Newsletter Week 7, Term 2

Newsletter Week 7, Term 2
Principals comment

At our school cross-country I was impressed by all our children who ran hard and showed lots of grit! Our children trained for this event and seeing the children regularly running the course and working towards their individual training goals was awesome! Again a big turn out of support by our families.

Support staff week has be celebrated by all schools in New Zealand. On Tuesday we had a morning tea to celebrate and acknowledge the great work of our two learning assistants Sheree and Tara, and our office administrator Emma. The work you all do contributes hugely to the success of our school.

I would like to wish Alana and her husband a safe and fun trip to Europe and back home! It will be such a great time for them and special memories will be made. We look forward to hearing about their adventures when they get back. See you Mrs Simmonds for the start of Term 3.

An update from the Tahuna Friends of School Committee
Our Mission: “To enhance our students educational experience through continually improving school resources and facilities; and involving the wider community and whanau” – Liaise with the board regarding funding requirements – Carry out fundraising ventures – Organise community events – Have FUN whilst doing the above.

The Tahuna Friends of School (FOS) has been very busy over the past few weeks. We have run two very successful BBQ’s, one at the Northern Rugby Football Club anniversary event, and the other at the Inter-School Cross Country event. Thank you to all of those who helped make these successful events with volunteering or supporting us. The FOS is also currently running an Oxford Pies Fundraiser, a reminder that forms and money need to be back at school next week, Tuesday 21st June. We also have some very exciting fundraisers coming up.

The FOS is currently low on committee members, we have parents that have already and are wanting to step down and we really do need more members to help run the fundraisers successfully. If you are new to the school, or interested to see what it’s all about, please let us know. Many hands really do make light work. You can contact any one of our members (Andrew Kay, Anna Mohring, Brylee Budd, Charlotte Giddy, Sarah Barlow and Stacey Williams along with our Principal Phillip Otto), enquire at the office or come along to our next meeting Thursday 7th July at 1pm. We look forward to seeing some new (or familiar) faces.

Cross-Country
Congratulations to our place getters at our school cross-country. Also congratulations to all our children who gave it a go, ran hard and showed great resilience! All children who participated earned a house point and again it was so awesome to see so many families supporting our annual event.

Placings;

5yr olds:
Girls: Lottie 1st, Darcy 2nd, Sass 3rd
Boys: Jaxon 1st, Teddy 2nd, Jurous, 3rd

6yr olds
Girls: Indie 1st, Amarni-Rose 2nd, Hollie 3rd
Boys: Marty 1st, Lewis 2nd, Lennox 3rd

7yr olds
Girls: Marley 1st, Evie 2nd, Sophie 3rd
Boys: Ridge 1st, Grayson 2nd, Alex 3rd

8yr olds:
Girls: Olivia 1st, Eva 2nd, Londyn 3rd
Boys: Tommy 1st, Jethro 2nd, Eddie 3rd

9yr olds:
Girls: Emerson 1st, Rebecca 2nd, Shaian 3rd
Boys: Jack 1st, Ryan 2nd, Logan 3rd

10yr olds:
Girls: Caitlin 1st, Antalya 2nd, Lucy 3rd
Boys: Micah 1st, Izaiah 2nd, Kael 3rd

11yr olds:
Girls: Tayla 1st
Boys: Xavier 1st

Interschool Cross-Country
Yahoo! What a fantastic show of support from our families and visiting schools spectators at the annual Interschool Cross-Country.

All children ran hard and showed great resilience! All children should be proud of their efforts yesterday.

A big thank you to our Friends of School who did an outstanding job with the bbq and food stall. Great to see many helpers. As we were down a few staff, a big thank you to everybody who was able to help out with setting up and taking down the course, and or helping during the races. Also a big thank you to the Tahuna Golf Course and the Northern Club for using your wonderful grounds and facilities.

Northern Day and Netball Winter Festival
Super Sport Sunday for some of our Tahuna School children went well. At the Northern rugby day our children showed fantastic rippa rugby skills, team play and a solid defensive line. Keep up the great work kids! Our Friends of School sold lots of bbq sausages on the day and we thank our FOS for the work they do to fund resources for our school.

Our two netball teams represented us very well at the Winter Netball Festival with great play and enthusiasm. Thanks to all our coaches and families.

Life Education
We will have the Life Education bus at our school from June 16th to June the 20th. Endeavour’s focus will be on food and nutrition, Endurance and Maungaturoto will focus on social relationships, and Discovery will focus on identity and resilience. Harold the Giraffe will be here to entertain and support the learning for our children.

Matariki Week
Matariki Week starts the week of 20th June. Children will learn about the matariki story and why it is important to Maori. In their whanau groups (house groups) the children will do matariki activities like kite making, matariki 3D shapes, whai-string games, rakau and others. We look forward to another fantastic Matariki Week.

Teacher only Day
Our next TOD will be Monday the 27th June. School teaching staff are awarded 8 teacher only days as part of the Collective Agreement Accord for workload and or professional development. School will be closed.

Board
Our next board meeting is Thursday the 23rd June at 7pm (Subject to change). All welcome

Tahuna Proud ‘Learning for Life’

Ngaa mihi
Phillip and Staff

Tahuna School Cross Country