TV Show Inspires Student Led Clean-up!!

Yazmin Miles-Watson was watching the Erin Simpson Show yesterday after school, and was inspired by the show's star, to go out and clean up her own street. The clean up is part of National Clean Up NZ week which runs from 17 Sept to 24 Sept. In just an hour Yaz, (aged 11 yrs,) filled three supermarket bags from around her street. Today at school, she gave up her morning tea and lunch times to do a thorough clean up of the bushes and trees along the school boundary! She inspired some friends to join her, and they cleaned up other areas of the school.

Most of the boundary rubbish was from people who pass through the school grounds outside of school hours. There were wrappers, cigarette butts and beer bottles which were "disgusting" explained Yaz.

Yaz (pictured with Line Kalolo) hopes to encourage more of her classmates to help clean up other areas of the school community.

Fantastic Addington Attitude Yaz!! We are very proud of the initiative you have taken, and the inspiration you are to our school.

School Up and Running!!

Addington School children were back at school today, catching up with friends, sharing stories and practicing their "Drop, Cover and Hold" moves.
Room 7 produced some great art work for their cloakroom about their experiences during the past week.

We are all pleased to be back and returning to our normal routines.

School Closure

School will not be open until Monday the 13 Sept. See you all then.

School Closure until 13 Sept

Because of the Earthquake to our area on Saturday 4 September Schools and early childhood services within the boundaries of Christchurch City Council, Waimakariri (including Rangiora) District Council and Selwyn District Council will be closed to students and children until Monday 13 September.

Reading Discovery Graduation and Celebration!

Today two students, Mackenzie Wallace and Andrew Sparks celebrated their graduation from Reading Discovery with a special morning tea. At the celebration were Reading Discovery Teacher Pat Watson , class teacher Mrs Douglas, Mrs Barr and invited guests Andrew and McKenzie's Mums, Grandparent reader Mrs Rainey, Ms Heath and Ms Meachen.

Both Andrew and McKenzie entered the programme reading at level 2-3 and have finished off on level 19-20!! Fantastic, and a great example of how successful the partnership between home and school can be.

Extending the Associated Press as Hosted News partner

Posted by Josh Cohen, Senior Business Product Manager

We’ve extended our existing licensing agreement with the Associated Press that permits us to host its content on Google properties such as Google News. We look forward to future collaborations, including on ways Google and AP can work together to create a better user experience and new revenue opportunities. You can read more about our hosted news agreements in this post and this one.

Learning Conversations

Thank you to all parents/caregivers who made it along to your child’s Learning Conversation this week. We hope you were given lots of clear information about how your child is achieving and some next steps to work on. For those of you who found the two days we set aside to be inconvenient please note that the teachers will be in touch to set up an alternative time as we aim to meet with every parent each term.