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Wednesday 6 April, 2016

Issue 5 2016 PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGES

Inside this issue:

Principal’s Messages

PTA Report

Room 5

Room 12

Community notices

HARMONY DAY A HUGE

SUCCESS

It was great to see so many

students wearing their National

Costume for Harmony Day

yesterday, Tuesday 5 April. All

the students in school were split

into vertical groups and

completed 3 rotations during the

day. The activities mainly

consisted of art and craft and

outdoor activities. The children

displayed the learning

disposition—Collaborator, as

many of the activities involved

working together.

You can see more photos on the

inside pages.

3-WAY CONFERENCES We are improving the way we are reporting to parents for both senior and junior students. Tomorrow are the 3-Way Conferences for junior students who have a half or full year anniversary. Students must attend the 3-Way conferences. We ask that parents do not bring pre-schoolers with them as the focus needs to be on the student having the conference, however we can accommodate them if necessary.

Tasman Drive

Papakura 2113

Phone (09) 298 5410

PLEASE ENSURE THAT YOUR CHILDREN ARE NOT LATE FOR SCHOOL.

STUDENTS MUST BE IN CLASS BEFORE 8.25AM

office@opaheke.school.nz

www.opaheke.school.nz

Fax (09) 298 0739

RADIO STATION—SCHOOL OF SOUND 107 FM

The Student Radio Committee have been busting to get the radio station

ready. It took longer to install than envisaged. There were seven

speakers which needed to be installed around the school. This will mean

that the ‘going live’ date will be the first week of Term 2.

The committee are currently hiring Student DJs – there are over 80

students who have put their name forward. They will need to say a jingle

that they have made up which will be recorded.

We still need more CDs so if you have some CDs at home that you no

longer need then we would love to have them. Just drop them off at the

office.

School of Sound will run 24 hours, 7 days a week however the DJs will

only be doing live broadcasts at morning tea, lunch break and special

events. You will be able to tune in at home or in your car. We expect the

range to be approximately 5km.

WHAKAWHANAUNGATANGA A social opportunity for whanau to meet our new Te Reo

and Kapa Haka Teacher, Andrea Gordine and to welcome

new whanau to the school. Also a chance to catch up since

our meeting last year. We have made this coincide with

the school disco so the children can be dropped off or

picked up.

When: Thursday 14 April, from 6pm

Where: In the school staffroom

Refreshments and a light super provided

WE NEED YOUR HELP THIS WEEKEND

There will be a working bee this weekend. You may have received an email from the

PTA. We will be repainting the dragon in the junior area, moving the sandpit and

changing the sand. There will be a few other small jobs. It would be great to see you

there.

SECOND SCHOOL COUNCILLOR FUNDRAISER

The Councillors are hoping to raise over $1000 to

contribute to The Give A Little page set up in Kosta

Wolfgram’s memory. The money will go towards St

Baldrick's Foundation to fund research for a cure for

Medulloblastoma. On Thursday 14 April the councillors will

be running a sausage sizzle. Notices will be going out shortly

and orders will need to be in before Thursday 14th.

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LEGO

We would like to start up a Lego construction club over the winter months. If you

have any Lego that you could donate to the school we would gratefully accept it.

Please send anything you have to the school office. Thank you.

NETBALL: Our three junior netball teams had their grading games, to determine which grade

they will play in for the season, this Saturday gone (2nd April). They all did extremely well -

playing six games in one day!

Opaheke Stars, won 4, drew 1 and lost 1 game;

Opaheke Magic won 2, lost 4 games;

Opaheke Diamonds won 2, lost 4 games.

Our intermediate team, Opaheke Storm have their grading this coming Saturday

(9th April), best of luck to them! We will keep you posted on results of all teams in the newsletter

BOTTLE TOPS- The Environment Team would like to thank everyone who has been

sending in bottle tops for our art design project. We still need many more so please keep

sending them in—Milk bottle tops, Juice and Fizzy drink bottle tops, water bottle tops.

STUDENT INFORMATION UPDATE FORMS— Thank you to all of those parents who

have returned these sheets. We will be holding Board of Trustee elections later this year when

we post out all voting forms. It is vital that we have all of your updated information before we

can do this. If your child is ill at school or after school pick up arrangements fail, it is very

frustrating trying to get hold of caregivers if phone numbers are out of date. We appreciate all

parents/caregivers checking the information and returning forms promptly.

Left: Year 7

and 8

students

competing in

the

Interschool

Competition

at

Papakura

Normal on

Thursday 31

March.

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PTA UPDATE:

Our end of term disco is coming up – Thursday April the 14th – Yr1 to 4 from

5.30pm to 6.30pm. Yr 5 – 8 disco is from 6.45pm – 8pm. Food and drinks and

glow items will be for sale on the night as well as glow in the dark face

painting, come on down and join the fun. If any parents are available to

help during either of these discos the PTA would love to hear from you, please

contact the office. All children must be picked up by a parent or adult at the

end of the disco, thankyou.

A reminder about our weekend working bee. If this sounds like you - we have two

dates in mind. Next Saturday 9th April/Sunday 10th April with a rain/save date of

the following weekend Saturday 16th April. We are going to be repainting and

sealing the concrete games in the junior (New Entrant - Year 2) area, including

our beloved dragon. We are also looking to move the sandpit in the junior area

and replace the sand, so need help emptying old sand and then moving the

sandpit to it's new home (some strong dads/men would be helpful for this). If you

have a spare hour (or more) please come on down, bring a brush or shovel and give us a

hand to spruce up the school. Children are more than welcome to come along and

help. There will be a sausage sizzle after the work is done. If you can please email me your

availability on any of those dates for a couple of hours or the whole day, I'll see what suits most

people and then email those who have offered to help what time/date we are looking at.

Sorry I can't be more specific - the number of helpers and weather will dictate how long it will

take (remember, many hands make light work!). We will supply all materials, but if you have a

spare paintbrush, shovel etc lying around, feel free to bring it along. Thanks in advance for

helping us keep our school looking great! Jenn Jury Email: jennjury@vodafone.co.nz Phone:

027 632 1559

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Above: More Photos from Harmony Day

Left: Year 5 and

6 students

competing in the

Interschool

Competition at

Massey Pools on

Wednesday 23

March.

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Room 5 - Year 5

This term the students in Room 5 have been focusing on teamwork, one of our four STAR values at Opaheke School. Term 1 is always a time for getting to know one another and learning to work as a team, a new team. It has been a busy term with much learning and many events taking place. We have written about some of this term’s events.

Gardening the School Garden

On Friday 3rd March, Room 5 decided to tidy our school garden. The supplies we needed were a little spade, a gardening fork and pair of gardening gloves. We had three helpers, Mrs. Healy, Mrs. Bamfield and Mrs. O'Halloran. They helped us know which were weeds and which were not. The garden was a dump. Mrs. Archibald had taken a before picture and after we had finished, she would take another picture. There was lots of dock, dandelion and grass. There was a huge, black weed called a deadly night shade. Mrs. Archibald's, Mrs. Healy's, Mrs. Bamfield's and Mrs. O'Halloran's group started to weed. Some people stopped to put weeds in the compost bin. We cleaned up the garden so it wasn't as much of a dump. I couldn't see any fruit or vegetables. Finally, after a while of weeding, we found gazillions of beans. We opened up the brown beans, but not the green ones

because the beans inside would go rotten and they weren’t ready to plant. When we had finished, we tasted the tomatoes, the beetroot and the cucumber. They were very nice because they were fresh from the garden. My mum found me and told me to hand out the cupcakes that she made because it was my birthday. The bus bell rang and I gave the bus people a cupcakes each. The rest of the class came in and I also gave them a cupcake each. I gave the helpers and the teacher one cupcake each. Finally I gave myself a cupcake. I had a lot of fun and I wish we could do it again. By Amelia Te T.

Mighty Maui Puppet Show On Wednesday the 30th, Room 5 got to go to a puppet show called Mighty Maui with all of the other year fives, the year fours and the year sixes in the hall. We met a very kind, funny man called Jeffrey, he played the guitar whilst singing. At the start he sang us songs and then we all sang the national anthem together. Once we had finished singing the national anthem, Jeffrey and some of the teachers gave out some puppets that looked like fish for the first scene. The pupils with the fish puppets held the puppets up high as Jeffrey and his companion told the story of Maui. After that we sang another song and the students with the fish puppets danced them around and the others swayed on the floor and seats as they listened. Soon after the song the fish puppets were collected by the teachers and Jeffrey. Jeffrey and his companion kept telling the story with the puppets included. Then he gave out the four brother puppets and people had to go up to the stage and preform with them. They did a long act up on the stage, the scene was where the brothers and Maui Tikitiki went fishing and caught a land fish. After that three people went up and played as the birds. Maui, Tikitiki and the birds were able to follow his mother so that he knew where she went in the night time. They found a big puppet that was the god of fire. Then they had to call up heaps of people so that they could form a bird army to defeat the giant of death. The bird army flew around the hall for about three minutes so that they could set up the stage for the scene about the giant. There was a very loud bird that disturbed the giants sleeping when Maui was near the giant. Straight away the giant swallowed Maui down. Soon there was the last scene. I was desperate to have a turn with the puppets so I held my hand up high when they finally asked for last volunteers. I got chosen and I held one of Maui's six descendants when we sang a song. I realised I quite liked going up on the stage, but probably not in front of thousands of people. I loved the puppet show. I thought Jeffrey was very funny and would love to see them again with a new puppet show next year. I hope that they organise another puppet show with Opaheke School next year. By Marnie T.

Easter Break In the long five day off Easter break I went to Pukenui to see the marae where my great nana passed away. The sand dunes and ninety mile beach is so close to the marae. At night once, I went floundering at midnight with a spear and torches to see under water but it was too rough and we got nothing. My cousin Piripi and my brother Tamanako got christened at a church. The church was in the middle of a cemetery that my dad’s ancestors are at. My mum and dad figured that was the best place to put a memory from my dad’s family. The thing about my cousin and my brother’s christening, was I didn’t know what the water was that he put on their heads. The sand dunes were the best. I went sliding down. I really couldn’t stop on the hard sand that well. Down on the beach there were rocks I thought, but when I looked and grabbed, they were pipis. When I went out far, there were fat crabs that were the size or bigger, than my hand. I went on dirt bikes that my uncle and aunty bought but my other Uncle Logan took me 200k or however fast a Yamaha bike can go. When we had the Easter hunt we had a crunchie easter egg in a bunny shape and 9 little medium size eggs. We had a different Easter hunt. We didn’t just go and find eggs, we had to do three challenges to get an egg. The challenges were we had to eat something that grows or we had to take a photo with our Nana Koia or of an uncle with a beard or in front of the marae. But my cousin had an easy Easter hunt. We just dropped eggs on the grass and he would find them. My dad took us for a drive on the sand. My sister was going 20k and I was going 140 k. My Uncle Logan was drifting in circles with me and it was too much of a headache. I had a very fun time and I will never forget the most amazing time I had. I will go back every holiday. By Dayton W.

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Room 12 - Year 3

In Room 12 we are working on being self-regulators.

To be a self-regulator in Room 12 we…

Know what to do

when we are stuck Don’t ask the teacher when you

are stuck ask somebody in your

group – Hanna and Reuben

If you are stuck go and ask some-

body else – Amanda and Manaaki

Stay focused To stay focussed make sure you are sitting

with people you won’t talk to –

Joanne, Mathilde and Kirandeep

Be organised for

learning each day Bring your book bag into the

classroom each morning –

Orlando and Whetu

Sharpen your pencils every

morning –

Junjun and Connor

Move away from

distractions When someone is distracting you

move away – Darnell and Brianna

Move away from anyone who is

distracting you – Claire, Jamie and

Tessa

Follow the class

rules and

routines Always listen to the teacher’s

instructions – Nikita and Tim

Every Friday morning put

your homework book on the

blue table – Ryland, Sonia and

Zac

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Opaheke School Newsletter

Upcoming Events

7 April 3 Way Junior Conferences, Year 7 and 8 Ultra Rip

14 April Sausage Sizzle lunch, School Disco, Whakawhanaungatanga 6pm

15 April Term 1 Ends - school finishes at 2.30pm

TERM DATES FOR 2016

Term 2: Monday 2 May—Friday 8 July (Queens Birthday: Monday 6 June)

Term 3: Monday 25 July—Friday 23 September

Term 4: Monday 10 October—Friday 16 December (Labour Day: Monday 24 October)

Assembly Certificates:

Teamwork

4 April

R1 Alyssa M.

R2 Zyon F.

R3Tiara L.

R4 Daniqua O.

R5 Dylan L.

R6 Matthew D.

R7 Ty J.

R8 .Briar K.

R9

R10 Briar K.

R11 Ngakoia B.

R12 Ryland T.

R13 Pranavi S.

R14 Room 14

R15 Maarlen T.

R16 Te Korowai N.

R17 .Jakob B.

R19 Ngahuia B.

R20

R21 Dylan R.

R22 Joeseph L.

R23 Jayde W.

R24 Francesca D.

R25 Ruth B.

R26 Eloise S.

JUICIES AND MOOSIES

This term the school councillors will again be selling

Moosies and Juices every day of the week except Mondays.

These are available after school near the front gate for $1 each.

Teamwork (This is the focus for

STAR certificates this term)

ST. MARY'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL, PAPAKURA - GALA 2016 TO BE HELD ON

SUNDAY 10TH APRIL 2016 FROM 10.30 A.M. TO 2.00 P.M.

WE WANT YOUR CDS If you have CDs at home you no longer need then we would like

them for our Radio Station—School of Sound 107FM.

Please bring them along to the office.

Welcome to the following students who started at Opaheke

School since the last newsletter: Room 13 Dasha R.and

Rhylee R. Room 14 Jonathan H., Siobhan W., Tyla Y. and

Cooper M.

SHOWSTOPPERS OF STAGE & SCREEN: -

Papakura City Brass Band. A ngiht of great music from your favourite films and Broadway shows. Sunday 17 April 4.00pm Hawkins Theatre Papakura. Tickets Adults $20, Senor/Students $15, Child $5. Phone 298 9012 or buy at the door. papakuracitybrass@gmail.com