Nga mihi nui ki a koutou katoa – warm greetings to everyone

Newsletter changes:

After analysing the community survey we have made a few decisions about the newsletter. The format will look different because it is now written directly onto the website. You can get to this at any time by going to www.rep.school.nz and clicking on newsletters (under the newsletter/class blogs heading). The previous newsletters are also archived here if you wish to look back. This newsletter will then be saved by us as a PDF and emailed out to all emails in our system. Please ring and give us your updated email if it has changed. The newsletter will also be put on our facebook page. 

We are only going to send a paper newsletter copy home to those who request it. Please phone the office if you wish to keep receiving paper newsletters!

Welcome:

We would like to welcome Miss McIndoe to Room 1, Maddison and Sohana to Room 5, and Malachi to Room 3. We hope you are all enjoying your first few days at Reporoa Primary School!

Turf:

Unfortunately in the holidays there was a hold up with getting the turf installed. The basketball hoop is required to go in first and didn’t arrive until last Friday. I very quickly requested the turf not go in over the weekend due to Pet Day! It will be happening possibly this weekend or in the very near future. Exciting!
The hoop is proving to be a huge hit regardless, and I am seeing some basketball enthusiasm gaining momentum with the children.

Stars of the week:

Last term Madison Taylor won “Lunch with the Principal” with her entry into the Maori Language Week Te Reo competition. Here we are enjoying a healthy lunch together. Thanks Madison!

Well done to the Guyton family for their efforts in dressing up on the last day of school for “Loud Shirt Day”. We raised $46 for the deaf foundation.

Thank you:

A big thank you to the Pet Day committee for organising the pet side of pet day. This is a huge job which begins part way through term 3! Also thanks to the whanau group who organised the raffle and games this year. 

Thank you to the community who came along for a fun day. The children loved it and it is such a neat way for us to get together. I was impressed with the turn out given that it was in the holidays (something we could not avoid due to the set timing of group day).

Photos can be found on our facebook page, on the website under events, and on the TV screen in the foyer. If you have any photos you think are great, send them to me and I will add them to the collection.

Nãku i runga i aku mihi ki a koe – Yours with thanks

Richelle McDonald

and our team –Jill, Phil, Susannah, Esther, Rachel, Julie, Maureen, Heather, Tina, Mary, Kim, Ross & Nikki.

Calendar:

Fri 20th Oct      Group Day – Upper Atiamuri School – notices have gone home with children concerned

Tues 7th Nov     CBOP Cricket

Tues 7th Nov     Maths Quizz

Mon 23rd Oct     Labour Day – NO SCHOOL

Tues 14th Nov     Orienteering

Tues 21st Nov     Cluster Athletics (Reporoa Schools combined) pp Thurs 23rd

Wed 22nd Nov     BOT Meeting 11am

Wed 29th Nov – Fri 1st Dec     Year 3 & 4 Camp

Wed 6 th Dec     CBOP Athletics

Fri 8th Dec     Reports go Home

Sun 10th      Weetbix Triathlon

Wed 13th Dec     BOT meeting 11am

Fri 15th Dec     Triathlon

Fri 15th Dec     Last Day of Term 4 – 3pm Finish

Reminder:

Download the calendar app – all community notices will be tranferred onto this app as they come in.

Clothing:

We are doing a big push this term to name your child/rens clothing. At the end of each term all lost named clothing will be returned.

Whanau Group News:

If anyone is donating a 100kg bull Friesian or Hereford, we are gearing up to pick them up. Please contact Malcolm 0272897211 if you are still wanting to donate a calf otherwise he will be in contact with you soon!

Sports: Cricket

If your child is interested in playing cricket and entering a team in the CBOP Festival of Cricket, please phone the school and leave their name before next Friday 27th October. They must be year 4, 5 or 6. If there is enough interest (and a parent willing to coach!) I will enter a team.

Give your cricket skills a whirl! Register now to enter the CBOP Festival of Cricket. Teams including Year 4, 5 and 6 students will play 8-a-side matches with a maximum of 10 players per squad. Teams can be mixed gender.

When: Tuesday 7th November (pp Thursday 9th November)
Where: Smallbone Park, Rotorua
Who: Year 4, 5, 6 students
How much: FREE
Time: 9.15am – 2.30pm
Entries Close: Monday 30th October

WEETBIX TRI:

For more information go to https://registration.tryathlon.co.nz/Home/Event/19

If you are keen to enter as part of a school team, let the office know.