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What's happening Term 3
15th Aug Interschool Soccer Tournament
27th Aug Assembly
29th Aug Daffodil Day
2nd Sept Rugby Tackle 7’s Tournament
3rd Sept Special Assembly - Speeches
8th Sept Speech Finals - Year 3/4
9th Sept Speech Finals - Year 5/6
24th Sept Assembly
26th Sept End of term
14th August 2014 - Week 4 Term 4
What Happened in Assembly this Week:
A reading group from Room 4, including Phoebe, Will, Tama, Trey, Elisa, Anna, Fabien and Carlos performed a humor-
ous play called the “The Tale of Seven on a Bench”, which entertained their audience very well.
Room 5 showed some very attractive book covers they had designed and Grady, Holly W, Jess, Penny and Jaiden pre-
sented some maths puzzles that they use as starters in their class maths programme.
A small group from Room 1, including Abbie, Zoe C, Amber T, Aria and Alex A, performed a very funny play called
“Pink Fluffy Slippers” which had the audience laughing. Joey, Gabby, Jamie and Nico talked about their recent suc-
cess in the Nelson Schools’ Chess tournament and proudly showed their medals.
Room 2 performed a marching song, featuring some backwards counting and showed their environmental maths post-
ers that they had produced in co-operative pairs.
Room 3 showed some very attractive artwork, using dry pastels, portraying the view of Abel Tasman National Park
coastline as seen from a porthole on a ship.
We welcomed the following new pupils to our school: Zinzan, a new entrant in Wendy’s class, Aliana in Helen’s class and her brother Xavier in
Diarmuids’s class and Ella in Jodie’s class.
Well done to those children who were given
Principal’s awards yesterday in Assembly. Mark
presented awards to the following students, for
following our school vision:
Believe in Yourself, Be Caring, Take the Challenge, Succeed:
Kate, Amalie, Kayden, Riley, Noah B, Lee, Aurora,
Chris, Holly W, Jaiden, Gabby, Joey, Zoe C, Alex O
Reminder no school lunch this Friday
Production Date Change We have decided to move our school production through to week 4 of term 4 due to other
commitments
Tuesday 4th November Wednesday 5th November Thursday 6th Evening
Rm 2/3 Matinee Show Rm 1/4/5 Matinee Show
Rm 2/3 Evening Show Rm 1/4/5 Evening Show Rm 1/4/5 Evening Show
Netball Final: Mark and Jude watched our school team play last
Saturday as it was finals day at the Takaka Netball
Courts. Our Motupipi team played Takaka Primary
Breakers in the final of the junior grade. Our team
played really well on their first
game on the outside courts, with
bright sunshine, an asphalt
surface and a big audience. They
played really well and although
leading at half time, were
overtaken in the second half,
when the game became very exciting.
Motupipi couldn’t catch up and were beaten 10-8.
Everyone was really proud of the girls’ tenacity and
sense of fair play.
Saturday Morning Rugby:
Mark and Jude also enjoyed watching a couple of
games of rugby up at the Takaka grounds. Kegan,
Chris, Alex and Riley all scored tries in their
game and Rhys W, Tama
and Tane all played
strongly in their grade,
Tane putting in a lot of
good tackles and Rhys W.
scoring tries. Good on you
boys. We look forward to watching some more of
you this weekend at the Sevens Tournament in
Riwaka.
Miniball Reports: Our teams experienced some great success in this week’s games.
In the Year 3 and 4 grade:
Motupipi Minecraft played the Takaka Oompah Loompahs.
“We tied 18 all. It was a great game and we passed the ball around really well.
Fabien got his first goal of the season and I got a goal from far out” Joe.
Motupipi Magic played the Takaka Mighty Hurricanes:
“It was an awesome game. We won 36 to 14. We had great passing. I got some goals and Elisa and
Phoebe both scored goals. I am trying to remember to look up while I am dribbling down the court”.
Tama.
In the Year 5 and 6 grade:
Motupipi Mountain Lions played Takaka Icebreakers.
“We won well in a high scoring game – 30 to 16. Kegan did fast dribbling, we did some really long pass-
es and I put up a lot of blocks. Kegan, Chris and Rhianne shot lots of goals”. Mikey G.
Motupipi Breakers played Takaka Chunky Ducks.
“We got beaten 50 – 4. They seemed as though they had practiced a lot together.” Abbie M.
Motupipi Scary Scottish Scorpions won their game.
“We had lots of good passing from the whole team and accurate shooting from Nico, Bridie, Briget
and Guy” Guy.
Motupipi School Contact
Details:
435 Abel Tasman Drive
Takaka 7183
Phone: 03 525 9986
EMAIL: [email protected]
Internet Banking No:
03 1711 0013347 00
Free Tennis Coaching Dave Lewis will be taking tennis
coaching for 8-9yr olds at the
Park Avenue courts on Mondays
Soccer Tournament - Friday A reminder that tomorrow, 15th August, our Year 3,4 5 & 6 children
will be involved in the Golden Bay interschool's soccer tournament
with games to begin at 10.00am.
Please note the change of venue for the Yr 3/4 teams.
The venues for the tournament will be:
Year 3/4 Girls grade - Takaka Primary - Diarmuid
Year 3/4 Boys grade - Motupipi School - Jude
Year 5/6 Girls grade -Takaka Primary - Mark
Year 5/6 Boys grade - Collingwood Area School - Jodie
Children will need
School T Shirt – supplied ( miniball children to wear their T Shirt)
Shorts
Shoes /Boots
Lunch
Drink
Shin Pads can be worn or use a part magazine
under the socks Make sure your child has some warm gear packed for
putting on between games
Piano Lessons
Lessons are available at school
Ph Brooke Suttie on 027 3511666
or 525 9715 for more information
Interschool Speech Championship
All Year 2 to 6 children are preparing and presenting speeches at
school at present, so that we can select our finest speakers to com-
pete in the Interschool Speech Competition at the Takaka Library to
be held on the 8th and 9th September. Please encourage your child to
bring home their speech and practice it with you.
Writing Competition Success: Recently a group of Room 4 pupils entered a writing competition in the Kiwi Conservation Corp magazine
that our school subscribes to. We really wanted to win a Kea three person tent. Today a big box ar-
rived and we opened it to find, not a tent, but ten wonderful torches and pages of huge, glossy bird
stickers as a reward for our imaginative writing about our Project Janszoon initiative and our hopes for
the future of Abel Tasman National Park. The following children were rewarded for their super writing:
Phoebe, Yoshi, Arjuna, Rhys N, Ashley, Will, Rosie, Amalie and Kate and one torch for the whole class to
use on camp. Well done, Room 4.
Scrabble: We are really lucky to have Murray
Rogers, a New Zealand Scrabble
champion come along to school each
Wednesday morning to spend time with
our keen and talented Scrabble
players, so that he can pass on some of
his clever game strategies and ideas
for using up tricky letter tiles. The
following children have been lucky
enough to share in this opportunity:
Phoebe, Elisa, Tama, Tane, Chris, Holly
W. Rhys W, Amber T, Gabby, Aria,
Hannah, Hazel, Nico and Ellie.
Thank you Murray for sharing your
expertise with us.
Nelson Zone Chess Power Interschool's Chess Tournament On Monday the 11th of August, Motupipi sent a team of 16 over to Wakefield to
compete in the regional chess tournament. There were ten teams competing and over
60 players. Our Motupipi B team won Bronze and Motupipi A team won Silver. The top
four scorers in the A team were Joey, Gabby, Nico and Jamie. In the B team it was Caleb, Guy,
Alex O and Jessie. The individual results for the top three girls were: in third place Daisy, in
second place Aria, and first place was Gabby.
Overall the day was fun and most of our players were happy with their score and hoping for an
even better result in the next competition.
G.B.H.S. Work Experience:
Nick Napp, a former pupil of Motupipi
School and now in Year 11 at Golden Bay
High School is currently working in
Room 4 as part of the High School’s
Work Experience Programme.
Welcome Nick, we hope you enjoy your
time with us.
Disney fairy tale disco!
Friday 15th of August
4:30pm till 7:00pm
$5 entry
food and drink available to buy
sausage sizzle after for $2
A netball team fundraiser for
tournament in Invercargill
Trolley Derby
If you are interested in a Trolley Derby in
Golden Bay
Please contact Dave
525 8876 * Txt 027 66 97 142 *
Some of us have trolleys or are building them
and we would love to have more people in-
volved.
This for adults as well as kids!