Term 4 Updates 17.11.22

Kia ora koutou,

We trust you had a lovely long Canterbury Anniversary weekend. Thank you for your support on Monday 14 with our Teachers Only Day. These days allow us to come together as a staff and discuss student achievement, and work on school-wide planning and/or policy reviews.

This week we farewell Kayla Gaut, our teacher in Room 20, who will be on Maternity Leave from Friday this week. We wish Kayla, Chris and whānau all the best with their new addition and can’t wait to meet her.

We are looking forward to inviting you into our classrooms next week. Please see below for further details.

Congratulations to the tamariki who were involved in the West Zones Athletics Sports today. We are always proud of our tamariki who challenge themselves and who uphold our Ilam School Values. Ka pai team.

Thank you to Linda Ewen for her leadership of this event. See a gorgeous photo above of some lunchtime fun taken by Rebecca Latimer. What a capture!

Ngā mihi nui

Belinda Kennedy and the Ilam School Team

Please find the following information in this Update:

• Ilam School Connect

• Learning Conferences

• PTA Updates

• Assemblies for Term 4

• Lost Property

• School Pool - Summer Holidays

• Policy and Procedures Review

• 2023 Term dates - a reminder for your information.

• Hall Hire

• Book Club

• Cool Learning @ Ilam

• OSCAR December/January Holiday Programmes

• Term 4 Term Dates

Learning Conferences are scheduled for Wednesday 7 December (3:15–8:00 pm) and Thursday 8 December (3:15–6:00 pm). All parents are strongly encouraged to attend. It will be a great time to discuss your child’s progress. We will invite you to book an interview online. Further details will be provided in our next Ilam Update.

PTA Dinner - Tuesday 6 December at 7pm in the Staffroom

The PTA would like to invite the Ilam School whānau for dinner. The meal from Dubba Dubba will cost only $10 per peson. The evening will be an opportunity to connect and find out what the PTA is and how you can assist our school in the PTA fundraising events.

Please RSVP pta@ilam.school.nz by the 1st December.

Bake Sale - Friday 9 December

The PTA is holding a Bake Sale during morning tea and lunchtime on the 9 December. Everything will be $2 an item.

We would love our Ilam School whānau to donate baked/bought goods that can be sold as individual items for this fundraiser.

DAY BEFORE SALE (8 December) - Contributions can be dropped off at either Room 1 for the Seniors & Middles or Room 17 for the Juniors.

Baking can be dropped off before school (8.30 am -9 am) and again at the end of the day from (2.30 pm-3.30 pm). Thank you for your support with this fundraiser!

ON THE DAY -9 December

Baking will be sold at the following times

• 8.30 am -9 am - items to go into lunch boxes

• Our morning block - each area of the school will have an opportunity to buy an item before morning tea if they missed out the morning

• 3.00 pm -3.30 pm - Any leftover items will be sold after school.

This event is run by your friendly PTA with support from the School Council.

Thank You!

2nd Hand Uniform Donations

The PTA are appealing for good quality second hand uniforms please. There is also a need for winter jackets and coats if you are having a clearout. Please drop these off at the office. The donated items are an important part of our fundraising at Ilam School.

We are thrilled to be able to meet again as a whole school whānau for our assemblies. This term we have assemblies planned to celebrate leaders in our school. Please note the time and dates of the following assemblies. You are most welcome to join us. At the assemblies, leaders of the groups outlined below will be recognised for their achievements/contributions to our Kura.

Week 6 - Rooms 4 & 8 Leading Assembly on Wednesday 23 November at 2.15 pm

• Certificates - Road Patrol, Peer tutors

Week 8 - Cultural Leaders Leading Assembly on Wednesday 7 December at 2.15 pm

• Cultural leaders, Student Council, House Captains

Our Senior Choir and Orchestra will perform

Week 9 - Excellence and Leadership Assembly on Tuesday 13 December at 2 pm

At this assembly, we will acknowledge the following:

• ICAS Distinction/High Distinction

• Music Excellence

• Maths Excellence

• Literacy Excellence

• Arts Excellence

• Sports Excellence

• Citizen Excellence

Our Middle School Choir will perform.

Week 9 - FINAL Assembly on Thursday 15 December at 11 am

At this assembly we will acknowledge the following:

• The Winning House for 2022

• Orchestra - Most improved

• Excellence in Orchestra

• Choir Cup

• Language Support Cup

• Sports Achiever Cup

• Sportsmanship Cup

• Literature Cup

• Maths Cup

• Arts Cup

• Citizenship Cup

• Academic Cup

Our Kapa Haka group will perform and the Year 6 team will showcase their Dance.

We will also do a final roll call for our Year 6 leavers.

We have a significant amount of lost property in the school at the moment. If you would like to have a look through this, it is located outside the brick building at the end of the Senior School Courts.

This year we are unable to open our pool over the summer holidays. The pool will be ready for Term 1 2023.

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.

Information regarding our Knowing our Learners conferences in 2023 will come out in our week 7 Ilam Update.

In the past our hall has been fairly heavily booked in the evenings due to groups that hire the hall on a regular weekly basis. This year we have had two groups that have left and our hall is now available for regular hire on Monday, Tuesday and Saturday evenings. If you know of any groups looking to hire a venue (for example, martial arts, dance etc) please ask them to contact the school office.

The last book club for 2022 will close November 24th.

Please check our Parent Calendar to keep up to date with events at our school. Find the link here

• PTA Disco Friday 18 November

• Ilam School Connect Thursday 24 November 2-4 pm -information to come

• Senior Beach Education 28-29 November

• Senior Day Camp 5-6 December

• Student Learning Conferences 7-8 December

• Year 6 Leavers Night Tuesday 13 December

• Last day of Term 4 - Thursday 15 December 12.30 pm finishing that day