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tauranga intermediate school 12.11.10 school roll 1240 newsletter 2010/15 dear parents i hope you are all enjoying the wonderful spell of weather we are experiencing at the moment we were certainly fortunate to get three days of beautiful weather for our athletic sports and i was delighted with the participation and results best wishes to the team that will be selected to represent us at the upcoming bay of plenty athletic championships to be held on friday 26 november 2010 at the tauranga domain administration building on monday 15 november 2010 we moved out of the current administration building up to the new gym to enable the commencement of the refurbishment of the administration building consequently all office staff will be in the new gym with myself and senior administrator mike bibby deputy principal kathy colville will be located in the special education office deputy principal gareth scholes is in the computer office with mr ransley and deputy principal mr shane cunliffe can be found off the library it is anticipated that construction will be completed by the end of term one 2011 national standards in reading/writing and mathematics to assist you to support your child!s learning we are distributing online at www.minedu.govt.nz parents and in paper copy to every student of our school plus all incoming year seven students copies of where your child should be at the end of year seven and at the end of year eight we will also distribute these in pasifika languages and maori please note the english versions will come out next week and the maori/pasifika next year i hope you will find them valuable resources rock climbing wall it has now been completed with the exception of the signwriting which will be done this week the wall will be officially opened at 2.00 pm on friday 26 november 2010 if you contribute to the wall by buying a hand or foot hold you are cordially invited to the opening regards brian diver we are exploring personal potential -1-

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int.school.nz tauranga intermediate school newsletter vol 2010/15 12.11.10 cups and trophies 2009 all cups and trophies awarded in 2009 are now due back to school please return these to the main office as soon as possible please remind friends and relatives who may also be holding these awards that they are now due back to the school pasifika fono tuesday 16 november 6.00 pm upstairs boardroom tauranga intermediate school tauranga intermediate will be hosting visitors from the tokoroa college pasifika group twenty 20 students and five 5 adults for our pasifika celebration night on tuesday 7 december we will require some assistance with the catering and the event you are invited to attend the pasifika fono to discuss the organisation of the end of year prize giving many thanks kathy colville senior deputy principal pasifika celebration tuesday 7 december 5.00 pm pot luck tea visiting performing group tauranga intermediate pasifika group awards presentation everyone is welcome to attend this inaugural pasifika celebration evening lost property the lost property in the wellness centre is overflowing again we have an exceptional amount of girls/boys jerseys this can be checked at any time between 8.00 am and 4.00 pm any unclaimed items will be disposed of after tuesday 30 november 2010 please have your students check for any items they may have lost we are exploring personal potential -2-

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tauranga intermediate school newsletter vol 2010/15 12.11.10 academic by the end of this week students will have completed all of their end of year testing and teachers will then be in the process of analyzing their class data and writing children!s end of year reports preliminary indications would appear to show that our results look very pleasing and this is down to the hard work of both students and teachers a detailed analysis of the results will be done by mr scholes and myself over the next two weeks when we compare term 1 and term 4 data against the goals set at the beginning of the year we will then look at the improvements made and set targets for 2011 please ask your children how they did in their literacy and numeracy assessment this year and ask them to explain the movement in their scores and what this means for their next steps in learning the following information explains the end of year testing that has taken place at tauranga intermediate school explanation of assessments pat progressive achievement test in mathematics star reading test this ranks each student against all others of the same age across new zealand stanine 1-3 below average stanine 4-6 average stanine 7-9 above average supplementary test of achievement in reading tests student knowledge and skills in six key areas from this test students are given a stanine asttle writing assessment tools for teaching and learning the levels indicated are based on the nz curriculum levels and indicate the stage within the curriculum level that your child is working at 3b level 3 beginning 3p level 3 proficient 3a level 3 advanced ikan individual knowledge assessment for numeracy gloss global strategy stage it is a timed assessment where students are required to recall their knowledge quickly the gloss is an oral assessment carried out with individual students it identifies the strategy stages across addition and subtraction add/sub multiplication and division mult/div and proportions and ratios prop/ratios we are exploring personal potential -3-

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tauranga intermediate school newsletter vol 2010/15 12.11.10 week five · school athletics year 7 tuesday 9 nov year 8 wednesday 10 nov and finals thursday 11 nov · ikan numeracy · probe running records · rm 3 4 at camp · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · pb/bop triathlon 19 november pta meeting 7pm staffroom 16 november pb bop cycling beach challange 18 november rm 25 26 at camp pb/bop athletics 26 november tbc teacher interviews monday 22 november assembly practice year 7 block 1 year 8 block 2 tuesday 22 nov tgc teacher interviews wednesday 24 november all about heart netball thursday 25 friday 26 november rm 21 22 assembly practice year 7 block 1 year 8 block 2 tuesday 30 nov tauranga intermediate sports prizegiving wed 1 dec 6.30 7.30pm tauranga intermediate year 6 orientation wednesday 1 december tbc tgc orientation thursday 2 december 9am 12pm room 29 30 at camp pb/bop softball 3 december whanau hui celebration monday 6 december pat meeting 7pm staffroom 2010 academic report 7 december pat maths assembly practice year 7 block 1 year 8 block 2 tuesday 7 dec pasifika celebration tuesday 7 december year 8 cabaret thursday 9 december assembly practice year 7 block 1 year 8 block 2 thursday 9 dec reports/window folders go home y7 mon 13 dec y8 tues 14 dec year 7 assembly monday 13 december 9.30am 12.30pm year 8 picnic day monday 13 december year 8 assembly tuesday 14 december 9.30am 12.30pm year 7 picnic day tuesday 14 december last day of school wednesday 15 december finishes 12pm uniform sale 16 december week six week seven week eight week nine week ten gareth scholes shane cunliffe academic deputy principals we are exploring personal potential -4-

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tauranga intermediate school newsletter vol 2010/15 12.11.10 air new zealand flights please help us you can help us to raise money for our school when booking air new zealand flights by clicking on the link below http schools.airnewzealand.co.nz/tauranga-intermediateschool.aspx or clicking on to the air new zealand image on our website www.tauranga-int.school.nz by booking through these sites the school will receive domestic $5.00 trans-tasman pacific $10.00 international longhaul $15.00 rental car bookings 10 of booking value holiday packages $50.00 find us on facebook you can now find tauranga intermediate school on facebook simply like us and get news and information in your news feed either find the link on the bottom left hand corner of the school website or search for us on facebook beware of the fake tauranga intermediate pages the real one has the last newsletter link and the nzctaims games videos linked off the wall we are exploring personal potential -5-

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tauranga intermediate school newsletter vol 2010/15 12.11.10 we are exploring personal potential -6-

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tauranga intermediate school newsletter vol 2010/15 12.11.10 music news we have experienced some pretty exciting arts events during the past two weeks firstly we had the 12 hour relay talent show an enormous thank you to all the students who entertained us with a talent show during the 12 hour relay you were awesome next a group of 50 students and four staff travelled to auckland to see and hear the auckland philharmonic orchestra play at the aotea asb theatre the concert was all about the connection between music and sport great to link the music athletes with the sports athletes thank you parents for supporting the trip to end this week we were very lucky to have kawerau intermediate take over our friday assembly and entertain us they can pride themselves with being the 2010 aims hip hop dance champions and being the school of past pupil danielle hayes winner of new zealand s next top model future treats friday 26 november at 1.30 pm tauranga intermediate school hall free entry cambridge middle school year 8 academy class consisting of two rock bands and 10 dancers friday 3 december at 11.00 am tauranga intermediate entry fee is only $2.00 per student drum concert dylan elise the fantastic incredible indescribable drummer will be presenting a drum concert parents caregivers are welcome to attend both of these treats we are exploring personal potential -7-

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tauranga intermediate school newsletter vol 2010/15 12.11.10 pta news a huge thanks to all of the parents who helped out with the food tent at our recent 12 hour relay fundraising day your willingness to help was very much appreciated our next pta meeting will take place on tuesday 16 november!starting at 7.00 pm the administration area will not be available so the venue will be in the new!gym upstairs in the board room our final pta meeting for 2010 will take place on tuesday 7 december!starting at!7pm in the!new gym upstairs in the board room kind regards janelle jones pta staff representative from the library literature quiz our annual quiz was held recently with 24 local teams including four from tauranga intermediate taking part our teams were very successful with team 1 placed first and team 4 placed second equal teams 2 and 3 also scored highly the teams were team 1 aine blackman lilah matthews emma dalton andre liddicoat team 2 hannah speight andreanne carmichael bronte cronsberry kathryn king team 3 levi offner nathaniel adams taylor moffat thomas lamberton team 4 sarah robinson imogen creighton -symes sarah coleman jack canham special thanks to mrs sandra frentz who wrote and asked the questions mrs wikohika for keeping the scores and mrs mccarthy for helping with the refreshments amanda children s librarian from tauranga city library assisted with the prizes and outlined holiday programmes for the christmas break pat osman library closing for the year all library books must be returned by thursday 18 november 2010 we are exploring personal potential -8-

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tauranga intermediate school newsletter vol 2010/15 12.11.10 proposed school exchange with cairo british international school egypt 2011 012&3/1 1042&567 2&104&8 410&9 1 06 1 4$0 0&1 0 106 567 0 7 4 1 6 7 4 0 a7 b 06 b&a 9 possible itinerary c 1b1d,06&e,d1 7%1b,42 1 4 90 f g,h 0&1 1 1 06 2&h 9 567 10 b b 1 9 1 4 h 0 i,01 4 1 06 i d 101 3%1h 104 1&9 7 9 6 1b 4,06 0 4 2 1h 4,00 1 1&j$4 0 1b 104&6 0 06 0 g$4&i$1 k 9 1 h 14 2&l 1bb14 l m 104&n/10&5 n/1 a1d11 o0 0&p 0$7&7 9 h i 1 0 l 01 7 k 9 a 04,06 b 1 06 4 4$0 b&a f$9 1 j 0 01 01 i 0 1 2&567 1 9 1 j 0 01 01 i 0 104 1&9 a q 107&m 1 0#1 000$b r1 s&tuvwwxy zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz 0 1 2344 i 4$0 01b zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz g b&f xyx zzzzzzzzzzzzz ^1 0 01b !44 zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz 3 0 fba zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz l a fba zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz we are exploring personal potential -9-

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tauranga intermediate school newsletter vol 2010/15 12.11.10 our memorable trip to yang ming junior high school -taiwan we were two fortunate students who had the opportunity to travel to taiwan and attend yang ming junior high school our sister school for ten days ­ what an amazing experience this trip taught us a lot about ourselves and we have reflected on some of the things we learnt that have improved us we now have better people skills and communication skills because we had to communicate make friends share our knowledge with and thank people that didn#t speak the same language using some english mandarin smiles body language and gestures helped us to make ourselves understood you have to be positive and brave and we made lots of friends so we think we learnt to do this we are resilient because when the typhoon hit we were definitely scared but didn#t make a fuss and relied on ourselves to be brave hopefully this is a once in a lifetime experience during our time away we developed confidence through successfully making friends communicating with people speaking a different language being away from home and learnt to be self reliant performing in front of a large audience and representing our school and the kiwi way of life gave us an insight into being nz ambassadors the school gave us many opportunities to visit a range of tourist activities and we particularly enjoyed the love river night markets and jensusan theme park it was a fantastic experience and we still keep in contact with many new and existing friends via e-mail hopefully they will remain life long friends payton silvester/aine blackman we are exploring personal potential -10-

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tauranga intermediate school newsletter vol 2010/15 12.11.10 term four date event venue thursday 25 november room 42 auckland trip wednesday 1 december orientation morning incoming year 7#s 2011 9.30am tauranga boys college orientation morning tauranga girls college orientation morning pasifika celebration tauranga intermediate school hall thursday 2 december thursday 2 december tuesday 7 december thursday 9 december year 8 cabaret monday 13 december year 7 prize giving 9.30 am tauranga intermediate school hall monday 13 december year 8 picnic tuesday 14 december year 8 prizegiving 9.30 am tauranga intermediate school hall tuesday 14 december year 7 picnic wednesday 15 december term 4 concludes 12.00 pm we are exploring personal potential -11-

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tauranga intermediate school newsletter vol 2010/15 12.11.10 school fees your help with these is very much appreciated our school budgets are stretched like most family budgets and we need these fees to help balance ours all school students at tauranga intermediate attract a fee of $80 total in addition if you have a son or daughter in a blended learning class that is rooms 9 10 11 12 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 301 32 39 40 34 35 36 37 then you are required to pay an additional if you have a son or daughter in rooms 29 30 41 42 rimu then you are required to pay an additional $100 we also appreciate a $20 donation so to summarise if your child is in rooms 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 13 14 15 16 25 26 27 28 kahikatea manuka kauri miro donation $20 total $100.00 total $180.00 matai totara tawa tanekaha rata $30.00 $80.00 total $110.00 the fee is rooms the fee is rooms curriculum $80 9 10 11 12 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 31 32 39 40 34 35 36 37 matai totara tawa tanekaha rata blended learning $30 donation $20 total $130 curriculum $80 rimu 29 30 41 42 the fee is curriculum $80 multimedia $100 donation $20 total $200 thanks for your support each student will get an individual invoice we are exploring personal potential -12-

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tauranga intermediate school newsletter vol 2010/15 12.11.10 ngamuwahine programme year 7 2010 terms 3 4 term 3 week 7 week 8 aims sports tournament ­ 6 ­ 10 september 2010 monday 13 september ­ friday 17 september monday 20 september friday 24 september dates monday 11 october ­ friday 15 october monday 18 october ­ friday 22 october monday 25 october ­ friday 29 october monday 1 november ­ friday 5 november monday 8 november ­ friday 12 november monday 15 november ­ friday 19 november monday 22 november ­ friday 26 november monday 29 november ­ friday 3 december monday 6 december ­ friday 11 december jenna peddie samantha crossman michelle carlton nick adams teacher mary woods wayne arthur dates monday 30 august ­ friday 3 september room rooms 5 7 teacher kim abbot rob hooper week 9 week10 term 4 week 1 rooms 9 /10 room 13 14 room room 17 18 rooms 34 35 week 2 week 3 emma lockett mike wright pyes pa school friday 29th october 12 hour relay rooms 31 32 nadine moore steve theuinissen rachal spencer julie laidlaw sue lloyd jacob plummer linda bickford tori hannay kim mccormack kevin piermarini week 4 rooms 3 4 rooms 25 26 room 21 22 rooms 29 30 week 5 week 6 week 7 week 8 week 9 st thomas more school n.b cost for camp $95.00 $85.00 5 days 4 days note cost inclusive of all activities and food camp fees we are exploring personal potential -13-

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tauranga intermediate school newsletter vol 2010/15 12.11.10 tauranga intermediate school ph 07 577 9798 email enquiries@bayphysiotherapy.co.nz www.bayphysiotherapy.co.nz physiotherapist onsite th from tuesday 09 nov 1.30pm ­ 3.00pm bay physiotherapy centre will be commencing a physiotherapy clinic in the school wellness centre on a tuesday and thursday the service will be available to students and staff to access physiotherapy expertise with ease and to get you back doing those things you love contact us on ph 5779798 to arrange an appointment or visit the physiotherapist in the school clinic new location price special digischool 2011 holiday workshops enrol before dec 23 and pay half price learn 3d animation vue 9 used by weta digital in avatar game design cryengine 3 used by crytek to create crysis 2 filming stop motion flash animation and find out how to create an animated game character using power game factory course dates january 10 to 12 17-19 or 24-26 for more information ring us on 5700066 or visit www.digischool.co.nz relocating in january next to foodtown we are exploring personal potential -14-

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tauranga intermediate school newsletter vol 2010/15 12.11.10 tvnz6netguide schools multimedia challenge during term 3 students from tauranga intermediate were very busy creating a digital presentation presenting a topic that they have learnt about to enter into the tvnz6netguide schools multimedia challenge over 1000 entries for each category were received at tvnz6 making the judging very difficult a few weeks ago teachers were notified of students who were in the final selection requesting they attend the prize giving function at the tvnz studio in auckland on 12 november the results are below 1st placing for intermediate team room 17 tyla gartner madison gartner dan song 2nd placing for intermediate team room 17 jaryd gordon todd yaxley jaymie grigg 1st placing for intermediate individual room 29 taylor stock $43,000.00 worth of prizes were awarded out to the recipients students who were placed 1st received toshiba notebooks each novels and vouchers students who were placed 2nd received software vouchers and novels also the students were able to meet in person jeremy and julia hosts of the tvnz6 channel they also got to see one or two $shortland street stars in the foyer while we were waiting to enter the reception area we are exploring personal potential -15-

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