PAHIATUA SCHOOL NEWSLETTER – Week 10 - Term THREE - 2019 Wednesday, 25th September Red Nose/Crazy Hair/REDiculous Clothing Day – GOLD COIN Friday, 27th September Pahiatua School – Dance Demo Day (Last day of Term 3) Monday, 14th October First day of Term 4 – 2019 Tuesday, 15th October First game of Outdoor Hockey Friday, 25th October Year 5/6 Banner Monday, 28th October NO SCHOOL – LABOUR WEEKEND Wednesday, 11th December FINAL SCHOOL ASSEMBLY – Last day of Term 4 2019

STUDENT OF THE

WEEK

TERM 3 - WEEK 9 JUNIOR SYNDICATE DTR – Hollie Flynn, Hall 1 – Tyler Plastow, Hall 2 – Cory-James Edmonds,

Room 2 - Dom Blakemore, Room 3 –

Erik Wilson.

MIDDLE SYNDICATE Room 7 – Maddison

Arnott, Room 8 – Blake Greaves,

Room 9 – Keian White Room 10 – Leyanna

Richards.

SENIOR SYNDICATE Years 5/6

Room 4 – Piata Aspinalll, Room 5 – Cooper Frank, Room 6 – Ethan Slater & Joseph Standing, Room

LC – Keanu Robin. Years 7/8

Room S1 Aimee Powick, Room S2 Anna

Swansson, Room S3 – Amy Henson, Room S4 –

Logan Angove. GOLD CARD DRAWS:

Junior: Kyzah Taikato-Reti

Middle: Jemma Aitken Seniors: Zane Hogg

CITIZENSHIP

AWARDS

Congratulations to

the following

student who was

awarded the

following:

Gold – Jazmin

Dean An amazing

achievement Jazmin, we are

very proud of you.

Last week of term! A very big thank you to David Jackson for leading the school over the past 9 weeks. He has done an outstanding job. He has been well supported by the great team of teachers, support staff and Board members. To be successful in any school everyone needs to be prepared to work as a team and that has been the case. I am very proud of the way David led the team and the way others stepped up to support him. This week I will be in and so will David from time to time as we ensure coverage for Karlene whose leg is now in a cast and we are not sure when she will be back! For this reason, we have postponed the Year 7 and 8 Formal Dance until later in Term 4. (We need Karlene to lead the dancing – no good looking at me for that one!). We will see how the next 3 weeks goes for her and work out cover. We will continue with Dance Demo Day on Friday providing the weather is reasonable. We will walk the whole school down to the Stadium just after 9:00am (NO ORDERED LUNCHES PLEASE) and get underway at 9.45am - SEE ATTACHED PROGRAMME. You are welcome to join us at any point and if it suits, you can take your child/ren home once they have finished dancing at 1:30pm. However, unless parents are at the Stadium to pick up children they will go back to school with the teachers and be dismissed from there at 2:55pm. This Wednesday is going to be a special day. As part of our Red Nose day supporting ‘Cure Kids New Zealand’ Levi Sherwood (New Zealander and international freestyle motocross superstar!) will be coming to Pahiatua School on Wednesday, 25th of September from 1.30pm onwards. All Pahiatua School community members are invited to a shared lunch, assembly and perhaps a quick demo on his motorbike. To show our support and raise money for Cure Kids, we ask that students dress up in REDiculous clothing and bring a gold coin to receive a Red Nose. We will also have sausages and cupcakes for sale (order form attached & distributed to all our children). Prizes to be given for best dressed and best hair style! We would like to thank NZ Farming for the donation of the sausages. Very much appreciated. A reminder once more about the Measles – they are deadly and they are spreading fast! Make sure you and your child are fully immunised. Take special care if travelling to other parts of New Zealand (particularly Auckland and Christchurch). Ensure visitors are immunised and have not been in contact with anyone with measles. On a brighter note – last Friday the Minister of Education announced that they have budgeted for 2 new classrooms for our school. This is great news and has been about 5 years coming. We will work with the Ministry regarding placement and design and let you know when we get more detail. Have a happy and safe break. Lynne Huddleston Principal

NOTICES & SPORTS INFO

TODAY’S ATTACHMENTS: Dance Demo Day programme

St Peter’s Church Holiday Programme Quality Vegetable Seedlings

COLLEGE BUSES – WOODVILLE & EKETAHUNA

Due to Tararua College being closed on Friday, 27th

September for their Learning Conversations – the

College bus runs (Woodville & Eketahuna – Debbie,

Sally & Colin’s) WILL NOT BE OPERATING. Please

arrange an alternative ride to and from school this

Friday.

Year 7 & 8 FORMAL DANCE – due to Mrs Thomson not being available for a few weeks – a decision has been made to

postpone the Bush Schools Year 7 & 8 Formal Dance – a date will be set for Term 4.

A HUGE THANK YOU TO THE FINEST BATCH BAKERY AND ALL OUR FABULOUS FAMILIES FOR SUPPORTING FRIDAY

PIE DAY OVER THE PAST TWO TERMS –THANK YOU AGAIN.

BASKETBALL RESULTS What a fantastic term of Basketball & Miniball – well done to all

our players and congratulations to the finalists. Winners of the Miniball competition were Pahiatua White with

Pahiatua Red coming 2nd. Winners of the Basketball competition – WHAT A FINAL! – 1st= (it

was a draw –a 3 pointer right on the buzzer thanks to Oscar Jacob) Pahi Tahi and Pahi Rua.

Also CONGRATULATIONS to the

Champion Boy – Reo Tahuri and

Champion Girl – Jazmin Dean.

CONGRATUALTIONS ALSO

to Pahi Tahi who played in the Palmerston North

Primary Schools Intermediate competition every

Wednesday night – they played in the final against

PNINS Nuggets and WON – Well done team!

BUSH SCHOOLS Maths Quiz results

Year 5/6 – 1st Pahiatua (Dominic Arthur, Manaia

Aspinall, Piata Aspinall & Phoebe Mitchell), 2nd –

Pahiatua (Joseph Standing, Jessie Timmins, Sophia

Shearman & Ethan Slater)

Year 7/8 – 1st Pahiatua (Tiari Aspinall, Connor

Beales, Mary De Lara & Kade Carter) and 2nd=

Pahiatua with St Anthony’s (Anna Oswald, Adam

Ord, Oscar Jacob & Austyn Beales)

WELL DONE HARRIET!

Harriet Jackson successful auditioned to dance as a

part of the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s production of

‘Hansel & Gretel’ which will be performed at the

Regent on Broadway in November.

WAIRARAPA SCHOOL PUPILS CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2019

Congratulations Lewis Ord who came 1st overall in the Under 10 section (also

Isabella Malton – ex PHT pupil – now at Tararua College – she was awarded the

overall Wairarapa Champion!)

YUMMY STICKERS Thank you to the following students & their families for

returning their Sticker Charts: - Maz, Millie & Paddy Parkes, Charlie & Harry Tuhura, Logan Spencer & Room 3 By returning your completed Yummy Sticker chart – the school gets FREE sports gear – the more charts returned, the more FREE sports gear received! Charts are available

to collect from the school office or they can be downloaded from www.yummyfruit.co.nz

PAHIATUA SCHOOL FAMILY PIE FUNDRAISER

TO DATE – we have had 16 Families out of our 252 Families

support our Family Pie Fundraiser – PLEASE GET BEHIND THIS

AND SUPPORT YOUR SCHOOL!

Made freshly by the Finest Batch Bakery (we can guarantee

they are the best pies in town)– order forms went home last

week on the newsletter and there are spares at the office.

Thank you to the families that have already sent

in their order forms. Last day for receiving orders

is Thursday, 26th September. Delivery date for

collection of your pies is Tuesday, 15th October

(1st Tuesday of Term 4).

Kids Art Works Calendar Art

Available this year are the following: Art & Photo Calendars $14.00 each

Art & Photo Cards (Pack of 8) $15.00 each Art & Photo Diaries $18.00 each

Viewing is available around school from Monday, 2nd September – check with your children where their art is displayed.

Please have all orders to the school office by Friday, 25th October 2019. Cash, Eft-Pos, Cheque is available or you can pay us directly ONLINE to 03-0725-0065100-00 – Pahiatua School BoT – Westpac – Pahiatua. Order forms were attached to

the newsletter and spares are available from the office.

MEASLES – PLEASE PROVIDE TO THE SCHOOL OFFICE

URGENTLY COPIES OF YOUR IMMUNISATION RECORDS OR LET THEM KNOW IF YOUR CHILDREN HAVE NOT BEEN IMMUNISED.

Thank you to everyone that has sent in copies of their immunisations already, we do appreciate

your promptness of this matter – we do still have a few outstanding – this is very important.

DO YOU HAVE ANY OLD TOYS AT HOME THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO DONATE

TO SCHOOL? The Junior Syndicate

(Years 0-2) are on the hunt for some toys – please see Katrina Gavigan if

you have any questions. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!

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DRAMA & ART HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS Watch this Space Studio, 74 Vogel St, Woodville for 8

year olds & over DRAMA Sept 30th to Oct 4th 9am to 3pm $40

ART Oct 7th to Oct 10th 9am to 3pm $40 Booking is essential – phone Shirley Silvester

022 309 3494