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

Kia ora koutou,

Wow it is hard to believe that we only have 11 school days left until the end of the school year. We are really excited about our upcoming hangi and thank Megan and her amazing team of parent helpers who are all pulling this together at such a busy time of the year. Further details below.

Letters will be going home today to all Year 3's and Year 1's, to share which class your child will be in for 2025. For all other year groups please refer to our previous newsletter for school organisation.

This year we will be presenting the Year 8 leavers awards at the Year 8 Leavers Dinner. We will hold an assembly on Thursday 12th December at 2.00pm to represent these infront of the whole school.

We have had such an amazing response from parents to attend and assist as parent supervisors for our 2025 school camps. All three camps only require a limited number of parent helpers and we have had almost double that required for each camp. Notes will be going home today outlining who will be attending camp. We know there are going to be some disappointed parents. If your name is on the list and you can no longer attend or are happy to give up your place please contact your child's classroom teacher asap. If a police vet form is attached you will need to fill this in in order to attend camp and return asap.

We seem to have quite a few families not getting notifications when there is a new app alert. This can be for a variety of reasons including new updates and older phones. You have two options to receive app alerts or emails. Receiving emails may be a more reliable option for some of our families. If you need a hand switching please pop in and see us or give us a call.

Learning Journey Reports will be available on Thursday 28th November for families to view. These are accessed through our HERO APP. Here is a link to information explaining what you will see on your child's report page. This information is also available by clicking on the "About This Page" option on your child's 2024 report page.

Nga mihi nui

Kim Waite

Principal

Leavers Dinner

Letters will be sent home today with all the details about the pot luck dinner :)

End of Year Get Together

Letters will be sent home today with information about this.

Star Day Out

Letters will be sent home today with information about this.

Leavers Jersey

A note has been sent out about this advising you need to pay cash. The $82.00 can be paid into the school bank account: Toko School Children's Account 15-3947-0275158-00. Please put your childs name and leavers J as a reference.

This year, Room 5 completed a project called "Build a Business". The primary goal was to teach financial literacy and promote Green Star skills and qualities by using the profit to give back and help others. The class made a total profit of $724 and together the students chose to use the funds in the following ways:

-purchasing two new vices for the workshop for everyone to enjoy - $240

- plants and seeds for our bee garden to aid our honey production - $30

- donating towards more daffodil bulbs to support future fundraising to the Cancer Society - $250

- contributing towards costs for the upcoming hangi, an event that brings the school together - $200.

This project has been a valuable learning experience for our class, and we are grateful for the community’s support of our market day!

Can you help?

Room 5 is on the hunt for a wonderful handy man or woman to install two new vices in the workshed. If you are able to help could you please email Miss Smith gemma.smith@toko.school nz.

Lost property will be on display in the school hall from 2nd to 6th December. Please take a moment to check the items for anything that might belong to your child. At the end of the year, any unclaimed items will be washed and donated to Hospice.

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.

Yr 5 - 2nd Lorenz

100 mtr

Yr 5 - 2nd George

Yr 6 - 2nd Michael

Yr 8 - 1st Joshua

200 mtr

Yr 5 - 3rd George

Yr 6 - 1st Michael

Yr 7 - 2nd Cooper C

400 mtr

Yr 6 - 2nd Jackson

Yr 7 - 2nd Shaye

Yr 8 - 3rd Dominic

8oo mtr

Yr 8 -1st Tyler

Yr 8 - 2nd Dominic

1500 mtr

Yr 7 - 1st Bryn

Yr 8 - 2nd Tyler

Long Jump

Yr 5 - 2nd George

Yr 6 - 2nd Michael

Yr 8 - 2nd Joshua

Shot Put

Yr 6 - 1st Blake

Yr 8 - 1st Rupert

Yr 8 - 3rd Josh

Discus

Yr 5 - 1st Isaac

Yr 6 - 2nd Cohen

Yr 8 - 1st Tyler

Yr 8 - 2nd Rupert

Girls -100 mtr

We have eggs for sale until the end of week 8. Our chickens will be off to their holiday homes after Wednesday 4th and we will only be able to sell what we have already collected from that date.

We sent an app alert out on Monday - this is just a reminder:

To help with catering we are also asking for donations of food items. These food items will need to be at school by Tuesday 4th December. Could you please click on the following link and complete the form so we can determine how many members of your family we will be catering for and how you can help with food donations. The form needs to be completed by Friday 29th November at 3pm. On Friday night we will confirm food donations via our HERO school app.

Thank you, your Hangi Team

Hangi 2025

On Friday 6th December (Week 8) the Leadership Team will be running a range of water and non water activities, during the middle block, for the school to enjoy. Could students please bring togs, a towel, rash top, sunhat and sunblock on this day. We are hoping for a nice sunny day!

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

All rugby jerseys still at home need to be returned back to the Toko school office before the end of the term please.

Firefighter Sky Tower Challenge

Local Toko Volunteer Firefighter and Toko School Dad, Charlie (Walter) Smith has taken up the challenge to climb the Auckland Sky Tower in full firefighting gear to raise money for Leukaemia & Blood Cancer New Zealand. If you would like to show your support, please consider donating to Leukaemia & Blood Cancer New Zealand by scanning the QR code on the poster below or head to https://www.firefighterschallenge.org.nz/walter-smith-iv

Email: office@toko.school.nz
Website: www.toko.school.nz
Location: 1057 East Road, Toko, New Zealand
Phone: 06 7622849
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