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

Kia ora koutou,

Today is Support Staff Day and I would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to all the incredible support staff members we have in our school; Annette, Margaret, Treena, Jodene, Fiona, Tracy and Jasmine. Your dedication, hard work, and unwavering commitment to the well-being and success of our students and school does not go unnoticed. From keeping our school clean and tidy, to managing the office to ensure everything runs smoothly, and providing intervention programmes and in class support. Each of you play a vital role in creating a positive and nurturing learning environment. Your kindness, patience, and willingness to go above and beyond make a significant difference in the lives of our tamariki every single day. Thank you for all that you do to make our school a place where everyone feels supported and valued. You truly are the backbone of our school, and we are immensely grateful for your contributions.

On Friday we will be having our school assembly at the earlier time of 10.40am as the tamariki recognise the contribution our support staff make.

The weather has certainly changed over the last week. We have noticed many tamariki are arriving at school with only one layer of clothing, shorts, no jackets and no shoes. Can whānau please ensure tamariki come to school prepared for the cooler weather.

Just a reminder that we have a Ministry of Education allocated Teacher Only Day on Friday 31st May. The school will be closed on this day.

Nga mihi nui

Kim Waite

Principal

This week we are sharing about our Connected Star

Learning Stars DEVELOP qualities, skills and attitudes to cooperate, collaborate and connect with others.

Connected Learning Stars Can

1. Participate and take an active role

2. Accept diversity and differences

3. Consider others and show leadership

4. Negotiate and compromise

5. Deal with conflict situations appropriately

Connected Learning Stars are:

Respectful

Accepting

Trustworthy

Assertive

Empathic

Poi

We are going to make practices poi for school and for the tamariki to take home. We require the following items:

Double knit/4 ply wool

Dacron or pillow stuffing

Plastic bags or snap lock bags

old CD cases

Wool......

Can all items please be taken to Mrs Oliver in Room 2.

Lunch Orders

We are looking for a a few extra people to assist with this on Fridays. We run a roster so it would only be 1 or 2 times term. If you can help us out please contact office@toko.school.nz

Congratulations to Johnny, our Term 1 Enviro Leader.

Chicken Food

Our chickens are now big enough to need extra food. If you have food scraps at home and want to get rid of them, we would love to take them off your hands. They can be dropped off at Room 3 on any morning.

Board Review

To access the current policies under review for Term 2 please follow the link. There is an option for the school community to provide feedback by clicking the start review tab. The Board will be reviewing these at our next meeting.

Biennial Community Survey

During Term 3 we conducted our biennial community survey. We will continue to share sections of the survey each fortnight in the newsletter. The full survey is available to read on our school's website.

12. Transition to school - If your child has started school for the first time in the last 12 months how would you rate our transition to school procedures?

100% of parents commented that our transition to school procedures are excellent/good.

RECOMMENDATIONS:

• To continue with the Mutukaroa programme for children 5 – 7 years old.

• To work with the Te Kahui Ako o Taranaki Mohoao focussed on transition from Early Childhood Centres to Primary School.

• To continue to strengthen how our schools Learning Support Co-ordinator can play a contributing role in the transition from Early Childhood to Toko School.

As children move into Year 5 and 6 most will be working within stage 6. Here is an overview of the number concepts they are learning in the classroom.

At the end of Year 6

We expect that most children will know:

• Children will know subtraction facts to 20
  Multiplication facts for the 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 x tables and some corresponding division facts
  

Each fortnight we will be shairng some kupu with you all 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.

We would like to invite all the parents and caregivers of our tamariki (children) to once again join us for a kapahaka session.

On Tuesday 28th May we will run a normal kapahaka session with Wharekuka from 12-12.30 which you are all welcome to come and watch. From 12.30-1pm we will have a cup of tea and a biscuit and a chit chat with Wharekuka. If time allows we would also like to share with you our Te Reo journey so far and to seek some feedback about our next steps.

If you are keen to join us could you please email me so we can make sure there are enough biscuits lol. megan.oliver@toko.school.nz

Last term we held a relay for life at Toko school. We set a goal to walk every lunchtime for the whole of week 11. We aimed for 300km as a group but surpassed it by running/walking 514.8km in 4 days. As it rained on day 5 we ended up spending lunchtime doing Just Dance in the hall. Thank you to everyone who donated to this fundraiser and to students, parents and staff who joined us to run/walk laps. Together we raised $2726 through food sales, gold coin donation and sponsorship for the Taranaki cancer society. Tyler and Josh (Head leaders)

Jones Cup/Rippa Rugby/Crowley Cup - Year 5 - 8

Lots of notices will be sent home next Thursday regarding the above. Could you please have a good read and return any slips asap to asssit with our organisaiton of these events. We will be on the lookout for coaches/managers for these teams :) Dates for all of the above are below or on our school callendar on our website.

23 May - BOT Meeting

28 May- Year 5/6 Rippa Tournament pp 29 May

31 May- Teacher Only Day

3 June - Kings Birthday

11 June - Year 7/8 Rippa Tournament pp 13 June

13 June - Rural Cluster Play Day - Rooms 1 and 2

17 June - Jones Cup Year 5-8 pp 19 June and 26 June

24 and 25 June - Parent/Teacher/Child Interviews

25 June - BOT Meeting

4 July - Whanau Day

5 July - Term Two Ends

Full Primary School - Year 1 - 8

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