Inglewood Primary School

Learning to think, to do, to be

Ako ki te whakaaro, ako ki te mahi, ako kia ora ai te mauri

Our Vision: To provide a teaching and learning environment where of those involved: demonstrate respect, expect the best, achieve through opportunity, communicate actively & feel good and safe

Welcome back to all existing and new students and whanau. We are indeed excited to have all the children with us throughout the day here at IPS. The start has been extremely positive, as evidenced by the excitement, enthusiasm, kindness and brilliant REACH Values being demonstrated already.

The school will operate through a four whanau structure, based around our School Pepeha. Whanau organisation has been structured to reflect the particular needs of the year groups involved.

Panitahi

Moa Iti Smith - Alice Smith (Whanau Leader) New Entrants & Y1

Panitahi Adams - Rangi Adams Y1 & Y2

Panitahi Smith - Rebecca Smith Y1 & Y2

Panitahi Tiong - Joy Tiong Y1 & Y2

Panitahi O'Connor - Libby O’Connor Y1 & Y2

Pouakai

Pouakai Turner - Tracy Turner Y3 & Y4 (Whanau Leader)

Pouakai Zimmerman - Mel Zimmerman Y3 & Y4

Pouakai Simpson - Lynda Simpson Y3 & Y4

Pouakai Pearce - Taryn Pearce Y3 & Y4

Waiongana iti

Waiongana iti Oliver - Koron Oliver Y5 & Y6 (Whanau Leader)

Waiongana iti Breakwell - Ashleigh Breakwell Y5 & Y6

Waiongana iti Boyd - Stephanie Boyd Y5 & Y6

Puke Haupapa

Puke Haupapa White - Tracy White Y7 & Y8 (Whanau Leader)

Puke Haupapa Suter - Claire Suter Y7 & Y8

Puke Haupapa Banks - Kathryn Banks Y7 & Y8

Puke Haupapa Wheatley - Rob Wheatley Y7 & Y8

OTHER LEADERSHIP AND TEACHING POSITIONS:

Tumuaki / Principal – Karen Patterson

Senior Leadership – Michael Bucksmith, Candice Bailey & Phillip Reade

Reading Recovery – Pene Chadwick

Special Education Needs Co-Ordinator – Rachel Marshall-Smith, Wendy Williams & Melissa Burleigh-Low

Kapa Haka - Marcelle Messenger & Moni Martin

Regular Release Teachers - Martin Jones, Kay Wallace, Shane Reade, Don Freebairn - Read

Guest Teachers - Delwyn Hayward

ANCILLARY: Office Hours: 8am – 3.30pm

Office Manager – Debbie Carter

Office Assistant – Mia Midgley – 8.30am – 1.30pm

Library Manager / Teacher Resource Manager – Wendy Nash (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday)

Sports Leaders - Tracy White, Candice Bailey,

Sports Co-ordinators - Kirsteen O'Carroll-Makiri & Cody Huta

CARETAKING / CLEANING:

Caretaker – John Harland

Caretaker Assistant - Michael Tyrer

Cleaners – Linda May & Raewyn Dempsey

SUPPORT STAFF:

Jacqui Deam, Michelle Allison, Evelyn Kennedy, Susan Cammiss, Jill Helms, Kirsty Doherty, Astrid Bocock, Rebecca Collins, Kelly Wilkins, Lisa Cooper, Linda Allardice, Rowena Henry, & Winnie Murphy

DENTAL THERAPISTS: Kaye Cruse and Jurnee Mead PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE: Jill Jones

to Miss Rebecca Smith, Mrs Candice Bailey, Mrs Tracy White, Jayde McLeman, Kurtis Nagel, Lusiana Nakuta, Ella Hill, Sam Walker, Dallas Banker, Sakura Engelbrecht, Alexander Clancy, Vanessa Wellstood, Nathan Battersby, Alyssa Fabish, Avu Pike, James Cross, Dylan Dobson, Charlotte Lund and Teejay Te Huki who celebrated their birthdays over the last two weeks.

Welcome to Jai Pringle, Emme Pringle, Jac Cade, Maddison Cook, Seth Bovey, Jordan Bovey, Wairua Te Whana, Noah Madden, Kobe Madden, Blake Madden, Jaxon Lima, Miles Murphy, Tyson Manu-Millar, Sam Macilquham, Isabella Macilquham, Jordan Curd, Kaedyn Savenye-Coppen, Aria Savenye-Coppen, Logan Savenye-Coppen, Shay Ewans, Jacob Ewans, Sam Knight, Shakyla Broadmore, Meelaan Kassote, Delta Ainsworth-Smith, Linkin Davis, Jackson Baker, Gracie Sears, Lona Pike, Eve Ranford, Toby Rose, Summer Wilson and Mia Rampton who have joined us this week at IPS.

Issue number 1 is due back to the school office by Friday 19 February.

In 2013 we welcomed our first Portacom on site to accommodate various year groups as buildings were either being made watertight, earthquake strengthened, renovated, removed and replaced with new builds. One grew into 7 teaching spaces, an administration block and temporary toilets. Over the years between 2013 - 2017 four temporary teaching spaces, the administration block and toilets were removed, leaving three portacoms. 2018 another portacom was brought on, placed next to the remaining three, while waiting for further planning and construction. Today we are absolutely delighted to see the final four portacoms leave our site 2021. Sooooooo excited.

While this is an exciting time, we are still space poor and are grateful to the MoE who have confirmed we will have a further three teaching spaces placed on site to accommodate our growing roll and need to have our library and hall back for operational purposes within the school. Housed in the hall at the moment is Mrs Simpson, He Awhi Taonga and Growing kids.

Sadly due to some negative comments toward staff and South Coast Construction, I have to provide further clarity around our delayed start to the year. (some of you may have already seen this on FB)

As a Board of Trustees we made the call to ensure our site is ready to receive all children, staff and whanau safely in ALL learning spaces and ALL areas of the grounds where possible, Our aim was to ensure that these are able to be fully accessed and utilised with ease, which currently at the moment, is not the case.

We really appreciate how hard the team at South Coast have and are still working to complete the job. The South Coast Team have worked endless hours over and above the 0800-5pm and are often here on weekends and holidays.

We as a BoT firmly believe the delays which have extended the time frame are NOT fault of the South Coast Team.

The delays are a result in South Coast awaiting approval on decisions from other agencies, product delays due to COVID and the weather.

The delay in installing the Shade Sails by the team from Shade Sails NZ is again due to product delays related to COVID and shipping.

The BoT have taken the opportunity over the break to contract Mack Cook and his team to install a new retaining wall (replacing the old tyre one) and adjust the stairs going up to the cycle track, again for safety reasons. This work had to be coordinated with ALL other contractors onsite for access and supply deliveries safely.

Members of the Property Team have be working alongside Matt Williams and his team from Ballance, who were here over the past couple of weeks installing a creative stepping and balance apparatus, clearing out the driveway garden, donating firewood and providing framing around the playground areas.

The team from Modular are here onsite installing the new teaching space out the front of Panitahi Block. This area is well fenced and the team will be onsite for the month of February, often working weekends. (Again the delays are beyond our control)

All of these projects coming together all at once, elevated the risk to our children, staff and whanau if we had opened Tuesday 2 Feb. We aim, where possible to ensure ALL are safe here at IPS.

As a staff, we met and agreed that we appreciated it was short notice to the parents and as a result, we as a staff would offer childcare to families who could not make other arrangements for their children. We offered this as an act of goodwill, NOT because we had to.

It is disheartening that staff and members of the South Coast Team have had to hear negative comments and accusations around the delay.

I hope you now appreciate a bit more of the 'why' behind the decision and to those who found it necessary to be negative, may next time take the time to personally make contact with either myself or a Board Member to gauge further information if required.

The BoT Property Team are preparing for the next few projects which include:

Removal of all Portacoms over the next couple of weeks.

Planning for the ground repair where Portacoms and older classrooms have been demolished.

After that further projects include:

Moving the car park down to the tennis court

Completely upgrading the driveway.

I hope you will all agree, there are a lot of people working very hard to make our site, safe and inviting for all.

We will let you know when the blessing of the new builds is going to take place which will be after all construction has been completed onsite.

The Minister of Education, the Hon Chris Hipkins launched public engagement on draft curriculum content for Aotearoa New Zealand’s histories on the 3 February 2021.

You may have heard the Prime Minister also reference Aotearoa New Zealand’s histories in her speech at Ruapekapeka. The histories of Aotearoa are the histories of all people who live here.

Public engagement on the draft curriculum content will run through until 31 May 2021. We want to hear from everyone with an interest in how Aotearoa New Zealand’s histories is taught in our schools and kura so please participate.

Please get in touch with AotearoaNewZealandHistories@education.govt.nz

The detailed draft curriculum content and an online survey, for feedback, is available at www.education.govt.nz/aotearoanzhistories.

After last year’s challenges with COVID-19, a huge amount of work has been done to improve our collective ability to respond should a resurgence happen. The work we've been doing to develop response plans is central to this effort.

A key part of the broader plan for a COVID-19 resurgence is planning how teaching and learning can continue in the event we have to close. To support this, we asked at our Learning Partnership Hui questions around this. If you did not attend on Monday 1 Feb, please contact your child's teacher and discuss how we can assist your whanau in the event of a lockdown. The aim is for us to be ready so teaching and learning can continue seamlessly.

All stationery is available to be purchased from the school office.

Wednesday 17 February

Mini Moa 2-3pm

Wednesday 24 February

Mini Moa 2-3pm

Monday 1 March - Friday 12 March

Life Education Trust Visiting

Wednesday 3 March

Mini Moa 2-3pm

Friday 5 March

Teacher Only Day - School Closed

Monday 8 March

Taranaki Annivesary Day - School Closed

Wednesday 10 March

Mini Moa 2-3pm

Tuesday 16 March

Vision & Hearing Testing

Wednesday 17 March

Mini Moa 2-3pm

Thursday 18 March

Year 7 & 8 Immunisations

Saturday 20 March

Inglewood Primary School Gala Day

Monday 22 March

IPS Swimming Sports Y5 - Y8 at the Inglewood Town Pools

Wednesday 24 March

Mini Moa 2-3pm

Monday 29 March - Thursday 1 April

Camp Y7 & Y8 - Wellington

Wednesday 31 March

Mini Moa 2-3pm

Friday 2 April

Good Friday - School Closed

Monday 5 April

Easter Monday - School Closed

Tuesday 6 April

Easter Tuesday - School Closed for all schools

Wednesday 7 April

Mini Moa 2-3pm

Monday 12 April

Town v Country Swimming - Stratford Pools

Wednesday 14 April

Mini Moa 2-3pm

Friday 16 April

Last day of Term 1

Monday 3 May

First day of Term 2

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