Bunnings Help With Our Butterfly Garden

Room 21 and 4 have been working hard to create a butterfly garden for the school. Bunnings have kindly offered to help with the the fencing. The students are very excited and have learnt so much about butterflies and what they need.

School Athletics Postponed

School athletics postponed today due to bad weather. It will be hand next Tuesday 12 November.

Hibiscus Coast Writers Illustration Competition

Please find the list of illustration themes for this year’s Illustration Competition below. 

The closing date for these is 1 November 2013. 

These should be in full colour, max A4 in size and be the artists’ own work. 

Please mail to Tanya Gouws at 5 Lagoon View Drive, Gulf Harbour.

2013 Illustration List

Volcano

Emperor Penguins

Stormy night

A straight road in the desert

A geyser

Rats

A river flowing by with willow trees and lambs

The Mansion House on Kawau

A plane crash

Christmas at a camping ground

Immigrants landing at Puhoi (1863)

Surfing

Car crashing into a bike

World War I fighter planes

Expedition in the Amazon jungle

A slave trader’s boat, AD94

Cross country run

A girl riding a dolphin

A cocker spaniel puppy

The drop-off zone outside a primary school

A campsite in the bush

A school swimming carnival

At the tree adventure park : ‘Treetops’

The Sky Tower

An Anglo-Saxon burial ground

Getting muddy on the rugby field

Leaf boat race

Prince Spaghetti and Princess Meatball

ONE illustration will be chosen as the anthology cover image and the artist will win $40 cash and a copy of the publication!  Other illustrations will be selected to be included as artwork throughout the anthology, but these are unfortunately not eligible for any prizes.

Get Your Tickets for Lavalava Island Production!

Camp Camp Heroes on their Way Home!

GHS GHS GHS - the Best!!

We absolutely nailed our cheer performance at tonight's competition. It was perfect even though this week I've only snuck in one rehearsal! For those of you who saw the preview at assembly last week, multiply the energy, sharpness and performance by 10! For everyone else you will just have to wait til you see the video! Prouder than ever of the extremely hardworking kids.

Update on assembly due to America's Cup race at 8:15. 

If NZ win the race, assembly will remain at scheduled time of 9:30. If New Zealand do not win, we will postpone the assembly to 11.00 am so people can watch the second race.

Room 19 Science Fair - Thursday 9:30-12:00

Room 19 science fair is on this Thursday (19 September) in Room 8-9

Come along and see Room 19's amazing science projects.

Everyone welcome!

DOUCH'E DANCE GIRLS' END OF TERM CONCERTS:

Wed. 18 Sep. 7pm:  Year 4, 5, 6 girls dance concert at the Whangaparaoa Golf Club. Girls arrive by 6pm. Entry by donation at the door....All welcome

Thurs. 26 Sep. 7pm:  Year 2, 3 girls dance concert at the Whangaparaoa Golf Club. Girls arrive by 6pm. Entry by donation at the door....All welcome

Walkathon is On!

Although the weather today is not currently looking that great, the forecast for tomorrow is fine!  We will go ahead with our Walkathon, please make sure your child has a plastic bag to put any wet shoes into.

Room 13 are on the hunt for a child's stroller

Room 13 are designing and constructing a custom made ipad cart/trolley for our school.  We have been investigating various design elements for the cart.  Our steering system team have come up with an idea of using a child's stroller for the cart.  We are asking if anyone has a stroller they would like to donate to our school so we can explore this possibility.  We would greatly appreciate any stroller.  Please contact oliviade@ghs.school.nz (student in Room 13)

Thank you

Tiri Tiri Mobile Dental Unit

The Dental Unit will be a Gulf Harbour School until the end of the school holidays.
Please return any consent forms to the clinic so that any treatment required for your child can be completed before this time. Please check your child's bag!!

Encourage your child to brush twice a day with adult Fluoride toothpaste and drink mainly water

Dental Decay is Preventable

Get Ready For Our Walkie-Talkie Walkathon 13 Setpember

Dear Parents

We have exciting news! On Friday13 September we will be having a school walkathon. This will entail the school walking in classes around Shakespeare Park and our local area. We have called it the ‘Walkie Talkie Walkathon’ and this year we are raising funds for our library.

We are also trying something a little different. Rather than just walking around a fixed course, there will be a series of challenges and at each challenge, classes will have to take a photograph. The aim is to upload the pictures straight to class Yammer accounts so you can track a classes progress during the day. 

We are keen for you to get as many sponsors as you can for this important cause from now until the walk (Sept 13). You can do this by filling out the enclosed sponsorship form or by going online to... 

http://www.fundraiseonline.co.nz/fundraise/event.aspx?id=1133  

The beauty of online sponsorship is that it is easy and you can call on friends and family that are further away. We will also email this link and have it on class Yammer accounts.

Room 14 are currently designed the days special challenges and we think it will be a lot of fun. So, please get behind us this year. If you are free on the 13th please join us for the fun!

Yours sincerely

Mr Walkie, Mr Talkie and Room 14

Gulf Harbour School

Sport Gulf Harbour's fun for all DISCO

Sport Gulf Harbour's fun for all DISCO

Friends and family all welcome. 

Tuck shop open and free water available.

Whangaparaoa Golf Club

Monday 26th August 

6.00 to 7.30 pm  

Parents please pickup from the door.

$5.00 tickets

Watch TV3 Tonight (Friday) GHS featuring for Cure Kids

Watch TV3 today (Friday) for Comedy for Cure Kids featuring Gulf Harbour School! 
See our school's wonderful 'Oddlympics' events!
Hear Jackson interviewed in his role as Cure Kids ambassador!

http://www.http://www.tv3.co.nz

Lemonade For Sale

Room 6 had a Lemonade stand on Thursday at lunch time and did great trade with their delicious drink. Bring your money next Thursday (29th) because they will be selling more!

FREE Before School Care

Holiday Fun is offering a 2 week FREE trial for Morning Care from the weeks of:

 Monday 26^th August till Thursday 5^th September

7.00am - 8.30am 

Room 10 Gulf Harbour School

This opportunity is perfect for any parents who have considered taking their child to a Morning Care but have not taken the next step – please take this opportunity to discover easy care free mornings. For more information please ring Holiday Fun on (09) 443 538 or view their website at www.holidayfun.co.nz  

Starting at Gulf Harbour School

Homestay Thank you

Thank you so much to all the families that put up their hands to host two Japanese girls that will spend time at our school at the end of August. I was overwhelmed with your readiness to help out and invite a young girl to be part of your families for two weeks. 

Very quickly I found myself in the situation of having to turn down people, because we found two homestay families. If that has happened to you, I hope you are not disappointed and I would love to match you up with an international student in the future, if you are still interested. In any case I am keeping you in mind in case I need further backup.

You Gulf Harbour people are simply lovely!

Thank you again from Dagmar Goodall and Gulf Harbour School!

SPACE Production - 2 days left to buy tickets!!

Get your tickets now - last 2 days.  

Please place your order and correct money in the box a the school office.

Urgent Help Needed Please

We are desperately looking for two families that can host a Japanese girl, aged 14 or 15, from August 20th to September 4th. 

If you are interested and have a room for the student in your house, children living with you - at least one of them has to be a girl - please, contact d.goodall@ghs.school.nz as soon as possible.

The homestay fee is $220.00 per week - 7 nights.

You don't have to have children at Gulf Harbour School, but you should be able to drop off and pick up the student in the morning and the afternoon.