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Vision: at Whakamaru School we develop attitudes and skills for life-long learners Kaahu Rd, Rd1, Mangakino – Phone (07) 8828872 – Fax (07) 8828822 – Mobile 0277587401
NEWSLETTER Term 4 Week 5
2018
. Week 6 We look forward to seeing Evie the electric car from Mercury coming to school tomorrow. This week sees the start of Life Education. Each class will have an opportunity to meet Harold the Giraffe and listen to lessons about how to live healthy lives.
Whakamaru School Mission Statement: To educate all children to become life-long learners which develops and celebrates talents and abilities.
Dates of interest (Week 6-9) WEEK 6 Tues 20 Nov R.D.A Evie—electric car from Mercury visit—12:00
Thurs 22 Nov Life Education Fri 23 Nov School Assembly (Mr White) Life Education WEEK 7 Mon 26 Nov Life Education BOT meeting Tues 27 Nov R.D.A Life Education Wednes 28 Nov Tech (Y7&8) Fri 30 Nov Maunga Leaders Assembly W.O.W fashion + Flower Spectacular. Week 8 Tues 4 Dec R.D.A Fri 7 Dec Performance Assembly. Movie Night—PTA Week 9 Mon 10 Dec Year 8 Special trip (TBC) Tues 11 Dec R.D.A Wed 12 Dec Maunga Treat Thurs 13 Dec Last Assembly Reports go home
Principals message
Tēnā koutou ngā whānau o te kura o Whakamaru.
We had a fantastic day hosting the Senior Pinelands Athletics day. I was very proud of our students and how they conducted themselves throughout the day. A massive thank you to the PTA for organising and running the sausage sizzle and selling the baking for the senior students. The funds from this are going towards the Room 1 camp next year.
For those year 7-8 students who placed in their events at the Senior Pinelands Athletics will have an opportunity to take part in the Waikato Full Primary Schools Athletics on Wednesday 28 November at Porritt Stadium.
Evie the electric car is coming to school tomorrow at 12. Evie is Mercury’s converted 1957 Ford Fairlane, you may have seen her starring in TV advertisements. She’s quite the rock star. We are excited to have her visit our school and have the members of Mercury talk to us about her and how she works. You are more than welcome to come to school and see her.
Life Education and Harold the Giraffe are visiting us later in the week. Life Education is a charity that educates and empowers children to make healthy choices so they can live full and healthy lives. Every year they teach over 250,000 children about their body, friendships, their identity, food and nutrition and helpful and harmful substances.
School leaders are proposing a school disco and water day later in the term. Dates for these events are to be finalised this week and we will let everyone know asap.
Next Friday we are looking to have a World of Wearable arts—fashion and flower show. Senior Students have been working hard to complete their Arts in preparation for this day.
Keep the afternoon of Friday 7 December free for a Movie Night at school. More information and cost of tick-ets will be made available soon.
Regards James White.
Roll for 2019 We are currently looking into our school roll for 2019. If you have a child or children or know of a family that are going to enrol into Whakamaru School during 2019, can you please let us know, by phone or email (below) This will help us confirm our staffing for 2019. Thank you in advance.
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Vision: at Whakamaru School we develop attitudes and skills for life-long learners Kaahu Rd, Rd1, Mangakino – Phone (07) 8828872 – Fax (07) 8828822 – Mobile 0277587401
PINELANDS ATHLETICS
Vision: at Whakamaru School we develop attitudes and skills for life-long learners Kaahu Rd, Rd1, Mangakino – Phone (07) 8828872 – Fax (07) 8828822 – Mobile 0277587401
Scary Stories—Room 1
Class Sharing Page
31st, October Chapter One.
Harvey. Scared, Harvey ran through the bush. Leaves were crunching behind him. “You're dead!” said the followers. Three average heighted teenagers ran after Harvey. Tears streamed down his face as he ran through the chilling river. The teens stopped by the river. They were watching him cross the lake as a voice came from behind, “ Go on Mike, Get him!” Mike stood by the river hearing his friends yell at him to get the kid. “Why don't you two useless numbnuts get him” yelled Mike. Harvey turned around to then throw a rock. It hit James in the face. “OH THAT'S IT!” yelled James. He jumped in the river to then charge at Harvey. “Oh no..” Harvey said with a trembling voice. He carried on into the green forestry. James was picking up his pace until he realized something. Standing right in front of him was a faceless figure. This ‘thing’ was wearing a black trench coat and a white plain mask. The mask had James’ name painted onto it with black dripping paint. As James was trying to figure out what this thing was, Harvey was running through the bush. Breathless, he stopped for a break. He took multiple breaths. He thought about how long it was to get home. He sighed in fear to then start his expedition to his house. To be continued………
ONE NIGHT One night, my friends and I ran away to the haunted forest. We found it accidentally one morning when we took the long way to school In the middle of the forest, there was a dark scary haunted house, with smashed windows old blood on it there was an old broken down truck driven through it. It had a haunting and spine chilling feeling when you looked at it .It also had a rotting smell. There was a family who were murder by their dad shot them each 13 times in the house in 1924 . It has been 94 years since someone had lived there. We got spine chills when we saw the family photos. Someone said that they saw shadows of the family walking around. We had just gone through the rickety old door when a ghost come running at us. It made a blood-curdling howling noise and we gapped it out the door and jumped into the hedge. The ghost followed us into the forest . We decided to split up so that some of us could get away and get help. I made it to the road and ran all the way home . When I got home I messaged my friends and we were all still feeling really scared of whatever was chasing us through the forest. That night, we talked to our families about it. The next day each of us found a letter attached to our bedroom door. It was written with blood. It read ‘DO NOT COME BACK TO THE HOUSE AGAIN, OR ELSE, WE WILL HAUNT YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!!!’. We thought that it was a joke from our families and they went back to the forest. This time we weren’t so lucky and we couldn’t escape and NEITHER WILL YOU!!!! By Ratahi
Vision: at Whakamaru School we develop attitudes and skills for life-long learners Kaahu Rd, Rd1, Mangakino – Phone (07) 8828872 – Fax (07) 8828822 – Mobile 0277587401
Thursday night Touch Rugby
Come along on Thursday night for a game of
touch rugby at Whakamaru School 6pm-
7pm.
Taupo School of Music - 2019
Taupo School of Music is now taking enrollments for 2019. Instruments available to learn are – Guitar (8yrs+), Bass Guitar (9yrs+), Keyboard (7yrs+), Trumpet (7yrs+), Trombone (9yrs+), Clarinet (9yrs+), Alto Sax (10yrs+), Ukulele (5yrs+), Recorder (5yrs+), Flute (9yrs+), Percussion (not drum kit) (8yrs+), Violin (6yrs+), Cello (8yrs+). Ex-pressions of interest for Bagpipes (9yrs+).
Orchestral instruments are available to hire.
If your child is interested in trying instrumental music and would like further information, or to enrol, please contact the Principal – [email protected]. Places are limited.
This summer we have 3 awesome camps geared to get kids excited about the out-doors. Free transport provided from Waika-to. With a focus on water safety, we have planned a range of activities including surf-ing, SUP, water safety lessons, as well as tramping, rock climbing, confidence cours-es, bush survival skills, hot pools, orient-eering, team building, camp cooking and heaps more. - January 14th - 18th - Aongatete Lodge - January 21st - 25th - Aongatete Lodge - Jan 29th - Feb 1st - Reedwood Valley Farm OSCAR available 8-14 yr olds Pick up/drop off points in Auckland, Waika-to, Tauranga, Whakatane and Rotorua. For more information or to book now visit www.edventure.co.nz email [email protected] or phone 02102241576
Book before Xmas and be in to win a
surfboard.
