24th November 2011 - Week 5 Term 4

What's happening this Term…..

2nd December Interschool Athletics 7th December Room 4 Camp 12th - 14th Dec Rooms 1&5 Camp 12th & 13th Dec Life Education Caravan at school 19th December Year 6 Dinner 20th December Term 4 Ends!!!!! 7th February Term 1 Begins

Friday Lunch orders: Macaroni Cheese $2.50 Jelly & Icecream $1.50

Motupipi School Contact

Details:

435 Abel Tasman Drive

Takaka 7183

Phone: 03 525 9986

EMAIL: office@motupipi.school.nz

Internet Banking No:

Ukulele band for all Uke players Friday 2.30! See you

there with your Ukes and books.

The Tasman Mobile Dental Clinic is currently visiting

Takaka Primary School. It will be servicing the Takaka area for five weeks twice a year. If your child is enrolled in this service he/she will be seen during these times. If

your child is new to the area or those who wish to enrol

their children 0-17yrs please phone 0800 825 583. Or 027 705 9129 If you have any concerns please pop

into the mobile anytime.

The date for the Year 6 Dinner has been set for Monday 19th December 2011. Traditionally, Year 5 parents have been mainstays of the organising bunch and so we invite those of you who would like to help with the decoration and organisation to get in touch with Tania Hurst (525 8336 or 027 64 44 547) or Jill Pearson (027 384 8165) or leave your names at the school office. Of course we are more than happy to break with tradition and will welcome any help at all!

Website changes - At present we are working on a notices page on our website,

where we can display notices that go home with the children - for those who

don't live with their children or those whose notices sometimes get mislaid.

We have put Rooms 1 & 5 camp notices on and are working on putting up

Room 4’s notices. There are a few glitches to be fixed by our web design

company.

Keep your eyes out for the page next time you are looking at the website:

www.motupipischool.co.nz

Giant Pumpkin Growing

Competition

Central Takaka School is running

their annual Giant Pumpkin Grow-

ing Competition in March 2012. If

you are interested in entering you

are able to buy seeds (2 for 50cents)

to enter at the school office.

Join in and get your family behind

you to grow the biggest pumpkin

ever!

School Accounts: Accounts went out last week and we would appreciate settlement as soon as possible so we can tidy things up before the end of the year.

Photo and calendar orders!

These both need to be in by tomorrow afternoon so we can send them

away and get our orders in time to post for

Christmas pressies!

Athletic Sports

Next Friday 2nd December our 7-11year olds will

travel to Collingwood Area School to take part in the

Golden Bay Primary School Athletic Championships.

The children will all take part in long jump, high jump,

200m(7/8yrs), 400m(9/11yrs), Tennis ball throw

(7/8yrs) and Javelin (9/11yrs).

We plan to leave by bus at 9.10am returning by 3pm.

Children will need shorts, school T-Shirt, hat, lunch

and a drink.

Food can be purchased at Collingwood. On sale will be

sausages, chicken kebabs, cake, juicies and juice.

School T-Shirts

We require all of the

school T-shirts for the

athletic sports next

Friday so could you

please have a scout

around the house and

return them to school.

Farewell to Harry the Bus Driver

It was with sadness that we heard that our bus driver

Harry Holmwood had passed away. He had only been

driving our school bus for a short time, but had

obviously made an impact on our children’s lives.

Yesterday some of the children made a bus shaped

card for Harry’s family and in this they remembered

Harry for his kindness, gentleness, and his humour.

Pattison Swimming

Lessons

Rockville Pool 3rd & 4th

December

Jos & Margaret Pattison

03 544 6498

Golden Bay Kindergarten

Summer Fair

Friday 25th November 5pm, 9 Wadsworth St

All Welcome!

Pony rides, sausage sizzle, face

painting, raffles, motorbike rides, stalls, dessert table,

obstacle course and more!

Road Safety

Gerry Tonkin, the Police

Education Officer has spent

the week in our classes

working with the children on

road safety. For Rooms 1&5

the main focus has been

cycle safety and for Rms

2,3,4 it has been road

safety.

Camp Notices Could all Rooms 1,4&5

camp notices please be sent back to school so

that we can finalise planning for

the camps. Hopefully copies of our

notices will be up on our new Notice page on the website by the end of next week.

Girls and Boys Agricultural Show

Cup Winners

Yesterday at assembly, Clarissa Gray on

behalf of the G&B Show committee presented

Danny Ryan with the ‘Caught the Judges

Eye’ cup for his Rugby World Cup sand

tray, and Neko Rogers with the award for

best caged pet for her rabbits.

Competition Winner Neo Crowther won the local TDC 7/ 8 year old road safety colouring competition recently and he was

presented with his prizes at assembly, which included hi-viz vest, helmet, bell and puncture

repair kit.

Enviroschools Discovery Bus Tour We have selected four children: Briget Williams, Nico Pessione, Chrystal Boomert and Bonnie Ross to take part in the Enviroschools Discovery Bus Tour as part of their 10th Birthday celebrations next Wednesday 30th November. The tour will visit 2 Enviroschools in the Tasman Region, where the children will get a chance to participate in fun activities, meet other Envirogroups and find inspiration for future Environmental Activity! Wendy will be going over with the children and we hope to get some good ideas from other

schools that we can put into our enviroschools programme next year.

Pool Keys

The pool is up and running now though still very cold.

The Fundraising Committee have purchased a new solar cover

which arrived today and should help heat the pool along with

our solar roof heating.

New pool Keys can be purchased from the office at $50.00

each with a refund of $15.00 to be given if the key is

returned before the term 2 holidays next year.

Well done to those children who were

awarded certificates

yesterday for demonstrating our

Motto

“Making a Difference”

Or our Vision

“Believe in Yourself, Be Caring,

Take the Challenge, Succeed!”

Xanthe Rose

Star Young-Cherry

Neko Rogers

Jensy Moyle

Caitlin Anderson

Hannah Brazendale

Gabby Wanoa