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Newsletter 22 February 2024
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Welcome
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A Big welcome to Carter, Elayna, and Marlow who have joined us at David Street School.
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Nau mai, haere mai ki te Kura o Rawiri
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*Update* Teacher Only Day Monday 4 March
Postponed- School will resume as normal.
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Upcoming Events in Term 1
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Scholastic Book Club issue 1 is out now. Online orders GET $5 CREDIT for orders over $35 on Issue 1 to help keep the reading rolling! To take advantage of this special go to the link below to place your order.
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Friday 23 February - Pizza Lunch & Ice Block Friday (Pizza Orders have now closed)
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Monday 26 February - DSS Competition Swimming at Morrnisville Pools
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Tuesday 27 February - Senior school Carnival Swimming at Rec grounds & Middle School Carnival at DSS
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Friday 1 March - Ice Block Friday
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Friday 1 March - Kahikatea Water Fun Day at Morrinsville Pools
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Day School - Closed to students
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Tuesday 5 March - Inter-school Swimming sports @ Morrinsville School
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Friday 8 March - Ice Block Friday
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Tuesday 12 March - Japanese students visiting from Morrinsville Intermediate School & Junior Parent Info Afternoon 3.15pm -4pm
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Friday 15 March - Ice Block Friday
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Friday 22 March - Ice Block Friday
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Thursday 28 March - Pizza Lunch
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Friday 29 March - Good Friday
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Monday 1 April - Easter Monday
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Tuesday 2 April - Easter Tuesday (Although it is not a public holiday, Easter Tuesday is a recognised school holiday in New Zealand)
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Friday 5 April - Ice Block Friday
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Friday 12 April - Ice Block Friday
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Friday 12 April - End of term 1
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Change of Address
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In case of an emergency it is vital that the school is able to reach parents. Please notify the school of any change of address or telephone number, especially mobile numbers.
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Pop in and see us, phone the school office 889-7780, or email office@davidst.school.nz
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Swimming Events - Senior & Middle School
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Next week on Monday and Tuesday we have our Senior and Middle school swimming events.
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The David Street School swimming sports are divided into two different events, Competition and Carnival.
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Teachers have been assessing students swimming abilities during their swimming sessions. Each child has been entered into either the competition or carnival event.
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Your senior / middle school child would have brought home a notice regarding whether they are in the Competition Swimming event or the Carnival event.
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If for sincere reasons your child cannot swim on either of the Competition or Carnival event days, then they must bring a note.
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All children at either of these events will need to bring 2 towels, warm jumper, water to drink and a larger morning tea/lunch than normal. We are encouraging the children to wear their togs under their clothes to school if possible to save time when we get to the pools. They will wear their David Street hats when they are not swimming and we encourage them to come to school with sunscreen already applied.
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DSS Competition Swimming for those Children Attending
Monday 26 February
Where: Morrinsville Pools at the Recreation Grounds
We will leave school at 9.10am by bus and will be back at school before lunch time
Notices have gone home with those children involved. Any questions please email or talk to your child's teacher.
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We will need some people to be timekeepers at this event. Please let the office know if you can help.
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DSS Carnival Swimming
Tuesday 27 February
Middle School will be at David Street School pool.
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Senior School at the Morrinsville Rec Pools - senior children will travel by bus to and from the pools. Leaving at 9am and returning at approximately 1.30pm
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Please see/email your child's teacher if you have any questions around
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either of these swimming events.
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The David Street Home & School Committee would like to thank the support of parents and family, with the committee striving to positively support the school and students.
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Over the past year there has been fundraising from Pizza Days, Ice Block Fridays, Cookie Fridays, Danielle Callaghan / Kevin Deane Harcourts house sales, Raffle Tickets, School Disco, Entertainment Book Sales, Licorice, Livestock Day food sales.
This has helped to provide a new sandpit, cover, and toys with storage boxes, classroom fun money, disco setup & batman, new sports uniforms, School Playhouse Show, and support future school play area upgrades.
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The committee is always looking for more parents to join us, so if you are interested in
supporting the school & students come along to our next meeting.
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AGM Meeting 11 March 6.00pm
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Home and School Committee AGM meeting is being held on the 11th March at 6.00pm in the school meeting room (located in the Office block).
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All welcome, pop along we would love to see you there.
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YUMMY Sticker Promotion
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Thank you for supporting us last year in the Yummy Sticker Promotion.
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We received $855 worth of free sports equipment for our school.
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This is such a great promotion we would love if you helped us collect even more stickers this year!
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Collect the Yummy cut-out labels from bags (each cut-out label is worth 10 stickers) and individual Yummy apple stickers and drop them to the school office.
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The more stickers you collect, the more sports gear our school get so get going and start collecting your Yummy cut-out labels and stickers now!
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Yummy apples are available from New World, PAK’nSAVE and participating Four Square stores.
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Yummy sticker collection sheets have gone home with children this week.
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Hot Cross Bun Fundraiser
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We will be selling Coupland's Hot Cross Buns from next week,
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Monday 19 February to Friday 8 March
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There will be 3 different flavours available to purchase: Traditional/Choc/Cranberry
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This fundraiser will run through our
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Home and School Shop as we did with the licorice fundraiser.
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Pick up for Hot Cross Bun orders will be prior to Easter. We will confirm the pick up date as soon as possible.
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You can order your child's ice block from the Home and School Shop at the link above.
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- When prompted, Please change your child’s classroom from last year to their new classroom. This ensures the order gets to your child's class.
- Please only order 1 Ice block per child.
- Add all orders to your cart and pay for it all the end of your transactions.
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Thank you to our Newsletter Sponsors
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Please support the businesses that support our school!
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A big Thank You to those businesses that support our school by advertising in our newsletter:
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Danielle Callaghan-Harcourts Morrinsville, McLarens Rural, Morrinsville Decor,
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Hunt Building Limited, Odlum Hire, She Moves, Container Works, CooperAitken.
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General Information
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Covid-19
With the resurgence of Covid-19 in our community and school if your child is unwell and tests positive for Covid-19, we ask that they stay home for 5 days to avoid the spread through our school and to protect our students with high health needs.
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Please see our website for information regarding illnesses at school
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Sun Smart Policy
School Hat Fees
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Our Sun Smart Policy requires that children must wear school sun hats (supplied) in the playground during Terms 1 and 4.
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The School charges a small fee of $5 per annum. This fee goes towards maintenance (cleaning and purchasing new hats).
We are able to charge this minimal fee because the Home and School Committee put towards the cost of hats from money raised through fundraising.
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Payments
Internet Banking to our school account is a convenient way for many parents to make payments for our after school care program (CFK) and school related items like sports fees etc...
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When using internet banking to pay for school related items/fees please remember to reference what you are paying for and if applicable your child's name and reason for payment, so we can allocate your payment to the correct place. e.g Johnny Smith / Hat
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Or reference CFK if you are paying for your child's after school care programme.
Your help is much appreciated.
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After School Messages for Students
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If you have an after-school message for your child, please phone these through by 2.20pm so we have time to get the message to your child before the afternoon bells.
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We do discourage sending emails or private messaging of absences, or after school messages, as we are not constantly checking these forms of communication during the busy school day, and important messages may be missed or not relayed to your child on time.
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Late to School/Appointments
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If your child is late for school, they need to come to the office and sign in before going to their class.
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It is important for students to arrive at school between 8:30- 8:45am so that they can settle and get ready for the start of school at 8:55am.
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Children who need to leave school for any reason during the day eg: doctor or dentist appointment, must be signed out at the school office by a guardian.
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If someone else is picking your child up you must first phone the office and let us know who that will be.
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Absentees
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The absence line is available 24 hours 889-7780 ext 1 or you can use our School App to notify us when your child is away.
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If your child is unwell please keep them at home and contact the School Office before 9am to let us know.
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Download our school APP from your App Store - SchoolAppsNZ
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Bell Times
The bell times for morning tea and the lunch break have changed slightly to better suit our children's needs. Morning and end of school day remain the same.
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8.15am Children may enter school
8.55am Start of the school day
11.00am – 11.30am Morning interval
12.45pm - 1.30pm Lunch interval
2.45pm Bus Bell
3.00pm End of the school day
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Note: For safety reasons, pupils should not arrive at school before 8.15am.
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Those arriving before this time, must wait in the shelter at the main gate.
We do have Before School Care available in our Care for Kids programme from 7.00am each school day.
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Contact Pia Doughty on 0273 691 263 or for more information see our Before and After School Care Programme:
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Lost Property
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Each Term we always have extremely large amount of lost property. We do our best to manage and ensure lost property is returned to the owner. Please name your child’s clothing, including towels, togs and goggles. This helps us get items back to where they belong.
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Any lost property not claimed each term is donated to charity.
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Community Notices
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