Pāpāmoa Primary
Growing Successful Learners - Whakatipu Mātauranga
Matt's Message
Kia Ora Whānau
Thank you for your support with our teacher only day yesterday. We appreciate this is a challenge for many families, but an opportunity that has been given to schools by the MOE.
We spent the day working with local clinical psychologist Josette Wulffaert who shared her knowledge and experience of working with trauma. Understanding that Trauma is the subjective experience of an event or series of events, that overwhelms an individuals capacity to cope.
We gain understanding in the potential signs of trauma both obvious and less obvious and the impact that trauma can have on us all. Most of all we spent time understanding how we can best work to support children who present with signs of trauma in our classrooms and school.
A very valuable day of learning.
The last two weeks have been great to welcome whānau back into school for our Friday morning Principal Awards assemblies. It has been great to share with the Karewa and Matakana teams and we look forward to Te Manawanui this week and Tūhua and Mōtītī in the following weeks.
Congratulations to the Tamariki who participated in the cluster cross country event yesterday. A big thanks to Kirsten, Rochelle and whānau who supported our team at the event. We will have a number of children who will represent our cluster now at the Western Bay event.
We have a big week of events coming up across the school.
Monday next week we have our amazing Showquest team performing at Bay Park arena. A big thanks to the staff who have dedicated many hours to getting this group ready to perform.
Tuesday and Thursday next week we have Tamariki at the Tauranga City Basketball world cup event.
Wednesday to Thursday, we have 2 of the Te Manawanui classes on a noho marae visit at Te Whetū-o-Te Rangi.
So some awesome opportunities and events coming up across the school for our Tamariki.
Thank you again to the many parents and helpers for all of the different things we have happening around the school.
Ngā mihi
Matt
Scholastic Book Club
Keep an eye out for Issue 4 of Scholastic Book Club which will be coming home with your child this week. Orders can be placed online - https://mybookclub.scholastic.co.nz/Parent/Login.aspx
Orders Close on Thursday 13th June.
Kiwican
Kia Ora from the Kiwi Can team
As we continue to focus on our theme, Manaakitanga/Respect, we have been talking about ways we can show respect to our Kura/school. We discussed all the different ways that our kaitiaki/caretaker shows respect to our school, and wanted to show appreciation for all the things he does. Some classes decided to find an area in the school that needed cleaning up while others created cards or posters.
We also learnt to respect the schools and our own belongings by putting away our things in the right places and tidying up. This was demonstrated by working together in a relay to put things away correctly.
School Uniform - Now Available on our School Shop
School Uniform is now available on our School Shop or from the office during our Uniform Sale hours.
Please note that uniform purchased on our School Shop includes a Kindo processing fee to cover school costs.
Parent Information Evening - Pāpāmoa College
To register for this free event please complete the form below:
Term 2 Events Calendar
Our school website has the link to our school events calendar. Click on the link below to see all of the term events that parents need to know about.
The calendar has been updated with our Term 2 Events:
2024 Term Dates
Wednesday Challenge
USEFUL INFORMATION FOR WHĀNAU
TERM DATES 2024
Term 1 05 Feb – 12 Apr
Term 2 29 Apr – 05 Jul
Term 3 22 Jul – 27 Sep
Term 4 14 Oct – 18 Dec
SCHOOL BELL TIMES
School Starts 8:40am
Morning Interval 10:30am - 11:00am
Lunch 12:40pm - 1.30pm
School Finishes 2:35pm Karewa and Matakana | 2:40pm Tūhua and Mōtītī
ABSENTEE INFORMATION
Phone: 542 3261 (absentee message service)
or
Email: papamoaprimary@papamoa.school.nz
or
Website: http://www.papamoa.school.nz/report_an_absentee
Please include your child’s name, room and reason for absence.
If your child arrives at school after 8.40am they are late. Please ensure they sign in at the office before going to class. Thank you.
As part of our School-Links communication system, an automated text message will go out to all unexplained absences. This number is a reply once only.
While we understand that families sometimes need to take time away from school, it is essential that we as a school are notified.
Any absence longer than 20 school days will need to be approved in advance by the school principal. You can do this by sending an email to papamoaprimary@papamoa.school.nz explaining the reason for your child's absence and the dates they will be away. If your child is absent for longer than 20 school days the MOE instructs us to remove a child from our school roll. If you live outside of our school zone there is no guarantee that your child will be able to re-enrol at Pāpāmoa Primary School. It's important to keep communication open between us. If you have any questions or concerns about this process, please feel free to reach out to us.
Thank you for your cooperation and support in your child's education.
LUNCH ORDERS
You can order (or cancel) any time before 8.30am (Yum Yum Lunch) or 9am (Pita Pit) on the day or schedule in advance.
Lunch will be delivered to the school in time for lunch.
Get started now… Click here or go to www.mykindo.co.nz and click ‘create account’.
Help? Visit support.mykindo.co.nz or tel. 0800 EZLUNCH (0800 395 8624) week days 8am-4pm.
COMMUNITY DENTAL SERVICE
The mobile is tentatively scheduled to be onsite at Te Manawa O Papamoa School from Monday 29th May for the remainder of Term 2.
For emergencies, parents can phone 0800 TALK TEETH (0800 825 583) to find the nearest clinic.
CHANGE OF DETAILS
In the event of an emergency, sickness or injury we need to be able to contact someone who can collect your child.
MEDICATIONS
Office staff will only administer medicines to students once a form has been completed and signed by a parent or caregiver.
Would you like to know more about our School Policies and Procedures?
We invite you to visit the site at https://papamoa.schooldocs.co.nz
(note that there's no "www.").
Our username is "papamoa" and password "3118".
Contact Details
Phone: 07 542 0865
Location: 312 Dickson Road Pāpāmoa
Email: admin@papamoa.school.nz
Website: www.papamoa.school.nz
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PapamoaPrimarySchool/