Thursday

5th May 2016

Issue 16:05

Dear Parents and Caregivers.

Castiel Togiatomai, Logan Touch,

Dante Maxwell, Kaiya Bing, Abdul

Mannan, Gershom Adams, Adeela

Bi, Mike and Rose Laauoleola,

Cristyn and Ben Ngaluafe, Kley

Ninofranco and Hamed Mohammedi.

We welcome you all back to the start

of the second term and certainly the

smiles are still showing!!. With our

lovely weather continuing we have a

wonderful school environment full of

happy children, a myriad of colours

of trees and gardens, and warm dry

weather. Long may this last!

Teachers use this second term to

plan and implement class

programmes suited to their pupils’

needs and as identified by testing

completed last term. At the end of

this term all parents will receive a

formal written report giving you

information on where your child is

placed in Reading, Writing and

Mathematics as against the National

Standards of New Zealand. A

‘learning conferences’ discussion will

also be available in the last week

being the Wednesday 6th and

Thursday 7th July. A special

newsletter will be sent out mid term

providing you all with details on this.

Board of Trustees Elections.

These are scheduled for taking place

next month being June. Every school

family will receive a letter with all

appropriate documentation as sent to

the home address listed officially on

our school database. The official

Returning Officer Graeme Brown

runs this election as per Ministry of

Education and School Trustees

guidelines. If you have any

questions in this regard feel free to

contact the school office and Mr

Brown’s contact details will be made

available to you.

Remembrance Garden. Over the

last holidays this major project was

started and should be completed

within the next week. The planning

for this special garden has been

ongoing over the past 10 years, and

it is lovely to see this plan coming to

fruition.

The recognition of pupils and

members of our school community

and Board of Trustees who have

sadly passed away has been in our

minds for many years. The present

Board members are so happy that

this recognition can now be

formalised with the construction of a

beautiful peace garden with special

plantings, sun dial, water feature,

carvings and seating areas. A very

special opening will be taking place

over the next fortnight and our

school leaders are working on the

format of this opening over the

coming days. I hope you enjoy the

photos of the construction stages of

this area that was only started 2

weeks ago. A wonderful

achievement from all involved with

this project.

Kindest regards

Graeme Gilbert

Principal

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School Dates for Term 2

2016

MAY

19th Holy Cross Sports

Exchange - 1.15pm

26th SDA Sports Exchange -

1.15pm

JUNE

2nd Papatoetoe Central

Sports Exchange

1.15pm

16th Puhinui Sports

Exchange - 1.15pm

21st Winter Sports

Exchange TBA

23rd Heavy Rugby Sports

Exchange

JULY

6th Learning

Conferences

School finishes at 1pm

7th Learning

Conferences

School finishes at 1pm

8th Last day of Term 2

School finishes 3pm

Term 3 Dates

25th First day of Term 3

P.A.C.T. PRESENTS

Kiwi Games

Papatoetoe East

Primary School

9.30am - 11.00am

For children 5 yrs—11 yrs

Entry: Gold coin donation

Dates for Term 2 2016

Saturdays

14th and 21st May

11th, 18th and 25 June

2nd July

For school security, gates are closed

between 9.45am –10.55am

Mobile phone contact during programme:

Mr Glenn 0274 381646

This is held wet or fine.

Playgroup at Papatoetoe

East School

This is held every Monday,

Tuesday, Wednesday and

Thursday from 1.30pm to

3.00pm.

All preschoolers welcome.

Our Remembrance Garden is a work in progress as you

can see by these pictures.

We hope to have this all completed within the next

couple of weeks and have a special opening of this area.

Feel free to come and check out this area when you are

in school next.