Russell Street School

On Monday January 30th we will be distributing stationery packs from the school hall from 9:30 am.

The school term begins properly on Tuesday at the normal time of 8:55am. We are looking forward to seeing you all fresh and ready for another great year of learning.

A very merry christmas to you all and best wishes especially to our year 6 graduates and leaving families.  Thank you all for the wonderful contribution you have made to the partnership in learning in 2011.  We look forward to seeing you all again in the new year.

School restarts Tuesday, January 31st.  The Principal will be in attendance at school for part days from January 16.  If you have a need to chat with him, if you’re relocating to the area and intend enrolling at RSS, or there is any other matter you wish to bring to the school’s attention, you can leave a message on the answering machine for the school (Ph 06-3586671) or email him directly principal@russellst.school.nz

Please note there are no out of zone enrolments for term one.  If you are unsure of any matter about the enrolment scheme or zone, more information is available on this website.  Click here for a map of the zone and explanation of how it works.  Please also note that for you to qualify as being in-zone, the place of residence as shown on the enrolment form must be the child’s usual place of residence.

All the best to you all,

David Reardon

Principal

While we are holding the school’s sports assembly today, it is always good to hear about and celebrate the success of students in their out of school sports endeavours.  The latest we have heard about are karate results.  Here are the results from the recent club grading. Some of these students have trained in the club for more than 4 yrs and have shown true grit and determination. We are told that grading’s aren’t easy so well done everyone!

Jasmine Gardner (Brown Belt-3rd Mon); Jack Allemann and Jessica Ogden (Green Belts -6Th Mon); and Shalini Srinivasan (Yellow Belt 8th Kyu)

Wow, Cloud 9 have 3 blogs in the finals of the Edublog Awards! Our Class blog ‘The Ins and Outs’ made the finals of Best Class Blog, Street Talk made it into Best Use of Visual/Audio Media and Zoe’s Blog made it into Best Student Blog!

Edublogs is a world wide Blogging platform and each year they run a competition for the best blogs from around the world. So we are pretty stoked to make it into the finals!!!

Anyway voting has opened and anyone can vote for the winners! So what are you waiting for!!! Click Here to vote for Cloud 9′s three blogs in the Edublog Awards. Also only one vote per day per category will be counted from the same location so we would appreciate if you voted from your home address.

The winners are announced on Thursday the 15th of December and receive $1,000 worth of Edublog products. Fingers crossed team, it would be a great way to end the year!

Russell Street School is presently holding a by-election, following the resignation of Tina Bell. Nomination Forms are now available from the school office or by clicking on this link. Act now -tap someone on the shoulder and fill in a nomination form!

We are excited that an opportunity has become available for someone new to join our forward thinking, creative team. Is this position for you? Do you want to be part of a great place with great people approaching the curriculum creatively? The successful appointee will certainly benefit from a positive staff culture and will be well supported to develop professionally. We welcome all applications! Click here for the full link to the Vacancy page.

RSS in partnership with Netball Manawatu are delighted to provide details of an exciting new position based at Russell Street School.  The Sports Coach position primarily involves implementing/coaching modules of ball handling, movement and team skills, so that students, over time, are able to effectively participate in team ball games. If you think this is the job for you, or if you want to find out more, then click here for full details.

Cloud 9 has finished Episode 19 of their news show Street Talk. We hope you like it!

RSS sportsman are in hot form lately.Reif and Bree (from R14) were selected for the under-11 mixed Manawatu touch rep team. Bree was selected for the number two side, while Reif was selected for the number one team.  You’re both in great company and it sounds like there are some tough practices ahead.  Well done to you both!

It gave me great pleasure, over the weekend to receive an email about another one of Jessica and Kara’s out of school achievements.

Over the last holidays Kara and Jessica entered their hip hop duo ‘Candy’ into the Dance NZ Made Competition at the Regent . Not only did they win Elementary Duo / trio Champions 2011, but they also took out the Elementary Overall Team Champions 2011.  They are pictured here with their beautiful trophy.  Well done to you both!