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

Tamaki Village Tour: 

Yesterday the bilingual class and year 5/6 students had an amazing day at Tamaki Village. We were very spoilt and enjoyed lots of games, activities, demonstrations, a kapa kaka show and a hangi feast of incredible quality. Apologies if your child did not eat their dinner! Here are a few photos of our experience.

COVID-19 TRACING APP:

Reporoa Primary has a Covid-19 contact tracing app poster. It can be found on the notice board at the entrance to the office. We encourage you to use it to keep track of where you have been. Just download the app and scan the QR code on entry to the school.

Reserach shows children do better at school when their parents take an active interest in their learning!

Production:

We are very excited to announce that this term we will be putting on a school production! Our concept inquiry for term 3 is “Exploration” so we have decided to create our own production looking at Reporoa and its past. The production will move through time in Reporoa looking at how different groups have explored the land and settled here.

Congratulations to our two main characters Abby Leslie and Able Cameron. Their understudies will be Kyla Millar and Liam Guyton. Auditions for these parts were held on Tuesday.

Save the date! Friday 18th September

Kahui Ako Student Reps:

On Thursday last week we held a student representative day for student leaders across all schools in our Kahui Ako. The day started with some team building activities to get the students familiar with each other. We then had some leadership development followed by beginning the planning stages of our ‘Children’s Collaborative Conference’ which is to be held on the 13th November this year. Here are some pictures from the day.

Stars of the week:

Ka Rawe te mahi (awesome work) to Room 2 students for showing a great example of tuakana teina and reading to their younger buddies in rooms 5 and 6!

Thank You!

A very big thank you to the Rotorua Energy Trust for giving us $15 000 towards a school van. Watch this space!

Sports:

Calendar:

Other Notices:

SCHOOL LUNCHES: 

It was great to have our school lunches up and running again last Friday. There will no no lunches this week because of TOD they will resume Friday 14th August.

SCHOOL UNIFORMS

Please remember to name your school uniforms then they can be returned to their owners – thank you.

School Account Details:

Account payments can be made directly to our school ASB account using online banking.  The account number is: 123155 0134517 00

Remember if you get a new cell phone number  to notify the school so we have up to date records, also the office needs your up to date email address so the newsletter can be emailed out – thanks.

Absences:

Reminder – if your child is absent either text, phone and leave a message, or fill in an on-line absent form. We also are required to fill in the reason they are away, so remember to include this in your message – thanks.

Car Parks:

Please use the car parks provided at the front or back of the school. No vehicles are permitted on the school grounds except for staff or service vehicles.

Bus Changes:

ALL changes to bus arrangements MUST be made through the office please. We will not make changes based on children’s requests. REMINDER ALSO when events finish to tell us so we can update our bus rolls.

Thanks

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

Richelle McDonald

and our team –Cherie, Jazz, Debs, Susannah, Rachel, Julie, Tina, Maureen, Heather,  Karla & Linda.