Russell Street School

Nothing can be achieved without a plan. The 2013 elections are being run by the NZ School Trustees Association in partnership with the Ministry of Education. We need to prepare!

Triennial elections for school boards of trustees are an opportunity for the community to reflect on the skills and knowledge the board needs and the values it wants represented. This is the time to consider who would make an ideal trustee for the benefit of all students over the next three years.

Our timeline for the 2013 elections is:

April 15- Call for nominations.

April 30 noon -(Main) Electoral roll closes.

May 14 noon -Supplementary roll closes.

May 16 noon -Nominations close

Voting closes- May 30 noon

More detail, once available, will be communicated to you all, once the Returning Officer Guidelines are available and training for this person is complete. In the meantime, give some thought as to whether you might be one of the next trustees, or if you know someone else, that would represent this community well.

Promotional poster attached here.

We look forward to meeting with you at ‘Meet the Parent’ on Tuesday, February 19. Bookings are being taken now. The intent of this opportunity is to allow parents to share openly everything about their child that might be useful for teachers to know, especially at a time when teachers are getting to know who is in front of them, their interests and their short to mid term learning needs.

Attached is the booking letter and instructions.

Kia ora koutou

Happy 2013 to you all.  A quick reminder that Russell Street School opens for instruction on Monday, February 4 at our regular time of 8.55 am.  The Office team will be on site Friday, February 1, making stationery sales from 10 am to 2 pm.

Please note all staff are already on site at various times, for a range of planning and preparation meetings, but will be away on retreat January 30/31.

The Principal welcomes knowing about any new in-zone enrolments now, as this facilitates a smooth start of year organisation.  Please email him principal@russellst.school.nz or leave a message on the answer phone (06-3586671) If you are considering enrolment at RSS, please note the usual place of residence for your child must be in-zone. There are no places for out of zone students at this time, as space does not allow.

We look forward to re-connecting (or meeting you for the first time) for what promises to be another exciting year.

Regards

David Reardon

Principal

2012 T4 Newsletter

Congratulations to our 2012 Year 6 Graduates!

What a fabulous day today celebrating your achievements and time at Russell Street School.

Yesterday we formally celebrated Joy Kitt’s tremendous award at an assembly where Manager of Education for the Royal Society of NZ, Richard Meylan, presented Joy with a plaque, the cash award and flowers.  RSS also receives $20,000 towards the further development of science education, a welcome boost for the school, especially at a time when we had just heard we missed out on Ministry of Education funding for professional learning to support science in the school next year.

Joy was very moved by the ceremony and especially by the welcome and haka performed by our own Kapa Haka.

A full article on Joy’s award is in today’s Manawatu Standard linked here.

Did you know that Rebecca our School Librarian is a miniature model maker? We were so inspired by her miniature scene of The Borrowers that we thought it would be a great way to encourage other Russell Street Readers to try some new books. So ‘Bookapedia’ (our year 5-6 book club) and ‘The Book Talsy’s’ (our year 3-4 book club) have been busy recreating a scene from their favourite story or event in history to inspire Russell Street students to read more. We knew that accuracy and detail would help to capture people’s interest so this has been our focus. They are amazing, we certainly have some creative and talented students at our school! Our scenes are now on display in the library with a collection of books to support their theme.  We are now monitoring borrowing trends over the next 3 weeks to see what books are most popular. Come in and check them out…and a book or two!

This photo slideshow generated with Smilebox

Congratulation Stephen on being the WINNER of the NZ Interface Magazine, Best Teacher Tweeter and runner up, Best Teaching with ICT. Engaging and creative  lessons, infused with technologies and the sharing of these is a strength of Russell Street School, and it is great to see this recognized amongst your peers.

We are proud you are part of our team and pleased we can

help enable this learning to flourish in your room.
What an amazing team of we have at Russell Street, I’m looking forward to the next good news to share. Who’s next…