Updates

| Boiler | Painting | Duffy Books | Let's Get Physical | Principal's Sabbatical Report |
| OSCAR Programme |

 

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Boiler

We here at Central New Brighton School are proud to be Environmentally Friendly. We are the second School to convert from a coal burning boiler heating system to a wood pellet burning system.

Working alongside Solid Energy and Brian Anderson from Powell Fenwick Consultants, we made sure that we met all standards set by Environment Canterbury.

The ash from the pellets is a wonderful fertilizer for our School Vegetable Gardens.

One of the other major benefits was that our existing system was easily converted from burning coal to pellets.

We then decided to update the look of our Boiler House and employed “Project Legit” to undertake the makeover.

The Grand Opening for the new system was on our Celebration Day in July 2007, and the Boiler was officially opened by Lianne Dalziel.

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Painting

As part of the Beautification of Our School, we have had the interior and exterior  walls of the Main Pool painted.

The design and painting was done by Project Legit, with Reg Storer Motors kindly donating the funds for the painting of the exterior walls.

As part of our Boiler upgrade Project Legit completed a make over on the outside of our Boiler House.

We are very grateful to Miriama and her team at Project Legit. Their design skills are second to none and their willingness to listen to our ideas and work in with us was invaluable.

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Duffy Books

Coming Soon!

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Let's Get Physical

A physical activity initiative

At the beginning of 2007 Central New Brighton School initiated a physical activity programme aimed at encouraging and recognising physical activity within its community.

In February data was collected from across the school identifying children’s understanding of and participation in PA.

The school action plan for physical activity is multi faceted.  It features a term focus, a community event, promotion, links to the curriculum, celebration in assembly, extra-curricular foci, and a privilege play component.

Each Term there is a set focus. Term One and Four focused on Aquatics; with a large push for the two School pools to be used not just for swimming lessons - but also by the community after school. This involved regular after school syndicate pool parties for families, as well as opening the pool up once a week to the public.

In Term Two the focus was on playground games. Each teacher took the challenge to organise a different playground focus each week. We had patter tennis tournaments, Italian golf played with Frisbees and non-stop cricket. The school employs a teacher aide to support programmes in the playground at play times. Senior students took up the challenge and ran two dance classes every week for younger students.

In Term Three the focus will be aerobics. The school hall will be used two lunch hours a week by senior pupils - to run jump jam sessions. The resource for these and training for our senior students has been paid for from the proceeds of a whole school jog-a-thon in Term Two.

Besides these Term foci, every week “orange cards" are given out in the playground for children involved in positive physical activity. At our fortnightly assembly each class makes a draw from the orange card,s and one child from each class gets presented with a voucher to a local recreation facility. Our “Let’s get physical” theme song the BIRDIE dance is played and we all dance together.

Children involved in positive play are less of a behaviour problem.

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Principal's Sabbatical Report

Our Principal, Brian Thompson has recently returned from sabbatical, you can read his report (in Adobe™ PDF format) here.

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After School Programme ( OSCAR )

New Brighton School now provides and After School Programme, please check out the information links below:

Parent's Information Sheet

Applicaton Form

 

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