Wk 1, Term 3 2024

Tēnā koutou katoa

Ngā mihi nui, kia koutou katoa - Warm greetings to you all.

We hope everyone had a fabulous holiday break. Our TPS team are well prepared and excited for the term ahead. This term all teams will teach the Understanding Me health unit (information below) and every class will also attend sessions in the Life Education van to learn about body systems and how they work. Each team has sent out a Term 3 notice which contains more detailed information for parents about the term ahead .

Next week, the Education Review Office (ERO) will be onsite to complete their review of our school. This will involve a reviewer in classes observing teaching practice.

Towards the end of this term, parents will receive a school report and will be invited to a Learning Conference. This will be the third opportunity for parents to formally connect with their child's teacher(s) to review how the year is going and set goals for the remainder of the year. In the meantime, if you have any questions or concerns, please make direct contact with your child's teacher.

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This term we welcome several new TPS staff to our team:

• Fiona Cornwell and Catherine Day who are team teaching in Room 11
• Sue Belsham who is teaching in Middle Hub 4
• Tyla Grafas who joins our Teacher Aide team

I am also thrilled to share that Whaea Jen and her husband welcomed a wee baby boy, Nico James, into their family in the holidays. Everyone is doing great and we all think he is just so gorgeous and perfect.

The Tauranga Primary School Board of Trustees would like to co-opt a member who is mana whenua and has a strong interest in supporting our school in the future. Active participation by whānau Māori in planning, development and delivery of education services will help us to ensure that what we do at TPS is appropriate and effective for ākonga Māori. If you have any interest in finding out more about this role please contact me.

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A very warm welcome to students who have recently started at TPS: Antonella Garate Pacheco, Yanjiao Wang, Seojun and Seowoo Mun, Emily Ma, Andy Zhang, Ruby Kwok, Liam Morss, Millie Gaylard, Aubrey Moore, Hunter Dutch, Selena Lor, Ella Bellamy, Eleanor Alach, Thanwin Sreejith, Ataria Puhara, Heeni Puhara, Taimana Puhara-Simeon, Aria Barham and Arthur Doabroski de Souza.

It is great to have you and your whānau joining our TPS team.

Hei kōnei rā

Fiona Hawes

Principal

principal@tauranga.school.nz

Below is a link to a parent information video. The video outlines the UNDERSTANDING ME health unit we are teaching in Term 3.

Understanding Me is a health unit we teach every second year; it incorporates health lessons from the PE and Health curriculum including Relationships and Sexuality Education and the NZ Police unit Keeping Ourselves Safe.

This video provides an overview of what is covered in each area of the school.

I recommend that all parents watch the video so that they are well-informed.

Please do not hesitate to talk to your child's teacher if you have any questions or queries.

Oxford Pies will be available for pick up after school on Friday 26th July 3:00pm.

Enrolment for Term 4 2024 - ballot to be held Friday 2nd August

Enrolment for Term 1 2025 - ballot to be held on Friday 25th October 2024.

Enrolment packs can be collected from the office, or use our online enrolment form at www.tauranga.school.nz / enrol.

Any queries or to check your child's name is on our pre-enrolment list please contact our Enrolment Officer: Barbara Turley at office@tauranga.school.nz

At TPS we have various initiatives in place to create and maintain a Peaceful Playground. Our goal is to ensure that our students are engaged in fun activities and that everyone is safe and happy. One strategy we employ is a peer mediator programme. The peer mediators (year 6 students) work in our junior school playground at lunchtimes to support children navigating everyday playground challenges. These students have been trained, and are supervised, to help children resolve playground disagreements.

They can help with problem solving (for example how to positively share play equipment), they check in with students who might look lonely or sad and they help children find someone to play with. Through supporting their younger peers in a tuakana-teina relationship, they are developing their own skills to listen, be empathetic, and to moderate and find compromise.

If an issue is particularly challenging, they bring in a duty teacher to help resolve it.

Term 3:

• 26th July, Friday - Oxford pies delivered - ready for pick up at 3:00pm in the school hall
• 26th July, Friday - Mihi whakatau for new students and their families, 9:00am
• 5th August, Monday- 16th August, Friday - Life Education in school
• 5th August, Monday - 9th August, Friday - Cook Islands Language Week
• 6th August, Tuesday - Board of Trustees meeting, 6:30pm
• 21st August, Wednesday - Funky Fun Day, Year 3 and 4
• 27th August, Tuesday - Friends of the School meeting, school staffroom 5:30pm
• 29th August, Thursday - Tauranga Intermediate School open evening
• 4th September, Wednesday - Photolife in school, class and individual photos
• 16th September, Monday - 20th September, Friday - Māori Language Week
• 17th September, Tuesday -Board of Trustees meeting, 6:30pm
• 18th September, Wednesday - Learning conferences after school
• 19th September, Thursday - Learning Conferences all day
• 27th September , Friday- Last day of term, school finishes at the usual time

Forward planning - please diary in the dates for our school production:

School Production - evening performances on the 4th and 5th of December at Bethlehem College

(year 2 -6 students only)

Don't forget to collect the Yummy stickers from the apples or the bulk packs of apples. Paste them onto the sheet and bring them into the office. We send them off to collect points for sports equipment. More sticker sheets are available for download from the Yummy Fruit Company: https://www.yummyfruit.co.nz/schools/

Principal

Fiona Hawes

principal@tauranga.school.nz

Deputy Principal

Cathy Ediker

dp@tauranga.school.nz

Assistant Principal

Robyn Caley

rcaley@tauranga.school.nz

Junior Team Leader

Pam Wilkins

pwilkins@tauranga.school.nz

Middle Team Leader

Jason Morgan

jmorgan@tauranga.school.nz

Senior Team Leader

Jo Howard

jhoward@tauranga.school.nz

International Student enquiries

Cathy Ediker

dp@tauranga.school.nz

Business Manager

Susan O'Neill

business@tauranga.school.nz

Enrolment Officer

Barbara Turley

office@tauranga.school.nz