Newsletter Week 2, Term 3

Newsletter Week 2, Term 3

Principal Comment
Kia ora and welcome back to all our children, parents and families. This week I am seeing lots of our children displaying our unique ICARES school values and it is great to see. I would like to warmly welcome Miss Craw to our school who is teaching in Discovery room and her two children Toby and Zane. 

Our value focus for Term 3 is Encourage. All teachers have had discussions in their class about this value and what does it mean and look like at Tahuna School.

Again this term we are focusing on the key competency of ‘Participating and belonging’ A big part of this area of learning is integrating our localised curriculum. We are proud to share with you our school pepeha. Pepeha is a way of introducing yourself in maori. It tells people who you are by sharing your connections with the people and places that are important to you.

Ko Tainui te waka
My canoe is Tainui

Ko Mangawara te awa
My river is Mangawara

Ko Hapuakohe te maunga
My Mountain is Hapuakohe

Ko Waiti te marae 
My Marae is Waiti

Ko Ngati Paoa te iwi
My tribe is Ngati Paoa

Ko Tahuna te kura
My school is Tahuna School

Also to support participating and belonging we have a number of events planned. Please see dates to remember further below in our newsletter.

Board Elections Update
Nominations have closed. Thank you to the 6 nominees.  As we required 5 parent elected members and we have 6 nominees means we will need to go to vote. The nominees are Brylee Budd, Laura Van Hellemond, Sharnn Lehmann, Malcolm Edward, Nick Kraenzlin, and Sarah McNamara. The Cover letter, voting paper and candidates statements will be sent in the mail soon. If you have any questions please contact Emma White at the school office.

School Process
Reminder that school starts at 8:45am, If you child is late please sign in at the office. This is much appreciated by our staff as we don’t want the child to miss out on their learning.

Parent conferences
Parent conferences will be held in week 4 of Term 3 (15th & 16th August) to discuss your child’s mid-year report with their teacher. The booking information went out last week. If you have any questions about booking your appointment please contact Emma at the office. We look forward to seeing you there to discuss with your child’s teacher on where they are at in their learning and next learning steps. We encourage your child to attend.

Livestock Day
All livestock day and group day trophies to be returned to the office. Thank you and what an awesome achievement to the children who received a trophy.
Spot prizes for livestock day – if you are keen for your business to provide spot prizes for our livestock day contact Leasa Craw.

Miniball
Awesome to see our children playing miniball this term. The Avengers is our Yr 3/4 team and the children playing for this team is Zane, Olivia, Paesyn, Eva and Jethro. The Marvels is our Yr 5/6 team and the children playing for this team is Kael, Dakota, Emerson, Caitlin, Micah and Xavier.
They both have played two games this season and we wish our teams all the best for the season. We would like to thank Leasa Craw who is coaching the Avengers and a group of parents who are supporting the Marvels. Games are on Wednesdays at the Morrinsville Event Centre.

Hockey
Fantastic that we have many children playing hockey this season. Our Yr 5/6 team are the All Stars and the members of this team are Caitlin, Antalya, Emerson, Anna, Lucy, Sophie, Ryan and Lydia, and is coached by Sheree Austin. Our Yr 3/4 team is the Super Stars and the members of this team are Rebecca, Grayson, Thomas, Jethro, Olivia, Eddie, Logan, Marley, Jack and Alex, and is coached by Stacey Williams. The season starts this afternoon and we wish our teams good luck for the season.

Jump Jam
Our Jump Jam leaders are practicing the jump jam dances with Miss I’Anson. Jump Jam will start school wide in week 5. We are looking forward to the children having this fantastic opportunity!

School Photos
We are waiting on PhotoLife to give us the information on when the key codes are available. 

Camp
The first information letter about the senior camp (Discovery Room) went out on seesaw. Our senior camp is in Term 4 and it will be a great opportunity for our seniors to have an outdoor education experience. The camp is at Finlay Park, Cambridge. 

Wheels Day 
Wheels Wednesday is always a great day for our children and it’s fantastic to see so many children bringing wheels to have fun on. Just a quick reminder on Wheels Wednesday the children who want to use a scooter, skateboard, ripstick or drift trike must bring shoes and a helmet as these need to be worn, Thank you.

Bible in Schools
Information about the bible in schools programme and an Opt-In form will be going home with your child today. If you would like your child to take part in the Launchpad programme please fill in the Opt-In form and return to school by Thursday the 11th August. Tahuna School previously had the programme running however due to covid health measures it was put on hold. Now we are in a position to welcome back the bible in schools teachers.

Property Update
The major project funding has been allocated to go towards our Court Cover Shelter. Due to supply issues and job hold ups the project has not started yet. This will be an exciting addition to our school facilities for many years to come. When the first stage is complete the court will be 2/5 covered. We will continue to fundraise and allocate funding to complete the whole project in due course.

Help
If you have an empty large appliance box we would happily take it. It will be used as a backdrop for the school disco. The school disco will be a fundraiser for our senior camp. The date is to be advised.

Tahuna proud ‘Learning for life’

Ngaa Mihi,
Phillip Otto

Discovery Class have been learning our Pepeha this week