Week 6 NEWSLETTER

In our work with Mark Osborne to realise this vision, he shared the characteristics of an effective vision with us

• Imaginable: Conveys a picture of what the future will look like

• Desirable: Appeals to the long-term interests of all who have a stake in the organisation

• Feasible: Comprises realistic, attainable goals

• Focused: Is clear enough to provide guidance in decision making

• Flexible: Is general enough to allow individual initiative and alternative responses in light of changing conditions

• Communicable: Is easy to communicate; can be exchanged in the corridor and successfully explained in seconds.

We’d love to hear your feedback on this draft vision...what do you think, does this resonate with you, do you think it meets the criteria above? Flick me any thoughts to: principal@douglaspark.school.nz

Across this term we are trying out the individual post feature, so by the time we have Learning Conversations, your child will have at least one post within HERO about them.

Parents receive ONE form of notification when a Community Notice is published. If they log into the Hero mobile app they will receive an in-app notification. If they log into Hero via a web browser they will receive an email notification.

If you can’t login to the Hero app at any stage due to a technical issue, remember you can also access Hero via this website link: https://our.linc-ed.com/ and please let us know if you require any help or support, we are happy to do so.

Photography Competition - Wow!

A great night for DPS and our budding young photographers last night at MIS! The Annual Wairarapa Photography Competition has been running, and the prizegiving was last night...and DPS really came to the party. The full list of achievements are in the table below, but of the 6 event categories DPS placed 1st in 5 of them! Alessandra, Gerrard, Mia, Lachlan and Reece were these winners, with Jack, Naya, and Micaiah placing in the top 3. A great effort team, and after chatting to your whanau, we know a lot of effort has been put into this success.

That wasn’t the end of it though...Mia also won the overall prize for Architecture for her stunning photo! Super effort.

The quality of the photos from the children of our region was simply stunning...a real step up once again from the past. Can’t wait to see what next year brings!

Important Dates

Monday 7th and Tuesday 8th December - Learning Conversations.

Friday 11th December - Final Celebration Time (10am start) and we finish for the year at 12.30pm.

This year we have the 2 spaces available on the Douglas Park School Board of Trustees. We have 3 candidates who have put their name forward and now you get to have your say. Voting papers will be coming to you via post and need to be returned to school by 4pm on Friday 4th December. There will be a ballot box in the office foyer or you can post it to us. If posting, please try to post it as early as possible as New Zealand Post has reduced postal delivery days in some areas. If you need any more information, please contact Hayley Sinton - hayleysinton@douglaspark.school.nz

Have a read of the candidate statements below.

My Favourite Moment At Camp

By Isabell

When I went to camp my favourite part was the flying fox because it went really fast and it was also really cool because I went over trees. It was two hundred meters long!

I don't know how high it was but I think it was about sixty meters.

My second favorite was kayaking. It was fun paddling. I almost got stuck but I learnt how to turn and go forward. It was freezing. I couldn't even feel my hands so it made it a little harder to paddle but it was really fun!

My Favourite Day At EOTC

by Shekinah

My favourite day was the movie day and Among Us. At the start of the day we played on Among Us and Minecraft. I liked the Among us because we got to join other peoples games. And I liked Mindcraft because you could build with your friends. Then after that we went to the hall where there was a bouncy castle and a badminton game and a bowling game. Me, Pyper, Elyse, and Poppy went on the Bouncy Castle. It was an obstacle course.

We went back to the class room and played some more games. Then we had morning tea.

Then we came back to the class room and got into our PJs. Then we got into our blankets and bean bags. Then we watched a movie. The camp kids came back to school then we said “Hi” to them.

After that we went back to the classroom and finished the movie.

After the movie we packed all of the stuff away and went back home.

The Beach

By Jadyn

I did not go to camp or EOTC I went and spent time with my whānau. There was Liz, Lana, Trida and my mum Rachel so here I am writing about Riversdale Beach. I am writing about my favourite time at the beach.

I had lots of favourites and it was hard to pick from all of them but I have managed to pick some of my favourite activities. I liked roasting the marshmallows and eating the american hot dogs. We all got to watch a movie. The movie was Spies in Disguise. It was funny because the spy gets turned into a pigeon. In the pigeon form he or should I say she was a girl pigeon but in reality he was a man. We all played spotlight around the cabins in the middle of the night after the marshmallows. My mum had to play because the rest of my group was really scared and were joking around alot. Another one of my favourite things was when we all went boogie boarding in the sea. I did not like it when I got sunburn on my shoulder.

Camp Kaitoke

By Julie

My favourite moment at camp was the giant swing.

I went to the very top like the maximum top of the giant swing. When I went up the giant swing group nine, Brookes group was pulling me up the giant swing. I was really, really, really, really, really terrified and was really, really interesting at the top. When I looked down, the people looked so small but when I looked beside me there was a hill, it was so interesting.

I got to pull a rainbow rope so I can swing. I pulled the rainbow rope to my stomach and I let go of the yellow rope that strong amazing group nine, Brookes group was pulling. When I let go of the soaking wet rainbow rope I swinged.

While I was swinging I could feel air coming past me and in me, it was really cold but luckily I had two warm jackets and one rain jacket.

It was so awesome but then Oscar had to try and catch me so I could go off and another person could have an amazing adventure up in the giant swing like me.

THE HAUNTED HOUSE

Made by Bennion Wiser Hapi

Hello! My name is Edward and I will tell you the story of when I went into the HAUNTED HOUSE, now once upon a time....I was walking down the street for my evening walk, when all of a sudden a creepy house appeared out of nowhere! I was a little creeped out but I wanted to see what was in the house, so I looked inside a window and saw nothing, so I peeked in the door and nearly hit my head on the stony ground, inside there was a 1 hour old HUMAN corpse! I jerked back as soon as I saw it and fell over. I decided to explore inside of the house even though I was SUPER creeped out. I entered and an axe came swinging down on my head! I ducked just in time, “woah!” I said, I was more than creeped out by this place, I was scared. Even though I was scared I kept on going and the deeper I got the more booby-traps there were. Once I saw a 200 year old skeleton, it’s the owner's skeleton I thought, maybe even older than 200 I thought again “hmmmm” I said as I side stepped a swinging axe easely “these traps are getting easy to predict” I said. Then inside of the HAUNTED HOUSE a spike trap came out of nowhere and I nearly lost my foot! “WHAT THE HECK!!?”Then I saw a door and entered a room through it. When I did I realised how real this place was. It was all fake! “WHAT!!!??”I shouted “You idiot!!!” then the other dude said “what?” then I said “you freakin tried to kill me!!!” then I saw a grenade. “Grenade!!” I shouted then I realised it wasn't a live grenade (which means it has the pin removed) “oh” I said then I looked back at the man. There was something black crawling on to him “r..u..n…”he croaked to me “what!?” then it hit me (I mean I found out what the black thing was) it was venom! ”that's venom!!!!!!” I screamed “I'm gonna die here!” I screamed, “AAAAAAAAH!! “We are venom, ha ha ha haaa” “eyes, lungs, heart, all the things I am going to eat” then I got eaten by venom. so you're probably wondering how I’m telling you this story when I'm dead, this is how, I’m a ghost!(:

Hard Words explained:

VENOM: a symbiote (alien) from a meteorite that hit earth, there are two kinds of symbiote, carnage, a symbiote that does not change from its host (the person it controls) and venom, a symbiote that if it sees a stronger person, it controls that person,and eats the other one.

Grenade: a military explosive that explodes when you pull the pin on it.

Ghost: a spirit.

Axe: a weapon used by Vikings.

Skeleton: an old dead body.

DENTAL BUS

As you will all be aware, we have the Dental Bus with us for the next couple of weeks. All children have been given a form to return so if haven't seen it, please check your child's bag and return the completed form. Thanks.

2020 Wellington Regional Athletics

Our team of 40 had a great day in the sun at the Masterton Cluster Athletics. Well done to the following pupils who have qualified to compete at the Wellington Regional event in Wk 8. Please note the relay teams are only on the day - the Masterton Cluster relay teams are made up of the top runners in each sprint.

A notice is coming home today with all the information...KA MAU TE WEHI!

• Yr 4 Girls

Maddison - 2nd in Quoits

• Yr 6 Girls - Relay Team = 2nd

Madi - 2nd in vortex, 3rd in high jump, 2nd 80m, 2nd 150m

Aneka - 3rd in vortex, 2nd in quoits

• Yr 4 Boys - Relay Team = 1st

Rylan - 1st in quoits, 2nd in vortex, 2nd in long jump,

Jack - 1st in high jump

• Yr 5 Boys - Relay Team = 2nd

Levi - 1st in high jump, 1st in long jump, 2nd in 80m, 2nd in 150m

Blake - 3rd in quoits

• Yr 6 Boys

Reid - 2nd in 800m

Jared - 3rd in vortex

Luke - 2nd in high jump

Alatise - 3rd in long jump, 3rd in 80m