Dear Parents and Friends of our School Kia Ora/Hello/Kamusta

Kia ora koutou,

This is an early newsletter with lots of reminders re Calf and Lamb Day. There will be no newsletter on Thursday :)

Now that it's Term 4 we are all required to wear bucket hats at school when we are not in the classroom. We have these for sale at school or you can bring a bucket hat from home. Please make sure these are named :)

We have changed school assemblies back to afternoons. These will take place every fortnight on a Friday at 2.30 starting next week.

Nga mihi nui

Kim Waite

Principal

We will be making our creations for the Hall of Creativity on Wednesday. Please see the link below with all the information about this.

This year we will be running a cake auction once again. We encourage as many families as possible to donate some baking to this. The baking can be dropped off at school on the morning of Calf and Lamb Day to the school garage and placed on the work bench.

Tamariki with a calf or lamb come to school with their whanau on this day and leave with their whanau after the event has finished. Tamariki without an animal can arrive as per usual or they can arrive no later than 10am on this day.

If your tamariki are arriving at school at 10am please make sure that when they arrive at school, they find their teacher and let them know that they have arrived. If your tamariki will not be at school you must notify the school by 9.00am (there is an answering machine for you to leave a message and reason). Thank you for your assistance in this matter.

Judging starts at 10.30am and children with animals need to be at school for animal registration at 10.00am. They must go to the registration table (without their animal) outside Room 4 to see Mrs Hinton and she will give them a number, on their hand. If you have a calf it must have a NAIT tag.

The tamariki will stay in one place for all judging categories and will have the same judges. At the end of each category the judges will announce 1st, 2nd, 3rd and Highly Commended and present the ribbons. Then move on to the next category. Once all judging has been completed for the calves and lambs, the judges will collate all the results and at the final prize giving we will announce champion lambs and calves for each section.

Children without animals will sit down and support the children that do, and will be surpervised by classroom teachers.

Food will be on sale on the day: Sausage and bread, meat pattie sandwich with coleslaw and onions, muffins, hot drinks, cans of drink and small chocolate bars.

Postponement Date Friday 18th October

We will send out an alert on HERO and on our Facebook page in the morning for cancellations.

The gate to the school field beside the hall and the Ahuroa Road entrance will be open, parents whose children have a lamb or calf are encouraged to drive into the school grounds and park.

Before 10.30 your children will be called to line up in front of the sandpit ready for the competition.

We will also have a preschool ring and preschoolers can just turn up on the day and register.

It is really important on the day, that people do not wander down by the course when the children are competing.

All children entered their calf or lamb at the end of last term. If plans have changed over the holidays and your child is no longer able to enter their calf or lamb can you please contact the office to let us know.

The details for calf and lamb day are on the following documents which are saved on our school website:

Calf & Lamb Day Guidelines 2024

Calf and Lamb Day Course Guidelines 2024

Hall of Creativity

This is the major fundraiser for Toko School and we encourage as many of our school families to get involved in either the hunting or helping side of the event. Below is the roster. Can you please email: office@toko.school.nz with where you can assist on the day.

Here is the lunch order form for Term 4. All orders need to be in by next Tuesday 22nd October.

https://forms.gle/1Pa5YKii3ASKe5CS7

This year we will be contributing to the Shoebox Christmas initiative again. All our recipients are within our local Central Taranaki community and are between 8-10yrs old. Each class will have 2-3 shoeboxes to fill with the following items

• Something to read

• Something to treasure

• Something to eat ( non perishables only)

• Something for health/ hygiene

• Something to do/play with

If you are able to donate any of the above can all items please be at school by the end of week 3 ( 1st November) so that we are able to package and deliver. Items need to be in excellent condition please.

Each fortnight we will be sharing some kupu that we are using in our classrooms. You may want to learn along as well. We will provide the word, how to pronounce it and how to say it in a sentence.

14 October - Term 4 Starts

16 October -Hall of Creativity making creations at school

17 October - Calf and Lamb Day

29 Oct - School Athletics

22 Oct -Lions Speech finals 7 - 9pm

28 Oct - Labour Day

29 Oct - School Athletics

30 Oct - Puanga Festival

1 Nov - 8 Nov -Sustainable Backyards

5 Nov - Bus Minitors Reward Day

6 Nov - Central School Athletics

12 Nov - Rural Cluster Tabloids pp date 13 Nov

28 Nov - Learning Journey Reports go out

10 Dec - Leavers Dinner

11 Dec - Star day out

Dec 13 - Last day of Term - school finishes 12pm

Entries are now open. We have a link to the entry form on our website.

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