NEWSLETTER – August2014
NUMBER 14
TERM THREE DATES
Fridays 8.45 – 9.30 a.m.– Whole School Assembly
21st AugustNewsletter home today
25th AugustAccess-It-Roadshow in the Library – local schools attending
Year 6 students from Papatoetoe East visiting for Specialist Tasters [morning]
BoT Meeting at 6.00 p.m. Community members are welcome
26th AugustYear 6 students from Papatoetoe South visiting for Specialist Tasters [morning]
27th AugustYear 6 students from Papatoetoe Central and Puhinui Schools visiting for Specialist Tasters [morning]
School Cross Country
28th AugustStudents out at Vodafone Events Centre with Mr Coomes
2nd SeptemberPortrait photos – Photolife
3rd SeptemberClosing day for out of zone applications for Papatoetoe High School and Otahuhu College
4th SeptemberNewsletter to go home today
Kids Voting in our School Library with Mr Coomes
Tironui String students out at NZ Symphonic Performance
AUT visiting to work with students on the field, gym and our courts - fitness
5th SeptemberTironui Students Workshop 1
9th SeptemberAPPA Festival rehearsal at Cornwall Park School – morning
Basketball Girls at Allan Brewster Centre
Evening for prospective students and their families for 2015 – 5.00 – 6.00 p.m. in the Library
11th SeptemberBasketball Boys at Allan Brewster Centre
12th SeptemberTironui Students Workshop 2
Music Works Intermediate School Band Festival at Kings School
15th SeptemberWhole School Art Exhibition this week – all families are encouraged to attend to view their child’s work and that of
their peers.
16th SeptemberRugby League boys at Moyle Park
Cultural Group Performances – 6.00 – 8.00 p.m. [Maori and others]
17th SeptemberCultural Group Performances – 6.00 – 8.00 p.m.[ Indian and others]
18th SeptemberNewsletter to go home
Cultural Group Performances – 6.00 – 8.00 p.m. [Samoan and others]
22nd SeptemberBoT Meeting – 6.00 p.m.
24th SeptemberOur school hosting Tironui Brassbeat [12.30 – 3.00 p.m.]
26th SeptemberEnd of Term 3
13th OctoberSchool opens for Term 4
Greetings to our School Community
Tena Koutou Nga mihi mahana, nga mihi hari ki a Koutou Katoa
ERO REPORT
Our Board is pleased to provide you with the confirmed ERO report made availablethis week. As you will know a considerable amount of work has been done by Leadership Staff and Teachers at our school over the pasts 18 months. Our Board believes this report by the Education Review Office identifies the work done and supports the current work of the school.
We also acknowledge the efforts made by all staff, leaders, teachers, support workers and administration personnel and congratulate them on the improvements made.
Copies of the Report are available from Reception. As soon as the link is available, we will have it up on our Website.
WELCOME TO:RangikahiwiPanapa. We are thrilled to welcome Mr Panapa to Room 20. MatuaRangi is a fluent Te Reo Maori speaker, having completed the Maori immersion Teacher training at Auckland University. He is an energetic and passionate teacher committed to the on-going success of all our students; particularly our Maori students. Welcome MatuaRangi.
COMMUNITY HUI/FONO THURSDAY 7TH AUGUST 2014
Thank you to all the families who attended this evening and contributed to the discussions on the night.
Staff are busy compiling all the data now and this will be used in planning for the remainder of 2014 and for 2015. Summaries of discussion will be provided to you all once completed.
Our new SCHOOL WEBSITE
We are very proud of our newly launched website. This is the place to find all sorts of information you need for about our school, plus lots of photos of our students busy learning. We will be regularly updating the site and each class has a weekly blog to share what they have being doing. Please have a look and leave a comment to tell us what you think.
SECURITY GATE INSTALLATION
We now have our Security Gate installed at our Motatau Road entrance. These were installedto increasethe security ofour school propertyas well as students and employees who work here. The gates will also allow us to limit cars driving in, to only those on legitimate School business. If you are a parent or caregiver would you please drop your child off outside the gate. Please do NOT drive in even if you see that the gates are open.Papatoetoe Intermediate School will not accept any damage caused to any vehicles that are on the property that do not have authorization to be there.
Thank you for yourco-operation in this matter.
PB4L – POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR FOR LEARNING
We are a STAR School. ‘STAR’ stands for Safety, Trust, Attitude and Respect. Our students are ‘STARs’ and all behaviour management centres on these concepts and values. Each week we select the ‘STAR’ students at our Full School Assembly. The ‘Class Environment Award - Outside’ was awarded in Week 3, Term 3 to Room 11 and the ‘Class Environment Award – Inside in Week 3, Term 3 to Room 20 . Congratulations to these Rooms.
CHESS CLUB TOURNAMENT
On Thursday 7th August Ethan Stowers, Lionel Schwenke, Mavin Schuster, Ravin Singh, Russell Sega, Ryan Phu, Karmveer Singh and Zen Zhang all competed in a thrilling Chess Tournament finishing 2nd in the intermediate level. Everyone had fun; if we could describe the atmosphere, it was intense. Schools around all of Auckland came to share their unique skills fromPrimary level to College level. The Chess team are proud of their efforts and will continue to enjoy playing Chess. Thank you to Miss Carruthers and John McRae for coaching our teamand to Diane Schutt for her support on the day.
YEAR 8 CAMP
Last week 243 of our Year 8 students attended camp at Carey Park, Henderson with their classroom teachers. We take this opportunity to congratulate the incrediblestudents and their amazing teachers for an unbelievable learning experience.
Moreimportantly we thank the parent and whanau helpers who gave up their free time [and energy] to support us to make this the wonderful experienceshared by so many.
Parent and Whanau helpers – Uinise Eke, Cay Gilchrist, Nick Apu, Saibana Ali, Tali [Faith Iakopo’s Uncle – Room 25], Melissa Tafalua, Jolene McKlusky, Alison Bing, Michelle Burdock, Uinise Eke, Tracey Lauina, SherwynVaha, Ta’aLuamanu and Michael Ng Wu
We also thank the following sponsors who assisted financially to our camp: South Auckland Glass, Bridgestone Tyres Otahuhu, ATWC, Watershed Group and William Buck ChristimasGouwland.
THANK YOU TO ROOM 2 for the following article
OUR INCREDIBLE CAMP EXPERIENCE AT CAREY PARK
The amazing Room 2 students went to camp on Monday 11th August and returned on Wednesday 13th August feeling exhausted, sleep deprived and also excited that we survived camp.
Some of the magnificent activities we tried were: The fantastic flying fox, the awesome air rifles, the wet ‘n’ wild water hole, the krazy kayaking, the outstanding archery, the beautiful bush walk, the crazy confidence course.
Amber’s favourite thing to do was the water hole. Even though it was icy cold water it was cool swinging off the rope into the freezing cold deep water hole. The water hole was really slippery as well as cold. There were many of us that tried this. We all had to jump in together before we tried the swing. Amber went across the river twice. Then we had to swim across the river to the water slide. It was really ice cold water but did that stop us? No way!
Sharleen really loved the flying fox because she got to wear the harnesses and carry Sutty. Sharleen had to walk up the gazillion steps (so it felt) but really it was only 15 – 20. When she got to the top and looked down, she was scared out of her mind. Her group were so encouraging that she forgot her fear and used their cheering to get her across. She had accomplished her fear of heights that she went back to do it again 4 more times. Amber carried Bula across the zip line. Deepika carried Bula and Jordan and I carried Sutty across the zip line. Heights are not a problem for Sharleen anymore.
We held our own X factor competition. There were outstanding performances from all the children. Four of our class members made it to the finals. The sensational Carl, the precious Mary, the incredible Warren and the hot dog! Taylor. After the X factor finals we had a dynamite disco with all our friends and we got to boogie the night away with our treasured teachers.
We had so much fun together. We are so glad that most of our class went because we got to bond and enjoy each other’s company for the whole 2 nights and 3 days. We really want to go back to camp and stay there!
Written by AmberoseCallendar – Peihopa
andSharleen Singh