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Thursday 23 September
九月二十三日 星期四
$2 per sausage or $3 for 2 Juice boxes $1 each
香肠$2一个或$3两个 果汁$1一盒
Please note that there will be no lunch orders available from the lunchroom on this day as it will be closed.
注意：请不要从lunchroom订购午餐因为lunchroom将暂停营业一天。
The Green Kiwis are very busy at the moment with several events taking place.
Don’t Let The Pigeon Eat Your Lunch!
A group of Green Kiwis will be performing a lively play on Friday, 3 September, to entertain and educate the Junior School children about the consequences of feeding our resident pigeon population.
Cake Stall – Friday, 10 September
As promised earlier this year, the Green Kiwis are having a cake stall especially for the Junior School as they missed out last time! Children will be able to buy home baking for 50 cents and $1.
TravelWise Time Zone Map – Monday, 13 September
All the Green Kiwis will be working with the team from TravelWise to produce a Time Zone Map for the school detailing checkpoints within 5, 10 and 15 minutes walking distance from our school.
World Car Free Day, Wednesday, 22 September
Leave your car at home and walk to school along with people from all over the world! Even if you have to travel a way to get to school, you could leave your car a short distance from school and join the walkers! Once you arrive at school, there will be a welcome at the gates! Parents, you can have a coffee with other parents once you arrive.
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Epsom Normal Primary School Board of Trustees has determined that there are likely to be approximately 25 places in New Entrants/Year 1 level (for children turning 5 between 13 December 2010 – 5 December 2011), and 8 places in Year 3 level for out-of-zone students in 2011.
Application forms for all students are available from the school office between Monday to Friday, 8am to 4pm. The deadline for receipt of applications for out-of-zone places is 15 October 2010. The ballot will be held on 20 October 2010.
Parents of students who live within the home zone should also apply by this date to assist the school to plan appropriately next year. Students who live within the home zone are entitled to enrol at the school.
Epsom Normal Primary School
41 The Drive Epsom 1023
Tel: 630 5144
Congratulations to all of the students who participated.
Please click on the link below to view the students who have earned High Distinction and Distinction in the above subjects.
Please click on the link below to view the terms of the PTA organization.
The school has run several very successful fundraisers so far this year. The History-athon in Term 2 raised a whopping $8,500 to go towards sunshades on the senior field behind Rooms 9 and 10. We have now raised enough ($12,000) for these to be erected and they will be up and ready for the summer term.
Last term the Student Voice asked the PTA for soccer nets ($440) so they could use them at morning tea and lunch breaks. They are now in regular use on the senior field.
The Mufti week and the sausage sizzle held at the end of Term 2 raised $2,500, some of which went towards buying a new barbecue for the school.
The sale of the Entertainment books also raised an impressive $2,000. This money paid for the annual Gridclub Online subscription which is used widely by the students at school and at home. Check it out below…
http://www.gridclub.com.au/signup/login.php
Username: epsomnormal, Password: chinchilla16
At the meeting held on Monday 16th August, it was agreed that the PTA would buy five new iPads for the school totalling $4,500. Trials to date have proved to be very successful and popular with the students. Over the next few terms we may get some more so that they will be more accessible to the students.
The PTA also agreed to buy sand trays for use in the junior school and these will be available in these classrooms soon.
A huge thank you to everyone who has contributed in any way, shape or form to the fundraising.
The next meeting will be held on 17th September in the staffroom at 9am. Come along and meet the committee and have a chat about what we do. If you can, stay for the meeting and get involved – this is a way that you can help your children receive the extras that make ENPS such a successful school.
Regards
Sue Normanton
PTA Chairperson
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It was a great day with perfect weather for cross country. The children and parents were wonderful supporters of all those who participated and we had some very close sprints to the finish line.
Congratulations to all of those who participated and the very best of luck to the students who will represent the school at the upcoming Zone Interschool Finals.
Please click on read me below to view the top 10 place winners for Years 4 -6.
Last Friday our Year 5 and 6 gymnasts competed in the Remuera Zone Gymnastics Competition. All our gymnasts performed at their personal best and had a fantastic day! We have many children achieving very high scores and places went to…
William (Rm10) 3rd Floor, 2nd vault, 2nd mat and 2nd place OVERALL!
Claudia (Rm2) 2nd vault
Yalda (Rm6) 6th place OVERALL
Monique (Rm6) 2nd beam, 1st floor, 1st vault and 1st OVERALL!
AND… Our Year 5 Girls Team made up of Monique (Rm6), Yalda (Rm6), Stella (Rm2), and Claudia (Rm2) were placed 2nd OVERALL TEAM.
A big congratulations to all the gymnasts and a big thank you to their coaches, Mr. Jephson and Mrs. Boyte.
Here it is, the quiz that you have all been waiting for. Get your team together and enter in for your chance to win fabulous prizes. Click on the link below to view the questions that will be used for your quiz.
Beware! There may be some surprise capital questions in the quiz…
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TOGETHER WE CAN DO IT!!!
Our school is again taking part in the “Auckland City Council’s Chaos at the School Gate” programme. This is one way of working together to make our school a safe place for students and making sure that the local roads outside our school are safe for the wider community. We know you will want to help us in this.
Being in the ACC’s programme means that parking wardens will be assisting us by visiting our school regularly (from Week 2 this term) to monitor the drop off zone and parking around the school. They will be issuing infringement notices where appropriate. We as a school agree to keep our community informed about safe practices by communicating with school families about how they can help.
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
You can help us keep the school environment safe by:
- taking care to observe parking signage. Please note that the ‘2 minute zone’ requires the driver to remain in the car.
- making sure that when pulling into the drop off zone you move to the end rather than stop at the top (this allows others to pull in safely behind you).
- moving into the traffic carefully and going around the block rather than doing a ‘u turn’ to travel south.
- ensuring you model safe road crossing by using the zebra crossing if parking opposite the school.
- making sure that if collecting children you do not double park and ask students to walk between cars to get into your car.
- parking outside the yellow lines bordering the crossing so that sight lines are clear for our crossing patrols.
- parking a little further away from school and walking the extra distance to remove traffic from our gates.
- dropping children in safe places and ensure they do not alight from cars parked in traffic queues outside the school.
TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Shelley Quinlivan Jane Cavanagh-Eyre
Deputy Principal Principal
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