Week 5 NEWSLETTER

from the principal

Where to Next?

As mentioned last week, very soon our Board of Trustees will start work on our next 3 year strategic plan. They will want to hear from you...what do you want for your child? What are your hopes and aspirations? What does DPS do well already? What can we improve?

The school is very lucky to work with Mark Osborne (leading NZ educator) once a term, and the Board got to have an hour with him on Monday night. He mentioned two compelling reasons for why schools need to rethink approaches to teaching:

He spoke about the changes in society, particularly the impact of technology on the job economy. Robotics, automation and AI are increasingly having an impact on jobs...so we need to think about the skills and attributes our children will need to compete with the robots. Already some clear evidence in the Wairarapa...think self checkouts, and the close of small rural banks due to online banking/ATM’s.

He also spoke about neuroscience...what we know about how the brain learns. This field of science is relatively new...20-25 years or so. He reiterated the need for children to have ownership of their learning, to be making decisions for themselves, to be creating/making, to be working in teams and the importance of ‘play’.

While these are challenges he also mentioned often about how our Core Beliefs, our play based learning environment and the continual push for kids to make and create are setting your children up well for the future. One of his statements stuck with me...our Core Beliefs are great, so it is now the job of the school to ensure our Year 6’s leave with these deeply ingrained.

The video below (I’ve shared before) captures some of the radical advances in technology...remember this is technology that is currently in use across the world, and even here in NZ! The robotic milking shed is here, in our country.

DPS Rippa Rugby

Our Rippa Rugby team are gearing up for next week...off (once again) to the National Championship! For the third year running the team will compete against the best schools in the country...against the larger cities, as well as smaller. An amazing feat to go back to back to back...and to play on the big stage against the very best. I know that the team will conduct themselves with PRIDE both on and off the field, that they will strive for Excellence, that they will fail, fall short, pick themselves up and try, try again. Real grit, resilience and the DPS Kid will be on show next week.

All the best team!

Making and Creating

Over the last two days I’ve had a literal swarm of children come to my office to share their awesome creations with me. I’m really starting to notice now a growing sophistication in what the children produce, the problems they are trying to tackle and their ability to talk about how their making is helping them as a learner.

Three examples below...and it could just have easily been over 30!

Connor and Xavier came to some me the puppets they had created...the photo doesn’t capture the articulation, movement and control they had. Very cool!

Charlotte showed me her one bedroom apartment (including TV, laptop, iPad, toilet and shower). It even had a garage with car. The really cool thing was the background that she had hinged to fold away when not in use. Awesome work!

This one was super cool...Rylan has been working hard at his making this term, and two projects I shared with the school in celebration time. A working gun, and a marble maze. Yesterday he came to show me the creation below...a pinball type machine! Combining skills from both previous projects, he created something super cool. The video is an early iteration...he then went on to include traps and obstacles for the marble when fired out. Amazing!

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Kids Korero

WHAT'S HAPPENING AT DPS?

Te Kuia Me Te Pūngāwerewere

The Kui and the Spider

Te Kuia Me Te Pūngāwerewere tells the story of an old lady and a spider who constantly argue & how they must work together in order to save the spiders world.

Taki Rua produces and develops te reo Māori children's theatre for schools around Aotearoa - a project they call Te Reo Māori Season. Their aim is to encourage students to use te reo Māori by providing positive reo - speaking role models.

The show is performed entirely in te reo Māori, but uses gestures and movement so that even non-speakers can follow along.

Where: Douglas Park School

When: 3rd September 2019

Cost: $2.50 per child

PLEASE PAY TO YOUR CHILD’S TEACHER BY Friday 30th August

If you have more than one child at school, please keep payments separate for each child.

TOMORROW!

Wear tidy mufti and donate to our Food Bank collection! Boxes will be set up in the office foyer for you to put your donations in...don’t take them to class just put them straight in the box when you get to school!

All donations will be delivered to the Masterton Food Bank

The Councillors will also be selling ice-blocks at lunchtime for $1 each

Please contact Pete Nikolaison directly with any of your queries concerning school photo's.

His details are:

Friends of Douglas Park School:

Wood Raffle Fundraiser 2019

(money raised to support Education Outside the Classroom at DPS)

Prize: Trailer load of wood

Tickets only $2 each.

Sheets are coming home Thursday the 22nd of Aug.

All ticket sheets and monies to be returned to the DPS office by Wednesday 4th September.

Raffle will be drawn on Friday 6th September and the winner will be contacted for prompt delivery.

More tickets are available from the DPS office if you are keen to sell more.

It’s that time of year again! The photography competition is back and we need your photos!

This year there are 4 categories that you can enter:

Non-Living
Living
Photo Essay
(And a new one this year) Graphic Design – Theme: Promote Your Region

Get your photos in to Miss West at awest@douglaspark.school.nz

For more information - check out http://www.reapwairarapa.nz/wairarapa-photography-competition/

return orders by 12th September !

FRIDAY LUNCH

Order your subway lunch at the office or online.

Please ensure/remind your child to write their name on the envelope

DPS Sport 2019

Rippa Nationals 2019

The team will be selling lollies for $2 a bag tomorrow! Thanks for your support...

After winning the Wairarapa qualifier and the earning the right to represent Wairarapa Bush, Coach Joe Dahlberg and his Rippa team head off to Nationals in Wellington this weekend. They will be play as "Georgia" in the World Cup themed event.

You can keep an eye on how we are going and catch some games live on Small Blacks TV!

This is the third year in a row DPS has qualified for Rippa Nationals, where the 26 best teams in NZ compete. The team would like to thank the following sponsors;

NorthCo - Team Hoodies

Higgins Masterton - Team backpacks

Southend Pharmacy - Drink Bottles

Wairarapa Bush - Beanies and tracksuits

Yr 3-6 Miniball in Term 3

Miniball games and practises are underway. Teams/Practise days are on the daily notices

All games are at the YMCA in Masterton and the link to the draw is on their website.

http://ymcawellington.org.nz/index.php/sports-leagues/

DPS Bulls play in the Monday night league and all other teams play on Wednesday night.

Players need to wear correct DPS sports uniform and sneakers to games , and check in with their coach 15 minutes before their game.

Yr 3-6 Netball 2019

FINALS WEEK!

Monday 26th August is Festival Day for the Yr 3/4 teams

A fun night with lots of spot prizes! A big thanks to Rachel Bird, Waireka Collings and Tania Corlett-Galyer for coaching our teams.

Tuesday 27th August in finals day for Yr 5/6 teams.

Check out the draw below - we would love to have lots of DPS supporters on the sideline! Prizegiving will follow the grade 1 final which is played at 6pm. GOOD LUCK DPS TEAMS!

Grade 1A - GRAND Final

5pm Ct 3 DPS Pulse v St Pats

Grade 1A - 3rd & 4th

4pm Ct 5 DPS Steel v Opaki Whero

Grade 2A - GRAND Final

4pm Ct 3 DPS Magic v MPS Tornadoes

Grade 2A - 5th & 6th

6pm Ct 10 DPS Tactix v Greytown Comets

Grade 3A - 3rd & 4th

4pm Ct 8 DPS Mystics v Carterton Ruru

A big thanks to Alaina Hing, Mr Blue, Miss West, Miss Choat, Miss Eagle and Mrs Williams for coaching our teams.

If games are cancelled it will be on the Netball Wairarapa FB page and the DPS FB page.

Please do not assume if it is raining that it will be cancelled.

Winter Hockey

What: End of season winter hockey break up.

Who: All winter hockey teams.

Where: Douglas Park School Turf

Why: To celebrate a successful winter hockey season!

When: Friday 6th September 2019

Time: 3.15-4.30pm

Required: Hockey gear and a plate of food to share please.

6 aside games for Friday 23rd August

DPS Renegades vs Fernridge Flames 4:50 p.m. JNLH1

DPS Macs vs Feathy Black 4:50 p.m. JNLH2

Keep an eye on the Hockey Wai website for the draws each week.

Our 11aside hockey team have had a fantastic season! This weekend they play St Matts at 9.30 on Saturday, in the final of the Intermediate C grade. Well done team!!!

Well done to our 1/4 field 6aside teams who had their last game on Tuesday night. It has been awesome to watch their skills develop over the season. A big thank you to the coaches; DPS Black; Kris, DPS Red; Mrs McPhail and DPS White; Tracey. We appreciate the time you have dedicated to helping these young hockey players!

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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?

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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