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Week 10 NEWSLETTER
Week 10 NEWSLETTER
from the principal
from the principal
We Want Your Input!
We Want Your Input!
The Board of Trustees are starting their work on the next Strategic Plan for Douglas park...the plan that will guide us for the next 3 years. This is your chance to have your say...what are the big picture ideas you have for the school, for learning, and for your child? A short survey will come out today, this is the start of the process. Early next term the Board will collate this data, and also look to hold some face-to-face hui as well. We want your voice, we want your ideas and we want your input into how we can make our awesome school even greater.
Farewell Angela!
Farewell Angela!
Our lovely Office Administrator and Librarian is off on a new adventure, starting next term. Angela (Mrs Carter) joined our team way back in 2013 in the Library, then starting in the office not long after. She has done amazing things to our library in that time, making it a very engaging place for young readers, and always bringing in new exciting stories for children to pore over. A key member of the office team and a great support to me as I stepped into Principalship...Angela was very patient with some of my questions and requests! All the best for the future Angela, you’ll be missed.
Survey due tomorrow, so here is a digital version that can be completed online, click here to complete. The teaching team with the largest % return will get a prize reward...can you help your child help their team? 5mins max is all it will take, and the school will gain some very valuable, rich information about where to next for DPS.
Feedback on DPS
Feedback on DPS
We get a lot of educational visitors to Douglas Park, coming to see how we operate, to hear our thinking, to view our amazing kids, to see their learning in action and to check out the incredible learning spaces that we work within. This term alone we have had nearly a group per week on average, with more lining up to come (first set come in Week 1 next term). Why us? Why are they coming here?
As you know (because your children come here) learning is changing, new skills are needed for the future, different qualities (such as our Core Beliefs) are considered vital for the future, and the way we operate in the world due to technology has altered the way society is. At DPS we are keeping up, modifying our learning, physically changing our classrooms, demanding different things from our learners...in order to better prepare them. Not all schools are headed down this path, or are as far down that path as we are. People want to come here because we have interesting stories to share, they know that DPS is pushing the boundaries of what is possible, they want to know our WHY and our HOW.
What does this really mean? To translate to another industry...if a cafe in town that you were a regular in started making coffee differently (you still think it tastes amazing)...and other cafes from out of the area were sending their people to learn how they were doing it, if people were wanting to hear about this new way of working to improve their cafes...you’d feel pretty good as a customer there, you’d know that you are getting a really amazing latte!.
Enrolment Scheme (Our Zone)
Enrolment Scheme (Our Zone)
The Board met this week and have decided to open up 20 places for Out of Zone students in Terms 1 & 2 next year. Information and applications will go out to those on our database, but feel free to let other interested parents know of this opportunity.
More Sporting Success!
More Sporting Success!
Lots of our DPS Students played soccer this season and came away with some awesome awards! Well done on all your dedication to your clubs guys. Here are a few kids who were recognised highly!
Jack White
Jack White
Rata
Maz Hargood
Maz Hargood
Kahikatea
Mady Matiaha-Eynon
Mady Matiaha-Eynon
Kahikatea
whakatauki
whakatauki
Kids Korero
Kids Korero
WHAT'S HAPPENING AT DPS?
WHAT'S HAPPENING AT DPS?
2019 Kapa Haka Festival
2019 Kapa Haka Festival
REAP Wairarapa Whakaoriori Kapa Haka Festival 2019 will be hosted by Makoura College on Friday 27th September at Makoura College Hall, Makora Road, Masterton, starting with a Powhiri at 9.00am.
All parents and whanau are welcome to come along and support their tamariki. DPS will be performing at 9.45am.
Out of courtesy to the performers there will be no admission during individual school performances. Please ensure you are there at least fifteen minutes before your school’s performance time.
Please note that there will be no parking inside Makoura College grounds. Makoura College will have food for sale for adults/whanau.
A detailed notice has been sent home for all pupils taking part in this.
Lucky Book Clubs
Lucky Book Clubs
DPS will no longer take payment through the school but you can still order through the LOOP platform and pay with your credit card. Your items will be delivered to school and given to your child as previously.
DPS will no longer take payment through the school but you can still order through the LOOP platform and pay with your credit card. Your items will be delivered to school and given to your child as previously.
Click on the link below to register
Please see Gemma (Mrs) McPhail for assistance!
Friday Subway lunch orders
Friday Subway lunch orders
At the office (please ensure your child's name is on the envelope!)
or order online.
DPS Sport 2019
DPS Sport 2019
Term 4 Sport
Term 4 Sport
Information for term 4 sport has been sent home with pupils. Permission slips and any fee required must be handed in to the box in the office by Friday 18th October (first week back next term). Please make sure any money is in a named envelope.
No late permission slips will be accepted.
Any pupil who plays sport for DPS must wear the DPS sports uniform. This is available from the uniform shop by McDonalds or at our DPS second-hand uniform shop which is open on Wednesday before and after school.
DPS kids will be able to sign up for the following sports...
community notices
community notices
Kia ora
Kia ora
Aratoi is running a 3-Day Workshop for this October holidays.
Aratoi is running a 3-Day Workshop for this October holidays.
50 / FIFTY - 50 YEARS AT ARATOI
SCHOOL HOLIDAY PROGRAMME
Tues – Thurs, 8th - 10th October
Explore different techniques and media -- printmaking, drawing, collage.
Be inspired by the 50/50 exhibition -- in articular, we will explore the several works by New Zealand artist Robin White.
Design and create several Robin White-inspired artworks to take home.
BOOKINGS ARE ESSENTIAL: info@aratoi.co.nz
Tel 06 370 0001 (open daily 10am - 4pm)
Cost: $90 (all materials included)
We are a local masterton based cricket club wanting to promote the game of cricket to interested junior players for the upcoming season. We are looking to offer cricket to school aged children that have taken an interest in the game of cricket, many thanks to the great efforts of our national team at the cricket World Cup earlier this year.
With support from current players and coaches we offer this program, without the request of teacher support.
Please be advised that Lansdowne cricket would like to invite all children who might wish to play cricket this year to our junior open day to be held on the Queen Elizabeth oval at 10.30am Sunday October 20th. This event will be some fun games of rapid cricket followed by a sausage sizzle and junior player registration of interest to play for the upcoming season. We also have a number of free prizes to be given away, courtesy of Wairarapa cricket association.
Click to view: Wellington Zoo
ARTS MONTH – SEPTEMBER 2019
ARTS MONTH – SEPTEMBER 2019
A month to give arts and creativity some serious oxygen.
This September the Arts Foundation, with the help of Creative NZ, Chartwell Trust, NZ Post, BJ Ball, Spectrum Print, NZME, Phantom Billstickers and Go Media, are going live and wide throughout New Zealand to create open and safe spaces to share what art is to Aotearoa. It's time to give the arts some much needed oxygen to help grow their understanding and support.
Arts Month aims to bring arts up on the agenda and map out Aotearoa’s own definition of art, while also acknowledging the arts and creativity as a valuable medium for a greater sense of wellbeing and connectedness in our communities.
We’re asking all New Zealanders to express what ‘art is’ to them. A simple question with so many answers – the public are invited to participate in a digital and street-level campaign.
We’re asking all New Zealanders to express what ‘art is’ to them. A simple question with so many answers – the public are invited to participate in a digital and street-level campaign.
Head to www.artsmonth.co.nz and get creative with the pencil, paintbrush, text, image, or spray-paint icons, then hit "post" to share your definition with the nation. #ArtsMonthNZ
The school holidays are FAST APPROACHING! Are our B-Legends team at Trust House Recreation are super excited!
Are you still a little unsure where to put your children?
LOOK NO FURTHER! Our safe, fun environment is the perfect place for any child! Whether they are shy and like quiet, or the most outgoing bubbly child, we have it all!!!
These holidays are filled with adventures, excitement and loads more that will make your children want to come back EVERY HOLIDAYS!
For more information, pop into our facility 2 Dixon Street, Call us 06 370 0060 or send us an email thouseblegends@gmail.com!!
We can't wait to hear from you!
Trust House Reception
Trust House Recreation centre
Belgravia Health & Leisure Group Pty Ltd
2 Dixon Street, Masterton
E-mail thousereception@belgravialeisure.co.nz Web http://trusthouserecreationcentre.co.nz
Join Rugby legend Stu Wilson and the Save Poto House group for an awesome evening raising funds for the Wairarapa College hostel.
Join Rugby legend Stu Wilson and the Save Poto House group for an awesome evening raising funds for the Wairarapa College hostel.
28th September from 6pm til late.
28th September from 6pm til late.
Great food provided, cash bar on-site and a Talk with Q+A from Stu.
There will be a charity auction on the night with fishing charters, deer hunts, glamping, a signed All Blacks jersey and more.
$800 for a table of 10 - email help@savepotohouse.co.nz to reserve your table.
Talofa
Talofa
REAP supports a Masterton based playgroup for all Pasifika whānau. It is called Moana Playgroup and was established in 2016 to enable Pacific Island families, with their pre-schoolers, to come together and celebrate their unique languages and cultures.
It takes place on Mondays and Tuesdays 10.00am-12.00pm at The Spot, 365 Queen Street, Masterton and is supported by Fale Lio.
The playgroup promotes: Early Childhood Education and participation, Pacific Languages and cultures, healthy eating and living for whānau.
Kids, are you looking for fun on a Friday night?
Kids, are you looking for fun on a Friday night?
Then come along to Kids' Club, 5.30 till 7.30pm on Fridays at the Baptist Church. We provide a safe, family atmosphere with table tennis, computer games, craft, a kid-friendly light tea, Bible stories and organised games. The cost is just $2.50 per child. Phone Liz on 0272233100 for more details or just come along and have a look. We're on the corner of Renall and Chapel Streets; entrance off Renall St.
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