Weekly Friday Newsletter Term: 2 Week: 7 13 June 2011

NOTICES: Nigel Latta CTMS Speaking Event Wednesday 15 June 7-9pm Assessment Information Evening Thursday June 30th

Monday 13 June Tuesday 14 June Wednesday 15 June Thursday 16 June Friday 17 June

Kowhai Library Katrina Laurie visiting Kowhai Hearing and Vision testing New Entrants/Year 7s Orchestra and Band practice Nigel Latta fundraiser-WCOE Hall, Karori 7:30pm Technology Years 7/8 Assembly Hosts: Lily, Victoria, Tommy, Esther Nigel Latta visiting CTMS Gifted and Talented Art classes at City Gallery

NOTICES:

Top Schoolgen School in New Zealand: Clifton Tce Model School has been selected as one of the top three Schoolgen schools in New Zealand in 2010, showing outstanding commitment with student involvement in the Schoolgen programme. The school will be presented with five sets of the Educational Solar Kits. Well done everyone and a special thankyou to Murray and our Schoolgen Leadteam! Welcome: This week we welcome Steve Donaldson who will be working in Kauri and Kahikatea as Co Principal Release. Swimming Programme: Thank you to those parents who have returned the Swimming Questionnaire however we still have a large number of slips we are waiting on. We will be grouping the students on the basis of this information. Parent Teacher Association: Please see attached flyer. Gifted and Talented Art Classes: As part of our Gifted and Talented programme at CTMS we are delighted to be able to offer a series of art workshops at the City Gallery with Keila Martin the Education Officer. A letter will be sent out to those students who have been selected. Assessment Evening: On Thursday June 30th we will be holding an information evening for parents on assessment at CTMS. During the evening the staff will discuss the various assessment tools used in each of the homegroups. We will also cover how these assessments contribute to teachers making an Overall Teacher Judgment (OTJ) on student achievement in relation to the National Standards. This will be held at 7:30pm on 30 June. Black Tie Night: As part of celebrating our musical groups and their progress over the term we are holding a Black Tie Night to showcase each of the music groups. All the children will be performing an number of musical items. The musical groups include; recorder, ukulele, glockenspiel and the band. As part of the evening, some of our students receiving piano tuition from Jonathon Crehan from the Young Mozart Academy will give brief piano presentations. Please diary Monday 11 July at 6pm. Technology: This term our Technology learning extends to Problem Challenges with a survival theme. Last week the children came up with some innovative ideas and designed a plastic raincoat out of recycled plastic bags. We need a large number of recycled plastic supermarket bags and newspapers for the activities planned for the rest of the term. Please drop these off in the staff room.