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ECS Update Term 4, Week 5 – Thursday 16th November 2023
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This newsletter contains information on the following:
- Important Dates
- Dogs on the school site
- 2024 Planning
- Student Achievement
- Itinerant Music Lesson Registrations 2024
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Monday 20th November – Teacher Only Day
Monday 11th December – End of year Prizegiving
Friday 15th December – Last day of Term 4 (Early closure at 12pm)
Wednesday 31 January 2024: First day for students of 2024 School year
(Full 2024 Term dates can be found here)
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Can we please ask that you do not bring any dogs (including on leads) onto the school site while we have children here. This includes when dropping off and collecting children each day.
While we know most of the dogs that have been onsite have been well controlled and are well behaved, we also have numbers of children where this has been causing some distress.
If you wish to walk your dog through the school site afterhours and over the weekend then you are very welcome to do so.
Thank you.
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As we have been planning for 2024 we have been looking at the placement in classes. As always this is a process of prayerfully considering what is going to be the best for each of the students and staff. In 2024 there are going to be some changes to the year levels taught by some of the staff within Years 1-6.
We wanted to take the chance to let you all know of these.
In 2024 we will have teaching in:
- Years 0-2: Mrs Luke, Miss Kendrew, Miss Nicholson, Mrs Thomas and Mrs Carter
- Years 3-4: Mr Robb and Mrs van Mechgelen
- Years 5-6: Mrs Collins and Mr Smith
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On Thursday a great group of Year 5-8 students represented Emmanuel Christian School at the Zone Athletics Sports held at Ngā Puna Wai Sports Hub. A windy day which was a little cool at times, however a great group of students who represented themselves and the school very well.
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This weekend, Abigail competed at the Makos Swimming Championships in Timaru. This is a swimming meet which targets: Otago, Southland, Canterbury West Coast and Marlborough. This was a three day event consisting of 4 sessions.
There were qualifying times for this Championship and it included South Island swimmers and swimmers from Neptunes Club, in the North Island.
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Abigail competed against the 35 fastest 12 year old swimmers.
Her achievements:
4 PBS – this is when you beat your previous race times and what every sportsman or sportswoman competing in an individual sport strives for.
Abigail got 5th place out of 35 swimmers, in the 200 m backstroke.
She also achieved 9th place out of 35 swimmers, for her 100m backstroke.
She achieved 12th and 15th place out of 35 swimmers for her 50m and 200m breaststroke.
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Itinerant Music Lesson Registrations 2024
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Emmanuel Christian School offers a range of instrument tuition with experienced passionate itinerant music teachers. Currently they offer tuition in drums, strings (violin, viola, cello), guitar, ukulele, piano, wind instruments (flute, saxophone, clarinet), brass instruments (trumpet, horn, trombone).
If your child is interested in learning an instrument in 2024, please contact the itinerant music tutors directly (contact details below).
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