Toko School Newsletter
Thursday 20th June 2019
Kura Tuatahi Toko
Quality learning for all in a caring community.
Kounga ako mo katoa i roto i te taiao e atawhai ana.
Dear parents and friends of our school Kia Ora/Hola/Bora Da/Konichi Wa/Hello
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR LEARNING STARS
Term Two Week Seven:
Challenging Curriculum
Connected
Oli, Charlie, Pippa, Judah, Toby H, Amy, Summer, All of Room 4, All of Room 3, Willow, Mikayla, Sophie, Dominic, Eva, Charlotte, Ashlee, Eddie, Emily, Blake, Cameron.
Personal Best
Sam, Charlotte, Aidan, Zara, Mason
Learning To Learn
Well Being
PRINCIPAL BLOG
OUR LEARNING STARS
- Challenging Curriculum
- Personal Best
- Learning To Learn
- Connected
- Well Being.
Each week students are selected from each class, if they have shown particular attributes in one of the stars. After they receive 4 of these, they are then given a Principals Award sticker, which is placed on their Principals Award Certificate. This certificate stays with them for all their years at Toko School.
LEARNING STAR FEEDBACK
LEARNING JOURNEY REPORTS & INTERVIEWS - Rooms 2 - 6
These will be sent home next Thursday and interviews will take place on Tuesday 2nd and Wednesday 3rd July.
These interviews include the teacher, your child and yourselves. Each interview is 15 minutes long. Please ensure you arrive on time to each interview.
The booking website will open Thursday 20/6/19.
Booking your interviews:
Each interview is 15 minutes long. Please ensure you arrive on time to each interview.
1. Go to https://www.schoolinterviews.co.nz/book/step1?z=k3CTTy Please enter event code
Event code:kb77j
2. Enter your name, email address and the names of the students you wish to make bookings for.
3. Select the teachers you'd like to book by ticking the checkbox beside their name, and then click the Book Interviews button at the bottom of the page.
4. Using the timetable, click the Book button beside the time slot you'd like to book for the teacher. You'll be asked to confirm your booking.
5. Continue until you've booked all teachers.
Once you're finished, you can view your timetable by clicking My Interviews at the top of the page. You can also print a PDF timetable to take to your interviews.
Before your interviews, you'll receive an email reminder containing your timetable. If you need to cancel any interviews, you can do so by following the link in the email you received when you first signed up.
If you can’t book online, you will be able to book via the school Office.
YEAR 7 & 8 DEBATING RURAL CLUSTER COMPETITION
Charlie, Pippa & Judah
Sam, Cohen & Sharna
Mackenzie C, Kit & Slade
The moot is - Country life is better than city life.
POWHIRI PERMISSION SLIPS
Enviroschools Taranaki Plastic Free July Workshop
On Wednesday 19th June, Toko School hosted Enviroschools Taranaki Plastic Free July Workshop after school for Taranaki school and kindergarten staff. This involved finding out about plastic alternatives.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES UPDATES-NEXT MEETING 25/6/19 7pm AT SCHOOL
School Uniform Review
We have a short survey that we are asking our parents to complete to further progress this review. SHORT SURVEY
National Administration Guideline (NAG 2) Review
If you would like to read this and provide feedback it can be found on our school website: Our Community - Board of Trustees
If you would like to provide feedback please e.mail: office@toko.school.nz
SPORTS DESK
Congratulations to:
Ephraim who has been selected to participate in the Taranaki Sharks League Team
Sam H, Blaze, F, Liam H and William C who have been selected to participate in the Central Ross Brown Rugby Team.
Both teams have tournaments coming up.
Sport New Zealand Travel Fund
A big thank you to the above, that is organised through the Stratford District Council, for a $460.00 donation towards travel for our school basketball teams.
Jones Cup is a rural cluster event for Year 5 - 8. At this event schools compete in rugby and netball only. These are mixed ability teams and it is an opportunity for those that don't play in these codes to participate. Jones Cup will be held on Monday 24th June (Week 9), 1st postponement date 25th June and final postponement date 1st July.
Practices have begun on Friday's from 2.15-3pm.
These will run every Friday until Jones Cup.
The PTA will selling food on the day. We are still requiring parents that can assist with this.
Location: Toko School
This annual sports exchange takes place between Ngaere, Toko, Midhirst, Pembroke, Huiakama, Marco, Rawhitiroa and Makahu School from Year 5 to 8 in both netball and rugby.
The competitions are as follows:
Year 5 & 6 – 6 a side Netball Year 5 & 6 – 7 aside Rugby
Year 7 & 8 – Netball Year 7 & 8 – 7 aside Rugby
Jones Cup – Uniform Information—Netball
*Year 5 & 6 – Toko t-shirt, black shorts/tights, correct footwear
*Year 7 & 8 - Uniforms will be provided
Rugby
*Year 5 & 6 – Rugby Jersey provided, black shorts and mouth guards.
*Year 7 & 8 – Rugby Jersey provided, black shorts and mouth guards.
The draw will be available on our school website - Latest News and on our school app next week.
YEAR 7 & 8 RIPPA RUGBY TOURNAMENT - 26/6/19
This will be at the New Plymouth race course and the children will be leaving school around 9am and returning by 3pm. Good Luck
HELPING YOUR CHILDREN AT HOME
Reading to your child the most important reading you can do . .
Here are 10 tips for you to get started today:
1. Spend at least ten wildly happy minutes every single day reading aloud.
2. Read at least three stories a day: it may be the same story three times. Children need to hear a thousand stories before they can begin to learn to read.
3. Read aloud with animation. Listen to your own voice and don’t be dull, or flat, or boring. Hang loose and be loud, have fun and laugh a lot.
4. Read with joy and enjoyment: real enjoyment for yourself and great joy for the listeners.
5. Read the stories that the kids love, over and over and over again, and always read in the same ‘tune’ for each book: i.e. with the same intonations on each page, each time.
6. Let children hear lots of language by talking to them constantly about the pictures, or anything else connected to the book; or sing any old song that you can remember; or say nursery rhymes in a bouncy way; or be noisy together doing clapping games.
7. Look for rhyme, rhythm or repetition in books for young children, and make sure the books are really short.
8. Play games with the things that you and the child can see on the page, such as letting kids finish rhymes, and finding the letters that start the child’s name and yours, remembering that it’s never work, it’s always a fabulous game.
9. Never ever teach reading, or get tense around books.
10. Please read aloud every day, mums and dads, because you just love being with your child, not because it’s the right thing to do.
Mem Fox
Devices and Screen-time
It can be hard to keep up with the changes in digital technology and therefore hard to know how to keep our children safe online. It can also be tricky to manage 'screen time'. How much is ok for our children? It's hard to know. Below is a link from Netsafe NZ with some advice for parents around managing screen time. It's well worth a read and then a discussion with your children.
COMMUNITY NOTICES
Toko Domain AGM - Tuesday 23rd July at 7.30 pm. All welcome!!
Toko School
Email: office@toko.school.nz
Website: www.toko.school.nz
Location: 1057 East Road, Toko, New Zealand
Phone: 06 7622849
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TokoSchool/?ref=bookmarks