Celebrating 30 years in 2018 - Matamata Christian School
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VISION STATEMENT
Equip for Life
Prepare for Eternity
Weeks:
1-2
Term 2: 30 April 2018
Celebrating
IN THIS ISSUE:
30 years Our Story Term One
Awards
in 2018 See p2 See p3
LEST WE FORGET
Each year our student leadership team is represented and involved in
our local Anzac Day parade. We believe this represents an important
part of our countries heritage as we remember those who have died for
our freedom. This year Charlotte Kingston represented our leadership
team laying a wreath at the Matamata Cenotaph. Before Term 1
finished our students setup our school grounds in remembrance of
those who sacrificed for us in the wars (picture bottom right).
ARCHIMEDES AND HIS INVENTIONS
This term our learning theme is ‘Does Technology Change the World?’ This unit will encompass our Technology and
Science curriculums and include Mathematics . Across the school we will be engaging in STEM (Science, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics) challenges that focus on exploring and problem solving. This will culminate in our
‘Breakthrough’ projects which will happen across the school later in the term.
As part of our studies we have the opportunity to take the whole school to Waikato Museum’s ‘Eureka: The Inventions of
Archimedes’ education exhibition on now. This fits perfectly with what we are doing and has the potential to really inspire
our students. Several years ago we took the school to the Da Vinci’s Inventions exhibition also at Waikato Museum and
this was a fantastic event that built in well to the learning that followed.
This trip will include visits to both the Archimedes exhibition and the Exscite centre also based at the Museum. The total
cost for the day will be $14 which will include transport costs as long as we get enough parent transport to support us
with this. The trip is scheduled for next week on Wednesday the 9th of May. We are expecting to leave school at 8:50AM
and be back before 3PM in time for buses. If you can help with transport please fill in the reply slip on page 3.
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From the Principal’s Desk To Baigent Motors,
Welcome back to Term 2. We are pretty excited about our topics Thank you so much for helping us out with transport on
this term and the potential for great learning to take place. There
are a lot of activities ahead which we will introduce you to as we our trips over the last few years! This has been a real
bear down on them. In this issue many if these are discussed but blessing. From Alistair, the staff, students and parents.
there are many more to come too. In fact that is always a theme
with our school. Many outsiders regularly comment on the large
number of things we offer to give our students opportunities and
comment on the successes we have for a small school. This is all BAIGENT MOTORS LTD
part of our staff and extended team trying to do all we can for
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our students. Thank you to all those who help us to make these
events happen.
Starting with us today we are thrilled to have Sebastian
Tomlinson. Seb has recently turned five and is the younger
brother of Jack and Arielle who are already part of our school.
Respect Quote
30 YEAR CELEBRATIONS
This year we are celebrating 30 years of God’s faithfulness toward “Respect for ourselves guides our
Matamata Christian School. Starting in the basement of the home morals, respect for others guides our
of the school’s first principal, Rainbow Park Christian School as it manners.”
was called then, was the vision of two local pastors and a local
mechanic. - Laurence Sterne
This is just the start of an amazing story that has continued and
grown over 30 years. It is a story set over two sites, has involved
six principals, a collection of great teachers (one who worked two
years for free), has served and grown our students also having a movie night
hundreds of students, involved hundreds of together. This will be a fun night and over
volunteers, and is now known as one of New the past few years we have been thrilled to
Zealand’s most well known Christian schools. have nearly every family be a part of these
To achieve this has taken teams of great men nights with us. This year it will be a great
and women working together under God’s chance to celebrate as a community. We
direction for three decades. It is not the result hope to see you there.
of one or two people but the hard work of
God bless
teams who have given their all to serve God
and further His Kingdom. Alistair Paterson
Today our aim and prayer is to help develop
boys and girls with hearts after God’s own heart. Young people
who are developing a broad range of skills that will help them
connect with the great plan God has for each individual life with Prayer Requests...
the skills and knowledge to be godly, discerning people who will
make a difference in the world they operate in. We work to We appreciate your prayers for the school. Here’s what’s
develop each child academically, physically, spiritually and big on our minds at the moment:
socially. Pray our students will really engage with their learning
Over the weeks leading up to Friends and Founders Day on in STEM activities in Term 2 developing problem
Tuesday the 29th of May, we will be telling these and other solving and creativity skills that are linked with Godly
stories. Over these years we have been building a unique heritage values and thinking.
and our students over this time have been building their own
stories as they rise up to take their place in the world. Please pray our Friends and Founders Day planning will
shape well creating a day that is truly honouring of
On Friends and Founders Day we celebrate by inviting pastors what God has done here.
and leadership teams of each of our churches in for breakfast at
the start of the day, and we conclude by inviting all our school Please pray for our Christian school’s Community of
families to a free burger meal and celebration in the evening with Learning (Kāhui Ako) that is in the last stages of the
setup phase. Pray the Ministry of Education will look
upon the establishment documentation favourably and
Top right: Joshua that we will be able to move ahead with employing
Liebenberg holds staff and setup effective consultation across all
the school flag as he interested parties.
raises it.
Planning is well underway for the redevelopment of
Right: The Senior our classroom spaces. Please pray for wisdom in
class 10 years ago tweaking the final design briefs and for the release of
in Room 4. finances for this. Also pray that the design will capture
and create enduring and inspiring spaces.
News
TERM 2 TOPICS
As reported on page 1 this term our theme is ‘Does
Technology Change the World?’ This promises to be an
exciting topic that will integrate a number of subjects
together and will allow our students to focus on their own
Breakthrough project later in the term which will focus on
discovery, problem solving and creativity. Key areas of
development for our students this term will be developing
critical thinking strategies or higher order thinking skills, and
practising creativity.
As part of the development of our modern learning
environments for the next two terms our classroom teachers
will be specialising when teaching the Arts. Mrs Goodwin will
teach Music, Mrs Hildreth Visual Arts, and Mrs Kingston
Dance and Drama. To maximise this, one afternoon per week
over seven weeks each class will rotate between each
teacher thus benefitting from their particular skills and TERM 1 AWARDS
getting to experience each teacher. At the end of each term we celebrate with our students
This term, following the recent Commonwealth Games, we those who have earned their Rockstar Awards and
mark the return of our bi-annual Olympirua. This is our own Memory Verse achievements as well as those who have
track and field games based on the Olympics that we run in taken our exclusive core value badges.
Olympic and Commonwealth Games years. Over the next ten To earn their Rockstar Awards (photographed above)
weeks our students will compete in their age groups as students need to earn a certain number of points
separate girls and boys in sprints, high and long jumps, calculated daily associated with their attendance,
throwing and cross country events. They compete for our punctuality, homework completion and respect for their
schools famous and highly regarded cardboard gold, silver school uniform.
and bronze medals. Our opening ceremony for the Games Badges last term and this term are based around respect.
takes place tomorrow afternoon (Tuesday the 1st of May) at These are exclusive and hard to earn with only the
1:40PM. This replaces assembly this week and all are potential for two to be earned in each class.
welcome to come and join in the festivities.
Congratulations go to our respect badge winners in Term
Below are some of the topic themes that we will be covering 1 (photographed below):
this term in addition to our normal Reading, Writing and
Mathematics foci. Continued on page 4 Room 1: Arieta Mataitoga and Stephen Chen
Juniors: Bible Narratives (stories)
Room 2: Daisy Prebble and Manoa Madanawa
Bible
Middle: God’s Story Room 3: Leah Patrick and Noah Gartner-Houghton
Seniors: New Testament Survey
Core Value Respect
Technology and Does Technology Change the World?
Science
The Arts Rotations:
Visual Art
Music
Dance and Drama
P.E. Olympirua
WAIKATO MUSEUM WHOLE SCHOOL TRIP: EUREKA—THE INVENTIONS OF ARCHIMEDES
Wow! What a great trip, please count me in to help transport and supervise on
Wednesday the 9th of May.
I can be at school ready to leave at 8:50AM. I can take _____ children and have seat belts
for each. I will make sure my vehicle is registered and warranted. I will obey the road rules
and will follow the designated route.
Parent: ___________________________________
News LEADERSHIP DAY
TERM 2 TOPICS
At the end of last term our student leadership team had
Continued from page 3... the opportunity to be involved in a Project Energize (part
Māori language has become a key development area in our of Sport Waikato) leadership day. This was based around
school in 2018. We, along with all the other schools within a day of team building activities, games and sport and was
our Christian schools Kāhui Ako, have recognised that Māori really appreciated by our students.
language teaching in our schools has been a weakness. We Project Energize do a lot for our students and we are
have recognised that this is important as part of our heritage grateful for their support. They are regularly involved in
development in our students and research shows it plays an events such as Wheels Day, individual class sport
important role in our students overall academic activities, the pre-school triathlon events we run and
development too. Desire to deepen Māori has also come Sport Camp training we do prior to going to Sports Camp.
through in parent feedback we have requested at different
Below: Team building activities with members of our
times.
school leadership team.
As a result our teachers are receiving in-depth professional
development in Māori in 2018. Each class teaches Māori for
30 minutes per week and you can expect to see this become
more prominent throughout the year. In Term 2 our students
will be developing their language around feelings.
The bi-annual Digi Awards will take place in Term 3.
Throughout the next two
terms our students will
integrate some of these
categories in topical work
that they are doing.
Categories that they can
enter into include static
digital images, digital
storyboarding, television
advertising and animations.
Students will choose
categories that they want to
participate in.
Right: Kalilah Paul’s static
digital image entry from
Anzac Day 2018.
In Term 2 our students will
be learning The Lord’s Prayer
for their memory verses from
Matthew 6:9—13. This will
be from the NKJV version to
give them a standardisation
similar to that most are
LUNCHTIME KNITTING CLUB
familiar with. Learning The
Lord’s Prayer is part of the Our lunchtime knitting club with Mrs Stevens starts up
essential verses we want again tomorrow, Tuesday the 1st of May. This was really
students to learn during their popular last year and we are grateful to Mrs Stevens for
time at our school. running this with our students.
WEDNESDAY 9th MAY
More News...
READING TOGETHER
For the last few years we have been
privileged to be able to run a parent
reading programme called Reading
Together. This is a well researched programme running over
four nights designed specifically to help parents be able to
effectively help their children with reading at home.
This is particularly beneficial for parents of younger children
(including pre-schoolers). With Ministry of Education
sponsorship we are able to deliver this programme for free
to any parents enrolling.
Please consider enrolling in this and chat with Mrs Lee, Mrs OP SHOP—ITEMS NEEDED PLEASE
Goodwin or Mr Paterson for more details. Please also chat One of our biggest fundraisers of
with us if you are likely to need help with a babysitter too as the school year comes from the
we do not want anything to be a barrier to anyone being week that we run the local Op
able to attend. Shop. We have been privileged to
If you know of parents of pre-schoolers intending to enrol in be assigned a week each year and
our school, please feel free to invite them too. We believe this year it is scheduled for the week starting the 28th of
this programme supports parents well to help children May.
develop a love for reading. We are also inviting parents from We are in need of two things; i) volunteers to help us run
Tower Road Christian Preschool. this event, and ii) items to sell. Over Op Shop week we are
Reading Together will be run over four Tuesday evenings required to have three people running the shop at a time.
starting straight after Queen’s Birthday Weekend on the 5th We need people who can give any time during the hours
of June. Please enrol in the school office or through either of 9AM to 3PM please, even if only for an hour or two. If
Mrs Lee or Mrs Goodwin. you are able to assist a roster is available in the school
RUBEN THE ROAD SAFETY BEAR office where any time you can give can be added.
At the end of Term 1 Rooms 1 and 2 received a visit from In the meantime we really need to start collecting
Ruben the Road Safety Bear. Ruben’s message to our items to sell. If you are doing any cleanouts at home and
students is one around how to cross the road safely and safe have items you do not want to otherwise sell yourself, we
travel in vehicles. If you have a child in Room 1 or 2 please would be grateful to have them please. These can be
take the time to ask them what Ruben taught them. dropped off at the school office or, if you need us to pick
them up, please notify the school office.
Money we raise will be used toward our new MLE
classroom developments.
Even More News…
Church Community Notices
This column has been set up to support local church and
Christian community events. If your church has an
exciting event coming up they can advertise it here for
free by sending details or advertising to
office@matamata.school.nz
Photos: Large Ball Soccer and
games fun at the end of Term
1.
THE NEW ENTERTAINMENT BOOK
We are raising money for our new MLE spaces and you can
help. Order the NEW 2018 | 2019 Entertainment Book or
Entertainment Digital Membership and you will receive
hundreds of valuable offers for everything you love to do,
and you will also be supporting New I.T. gear.
PLUS, order now to receive over $170 of bonus Early Bird
Offers (hurry, these sell out quickly).
The cost this year is $65 per book. They are now available
from the school office.
Dates for your Calendar
May
1st Olympirua Opening Ceremony
1st Lunchtime Knitting Club Starts
3rd Year 7 Immunisations
9th Whole School Waikato Museum Trip
10th Association Meeting
14th Young Leaders Day
18th Cotter Cup
22nd ASB Getwise Programme
22nd Elgregoe
28th—1st Op Shop Week
29th Friends and Founders Day
29th AGM
31st Y7/8 EPRO8 Challenge
June
1st Y5/6 EPRO8 Challenge
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