Choose to be Talented

Don't forget your gold coin for tomorrow's show! The Student Council's Round 1 of Choose to be TALENTED is on from12.30pm in the MPF. Parents welcome!

We have a great lineup for Monday - 

AZA

Bloody Somethings

Shake it off too

Starlight

Gymnast Stars

JTJs

Piano Master

Classic ELS

Drama Queens

See you there!

Lost Netball bibs

A set of Netball Bibs in an ASB bag has been lost, if found please hand into the office.

Going Further Videos

View all of the videos below! You need to choose the ONE problem that you are interested in SOLVING!

The 4 BRIEF BRIEFS!

The TOPPLING Tree! (Brenda Martin)

Sewing Room Organiser (Hannah)

Fruit Tree problem (Nick)

Native species (Dan)

Written Briefs - Problem Identification

Helping Ronald Mcdonald House

Last term for our taking action we decided to help Ronald McDonald House. We would like to collect toys and games (not broken ones) that people don't want anymore. Then we will take them for Ronald Mcdonald House. Please bring them to Discover before the end of next week.

Thank you from Ashlee Porter, Lachlan Halliday and Isabella Aitchison.

Finding Out

Note for parents re Finding Out

On Monday and Tuesday we are having our Finding Out sessions for Inquiry. This term’s theme is Design your Dream and in the Finding Out sessions your child/children will be designing something to solve a problem in the school.

Monday will be the design day and Tuesday is the making prototypes day.

We would really appreciate any materials you might have that would be useful for making the prototypes on Tuesday: cereal boxes, cardboard tubes (NO toilet rolls please), wool, material, etc. Could you please send these materials on the Tuesday and NOT BEFORE as we don’t have storage space.

Thank you

Team Clarkville

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Dear Parents/Caregivers

This term for Envirogroup, Ignite, Launch and Discover will be working together to reuse some common household rubbish by transforming it into new and wonderful treasures.   We will be busy building, painting, decorating and planting.  

You can help by sending clean 2 litre plastic milk bottles with lids, 1 litre milk cartons, plastic fizzy drink bottles and fabric or ribbon scraps, buttons along to Launch.

Thanks,
Amy Blatch and Sara Ashby

The race is on...

On Thursday 24th July 2014, we will be holding a series of races to see who is the champion of champions when it comes to designing and building. 
From now until Thursday, there are a few things you need to do:
* Choose a design challenge
* Design and build your racer
* Test your racer
* Enter a quarter-final in your learning team.

Here are the design challenges: 

Holidays

Brrr!!! A chilly walk in Arrowtown at -5 degrees this morning. Hope everyone has been keeping warm and doing lots of fun holiday activities.

We are looking forward to being back on Monday, still in the MPF, but hopefully lots more progress on our new building. We have two trainee teachers with us for five weeks, so make sure you say hello and welcome them into the Clarkville family.

Now is a good time to check whether you have enough stationery to begin the new term. Especially those pencils that keep disappearing with alarming rapidity.

Mufti Day

Minecraft club

CIA Seminar this Friday

Open (Thursday)

Yay WE ARE BACK IN ACTION TOMORROW- looking forward to seeing all our learners back.

Learning at Home

This is what school was looking like yesterday. It looks a lot better today. Do you have some great pictures you could make into a display or book using pic-collage or book creator or similar apps? Share them with us by e-mailing and we could print them off for tomorrow.

We have had to go back to Mrs Edwards house today to post these because the internet is down at school.

We hope that you, being clever Discover learners and so great at managing your own learning, have already been finding learning activities for yourselves at home such as Mathletics, DEAR, DAWN, and Stepping Stones. We have already received a Stepping Stone this morning.

Please remember you can e-mail us as we are available all day. If you have a device that has been logged on to Blogger at school you will be able to post things on our blog too. Remember to check your spelling and punctuation before you post. 

It is Thursday tomorrow so don't forget to sign in then take your box and bag to Aspire. Mrs Blatch and Mrs Taylor will be there to meet you. They will be there from 8.40am. Whero group, you are working with Mrs Blatch tomorrow and Pango, you will be seeing the other specialist teachers.

Have a great day

Ms B, Mrs Edwards and Mrs Taylor

 

Closed Wednesday - Septic Tank

Dear Parents

After taking advice, the Board of Trustees have decided that school will remain closed again tomorrow ( Wednesday). The septic system is at capacity due to the high water table and can not be accessed for emptying until water levels have receded somewhat. Until this tank is emptied use of the toilet facilities will pose a health risk. We are anticipating the tank will be able to be emptied mid to late morning tomorrow. 

To assist in reducing the interruption to learning children and parents may access learning activities through the team blogs from 9.30am tomorrow and staff will be available for assistance via email or blog posts during school hours. 

We appreciate your support in this unusual situation and hope to be up and operational again on Thursday morning. 

Thank you. 

Pene

Flooding

Sorry no school today as mr j says even gumboots won't cut it! 
We have flooding in the school grounds and our septic system is compromised.