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Tokirima School RD1 Taumarunui 3991 New Zealand Ph: 07 893 8834 Fax: 07 893 8841 Email: [email protected] or [email protected] Website: www.tokirimaschool.co.nz P rincipal: Michaela Phillips Newsletter Number: 17 th 30 November 2017 Dear Tokirima Community, Our school play was one of my highlights. I haven’t laughed so much in years. Apart from a small hiccup at the beginning of the term, it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience that I can honestly say we all enjoyed. We hope you did too. This week we have had a visitor at school, actually several visitors. It has been strange to have so many people around. For the first two days of the week, Barbara Spencer rocked on up in her camper van and took the children for some specialist art lessons. They did some great work around colour mixing and then dived into making their own prints that they printed making beautiful images. We are so lucky to have specialist teachers out here and hopefully she will come back again next year. We also have some builders here, taking care of the rotten cladding on our school. Harry and Jacob are doing an awesome job while bunking down at Helen’s B&B at night. Last week the whole school attended the Taumarunui Touch tournament where we teamed up with Matiere for a great day of sport. Our Year 5-6 team almost made it to the semi-finals, but they missed one of their games. As we rock on towards christmas, we will treasure the last few weeks of learning together. It is fast coming to an end and the end of year demands can be overwhelming. Just remember to take a breath and walk to the top of one of your amazing hills. It works for me! Aroha nui, Michaela UPCOMING EVENTS th Junior Technology Thursday 30 November 9:30am – 1:00pm Taumarunui High School th Thursday 14 December st Taumarunui Play ‘Lest we forget’ Friday 1 December 10:00am Taumarunui Primary School th Fire Station Visit Friday 8 December @ 12:30pm th End of Year Reports Monday 11 December th End of Year Assembly Thursday 14 December @ Tokirima Soldiers Memorial Hall 7:00pm th End of Year Clean Up Friday 15 December Late Start 9:45 (Bus pick up will be an hour later than usual) th End of Year Trip Monday 18 December TERM DATES FOR THE YEAR Term Dates th Term 4 2017 Last Day - Monday 18 December 2017 th th Term 1 2018 Wednesday 7 February - Friday 13 April 2018 th rd Holidays: Easter 30 March - 3 April BOARD OF TRUSTEES th Next Board Meeting: 6 December 2017 @ 6:30pm INTRODUCING OUR NEW PRINCIPAL AND FAMILY Cindy Woolston A little about me: I have grown up in Taumarunui all my life. In my younger years I was raised on a farm before moving to town. I am married to Jake Allen and we have recently had our little boy Kobe who is 12 weeks old (now). I love sports, gardening, cooking (I make a pretty good chocolate brownie), sewing and travelling. I love to be a little artistic with painting and stone carving but that’s a work in progress!!! My passion is teaching and I want to help children learn and succeed in anyway possible. I look forward to getting to know everyone in the community and working alongside you all at this amazing little school! PARENTS Sports Thanks so much for the help during our Touch day and Athletics. Without your help these days would be so much harder. We really do appreciate it. Reminders Swimming Swimming is compulsory every day unless we are not able to for some reason. Time is ticking away and sometimes other things take priority. Footwear During Term 4 and Term 1 there is not as much need for gumboots or boots at school. Alternative footwear is expected unless it is wet and muddy. The children are still expected to have sneakers daily at school for fitness and sport. Attendance Attendance is usually very high at Tokirima School but it only takes one or two students to be away in a small school like ours and we will not meet the MoE weekly/yearly target of 94%. Our attendance has not risen as an awful lot of the children have been sick or away. Our current attendance is still 93.2% COMMUNITY Thank You th Paparata Elite Romney’s 29 Annual Ram Sale This is our only big fundraiser at the moment and we are very grateful for the support shown to Michelle in helping make the catering a great success once again. Thanks Michelle, we could not do it without you and the support from all the school families. A very big thank you to everyone who baked/cooked and worked on the day. Many thanks to Trevor Johnson for supporting Tokirima School by giving us this opportunity to do the catering. Working Bee HUGE THANKS to all of our helpers at the working bee and to those who have come and done extra work because they couldn’t make it on the day. It is so good for the children to see how much we all care about our little school and for them to be involved. So nice when local community members who don’t have children at the school, also get stuck in. School Pool The pool is now open to the community for the 2017/18 season. Keys can be purchased from the school office for $50 until Wednesday 13th December. Please follow the rules and abide by them. Safety at the pool is everyone’s responsibility, so if you see someone not following the rules, please make them aware. Children under the age of 14 must be supervised by an adult over 18 years old. Wanted to Buy Liz would like to buy a child’s desk and office furniture. If you have any you no longer need or know of someone who is no longer in need of such items please give Liz a call on 947 8530 or 027 545 5455 THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF OUR PLAY AND COMING TO WATCH Ruapehu District Library FUNDRAISING Scholastic Book Club This scheme has allowed us to accumulate points so we can purchase books for our library. To date we