Te Kura Tuarua o Piopio

Piopio College

Newsletter

PIOPIO COLLEGE

18 Aria Road, Piopio 3912

07 877 8173 or

0800 240 173

www.piopio.school.nz

PRINCIPAL/TUMUAKI

Johan van Deventer

principal@piopio.school.nz

COMING EVENTS

Monday — Thursday

10am to 2.30pm - Term only

library@piopio.school.nz

LIBRARY HOURS

Monday — Friday

10.15am to 10.30am

Monday/Wednesday

12.45pm to 1pm

Tuesday/Thursday/Friday

12.35pm to 12.50pm

FINANCE OFFICE HOURS

Panui 15 — 25 May 2017

8-9 June

- Leadership Course

16 June

- Interschool orienteering

26-29 June

- ERO visit

Tēnā Koutou te Whānau.

We have continued to celebrate student achievement this week with more students receiving Principal Academic

Achievement awards for outstanding success in their school work.

Congratulations to Karlos Tapara, Rebekah Knox, Manukura Ngawaka, Asha Goddard, Andrei Tiriteu, Nikau Rick-

ards, Freddy Davey, Sidney Baker, Logan Singleton and Keegan Rider for excellent achievement and progress in

numeracy. These students were recognised with certificates in assembly this week and also received canteen

vouchers.

Congratulations to our rugby teams for their fantastic results on the weekend. Our U13s beat Taupo 33-24 and our

1st XV team beat Huntly 24-12. Our 1st XV is playing Ngaruawahia today at 3pm here at the College.

It would be great to see some local support.

We are heading into winter so it is important for students to dress warmly when coming to school. Please ensure

your child/ren are wearing the correct uniform, particularly our winter uniform. There are Piopio College jackets and

beanies available for purchase at the front office. We also have a second hand uniform shop at school so please

contact the office to see if we have any school jackets in your child/ren’s size.

This a much more affordable way of purchasing what you need for your child. Non-regulation beanies, jackets and

shoes are not acceptable.

A reminder that on August 4 our kura is hosting the Maniapoto Secondary Schools Waiwaia Festival. We will be

planning the festival throughout the term and are looking for parent and whanau support to help make this event a

great success. We will be hosting several hui and our first hui is tonight at 5.30pm in the College staffroom. If there

are any whanau who would like to be involved, please contact the school.

MERITORIOUS ACTION

Listed below are the names of students who have received acknowledgement of

the many good things they have done.

Ayla Benefield, Constantine Brown, Jadalee James, Michael Moses,

Chae Pennington- Noble and Joel MacLachlan.

Winner of a canteen voucher this week is Ayla Benefield for Showing pride in her maths work and collaborating well in her group.

BOARD NEWS AND VIEWS With winter now fast approaching, it is timely to remind our students and whānau that students’ daily attendance at school is vital to maximise learning opportunities. School attendance is one of the most powerful ways to ensure academic success and success in life. Over the next two months the Board will be working with a consultant on establishing property development priori-ties over the next five years. This is an exciting opportunity to enhance learning and teaching spaces, with projects fully funded by the Ministry of Education. Watch this space! We have been informed by the Education Review Office that a team will be visiting Piopio College the week com-mencing 26 June to complete a school evaluation. These reviews come around approximately every three years. The Board and staff look forward to working alongside ERO during this week, and see it as an opportunity to reflect on board governance, teaching and learning, and school operations. We are sure there will be an opportunity for members of our parent community to have some voice in the process of this review. A reminder to parents and whānau that a copy of our Board Policies and a number of school procedures are found in a file, located in the office foyer. These policies and procedures also include concerns and complaints. You are always welcome to have a look through these policies and procedures. Nga mihi Jaqui Taituha

Nga mihi

Johan van Deventer

Principal/Tumuaki

SPORTS FEES REMINDER

A Reminder that winter sports fees are due by the end of the month. If you are unable to meet this deadline could you please contact either Nikki Thomas (Finance

officer) on 07 8778 173 or Gina Draper on 022 191 5567.

TIMETABLE

Below is our scheduled timetable days for week fiveof Term 2.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 6

From piglet to pork to plate Friday last week our Primary Industry students learnt about growing pigs from piglet to pork on the plate. The pig has a digestive system which is classified as monogastric or non ruminant. Humans also have this type of digestive system. They have one stomach (mono = one, gastric = stom-ach). The monogastric differs from that of a polygastric or ruminant digestive system found in cattle and sheep. Before we scalded the pig we put a ring in the nose of a younger one that was rooting up the paddock. Man did it squeal! Then Mr Jason Harris taught us heaps of tips for successfully scald-ing a pig. We had to heat the water to over 69˚ C to allow for the cooling off that would occur once the pig was washed and dropped into the hot water.

The scraping off of the hair had to be done quickly and skillfully with knives. We left the guts in while we scraped because it not only gave a better scrap-ing surface but it stopped the inside of the pig partially cooking when sub-mersed in the hot water. The highlight for some of us was the Harris's dog; Toby the Jack Russell Foxy, who was in performing tricks mode. Following the Merchant Farm experience we had lunch and then went to Mr and Mrs Rauputu's farm where we ate lunch in the wool shed, played a tag game and then bagged up some sheep manure for sale. We really appreciate people opening up their properties for us to do, Education Outside of The Classroom.

LOST PROPERTY

There are lots and lots of College uniforms, jackets, socks and shoes in lost property at the office. All unnamed. Please check to see if you are missing anything.

ATTENDANCE

At Piopio College we value attendance. By law you are required to let your school know if your child is absent or late. Please remind your children to sign in at the

office before they go to class if they are arriving late. We have a number of ways you can notify us of absences. Please email eharris@piopio.school.nz or text our

Attendance Officer Emelia Harrris on 0210 828 0129 or leave a message at the College on 07 877 8173.

PIOPIO COLLEGE PTA AGM

Thursday 1 June at 4pm in College Staffroom. New members welcome as a full committee is needed. Phone Sheryl on 07 877 8683.

WEEKLY HEALTH CLINIC

Every week on a Wednesday morning, Dr Kempthorne holds a health clinic at Piopio College. This is available to students and whanau. Please contact the

school if you wish to make an appointment. PLEASE NOTE: The clinic will not be available on Wednesday May 31 and June 7.

Here are the results from Cross Country held on Monday, May 22.

Whare points =

1st: Rata; 2nd: Kowhai; 3rd: Kauri; 4th: Kahikatea

Sub Junior Girls —1st: Abby Tucker, 2nd: Alex Kennard-Warren; 3rd:

Kitana Tapara.

Sub Junior Boys — 1st: Tana Barrowcliffe; 2nd: Joel MacLachlan;

3rd: Owen Brown

Junior Girls — 1st: Cayt Kennard-Warren; 2nd: Paris Keightley,

3rd: Savahna Curtis

Junior Boys— 1st: Lewis Griffin; 2nd Freddy Davey; 3rd: Callum Harrison

Intermediate Girls —1st: Nikcarla Laird; 2nd: Sharna Demchy;

3rd equal: Zena-Marie Mason, Keegan Cox and Rali Hayes-Purnell

Intermediate Boys — 1st: Toby MacDonald; 2nd: Heath Barnsdall;

3rd: Sam Anderson

Senior Boys — 1st: TK Ikin

Cross Country results and photos

The new Innovative Learning Environment for Year 7 and 8 cohorts has celebrated many achieve-ments. We shared our exciting programme with whānau at our meeting in term one and are continu-ing to reflect and refine on how we can ensure better outcomes for students within an innovative and collaborative programme. After evaluating staff strengths and expertise in specific learning domains such as literacy, numeracy, student inquiry and accelerating students, and consultation with the staff and students, as well as feedback also re-ceived from a number of parents, we wish to further enhance delivery of the programme by creating innovative spaces for each of the cohorts. Year 7 and 8 students will now have their own identifiable home room spaces enabling these students to be more proactive in managing and taking responsibil-ity in their individual learning inquiry.

Innovative home room spaces for Year 7 and 8 students

Piopio College Homework Desk

Name: ____________________________________ Year: ____________________

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Task 1: Junior and Senior students: Our Rarist Birds

Flightlessness is only one characteristic contributing to the uniqueness of our bird fauna. Many New Zealand birds are also very long-lived, and have slow breeding rates, as well as small clutch sizes and large eggs. Several species are nocturnal, and others have a large body size. All these features have contrib-uted to their extinction or decline. Moa, adzebills, giant eagle and tiny wrens are all gone forever. Extinction rates for birds in New Zealand are high - 34% of endemic land and freshwater birds and 5% of sea birds. Birds that had evolved to live on the ground had no defences against the ravages of predators, nor habitat loss. Even now, 37% of our bird species are considered threatened. The most recent extinction was the huia in 1907; the takahē was thought to be extinct until small numbers were rediscovered in the Murchison Mountains of Fiordland in 1948; and the kāki/black stilt, with around 100 adults remaining, is on the edge. Chatham Island snipe and pigeon, black robin, and fairy tern are in the top 10 list of New Zealand's rarest birds - no population exceeds 150 individuals. The key significance is the high number of endemic species in New Zealand. Endemic means that they breed nowhere else in the world, only in NZ, therefore if

they are at risk, they are gone forever.

Read the article found at: http://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/native-animals/birds/our-remarkable-birds/ and identify 4 key pieces of information:

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2. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Rewrite this information in your own words.

“If you don’t vote then you are letting everyone else make decisions for you.” That is the message Colleen Coplestone from the Electoral Commission deliv-

ered to senior students on Wednesday when she visited the school to teach students about enrolling to vote. The group learnt the importance of voting and

how one vote may not make a difference, but combined with others, it could decide who governs the country or your district. Students were also given the

opportunity to register in either the general or the Maori electoral roll.

Voting can make a difference