Kia Ora Koutou,

It is hard to believe that we are nearly half way through Term 1. We are looking forward to our annual whānau picnic tomorrow!

When: Thursday 7 March 2024 from 12.00pm to 1.30pm

Where: School field. If wet, the picnic will go ahead in classrooms and/or hubs.

What: Whānau can bring their own blankets and food to share with their children. Children with no whānau visiting will take their lunch boxes and sit with their peers, classmates and teacher.

We have also organised to have a coffee cart on site for those of you who would like to purchase a hot drink to have with your picnic.

1.30pm: Students return to the classroom for the afternoon session.

Important to consider: We suggest that students avoid ordering a school lunch on this day if possible, as lunchtime begins at the earlier time of 12.00pm and lunch orders are not delivered until 12.30pm

Loose Parts Play Boxes
Last Friday was a lovely day in the playground at lunchtime. The students were happlily engoaged in lots of different activities!  There was lots of excitement with our new spare parts play boxes. The kids just loved it and they were so creative! This spare parts play is part of our playground activities available for students every lunchtime! Our student leaders were an amazing support for our younger students and loved getting amongst the creative play. 

Enjoy the rest of the week and we hope to see you tomorrow! 
Ngā mihi
Kylie

Huge congratulations to those students who took part in the Rototuna Swimming Sports at Fairfield College on Monday 26th February.  We had a small but enthusiastic group of students who enjoyed challenging themselves to do something different.  A massive thank you to those parents who came along to support our swimmers. We are very grateful to Anna Beveridge who did a great job of organising the event. 

Puna of Manaaki
This week we are focusing on respect for things and places. Below is our manaaki card which shows what this looks like when we are showing respect for things and places. 

 

This term, the Board are reviewing the following policies: 

We welcome your participation in our policy review. Please click on the link  for instructions on how to complete a policy review.

We celebrated our first group of manaaki super stars for 2024 in Week 4. This year our manaaki stars are getting a special little manaaki certificate which the students have been excited about.  Congratulations to the following students who showed manaaki and kindness: Aurora R9, Rider R13, Beaudie R32, Indie R30, Aryan R12, Hazel R15, Macy R16, April R10, Kristian R23, Siyar Room R11,T Toby R7, Shakithyan R21, Breanne R40/41 , Mereane R6, Isaac R40/41, Camilla R14, Ava R8, Rynhardt R38 , Athena R35/36,  Arvin R17, Stan-Lee R5 ,  Mickey  R34, Nova R31, Emily R24, Aaron R39, Zade R22, Joseph R9, Arwa Room R18, Tristan R20, Daejahna R33, and Mehreen R35.

We celebrated the following manaaki super stars in Week 5 of this term. Congratulations to the following students who showed manaaki and kindness: Connor R24, Lucia R12, Braylon R10, Kaelyn R8, Jonah R7, Alex R17, Ayman R18, Yash R21, Roman R35, Braxton R36, Jane R6, Aarna R5, Arya R34, Laya R32, Daman R16, Maram R30, Nikau  40/4, Sree 40/41 Arohi Rm 39, Terence  R38, William R13, Drisha R14, Lucy R23, Evie R22, Nation R20, Stella R15, Mason R9, Ella R31, Yash R21

We are looking forward to our Year 6 camps next week and our Year 5 camps the following week at Epworth Pursuits Centre, Lake Karapiro. We are super excited to be going on our first camp since Covid times. It was fabulous to see so many parent helpers at the camp parent meeting last week. Thank you so much for putting your name forward and giving up your valuable time to be able to make camp a possibility for the students. 

Thank you to all the parents who have paid for their child's camp experience. Payment for camp needs to be made by the end of this week. 

Did you know that our school has a Community Code of Conduct? 

Rototuna Primary School is committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for students, staff, and visitors. 

Our Code of Conduct serves as a reminder to all parents, caregivers, and school visitors that their conduct must support everyone’s emotional and physical wellbeing, and not harm it in any way. The school’s board has set this Code of Conduct as a condition of entry to our kura. 

 I have attached a copy for your reference. We are reviewing this Code of Conduct as part of our Term 1 policy review.

We have been alerted by our public health nurse that there has been a chicken pox outbreak at a local school in our area.  Included below is a link with some helpful information that you may find beneficial.  It is important to be vigilant and ensure that if any child has any of the signs or symptoms they must stay home from school. The stand down period is for seven days from the onset of the rash or when the scabs are dry. Children who have not had their 15 month varicella vaccinations are most at risk of contracting it so the public health nurse is encouraging parents to vaccinate their children. The immunisation is free for tamariki up until they are 12 years old. 

Chickenpox is a common childhood illness caused by a virus.  Tamariki can have free chickenpox immunisation at 15 months of age.www.kidshealth.org.nz

We are looking forward to the PTA Gala!

We are looking for donations on the following items of clothing:

This will be to support students who have accidents at school. If a child comes home with borrowed clothing, can this please be washed and returned to the office so that we can manaaki another child in need.

The office staff will gladly recieve your donations of clothing!