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Friday 12th May 2011 Dear Parents

Want to help the school without incurring any costs and save the environment?

Somerville Intermediate is joining forces with PaidForMobiles.co.nz in raising funds for the school and helping families dispose of mobile phones they no longer use in an environmentally friendly manner by on-selling them to people in third world countires. So how can you help them? - EASY! Reach out to your friends and family for any spare mobile phones (preferably working) and send them with your child to Miss Happl.

AN INCENTIVE!!! PaidForMobiles.co.nz will purchase the phones from Somerville. The proceeds from ALL sales will go to the school to benefit your child's learning. PaidForMobiles.co.nz will also donate a brand new iPad to the class that brings in the highest volume of working phones which they will be able to use until the end of the year!!

We are always in need of funding to continue on the path of providing our children with the best education and this is a simple way in which you can help.

Room six is very enthusiastic about this fundraiser. We have four student computers in the classroom. If we win this iPad we can expand our digital learning in the classroom. We will do our very best to ensure that all students in the classroom will have an opportunity to expand on e-learning if room six is successful at donating highest volume of working mobile phones.

Kind Regards, Megan Happl

Thursday May 11th 2011

Dear Parents

Since we are back in the new term I would like to catch you up with some new routines that will be happening in the classroom:
 * Student will be coming home with their diaries on Friday to be signed by you. If you have any concern you would like to share with me feel free to write a comment in you child's diary.
 * New spelling words will be going home every Friday. Students will need to learn these new words for homework and will be tested on the following Friday. Your child will also be tested on the definitions of their spelling words. Students will need to write the definitions of their weekly spelling words in their homework books. (Some students find the spelling of their list words easy however they do not understand how to use these words in sentences. It is a goal this term to expand vocabulary as well as spelling).
 * This term our class will be doing a novel study. Student will need to have a novel of their choice for the beginning of week three. It is important that this book will be at an appropriate reading level. I will allow students to have one week to change the selected novel. By the end of week students will not be allowed to change their selected novels. I will conference with students every week.

Kind regards, Megan Happl

Friday March 4th 2011

Dear Parents

As part our Education Outside the classroom for Year 8 students, we will be involved in an adventure day on the 7th of March. The program extends the skills that students learned at Year 7 camp. The programme involves a classroom study and an adventure day at Motu Moana, Green Bay involving abseiling, orienteering, Tyrolean traverse and team challenges. Qualified instructors will run the activities.

Students are required to be at school by 8:10am on the 7th of March as the buses must leave promptly at 8:30am to give sufficient time to travel through peak hour traffic. We will return to school by 5:20pm so we ask parents to make alternative travel arrangements for their child on that day.

Many thanks to our parent volunteers.

Students will need morning tea, a packed lunch, a drink bottle and afternoon tea for the day. They should wear comfortable mufti gear and need to take a rain jacket, a hat, sunscreen and a jumper.

Yours sincerely, Megan Happl



I welcome all parents / caregivers to the Somerville Intermediate Meet the Teacher evening on Tuesday the 15th of February at 7:30.

Sunday 6th February, 2011

Dear Parents / Caregivers

A Happy New Year to you all. I am Miss Happl and have the privilege of teaching your child during the 2011 academic year. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">To make your child's transition into my class at Somerville Intermediate a smooth one, I have a little assignment I would like parents to complete for me.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Your task is to tell me about your child. Anything you feel is important and will better teach your child this year. Every child is special and unique in his / her own way. No one knows this better than you.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Please share their likes, dislikes, dreams, fears, successes, failures... with me.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">It can be in the form of a letter, e-mail, powerpoint presentation etc.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Having parents on my mailing list means I am able to contact parents and vice versa about school matters, where appropriate. It is a convenient way of keeping in touch. All communications are confidential; the students can't access or read them.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Due date: 18th February 2011

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Kind regards, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Megan Happl <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Teacher: Room 6

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">mhappl@somint.school.nz