15 March 2024

Kia ora, EBIS Whānau

It was immensely pleasing to be a part of the team Kapa Haka competition this week.

The resulting performances from each of the teams were powerful, passionate and loud!

All of the teams did a fantastic job and this made it very difficult for the judges to decide.

Congratulations to Uru who were the victorious team and now get to display the Kapa Haka shield under their team shield for the rest of the year.

Our cricket team have been out at Iain Galloway Park representing the school in the first inter-school sporting event of 2024. They were competing with other intermediate schools in the Max Charles Invitational tournament, an event named in honour of a Newlands Intermediate student who was a passionate cricketer prior to his passing. The team finished the tournament with a record of two wins from four matches which was good for fourth place.

It was wonderful to see such a positive uptake for Brake Fast on Wednesday. It was the perfect start to the reintroduction of the Bike Club, who work tirelessly to make sure that students have the opportunity to ride bikes as part of their P.E. programme and during lunchtime. 

Thank you to those parents of Year 8 students who came to parent meetings on Monday afternoon. It was great to be able to connect with so many of you.

It has been a pleasure to host a group of students from Shibuya Makuhari Junior High School in Japan over the last week. During their time here they have participated in a powhiri as well as being involved in excursions and classroom experiences. Having them as a part of our school has been a rich cultural exchange not just for them, but for the students of EBIS as well. They depart on Wednesday morning and we wish them all the best for their safe travel home. Thank you to all the families who have hosted a student during their stay. While the experiences they have visiting a new city, in a new country are always exciting, the relationships and memories developed with the home stay families are always so rich as well.

As we head towards the end of the term we step up the programme with further events. Two things of note on the horizon are school photos which are being held on  Tuesday 26 March and the Easter break. As this does not usually fall within term time it is important to note that schools are closed, not only for Good Friday and Easter Monday, but also for Tuesday 2 April.

Thank you as always for your wonderful support. We are looking to establish the Friends of EBIS group for 2024 to support fundraising and events. If this is something you are interested in being a part of please email Howard on principal@ebis.school.nz

Ngā mihi nui

EBIS Staff

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In term 2 we will be holding our bi annual school camps and heading to El Rancho in Waikanae.

In the coming weeks you will receive more information regarding camp, including costs and activities, but for now we can share the following:

Camp 1: Rawhiti (Rooms 1,2,12,13) will take place between Wednesday 22 & Friday 24 May

Camp 2: Uru (Rooms 4,5,6,7) will take place between Monday 27 & Wednesday 29 May

Camp 3: Tokerau (Rooms 10,11,14,15) will take place between Wednesday 29 & Friday 31 May

We will be requiring parent help for camps and due to the overnight nature we do require police vetting forms to be completed. As these take a long time to process (something we have no control over) we are asking those who are interested in attending to complete a police vetting form and return these to school with the necessary identification.

Please note this is not a commitment by either yourself or the school that you will attend camp, however without a completed vet you will be unable to.

Please find a PDF of the vetting form below:

Just a few weeks ago our classes started to do SPEC. Last year you may have heard of Design and woodworking, well every year it swaps over, Woodworking, Tech, Woodworking, Tech -yeah I think you get the point. This year we are at tech, so far we have been set a task to build an enclosure of a zoo animal you find in the forest (That's for Wao). We have to give it water, food, entertainment, a nest/den, a way to see it but not let it bite. We have the choice of using sketchpad or tinkercad, two very interesting websites. This is not an easy challenge but not impossible. You just have to practise. So good luck! 

By Olive Norris Room 11

Design Technology.

This term students have been learning to use 3d modelling applications. As a mini project they have used the applications to create an enclosure for an animal that matches with their SPEC group name. 

Students had to ensure they were considering:

• The environment that the animal lives in.

• What they eat and how they get fed.

• A place they can withdraw or sleep

• A way to keep the animal entertained.

• How they will contain the animal but still allow people to view it.

Here are some of works in progress.

Bike Club

Kia ora everyone.

We have recently started up a bike club here at EBIS. Every lunch break the members of the bike club will take turns to be on duty at the bike shed located on the right side of the school near Kimi Ora school and they will be giving out bikes to any students who would like them. Once you have got a bike and a helmet you can ride it on the bike track, pump track, and the mountain biking track.

Things have been going really well so far and lots of students have turned up to use the bikes.

Please make sure you are respectful to the bikes and the bike club members because they have given up their lunch time to give out bikes to you so you guys can have fun! and that you are wearing a helmet. If you don't, that may mean you will get a warning and if you keep doing it you won't be allowed to use the bikes again. We have less helmets than bikes so if we run out of helmets then we cant give you a bike but if you have any helmets at home that you don't need consider giving them to us. We have around 30 bikes in the bike shed. If you have any bikes at home that you don't need, please consider donating them to us, we need all the bikes we can get! If you have a bike send an email to jpool@ebis.school.nz. We also have a scooter in the shed but we would love some more so if you have one to donate that would be great too. Please don't bang on the shed as it is very loud for the people in the shed and please don't play with the lock on the other shed door. And please don't draw on the shed as it counts as vandalising and will not be tolerated.   

Thanks for reading