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Nga mihi nui ki a koutou katoa – warm greetings to everyone

Teacher Only Day:

Reminder…

On Friday 9 March, we will be holding the first of two Te Kahui Ako o Reporoa – Community of Learning Teacher Only Days at Reporoa College. (NOTE: Reporoa Primary School will be CLOSED!)

All of our teaching staff, Principal and Teachers’ Aides will be involved along with staff from Broadlands, Reporoa College, Lake Rerewhakaaitu and Mihi.

One of our CoL’s ‘Achievement Challenges’ prioritises the lifting of oral language skills from Early Childhood through to Year 13.

We look forward to sharing more information with you as to how we will be achieving this goal through specific teaching and learning activities in 2018.

The Community of Learning Vision…

To be a Responsive, Equitable & Powerful Learning Community’

Thumbs-Up-Circle-300px (1)Congratulations…

Congratulations John and Jolene for winning the “Goodsorts” award! We will let you know when the segment will air on channel 1.

PERMISSIONS: IF YOU DO NOT GIVE PERMISSION FOR YOUR CHILD TO AIR ON SEVEN SHARP IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS, PLEASE CONTACT THE OFFICE ON 07 333 8350 BEFORE FRIDAY 1PM. 

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The children had a wonderful time with Sam too…
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As a school we would like to acknowledge all of our wonderful parents who help us in so many different ways. You are a very special community! If you have any ideas on how to contribute to the school, please don’t be afraid to approach me and have a discussion about it – I am very open to new ideas!

Thumbs-Up-Circle-300px (1)Congratulations…

…to the RATS duathlon team. They had a great day yesterday competing in the Redwoods.

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Reminder: Water or Milk only please!

Lately several children have been bringing energy drinks or juice to school and drinking it before school. This gives some children a sugar high and makes it difficult for the teacher to manage their learning in class. At Reporoa Primary School we allow water or milk as drink. Please respect this and only send water or milk to school.

Outdoor Classroom:

Monday evening saw the Waiotapu Scout Troop mucking in and doing a grand job weeding along the river bank area and feeding and weeding around the four pear trees. Mel Manning and her team organised the construction of compost bins to be used to process some of our waste.
Our usual team of heavy lifters (Susannah, Heather, Kyle & Madelein Brennnan family, Monk family, Leslie family, Collins family, Crafar family, Marshall family & Guyton family) have donated much of their time over the previous two weekends and also during the holidays to bring our outdoor classroom to order. It has been a huge effort on their part and we need to have more people volunteering to ‘muck in’. You do not need to be a gardener to help. Even as little as half an hour is appreciated and makes a difference. I will be inserting a public acknowledgement in the Roundabout for our Scout Group thanking these families who have their children attending schools all round the region. Look out for our next ‘mucking in’ session as we have mulch arriving this week and will need willing hands to spread this over our beautiful plants. Please text me on 027 366 9867 about how you can help out and also suggestions of timings that would work for you – we don’t have to use weekends. Thanks from Susannah and the Team.
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green-star-11Stars of the week:

Ka Rawe te mahi (awesome work) to Ellie, Felix, Alexander and Amy for their extra effort in writing this week.

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Sports-1Sports:

Cluster swimming competition on Tuesday 13th at Reporoa College. Time TBA as soon as we get the information.

You may have noticed that we have been very sporty lately, taking advantage of a number of extra programmes available to our school. The children have been enjoying swimming support with Sammy and Felicity from Youthtown, ‘Go4It’ through Sport BOP with Stephanie, and cricket skills.

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Calendar:

 Term Dates
Term 2 30th April – 6th July
Term 3 23 July – 28th Sept
Term 4 15th Oct – 20th Dec
Fri 9th March Teacher Only Day – COL – NO SCHOOL
Tues 13th March Cluster Swimming Sports pp Thursday 15th March
Fri 30th March Good Friday – No School
Monday 2nd April Easter Monday – No School
Tuesday 3rd April Easter Tuesday – No School
Wednesday 11th April Cluster Summer Sports pp Friday 13th April
Friday 13th April End of Term 1 – 3pm finish
Monday 30th April Term 2 starts – 9am

 

 

Lunch Orders:

There will be no lunches on Friday as it is Teacher Only Day – NO SCHOOL.

 

Lost Property:

Our lost property pile is growing every day – remember to come down and check it.

Nãku i runga i aku mihi ki a koe – Yours with thanks

Richelle McDonald

and our team –Jill, Phil, Susannah, Rachel, Julie, Maureen, Heather, Tina, Mary, Kim, Ross & Stevie.

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