21st May 2015 - Week 5 Term 2

Taupo Pt – Wainui Bay Trip

On Friday 15th May, the school will be heading out by bus to Wainui Bay. This trip is part of our partnership with the

Department of Conservation and Project Janszoon, where we are to help look after an area of the Abel Tasman National

Park.

Each class will be take an area to investigate from Wainui Sandspit out to Taupo Pt. The senior classes will be heading out to

Taupo Pt and may need to do some wading in water to get to there, so shorts would be

preferable.

We plan to leave school by bus at 9.30am and return by 2.30pm. Parent help would be much appreciated, so if you are free

on Friday and would like to come for a walk, please let us know by filling in form below or leaving a message on the

Namaste Nepal Gala Tomorrow (Friday 22 May)

The children have had a great day today participating in Nepalese activites and preparing for our mini gala tomorrow,

where we aim to raise money for the people of Nepal affected by the recent devastating earthquakes.

If you have any saleable produce we can sell at the gala e.g. fruit and vegetables, or second hand items, pre used and loved toys, books, baking, please drop off them off to school in the morning (preferably).

The children are helping to help run the stalls and activities and everyone is welcome to come and support us in this fundraising venture.

A Nepalese style lunch and afternoon tea will be available for sale, instead of our usual Friday lunch.

Friends, family and whanau are invited to a mini fundraising gala starting at 12pm tomorrow, Friday 22nd May at Motupipi School.

POSTPONED

Until the 22nd June

Friday school

Lunch

Our Nepal Mini Gala is on from 12pm.

Food will be available. Family & friends

welcome

SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR

Thank you to everyone who purchased

books. The school received over

$700 worth of new books for our

school library.

NETBALL SUBS - Thanks to those of you who have paid already. If you haven’t done so yet, please forward $15 to Melissa or Kylie. Thanks!

Welcome to Luke who

has just turned 5 and started in Room 2.

Luke says Namaste!

Family Maths Corner

Test Kids Estimation Skills

Give kids an opportunity to learn living

costs such as the price of groceries.

Give them the shopping list and get them

to write estimations of price beside each

item.

They could check their accuracy on the

shopping docket.

Please let us know if your child is going to be absent

from school as early as possible.

Parents/caregivers can notify the office on 5259986

All absences are checked each morning for safety

reasons and the bus lists updated.

If your child will NOT be traveling on that days bus

or wishes to change to another bus you need to

notify the office as early as

possible.

If you collect your child please

let us know so we can update

the bus list.

Buses CANNOT depart the school

until all students are accounted for.

Motupipi School Contact

Details:

435 Abel Tasman Drive

Takaka 7183

Phone: 03 525 9986

EMAIL: markc@motupipi.school.nz

Or: office@motupipi.school.nz

Internet Banking No:

03 1711 0013347 00

2015 Dates

Term 2 20th April - 3rd July Term 3 20th July - 25th Sep Term 4 12th Oct - 16th Dec

Long long ago there lived the most

dangerous dinosaurs in the world Zeb Rex,

Maxosaurus, Sonnydocus and

Archiedactyl.

“Archiedactyl can you go and

search for some cavemen to

have for breakfast”.

“Yes sir”.

“I’m back”.

“Hmmmn where should I start, maybe the

lungs? Chomp, chomp, chomp”

By Zeb

Congratulations to Max who was

awarded the Player of the Day

trophy last Saturday. Max plays

rugby for the Takaka Under 8

team.

Well done Max!

School Calendar dates for Term 2

22nd May Nepal Fundraising Gala 12pm

27th May Assembly 2.10pm

1st June Queen’s Birthday Holiday

9th June Year 3/4 Hockey Nelson

10th June Assembly 2.10pm

11th June Year 5/6 Hockey Nelson

12th June Cultural Performance—NZ Playhouse

22nd June Wainui/Taupo Point trip

24th June Assembly 2.10pm

25th June Library Quiz

3rd July End of term

I went to football with Aonghus

and it was hard because I did not

have football

boots.

By Jayden

Rippa Rugby

Yesterday we took two teams

to the Year 5 and 6 Rippa

Rugby tournament.

The children demonstrated

great skills and can be proud of

their performances.

The final play off was between

Motupipi 1 and Takaka and was

a 'nailbiting' final with both

teams evenly matched.

Takaka Primary won the final

4 -3.

Thanks to Kahu from Nelson

Rugby for organising the event

and to the students from the

High School for refereeing.