To view past and present newsletters click here Term 1 Start Date 2012: Wednesday 1st February to Wednesday 4th April. Term 2: Monday 23rd April to Friday 29th June Term 3: Monday 16th July to Friday 28th September. Term 4: Tuesday 15th October to Tuesday 18th December. Office Ph: 06 322 1184 Office Fax: 06 322 0918 Bulls School Bridge Street BULLS Our fabulous house leaders decided they wanted to help with the Canterbury Earthquake Appeal so..... They organised a Mufti Day and over $200 was raised. After the second shake in February we sold slinkied apples for morning tea and had 'Cake for Shake' days. A really impressive $700 was raised to send to Christchurch schools in need. A further $218.00 was raised in 'Jeans for Genes' day - a chance for us to support The Kids Foundation - the Immune Deficiency Foundation of NZ. Cutting the Ribbon on the Administration/Office Upgrade: Out and About with Bulls School! Term 4 Right Choice Day - a whole school outing to Makino Pool. A fine time was had by all! Mini Gala Day and Flower Day Fun: This link will take you to our gallery where there is a PDF file of the fabulous cakes and biscuits! B We are presently updating our individual class pages and blog pages so please come back and visit soon. If you have any questions there are contact numbers to your left. See you again VERY soon! The staff at Bulls School just cannot believe how fast this year has speed by! Maybe it has something to do with the way the Rugby World Cup altered our school terms (and since we now hold the cup - we are absolutely ok with that!) or maybe it just happens every year. Term 4 sneaks up on you and suddenly we are having lots of 'last moments' with our fabulous students. Pet Day Champions! Despite challenging weather conditions many of our students still managed to show and present their pet Lamb or Calf. This term is an absolutely action packed one - go to our calendar to check dates and times but a taster of whats ahead for us.... *Rythym Interactive - an interactive drumming duo *Pet Day - with an all new format and 'committee' *Assessment - final chance to showcase academic growth *Cluster Cross Country - inviting champs to compete with other schools at Hunterville *YMCA - athletics skills training *Report Writing - teachers putting into words the growth and next steps for our students *Hangi - we are hoping to bring together our theme learning with a school/community hangi - TBC *Parewahawaha Marae - putting our new learning into practice *Cluster Softball Tournament - a team of seniors taking on the cluster! This is NOT everything we have planned - but it's a start - so you can see how crazy busy this term is going to be! As we head into term 3 holidays we wish the All Blacks all the very best in their endeavour to bring home the cup!! Middle/Senior Team supporters! Here we are in a whole school singing practice. Bulls School is a 'happening place 'and we hope you enjoy viewing what is 'happening' here. People sometimes ask me what is special about our school - I believe it is our teachers' commitment and their caring approach, the Board of Trustees determination to see each child reach THEIR potential, and also our 'community belonging' within Bulls. We place emphasis on our students taking responsibility for their own learning and alongside individual goal setting and aiming for 'bullseyes', report to parents in writing 3 times a year through our Progressive Report. Students attend their Learning Conferences with their parent/caregiver (twice annually) - this allows a 'team' approach to celebrate successes and establish 'next steps'. These things, combined with effective use of modern technologies, help us to keep students motivated and engaged in their own learning - we all learn best when we can see the purpose and feel involved in the process! We have a 'full on' 2011 planned - the Term 1 topics were "Count me In", exploring ways to ensure everyone is Ready to Learn and knows ways to remain safe (fire/water/cybersafe etc). This has been followed by 'Zero Waste' , a science and social science study around the sustainability of our planet. Term 2 kicks off with 'Curious Kids' - there are loads of experiments going on - we even have moulding bread in the staffroom fridge! People are wearing strange lab coats and this is inquiry learning at its best. The science topic will be followed by 'Colour My World' - a Visual Art based study. The first half of Term 3 sees a Performing Arts topic - 'Boogie Wonderland'. This culminates with our Major Production in Week 6, and is being followed by 'Mind, Body and Soul' - a health based topic and includes Pubertal Change (Years 7/8) and Keeping Ourselves Safe (Years 1 - 6). Feel free to contact us if you would like to visit our school. Lin Dixon - Principal. The Senior Teams Local Artist! Many of you know our fabulous Andy as the 'RI Guy' but did you know he is also responsible for alot of the mural artwork around Bulls! He came along and spoke to the senior team about Art and famous Artists - he also gave us some tips! Here he is talking to a very interested and engaged audience! MATARIKI - OUR KAPAHAKA PREPARE FOR THEIR FIRST PERFORMANCE! We are very excited (and quite nervous too) about our first senior kapahaka performance. We have been working hard with Papa Doug (Wallace) over the past 5 weeks. Yes thats right! We have only been together as a group for 5 weeks! Here is a picture of us practising. We came in on Sunday for 4 hours so that we could be as fantastic as we can possibly be. Hope we see you there! ANZAC DAY 25th April 2011: We are very proud of our students. A group of representatives showed up at 5.45am on the morning of the Bulls Parade. They were supported by Mrs Hammond and Miss Gordon. The wreath they placed on the Cenotaph carried a message of commemoration from all of the students and staff at Bulls School. Click here to read the 'Newsletter' we created. Cluster Performing Arts Students from all over the Cluster performed for parents, whanau and community. Their were a huge variety of performances and the standard was fantastic. The Kapa Haka was a result of dedicated team who worked with a Cluster Explorers group weekly over the past 2 terms. It bought tears to the eyes of many of the audience! The students in red opened the festival - the Bulls School Choir! BULLS COMMUNITY WEARABLE ARTS. With the support of the teachers in Room 1 (Miss G and Mrs Syme) many of the students got themselves invovled in creating an outfit out of recyclable materials to enter into this annual local event. It was a really fun experience and one of the outfits acheived a highly commended. This has spurred our young designers on - look out world! ADMINISTRATION OPEN EVENING - AUGUST 2010 MATHEX TEAM 2010: Mrs Dixon is in charge of upskilling our mathex teams to prepare them for the really fast paced and challenging Mathex Competition held each year in Palmerston North. See how much concentration and hard work goes into this: WHAKANUIA TE WIKI O TE REO MAORI For Maori Language week we were treated to a visit from the Ohakea Cultural Group. They were very funny but they were also very clever. They taught us some great ways to remember new words we are taught. They taught us a new Waiata and we sang it in rounds. We sounded pretty good too! If you would like to learn some new words or our new Waiata please check out Room 1's page. **!!!!JUMP JAM!!!!** There is no better way to warm up to learning on these cold winters daythan by kick starting yourself with a bit of fitness. Go to our Gallery to take a peek at us warming up with Jump Jam. Not sure where we are? ► Newsletter Link! RIGHT CHOICE DAY! Our way of acknowledging the many, many students who help make our school a happy, safe place for everyone to be! They consistently make right choices and let everyone get on with learning. Term 2: Paraparaumu College Musical Roadshow Term 3: An 'in school' surprise Term 4: Makino Pool. Description: We are a full primary school catering for students from Years 1-8. We are located in the rural township of Bulls between Wanganui and Palmerston North. We believe in high quality teaching and learning in Literacy and Numeracy. We also believe students need to experience a balanced curriculum including the arts, science, social sociences, health and technology. Regular physical fitness is also an important part of our programme. Here are some quotes from our most recent ERO report (May 2009) And finally - in response to National Standards, these ERO comments relate specifically to how we report to parents: For a full copy of the report go to our "About Us" page and click on the link at the bottom. <>
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