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He mihi mahana ki a koutou katoa - Warm greetings to you all
We have had an action-packed couple of weeks both at school and out in our community. We have had groups at Ferrymead Heritage Park, West Zone sports and groups heading to the University of Canterbury or visiting the Waiutuutu River. Some of the senior classes have written about their experience. You can find out more about what they did during their learning experiences below.
The Board of Trustees and Leadership group have made the decision to continue compulsory mask-wearing for our senior learners for the next four weeks. This requirement will get us through the remainder of winter and the illnesses it can bring. From Monday 19 September we will then align with the Orange setting of the Covid Protection Framework of masks being strongly suggested but not required. Our decision regarding mask wearing is based on our attendance numbers - over the past four weeks, our absences have reduced significantly.
As always, if you have any questions or concerns please feel free to get in touch with me.
We had a wonderful Mihi Whakatau on Thursday 18 August. It was great to welcome so many new families to Ilam School. A big thank you to Teresa Johnston, Mick Withers and their team who led this successful event.
Ngā mihi nui
Belinda Kennedy and the Ilam School Team
Please find the following information in this Update:
Education Review Office (ERO)
PTA information including Art Calendar purchasing information
Board of Trustees information -VOTING information
New School Council members
From our Tamariki: Room 19 visit Ferrymead Heritage Park and Avonhead School
From our Tamariki: Room 3 visit the University of Canterbury
West Zone Sports
Support with Road Patrol - Can you help?
Teachers Only Day -Friday 16 September -school CLOSED for instruction
School Policies for Review
Fun French Beginners' Class Years 2-6
Term dates
Education Review Office (ERO)
Profile Reporting
Te Ara Huarau is the evaluation approach that the Education Review Office (ERO) is using in our school. This is a developmental approach to evaluation where ERO and our school work together over time rather than one off reviews that happened previously. Te Ara Huarau is used in most English-medium state and state-integrated schools.
ERO maintains a regular review programme to evaluate and report on the education and care of young people in the schools. Our school worked alongside ERO to write our Profile Report. This type of report will only happen once as part of our initial engagement with Te Ara Huarau. The profile report reflects our strategic goals and a shared evaluation focus on one or more areas that are important to us as we work together to improve outcomes for all our learners. ERO, like us, have a strong focus on equity and excellence. Future reporting will show our progress and achievement toward meeting the goals we have set. Public reports like the Profile Report are published on ERO’s website.
A Board Assurance Report that shows how we are meeting regulatory and legislative Requirements has also been published.
Included in our bundle of published reports is a Provision for International Students report.
Ilam School Parent Teacher Association (PTA)
Please find our upcoming PTA events here.
Hot Chocolate Morning - Friday 26 August - 8:30am
To celebrate the end of Winter, the Ilam School PTA is holding a HOT CHOCOLATE morning on Friday 26 August. Bring along a KEEP CUP and $1 for your Hot Chocolate. (CASH ONLY) Come to the Science and Tech Room from 8.30am.
A BIG SHOUT OUT and THANK YOU to MEADOWFRESH who have kindly donated the milk.
Calendar Art - It’s Calendar Art time again!
The students have been busy creating art work that can be made into affordable Calendars, Cards, Diaries, Mouse Mats and Sketch Pads. Each product is made from your own child’s art. These make unique Christmas gifts for family and friends and are perfect for posting overseas.
Follow these instructions to place your order online:
1. Go to www.kidsartworks.com
2. Use the Entrance Code: KZ2241.xxx (Replace the xxx with your unique code in the red box on your order form)
3. Enter your child’s room & name when prompted
The online order is open from [17 August] until [30 August]
Payment can be made over the website via credit card or account2account.
If you have any questions please contact the school on 03 348 7492.
School Disco - Friday 9 September - Cancelled due to covid restrictions.
Samples are
at the Office
Board of Trustees
Having a strong board is critical for a school. We are extremely fortunate to have a history of boards that work hard to reflect the diversity and richness of our community. Please make sure you take the opportunity to vote to ensure that you have helped to elect a board that you feel will continue this tradition. Please take time to read through the candidate statements and then cast your votes before 4 pm on Wednesday 7 September. There is a ballot box in the school office.
Meet our new School Council members
Due to members from our School Council leaving Ilam the seniors took part in a by-election last week to fill the roles of those who departed. We are absolutely delighted to announce the newly voted council members. Congratulations to Mille Bird, Rose Campbell and Yusuf Rahmantyo. We know they will be excellent additions to our School Council.
Room 19 shares about their trip to Ferrymead Heritage Park and Avonhead School
Room 19 went to Ferrymead on Thursday 11th August with Room 20 and half of Room 3. We went to explore ‘Our place, our space’. We learnt about life and school in the early 20th century. Our school was built in the 1950s, so this was a big change for us. We rotated around 4 different activities that were: School, Entertainment, Playground Games and Telephone Systems. In the afternoon, we also went to Avonhead school to see what we could re-develop in our Ilam School community. Special thanks to our parent photographer. (Clinton Lloyd. Email. clinton@clintonlloyd.com)
School - Juliet Lloyd
The school was run by Miss Black.
Ferrymead was very fun but my favourite part was the school. I really enjoyed the experience we had in the school and the trip back to the past. There were different sides for the girls and the boys. We had to sing to the King, do maths on slate boards, and write with ink pens. We had to trace cursive writing (for handwriting) with ink pens and count in fives on the slate boards in a certain amount of time. When the time was up, Miss Black would smack the table with her cane to let everyone know that it was time to stop. It was really interesting to see all the different ways that children learned back in the olden days and it was awesome to see how the classrooms looked.
Playground Games - Caitlin Coupé
In Playground Games, we played with wooden spinning tops, marbles, hoola hoops, REAL sheep knuckle bones and elastics. We also got to play a game called “Arabella, Arabella, who’s got the ball?” It’s a game where everybody’s behind the person that is in and you toss the ‘ball’ (actually a bean bag when we played it) over your head and someone behind the person that’s in, catches it. The person who is in will wait a while and then turn around. Then, everybody puts their hands behind their backs. Then, they sing “Arabella, Arabella, who’s got the ball? See I haven’t, see I haven’t see I haven’t at all.” and everybody shows their hands in sync, one at a time while singing. After that, the person that’s in guesses who has the ball. They get three tries to guess the person with the ball. If they guess right, then they swap with the person with the ball.
Entertainment- Mackenzie Barnes
In Entertainment, we learnt what order the radios and the televisions were invented. First, we learnt about music in the olden days. Then, we learnt about activities children used to entertain themselves when their parents were busy. Some of these activities included: Music, projectors, pictures, and TVs. There was also a cool thing: a self playing piano! It was called a pianola. A pianola is a type of piano, but it can play by itself. It plays by reading notes from a thick steel cylinder with bits poking out to create the tune.
Telephone Systems - Ivy Martin
In Telephone Systems, we learnt how people used telephone boxes to contact each other. Because people didn’t have cell phones back in the 1950’s, it was harder to contact people. Other ways to contact people were called telegrams. A telegram cost a lot of money, so they were usually for very important purposes. During World War II, most people didn’t like getting telegrams, as most often they meant that a father, son or uncle was either killed or Missing In Action. We got to use old-fashioned telephones sort of like the ones in our classrooms. After that, we went to the telephone exchange and took turns being the telephone operator. As the telephone operator, you got to listen to people's conversations. For some reason, basically everyone in our group called to ask for a chocolate cake! I’m not sure why (but it was fun).
Costumes
At Ferrymead, we wore costumes. Girls wore a long-sleeved dress, An apron like dress and a white hat, and boys wore grey pants and jackets, with a cap to go with it. The boys said we looked like maids and the girls said that the boys looked like little railway men.
Rules
We learned the four rules of Ferrymead: Children should be seen, not heard, ladies before gentlemen, look after your clothes, and be polite. When everyone was dressed, the girls were told not to laugh at the boys, and the boys were told not to laugh at the girls. It was really funny looking at everyone .
Avonhead School - April Li
Avonhead School was a big difference compared to the old-fashioned Ferrymead. Avonhead school had a redevelopment that started in 2015 (after the Christchurch Earthquake) and ended in 2017. Some Year 8 students took us around to have a look at the school. The classrooms are either single cell or shared space with 2 classes that are joined together. Unlike Ferrymead, the classrooms are big and there are way more desks than the old-fashioned classrooms. In shared spaces, there are 2 classes in each space. All the classrooms in 1 year group (eg. Year 0-2, Year 3-4, Year 5-6, and Year 7-8) are connected. Some playgrounds are designed especially for specific year groups (eg. a specific playground for juniors, but at Ilam we don't have that rule!).
Room 3’s trip to the University of Canterbury
Room 3 has been studying Rivers this term. On Thursday last week, we went on a class trip to the University of Canterbury to meet one of the lecturers who showed us a Rain Garden. At first, it looked like a normal garden but we soon learnt lots of interesting things about it. Rain Gardens are good for the environment because they reduce pollution in our rivers by soaking up surface water to minimise flooding. They are also great for animals and the creatures that live in them.
Matt from Environment Canterbury then took us over to the river to look more closely at the creatures that live there and their surroundings. We sucked up bugs with a pipette and placed them into trays to analyse what species they were using a magnifying glass. The types of bugs we found told us how clean the river was. Unfortunately, we didn’t find any sensitive invertebrates such as mayflies and stoneflies who only like very clean, cool water. We did however find lots of bugs that could tolerate slightly polluted water.
Emily from the University also demonstrated how to test the clarity of the river. Luckily the river was pretty clean. We found out lots of interesting information and had fun.
West Zone Sports
On Wednesday 17 August some of our senior students headed off to the West Zone Sports Tournament. We had Football, Netball, Hockey and Table Tennis teams all participating.
They had a great time and played with such effort and enthusiasm.
Thank you to all the teachers who attended the West Zones Tournament. A big thank you to Mrs Linda Ewen for organising this and getting our tamariki involved in such a great event.
The Cheetah’s hockey team and the Tui Netball team won their A Grade competitions at West Zones and will now be attending the Centrals on Thursday 15 September.
Road Patrol - Can you help with the morning Road Patrol shift?
Our caretaker is away on the following dates:
Friday 23 September 8.25am -8.55am
Monday 26 September 8.25am -8.55am
Wednesday 28 September 8.25am -8.55am
If you are able to help us out please drop an email to jocelyn.hollis@ilam.school.nz with Road Patrol Support in the subject line. Joce will then be in touch to discuss your availability. We are really appreciative of any support you can provide.
Teachers Only Day
On Friday 16 September we will be CLOSED for instruction. These days together as Staff are invaluable. We thank you for your continued support by keeping your child at home on this day.
Policies and Procedures Review:
This term we have a number of policies up for review. Our login details are on our website. You can find the link here. To view, our school policies click on the link to the School Docs site. The 'current reviews' section is where to complete these.
Fun French Beginners' Class Years 2-6:
Parlez-vous français?
A 5 session taster French course is being offered at Ilam School this term, and beyond. The major emphasis is on communicating orally through the interactive use of fun games, song, role-play and ‘real life’ activities.
For more information, please email admin@Lpa.co.nz or contact us on 022 358 2211.
C’est si bon!
Term Calendar and Events:
Please check our Parent Calendar to keep up to date with events at our school. Find the link here
Hot Chocolate Morning - Friday 26 August - 8:30 am
School Disco - Friday 9 September -Cancelled
Teacher Only Day - Friday 16 September
Last day of Term 3 - Friday 30 September -school closes at 3 pm
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