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Tapawera News Tapawera News Issue 4 18 March 2021 Tena kotou, e hoa Further information regarding the vaccination From time to time I have a chance to visit plan can be found on the Ministry of Health School Contacts another school. It is always great to come home website. https://www.health.govt.nz/our- to our students who are real, engaging and work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19- Tapawera Area School constructive in their approach to school. You novel-coronavirus/covid-19-vaccines/covid- should all be very proud of your children. 19-getting-vaccine Main Road, Tapawera RD 2 Wakefield Attendance Scams and Misinformation 7096 The Ministry of Education identifies 90% With the Government’s vaccine programme attendance as ‘consistent’. Consistent now underway, it’s important that New attendance is correlated directly with success at Zealanders receive accurate information from Phone: (03) 5224337 school. credible sources. E-mail: Unfortunately, both misinformation and [email protected] Regional Athletics Successes disinformation are being spread and CERT NZ is Congratulations to Sarah Jones and Kara Page working closely with other government agencies Website: for their latest successes at the regional to try to stop these scams in their tracks. www.tapawera.school.nz competition. Firsts and seconds are great results. Well done Mr Haunch for your Key things everyone should know are: motivation and coaching. Principal: The vaccine is free and at no point will you ever be asked to pay for securing your place in the Kelvin Woodley Family Violence Helplines “queue” • Are You OK family violence helpline Any communications about the vaccine will Senior Leader Primary: 0800 456 450 come from the Ministry of Health or other • Safe to Talk sexual harm helpline - 0800 044 trusted sources Janeen Strawbridge 334, text 4334, email: [email protected] If you receive any emails out of the blue asking for financial and personal details, it is likely to Senior Leader Secondary Official Advice: What follows is the latest be a scam advice to schools from the Secretary for Education The best way you can help stop these scams Jeff Rowland affecting New Zealanders is to report them COVID-19 Vaccination Programme to CERT NZ. Executive Officer As you will be aware, COVID-19 vaccinations The best sources for information for New Susan Ellis have begun for border and managed isolation Zealanders are: and quarantine (MIQ) workers and their households, as part of the Government’s The Immunisation Advisory Centre Office / Reception sequenced vaccination plan. (IMAC) https://www.immune.org.nz/ To help the programme succeed, we Barbara Carleton recommend schools and kura support their employees who are identified as members of Ministry of such a household to be vaccinated. Ideally, staff Health https://www.health.govt.nz/your- would book vaccination appointments outside health/healthy-living/immunisation normal work hours where possible. Where that is not possible, schools should allow adequate World Health Organization paid time off work for staff to get vaccinated (WHO) https://www.who.int/emergencies/dise during work hours. ases/novel-coronavirus-2019/covid-19-vaccines Term Dates 2021 While more than 9000 of our most at-risk border and frontline workers have received The Prime Minister’s Chief Science Adviser has their first dose of the vaccine, the programme is also brought together a list of annotated links to Term 1 Feb 2 – Apr 16 still in its infancy and vaccines will become trusted information about COVID-19 Term 2 May 2 – July 9 available in stages. Therefore, the large majority vaccines. https://www.pmcsa.ac.nz/topics/covi Term 3 July 26 – Oct 2 of New Zealanders won’t be able to be d-19/covid-19-vaccines/ vaccinated until the second half of this year. Term 4 Oct 18 – Dec 16 The next group offered the opportunity to be We will be working with sector representatives vaccinated will be 50,000 family and household over the coming months to ensure the contacts of the border workforces in our main education sector is kept fully informed about centres and after that, non-border frontline vaccine developments. health_workers. Issue 4 2021 Page 2 Year 9 & 10 Overnight Camp The students all had a great night, though it was cold, at Blue Rock on Booths farm up the Sherry River. We are From the Library very fortunate to have access to such places, thanks to We’re still hoping to get a lot more overdue the generosity of the Booth family. It was a pleasure to books back before we have to count them as drive a van load of bikes out to them and drive back as lost, please do have a good look round for lead vehicle as they rode back over the Tadmor Hill. them. Under the bed is a popular place to find New Staff - Erin & Andrew them. I wish to express a belated welcome to both Erin Hume We have a new selection of children’s non- and Andrew Regan. fiction books on display. These are centred Erin has moved from Wellington to Tapawera with her mainly on reptiles, insects and the husband Benjamin. She is teaching Foods and Textiles and we look forward to how she develops these environment. Lovely pictures and easy to read. subjects over the coming months and years. Andrew comes to us from Wanaka where he worked last Lucky Book club orders are due back by this year at Mount Aspiring College. He has an extensive Friday so hopefully you’ve had time to browse background in whitewater kayaking, at the very highest levels and has immigrated to New Zealand from Ireland. through the brochure. Could you please check He has settled in well and is quietly working at becoming that your child’s name is written clearly as familiar with the many locations across our district. occasionally a form comes back with no name on it and I have to use my detective skills to School Lunches track down the owner. A number of you gave us feedback about the options available for the next three terms of Lunches in School. On Monday we have a meeting with the preferred Our new Richmond Collection is on the company and we will let you all know what the final shelves now so do come and have a look for decision is as soon as it is made. yourself, I’d be amazed if you didn’t find at These lunches will be available for all students, every day, free of charge. least one book you’d enjoy reading. Laree PB4L Quote “As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.” King Solomon A visitor from Otago University presents Parenting Thoughts: Listening information to senior students From time to time we hear ourselves telling our children to listen to us. “Sit up and listen!” We often wonder why our children are not very good at listening to us. If we pause and check how good we are at listening to them we may get a clue as to why they don’t listen well. Do we model good listening? Parent Interviews - 11 March This was a great evening. I managed to meet a few parents and we had a very good turn out. Due to family circumstances a couple of sets of interviews had to be re-scheduled and I trust that these have been worked through. Remember, you are always welcome to make an appointment to discuss your child’s progress with teaching staff. Te Reo Kia ora koe! = Thank you! Aroha ana! = Thank you! Final Shot “Wouldn’t it be a dull old world if all the flowers in the garden were the same shape and colour.” Barry Crump Have a great weekend Kelvin Issue 4 2021 Page 3 Key words for 2021 FIRE = Friendship, Integrity, Respect, Effort Food for Thought This week Rooms 7 and 6 have had the Nutrition Advisor from the Heart Foundation in the class School Uniform .Food for Thought is a national school-based We are aware that there has been frustration nutrition education programme for students in with parents and caregivers unable to purchase Years 5 and 6, educating them to make healthier school uniform requirements from The food choices. Using inquiry-based learning, both in Warehouse in Richmond because of a small the classroom and a supermarket, nutritionists’ selection of what is available. help students understand ‘why’ the choices they’re making will improve their health. Full school requirements can be purchased directly on-line from The Warehouse. www.thewarehouse.co.nz, type Tapawera Area School in the ‘Im looking for’ in the box at the top of the screen and our full uniform will be displayed. This may be a less frustrating way of purchasing uniform requirements. You are Invited to a Road Safety Demonstration Stopping Distance Demonstrations are being held as part of a road safety campaign to show how long it takes for a car to stop when travelling at different speeds. The demonstration in Tapawera will be on Tuesday 23 March outside Tapawera Area School from 1pm until 2pm. You are welcome to attend. Main Road Tapawera from number 37 to number 59 Main Road Tapawera – outside Tapawera Area School will be closed at this time 1pm – 2pm on 23 March. Cars will be allowed into and out of the area under controlled conditions at certain times during the demonstrations. No road side parking will be allowed during the road closure. For further information please contact Megan Bell Tasman District Council 03 5438551 or 027 4056888 Issue 4 2021 Page 4 Twisty Twinz Circus Workshop The primary school have been inspired by the circus performers The Twisty Twinz.
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