Upcoming Dates

Monday 23 November

Swimming Begins

Thursday 10 December

Year 6 Barn Dance

Tuesday 15 December

Leavers’ Assembly

Wednesday 16 December

PTA Fun Day

Thursday 17 December

Final Day of School

Newsletter

Friday 20 November

Keep Cup Campaign

Last term, as part of the 'taking action' phase of Tui’s Kiwi inquiry, Tui planned and planted a number of Treasure Hunts for Year 0 - 2 children to have fun with.

The children were asked to bring a gold coin donation which we were able to lay as a coin trail. In total we raised $172 for the Kiwis for Kiwi organisation based in Arthurs Pass.

Do you use a keep cup? Does your child use one? Do you know where the disposable cups go once you’ve finished using them? Straight to the landfill that’s where.

Just recently the media leaders teamed up with a group of years 3 and 4s from Rangi to work on an inquiry about introducing keep cups at our school. We believe that everyone should use keep cups and if we all do this, we’d all be being changemakers in our own small way.

Our resident barista, Barb, estimates that she uses about 130 cups per week at the coffee shop. The disposable cups are about 35 cents each. This means she is spending about $50 a week on disposable coffee cups. This is crazy on so many levels!!

We would like to ask families to donate $5 on Kindo to buy a keep cup. For every cup bought, the school will buy one too. That’s a win-win! The cups that we have picked are made of bamboo, and are long lasting. This means Barb won’t be throwing out cups every day. The school will also be saving money, and we will be saving our world from more pollution.

We created an imovie to tell people about our idea, and where to donate, please watch it. The cups will be kept at school, washed and returned to the coffee shop every day.

Our slogan is: “Buy me once, keep me forever.”

We hope that you can be a changemaker and donate a keep cup.

By Aida-Mae and Emma

From the Principal

It’s been a busy day at Paparoa Street today with daytime discos, movie fundraisers, bake sales and all in our Pyjamas. Nothing like a day of fun and excitement to keep us all engaged at the end of the year.

Don’t you also love the fabulous photos from our children’s participation at the Tough Kids event at Rawhiti domain yesterday (see later on in the newsletter, under the Sports Notices) - special thanks to Dan Brooks and Alison Field for their organisation and Lynne Heyward, Kate Patchett and Sonya Nuku for supervision and team support. The kids really did have a blast.

With only 4 and ½ weeks until the term and the year ends the next few newsletters will be an ongoing record of things you need to know for 2021.

We know you like to be informed well ahead of time so some of these pages will be things for the fridge again. We will run everything twice to help you with retaining the information and you can always access the newsletter again on the website.

Information in this newsletter includes: ● Term 4 2020 events to come ● Term dates for 2021 including beginning of the year start dates ● Bring your own device for 2021

Term 4 Events to Come: ● Monday 23 November - Swimming Begins

● Friday 27 November - Backwards Mufti Day

● Thursday 3 December - PTA Meeting

● Friday 4 December - PTA Christmas Crafts

● Monday 7 December - Board of Trustees Meeting

● Thursday 10 December - Ice Cream Sundaes (order on Kindo)

● Thursday 10 December - Year 6 Barn Dance

● Friday 11 December - Whole School Assembly

● Tuesday 15 December - Leavers’ Assembly

● Wednesday 16 December - PTA Fun Day

● Thursday 17 December - Final Day of School

From the Principal

Term Dates 2021

Bring your own device 2021You will be aware that we operate a bring your own device programme for Year 3-6 students at Paparoa Street. This is an optional programme where children can bring along an ipad, tablet or chromebook / laptop they have at home in order to allow improved access to learning at school.

Children at these year levels will be regularly accessing work through Google classroom as well as using devices for creative endeavour within their learning programme.

Since our Covid lockdown in March/April 2020 we have increased our capacity to deliver a blended model of learning that includes online work alongside regular book based learning activity. Our children are able to share work with you on a daily basis using their device through Seesaw. We know students' ability to access a device for home learning during lock down was crucial and while we hope we are past these times there is still the opportunity for teaching to occur on line when children are absent from school.

With this in mind you may be considering device options for your child for the new year.

Our preference is for ipads or chromebooks as these offer the children the most flexibility for their learning. Due to shipping issues at the moment it is possible there will be delays in delivery.

The link below provides you with some good information for consideration when you are purchasing devices for student use. We do not have a preferred supplier and I reiterate that BYOD is optional at our school. BYOD Options

Feel free to email should you have any further questions. principal@paparoastreet.school.nz

Term 1 Tuesday 2 February - Friday 16 April (100 ½ days)

● Tuesday 2nd and Wednesday 3rd February are start-up meetings so you and your child will be required at a specific time on one of those days - further information to come.

● Easter Holidays are during the term

Good Friday: Friday 2 April. Easter Monday: Monday 5 April. Easter Tuesday : Tuesday 6 April

Term 2 Monday 3 May - Friday 9 July (98 ½ days)

Term 3 Monday 26 July - Friday 1 October (100 ½ days)

Term 4 Monday 18 October - Wednesday 15 December (82 ½ days)

From the Principal

FundraisingA huge thank you for your support with our Karamata fundraisers today - there was quite a bit of sugar consumed as well as plenty of energy burned at the lunchtime disco. Our children were happy wee campers as they skipped in the gate in their pyjamas today too. It added a bit of colour to our day in general. We will keep you posted on the fundraising success when details come to light.

NEXT FRIDAY - BACKWARDS MUFTI DAY - what is it you can wear back to front and still be comfortable?? Bring a gold coin!

Change Makers At the beginning of this newsletter, one of our change maker projects is highlighted. We would really love to see a number of these projects the children have been working on this year come to fruition and be part of our school culture. What can you do to support the Keep Cup Campaign and to ensure our children know they can make a difference. Buy a Keep Cup on Kindo now!

PTA Events A huge thanks to all the PTA supporters who have run our series of Mini Events this term, most recently the school disco and games night were a hit! Special thanks to Michelle Manchester and Andy Pender along with teachers who organised these events. Next is the Christmas Fair on Friday 4 December.

Caught Reading Caught Reading had a visit from Chris Cowan, from Scholastic Books, this week. He has been incredibly generous with the book donations made throughout the year and the children wanted to thank him. Chris has enabled us to donate dozens of books to the Paparoa Street School community. It was a real privilege to have Chris, and his dog Floyd, at our last meeting for the year. Floyd is a registered carer-dog and an avid reader! To show our gratitude, we gave Chris a cactus and Floyd a bowl. Thank you to the teachers who have been working on this initiative throughout the year. We love it!

More information for 2021 will be delivered in next week’s newsletter.

See you all soon.

Pene Abbie Principal

PTA kawepūrongo20th November 2020

Contact Us Email: pta@paparoastreet.school.nz | Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PaparoaStreetSchoolPTA/

The PTA runs a number of services to

support the day to day running of the

school and promote an inclusive and fun

sense of community through social

events. We are always looking for

volunteers to help with these services.

Email pta@paparoastreet.school.nz

if you would like to help out.

LUNCHES

You can order via the KINDO shop! A large variety of food is on offer. The service is available on a Wednesday and a Friday. Those doing senior sport are unable to order on a Friday

UNIFORM SHOP

The 2nd hand uniform shop is open

every Wednesday from 2:30pm –

3:30pm in the school hall.

NEXT PTA meeting

● Meeting 3rd December, 7pm

SUPPORT LOCAL

OUR EVENTS & SERVICES

To be part of our Support Local initiative, join and share our facebook group UnlockPaparoa

Tēnā koutou katoa ki te hapori a tātou kuraHello to our school community! Wow, we have been busy!

So many excellent dancers boogied their socks off at the school disco, it was great to see so many of you there.

Did someone say it is only 36 days till Christmas? Mark this date (Friday 4th December 3 - 6pm) in your calendar and make sure you bring the kids along to our Christmas Fair. Heaps of fun games, activities and an opportunity to pick up a gift or two! If you are a small business and would like to have a gift stall at the fair, please contact us by Monday 23rd November.

FUNday - it’s happening again! Wednesday 16th December. Kids - get your water guns ready! We would love a bunch of lovely volunteers to help run the FUNday. Please register here if you can help. (Shift options available)

Thanks for your support in 2020 - can’t wait to make the most of community events in 2021!

Current Total:$45,000

We’re on Facebook!For updates on PTA activities, check us out on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PaparoaStreetSchoolPTA/While you‘re there show us some love by Liking our page!

If you thought to yourself, hey I could randomly help out with events the PTA run. Then please, join our Friends of the PTA email list, email us at pta@paparoastreet.school.nz

Games Night was enjoyed on a stunning summers evening. A great turnout to our new family event, we would love to do it again next year.

Notices

Sports Notices

● Congratulations to our Athletics Zones Team, particularly Cooper Upton for coming 1st in High Jump and Oscar Duell for coming 2nd in Shotput. Both these boys will be competing at Centrals on Tuesday 2 December.

● The M.A.S.H Tough Kids was held at South Brighton Domain yesterday. We had 95 Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 children take part and judging by their reactions at the end, they all had a great time!

● The Primary Schools Triathlon next Wednesday 25 November. If your child is competing in this could you please return your transport forms to Alison Field as soon as possible.

● All Sports uniforms must be handed back in as soon as possible, there is still a number of uniforms outstanding. If these are not returned, you will be charged.

Mindful Movers Mindful Movers will be having a parent child session at 8:30am in the library on Monday 7 December.

Issue 8 Scholastic Book Club - ONLINE ONLYIf you would like to purchase any books/items from Scholastic You can order and pay online at mybookclub.scholastic.co.nzAs we are so close to the end of the year we do not want you to miss out on books that may arrive after the school year is finished! You will need to pay postage to deliver to your own address. Issue 8 is now open online and closes for orders 11 December 2020

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