Backing Black, a mobile game/fan/fun event will be in Carterton this Sunday at Carrington Park from 10am-4pm.

Carterton School - Newsletter No 1 – 2^nd August 2011

Dear Parents and Caregivers

Tena koutou katoa. Welcome to Term 3 of 2011 already! Where has the year gone so far? The two week break flew past with a range of weather for us to experience. I enjoyed a mixture of activities, a few days away at the coast, some work, a couple of days playing with Loli, my horse, and four days at a ‘Realising Maori Potential’ conference. (More of that in a later newsletter!) It is great to see everyone back fit and healthy this week.

We have had a few changes in classes with a couple of people moving away from the area, and other families moving to Carterton. If you are a new family to school we warmly welcome you... (more)

Carterton School - Newsletter No 11 – 12^th July 2011

Dear Parents and Caregivers

As we come to the end of the term we have a lot of children (and adults!) away sick. Thank you for keeping your children at home if they are ill or overly tired! I hope most are well enough to enjoy the break that is coming up.

Thank you to the parents who have returned the small green survey about Reporting to Parents. Your input is appreciated as we are attempting to streamline our process of reporting. If you were not able to come... (more)

Carterton School - Newsletter No 10 – 5th July 2011

Dear Parents and Caregivers

Tena koutou. Kei te pehea koe?
This week is Māori language week! Can you learn some new Māori words or phrases this week? Have a go with some of these:

Greetings
Kia ora         Hi
Tēnā koe         Hello (to one person)
Tēnā kōrua         Hello (to two people)... (more)

Carterton School - Newsletter No 9 – 28th June 2011

Dear Parents and Caregivers

Report files will be coming home on Friday this week. The files represent a small part of the work your child has been competing this term. Please read each work sample carefully and talk to your child about it. Included in the files are samples of work and cumulative graphs, showing progress over time eg in reading. This year for the first time we are using the National Standards as one of the measures against which we have made an overall judgement of how your child... (more)

Carterton School - Newsletter No 8 – 21^st June 2011

Dear Parents and Caregivers

Congratulations to Laura D. from Room 12 who has qualified for the South Wairarapa speech competition. Laura took part in the qualifying round yesterday. The final is on Thursday evening at Gladstone School.  Well done Laura, we are proud of you – good luck!!

Your child/rens wonderful report files will be coming home on Friday 1 July. As part of the reporting process... (more)

Carterton School - Newsletter No 7 – 14^th June 2011

Dear Parents and Caregivers

Thank you to all of the parents who came along to support our cross country day last week. It was a great success with real ‘cross country weather’! Some children returned covered in mud – but that is part of the fun isn’t it?! A strong team of over 100 runners are heading off to Kahutara for the South Wairarapa championships on 22 June. It was lovely for the runners... (more)

Carterton School - Newsletter No 6 – 7^th June 2011

Book Club – Forms come out today. Closes Friday 17 June. Orders to Mr O’Connell in Room 9.

Congratulations to Friday’s winners of the Mahi pai good behaviour draw:

R Bowling, Holly, P Stokes, P Davey, C George, S Anderson, L Blathwayt.

Carterton School Cross Country - tomorrow Wednesday, 8^th June at 11am. The postponement date is... (more)

Carterton School - Newsletter No 5 – 31^st May 2011

Dear Parents and Caregivers

How lovely to be enjoying beautiful sunny autumn days – the only problem is that we know what is round the corner! This is the time of year when we are busy getting ready for the cross country events. Every student is taking part in training ready for our school event on 8 June at 11.00 am. Parents are very welcome to come along to watch the event. We do ask... (more)

Carterton School - Newsletter No 4 – 24^th May 2011

Dear Parents and Caregivers

Carterton School - Newsletter No 3 – 17^th May 2011

Dear Parents and Caregivers

This week teachers have started to collect samples of work to be included in your child’s report file, which will be coming home at the end of week 9. The report files contains samples of work from a range of curriculum areas, with details of the purpose of the work, how your child will know they have been successful and an assessment of achievement in that piece of work. Each piece of work will detail the expected curriculum level for the year group and the actual level of the work your child has completed. This term we will also include a summary statement of how your child is doing in relation to nation... (more)

Carterton School - Newsletter No 2 – 10^th May 2011

Dear Parents and Caregivers

The autumn weather is certainly with us now. Some cool mornings have been turning into gorgeous sunny days. The grass and area around school is often wet at this time of year. To help keep the school clean and tidy we have to ask the children to take their shoes off before they come into class. Some children bring slippers in their bag to wear in the classroom, but... (more)

Carterton School - Newsletter No 1 – 3rd May 2011

Dear Parents and Caregivers

Welcome to Term 2 everyone. We have several new enrollments this term and the children seem to have all settled well into their classes already. We have a few staff changes this term. Andrea Harvey has started her maternity leave; her baby is due at the beginning of June. For the rest of this year Room 5 will have Felicity Edwards... (more)

Carterton School's 150th Jubilee weekend was a huge success, with over 400 registered attendees and more who dropped by for a look!

Congratulations and thanks to the Jubilee Comittee and to all the volunteers and helpers who made Carterton's 150th celebrations such a success! We trust all who came along had a brilliant time catching up with friends, teachers and students. Do let us know if you have suggestions for the 200th celebration!

Attendees who are interested in Graeme Bowden's photos from the weekend can find them here.

Carterton School's 150th Jubilee celebrations begin this Friday. You can see the full program here and see who's coming along here.

Don't miss it and have to wait another 150 years- sign up online here!

Carterton School - Newsletter No 10 – 5th April 2011

Dear Parents and Caregivers

After a very difficult week for many members of the school community last week, I must say a huge thank you to everyone who helped to support each other. I know this thoughtfulness will continue. Your help has been very much appreciated.

We are heading towards the end of term - only one more week after this week! Our minds are now turning more towards fantastic Jubilee celebrations...

Carterton School - Newsletter No 9 – 29th March 2011

Dear Parents and Caregivers

Our thoughts and prayers are with Debbie Fryer and her family on the sad loss of Darren. Debbie has been a teacher school and she and her family are involved in many aspects of school and community life. We will all do all we can to support the Fryer family through this sad time.

Rugby world cup visit. This Thursday 2-3pm in our...

Carterton School - Newsletter No 8 – 22nd March 2011

Dear Parents and Caregivers

What fantastic rain! Just what we needed! (Not if you have a vineyard though!)

Thank you all for supporting the mufti day for Japan last week. We raised $500 to send to the Red Cross Japanese appeal. If you have friends or family there we are thinking of you.

This week we have some exciting sporting events coming up. Several of our...

Carterton School - Newsletter No 7 – 15th March 2011

Dear Parents and Caregivers

Our thoughts are with everyone affected by the tragedy in Japan.  The scale of the devastation is hard to comprehend and we can only hope that the Japanese people will be spared more tragedy as the aftershocks continue.  The only positive that can be taken from these natural disasters is the way it brings the world together, with countries putting aside differences and showing unity and compassion by offering and providing help and support as soon as it is seen to be needed. 

Gala – Thank you to everyone...

Carterton School - Newsletter No 6 – 8th March 2011

Dear Parents and Caregivers

It was great to see so many parents here at the parent / teacher / student meetings last week. It was a good opportunity to meet with your child’s teacher and share information. Having the children present was very beneficial as they were able to share their feelings too. If you were unable to meet with your child’s teacher last week do contact her / him to catch up.

Special sausage sizzle! Next Monday we...