Last two weeks countdown!!

From now on we almost have something every day!

Year 8 parents .... we need baby photos of your beautiful children for our final assembly.  Please email them through!


Here is a calendar of events:

Monday 5 December
1.00 pm Production - "Clarkville Live" - Dress Rehearsal
6.30 pm "Clarkville Live" Performance

Tuesday 6 December
6.30pm "Clarkville Live" Performance

Wednesday 7 December 
Canterbury Athletic Championships

Thursday 8 December
Fish and Chips

Spud in Bucket judging
Learning Pathway Reports to go home

Friday 9 December
2017 transition visits to new classes
Wet and Wild Day - gold coin donation to Surf Life Saving

Monday 12 December
Year 8 Big day out  -  come to school and then we walk to the van Klink's.  Pick up at 2:15pm

Bring a snack to share,  money for Mr Whippy!
Year 8 Leavers dinner -  meet at the Gentry-Tucks (Heywards Road) at 6pm

Tuesday 13 December
2017 Transition visits to new classes
Picnic at Silverstream

Wednesday 14 December
Powhiri at Paparoa Street
Whakarewa Singing at the Airport

Thursday 15 December
1.30pm Certificates Assembly6.00pm Prizegiving and Year 8 Graduation Assembly

Friday 16 December
School finishes @ 12.30pm ~ bus will run at 12.30

The Year 8s will be busy finishing canvases, perfecting the waltz and writing end of year speeches. The Year 7s will be planning possibilities for new leadership positions, and ideas for projects.

Week 6 - Wakey wakey, shakey shakey!

Hi whanau!

Hopefully you have all managed to stay safe and dry. Remember to check in on neighbours, family and friends to make sure they are ok after that big shake!


Clarkville School will be closed for the day and hopefully you will manage to catch up on some well needed sleep. Our Facebook page will have up-to-date information, so that's probably the best place to check our progress.

If you are looking for some semblance of normality, here is some work on our team's website:

Aspire website

Weekly quiz

Maths - trigonometry investigations


This is by no means compulsory and our main focus is that everyone is ok.

Production

Rehearsals for production start this week and if you have some time, we would love for you to join us to help get the show going! Send us an email if you have some skills and time you could donate! Here's the timetable for the week:

Monday's production timetable will be moved to Tuesday so that the whole school will get to meet their groups and get a good overview of what is ahead and set out a plan.

Assembly

It's Explore's turn to share this week (Wk 6) and we will have two of our awesome Yr 8 leaders to lead this.

Aspire will be sharing next week (Wk 7) so stay tuned!


We're sending positive thoughts to those affected by the shakes, stay safe.

Week 5

Monday 7 November

We are half way through the term already!!

News for this week:

Year 7 Pathways and Year 8 Projects
We are on the final countdown for these!  Because of the Show on Wednesday, the final day for handing in Pathways and Year 8 Leadership books will be Monday 14 November.  For Year 7s this will be marking off the last few stars that may have been completed in the last week. We have been keeping the Year 7 students informed with the running totals of stars so far.



A&P Show

Remember to pack your lunch!

The format of the day is as follows –

9.00am – Assemble together at school in Buddy groups. Board the bus in these groups.

9.15am – All groups leave school

10.00am – Arrive at the show and ‘tour’ around in small groups with parent helpers

12.30am – LUNCH as a whole school at the Arena.

1.30pm – Leave the show and return to school

Children will assemble in their classrooms on return back to school and will be released by teachers at the usual time of 2.50pm.

Subway Orders
These will be Tuesday morning for Thursday Subway.

Parent and Student consultation for new principal
There has been an email out to parents to invite responses about the qualities you are looking for in a new principal. We will also be consulting our student community this week.

Week 3!

Welcome to Week 3!

Athletics
The weather is not so great for competition but it's looking like it will hold for the day. Here's the run down for the day:

Basic Facts (Maths - times tables)

After a recent assessment check in, it seems as though an alarming number of Aspire students  are struggling with their times tables. This makes their maths life difficult and in order to be at stage 7 (yr 7 & 8), one of the requirements is mastery of the times tables. This means that anyone who doesn't know them is in danger of not meeting the standards. How is your student going? Are they where they need to be? It's scary but some students are even struggling with their 4x tables! Eeeek!

We would love your help to get on top of this and it will make a big difference to how quickly they pick up new concepts and their confidence in doing maths.

Yr 7 Pathways & Yr 8 Leadership Projects

This is expected homework! Ask your student to show you their evidence. Pathways close on the day we go to the A&P Show!

Week 2

Good afternoon, it's Week 2  !!

This week we are back to our Aspire routines.  We have a new SRL up, focusing on the use of taglines, font and music to create a mood in video production.

Athletics practice has begun to prepare the children for next Wednesday.

We have assembly on Friday.

PCT
We have an opportunity to enter one team (four students) in the PCT competition this Friday.  We will let you know more details about this soon.

Homework
Homework this term will continue to be Pathways, Year 8 projects, basic facts, learning spelling and personal reading.

Week 9

Welcome to the last week of Term 3!!

Our many Notices!!! :

1.  A&P Show notice is due back

2.  School photos are tomorrow (Tuesday)

3.  Pizza Fundraiser on Friday

4.  AgClub and Spud in a Bucket notices are due back

5.  Year 7 Bush Survival Trip notices - due back on Friday.  Please let us know if you are able to help out!

6.  Year 7 Pathways and Year 8 Project sharing in Aspire,  Wednesday at 2:15pm

7.  Camp Wellington Gear list:

Week 8 News

We're in Week 8!!!

News this week:

Koru Games:
This Tuesday and Wednesday.
Please read the post below for details.
You will need to be at school at 6:45am on BOTH DAYS.
Students will be given their uniform when they arrive. 
They will need - a warm Clarkville jacket, large lunch, drink bottle (and hat + sun block if they are outside), any medication
We will return to school by 3:30pm approx.

Kapahaka
We have an afternoon and evening performance on Thursday.
Tickets for the evening performance are available from the office (it will be door sales for the afternoon performance).

Assembly
Assembly this Friday will feature music performances.

Presentation of learning:  Year 8 Projects and Year 7 Pathways
This will be at 2pm on Wednesday 21 Sept (next week).  Please come along and check out what our students have been up to with their home/school learning.