Welcome New Teachers for 2016

We have now completed our appointment process for the two teaching positions and we are very pleased to advise school families that we have appointed two permanent teachers to Gladstone School.  Mrs Tracey Jacobson will be the classroom teacher for the Y1 & Y2 class. Tracey comes highly recommended from Tawhai School in Stokes Valley and is an experienced junior school teacher who will bring many strengths to our school.  Mr Alistair Dalziel will be the classroom teacher for the Y3 & Y4 class and we are very pleased to welcome Alistair back, now as a permanent member of staff.  Mrs Chelsea Douglas will be teaching the Y2 & Y3 class for the first term of 2016. Chelsea is well known to the students as she has previously taught a number of them. (This teaching position will be advertised for starting Term 2, 2016).  We will formally welcome our new teachers and students at a 'Welcome Back Assembly' on our first day of the new term, 1st February 2016, at 9am. School families are most welcome to join us for this event. We have a great team of teachers for 2016 and I am really looking forward to working alongside them all in the new school year.

Production Photos

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

In response to the upset caused by not allowing video and photography at the recent school production the board has decided to act swiftly to settle people’s concerns. At our meeting earlier this week we listened to parent voice about the ban and its implementation. The board and management realise it upset people and we apologise to them for that. We will discuss the matter further at our next board meeting early next year with the goal of allowing responsible photography and video at future productions. All policies on this subject will be clearly communicated to everyone.

Regards,

Piers Fuller
Gladstone Board of Trustees Chairman 

&

Margaret Hyslop

Gladstone School Principal

Room 4 Enjoying a Writing Session with Mrs Black

Final Assembly 2016

Our final 2016 school assembly is being held in the school hall at 11am on Wednesday, December 16th. This is an opportunity to celebrate our school year and especially celebrate our Year 8 students who are moving on to college. All welcome.  This assembly goes for approximately one hour  and our school year concludes at the end of this ceremony.

Monday 27 November 2015

Dear Parents / Caregivers of Gladstone School

This note is to advise school families that Mrs Bradley has just advised us this morning that she has won a teaching position at Lakeview School, commencing at the beginning of Term 1, 2016.   We wish Mrs Bradley every success in her new job and thank her for all her contributions to Gladstone School over the past 7 years. We will have an opportunity to thank and farewell Mrs Bradley at the end of term.

Two permanent teaching positions are currently being advertised and we are expecting to make appointments before the end of the year.  We will let families know of this outcome at that time.  The additional position that has now become available, will also be advertised shortly and if necessary it will be filled by a current reliever until a permanent teacher is appointed.

Please contact me directly should you have any further questions.

Yours sincerely

Margaret Hyslop

Gladstone School Principal

It is Great to be Back

It is great to be back at Gladstone School and to hear all about the wonderful achievements and learning opportunities that have been taking place over the past term.  Gladstone School Athletics representatives showed excellent sportsmanship yesterday at the south Wairarapa Athletic Sports Day and I believe we have a number of students going through to the regionals.   The school newsletter is published tomorrow, so their will be lots of end of year information in that publication.

Pet Day & Kapa Haka Festival

Thanks to Piers, here are some photos from Pet Day last week. All reports indicate this was a very successful day.
Well done to everyone involved.

Wairarapa REAP Schools Kapa Haka Festival 2015 

will be hosted by Masterton Intermediate School 

on Thursday 22^nd October at the Masterton Town Hall, Masterton 

starting with a powhiri at 8.30am. 

All parents and whanau are welcome to come and support. Out of courtesy to the performers there will be no admission during individual school performances. Please ensure you are there at least five minutes before your school’s performance time. There will be food available to purchase on the day. Parking is limited outside the Town Hall, and there are parking meters so please be aware of this.

Gladstone School is scheduled to perform at 9.45am.

Masterton Intermediate School will be selling food, sausages $2 and bacon & egg sandwiches for $3, bottled water will also be for sale.

The festival will be videoed and there will be photographers there on the day.

Booking System for Parent Teacher Conferences

At the end of last term the new computer based system for booking conferences was introduced.  We have had some very positive feedback and from our point of view it worked well.  If you have any comments, positive or negative, you wish to share with us, please ring or email me. I look forward to hearing from you.

Don't the scarecrows on the fence look great? A very positive outcome of the teams of children and adults working so well together.  There should be photogrpahs appearing in the local paper soon, so keep an eye out for that, and our 'official' photographer, Mr Brown has also taken some photos which I am sure he will be sharing via his blog. Thank you to everyone who helped to make the scarecrow making a success.

Hope your week is going well.

Kind regards,

Lesley.

Last Day of Term 2

There were loads of events and activities happening on the last day of Term 2 that made it a happy day for us all. Room 2 students gained 1st place, 2nd place and 3rd place in a poster competition for the Wairarapa Holstein Friesians Association.  Mrs Black and Elkanah planted a Rimu tree that Elkanah's Granddad had kindly donated to Gladstone School. Room 3 had a pyjama party and watched a special movie. Keep an eye on classroom blogs for further details.

Principals Morning Tea

Congratulations to the following students who attended the ‘Principals Morning Tea Celebration’ yesterday. These students were nominated by their teachers for not only displaying our school values, but also showing consistent positive attitude and effort towards their school programmes over Term 2. What a pleasure it was to share the morning with this wonderful group of students, Maddy Taylor, James Hanson, India Williams, Annie Heffernan, Poppy Edgecombe, Enzo Fuller, Harry Heffernan, Alice McGuinness, Summer Anderson, Natasha Memelink, Sam Blundell and Henry Borthwick.

BOT - Modern Learning Environment Power Point

We had a fantastic turn our for last night's ICT evening. we really enjoyed sharing our developments with school families. Please remember that you can contact child's class teacher or me to ask more questions about the way we use ICT to enhance learning at Gladstone School. If you would like to come and see this in action in your child's classroom come along to school for a visit.
Piers Fuller, BOT Chair, presented a workshop on modern environments. Please see the powerpoint below.

Come Along To Our ICT Evening

We are looking forward to meeting school families tonight 25.6.15, at our ICT Evening. This will start at 5.30pm in the school hall. For further details contact me or Graham Brown on 3727601. During the evening you will have the opportunity to learn, through hands on experiences, about Google Classroom, Google Docs, School Blogs, Apps for school and home use, Modern Learning Environments (MLE) and Modern Learning Pedagogy (MLP) and much more. We would love to see all school families at this event. 

Go Gladdy - South Wairarapa X Country -

Thank you to all the school families who provided support and supervision at the South Wairarapa Schools Cross Country event yesterday at Kahutara School.  We appreciated your time given to make this a great event.  An enthusiastic team of 50 athletes represented Gladstone School at this event. This was a fantastic achievement in itself and we were very proud of all our runners. We thank Mrs. Micaela Rutene and Mr Graham Brown for our team organisation. Congratulations to the Y3 place getters, Sean Doyle and Max Hintz. Congratulations to the following students who have made it through to the Regional Cross Country event for Y4 – Y8, on the 29^th June 2015.  Y8 Hunter Wyeth (5^th) Jack Hintz (10^th) Y7 Kosta Mills (1^st) Sam Blundell (4^th) Leeroi Edgecombe (6^th) Liam Quirke (7^th) Y6 Josh Redfern-Olsen (8^th) Anika Stewart (10^th) Y5 Charlie Hintz (1^st) William Day (2^nd) Conall Doyle (3^rd) Billy Blundell (7^th) Oscar Banks (10^th) Y4 Penny Borthwick (2^nd). This is an outstanding achievement and we are very proud of you all.  Thank you to Andrew Stewart for these photos that really capture the event.

Y8 Leadership Trip

Y8 were inspired by the athletes of the Fifa World Cup Under 20 Quarter Final on Sunday at the 'cake tin' in Wellington.  After staying the night at the Youth Hostel our group attended the National Young Leaders Day and were motivated, inspired and enthused by the fantastic array of speakers and entertainers. One in particular caught the eye of our group, William Pike, a NZ Mountaineer who lost his leg in during the Mount Ruapehu eruption and went on to climb again.  Laura asked Mike to sign our school copy of his book.

School Promotion Meeting Invitation

Dear Parents and Caregivers of Y5 – Y7

Senior School Promotion – Parent Meeting Y5 – Y7

We invite any interested parents of Y5 – Y7 students to our school promotion parent meeting being held on Thursday, the 11^th June 2015 at 2pm, in the staffroom (as indicated on the Term 2 school calendar).  This meeting is an opportunity for parents of Y5 – Y7 students, to become informed about what Gladstone School has to offer to our senior students.  As we would like all our students to remain at Gladstone School for their intermediate school years, this meeting will also provide us the opportunity to gather information about the types of learning parents would like their children to be involved in during their time as seniors at Gladstone School.  If you are the parent of younger children and are interested in this topic you are most welcome to join us also.

During part of this meeting Geoff Shepherd, Principal of Kuranui College, will be there to get the views from Gladstone School families to see if they would be interested in having a bus from Gladstone to Kuranui College for secondary students.   If you cannot make the meeting but would like to find out more about either topic please give me a call at school this term.

Please give Graham or me a call should you wish know more about this meeting.

Kind regards

Margaret Hyslop

Principal of Gladstone School