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

Kia ora koutou,

Our combined schools, Te Kahui Ako o Taranaki Mohoao, Kapa Haka Festival was a great way to embrace and celebrate Maori Languge Week. Our tamariki along with all our Stratford and surrounding schools performed with enthusiam and pride at the War Memorial yesterday. Pai ki te katoa! (Well done to all!)

Our new school signage is finally up and now visitors and new families to our school should be able to navigate their way around the school with ease. Thank you to Ross and Sharon at Abstract Signs for a fantastic job done!

One of our three strategic goals this year is for our tamariki to make a difference and give back. Over the past three terms there has been many opportunities for this to occur. As a community we have also embraced and modelled this to our tamariki by assisting two of our school families through the meal roster. On behalf of both families I would like to extend a really big thank you to those of you that were able to assist with this. Our very small kind gesture had an immense impact at the receiving end and both families are ever so appreciative!

Over the school holidays we hope the tamariki enjoy spending more time with their calf or lamb. Fingers crossed for some fine weather so they can all spend lots of time outside exploring, playing, riding bikes, kicking balls, making huts and daisy chains......

Nga mihi nui

Kim Waite

Principal

Friends of Toko School (FOTS) Donation

A big thank you to FOTS for donating $15000 to the school. This money has been used to purchase new ipads, chrome books and netbooks across all classes and has contributed towards the cost of the new deck outside Room 4. A big thank you to everyone that supports FOTS across the school year. Without your support we wouldn't have surplus funds to buy the added extras for our school.

Enrolment Scheme

An advert has been placed in the Stratford Press opening the ballot for families who live outside of the school zone, to enrol their children at Toko School.

There will be places available from new entrants to Year 7.

Mega Mitre 10 Sponsorship

Thank you to Mega Mitre 10 and Taranaki Enviro Schools! We recevied $250.00 to purchase new kids and adult gardening gloves, seed raising mix, cloches and flowers. We are very appreciative of their kind donation.

2025 School Year

Dates for 2025 were approved at our August Board meeting. These dates have been added to our school calendar and can be found on our website.

Liquid Hand Sanitiser Refills

We have boxes of the above. If you would like some please pop in and see Annette in the office.

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.

We will be asking all the children to enter their calf or lamb next week. If plans change over the holidays and your child is no longer able to enter their calf or lamb can you please contact the office, after the holidays, 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

We are thrilled to see so many of you taking advantage of our wonderful Stratford library! It's been fantastic to hear about visits.

If you're unable to return your borrowed books to the library, we are here to help. Simply drop the books off at the school, and we will take care of returning them for you. There will be a box just inside the staffroom for these.

Thank you for your enthusiasm and support. Let's keep the momentum going—explore new books, discover new authors, and enjoy all the library has to offer!

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.

Sawdust or Calf Shavings

We are on the lookout for this for our chicken run. We have had too much rain the and ground is getting very muddy.

Enviro Stall

We are currently selling the following items on our enviro stall:

Produce Price

Eggs $6.00 a dozen - end of term special!!

Jam prices on jars

Trapping Boxes $15.00 each

Runner Beans $2.00 per bag

Sunflower Seeds $2.00 per bag

Sheep Manure - $10.00 per bag

16-20 September - Maori Language Week

25 September - Taranaki Cross Country

27 September - Term 3 Ends

14 October - Term 4 Starts

16 October -Hall of Creatiity 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