Week 10 NEWSLETTER

from the principal

Kōwhai Team + Leadership Team Changes

As Rosie gets closer to baby Puddy arriving, we have some changes coming in Kōwhai.

Rosie will finish her full time role at the end of this week, but will be with us until the end of term. She will be releasing Amy Williams in Kahikatea 2 days a week for Amy’s Kāhui Ako role.

Amanda Mitchell will start next week full time in Kōwhai and will carry on for the rest of this year. Amanda has vast experience at that level and led Kōwhai as Team Leader for many years.

We have appointed Megan Fraser to the Kōwhai Team Leader position and she will start this in 2021. From next term, Megan will join us on the school Leadership Team, and we look forward to having her voice as part of that.

We are truly lucky here at DPS to have such an awesome staff, super high quality...and just amazing people to go along with that.

DPS Kid - Pōwhiri

The shift to Alert Level 1 meant we got to have a whole school Celebration Time last week (first time in over 3 months!) and we got to welcome our new students and whānau into our school community. This termly event has evolved over the last few years into a very special occasion for our new people and we get some lovely positive feedback from those involved.

Earlier in the week, as part of our re-visioning work, the staff had discussed what we thought was important at our school, and the idea of relationships, connection/collaboration and individual strength came up. As part of my welcome I used this whakatauki:

Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi

He toa takatini.

My strength is not as an individual

But as a collective

We are a school that favours collaboration...it is one of our Core Beliefs, it is why we have open/flexible learning environments, and it is why we team teach...individually we have many strengths, but collectively we can do great things.

Welcome again to our new people, we look forward to getting to know you...and together you make us stronger.

Winter Sports

The winter sport season is getting closer! Football (through the clubs) is underway and our school sport teams for Netball and Hockey will be sorted soon. Notices have gone out, reminders on our daily notices and through our school facebook page. Forms due back this Friday (tomorrow!).

The Councillors are running the first Mufti Day for 2020!

When: Friday 26th June

If pupils choose to wear mufti, they pay a gold coin on the day to their home class teacher.

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

kids korero

writing - BLOMGREN

My new Wolf Onsie

I got a new onesie, yay!!!

It is a wolf and my brother got a new onesie too and his is a bunny. And it is a really good onesie. It is so fluffy and soft.

My one shows its sharp teeth and the ears stick up and kinda look like a real live wolf. By Haylee

A description

The small, tattered, stinky grey animal smelt the old gross, blue cheese as he slowly scampered across the dirty puddles. As he scampered along the broken sidewalk trying not to get spotted so he wouldn’t get “ewwed” by all the people.

As he skips along the road, his long, wrinkly, pink, wet and gross tail drags through the dirty puddles. Trying to get across the roads without getting turned into roadkill.

He is very smart and believe it or not he can ride a motorcycle but… sometimes he is selfish and greedy.

He lives in an old stinky boot owned by a girl from Snead Elementary School. That’s where his tall scary human friend Ryan goes to school.

Who am I? By Pippa

Chrystals

Tyler gave me chrystals. They are very cool. It comes in green and orange and black and white. They are circles and a square and a diamond and a giant square. They are seethrough and they reflect from the sun. By Jacob

Corona Virus an explanation

Co-vid-19 is a disease or a virus. It is spreading in the world. You can survive it or die from it. It is germs that you can catch. It is like a common cold but a common cold is not so severe. If you catch it and give it to someone and they pass it around you can go in quarintine.

By Shekinah

Staff Profiles

Cathy Sprowson

Jackie Seta

DPS Sport

2020 Yr 5/6 Netball Season

Permission slips are due TOMORROW and the fee of $25 needs to be paid by Wednesday 1st July.

No late permission slips will be accepted. Both need to be taken to the DPS office.

The Yr 5/6 netball season will take place over term 3 this year. Games will be on Tuesday night at the Wairarapa Trust House Netball Centre (Colombo Rd). The season will start on Tuesday 21st July and finish on Tuesday 22nd September. A detailed notice about the upcoming season has been sent home.

To prepare for the upcoming season we will be running the following pre-season program at DPS. All sessions will be during lunchtime and players need to bring sneakers and a drink bottle.

A Health and Safety Plan will be circulated with the latest Covid information no later than one week before the competition starts.

2020 Yr 1-4 Netball Program

Due to Covid-19 the Yr 1-4 netball program only got through 4/8 sessions in term 1. In response to the feedback from delegates, the Yr 1-4 netball program will be completed in term 4, ending with a fun festival day!

- New players are welcome in term 4

- Players who paid the fee in term 1 are covered in term 4

More information will come out about this program in term 3.

Any questions...please contact Amy Williams on amywilliams@douglaspark.school.nz

Winter Hockey Season

Sign up forms are due TOMORROW. Please ensure your child's form is in the blue box in the office before 3pm if they wish to be included in a team.

The Winter hockey season will take place over Term 3. Start dates are below...

When: 6 a side mini sticks (Year ¾): Tuesday 21st July

6 aside kiwi sticks (Year ⅚) no goalkeeper: Friday 24th July

6 aside kiwi sticks (Year ⅚) with goalkeeper: Saturday 25th July

Fees: $25 per player for all teams. This needs to be paid to the office before Wednesday 1st July. Students will not be guaranteed a place in a team until their fees are paid.

Yr 3/4 and Yr 5/6 Miniball

The Miniball competition run by the YMCA will take place in term 3 - there is no fee to play Miniball this year. Games are played on Wednesday afternoons at the YMCA.

A notice will come home next week and the permission slip needs to be in by Friday 3rd July - no late permission slips will be accepted.

All players need to wear the DPS sports uniform (available from The Uniform Shop by McDonalds) and sneakers to their game.

Starts - Wednesday 29th July

Finishes - Wednesday 23rd September