Kura Tuatahi Toko Panui

8th August 2024

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

Kia ora koutou,

The Friends of Toko School had a meeting last night and planning is well under way for both our annual pig hunt and calf and lamb day.

The details for calf and lamb day are on the following documents which are saved on our schools website:

Calf & Lamb Day Guidelines 2024

Calf and Lamb Day Course Guidelines 2024

The commitee have made some slight changes for 2024:

All 5 year olds who start school in Term 3 or 4 will lead their lamb around the pre school course only. We will have a preschool section and a new entrant section. Every child in both sections will receive a certificate.
Lamb - Rearing - This section will only be available for the Senior and Intermediate section on the day.
If we have equal points in the Junior Lambs the judges will be asked to include the rearing section to assist with determining the Champion Lamb for the Juniors.

The year group for each section changes from year to year depending on the number of entries. We will not be able to confirm this until the end of this term.

Information about the Hall of Creativity will come out later in the term.

Nga mihi nui

Kim Waite

Principal

FRIENDS OF TOKO SCHOOL

Disco

This year we will be selling pieces of pizza for $1.00. We have decided to only sell pizza for the first 45 minutes and then the following will be available to buy:

Iceblocks and mini chocolate bars.

Tatoos will be on sale for 50c.

We will also have water available for the children to drink throughout the night.

Pig Hunt Sub Committe Meeting - Tuesday 13th August - 2.00pm in the staffroom.

We would like to set up a sub committe for our major fundraiser of the year. If you have some spare time and can lend a hand with any part of this event pop along to our meeting next week or call the office to add your name to the committee list if you can't make the first meeting. new memebers welcome.

SCHOOL WIDE OLYMPICS FOCUS

This Friday we will be holding an Olympics Parade.

Children know to come dressed in house colours/countries discussed last Friday at our House Meetings. This is reminder of countries Houses could come dressed in but House Colurs are fine.

Rimu: Red, China, Canada

Kahikatea: Green, Brazil, Jamaica, Mexico

Kauri: Yellow, Australia, South Africa.

Totara: Blue, New Zealand, France

On Thursday 15th August we will also be holding a fun House Olympic event from 11.30 - 1.00. Children are asked to come dressed up on this day as well. Absoultely children can come dressed in the same outfit on both days.

ENVIRO UPDATE

Lime Spraying our Orchard

We would like to spray our fruit trees and are wondering if some one had a sprayer on their motorbike that might be able to do this for us?

If you can help out or know someone that might be able to can please give Mrs Waite or Mrs Hinton a call in the school office.

Chickens

Our chickens are now beginning to lay :) Their eggs will be for sale for $8 on our enviro stall. If anyone has empty egg cartons that we can use please drop these off to Room 3. We would also love more food scraps to be able to feed the chickens. These can also be dropped off into the basket in Room 3.

Congratulations to Harper, our latest enviro leader.

Room 5 Build a Business

Thank you to everyone who supported our Room 5 market last term. We have been working hard to fulfil all the orders, which are now ready for delivery. These will be sent home with the eldest child in each family on Friday (tomorrow) or you can pop in and collect.

FEW REMINDERS . . .

School Photos - Parents have been emailed their child’s unique Key Code to go online to view and purchase 2024 School Photos. ***FREE DELIVERY EXPIRES Midnight Sunday 18 AUGUST *** You might need to keep an eye on your trash / spam folder.

Apple stickers

This is the last term for collecting apple stickers. These will be collated in week 10 ( please have all sheets in by week 9) and the stickers will be sent in to earn new sports equipment. If you need a new sheet please see Mrs Fuller.

Shop, Scan, Save, with Noel Leeming!

Hero - OUR SCHOOL APP has partnered with Noel Leeming to give our school community discounts off selected products - year round! Access your barcode via the Special Offers tab in your Hero app, and simply scan in store to redeem. The Barcode is at the bottom of the page on the right hand side.

KUPU - WORDS

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.

SPORTS UPDATE

Rich Weir Cup

This Friday we have the annual Y7/8 Rich Weir Cup being played at Ngaere School. Kick off for both netball and rugby will be at 1.00pm.

Cross Country Practice -

All our classes will be training for cross country over the next 3 weeks. Please ensure that your child has suitable gear for running ( shoes are optional but recommended) and a change of clothes as the paddocks we run in are often wet and muddy.

Toko School Cross Country

Our school Cross Country is scheduled for Friday 30th August and will run alongside our daffodil day activities.

The event will begin at 11.30am and is run on the school grounds and into the O'Sullivans paddocks which runs on the far side of the school house.

Footwear is optional but is recommended. Please note that the course can be quite muddy if we have had wet weather prior to the event.

All children are asked to wear their house colors and we ask that if your child is going to be picked up from the event that we wait for all runners to have completed the course so that everyone is supported.

We will need parent volunteers to help marshall on the course.If you are able to help please let Shelley know.

Rural Cluster Cross Country will no longer be taking place. Runners will be selected from this event to attend the Central Cross Country ( Y3+) based on time rather than position.

Class Trips/ Sports Events etc

When taking private transport to a school related event we need to collect registration and driver information due to Health and Safety policy and procedure. To prevent us having to collect this information everytime you are involved in a trip with your child we will store the information that you have given us from the first time (starting this term). If you do not wish for your information to be saved for the remainder of the year can you please let us know.