23rd April 2015 - Week 1 Term 2

2015 Dates Term 2 20th April - 3rd July Term 3 20th July - 25th Sept

Term 4 12th Oct - 16th Dec

As part of our Anzac Day acknowledgement, Room 1 have set up a Field of Remembrance

by the school entrance to commemorate the 18,200 New Zealand men and women who made

the ultimate sacrifice when serving our country during World War 1

Tomorrow we will be splitting the school into 5 mixed age groups and they will move

around the following activities.

Significance of the poppy, making a wreath for our school representatives to lay at the cenotaph at the dawn service on

Saturday.

Simpson and his Donkey

Anzac biscuit baking and history

How schools helped in the war effort

Why soldiers went to war? / marching

Around 2.15 we will hold our own Anzac Service, which parents are most welcome to come along to.

Can you help?? Book covering is being done on Monday the 4th May from 9am in the staffroom. Any help is much appreciated.

Dawn Service

Motupipi School has been invited to take part in the Takaka Anzac Day Memorial Dawn Service this Saturday morning 25 th April at

the Takaka Library. We have taken part in the service over the past two years and are doing so again.

The service is approximately an hour long and so our student representatives are required to stand, be quiet, respectful and attentive

for the duration of the service,

The plan for the day will be

Meet at the Junction Hotel car park by 6.20am,

March with the RSA members and band to the library at 6.30am

Two Motupipi student representatives will lay a wreath

After the singing of the national anthem at the end of the service, the band and marching group will march to the fire station.

We already have a group who will be attending. If there are any others interested, I need to know by tomorrow, so that we can have

a practice.

2.5.1916

Dear Dad and Mum,

Thank you for the chocolate biscuits and

leather gloves, with woollen gloves inside.

When I was walking past a farm I found a stray lizard. I have

now got it in the trench. It is very good with keeping the flies

away.

I hope all the best to you and family and could I hear from my

pet tuatara.

All the best.

Your Uncle.

Arjuna

1.7.1917

Dear Dad and Mum,

Thank you very much for the leather

gloves and the new pocket knife. It is very useful.

We just did a 28 mile march. On the way I found a wild rabbit

with a broken leg so I took it with me.

Last night we set up camp in a meadow and I had a very good

sleep. Tomorrow we will be marching a long way.

Love from

Lief

Room 4—Post cards sent home from the trenches in WWI

Motupipi School Contact

Details:

435 Abel Tasman Drive

Takaka 7183

Phone: 03 525 9986

EMAIL: markc@motupipi.school.nz

Or: office@motupipi.school.nz

Internet Banking No:

03 1711 0013347 00

JUNIOR FOOTBALL

Begins Saturday 2 May, 9.30am, GB Show Grounds

Pre-register on-line by visiting nelsonbaysfootball@co.nz

and follow the link for Golden Bay Association Football Club

registrations.

Fees payable online or at registration - $45 for entire season.

Second-hand boot sale – bring along unwanted boots to sell or swap.

Sausage sizzle fundraiser.

Contact Katrina on 5248640.

Junior Hockey now on Wednesdays after

school at TPS fields. 3:15-4pm. Enquires

to Fleur 5256116 or 0275256117.

Friday school Lunch

Pasta—Tomato and Cheese $3.00

Friand $1.00

Thanks to Shaki for school lunches this week.

School Calendar dates for Term One

26th April Mystery Bike Ride

25th April Anzac Day

27th April Observed holiday for Anzac Day

29th April Assembly 2.10pm

6th May Rippa Rugby TPS

11th May Cultural Performance—Bob Bickerton

13 or 15th May School trip Wainui/Taupo Point

27th May Assembly 2.10pm

8th June Queens Birthday

9th June Year 3/4 Hockey Nelson

10th June Assembly 2.10pm

11th June Year 5/6 Hockey Nelson

12th June Cultural Performance—NZ Playhouse

24th June Assembly 2.10pm

25th June Library Quiz

3rd July End of term

My Holiday Adventure Oooh, gooey mud!! Watch out Jasper hasn’t got any horse shoes on. The track has got sharp rocks on it.

Hey there is a feather post. It had creepy cracks with spiders in it. We went past some stinging nettle. Come on lets go up this hill. Wow! I am not going down that steep hill. But I did!.

We did the limbo on the horses, under some sharp pointy branches.

We went to Patons Rock to the reserve. We went in to trees merged together. My horse Jasper didn’t want to go through but he did. We went on the road for a little bit and back on the beach.

On the way back Emily’s horse whacked me. My horse liked being in the shade and it stopped there but then Emily’s horse jumped in the air with Emily on the back. Was she going to stay on? My heart

stopped beating but luckily she made it! Hooray!!

By Maren

Welcome to Emma, Tilly, Jack, Ryan and JJ who have all just recently joined us at Motupipi School. They all said they are enjoying making and playing with the new friends they have made since starting school.