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20 March 2019 Number 08
Banks Avenue School Living and Learning with HEART
Te oranga me te ako ki te Ngākau
N E W S L E T T E R
Phone: 03 385 4163, fax: 03 385 6581 email: [email protected], website: www.banksave.school.nz
18 – 29 March Junior Module Swimming at Tairoa QE11
Monday 25 March Canterbury Duathlon
Team Miro Camp Parent Information Evening 7:00pm in the library
Thursday 28 March BoT Meeting 6:15pm in the Sky Room – all welcome
Tuesday 2 April ESOL Parent Meeing 2:15 – 3:00pm in the staffroom
Thursday 4 April Canterbury Swimming Sports
Friday 5 April Peace Day – wear multi coloured representing joy and happiness. Gold coin donation
Huihuinga (school assembly) 2:00pm in the library
Monday 8 April PTA meeting 7:00pm in the staffroom – all welcome
Tuesday 9 April Whole School Cross Country, postponement day 11/4
Wednesday 10 April Rugby League Tournament
Thursday 11 April Last day Term 1. Children dismissed at 3:00pm
Friday 12 April TEACHER ONLY DAY
Monday 29 April Term 2 begins
Banks Avenue School trip / event postponements and or cancellations will only be heard on
NEWSTALK ZB 1098AM and CLASSIC HITS and viewed on our website: www.banksave.school.nz
If your child is absent from school, for any reason, please let our school office know using one of the following
options: Phone: 385 4163 / option 3 text 027 422 8032 email: [email protected]
Or notify us via our website: http://www.banksave.school.nz/absences.html or via our Flexibuzz app:
www.flexibuzz.com
If your child arrives at school after 9:00am they must check in at the office. This saves a lot of phone calls for
unexplained absences in order to ensure the safety of all our children.
Dear Parents and Whānau
We welcome the following children and their families
to our Banks Avenue School community.
Support for Parents - Thursday and
Friday afternoon Mana ake is the Ministry of Education's wellbeing
initiative. We have organised for Mana ake to run two
parent support / network sessions on Thursday and
Friday afternoon.
We are aware that the events of the last week have
been very traumatic for a number of people on a
number of levels.
These sessions will be an opportunity for parents to
meet, share what's on top and get some support from
professionals.
The sessions will run in the library from 2:30 – 3:00pm
on both Thursday and Friday. Each session will cover
the same material so you do not need to attend both
sessions. If you have toddlers you are very welcome to
bring them along.
Teacher Professional Development On Thursday we have four leaders attending sessions
run by Nathan Wallis on supporting children and adults
in dealing with trauma. Nathan is a guru on child
development and psychology so we look forward to his
words of wisdom. Nathan Wallis Biography
Hi, kia ora, Kon-nichiwa, An-nyong, Salaam, Teanastellen . .
, konnichiwa.
Teatua
Roto Tumanako
Awa
Peace Day - 5 April We have several families who have been immediately
impacted by last Friday’s event. We have decided we
will organise a school wide Peace Day on Friday
5 April. Children are invited to wear multi coloured
clothing representing joy and happiness. We ask for a
gold coin donation. The school council will collect
money from classes. The Board will match the money
raised by the children. Money raised will be donated
to our Muslim families who have been impacted by
this atrocity.
Union Meetings Postponed There will be no early closures of school this
week. The union meetings that had been
organised for Wednesday and Thursday have
been postponed to a later date so we will have all staff
at school and therefore have no need for parents to pick
children up early.
Orana Wildlife Family Pass Thanks to Garden City Communications for the family
pass to Orana Park that you have donated to us. In the
next two weeks I will be asking teachers to identify
children from their classes who they see showing our
HEART values consistently. I will do a special draw
and the name I pull out will get the family pass to
Orana Park. Perfect
timing for the
school holidays!
PTA Update On Monday night the PTA held their AGM.
Congratulations to Marilyn who was re-elected - as our
PTA chairperson. Our PTA do a wide range of things
throughout the year. These were evident in the
Chairpersons Report at the AGM. This report is on our
school website.
Coming Up Bulb sales orders close today. These will be delivered
before the end of term.
Next term, on the first day of school, the PTA will be
welcoming new parents to our school. They will
provide refreshments for the parents and give them a
brief orientation about the school.
The PTA have also organised Hell Pizzas for week two
of Term 2. Order forms will go home in the last week
of this term.
If you think you would like to join the PTA come
along to a meeting. Their next meeting is at 7:00pm in
the staffroom on Monday 8 April.
The PTA need a new (second hand) chest freezer. If
you have one that you no longer
need could you contact Sue
Turner on 021 634 666 or email:
Marilyn on 021 222 6867 or
email:
Second Hand Uniform Shop
Open this Friday, 22 March from 1:45 – 3:15pm.
Size 5 sweatshirt, polo fleece and shirt – buy one get
one FREE!
Review of Friday Friday caught all of us in Christchurch off guard. For
us the situation was compounded by having no official
communication from the Ministry of Education or the
Police until close to 3pm. We were first alerted that
there was an incident in Christchurch developing by
one of the office ladies receiving a text from her
daughter at Avonside saying they were in lockdown; at
that stage we had 370 children assembled into the
library, a bit restless as assembly was almost over.
We had two key decisions we had to make quite
quickly and with little official information.
1. Did we lock down in the library or did we
move the children back to their rooms?
2. Did we let the parents who were at school or
those who arrived within the next few minutes
take their children home or did we insist they
stay with us?
As with every emergency situation there are things that
need to be reflected on and improved.
Senior staff have had the opportunity to meet and
review our processes and our decisions on the day. As
a society we are having to reprogramme ourselves
about the level of threats that we could be exposed to
and the likelihood of those threats eventuating. We are
no longer a safe little haven at the bottom of the world.
Knowing what we know now, would our decisions
have been the same? We know there are areas we need
to improve on: it is important that we get parent
feedback and that as a management team and as a
school we work on being ‘better than before’.
To give your feedback about Friday click on the
following link: http://www.banksave.school.nz/latest-
news-20189.html or complete the paper review
attached to this newsletter. Please return to our school
drop box at the school office by Monday 25 March.
We want to hear from you.
Teacher Only Day - Friday 12 April School will finish this term on Thursday 11
April. On Friday 12 April we have a teacher only
day where all staff will update their first aid
certificates. Our first day back next term is
Monday 29 April.
Neela is showing us she is a super worker in Ruru.
She is getting on with her work straight away and is
trying very hard to strive for ‘excellence’. We can see
an improvement every day.
Keep up the great work Neela!
Video Games There are a number of video games that our
young children have access to that cause me
concern; Fortnite, Call of Duty and Grand
Theft Auto are the key ones. Each of these
games has an R rating and they all have
violence and weaponry in them. Even if
children do not have the game they can
watch other children playing them on
YouTube. PLEASE monitor what your
children are doing while they are online. With
games like this we normalise atrocities and desensitise
ourselves to violence and violent situations.
Be Vigilant We have had reports of a gentleman acting
strangely in our local area. The Police have
been notified. Please be vigilant and ensure
your child’s journey to and from school is
safe, e.g., not walking through the red zone or
along the river by themselves. You may like
to remind them about how to act or respond if
they are approached by a stranger.
Sometimes families have safe words set up. If anything
suspicious occurs contact the police and let us know.
HEART Values Our HEART values are central to all that we do at
Banks Avenue School. Children are given HEART
tokens for showing individual values. These tokens are
collated by the class teacher. When a child has twenty
five HEART tokens for a value their name goes in the
newsletter. When they have earned fifty tokens for a
value they receive a value wristband. Once a child has
received all five HEART wristbands they work toward
the Black wristband - This makes them a Banks
Avenue Star.
Some children earn more than one wristband for the
same value. These children get to have lunch with the
principal once a term.
Children belong to four different houses; each term all
HEART tokens are added to see which house has
received the most tokens for the term. There is always
a small treat for children in the winning house.
Congratulations to the following children who have all
earned 25 HEART tokens - well done!
Hauora: Johan B (Tui).
Excellence: Ella D, Rihot D,
Gabriel G, Hunter T-M (Tui).
Respect: Jenn B (Tui).
Togetherness: Aiden A, Grace B (Tui), Kayla E
(Roto).
Fifty HEART Tokens
Congratulations - these children have
earned a wristband.
Hauora: Hollie L (Tui).
Excellence: Sam W (Tui).
Togetherness: Elizabeth C (Tui), Joel P (Roto).
Tune in to HEARTbeat 106.7FM Listen to our students master
broadcasting radio. If you
live close to the school
(within 6 kms) you can
tune into 106.7FM on your radio,
to listen. If you live further away, you can access
HEARTbeat 106.7FM online, from our school website.
For quick access just click on the link below.
http://www.banksave.school.nz/heartbeat-1067fm.html
‘HOT SHOT’ LEARNER’
Team Miro Camp Parent Information
Evening Monday 25 March
7:00pm in the Library
More information is coming home with the
newsletter today.
Hagley Community College Homework Centre is
closed this week.
We open again on the 26 March.
For support phone or text 1737
Parent Seminars The Youthalive Trust are running a
number of parent seminars on
Understanding Anxiety,
Understanding Aggression and The
Power of Connection. See pamphlet
attached for more details.
Banks Avenue Grant Team We are looking for volunteers to be part of our Banks
Avenue Grant Team. The focus of the Grant Team is
on raising much needed funds for the school by
submitting grant applications. Join a fun bunch of
ladies who have successfully raised $55,000 for the
school over the last two years. On average meetings
occur once a month. Interested?
Contact Tracey (DP-Senior
School) or Colleen (Office
Manager) 03 385 416.
Latest News Click on the link below to check out the Latest News
page on our school website. The children in our school
Media Team capture all the events that are occurring in
the school. You will find their news articles here.
http://www.banksave.school.nz/latest-news-
20189.html
Whakatauki
From Team Miro The afternoon yesterday was filled with fun, engagement, laughter and leadership as the children in Team Miro
participated in the Top Team Challenges. These challenges involve team-based activities that promote co-
operation, initiative, problem-solving and communication skills. After recent events it was lovely to see our
children outside having a lot of fun!