Contact Details Ph: 09 422 1835

Mob: 021 027 09327 office@tapora.school.nz

www.tapora.school.nz

Office hours: Monday - Thursday 12 - 3:30 and Friday 8.45-3.15(even numbered weeks)

‘Empowering our children to discover their passion and fulfil their potential’

Tapora Speech Competition and Assembly This will be held next Friday 9th August from 10am. The children’s speeches will be followed by a shared morning tea (please bring a plate to share) This will give the judges time to consider their decisions. Morning tea will be followed by announcement of who will be representing Tapora School at the rural schools’ competition - Tomarata School. As well as the speech placegetters we will also be presenting our CARE certificates for those that have earned them during the first half of the year. FOTS Fundraising Thank you to Jamii and Nikki for their amazing help on the first Saturday of the holidays, also to Nikki’s whanau and friends: Misty, Jared, Jessie and Shirley. We couldn’t have done it without your extra hands. Approximately 44 cars and 87 people were fed lunch for the Vintage Car Club Rally. Thank you Keryn, Kylie, Jamii, Jamie, Julie Fairweather, Donna, Pip, Raewyn, Steve, Sandy (for doing all the pre organisation) and Nikki for all the wonderful baking and food donations. Kylie there were lots of compliments for your Kumara soup. We raised just under $1,000 which will go towards a new gazebo for the school. Ag Day - 14th September (date TBC) As mentioned in last term’s newsletter this is a week earlier. We do need to check with families who have Saturday sports that those games will be over by then so this date is yet to be confirmed. Biosecurity NZ have sent information to all schools with suggestions enabling calves to participate. The BOT is in the process of consulting those who will be directly affected and will make a decision as soon as possible. You can raise your calf in the hope that it will be able to attend or alternatively, there is an online competition available at calfclubnz.co.nz. Ag Day hasn’t really been regarded as a fundraiser but after last year’s success we would like to continue with all the wonderful activities we had. To do this we do need support from enthusiastic people in the community. We would like to hold an organising meeting after school on the 13th August. 3:30pm. If you’re unable to attend but would like to help in some way please let Sandy know by phoning the school office. Electives A new round of electives started this week and will run for the next three weeks. Thanks very much to Susie, Jamii, Sarah, Sandy, Mrs J, Koby and Takara. Nga Mihi Keryl Lee, Principal

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Week 2 - term 3 2019

Coming Events

August 8th - Fire Engine visit 10:30am (preschoolers welcome) 9th - Tapora School Speech Competition 10am 13th - Rodney College enrolment visit -Ag Day Meeting 3:30pm 20th - Collaborative Board Meeting - Warkworth 22nd - Rural Schools’ Speech competition 29th - Netball/Touch Rural Competition 30th - Assembly

September 5th - Netball/Touch Save day -Year 8 Open Evening Rodney College 6th - Year 8 Open Day Rodney College 14th - Ag Day (TBC) 25th - BOT Meeting 6:30pm 27th - Last Day of Term and Assembly

Use your detective skills and help us track down pests like rats, stoats and mice. Earn a Kiwi Guardians medal for becoming a Pest Detective! The whole school watched how they could make their own tracking tunnel and become a pest detective. The link is below so you can help your child/ren at home to do this. As well as instructions there is also a video that shows how to make them. The resulting tunnel and the evidence of tracks on paper will become part of an Ag Day display and can also be accredited to your child/ren's participation in this year's Taporapora Environmental Award. As an extra bonus they can also win a medal from DOC.

https://www.doc.govt.nz/…/conserva…/become-a-pest-detective/ The New Zealand Dance Company Performance: Last Friday we went to a Matariki performance by The New Zealand Dance Company. Thanks to Tauhoa School for hosting this wonderful experience and to Chris for great bus transport. As you will see the dancers had our students entranced.

Sharing some of our students work: Poem The farm was usual enough it had rivers bogs tractors a farm house and a bale stack three bales high. I Climb as high as I can go but I’m scared of heights so I don’t do it much. In the afternoon we feed cows silage Doing nothing important By Taylor A place I go to in the Community. I go to Port Albert playground. I go with my brother and mum. I used to play on the swings. I usually walk down the boardwalk. I see water and boats. I have once been on the boat when I was five. Our school has once had a trip down there. Now I only play on the slide usually at Port Albert and I usually climb the tree over the water. It is very dangerous. By Briana

By Ginger Cotton

Poem Birds Beach was usual enough;

It had Beach Houses, boats, fish, men Tractors that pull the boats out of the water

Birds flying, sand. When I go there I feel the wind.

Me and Ginger will grab sticks and play a war game. Doing nothing important

By Utu

LUNCH MENU UPDATE

PIES Mince - $2.50 Mince & Cheese - $2.50 Butter Chicken - $3.00 Apple - $2.00 New pie added: Bacon & Egg —$2.50 TOPPERS Butter Chicken - $2.50 Lasagne - $2.50 Vege - $2.50 Macaroni Cheese - $2.50 American Hotdog -$3.00 Butter Chicken Wraps - $3.00 Hawaiian Pizza - $2.50 Sausage Rolls - $2.00 Tomato Sauce - $0.50 Juice Box -$1.50 Juicies Ice Block - $1.50 Please provided payment in a named envelope with your order written on the front. Thank you for supporting Tapora School through our FOTS School lunches!

BOT INFORMATION Next meeting is a rural schools’ collaborative board meeting for training held in Warkworth 20th August. The next Board meeting at Tapora will be September 25th 6:30pm. All are welcome as Board meetings are ‘open to the public’. This means that even if you're not a trustee you are welcome to attend as an observer although you will not have speaking rights the way you would if it was a ‘public meeting’. Agenda Health Promoting Schools - Stewardship REMINDERS: -If your child has a cold and a runny nose please send them to school with either a box of tissues or hankies. Sadly our very tight budget does not allow for the purchase of tissues. We have been fortunate in the past to have had them donated to us and hopefully we will be able to receive the same this coming winter but in the meantime we are down to our last few boxes. -Notifying the school of changes to bus travel. We need to be notified by the parents/caregivers of the child if there are any changes to bus travel arrangements at the end of the day. We cannot accept changes from anyone else. -Please include a healthy brain break in your child’s lunchbox. Fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds or cheese are acceptable options. -For the juniors a change of clothing in case of accidents. -Footwear suitable for running and jumping activities. THANK YOU TO: Charlotte Gibbs and the team at ToiToi for the wonderful journals they donate to our students. Also to Tony Gibbs who delivers them to the school. Thankyou also the following local businesses/farms who have sponsored Tapora School by nominating us to Northfuels when receiving bulk fuel deliveries. For every 2 litres of bulk fuel purchased 1 cent is donated to our school. To date you have raised $921.17 towards our $1,000 target. For more information about the programme call 0800 4843543 or visit the website.

Hamilton Farms Ltd Kaycee Farms Ltd

Gordon and Anne Watson Investments Ridgeland Ltd

Te Pamu Tapora Lemon Tree Bay Farm Ltd

Ag Day: Bric A Brac stall: Now is the time to clear out any good quality books, toys, crockery, jigsaw puzzles,

clothing etc that you do not need any more. They will be great for our Bric A Brac stall on Ag Day. They can be brought to Sandy at the office in a box (so that we can store and sort them) anytime from now onwards.

Community Noticeboard: Tapora Hall: -Library has changed to every second Tuesday (the day before recycling) -Playgroup is Thursday at 10am

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