Newsletter Week 6 Term 1
Turua School 17th March 2022
PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE
For those of you currently isolated, we wish you all the best and hope that your family members are not feeling too unwell with Covid. The health sector has developed some excellent resources for parents coping with children who have covid on the KidsHealth website. Please check out this link. https://www.kidshealth.org.nz/covid-19-caring-child-covid-19
Kaitaki
School Holiday Programme
Pumpkin Festival
Today is the day! Going home with students today will be raffle tickets and information for everyone about the Giant Pumpkin Festival. This event is definitely a lot different this year but we still have all the awesome prizes. Our decorated pumpkin and gumboot, and colouring competitions are going ahead though. As well of course as our spectacular raffles. Check out some of these prizes and please support our very generous sponsors
Barker's of Geraldine boxes of delicious goodies, Tui Garden Products fertiliser and tools to get your garden growing, Whittaker's Chocolate Lovers chocolate goodness, Bulbs Direct mixed daffodils galore, Mad Millie kits to make your own great goodies, Edible Backyard all the information to help you get growing, The Plantery Shop a lovely indoor plant, Four Square Ngatea all the treats, Jimmy's Doors a generous donation towards costs The Waterworks Coromandel a day out for the family.
Garden To Table
What a week we had at Garden to Table. Te Wheke made a spectacular pizza with some lovely taewe potatoes donated by Anikha. On Wednesday we had a small problem with the power, Mangōpare managed to make some quiches although they skipped out on doing the dishes when the water was off too. Kaitaki was a different story we had no power at all but they do d manage to cut up our pumpkins ready for soup next week.
Out in the garden more seedlings we’re planted, and the leavers garden got a long overdue tidy up.
School Values
At our Junior School Assembly we talked about one of our school values, Whanaungatanga, which refers to how we relate to each other and have a sense of connection through working together. These students have demonstrated Whanaungatanga in a variety of ways over the past week and have earned points for their Waka!
Our three school Wakas are Arawa, Takitimu and Tainui. We are going to be referring to our Wakas more often and giving students Waka points at each assembly, as this helps to grow their identity at school.
Ka pai to all our wonderful tamariki who are demonstrating our school values everyday!
Stars of the Week
Upcoming Events
- Junior Tryathlon - Thursday 24th March
- Senior Tryathlon - Friday 25th March
- Pumpkin Weigh in - Saturday 26th March
Community Notices
Is there anyone around the Turua area that does before school care? Please let the office know. Thanks
Contact Us
Email: admin@turua.school.nz
Website: https://www.turua.school.nz/
Location: Hauraki Road, Turua, New Zealand
Phone: +678675003