Ramere 25 o Mahuru

Kaitiaki Service class this week is Room 12.
Next term Kaitiaki Service class will be Room 3

No Enviro Group today. Nerina and Ms B meeting,

CHOIR - please come to Room 6 with your lunch :-)

Term 4 Sport...the teams are being made in the holidays so if they are not handed in by TODAY, you will not be put in a team.
Teeball and Touch permission slips to be handed to Mrs Williams by TODAY
Mod-Softball permission slips to be handed to Nerina by TODAY
Intermediate Softball permission slips and $5 to be handed to Mr Lennox by TODAY

House Jump Jam teams - practise this afternoon. Head to these rooms after your teacher has done the roll.

Batten - Tui Room

Year 2	Ollie	Lana	Lola	Brooke
Year 3	Ella Grace	Sophie	Joel	Alexia
Year 4	Libby	Asher	Justyn
Year 5	Chloe	Merekara
Year 6	Jayden	Erin	Whai	Rian	Lourdes

Rutherford - Room 13

Sheppard - Room 6

Hillary - Room 7

ROAD PATROL
All year 6 road patrollers please come to Room 1 at morning tea for an urgent meeting.  If you miss this meeting you may be taken off the road patrol roster.

Rāpare 24 o Mahuru

Rutherford Jump Jam in Room 14 at morning tea.

Kaitiaki Service class this week is Room 12.

No Enviro Group this week.

Term 4 Sport...the teams are being made in the holidays so if they are not handed in by Friday, you will not be put in a team
Teeball and Touch permission slips to be handed to Mrs Williams by Friday
Mod-Softball permission slips to be handed to Nerina by Friday
Intermediate Softball permission slips and $5 to be handed to Mr Lennox by Friday

ROAD PATROL TRAINING.

All year 5 students who signed up for Road patrol meet in Room 1 with your morning tea.

Congratulations Room 2 and 6 for winning the whole class PRIDE Day Out! See you at 1:45pm in the hall for your movie and butlers.

Rāapa 23 o Mahuru

Rutherford Jump Jam in Room 14 at morning tea.

Year 6s! It's the last day for your essay/story writing competition. Get your stories into Nerina ASAP!

Mr Sinton's Range Rover group...remember to get your learning paragraphs done today

PRIDE Meeting tomorrow 8:10am

SUMMER Hockey...
All permission slips need to be in to Jane today.

Kaitiaki Service class this week is Room 12.

Term 4 Sport...the teams are being made in the holidays so if they are not handed in by Friday, you will not be put in a team
Teeball and Touch permission slips to be handed to Mrs Williams by Friday
Mod-Softball permission slips to be handed to Nerina by Friday
Intermediate Softball permission slips and $5 to be handed to Mr Lennox by Friday

DPS Pulse netball...please return your dresses to Mr Blue and our lunch is in Rm 3 tomorrow.

WHOOPIE!! Can the following kids who won PRIDE DAY OUT - please meet Mr Brown and Mrs Walsh in the office, straight after morning tea - yummo treats a wait! :-)

PRIDE DAY OUT Nominations

2015

Term 3

Rimu

1 Joel Jones

2 Skye McLellan-Scuvazzo

3 Chloe McKendrick

4 Luke Jonas

Kowhai

4 Poppy Tomuri

4 Isobella Syms

5 Prathna Patel

6 Isabel Tortoza

Rata

11 Rhys Cox

12 Kelly Pawson

14 Divyansh Singh

15 Cody Laing-Bayley

Kahikatea

1 Lily Rees

2 Dominic Sexton

3 Jacob Rose

3A Lourdes Kamo

Rātu 22 o Mahuru

SUMMER Hockey...
If you would like to play in a summer hockey team...come and get a permission notice from Jane at morning tea today. They need to be back tomorrow.

Kaitiaki Service class this week is Room 12.

Term 4 Sport...the teams are being made in the holidays so if they are not handed in by Friday, you will not be put in a team
Teeball and Touch permission slips to be handed to Mrs Williams by Friday
Mod-Softball permission slips to be handed to Nerina by Friday
Intermediate Softball permission slips and $5 to be handed to Mr Lennox by Friday

DPS Tactix Netball team come see Miss West in Room 3 at Morning Tea today - we are just going to have a quick meeting

DPS Pulse netball...please return your dresses to Mr Blue and our lunch is in Rm 3 on Thursday.

Rāhina 21 o Mahuru

PRIDE Kids: How have your goals for Term 3 been going?

SUMMER Hockey...
If you would like to play in a summer hockey team...come and get a permission notice from Jane at morning tea today. They need to be back by Wednesday this week.

Kaitiaki Service class this week is Room 12.


Mr Sinton's Miniball Team. Meet in Rm 3 at morning tea

Science Theme for Week 10 - The International Space Station
 

 Click here to find out.

Rāpare 17 o Mahuru

Teeball (Yr 1-3), Mod-Softball (Yr 4-6) and Touch (Yr 4-6)
Are you keen to play for a DPS team next term?  Come and sign up at morning tea today and tomorrow, the signup sheets will be outside Rm 3 and big kids will be there to help you.
Please have this done by tomorrow and notices will be coming out next week.
Teeball - Saturday Mornings
Mod Softball - Saturday Mornings
Touch - Thursday after school

Tell your teacher if you have a nude food lunch box at school. They need to take a photo of you with your lunch box open and e-mail the photos to Nerina, please.

ATTENTION YEAR 6s.
It is time to reflect on your time at DPS. Write a funny story about your time at DPS and win an essay competition. Come and see Nerina at at any time to collect a slip of paper. We are looking for those weird and wacky stories. Tell a funny story about a teacher. Dare to Dream Year 6s!

Kiaora  koutou  katoa Remember to greet everyone you meet in Te Reo.

Kaitiaki Service Class this week is R5

Movie Options group remember to get your costumes and Props read to bring to school on Friday.
Tomorrow is the day you bring costume and Props!

Enviro group tomorrow in Room 11

MUFTI DAY
Is this TOMORROW...dress up in black to support the All Blacks or tidy mufti.  Please pay a gold coin to your teacher before Celebration Time if you choose to wear mufti.  Thanks for supporting the School Council.

2016 MIS FORMS
Please return these to your classroom teacher asap.  If they have been returned to MIS that is fine, but can you please tell your teacher this.

Shepherd Jump Jam Team - please come to Room 6 with your morning tea.

LIBRARY

Time is running out for you to submit your Book Cover Competition entry!

So far we only have 1 yr 1, 2 yr 2, 17 yr 5 and 2 yr 6 entries.  Submit your entry by Tuesday 22nd September - NO LATE ENTRIES ACCEPTED.

Science Photo of the Day - what is this?

 

Study of Mars' surface has led scientists to find a massive slab of ice just under the surface. The experts hope to further study the discovery to locate evidence of life on the planet.
[Full Story: Gigantic Ice Slab Found on Mars Just Below the Planet's Surface]

Rāapa 16 o Mahuru

Tell your teacher if you have a nude food lunch box at school. They need to take a photo of you with your lunch box open and e-mail the photos to Nerina, please.

ATTENTION YEAR 6s.
It is time to reflect on your time at DPS. Write a funny story about your time at DPS and win an essay competition. Come and see Nerina at at any time to collect a slip of paper. We are looking for those weird and wacky stories. Tell a funny story about a teacher. Dare to Dream Year 6s!
MINI BALL
DPS Breakers and DPS Taipans meet in Room 1 at 12:30 with your lunch.  We will have a practice game at lunch time.

Reminder...school finishes at 12.30pm tomorrow.

Kiaora  koutou  katoa Remember to greet everyone you meet in Te Reo.

Kaitiaki Service Class this week is R5

Movie Options group remember to get your costumes and Props read to bring to school on Friday.

MUFTI DAY Is this Friday...dress up in black to support the All Blacks or tidy mufti.  Please pay a gold coin to your teacher before Celebration Time.  Thanks for supporting the School Council.

PRIDE Meeting tomorrow 8:10am in Room 7

2016 MIS FORMS
Please return these to your classroom teacher asap.  If they have been returned to MIS that is fine, but can you please tell your teacher this.

Shepherd Jump Jam Team - please come to Room 6 with your morning tea.

Bread bags...please remember to take bread bags to Rm 15.




Science Photo of the day

 

The photo above was taken inside the crater of Kawah Ijen volcano on the island of Java, Indonesia. This colorful landscape is one of the most inhospitable places in the world. At upper left sulfuric gases can be seen venting from fractures in the crater. The lake partially filling the crater has a pH of 0.5 -- considered to be one of the most acidic bodies of water in the world. Photo taken on September 13, 2014.

Rātu 15 o Mahuru

Tell your teacher if you have a nude food lunch box at school. They need to take a photo of you with your lunch box open and e-mail the photos to Nerina, please.

Shepherd Jump Jam Team - please come to Room 6 with your morning tea.

Kiaora  koutou  katoa Remember to greet everyone you meet in Te Reo.

Kaitiaki Service Class this week is R5

Movie Options group remember to get your costumes and Props read to bring to school on Friday.

MINIBALL
The Finals draw is up in the sports notice board.  Check what time your game is tomorrow.

Wildcats practice today at lunch time.  Meet Mrs Walsh at Room 6 after you have been let go from eating your lunch.

Pistons Mr Riley's Team - Come to room 15 after you finish eating your lunch. 
 Bulls (Mrs Williams team) Bring your lunch to Rm 3 when the bell goes.  
 Celtics (Mr Harkness' Team) please come to Room 12 with your lunch when the bell goes. 

 Kings  practice today at lunch time. Please come to Tui Rm with your lunch when the bell goes. 

 Breakers practice tomorrow before school at 8am.  Meet Mr Lennox on the courts.

DPS Crocodiles (Miss Hunter's team) we are practising Today lunchtime.  Bring your lunch to R9
Lakers (Nerina's Team) We are practising tomorrow  at lunchtime.

INTERMEDIATE SOFTBALL.
All year 5 and 6 students who want to play intermediate softball in term 4 come to Room 1 at morning tea today. If you are a year 4 and think you might like to play Intermediate softball come to this meeting too and have a chat to Mr Lennox.

MUFTI DAY
Is this Friday...dress up in black to support the All Blacks or tidy mufti.  Please pay a gold coin to your teacher before Celebration Time.  Thanks for supporting the School Council.

2016 MIS FORMS
Please return these to your classroom teacher asap.  If they have been returned to MIS that is fine, but can you please tell your teacher this.

Science picture of the day

Explanation: It was a typical Texas sunset except that most of the Sun was missing. The location of the missing piece of the Sun was not a mystery -- it was behind the Moon. Featured here is one of the more interesting images taken of a partial solar eclipse that occurred in 2012, capturing a temporarily crescent Sun setting in a reddened sky behind brush and a windmill. The image was taken about 20 miles west of Sundown, Texas, USA, just after the ring of fire effect was broken by the Moon moving away from the center of the Sun. Today a new partial solar eclipse of the Sun will be visible from Earth. Unfortunately for people who live in Texas, today's eclipse can only be seen from southern Africa and Antarctica.

Rāhina 14 o Mahuru

ATTENTION YEAR 6s.
It is time to reflect on your time at DPS. Write a funny story about your time at DPS and win an essay competition. Come and see Nerina at morning tea in Room 14 to collect a slip of paper. We are looking for those weird and wacky stories. Dare to Dream Year 6s!

PRIDE Expectation: this week you will be re-visiting what is a PRIDE Kid. Also, don't forget, you will be nominating a person from your class to go on PRIDE Day Out: The Brilliant Breakfast Buffet! Think carefully of a PRIDE kid in your class who you think deserves it.

Kiaora  koutou  katoa Remember to greet everyone you meet in Te Reo.

Kaitiaki Service Class this week is R5

Movie Options group remember to get your costumes and Props read to bring to school on Friday.

MUFTI DAY
Is this Friday...dress up in black to support the All Blacks or tidy mufti.  Please pay a gold coin to your teacher before Celebration Time.  Thanks for supporting the School Council.

NETBALL
Year 4-6 teams we have our break up tonight from 3.30pm.  Please bring all food to Rm 13 (if fine) or the hall kitchen if wet.  Make sure you wear sensible clothing and shoes to play in.
The cards are in Rm 3 for you to sign before 3pm.

ROAD PATROL 2016
Are you a responsible, reliable, mature and committed year 5 student? Then you might be just the person Mr Lennox is looking for. Come to Room 1 at morning tea if you would like to be on the 2016 road patrol team.

2016 MIS FORMS
Please return these to your classroom teacher asap.  If they have been returned to MIS that is fine, but can you please tell your teacher this.




SCIENCE  First evidence of giants living on earth has been found!!!

Have you been taught not to believe everything you see on the internet yet?

Rāmere 11 o Mahuru

Milk Bottles Needed!
The RIMU team are constructing a milk bottle igloo as part of their technology work.  If you have any empty 2L plastic milk bottles at home could you please bring them to Miss Elmes in Rom 10.  We need as many as we can get!!

NETBALL
DPS Pulse, Magic, Tactix and Steel please meet in Rm 3 at morning tea today.


Kaitiaki Service class this week is Room 2. Next week is Room 5.

Enviro Group Meet in Room 11 after you are let go from lunch.

Council bring your lunch to Rm 3 today.

CHOIR - please come to Room 6 with your lunch - Elton will be taking you today.

Keep those book covers coming in, please  name your work, make it colourful, check your spelling, and remember the  theme (fairytales)

Interesting Science of the Day! (please place all posts above this one)

Rapare 10 o Mahuru

NETBALL
DPS Pulse, Magic and Tactix you have practise today.
Year 4-6 players don' forget to give your money to the right person : Pulse = Erin, Magic = Maia RS, Tactic = Katie M and Steel - Jorja

Kaitiaki Service class this week is Room 2.

Enviro group Meeting tomorrow lunch time.

Year 3/4 and 5/6 Rippa rugby kids meet outside the office at 9:05 after the roll has been taken.

Keep those book covers coming in, please  name your work, make it colourful, check your spelling, and remember the  theme (fairytales)




Interesting science for the day! Wow! (Please place all notices above this post)

Raapa 9 o Mahuru

NETBALL
DPS Pulse, Magic and Tactix you have practise tomorrow...good luck for your grand final on Saturday!

PRIDE Team Meeting tomorrow 8:10am in Room 7

DPS Steel: Come to Room 4 at 12:30pm today!

Mrs Williams miniball team (DPS Bulls) we play at 4pm tonight not 3.30pm.  See you there at 3.45pm ready to warm up

Shepherd Jump Jam Comp Team - please come to Room 6 with your morning tea.

Year 5/6 Rippa rugby  team.  Meet Mr Lennox at Room 1 with your lunch at 12:30 for a practice.



Nasa Picture of the Day (post other notices above this one)

Explanation: This was one strange sunset. For one thing, the typically round Sun appeared distorted, geometrically, and multiply layered. For another, some of these layers appeared unusually green. The Sun, of course, was just fine -- its odd appearance was caused entirely by its light refracting in the Earth's atmosphere. When layers of the Earth's atmosphere are unusually warm, layers of the Sun may appear distorted or even seen multiple times. The effect is most strong nearest sunrise and sunset when terrestrial inversion layers occupy distinct altitudes above the horizon. Different colors of the Sun may also become deflected by significantly different amounts, so that the uppermost superior image may appear momentarily green -- a phenomenon known as a green flash. The featured image was taken in February from Porto Venere, Italy, with San Pietro church situated in the foreground.

Ratu 8 o Mahuru

NETBALL
All Year 4-6 players please come to Rm 3 to get a notice about our break up.

Kaitiaki Service class this week is Room 2.

Batten JUMP Jam team, please come to Tui Room at morning tea today.

Love Science?
Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Check out: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html or google "nasa picture of the day".

Were you here over the weekend?  Did you see anyone trying to remove the hoops on the netball/miniball court...they are missing and Mrs Williams is very keen to find them!  Please come and see her in Rm 3 if you know anything.

MINIBALL
Wildcats practice today at lunch time.  Meet Mrs Walsh at Room 6 after you have been let go from eating your lunch.

Pistons Mr Riley's Team - Come to room 15 after you finish eating your lunch. 
 Bulls (Mrs Williams team) Bring your lunch to Rm 3 when the bell goes.  
 Celtics (Mr Harkness' Team) please come to Room 12 with your lunch when the bell goes. 

 Kings  practice today at lunch time. Please come to Tui Rm with your lunch when the bell goes. 

 Breakers practice tomorrow before school at 8am.  Meet Mr Lennox on the courts.

DPS Crocodiles (Miss Hunter's team) we are practising Today lunchtime.  Bring your lunch to R9
Lakers (Nerina's Team) We are practising tomorrow  at lunchtime.

Year 5 / 6 Rippa team please meet Mr Lennox in Room 1 at morning tea for a quick meeting.  Jacob Bolstad please come to the meeting too.

Rahina 7 o Mahuru

PRIDE Expectation: 
Excellence in keeping our school clean and green. 

Remember:

- We are a green gold school and we need to know which bin to put our rubbish in and always ensure it is going in the correct place. 

- If we reduce the rubbish we have in our lunchbox, it will help keep our school clean and green.

- Get your thinking caps on because next week you will be brainstorming ideas around how you can have a nude food lunchbox!

Kapa Haka meet in the hall after you have been let go from eating your lunch.

Would Ben Uelese and William Iefata please come for a quick meeting with Ms B in R 11 at morning tea.

Kaitiaki Service class this week is Room 2.

Shepherd Jump Jam Team - please come to Room 6 with your morning tea.

RATA rippa kids come to see Mr Riley at lunch for a practise.

It’s back!
Our 2nd annual Design a Book Cover competition.
Theme: Fairy Tales 

•   Design a book cover for a book that you would like to read 
•   Write a short blurb on what your book
  would be about.
• 
  
   That’s it!
  There will be 1st & 2nd prizes in each year group
  Have your entries in to the library by Wednesday 23rdSeptember, winners announced at Celebration Time on Friday 25th September.