Celebrating 30 years in 2018 - Matamata Christian School

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Celebrating 30 years in 2018 - Matamata Christian School
VISION STATEMENT
                                               Equip for Life
                                          Prepare for Eternity
                                                                                  Weeks:
                                                                                                    1-2
                                                                                    Term 2: 30 April 2018
         Celebrating
                                         IN THIS ISSUE:
          30 years                     Our Story                                    Term One
                                                                                    Awards
          in 2018                      See p2                                       See p3

                                                                            LEST WE FORGET
                                                  Each year our student leadership team is represented and involved in
                                                  our local Anzac Day parade. We believe this represents an important
                                                  part of our countries heritage as we remember those who have died for
                                                  our freedom. This year Charlotte Kingston represented our leadership
                                                  team laying a wreath at the Matamata Cenotaph. Before Term 1
                                                  finished our students setup our school grounds in remembrance of
                                                  those who sacrificed for us in the wars (picture bottom right).

ARCHIMEDES AND HIS INVENTIONS
This term our learning theme is ‘Does Technology Change the World?’ This unit will encompass our Technology and
Science curriculums and include Mathematics . Across the school we will be engaging in STEM (Science, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics) challenges that focus on exploring and problem solving. This will culminate in our
‘Breakthrough’ projects which will happen across the school later in the term.
As part of our studies we have the opportunity to take the whole school to Waikato Museum’s ‘Eureka: The Inventions of
Archimedes’ education exhibition on now. This fits perfectly with what we are doing and has the potential to really inspire
our students. Several years ago we took the school to the Da Vinci’s Inventions exhibition also at Waikato Museum and
this was a fantastic event that built in well to the learning that followed.
This trip will include visits to both the Archimedes exhibition and the Exscite centre also based at the Museum. The total
cost for the day will be $14 which will include transport costs as long as we get enough parent transport to support us
with this. The trip is scheduled for next week on Wednesday the 9th of May. We are expecting to leave school at 8:50AM
and be back before 3PM in time for buses. If you can help with transport please fill in the reply slip on page 3.

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Celebrating 30 years in 2018 - Matamata Christian School
From the Principal’s Desk                                              To Baigent Motors,
Welcome back to Term 2. We are pretty excited about our topics         Thank you so much for helping us out with transport on
this term and the potential for great learning to take place. There
are a lot of activities ahead which we will introduce you to as we     our trips over the last few years! This has been a real
bear down on them. In this issue many if these are discussed but       blessing. From Alistair, the staff, students and parents.
there are many more to come too. In fact that is always a theme
with our school. Many outsiders regularly comment on the large
number of things we offer to give our students opportunities and
comment on the successes we have for a small school. This is all                                      BAIGENT MOTORS LTD
part of our staff and extended team trying to do all we can for
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our students. Thank you to all those who help us to make these
events happen.
Starting with us today we are thrilled to have Sebastian
Tomlinson. Seb has recently turned five and is the younger
brother of Jack and Arielle who are already part of our school.
                                                                       Respect Quote
30 YEAR CELEBRATIONS
This year we are celebrating 30 years of God’s faithfulness toward     “Respect for ourselves guides our
Matamata Christian School. Starting in the basement of the home        morals, respect for others guides our
of the school’s first principal, Rainbow Park Christian School as it   manners.”
was called then, was the vision of two local pastors and a local
mechanic.                                                                                            - Laurence Sterne
This is just the start of an amazing story that has continued and
grown over 30 years. It is a story set over two sites, has involved
six principals, a collection of great teachers (one who worked two
years for free), has served and grown                                                  our students also having a movie night
hundreds of students, involved hundreds of                                             together. This will be a fun night and over
volunteers, and is now known as one of New                                             the past few years we have been thrilled to
Zealand’s most well known Christian schools.                                           have nearly every family be a part of these
To achieve this has taken teams of great men                                           nights with us. This year it will be a great
and women working together under God’s                                                 chance to celebrate as a community. We
direction for three decades. It is not the result                                      hope to see you there.
of one or two people but the hard work of
                                                                                       God bless
teams who have given their all to serve God
and further His Kingdom.                                                               Alistair Paterson
Today our aim and prayer is to help develop
boys and girls with hearts after God’s own heart. Young people
who are developing a broad range of skills that will help them
connect with the great plan God has for each individual life with      Prayer Requests...
the skills and knowledge to be godly, discerning people who will
make a difference in the world they operate in. We work to             We appreciate your prayers for the school. Here’s what’s
develop each child academically, physically, spiritually and           big on our minds at the moment:
socially.                                                               Pray our students will really engage with their learning
Over the weeks leading up to Friends and Founders Day on                 in STEM activities in Term 2 developing problem
Tuesday the 29th of May, we will be telling these and other              solving and creativity skills that are linked with Godly
stories. Over these years we have been building a unique heritage        values and thinking.
and our students over this time have been building their own
stories as they rise up to take their place in the world.               Please pray our Friends and Founders Day planning will
                                                                         shape well creating a day that is truly honouring of
On Friends and Founders Day we celebrate by inviting pastors             what God has done here.
and leadership teams of each of our churches in for breakfast at
the start of the day, and we conclude by inviting all our school        Please pray for our Christian school’s Community of
families to a free burger meal and celebration in the evening with       Learning (Kāhui Ako) that is in the last stages of the
                                                                         setup phase. Pray the Ministry of Education will look
                                                                         upon the establishment documentation favourably and
Top right: Joshua                                                        that we will be able to move ahead with employing
Liebenberg holds                                                         staff and setup effective consultation across all
the school flag as he                                                    interested parties.
raises it.
                                                                        Planning is well underway for the redevelopment of
Right: The Senior                                                        our classroom spaces. Please pray for wisdom in
class 10 years ago                                                       tweaking the final design briefs and for the release of
in Room 4.                                                               finances for this. Also pray that the design will capture
                                                                         and create enduring and inspiring spaces.
Celebrating 30 years in 2018 - Matamata Christian School
News
TERM 2 TOPICS
As reported on page 1 this term our theme is ‘Does
Technology Change the World?’ This promises to be an
exciting topic that will integrate a number of subjects
together and will allow our students to focus on their own
Breakthrough project later in the term which will focus on
discovery, problem solving and creativity. Key areas of
development for our students this term will be developing
critical thinking strategies or higher order thinking skills, and
practising creativity.
As part of the development of our modern learning
environments for the next two terms our classroom teachers
will be specialising when teaching the Arts. Mrs Goodwin will
teach Music, Mrs Hildreth Visual Arts, and Mrs Kingston
Dance and Drama. To maximise this, one afternoon per week
over seven weeks each class will rotate between each
teacher thus benefitting from their particular skills and     TERM 1 AWARDS
getting to experience each teacher.                           At the end of each term we celebrate with our students
This term, following the recent Commonwealth Games, we        those who have earned their Rockstar Awards and
mark the return of our bi-annual Olympirua. This is our own   Memory Verse achievements as well as those who have
track and field games based on the Olympics that we run in    taken our exclusive core value badges.
Olympic and Commonwealth Games years. Over the next ten To earn their Rockstar Awards (photographed above)
weeks our students will compete in their age groups as        students need to earn a certain number of points
separate girls and boys in sprints, high and long jumps,      calculated daily associated with their attendance,
throwing and cross country events. They compete for our       punctuality, homework completion and respect for their
schools famous and highly regarded cardboard gold, silver     school uniform.
and bronze medals. Our opening ceremony for the Games         Badges last term and this term are based around respect.
takes place tomorrow afternoon (Tuesday the 1st of May) at These are exclusive and hard to earn with only the
1:40PM. This replaces assembly this week and all are          potential for two to be earned in each class.
welcome to come and join in the festivities.
                                                              Congratulations go to our respect badge winners in Term
Below are some of the topic themes that we will be covering 1 (photographed below):
this term in addition to our normal Reading, Writing and
Mathematics foci. Continued on page 4                         Room 1: Arieta Mataitoga and Stephen Chen
                   Juniors: Bible Narratives (stories)
                                                              Room 2: Daisy Prebble and Manoa Madanawa
Bible
                   Middle: God’s Story                        Room 3: Leah Patrick and Noah Gartner-Houghton
                   Seniors: New Testament Survey

Core Value         Respect
Technology and     Does Technology Change the World?
Science

The Arts           Rotations:
                   Visual Art
                   Music
                   Dance and Drama

P.E.               Olympirua

       WAIKATO MUSEUM WHOLE SCHOOL TRIP: EUREKA—THE INVENTIONS OF ARCHIMEDES
       Wow! What a great trip, please count me in to help transport and supervise on
       Wednesday the 9th of May.
       I can be at school ready to leave at 8:50AM. I can take _____ children and have seat belts
       for each. I will make sure my vehicle is registered and warranted. I will obey the road rules
       and will follow the designated route.
       Parent: ___________________________________
Celebrating 30 years in 2018 - Matamata Christian School
News                                                             LEADERSHIP DAY
TERM 2 TOPICS
                                                                 At the end of last term our student leadership team had
Continued from page 3...                                         the opportunity to be involved in a Project Energize (part
Māori language has become a key development area in our          of Sport Waikato) leadership day. This was based around
school in 2018. We, along with all the other schools within      a day of team building activities, games and sport and was
our Christian schools Kāhui Ako, have recognised that Māori      really appreciated by our students.
language teaching in our schools has been a weakness. We         Project Energize do a lot for our students and we are
have recognised that this is important as part of our heritage   grateful for their support. They are regularly involved in
development in our students and research shows it plays an       events such as Wheels Day, individual class sport
important role in our students overall academic                  activities, the pre-school triathlon events we run and
development too. Desire to deepen Māori has also come            Sport Camp training we do prior to going to Sports Camp.
through in parent feedback we have requested at different
                                                                 Below: Team building activities with members of our
times.
                                                                 school leadership team.
As a result our teachers are receiving in-depth professional
development in Māori in 2018. Each class teaches Māori for
30 minutes per week and you can expect to see this become
more prominent throughout the year. In Term 2 our students
will be developing their language around feelings.
The bi-annual Digi Awards will take place in Term 3.
Throughout the next two
terms our students will
integrate some of these
categories in topical work
that they are doing.
Categories that they can
enter into include static
digital images, digital
storyboarding, television
advertising and animations.
Students will choose
categories that they want to
participate in.
Right: Kalilah Paul’s static
digital image entry from
Anzac Day 2018.
                                In Term 2 our students will
                                be learning The Lord’s Prayer
                                for their memory verses from
                                Matthew 6:9—13. This will
                                be from the NKJV version to
                                give them a standardisation
                                similar to that most are
                                                                 LUNCHTIME KNITTING CLUB
                                familiar with. Learning The
                                Lord’s Prayer is part of the     Our lunchtime knitting club with Mrs Stevens starts up
                                essential verses we want         again tomorrow, Tuesday the 1st of May. This was really
                                students to learn during their   popular last year and we are grateful to Mrs Stevens for
                                time at our school.              running this with our students.

      WEDNESDAY 9th MAY
Celebrating 30 years in 2018 - Matamata Christian School
More News...
READING TOGETHER
For the last few years we have been
privileged to be able to run a parent
reading programme called Reading
Together. This is a well researched programme running over
four nights designed specifically to help parents be able to
effectively help their children with reading at home.
This is particularly beneficial for parents of younger children
(including pre-schoolers). With Ministry of Education
sponsorship we are able to deliver this programme for free
to any parents enrolling.
Please consider enrolling in this and chat with Mrs Lee, Mrs      OP SHOP—ITEMS NEEDED PLEASE
Goodwin or Mr Paterson for more details. Please also chat         One of our biggest fundraisers of
with us if you are likely to need help with a babysitter too as   the school year comes from the
we do not want anything to be a barrier to anyone being           week that we run the local Op
able to attend.                                                   Shop. We have been privileged to
If you know of parents of pre-schoolers intending to enrol in     be assigned a week each year and
our school, please feel free to invite them too. We believe       this year it is scheduled for the week starting the 28th of
this programme supports parents well to help children             May.
develop a love for reading. We are also inviting parents from     We are in need of two things; i) volunteers to help us run
Tower Road Christian Preschool.                                   this event, and ii) items to sell. Over Op Shop week we are
Reading Together will be run over four Tuesday evenings           required to have three people running the shop at a time.
starting straight after Queen’s Birthday Weekend on the 5th       We need people who can give any time during the hours
of June. Please enrol in the school office or through either      of 9AM to 3PM please, even if only for an hour or two. If
Mrs Lee or Mrs Goodwin.                                           you are able to assist a roster is available in the school
RUBEN THE ROAD SAFETY BEAR                                        office where any time you can give can be added.
At the end of Term 1 Rooms 1 and 2 received a visit from          In the meantime we really need to start collecting
Ruben the Road Safety Bear. Ruben’s message to our                items to sell. If you are doing any cleanouts at home and
students is one around how to cross the road safely and safe      have items you do not want to otherwise sell yourself, we
travel in vehicles. If you have a child in Room 1 or 2 please     would be grateful to have them please. These can be
take the time to ask them what Ruben taught them.                 dropped off at the school office or, if you need us to pick
                                                                  them up, please notify the school office.
                                                                  Money we raise will be used toward our new MLE
                                                                  classroom developments.
Celebrating 30 years in 2018 - Matamata Christian School
Even More News…
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                                                             Christian community events. If your church has an
                                                             exciting event coming up they can advertise it here for
                                                             free by sending details or advertising to
                                                             office@matamata.school.nz

Photos: Large Ball Soccer and
games fun at the end of Term
1.

THE NEW ENTERTAINMENT BOOK
We are raising money for our new MLE spaces and you can
help. Order the NEW 2018 | 2019 Entertainment Book or
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and you will also be supporting New I.T. gear.
PLUS, order now to receive over $170 of bonus Early Bird
Offers (hurry, these sell out quickly).
The cost this year is $65 per book. They are now available
from the school office.

 Dates for your Calendar
 May
  1st         Olympirua Opening Ceremony
  1st         Lunchtime Knitting Club Starts
  3rd         Year 7 Immunisations
  9th         Whole School Waikato Museum Trip
 10th         Association Meeting
 14th         Young Leaders Day
 18th         Cotter Cup
 22nd         ASB Getwise Programme
 22nd         Elgregoe
 28th—1st     Op Shop Week
 29th         Friends and Founders Day
 29th         AGM
 31st         Y7/8 EPRO8 Challenge

 June
  1st         Y5/6 EPRO8 Challenge
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