TERM ONE DATES 2022

• 17/3/2022 St Patrick's Day - Dress Up Day (Green, Green, Green!)

• 13/4/2022 Wednesday 3pm - Students last day for Term 1.

• 14/4/2022 Thursday - Teacher Only Day (TOD)

• 15/4/2022 Good Friday / Easter Break / School Holidays start

TERM TWO DATES 2022

• 2/5/2022 First day of Term 2 / Our new principal, Mr Justin Bertrand, starts with us.

• 20/5/2022 Pink Shirt Day – NZ Wide Anti-Bullying Campaign - Friday 20 May

• 6/6/2022 Queen’s Birthday – Monday 6 June
  

• 24/6/2022 Matariki Public Holiday – Friday 24 June

• 8/7/2022 Last day of Term 2 – Friday 8 July

Other term dates to be advised.

Netball:

This starts this Saturday May 7. Subs for the year are: Years 5-8 $50 (which includes uniform sub) and Years 1-4 $45. Please have this paid to Lucy in the office before May 13 - if this is an issue for any reason please chat to us! Years 1 to 6 will finish mid July and Year 7-8 will go a bit longer.

Year 5-6 players, you have been added to a group on FaceBook - if you haven't been added please contact us at school. Practise will either be at 3pm on Thursday or Friday - you will need to check Facebook for updates.

Year 7-8 make sure you have your shoes on Tuesday. You need to be responsible for this rather than running to Lucy to make phonecalls. You will practise at 1pm and eat afterwards.

A big THANK YOU to Cam Melrose and Jade Johnston who went to the Working Bee at the courts after we put the call out on the App. Where would we be without you guys stepping up?! The courts are now ready for the teams to descend upon them on Saturday.

Rippa:

Children involved in the Rippa Rugby day will be having training once a week starting May 11.

TE AROHA PRIMARY SCHOOL UNIFORM POLICY

Children at Te Aroha Primary School are required to wear the appropriate school uniform to school each day. Summer uniform is worn in terms one and four and winter uniform is worn in terms two and three.

Our winter uniform consists of:

• School Beanie (optional)

• Green polo shirt with school logo

• Green polar fleece top with school logo

• School navy blue shorts

• School navy blue skorts

• School navy blue track bottom

• Sensible shoes - we recommend sneakers, jandals or sandals or slip on shoes. Ug boots or high heeled boots are not sensible shoes for children to wear to school.

Optional winter uniform items:

Tights – black, dark green or navy blue. Footless tights are not permitted.

Navy blue or dark green skivvies may be worn under the polo shirt. (No other coloured skivvies are permitted).

Additional uniform notes:

• Children are required to wear shorts/skorts underneath their track bottom at all times. This is so that when class physical activity is done children don’t over heat in a track bottom in summer or in winter end up with a wet and muddy track bottoms.

• We want our students to be neat and tidy and a good example of what our school stands for when they are at school and out in the community.

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved, and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch, be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae

P.M.P. is a developmental programme catering for the needs of Year 1 and 2 children.

This programme develops areas of motor skills like:

• Fitness

• Balance

• Eye/Foot Co-ordination

• Locomotion

• Eye/Hand Co-ordination

• Perceptions like body image and control

• Rhythm

• Directionality

• Space awareness and laterality

Some of the skills being developed are:

• Problem solving

• Language

• Confidence

• Memory

• P.E. skills

• Social skills

PMP helps children to refine gross motor skills to prepare the brain for formal classroom learning. This is a fundamental part of our junior school programme as children begin their learning journey at TAPS. This outstanding programme is run very capably by Diane Hazelton, one of our very experienced learning assistants but it also relies heavily on helpers. If you or anyone else that you know is able to help on either a Thursday or Friday afternoon for an hour please let your child’s class teacher or email: dhazelton@tearohaprimary.school.nz

Welcome back everyone and a special welcome to Liam and Oaklyn, our new five year olds joining Room 1 today. We will be working on recording a sentence in writing, focusing on spaces between words and using our knowledge of letter sounds to write words we need. This will carry over into reading where we will make sure that we use our spelling fingers to help us read words. In Maths while developing our number knowledge we will work on developing our problem solving skills. Our topic of Autumn this week will see us out and about in our awesome school environment for our learning. We are so excited that we can finally start PMP again. P.M.P. is a developmental programme catering towards the needs of Year 1 and 2 children. The programme develops areas of motor skills like: fitness, balance, locomotion, eye/foot coordination, eye/hand coordination, directionality, space awareness and laterality. Children will attend PMP three days a week for half an hour in the afternoon after lunch.

Welcome Back! 😊 We are looking forward to unpacking the recently introduced New Zealand Histories Curriculum document. The Topic for Year 3’s is titled: A Sense of Place and it looks at how ‘the relationships of individuals, groups and communities with the land, water, and resources are reflected in the names of places and in the stories we tell about them’. This will be a great opportunity for the students to familiarise themselves with our beautiful town of Te Aroha and learn some of the local history. In Mathematics we will be continuing to work on our Addition and Subtraction strategies. In Writing we will be spending another week or two on report writing, so that the students all have a good grasp on this particular writing format.

Reminders / Online Learning - Homework

Our Spelling words and weekly poem will be available on Seesaw for all Room 5 students who are keen to work on them at home. They also have free access to sites such as: Prodigy, Sumdog, Sunshine Classics and Epic! These sites have a focus on reading, mathematics and spelling and are presented in a fun and engaging way for the students. Reading material will be sent home for those students reading below Level 19. Unless specifically requested, those working above Level 19 do not generally have books sent home as they will be working on Journals and these are needed in class each day. Our Library day is Monday.

If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact Miss Entwisle via the school office: 078848803; email: mentwisle@tearohaprimary.school.nz or through the Seesaw message function.

Welcome to Term 2! I’m looking forward to an exciting term with Room 6.

We will be starting the term preparing for Pink Shirt Day - Anti-Bullying. We will be learning about what bullying is and what we can do to help someone and what to do if we are being bullied.

Our main topic for the term is New Zealand History - Looking at the connections with the Pacific Island people and their journey to New Zealand.

In Maths this week we will be learning about translations - Flips, slides and turns of objects. Along with addition and subtraction knowledge and strategies.

In Reading we will be looking at strategies to solve unknown words and comprehension of text. Our spelling programme will continue on from term 1 learning a new spelling rule most weeks.

Home Learning:

Your child will be bringing home a home learning book which will contain a reading log, basic facts practise and spelling words to practise. These are due back on Friday each week.

Kia ora koutou - welcome to Term 2. It is super exciting to start the new term and be together.

Mā te huruhuru, ka rere te manu - Adorn the bird with feathers and it will fly. (By learning and gaining skills, you are able to do more.)

Our focus for Term 2 is “WHAT HAPPENED HERE?”, where we discover and explore events in NZ History and it will be exciting to explore the new Aotearoa New Zealand Histories Curriculum. We begin by thinking about what makes history by sharing what we know and learning about significant events locally, nationally and globally.

Maths - we will be learning about Position and Orientation, with a focus on compass points, angles of rotation and grid rotations (this will be great for Mrs B, who has a terrible sense of direction!)

Literacy - this will be linked to our Topic Inquiry as we travel back in time to learn about events in New Zealand history. We will need to use a variety of comprehension strategies to show our understanding of the text and this will transfer into our writing tasks.

NZ Music Month - during the month of May, we will be listening to tracks of music by New Zealand artists, celebrating the homegrown songs through time.

Looking forward to an awesome week ahead.

Arohanui - Mrs B dp@tearohaprimary.school.nz

Reduced to single figures, this body of parents is vital to the school in many ways. They effectively help the school’s efforts in providing the best for your child - computers, play equipment, subsidised trips and much, much more.

• Kate on 0211877459
• PTA email taps.pta@gmail.com