned about plastic bottles.  They go to Japan and when they come back to New Zealand, they are turned into Cotton Soft toilet paper.  We went to the Recycling Centre. 

We had to wear special jackets so the people working could see us.                                                 By Emma

 

At school on Friday, we went the Transfer Station and Donna showed us the bushes in a pile, in a very big pile too.  We saw the wheelie bins trucks too.  We put vests on at the Recycling Centre so the people on the big machines wouldn’t run us over.                                                                                                                                                                           By Rohan

 

Rooms 3, 8 and 9 went to the Transfer Station and there were big machines.  We went on the bus and we had to wear vests at the Recycling Centre.                                                                                                             By Mitchell

 

Room 8

On Friday the 23^rd Room 8 went on a Waste wise tour.  First we went to the transfer station and Donna, who told us all about the transfer station, was waiting for us.  Donna showed us the green waste section.  At the green waste section there was a machine that got filled up with all our green waste and transformed it into bark chips.  Next we went to the Recycling centre where Chris was waiting for us.  Chris gave us each a safety jacket.

The adults got the orange jackets and the children got the yellow jackets.  Chris took us over to the paper bales.  He told us 72 bales of paper (the bales were quite big) get made into 1 magazine.  In the Recycling centre there were lots of conveyer belts.

Next we went to the garage which had lots of things to sell.  Bev had been waiting for us.  We went into the workshop where there were two men checking out washing machines people had dropped in.  We went into the shop where there were lots of cool things like basketballs, mirrors and cutlery.  Recycling is fun.                                                                        By Molly

 

Room 9’s

Our Timeline about: How long things take to decompose?

Room 9 have been working on recycling. We made a timeline. We discovered that a paper bag takes 2.5 months to decompose. We discovered that a milk cartoon takes 5 years to decompose. A tin can takes 100 years to decompose. An aluminium can takes 20 - 500 years to decompose. However meat trays and polystyrene never decomposes.

We thought about how long it takes for things to decompose.

We worked out that if one baby used 4 disposal nappies a day that would be 28 nappies a week. There are 52 weeks in a year. On a calculator we worked out one baby would use 1456 nappies in a year. Renee wondered what happens to all those nappies and what happens to the land.

We found out that they go to the landfill and get squashed into the ground. Yuck!

 But one day it will turn into compost and trees will grow there.

Rory did some research at home. He found out that disposal nappies were invented in 1951. He was amazed because nappies take 75years to decompose.

THAT MEANS THAT NO DISPOSAL NAPPIES HAVE DECOMPOSED YET.