Porritt School Press

Kia ora tātou e te whānau o Te Kura o Porritt!

Man, what a scorcher it has been just lately! Our tamariki have enjoyed cooling off in the school pool and have done a good job focusing on learning with the heat making them tired. Many thanks to Mr McDonald - Matua Hamish. You've done a great job keeping our pool clean and clear!

Due to the heat, we had an unexpected fire alarm activation with one of our sensors heating up and triggering our fire alarm. We evacuated out to the rear of the field and were all accounted for. Fire trucks attended and the defect was discovered and duly replaced this morning. This was another chance to observe how cool and calm and organised our kura is.

This edition of our Porritt School Press is all about keeping us organised with the end of the 2024 school year in sight. We have a few cool events and celebrations coming up, and a few boxes left to tick before the summer break. Double-check your dates and times to keep your whānau organised.

Reo Rua/Reo Rumaki - Expression of Interest

Just below, is an update following our whānau hui on November 20. I felt privileged hearing from our whānau during this hui, the awesome whakaaro, thoughts and perspectives, from those present. We're excited to ask for Expressions of Interest as a next step. Please see below!

End of Year Learning Summaries - Monday 16 December

These awesome records of your child's learning and progress come home on Monday 16 December. We will send home a hard copy and share one via HERO. Please make time to sit with your tamaiti, your child, to read through this together. Many thanks to our teaching staff for the hard work bringing these summaries together.

Next week, on Wednesday, all tamariki will spend time as a whole group in their Learning Teams for 2025 connecting with the people and the learning environments in their 2025 Learning Team.We are still finalising our staffing plan for 2024. We will share an update in our final Porritt School Press for the year.

For now, let's enjoy the last few days of of the 2024 school year together, and treasure the time we have left with these tamariki of ours. As always, if there is anything else we can help with, please do reach out and get in touch.

Mauriora,

Maaka Papuni - Tumuaki

Kia ora e te whānau whānui o Te Kura o Porritt!

On Wednesday 20 November, we met with our whānau to korero around the potential for the establishment of a reo rua, a bilingual space, or a reo rumaki, an immersion space, in our kura in 2025 and beyond.

It was a privilege as a school leader to hear the beautiful whakaaro and korero, the thoughts and the feelings and views our whānau shared as a part of this hui.

We have captured this korero and have a summary of the discussion with our whānau about opening up bilingual/immersion Te Reo Māori pathways through our kura moving ahead.

We are now calling for an expression of interest from whānau and caregivers here. If you would like to find out more about how this could look for your child in 2025, please click on the link below to express an interest in your child being considered for this pathway.

We have some information about a possibility in 2025 we'd like to share with interested whānau and tamariki. We are looking for expressions of interest by Wednesday 11 December - apologies for the haste e te whānau!

Tiro atu ki te pae, mauria atu tō korowai.

Look forward into the horizon and prepare.

Mauriora koutou - we look forward to hearing from you!

Matua Karaitiana speaking at our whānau hui in November.

It has been a scorcher just lately - 34 degrees today!

It is absolutely essential that our tamariki have a pōtae, a school hat, to wear whenever our tamariki are outside. We also need our tamariki arriving with a water bottle to keep the hydration up, and some sunscreen. They can top up the sunscreen at school, but a first layer at home would be great!

These wonderful tamariki have the pōtae game sorted!

Indigo, Emily and Mia well covered!

Darius, Rosaria, Kyle and Ollie chilling out in the shade!

Our Porritt School tamariki always look amazing representing our kura. We can show PRIDE in these awesome uniforms. The huge majority of our sports uniforms are out in the community. We need these all back in ASAP. Some sports are finished for the year, we'd like those in today. Some sports have one or two more games left in total.

It is critical we have all of our sports uniforms back in ASAP. We will dry clean them all, and run a stocktake to see what uniforms we may need to purchase in 2025.

Last night, we got to recognise and celebrate our Paula, or 'Mrs Nicol', one of our Team Rua kaiako, at the NZEI Registration Ceremony at the Napier Sailing Club.

Paula started her time with us in 2022 as a third year student teacher learning throiught the EIT Teacher Training Programme. We were lucky enough to be able to offer Paula her first teaching job in 2023. Paula has been mentored by Ben Martin and Emma Woods throughout the two years. Paula has completed a very successful two years of provisional registration as a beginning teacher...she's now a fully registered teacher!

Congratulations to Paula on her well deserved full registration. A big mihi to her whānau Nath, Cole and Emma for their support as well! Ka rawe Mrs Nicol - welcome to the noble profession!

💛🖤 Paula with Mentor Teacher Ben following the ceremony last night 💛🖤

Monday 14 October: Term Four Commences ✅

Monday 14 October @ 9.05am: Mihi Whakatau to welcome new students, whānau & staff ✅

Wednesday 16 October: Porritt School Board Meeting @ 5.30pm ✅

Thursday 17 October: Team Whā Camp El Rancho Whānau Hui ✅

Tuesday 22 October: Digi Awards Prize Giving @ The Municipal Theatre ✅

Thursday 24 October: School and Porritt Care Closed for Staff-Only Day ✅

Friday 25 October: Hawkes Bay Anniversary Day ✅

Monday 28 October: Labour Day ✅

Thursday 31 October: Year 3-6 School Athletics @ Hastings Sports Park ✅

Monday 4 November - Tuesday 5 November: Team Toru Y5 Marae Noho @ Wharerangi Marae ✅

Wednesday 6 November: Year 0-2 Run Jump Throw Athletics @ Porritt School ✅

Thursday 7 November: Porritt's Got Talent Grand Finale ✅

Friday 8 November: School Photos! ✅

Tuesday 12 November to Friday 15 November: Team Whā @ Camp El Rancho ✅

Wednesday 13th November & Thursday 14th November: Year 5 Road Patrol Training ✅

Thursday 14 November: Team Tahi Rocky Shore trip ✅

Tuesday 19 November: Taradale and Districts School Interschool Athletics ✅

Wednesday 20 November: Whānau Hui - Reo Rua / Reo Rumaki Learning Korero @ 6.00pm ✅

Friday 6 December: 2024 Year 6 Road Patrol to Splash Planet

Wednesday 11 December: Learning Team Transition visits from 11.00am - 12.30pm

Thursday 12 December: Team Rua Kapa Haka performance for whānau and caregivers @ 2.00pm

Thursday 12 December: Year 6 Leaver's Dance and Dinner @ 6.00pm

Monday 16 December: End of Year Learning Summaries shared with whānau and caregivers

Monday 16 December: End of Year Celebration Assembly @ 6.00pm

Tuesday 17 December: Final day of the 2024 school year. School finishes at 1.00pm. PorrittCare closed

We look forward to this one every year! Our senior tuakana, our Year 6 students, have been learning social dances in preparation for our Leavers Dinner and Dance. We get dressed to the nines, practice that Waltz and Gay Gordon and share plenty of smiles.

We will share plenty of photos and celebrate these graduating tamariki as we celebrate their time with us on Thursday 12 December at 6.00pm.

Huge thanks to our Porritt Home and School Group working hard behind the scenes to support the Team Whā teaching team to make this happen for our Team Whā tamariki.

If you want to order individual photos and class photos, that is still an option for you, so long as you know what email address you have on file here at school!

A unique keycode has been emailed to you for your child. Go to https://photolife.co.nz/ once you have accessed this code in your email inbox.

You simply need to follow the instructions on the PhotoLife website and enter the unique keycode emailed to you to access your child's photos. From here you cn make your selections and confirm your orders.

Happy ordering whānau!

If in doubt, sing out - call the office on 06 8444 620 and speak with Tori.

A huge well done to our Porritt Paddlers! Finishing the Spring League season in 2nd place after a nail biting final against Mahora Weka, going down 2-1 in extra time. Ka pai tō mahi RJ, Max M, Evie, Khloe, Anaru, Luca and Calico on a massive season!

- Miss Hunt

p.s. Thanks for your mahi Miss Hunt! What a job you've done connecting these kids with this passion!

Our 2025 New Entrant spaces are filling FAST at Te Kura o Porritt.

Please reach out to us on 8444 620 to book a school tour now, or to enrol younger siblings.

You can also email Maaka directly to arrange a school tour or to discuss an enrolment, by hitting the button below;

Here's early confirmation of term dates for 2025 at Porritt School;

TERM 1: MONDAY 3RD FEBRUARY - FRIDAY 11TH APRIL

TERM 2: MONDAY 28TH APRIL - FRIDAY 27TH JUNE

TERM 3: MONDAY 14TH JULY TO FRIDAY 19TH SEPTEMBER

TERM 4: MONDAY 6TH OCTOBER TO WEDNESDAY 17TH DECEMBER

BEGINNING OF TERM 1, 2025 INFORMATION;

MONDAY 27 JANUARY - FRIDAY 31 JANUARY: SCHOOL OFFICE OPEN FOR NEW ENROLMENTS

MONDAY 3RD FEBRUARY - KAIAKO CONNECT HUI WITH 2025 KAIAKO

TUESDAY 4TH FEBRUARY - ALL STUDENTS BACK - PŌWHIRI FOR WHĀNAU HOU.

* Please note, we are still in the process of confirming our Teacher and Staff Only Days for 2025.