Kia ora whānau,

So great to see all the ‘Pink’ at our awesome kura on Friday. Pink shirt day symbolises everyone’s desire and right to be treated with respect and kindness each and every day. Bullying has no place at Te Aroha Primary and we look to our values of Respect, Responsibility, Honesty, Excellence and Aroha to guide our actions and interactions with others. I have observed some excellent examples of these values in our classrooms and out in the playground. We have some great ambassadors walking among us.

Last week I got to visit Te moananui-a-kiwa hub to watch some of their cool rotations while learning about the history of Te Aroha. They then shared a slide show of their activities and learnings at our whole school hui. A particular favourite of mine was the recreation of the iconic ‘Lemon and Te Aroha’ carbonated drink.

On Friday we farewelled Maria McGhie from TAPS. Maria heads off to Matamata and takes with her our best wishes and we thank her for her time spent with us, Room 2 will miss you!

Today, we welcome Miss Zoe Webb to TAPS. Zoe takes over from Maria in Room 2. Zoe has a great passion and enthusiasm for teaching and I know the tamariki and Room 2 whānau are going to enjoy Zoe being the kaiako in the classroom.

Week 4 is another busy week here at Te Aroha Primary School. I am out the front of the school most afternoons farewelling the students, feel free to come and say hello and introduce yourself if you see me out there.

Have a fantastic week everyone, stay safe and remember to always ‘accept the challenge!’

Ngā mihi nui,

Justin Bertrand

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.

• New Zealand Sign Language Week 2022 – Monday 9 to Sunday 15 May
  

• 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.

This edition's reporters were Morgan, Tessa, Jahnaia, Taylin, Bella, Jasmine, Elisabella and Perryn - “bringing extra news and student views" to our newsletter. Keep up the great work, girls!

Our building upgrade work has begun. There is a lot of fencing erected in the Waihou Hub area to keep our students safe while this work is being completed.

I am very excited to spend my first week with the wonderful children in Room 2! This week I will spend a lot of time getting to know you all. I have spent some time rearranging the furniture in the classroom and I have also put up our new and exciting behaviour management tool - a rocket!

Writing: We will be using our senses to help us describe Autumn. We will go for a sensory walk around the school and use this experience to support our writing

Maths: To help me get to know all the students better we will be discussing our favourite foods, favourite sports and favourite ice cream flavours and using this to create a pictograph which we can display in the classroom.

History: A new history curriculum has recently been introduced in Aotearoa. We will be learning about our country and Te Aroha, the special place we get to call home.

What an amazing week we had last week doing ‘ Anti Bullying ‘ tasks.The discussions we had showed great compasssion and soulsearching.

This week our reading tasks will be based around NZ music month as we look closely at some of NZ's leading musicians. This is a great chance for us to use our research skills to acquire new information, and then present it in new and interesting ways.

In Maths we will be finishing multiplication and addition and putting our knowledge into use by completing Maths Rich tasks which require us to think about many solutions.

In spelling we will continue for another week on open and closed syllables and pay particular attention to using these syllables to ‘robot’ words.

I will be out of the room for part of the week as my daughter has surgery on Wednesday. I am sure your children will fill you in!

Te Moananui A Kiwa (TMAK) Hub 3 students had an awesome time last week completing six workshops that explored an aspect of our local history for their Inquiry Topic - What happened here?

For the workshops, Te Moananui students were mixed into three groups and rotated around a learning task with each of our Hub teachers. Students really enjoyed learning in this way and getting to work with other students and teachers. They shared their learning with the school at assembly.

Kia ora Room 9 family and friends

What a great week we had last week. It was awesome to see all students in hub Te Moananui A Kiwa learning alongside each other through some pretty awesome thought provoking and engaging workshops.

Math: We have made a great start in learning all our multiplication and division facts. It is encouraging to hear that these are being practised at home. Keep up the mahi team! For math this week we will continue to look at learning our multiplication strategies, focusing on standard partitioning and written form (algorithms)

Literacy: In reading this week we will continue to look at developing our reading

strategies, focusing on identifying key words/phrases and summarizing what we comprehend from the text.

In writing we will finish our biographies on a class or family member.

Inquiry: Our inquiry journey into New Zealand history continues. This week we will look at Maori Pā, identifying their purpose and key features. Later on in the week Room 9 students will have the opportunity to construct their own pā, so if you have any materials at home we could use for this, can these please be brought to school on Tuesday.

Seesaw: Check out our amazing learning, our workshops on local history and our coding work (designing a webpage) for Tech Week last week. We have some very talented coders in the making!!

Have a great week everyone!

If you have any questions send us a message on Seesaw or email

aarmstrong@tearohaprimary.school.nz and lgmable@tearohaprimary.school.nz

Kia ora koutou - I orea te tuatara ka puta ki waho - A problem is solved by continuing to find solutions.

We loved having Mrs Mac back with us last week. This session highlighted the need for us to be “multipliers” (a good reminder that some of us need to know our times tables!!!) and that there is more than one way to solve and approach a problem.

Maths - we continue to develop efficient strategies to solve multiplication with large numbers.

Literacy - our reading and writing work will continue to be linked to our Inquiry Topic - What happened here? We are really enjoying exploring aspects of our New Zealand History. We use our comprehension skills to have a deep understanding of the text, which is then transferred into our writing, with the support of information from a secondary source. Well done Rm 10 - I am impressed!

Topic Inquiry - Our workshops last week were amazing! We had so much fun This week, we investigate the features and purpose of Maori pā. This will help us with our Inquiry work as we delve into the Aotearoa New Zealand Histories Curriculum in the coming weeks with learning around the Struggle for Land and Sovereignty - Tino rangatiratanga me te kāwanatanga.

Seesaw - we are really enjoying sharing our learning on this platform and love it when parents and whānau comment.

Looking forward to an awesome week.

Arohanui - Mrs B dp@tearohaprimary.school.nz

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.

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