Newsletter Week 10, Term 3

Tahuna School

School Newsletter

Learning for Life.

Principals Comment

Newsletter Week 10 Term 3
Kia ora Koutou katoa,
We can’t believe it is the end of Term 3. Well done to our children who showed great resilience during a challenging term due to lockdown. Thanks to our wonderful parent community for your support of your child’s education and our school. We are looking forward to a busy term 4 and welcoming the new families to our school! We hope you all have a good break and we will see you next term.

Exciting news
It’s with great excitement to share Clare Gow’s fantastic news. Clare and Fitzy are having a baby! Clare takes maternity leave at the end of the school year. We wish them all the best with their bundle of joy!

End of Term Awards
Congratulations to the following children who were our classroom end of term award recipients.

Endeavour:
Most improved – Cooper
Diligence – Paige
Terrific Kid – Jane

Maungaturoto:
Most improved – Logan
Diligence – Olivia
Terrific Kid – Rebecca

Discovery:
Most improved – Xavier
Diligence – Jade
Terrific Kid – Tayla

Endurance:
Most improved – Ruby
Diligence – Ridge
Terrific Kid – Marley

Adventure:
Most improved – Lucy
Diligence – Emerson
Terrific Kid – Dakota

Teacher only days (TOD)
School teaching staff are awarded 8 teacher only days as part of the Collective Agreement Accord for workload and or professional development. Currently our teaching staff have had 2. These days need to be completed by July 2022. As we had one day postponed during lockdown we will be having it now on Monday the 8th November. The other day will be Friday 26th November.

Paralympian Visit
Danielle Aitchison visited Tahuna School today to share her running experiences and her medals. The children asked really good questions and we all enjoyed her visit.

Working Bee
On Saturday the 30th November from 10am to 2pm we will have our working bee. We have a number of jobs to be done around our school and we will appreciate it if you are able to give some time to help us out. A list of jobs will be sent out in our newsletter closer to the date.

Covid Health Measures
We would like to thank you for supporting our health measures during alert 2 by dropping off and picking up your child at the gate and having your child at home when they are unwell. Also if you do come on to the school site please use the covid tracer app or sign in at the office. We do encourage the wearing of masks when you come onsite. Well done and thanks for supporting us.

Talent Quest
Congratulations to all our children who entered our fantastic Talent Quest 2021. The effort you put in with rehearsal has paid off and you all were so inspiring! Also congratulations to those children who practised for their act but were unable to make it on the day. Thanks Miss Murphy for organising our talent quest! Also thanks to Lisa TeTai for judging and Nick Kraenzlin for instrument set up and sounds.

Our wonderful performers:
Comedy: Ridge and Alex, NZ Comedians (Eva, Olivia and Rebecca) Freddie and Fletcher, Grayson, Lewis and Kohl (magic trick), The Jokers (Lahnae and Londyn) and Jay.
Singing: Covid-19 Queens
Dance: Wildflowers (Zoe and Tayla) Moon & Stars (Anna) Sunshine Girls (Lucy and Sophie)
Disco Girls (Jade, Caitlin, Emma) Dancestar (Paesyn) and Cowgirls (Abagail and Bride)
Musical instruments: Micah (drums) and Olive (piano/keyboard)
Outstanding effort by our presenters Lachlan and Xavier.

We hope you enjoy the photos!
Ngaa mihi
Phillip and Staff

Dates to Remember

October

1 Term 3 ends

18 Term 4 begins

22 Livestock day

28 Group day (pending alert levels)