Matapu School Newsletter
Term 2, Week 1, 7th May 2021
Calendar - Please note some new dates added & further information for events will be sent home closer to the date if required.
- Monday 3rd May - Start of Term 2
- Tuesday 11th May - BOT meeting, 5:30pm
- Wednesday & Thursday 16th & 17th June - Whanau Learning Conferences
Principal's Weekly Update
RAISE Goal: to show ambition by setting new learning goals
Te reo phrase of the week: Aumangea Tāima (Creative Time)
Kia ora,
We have had a great start back to the term. The sun has been shining and the students have participated in some wonderful learning experiences about Mt Taranaki this week. It has also been pleasing to see many of them set new goals for the future and as always support one another in their buddy class activities.
As many of you know one of our current charter goals is ‘to encourage our students to become practical problem solvers’. This is a journey we’ve been on since the middle of last year and we feel it is now time to come up with our own name for this exciting area of our local curriculum. Thankfully we’ve had some great suggestions come forward, the most suitable being ‘Aumangea Tāima’, which means creative time. Therefore when you hear us refer to Aumangea Taima going forward, you’ll know it’s about getting our students to apply their knowledge and skills to a variety of different problems.
School Policy Review
As part of our school’s commitment to self-review, the following policy is currently under review:
Reporting to Parents on Student Achievement
Please login to the school’s School Docs account to complete a review of this policy.
Matapu School’s login details are as follows:
Website: https://www.schooldocs.co.nz/
Username: Matapu
Password: lifelonglearning
Ngå mihi nui
James Willson
Values Awards
Room 2 - Nazeer for a great start to Term 2, you have set yourself good learning goals
Room 3 - Bridgette for consistently showing the school values!
Room 4 - Magrett for teaching Room 4 lots of words and phrases in Fijian!
Room 5 - Jazmyn for listening carefully to the learning focus in writing and striving to achieve it!
Room 6 - Hunter for super all round effort in class this week, you are thinking hard about your learning.
Friday Pie Day
Reminder that orders need to be in by Thursday morning at the latest in order for us to make sure we have enough pies for everyone.
If you would like to set up an online payment or pay a lump some for multiple weeks please contact the office.
Whakatauki
If kindness is shown, then kindness you shall receive.
Room 1
Room 2
Room 3
Room 4
Room 5
Room 6
Welcome back to a new term everybody! We have already welcomed Zyden Adams and Flynn Robinson to Room 6, and on Monday Luke Jordan will join us too. We are very excited to have you as part of Room 6.
To start the week we made a picture graph to find out how many boys and girls are in Room 6.
On that day there were 9 boys and 6 girls. We could see there were more boys than girls in our class. We coloured our data squares and put them on our graph...we had to make sure that we matched the data squares so that our information was correct.
We have been learning about shapes too and have been hunting in our classroom and on the playground for squares, rectangles, triangles, circles, ovals and hexagons!
Matapu Hall Society (Inc)
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Thursday 20th May
In the hall supper room
7pm
Everyone welcome
FREE Parent Webinar this month – Support your children to success.
Our next Free Parent Webinar will be held on Monday 17 May at 7.30pm .
Parents are saying they are getting a great deal of understanding from the course content below. The parent webinar topic is - “Understanding children’s learning differences, setting up for success and supporting children with home learning.”
· Understanding your child as a learner
· Understanding learning difficulties
· Specialist referrals
· Supporting at risk learners
· Literacy and supporting children with home learning
- Tutor reading
- Basic spelling activities.
· Next steps for those who want more
To ensure we keep track of numbers people can register by emailing their name and email address to admin@raisingachievement.co.nz. A link to attend the webinar is sent out once registrations are received.
Sponsors
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
Mark Joblin Concept & Construction Ltd, Sanfords Rural Carriers, Taranaki By-Products, McDonald Real Estate, Eltham Vet Services, ANZCO, Power Farming, Corrigan Electrical, Matapu Bulk Transport, CRV Ambreed, FMG, Mack Transport, Blastways, Nevada, Ballance, Todd Energy, & BCCL (Burgess Crowley Civil Limited) Carrfields Livestock, Rosemount Charolais - Dairy Bull Specialists, PGG Wrightson Livestock, Jack Gray Ltd, Bruce Parry Livestock, Kelsen's Glass & Glazing, Tommo's Tyres Ltd, Chris Perrett Electrical Solutions, Holdem Contracting Ltd, STE (South Taranaki Electrical), Kaponga Four Square, MG Taranaki.
PLEASE SUPPORT THOSE THAT SUPPORT US
Matapu School
Email: admin@matapu.school.nz
Website: matapu.school.nz
Location: 495 Hastings Road, Matapu, New Zealand
Phone: (06) 272 6764