Community Evening, this Wednesday 11 March, 5.30pm

For those new to the school, we hold a community evening once every term. In the third term we try to bring in an inspirational, entertaining and relevant speaker and employ Kelly Sport to provide care for the children so you can enjoy the speaker without interruption or worrying about your child.

The purpose of community evenings is to provide an opportunity for our school community to gather together. We acknowledge the importance of family by generally beginning with family activities. We acknowledge the importance of fellowship and eating together by providing light refreshments and we try to make it as easy as possible for you to attend after a busy day at work by NOT asking you to bring a plate. We also take the opportunity, when we are all together, to provide you with relevant school information and/or give you the opportunity to feed back your thoughts to us. We believe school community evenings are an important part of school life.....so we hope you can attend this first one of the year.

Programme

5.30pm - Sausage sizzle and informal outdoor games -  we will put out the sports' equipment and the games can begin. This is a chance to meet and get to know teachers, parents and students. 

6.15pm - For parents: Information and consultation - this is an informal programme of information-giving, question-answering and question-asking (consultation - your chance to feed into the ongoing development of the school). 

The following programme will be available - you choose what you want to be involved in depending on your needs.

When	What/Who	Where
6.15 - 6.35pm	Session on ALF with Urs - to show you how to navigate through ALF, what information might be of interest to you as parents	Mawhero (pink carpet in Harakeke)
6.45 - 7.00pm:	Walking Bus meeting - Angela Natali would like to talk with parents to work out some further details regarding the Walking Buses	Kikorangi (blue carpet in Harakeke)
6.15 - 7.00pm: You can walk around any of our information 'stands' to find out more about life at Amesbury.	"Any stuff" - Lesley will be available to answer your questions or provide you with information about "stuff" - anything you want to know about school - or just for a chat	parent/reception area
	"Techie Stuff" - Matt will be available to help you with your own sign on for ALF or to answer any "techie" questions you might have related to technology @ Amesbury School	Library
	"Communication Stuff" - Angela will be available to help you find your way around/in/through our communication network. For example, how do I find out what my child’s follow-up tasks are? What is the Tizmos page? Where is the planning for my child’s literacy group?	Library
	“Consultation Stuff” - School Consultation: there will be some questions we would appreciate your thoughts about.      - What is going well? What would you really like to see continue?     - What do you think are our next development steps as a school?	Meeting Room

     6.15 - 7.00pm: Children will be supervised by teachers.

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