Swim Safe!

This week our Kowhai 4 Year 6s have been taking part in a swim safe water safety

programme at the Aquatic Centre. Held over four sessions through the week, the programme

teaches the necessary skills, knowledge and confidence for water

and beach safety.

It has been great to see the progress

already made in just two days!

Puketapu School Newsletter Term 3 – Week 4 - 16 August 2017

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New to Puketapu:

Kayden Lucinsky

Kia ora nga whanau o Puketapu,

Term 3 sees many of our winter sports in action. We are really proud to have our students

involved in football, inline hockey, hockey, basketball, netball, rugby, rugby league,

gymnastics, dancing and many more sports and physical activities.

As a school we have been looking into getting new sports uniforms for our tamariki. We

have been lucky enough to have TURA sports create a unique and specific design for our kura.

The design represents Puketapu and we will be sharing the

korero in a later newsletter. Thank you to Tara-Lee Manu and

Wayne Capper who are from our iwi for putting these together.

Our intentions are to have the sports shirt, shorts and hoodies

for sale to students and whanau. Details and prices will come

out later for this as we know we have many proud Puketapu

people that would love to wear our gears with pride.

There are two sample garments hanging in the office - if you

haven’t already, come in and take a look. From feedback so far

we have made a few adjustments to the shirts. If you have any

more feedback please let us know

at principal@puketapu.school.nz.

Have a great week.

Nga mihi

Ngatai Walker

Principal

As we have many visitors at school this Thursday:

Breakfast Club will be in the staffroom this Thursday

There is no Thursday Lunch this week.

Colourful Creation Gretta and Joseph have

been co-operating and getting creative: This creation started out as two fidget spinners, but we put them together, added more and created this

amazing, moving merry-go-round.

Room to play and learn…

Now that Rimu 2 & 3 have

moved, Rimu 1 has become

Rimu 1A and Rimu 1B.

We think it is

wonderful and gives

us plenty of space to

play and learn.

It’s time to order your Andersons Pies…

Orders an money to be retuned to school by

Thursday 17 August

Pies will be delivered on Thursday 24 August.

DON’T FORGET: PIE ORDERS DUE TOMORROW

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The Taranaki Toy Library is holding a

Children’s MONSTER Book Sale on

Saturday 16 September 9am-3pm at the

Hall of Knox Church in Fitzroy. If you would

like to donate quality second hand

books, please drop these off to the school office

before 25 August. Please no colouring-in or activity

books unless they are in new condition. For more info,

see Facebook ‘Children’s Monster Book Sale’

Thur 17 Aug: Y8 NPBHS/GHS Interviews 11-12.30

Last day for Pie Orders

Board of Trustees Meeting

(Library 7.00pm)

Mon 21 Aug: Year 7/8 Interschool v Mangorei @ Puketapu 1200 Mihi Whakatau 1230 Games Start

Thur 24 Aug: Student Showcase 11.10am (Kowhai 4)

Pies delivered to school

Fri 25 Aug: Kapa Haka: Tatarakihi @ City West Church

Maths Spectacular Quiz- 7pm-9pm

Mon 28 Aug: Year 7/8 Ski Trip week

Thur 7 Sept: Student Showcase 11.10am (Rimu 4)

Fri 15 Sept: Puketapu School Cross Country

Thur 21 Sept: Student Showcase 11.10am (Kowhai 3)

Sat 23 Sept: NZ General Election

Wed 27 Sept: Taranaki Cross Country (Hawera)

Thur 28 Sept: Duffy Role Model Assembly (9.30am)

Fri 29 Sept: Loud Shirt & Wacky Hair Day

Student Showcase & Awards (11.10am)

Term 3 ends on Friday 29 September

Term 4 starts on Monday October

Cross country is coming… Puketapu Cross Country is on Friday 15 September. This is for all age groups - everyone runs! Sponsorship forms will be coming out later this month.

Congratulations to all our award inners…

Whakamanatia Awards Whakamanatia Awards celebrate achievements in the Key Competencies:

Managing Self, Relating to Others, Participating and Contributing, Thinking and Using Language, Symbols and Text

Kayne Adrian For staying calm under pressure and showing our school values.

Oliver Suthon For being calm under pressure and moving away from a difficult situation.

Keanu Suthon For being an excellent role model kind caring patient and responsible.

Noah Ramsdale For excellent tidying up in Te Puna Ako Nabeel Sahrun Helping keep our Playground tidy and showing

great Manaakitia. Emma Warring For being chief line marker for our rugby field. Great

job!

Duffy Awards Duffy Awards recognise excellent in achievement and citizenship.

Zach Plant For completing Reading Recovery. Well done Zach! Kemp Hancock For developing strong maths skills and has the

ability to problem solve. Poutama Murray For taking ownership of his learning by staying on

task and completing all set work to a high standard! Lucian Hosking Great improvement with independent working in

Literacy Sydney Awa-Colvin For working hard on improving her reading and

writing. Jordan Skeath For producing some excellent writing showing

whakatutuki Daniel Pearce For doing a great job at helping Malakai today.

Book Borrower of the Week Lucky draw from all who have borrowed books from the Library each week

Gretta Keith Reuben Warring Angel Swiggs Louis Frank

NETBALL ANZ FUTUREFERNS YEAR 1&2 NEW PLYMOUTH

Calling all Year 1 & 2 boys and girls who would like to play

netball. Venue and day TBC

Registrations close on 4th September 5pm

Please sign up at the office. Team will be dependent on parents

being available to coach. If you are able to coach, please

contact the office

Come to our Le Reve Party!

Candles, aromatherapy, essential oils,

diffusers… All welcome.

Thursday 24 August, 6.30pm in the school staffroom.

Hurricanes Martial Arts Performance Academy Garage Sale Fundraiser

Sunday 20 August, 10am-2pm 151 Mangati Road, Bell Block

Cake Stall, Candy Floss, Sausage Sizzle, Drinks, Snow Cones, Bacon & Egg Sammies.

All enquiries contact Jenna 027 814 8124

Rimu 2 & 3’s New Home This week we moved into our new space, sharing the Library. We love having so much more room and that Mrs Jackson is helping our learning too. We also love the outside space… we just need more sunny days!

Can you help? Now that we are in bigger spaces, are looking for a few items for our new space. Any good condition Matchbox or hotwheel cars and word/number board or card games would be gratefully received. You can drop them to the library or to the office! Thanks so much!

Congratulations to Troy Perry for being selected to play for the Central Region U12 Inline Hockey Team.

Well done Troy!