Kia Ora Koutou,

I hope you all enjoyed the Easter holiday and made the most of the beautiful weather. We ended last week with our very first Y3-6 Tabloid Sports Event and our very first House Competition. It was a great day filled with fun and school spirit! The House Winner for the Tabloid Sports was Rata House.... go RATA! It was very close with only a few points between each house. All points awarded to house competitions throughout the year go towards the House Champions Cup - this cup will be awarded to the house with the most points at the end of the year. Our House Champions Cup is currently being made!

We are looking forward to the Y0-2 Junior Fun Run tomorrow, Thursday 4th April. The event will start at 1.45pm (after lunch). As we are promoting this as a fun run event the children may like to wear their house colours or their favourite colour t-shirt and shorts or come dressed in multi-coloured clothing. There will be a coffee cart on site for those of you who would like a coffee :) Your child will require the following items:

A massive big thank you to Kate (PTA President) and all of the enthusiastic PTA members who so generously gave their precious time to make the PTA Gala a successful community event. It was wonderful to see so many of our students, whānau and community members support the Gala. It was a lovely evening for all! 

We are looking forward to our whānau hui this evening at 6.30pm in the staffroom to talk about the success of our Māori tamariki, as Māori at our kura. We are keen to hear from the whānau of our Māori tamariki about what they think Māori succeeding as Māori is and how we can work towards achieving this.  

Enjoy the rest of the week!
Ngā mihi
Kylie 

This week we are focusing on being critical thinkers. Below is  a teaching card that supports our puna of manaaki teaching in classrooms this week.

This term, the Board are reviewing the following policies: 

We welcome your participation in our policy review. Please click on the link  for instructions on how to complete a policy review.

What a wonderful group of Manaaki Stars we had the pleasure of celebrating in Week 8. Congratulations for being so kind and sharing it with your friends and teachers: Anqi R12, Tania R5, Aiden R6, Atmaj R34, Maddy R15, Chankrisna R8, Carey R24, Fenix R13, Hafsah R40/41, Laine R40/41, Salome R30, Thomas R23, Carey R24, Aryan R9, Eveleen R7, Kaylee R10, Coen R14, Huzaifa R17, Elen R31, Meiqi R32, Enuki R18, Micah R21, Coco R39, Sarah R38, Salome 30, Lara Rm 19, Kathy R20, Mia  R16, Emily R33, and Pavit R11.

It is hard to believe Term One is nearly over and what a busy one its been for all! Thank you for all your support that you have given the school and it was such a highlight attending the PTA gala recently and seeing so many of our students and families having a wonderful time together. I know there was a mountain of work that went into arranging this event so a huge thank you to all our PTA members and supporters for creating this magic for all. 

I also want to thank you to everyone who either completed our school hours review survey or contacted me about this. Before we progressed this idea, it was critical for me to understand how this would impact our community. We got a range of views and thoughts around this potential change. Based on your feedback and our subsequent discussions we have decided to keep the hours as they currently are. Thank you once again for your feedback here - we do sincerely appreciate it.

 

If at any stage there is anything you wish to discuss with me please don’t hesitate to contact me: matt.bot@rototunaprimary.school.nz

Kind Regards

Matthew Hansen

Presiding Member

Due to poor weather, we postponed our planned trial fire drill last week. We had it this morning at 11am and the students were amazing! 

We are pleased to let you know that we are very close to finalising our new sports uniform kit. We are hopeful that this will be ready for our winter sports teams! Below is a peak at what the design looks like:

On Friday 5 April  at 11am in the School Hall, we will be having our Whole School Celebration. The focus of this celebration will be celebrating manaaki. You are welcome to attend.