Teacher Creature Cards Hits GHS - Series 2

The school has been hit over the last two days by Teacher Creature fever! Everyone is buying cards and they are selling like hot cakes. Look out for all the new characters!

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Waterwise Sailing at Manly Beach

Wow! What a fantastic way to wrap up the year and reapply our skills learn’t at camp earlier in the year, than to go sailing and kayaking at Manly for two days! 

Wednesday 12th and Thursday 13th December, saw our Year 6 children take part in a waterwise programme!

The weather was stunning both days and the children loved being outside and enjoying the wonderful resources we have on our door step. 

It was so fantastic to see their faces, as the optimists began to take off, and their confidence grow over the two days at the beach with kayaking and water confidence also. 

Our school values of being BRAVE, showing RESILIENCE, RESPONSIBILITY and having FUN were more than evident. 

A huge thank you to all the parents (and siblings) who came down and helped out either in the water or on land, it was so appreciated, the children and teachers were very thankful to have you there with us and hope you enjoyed your time. 

Another special mention to Julian Heath, Sue Lott, Lou Heath and Wendy Turton our wonderful waterwise instructors for your help in guiding our children out on the water and providing them with such memorable experiences. 

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Rooms 17, 1 and 22

Miss Morris, Miss Paget, Mr Hawke.

The Island Launches it's Readers!

The Island had a fantastic book launch on Wednesday 5 December. The room was jam packed with people and we sold lots of books. We officially launched all 10 of our readers.

The Island greeted everyone with a song and we had speeches, and thank you's as well as some delicious food courtesy of our parents. We finished the evening with  fabulous Christmas story from our own local talent - Stu Duval. Books and stickers are still available from the Island, so have a look because they make great Christmas presents!

GHS Erupts on the Front Page

Red Day Raises $471.70

We raised $471.70 for the Manly Fire Service's First Response Unit. 

Great effort!

Biggest Banana Split on the Hibiscus Coast!

What an exciting afternoon! Eating our giant banana split to celebrate the readathon!

We made over $13 000 and read 606 546 pages.

That's something to celebrate. Go GHS!

Readathon in North Harbour Times

Special Bees Playgroups

A safe place where pre-school children with special needs and their carers can socialise and meet others.  The playgroup offers opportunities for pre-school children with special needs to become more independent, widen their horizons and have new experiences.  It gives both children and their parents and carers the chance to form friendships within their local community.

When:      Every Wednesday 9.30 - 11.30am

Where:     Hibiscus Coast Village, Red Beach Road

Cost:        $4.00 per family (includes morning tea for caregivers)

Please contact Gaylene for more details randgchambers@xtra.co.nz Ph: 027 615 0783

Final Total of Pages Read 606 546!

We have added up our number of pages read . That is, pages you read and pages read to you...
606 546
Isn't that amazing! Don't forget to get your sponsorship money in.
The power of reading!

'The Great Stick Your Head in A Book Athon' Comes To An End

We have been so excited to watch as 450 children have enthusiastically read and read and read for the last 2 weeks.  Their efforts have resulted in more than 300,000 pages being read. The readathon finished on Monday with the whole school 'Read All Day Celebration'.  The students and teachers arrived as characters from books and followed Sir Readalot around the courts in a parade.  The school also had the opportunity to guess some of the characters from each class and join the teachers in a Jump Jam number.  Stu Duval shared his love of reading and writing with the school, producing from his magical suitcase, wonderful examples of books he loved as a kid and of course the fabulous adventure stories he now writes for children.  Thank you so much Stu!  You were captivating and we can't wait to get our hands on some of your books.  The children also listened to other students read stories over the school intercom and many classes read with buddies and visitors.  The end of the day saw many calculators and brains counting frantically each students final tally.  Although the reading is now over the next stage has begun - collecting the money from sponsors.  We are hoping all sponsorship money can be collected and returned to school as soon as possible and by Friday November 9th at the latest. As a thank you for all the efforts the students have put into reading and collecting money for the school we will celebrate with a whole school banana split next Friday afternoon (November 9th).  This will be amazing to see!  To get 450 lots of ice-cream and toppings out all at the same time will require many hands.  If you are able to spare an hour or two on that afternoon between 1.00 and 3.00pm we would appreciate your help. (See notice below) We would like to thank New World in Orewa for their generous sponsorship of all the food items needed for this celebration.  Please help us thank them by taking your business their way.

Reading at the Domain with Room 29 & 30

What a wonderful scene!  Room 29 and 30 reading at the domain while on a school trip. Great stuff!

Knighted for Services to Reading...

Ellen and Jamie are knighted for services to reading by Sir Readalot. They both were brave enough to read to the school in the library, and what a great job they did!

Paper Bag Princess Reads to School!

The Paper Bag Princess reads to the school on a cold Tuesday morning (and warms our hearts!) What a great story.

Anchor milk competition comes out tops!

Last term the school went all out for milk. Anchor milk to be exact.

The competition was simple. Each class had to collect as many milk bottle lids as possible for a month.

Families throughout the school participated and over 500 were returned. The school received a cash donation for all the lids that came in.

There was a great prize up for grabs and the winning family was Anna Nelson’s from room 22. They received a year’s supply of Anchor milk.

Local Gulf harbour shops were involved and the dairies and superettes that took part reduced their milk prices to below the price at supermarkets as a way to encourage local shopping.

Anchor is keen to run the competition again, so here’s to next year’s Anchortastic competition!

Gulf Harbour School Help Out With SOSSI

Gulf Harbour School Help Out

Students from Gulf Harbour School planted over 2,000 trees at Shakespear over two days during June. The standard of planting was very high in spite of the mud and the steep slopes. Everyone was pleased with the result except the cows in the vicinity of the barbeque who looked on with some alarm at the enormous consumption of beef sausages by the children.

The school has also been involved in other ways. One group of students planted native trees in the school grounds, fed the tuis and used monitoring pads to detect the presence of pest animals that threaten native birds. Another group made items for sale, ran raffles and raised $500.00 for the Sanctuary. Yet another group joined the Tuesday volunteers one day and helped out with more planting.

Our relationship with the school continues and we are planning for students to be involved with voluntary activities at Shakespear during term 4. 

SOSSI website: http://www.sossi.org.nz/home-content

We have read 154815 pages!

The school has read 154 815 in our first week of the readathon. What can we achieve by the end of next week?

We have got $4200 sponsor on the Funda website. Keep up the good work!

Follow this link for readathon forms
http://sirreadalot.wikispaces.com/home

Online Sponsorship  http://www.funda.co.nz/gulf-harbour-school/the-great-stick-your-head-in-a-book-athon
Make sure you sign up!

Reading in The Island. Readathon News!

Mr Brown read to the whole school in 'The  Island'  Boy, it was a bit of a squeeze! We have got our total of pages read to over 100,000. Keep reading!!!!

It's Mr Wesbonk and Mr Barrow's Turn to Read - CRAZY!

What a great place to read! Mr Barrow and Mr Wesbonk read to the school at the front gate. Actually, they were on top of the front entrance!!!

View from the top (Students don't try this)