PUKEHĀMOAMOA PLAYGROUP

Every Friday during the school term, 9.00am -

11.00am. Come along for a coffee while the kids play!

Contact Rebecca for more info - 874 3776

PALS—SELECTED SENIOR STUDENTS

On Friday 12th February a selected group of seniors

attended a PALS session

with Sport Hawke’s Bay at

the Pettigrew Arena. The

programme is an initiative

to encourage physical

activity and develop

leadership through sports.

―It was an amazing experience and we were able to bring back what we had learned and teach the kids

new games, which they seem to love.‖ —Jack Ralph (Sports Captain)

―The PALS was a fun experience, seeing all the different schools involved and meeting new people. We learnt leadership skills and fun games that we

brought back to school.‖ —Kristyn Elliott (School Ambassador)

TERM 1, WEEK 4TERM 1, WEEK 4 Rāapa 24th HuiRāapa 24th Hui--tanguru 2016tanguru 2016 Wednesday, 24th February 2016Wednesday, 24th February 2016

WHAT’S COMING UP? HE AHA NGA MAHI I TENEI RA?

MARCH

4th House Swimming (whole school)

8th BoT Meeting

10th TACS Triathlon (selected senior students)

24th Cluster Swimming (Napier Aquatic Centre)

25th EASTER BREAK (Good Friday)

28th EASTER BREAK (Easter Monday)

29th EASTER BREAK (Easter Tuesday)

APRIL 3rd Daylight Savings Ends

TERM DATES 2016 TERM ONE 1st Feb—15th April TERM TWO 2nd May—8th July TERM THREE 25th July—23rd September TERM FOUR 10th Oct—20th Dec (approx.)

BEFORE & AFTER SCHOOL CARE

Before and after school care available. Dropped off and collected from school. Afternoon tea provided

and help with homework if needed.

Please call Megan on 874 3169 or 021 038 5636.

Gardener wanted for Matapiro Road house. Weeding and pruning needed.

Call Megan 874 3169 if you can help.

HOUSE FOR RENT

Crownthorpe Settlement Road

Sunny, modern, small 2 bdrm house with 5 acres. Wanting very tidy, reliable and trustworthy tenants

to move in approximately mid April.

Would ideally suit a single person or single couple.

For enquires please phone Russell on 027 2515 481.

PATERSONROSE KIDS POP-UP STORE

CRAZY PRICES… Sale stock up to 75% off

Kids linen – Rugs – Sheeting – Cushions & more……

Don’t miss out

Thursday 25th - Friday 26th February, 9am-5pm

Saturday 27th-Sunday 28th February, 10am-3pm

4 days only at Havelock North Function Centre,

30 Te Mata Road (next to the library)

www.patersonrose.com

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Save The Date: Sunday 6th November

The fundraising committee is organising a garden walk in the community. We will be hollering out for parent

helpers so please save the date.

FARADAY TRIP

On Thursday 10th March all students have the opportunity to go to the Faraday Centre in Napier.

Napier’s Faraday Centre is an Aladdin’s cave of technological treasures from days gone by. Faraday Favourites is a fun, educational session incorporating

students’ favourite activities from some of the Faraday Centre’s most popular education programmes.

During the visit the children will get to explore; electricity, energy, simple machines, inventions, technology of the olden days, sounds, light and

weather.

Cost - $4.50 per student – it is free for accompanying

adults. (no toddlers please)

To enable us to go we need your support. We require adults to come and work with children in groups of 4 or

5. We also need transport to and from the Faraday Centre. The Junior School (Waitio, Kiwirua, Matapiro)

will be going first, leaving school at 9.30am and the Senior School (Oreka and Okawa) will be going second,

leaving school at 11.30am.

Permission forms went home on Monday and are due

back this Friday 26th February so we can arrange

transport.

Payment will be required by Friday 4th March if the

trip is to go ahead.

LOST CAT

We've lost our cat on Crownthorpe Settlement Rd

(Puke end). He's black with very faint white under chin.

Answers to Tom. Please phone Rebecca 874 3776.

TECHNOLOGY ROTATION—2016

To parents of those children who are year 7 or 8; Taradale Intermediate have changed the way

technology runs this year and instead of it being once a week they will now attend it in week-long blocks.

Classes will be from 9:45am-2pm allowing no disruption to our buses and will now be once a term.

Term 1: Week 7 (March 14th-18th)

Term 2: Week 3 (May 16th-20th)

Term 3: Week 7 (September 5th-9th)

Term 4: Week 6 (November 14th-18th)

Triathlon We are looking forward to you all attending our Triathlon and cheering on our athletes. We want all students to attempt this and encourage them to give all three disciplines a go. There will be spot prizes handed out by teachers at the end, and we would like all children to stay until the end please so that we can give these out. It will be a hot day and we will be erecting the Sun Shade for the day, all students will be

told to ensure they keep in the shade and that they have sun block on.

Beginning of Year Assessment By now all of our teachers have finished doing some pre testing and profiling their classrooms and setting concrete plans based on data from last year and their observations this year. I encourage you to contact your classroom teachers if you have any concerns to ensure you are

informed on their plans for your children this year. We pride ourselves on being open and transparent with you and want to ensure we do the best for all of our students at Puke.

Assembly This week Matapiro will be show casing what they have been doing over the last four weeks. We do encourage you all to attend to support children in public speaking and presenting. All assemblies start at 2:15pm and we aim to finish by 2:45pm. A great turn out last week of parents, thank you—Sean Moore

Assembly this week—Matapiro

INTERESTING FACTS

Yesterday, as part of our staff Professional Development, we attended an online course with Karen Boyes. She is a leading educator who has researched brain development, modern learning

environments and teaching practices. In the presentation she quoted that ―40% of our 5 year

olds today will leave school and be self employed.‖ The impact on our learning environment

about this fact is, how are we preparing our children to be ―self motivated, self monitoring, self pacing‖ learners? It raised a number of interesting questions about our styles of teaching and about

what we are doing in class. One element of practice we are working on is making our children aware of their next steps and ensuring they know what they

are doing next in their learning.

CLUSTER SWIMMING—24th MARCH

As our cluster swimming event approaches, the classroom teachers will be utilising their PE time to train in the pool (especially the middle and senior

school). Please ensure all children have a towel and suitable swim wear for the weeks leading up to this

event. If your child needs to be excused for any reason, please provide a note excusing them.

SPORTS

TEE BALL RESULTS/DRAW

Last week: LIL LEGENDS POD: Tamati Greeks

This week—27th Feb: vs Te Kura Takitimu 3 Akina 3c 10.15am

If you have any queries regarding tee ball please phone Paula Ferrick—874 3044