13th February 2015

Longbeach School
www.longbeach.school.nz
13th February 2015
Reach for the STARS to be the
best we can in all we do.
Dates to Remember
TERM 1
Week 3: 16th-20th February
Monday 16th
Bike Wise Week Monday-Friday
Technology Year 7/8
Wednesday 18th
Milo Cricket Year 5/6 Team
Friday 20th
School Duathlon/Triathlon
Week 4: 23
Monday 23rd
Senior Swimming Sports at
Ashburton Community Pool-PM
Friday 27th
Assembly 2.15pm—Room Waterton
to be held in the Art Centre
Newsletter
A warm Longbeach welcome to our
new students and staff
Back row, left to right: Miss Suzanne Pomeroy,
Mrs Susanne McFarlane, Mrs Sarah Lovell
Front row, left to right: Alyssa Skevington,
Sophie Clucas, Taylor Quaid, Holly Burrowes,
Tayla Keeley, Madison Edmond, Sophie Hart and
Edward Pottinger.
We hope you all enjoy your time with us at
Longbeach School!
Week 5: 2nd-6th March
Monday 2nd
Technology Year 7/8
Tuesday 3rd
3-Way-Conferences
School closing at 1.15pm
Counties Swimming Sports
Thursday 5th
3-Way-Conferences
School closing at 1.15pm
Mid-Canterbury Triathlon
Term
Term
Term
Term
1
2
3
4
2015 TERM DATES
Monday
Monday
Monday
Monday
Contents
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
Page 5
Page 6
Page 7
Page 8
2nd February—Thursday 2nd April
20th April—Friday 3rd July
20th July—Friday 25th September
12th October– Friday 18th December
From the Principal
School Notices
LB Stars/Community Notices
Room Ashton Storeies
Community Notices
Community Notices
Newsletter Spnsors
3 Way Conferences
Parent/Teacher/Student Conferences will be
held on Tuesday 3rd March and Thursday 5th
March starting at 2.00pm and going
through to 6.30pm.
School will be closing early at 1.15pm
on these days.
The buses will therefore leave school at
1.20pm approx.
To book your interview time log onto
www.schoolinterviews.co.nz
and enter the School Event Code: QZN3R
If you are unable to book your interview you
can call into the school office and we will help
you with this.
It is expected that students will attend these
interviews. Please help us by keeping to the
set times. A bell will indicate the end of each
interview.
Thanks for your support.
Boundary Road, R D 3, Ashburton. Email office@longbeach.school.nz Ph 3026643 Fax 3026871
From the Principal…
Welcome back to another year at Longbeach School. This year promises to be another year full of exciting and
challenging learning. We have spent the last few weeks reviewing our practice and programmes and have made
some small changes as we continually strive to improve. This year we will continue to prioritise Literacy and
Numeracy and deliver a balanced curriculum. In 2015 we have a central topic called ‘How Things Work’ for our
Health, Science, Technology, The Arts and Social Science studies. So far this term we have been creating and
establishing classroom routines, completing some team building activities and starting the assessment process.
We have continued our Spanish language and culture lessons in the Y1-8 classrooms. Mrs Sarah Lovell will teach
Spanish to each class for an hour each fortnight.
In addition to Sarah Lovell joining our staff we welcome Mrs Susanne McFarlane to Longbeach School. Susanne
joins us from Geraldine and is Room Flemington’s classroom teacher. Also new to our team is Miss Suzanne
Pomeroy. Suzie joins us after a brief stint in Christchurch after teaching in Melbourne and London. And lastly we
have Mrs Hayley Price who will be team teaching in Room Eiffelton with Miss Yeatman.
Completing our staffing are:
Miss Kelly Holden Y1/2 Rm Ashton – Assistant Principal Miss Sarah Patrick Y2/3 Rm Waterton — Deputy Principal
Miss Jess Yeatman Y4/5 Rm Eiffelton
Mrs Kirsty Stone Y0/1 Rm Willowby
Mrs Melanie Simons ORS & Maths Extension teacher
Mrs Jacqui Quinlan Rm Waterton DP release teacher
Teacher Aides - Mrs Rachael Barron, Mrs Sophia Cramond, Mrs Karyn Fleming, Mrs Judith Findlay and
Mrs Rachel Arnold.
Office Administration - Mrs Elizabeth Lowe & Mrs Debbie Roulston
Grounds management - Mrs Anne Bishop
We are very lucky to have such a great team on board who are very dedicated and passionate about what they do to
enhance learning at Longbeach School.
Assistant Principal Congratulations to Kelly Holden as she has been promoted to AP. Kelly, Sarah and I look
forward to working together to ensure that we deliver the best education we can for all learners.
Sabbatical. Next term I will be on leave for the term as I have been awarded a Sabbatical Award from TeachNZ &
The Ministry of Education. Sarah Patrick is going to take off her deputy badge and be the acting Principal for Term 2.
We have advertised for a teacher to take her class Monday to Thursday. Mrs Jacqui Quinlan will continue her
Fridays in the class as per the rest of the year.
A few important notices
Tuesday 2nd June 2015 - Longbeach School will be closed the Tuesday after Queens Birthday Monday.
A mid-winter break, Sunday, Monday & Tuesday after Saturday sport!
TEXT Messages – keep in touch by receiving our text messages. Simply text follow LBS8 to 8987 and you will
receive the messages on your phone that we post on our Facebook page.
Facebook - Go to our Facebook page, Longbeach School, at www.facebook.com to see messages or ask
questions.
Uniform - It is fantastic to see the majority of our students wearing our uniform so proudly. Please ensure the
students are wearing the correct uniform from head to toe - thanks. Also, please remember it is
compulsory for all children to wear their sunhats when outside in Terms 1 and 4. From Term 1
2015 we will be enforcing the school
uniform hat. This is a navy bucket hat. Students may wear the wide brim big brother to the
bucket. This is to keep our practice in line with our Sun Safe School accreditation.
School Notices…
SCHOOL BUS VESTS
These have been re-issued again.
Please ensure the
students wear them on the school bus
only. We have had a lot back at the
end of last year in shabby condition
and badly stained and have had to
throw some out. When they get grubby during
the year please wash them and try to keep them
in good condition.
These are kindly loaned to us by
Pearsons Coachlines, and not the property of
Longbeach School.
Thanks.
LONGBEACH SCHOOL YEARBOOK
It’s still not too late to get your copy of
this wonderful memento of 2014 at
Longbeach School.
The school office has some spare
copies left for sale. Cost is $20 per copy.
WANTED
Any unwanted Little Shop items for a
maths activity.
Please send along to the school office.
Thanks in advance.
Have you got a spare hour you
could spend helping us at school?
Our Pause, Prompt, Praise Reading
Programme is ready to take off for 2015.
If you are able to help listen to children reading
once a week for approximately an hour, we would
love to hear from you.
Please contact Sarah Patrick at school
Ph 302-6643 for more information or if you are
keen to be involved. Thankyou.
BIKE WISE WEEK!
Monday 16th-Friday 20th February
Children will need to bring their bikes for
the week.
They can leave them in classrooms overnight.
Please ensure helmets are safety approved.
Thanks, Jess.
DRUMS LESSONS
GUITAR LESSONS
LEARN TO READ MUSIC
I have 30 years Teaching Experience and offer:
PRIVATE TUITION or TEACH AT SCHOOLS
CONTACT: ROB ZIPFEL
PH: 307-2176 or 027 315-8657
It’s that time of the year again!
Last year we had 22 students enter!
This year the date is Sunday 15th March
to be held in Christchurch.
For more information on this event go to
www.try.weetbix.co.nz
We have some more information going home today
separately.
If your child/children are interested in entering you
will need to register them online before
Wednesday 25th February which is the closing date.
Thanks, Jess Yeatman
SCHOOL SPORTS TOPS
These are only available for sale at the
school office. Cost $36.00 each.
PLEASE ADVISE THE SCHOOL
OFFICE OF CHANGES TO FAMILY
CONTACT DETAILS ….
It is vitally important that the school holds
the correct details for your children:
Parents/Caregivers, emergency contacts and
mail details.
Please keep the Office informed of changes to your
mailing/contact details. Often people change
cellphones and forget to inform us the number has
changed. Office Ph 302-6643.
Thankyou for your help.
Longbeach Stars…
LB
RS
ROOM WILLOWBY Madison & Edward
STA
ROOM WATERTON Alexis & Isobel
ROOM ASHTON Laura & Tim
ROOM EIFFELTON Alia & Jacob
LB
STARS
ROOM FLEMINGTON Amelia & Ella
ROOM HUNTINGDON Mia & Nick
Community Notices…
The Coldstream Cricket Club has spaces
in its Saturday morning and afternoon cricket
teams for anyone wanting to play junior cricket.
Our teams are:
6th Grade (years 4-5) mornings
5th Grade (years 5-6) mornings
4th Grade (years 7-8) afternoons
Anyone interested can contact
Richard McClea at
rmcclea@vodafone.co.nz or
phone 308-2329
HEADSTART EARLY
LEARNING
CENTRE
has afternoon vacancies for preschool
children, we are also taking
enrolments for after school care
whether it be permanent or casual
spaces.
Please phone the
Headstart Office on 303-7805
and speak to Jo.
Room Ashton Stories…
For Christmas I got some
chocolate.
By Daniel
I jumped out of bed when it was Christmas Day.
I got pyjamas and lollies from Amy and water guns.
Dad and Mum squirted it at us.
I had turkey for lunch.
For pudding I had cake and fruit salad.
Grandma and Auntie Karen came to
our house.
By Alyssa
I got a scooter for Christmas. I rode my
scooter all day. Christmas dinner was yum.
By Jaxon
I got a tummy stuffer for
Christmas.
It is yellow. It is a giraffe.
I love it.
By Laura
On Christmas morning I got a motorbike top and
a remote control boat and a transformer. My
transformer is green and it shoots missiles.
For Christmas lunch we had crackling and we had
turkey. For pudding we had jelly and ice-cream.
I got Lego for
Christmas.
By Tim
By Luke
I went to a Christmas party. I saw Santa dancing.
Santa got me a present.
Santa got me lollies and Santa got me
a tummy stuffer.
By Skylah
I got heaps of chocolate.
I got a water balloon launcher and
electric racing truck.
By James
I got a laser gun.
I got chalk.
I got some sunglasses.
We went to Grandpas.
By George
Community Notices…
Eiffelton Hall Society
ICC Cricket World Cup
Local Fan Zone
Get behind the Black Caps and
show your support!!
The committee extends a warm welcome to all
families (especially those who are new to our
district), locals and visitors, all welcome.
Saturday 14th Feb vs Sri Lanka 10.30am start
Friday 10th March vs England 2.30pm start
Saturday 28th March vs Australia 2.30pm start
BYO drinks and nibbles plus there will be a BBQ
available for anyone wanting to bring along
something to cook (please note we will not be
supplying meat as has been the case previously)
Eiffelton Hall,
Longbeach Road
J Glassey Music Tuitition
Singing, Guitar, Ukulele and Bass Tutor with
over 20 years experience in the music
Industry.
Excellent Tuition at a Reasonable Price
Janet Glassey (Managing Director/Tutor)
Phone or Text 027 865-9060
or Email: janetglassey@yahoo.com
Kids Cooking Classes
Mid-Canterbury Kids Cooking Club
Learn how to cook healthy and
nutritious food.
Our first class for the year begins on
Sunday 22 February at 2pm at
Jen’s Kitchen, Ashburton.
Open to all kids 5-16 years old.
Call Catherine on 022 425-7187 or
302-8682 or check out
www.lifenenergy.com
‘SEE YOU
THERE’
Community Notices…
COLLEGIATE JAB RUGBY
Registration Night
Collegiates’s JAB rugby
registration night is on
JAB Registration
Friday 20th February, 2015
3.30-5.30pm
at
Hinds Clubrooms, Hinds Domain
all players are requested to attend.
Grades available Rippa U6, Rippa U7, U8, U9, U10, U11.5,
U13, U14.5
Contact Andrew Peck Ph 303-6019 or 027 228-3811
Come and play the sport of choice for many New
Zealand Boys & Girls
Thursday 19th February
4.30-6.00pm
at the Smithfield Road clubrooms.
We welcome all players for grades
Under 13-Under 6’s.
If you are unable to make registration or
have any questions please phone Kevin
Urquhart on 027 345-9010 or
Phil Nicolson on 027 282-8908
New Personal Trainer—healthier,
fitter YOU!
Looking to get fitter, tone up or lose
weight? Evolve Personal Training (PT)
Studio (based in Hinds), is pleased to
introduce the newest trainer to our team
Alice Breading!
Alice joins us after having time off to have
her son Oakley. She’s a super-star netball
player, with lots of energy, enthusiasm and
motivation. Alice has a passion for health
and fitness and has loads of experience in
the gym environment and in sports teams.
This year she’ll also be studying towards
her formal qualifications as a Personal
Trainer.
Alice has session time (either 50 or 30
minute) available on Tuesdays and
Thursdays so if you would like to get in
touch with her to arrange a FREE
INTRODUCTION Session then just drop her
an email: alice_breading@outlook.com or
phone/text 027 379-3899
JANET GLASSEY
MOBILE BEAUTY
Have all your Treatments in the comfort of
your own home!
Waxing, Tinting, Facials, Makeup,
Manicure/Pedicure.
To book appointments:
Phone/text: 027 865-9060
Email: janetglassey@yahoo.com
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