Tauranga Primary School

Newsletter

11 May 2012

Newsletter

TERM 2 / WEEK 3

From

the

Principal‘s

Pen

Dear Parents / Caregivers,

This last week has given us our first taste of winter and already we have seen a rise in the number of children with tummy bugs and needing to be sent home. It is timely therefore to ensure that our family contact details are all up to date. If you have changed your address, phone number (including cellphone and work number) please let the office know as soon as possible. You can do this by e-mail <office@tauranga.school.nz> or by completing and returning the slip included in this newsletter.

It is also timely to remind children what they can do to keep themselves healthy, especially to avoid catching and spreading coughs and colds - the Health Department recommend the following:

• Always wash hands after coughing and sneezing or disposing of tissues. • Hand washing – a lick and a promise will not be effective. A thorough hand wash should continue

while you sing Happy Birthday (at least 20 secs) Then a thorough dry until all moisture is dried.• Cover mouth and nose while coughing and sneezing.• Use a tissue and dispose of it (hygienically) once used• Keep your hands away from your mouth, nose and eyes.• Avoid contact with people who have influenza-like symptoms.

We also emphasise the importance of keeping your child/ren at home when they have tummy bugs, cold or flu symptoms. The infectious period for any influenza type illness is at the early stages and often, before we send home an unwell child, the infection has spread further through the school.

From time to time, for a variety of reasons, we have some student places available for out of zone children throughout the school.This year we have had several families moving away from the Bay and as a result we currently have room for one or two students at most class levels.We do know that many out of zone parents believe that they cannot enrol their children here, but if you know of any families wishing to have their children attend Tauranga Primary School this would be an opportune time to apply.Keeping our roll stable is crucial to keep our funding at a viable level and also to retain the staff we currently have.Application forms can be downloaded from the school’s website <www.tauranga.school.nz> If numbers of applications exceed the places available a ballot will be held. To be considered in the ballot, completed application forms will need to be into the office by Wednesday May 23 with the ballot (if required) held on Friday May 25.

Kind regards,Jenny McNicolPrincipal

“PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR CHILDREN TO BUILD POSITIVE AND ENJOYABLE MEMORIES OF THEIR EARLY SCHOOL YEARS”

The FOTS have made a significant contribution towards the establishment of ‘blended classrooms’. BLENDED CLASSROOMS are a blend of accessible technology (ICT, ipads New Entrant to Year 4 and computers years 5&6) and the best of traditional teaching practice. The FOTS have purchased 26 ipads, these will be distributed to New Entrant to Year 4 classes midway through this term. The funds for this have come directly from school fundraising events such as Calendar Art, Disco’s and ‘athon’ money. Thank you to the FOTS and our school families for this support, we hope to create ‘blended’ classes school wide by the end of this term.

Sausage Sizzle - 18th May - notices have been sent home with children----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------If you are able to assist with the preparation of food - please return this form to the office:Yes I am able to assist with the sausage sizzle from 11.30 - 1.15pmName: Phone:

Parent of: Able to assist from to

Friends of the School (FOTS)

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Term Dates for 2012:

Term 2: * Monday 23 April - Friday 29 JuneTerm 3: * Monday 16 July - Friday 28 SeptemberTerm 4:* Monday 15 October - Friday -13th December

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Week 4 16 May Rippa Rugby World Cup 18 May Travelling Road Safety Show - Senior School 18 May Walk to School Day - Wacky hair or feet 18 May Sausage Sizzle

Week 6 28-29 May Ruben The Road Safety Bear - Junior School 30 May Class & Individual Photos 31 May TPS x-country 1 June Teacher Only Day - NO SCHOOL

Week 7 4 June Queens Birthday ICAS Science

Week 8 12 June South Cluster x-country 13 June South Cluster - Young Einstein Comp

Note: Dates are guides only and are subject to change

DATES TO REMEMBER

Did you know that TPS has a walking school bus?It operates every day from school. After school children meet with parent “bus drivers” outside Room 15. They then walk down to Memorial Park (by the Rowing Club) where there is plenty of parking. The bus usually arrives by 3.20pm. There are lots of rewards and incentives for children to take part and if we can reduce the congestion outside the school gate, it will be so much safer for our children.

Walking School Bus

You can make a difference with just a little of your time!

Autism affects 1 in 100 peopleAutism New Zealand Bay Of Plenty Branch is in urgent

need of collectors for itsAnnual Appeal 2012 that will be held from

1st - 7th June 2012To offer your help

please email Angela Keepa, BOP Autism Committee Member, positive@slingshot.co.nz or txt 021907191 with

your detailsor contact BOP Autism Branch, bay.of.plenty@autismnz.org.nz

Just an hour or so of your time will help local families living with Autism Spectrum Disorder!

1st JUNE Teacher Only Day please diary this day in. TPS teachers will be at

Tauranga Intermediate for the day at an ICT

Conference.

If any parents cannot make arrangements for their children please notify the school in writing

as soon as possible so that adequate arrangements can be made.

18th May - Walk to School day - meet at Memorial Park on the Rowing Club side, ready to

walk to school at 8.30am.

Wear wacky hair and/or feet.Children who are dropped off earlier to school will be walked down to Memorial Park to join in with

everyone.

On Monday 7th May we went to Rotorua to the National Young Leaders Conference. We had five awesome people talk to us about igniting your spark in your self. Dave Atkins was one of the speakers. He made a banana into a penguin and threw it into the audience of 2000 people. He had four pointers for us 1.Stick up for what is right. 2.Choose good friends. 3.Believe in yourself. 4.Live for others. We also listened to Ruth Aitkins the NZ netball coach. She told us to give 100% in every thing we do, be a role model for others, and that you don’t have to be a hero to be a good friend, follow your dreams forever. She said you will have ups and downs in your life but don’t give up. Thats what the netball team did and they won the 2006 Beijing common wealth games for netball. The speakers were all very funny, entertaining and had confidence in themselves.They were very inspirational speakers and at the end we had a GLOW PARTY! The Young Leaders would like to say another thank you to TPS parents and students for supporting us on Mufti day so that we could raise the money for this awesome event.

Luke Matthews and Kaden Bull.

Young Leaders Conference 2012

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My first few weeks at TPS have been most enjoyable and I am really excited about getting involved in all our wonderful sports. I am currently situated in the school library, but will soon have a permanent location and hours. I would love to meet anyone for sport questions, advice or just pop in to say hello. This term TPS is strongly represented on the sports fields. All our winter sports teams are now under way. We have 10 teams representing our school during Term 2 and 3 in Netball, Hockey and Basketball. A competitive team of gymnasts has been selected to compete at the Schools Gymsport Festival at Argos Gym. These girls are currently working hard to learn and perfect their routines. We also have a Rippa Rugby Squad training every lunch hour. These talented rugby players will participate next week in the Rippa Rugby Mini World Cup at Blake Park. We wish all our athletes heaps of luck and remember to play hard, play fair and have fun!!

Jo TaeleSports Co-ordinatorjtaele@tauranga.school.nz

Sports Talk with Jo

COLGATE Thanks to the families that have already sent in their

empty Colgate Cartons, keep them coming. YUMMY FRUIT STICKERS

Keep collecting the stickers and send in your full charts. More charts are at the office.

LUNCH ORDERSDon’t forget Sushi is available on Wednesdays.

SAUSAGE SIZZLENext Friday - 18 May - no other lunch orders available

for that day. PHOTOLIFE

Named envelopes went home yesterday. Sibling envelopes are available at the office.

Change of details - please fill in and return to the office

Child’s name: Room:

Details that have changed: e.g. address, phone numbers, contact people etc.

Snippets

The Board wishes to thank several people and groups for their support of Tauranga Primary and in particular our Blended Learning Classroom (ICT) project Your children will soon, if not already, be enjoying the additional learning tools that have been provided to them. The Board and School commenced planning this project sometime ago. We wish to acknowledge TECT, FRIENDS OF THE SCHOOL and PARENT donations in assisting the Board to achieve our projected ICT project. Activity fee.The establishment of this fee by the Board was only done after approx 1 years consultation and debate. To this end we as a Board are delighted with the acceptance of this fee. To date 75% of the school (82% Senior/Middle and 67% Junior) have paid this fee. For the first year this far exceeded the Boards projected figures. We look forward to your continued support of this fee. Remember this is NOT an additional fee, it is a collective amount of those small fees required for approved school activities throughout the year. Board By-electionNominations will be called for commencing 12th May and closing 25th May. This is an ideal opportunity for 2 people to join the Board prior to the general election early next year. Please give serious thought to nominations , we look forward to welcoming new members on the Board. In our governance role of Tauranga Primary School we meet eight times a year. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Management and all Staff for their continued work in striving to achieve required results. FarewellOur thanks go to Russell Syme for his time on the Board, Russell provided the Board with prudent financial observations and the ability to have a clear “down to earth” approach of questions and problems that arose. We wish Russell, Tracey, Zara and Campbell all the best for the future. Neil HitchinerChairman

BOARD TALK

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Buried Village Open Weekend - June 9th & 10th

126 years have passed since the eruption of Mount Tarawera and to commemorate The Buried Village is holding an open weekend on Saturday June the 9th and Sunday June 10th 2012. Entry is free for everyone. 1180

Tarawera Road, Rotorua.

Celebrate Mother’s Day with Sanctum Beauty Therapy. Visit our Facebook page for the chance to pamper your mum with some

wonderful prizes. Also, check out our exclusive new organic baby range from La

Clinica. Ph 07 575 9523.

Mount Kids Market, last Sunday of each month 9am – 11.30am. Stalls run by kids

fundraising or earning their pocket money. There’s something for everyone. Arataki

Community Centre, Zambuk Way. Kids pre-book a table P: 575 2048 E:

arataki@clmnz.co.nz.

Bay of Plenty Stand Up Paddleboard FUN DAY

Sunday 13th of May, Kulim Park, Tauranga.9-1pm - $5 entry if you wish to participateShort curse racing on the Harbour. Latest SUP equipment on display and boards for

hire too.Contact the team at Elements Watersports

to register, or just come along.www.elementswatersports.co.nz

0800 485 729

Community Notice Board

School Website – www.tauranga.school.nz

Me and George went on a mission in a car. It was my first time driving. We went fast! I smelt burning because he went over the speed limit! We went in a sewer. It took us down but we found a ladder to get out. We found crystals too.

By Matheson Lett Rm 12

One day me and Bella we went to our underground lab. We typed in Kassie.com and Bella.com and then we heard the baddies feet come by. We jumped and hit our head really hard. Then we saw the baddie steal the queen’s baby. The baby cried so much but we saved it and returned it back to it’s Mum and it stopped crying.

By Kassie Ririnui Rm 12

Me and Matheson went on an underwater adventure. It was spooky scary. We went underwater. A shark saw us. We had an invisible button. We pressed it and turned invisible. We passed the shark. We came out on the water bridge. We didn’t know crocodiles were in the river. I got boxing gloves. A baddie hit me.“Ow!” I said and punched him back.

By Monte Marshall Rm 12

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Stories from Room 12 Year 2 - 6 years old