• Friday 3rd June - Teachers Only Day
  
• Monday 6th June - Queen's Birthday
• Wednesday & Thursday 15th & 16th June - Whanau Learning Conferences
• Tuesday & Wednesday 21st & 22nd June - School Production
• Friday 24th June - Matariki
• Friday 8th July - Last Day of Term 2

RAISE Goal: I will celebrate my learning by sharing my learning goals at the end of each day

Te reo phrase of the week: Kaua e pena (don’t do that)

Kia ora,

Our classes have been in full swing this week practising, making props, and getting costumes sorted for our upcoming production in week 8. This is shaping up to be a great show and I know the students are excited to show you their performance in a few weeks time.

Carmen Sandiego

Tickets to our upcoming school production titled Carmen Sandiego are selling fast and available at our school office. We are holding four performances, two matinees and two evening shows. Please see the poster attached to the newsletter for more info. Tickets are $5 each and will be on a first in first served basis. Due to increased numbers within our community we do require younger children to have their own ticket so that we can ensure we meet fire and emergency safety protocols.

Students in the Office at Lunch Time

Now that we are out of the ‘red setting’ of the Covid Protection Framework our senior students can resume a lot of the leadership roles that had to be put on hold at the beginning of the year. One of these responsibilities is volunteering to go on the Office Duty Roster. If you ring the school between 1:00 pm - 1.40 pm you will probably find one of our amazing leaders on the other end of the phone. Please leave a message with them (including your name and contact number) and Emma will follow these up after lunch.

As of today we currently have 4 Covid cases within our student population.

Kia pai to wiki (have a wonderful weekend).

Ngå mihi nui

James Willson

Enrolment at Matapu School is governed by an enrolment scheme, details of which are available from our school office.

The board has determined that we have two out of zone places available at year 7 for Term 2. The deadline for out-of-zone applications is 3 pm 3rd June.

If the number of out of zone applications exceeds the number of places available, students will be selected by ballot. If a ballot for out-of-zone places is required, it will be held on Wednesday 8th June. Parents will be informed of the outcome of the ballot within three school days of the ballot being held.

Kurt Parry, Board of Trustees Presiding Member

Nomination round

Our school will be undertaking a parent election for 5 School Board vacancies. This process will start with the issuing of nomination papers to our caregiver community by Friday 15th July 2022.

We have employed CES to undertake the election process on our behalf. This year with legislative change, our nomination form and full instruction on how to place your nomination into our own School’s Election website will be emailed to you if we have your email address in our database or you will receive it by post if we don’t have your email in our database.

Nomination papers will also be available at the school office. The school will send those on to CES for processing upon receipt from candidates.

Nominations close on Wednesday 3rd August at 12 noon. Election day is Wednesday 7th September.

We look forward to your participation in this process.

If kindness is sown then kindness you shall receive.

This term Matapu School is putting on a production and the preparations are in full swing! We are practising in the hall and making backdrops so the production can be ready in time. Carmen Sandeigo is going to be a great production! The backdrop that Amanda has been working on looks AMAZING! The kids are excited and we can't wait for the show to begin!

Check out some snaps from this week's practises.

This week has been all about practising our dance for Production and creating masks and costumes for Production - the excitement is definitely building!

We had the solemn occasion of the unfortunate passing of many oranges in our class. They have now joined the dearly departed on their journey to the afterlife; we scooped out their innards, packed them natron, wrapped them in bandages and buried them in the garden. Hopefully, when we dig them up in a couple of years - they should be perfectly preserved...

Attendance and Engagement Advisor/Kaiāwhina

(fixed term contract, end date 18th December 2022)

We are looking for an Attendance and Engagement Advisor/Kaiāwhina to work with children and young people, their families and whānau, and schools from Rahotu through to Matapu.

This role is part of the Ministry of Education’s initiative to improve engagement with learning and attendance at school. A key part of the role will be working closely with the community to build an understanding of the importance of attendance. The Attendance and Engagement Advisor will work with students, family and whānau and take a holistic approach to address the underlying cause of non-attendance, which are often diverse and complex.

Key attributes:

● Ability to work in a culturally responsive way, to support and meet the needs of all families with a particular focus on the needs of Māori and Pacific learners

● Enjoy working with children and young people, aged 6 to 16, and their whānau

● Ability to quickly foster trust in the system and an understanding of the importance of early referral

● Demonstrate initiatives to create flexible solutions within guidelines

● Able to work independently but work with key stakeholders on our committee, to keep schools informed and involved

● Quickly establish working relationships with interagency staff

● Strong administration and record keeping skills, ability to quickly learn new systems

● Persistent, efficient and values seeing tasks through to completion.

● Relentlessly positive

Skills and experience:

● The role will suit someone who has skills or experience as a social worker, Māori Warden, truancy officer, community worker, or similar.

● Must have a full driver's licence, and you will be required access to your own vehicle . This will be reimbursed at 58c per kilometre.

Hours of work:

9am to 3pm, Monday to Friday, term time only. We are happy for this to be a job share position.

To avoid the potential of overcrowding and to ensure local children can attend their local school, the Rawhitiroa School Board and Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga (The Ministry of Education) are working in collaboration to develop an enrolment scheme for Rawhitiroa School under schedule 20 of the Education and Training Act 2020.

As part of this process, we would like to informally consult with the school community and with people living in the area for which the school is a reasonably convenient school.

We are therefore holding a Community Consultation Meeting at 6:30pm on Wednesday 29 June 2022 at Rawhitiroa School, 596 Rawhitiroa Road, Rd 18, Eltham. John Dale from Te Mahau Te Tai Whenua (the Ministry of Education’s service agency) will be attending.

To help us with planning could you please advise the Rawhitiroa School Office on 06 764 8939 or via rawhiti@rawhitiroa.school.nz if you are thinking of attending.

If you are unable to personally attend the meeting, or would prefer to respond via e-mail, please feel free to comment by e-mailing John.Dale@education.govt.nz .

Ngā mihi nui

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