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

Kia ora koutou,

We hope everyone had a great holiday, and as always it is great to see everyone's smilling faces back at school this week.

Over the holiday break all staff renewed their first aid certificates.

Our school had a wash down and all the guttering cleaned. We still have a small bit of paint work still to be completed. We have ordered new school signage for around the buildings and hope to have these up soon.

Below I have included a screen shot summary of our schools Term 2 attendance. Once again we ask that you monitor your own children's attendance. If they have already had considerable time off school for illness or holidays then they cannot afford to have any extra days away from school that are unnjustified.

Just a reminder to bring your children to school with layers of clothes and a change of clothes in their bags. Its still really cold. Chidlren do not wear shoes in their classrooms but can wear socks and or slippers to keep their feet warm. Please, please name everything :)

Nga mihi nui

Kim Waite

Principal

A big welcome to Chloe G and Quinten G and their families to Room 1 and Toko School.

Term 3 Board Review

This term we have a new set of policies that we are reviewing.

• Concerns and Complaints

• Media

• Performance Management

• Professional Development

• Protected Disclosure

• Staff Conduct

• Staff Leave

These can be found on our school website. Click Current Review and follow the instructions if you would like to contribute to this review.

Term 3 Lunch Orders

Here is the link for this term's lunch orders. These need to be completed by Tuesday of week 2 please.

Lunch Order Helpers

We are looking for a couple more people to assist with making school lunches on a Friday. You would only be rostered on for one or two lunches per term.

Next Meeting

Our next meeting is Tuesday 6th August - 7pm - in the school staffroom. We are looking for new members and people to join our Pig Hunt sub committee. Everyones welcome :)

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.

The first half of the term we will be focusing on Oral Communication Presentations. Information about this is saved on our schools website.

We will be running a short meeting for parents to discuss this with you and share with you how you can help your children at home. This will be on Wednesday 31st July from 2.45 - 3.00pm in the school hall.

Chickens

Our chickens love your food scraps - please drop these off to Room 3 so we can top our hungry chickens up. Hopefully they will begin laying soon.

Wednesday - Hot Lunches

Just a reminder that children can bring a hot lunch to school on Wednesday. These get heated in the pie warmer. Children can bring pies, sausage rolls, pizzas, lasanga etc.

School Photos - Tomorrow - Friday 26th July

Please remember school photos will be taken on Friday morning. Kapahaka boys will need to have their black shorts and students need to be here by 8.30 to get into their costumes ready for their photo at 9am.

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.

Skipping & Running Skills

This term we are going to be focusing on our skipping skills, using skipping ropes and our running skills in the lead up to our school cross country. Just a reminder, there will be no rural cluster cross country. We will have our school cross country and then children will be selected to participate in the Central Cross Country. From this event children will be selected to enter the Taranaki Cross Country.

This term we have 2 Year 7&8 Sports Tournaments coming up.

On Friday 9th August we have a netball team and a rugby team playing in the annual Rich/Weir Cup at Ngaere School.

On Wednesday 21st August we have a football team, netball team and rugby team playing the Year 7&8 interschool competition. The netball and rugby team will be playing for the Hurlstone Cup and the McLeod Shield.

Information will be sent home with all players involved this week.

13 August - BOT monthly meeting

16 August - School Disco

21 August - Yr 7 & 8 Sports Tournamnet (McLeod Shield, Hurlstone Cup, 9 aside Football)

30 August - Daffodil Day

30 August - School Cross Country pp 2nd September

12 September - Kahui Kapa Haka

16-20 September - Maori Language Week

17 September - BOT monthly meeting

20 September - Tatarikihi Festival Kapahaka

27 September - Term 3 Ends

14 October - Term 4 Starts

17 October - Calf and Lamb Day

Full Primary School - Year 1 - 8

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