Mangaweka School &

Community Newsletter From the Principal

Effort Achieves

Excellence

Takahia te ara teitei

TERM 1 WEEK 7 Monday 12th March 2018

Dear Parents / Whanau

A busy fortnight has flown by with our children participating in a variety of events such as our Kapa Haka sessions at REAP; Moawhango School Athletics and our annual Taihape Country Schools Swimming sports. As always our children were great ambassadors for our school.

Unfortunately, the annual Junior Country School’s swimming sports was cancelled last week due to the weather.

Moawhango School Athletics Day: Congratulations to all our children

for the effort put into this event. Placings were awarded to: 5 & 6 year

old boys: 1st place in high jump to Joshua Corbett; 7 & 8 year old girls:

2nd place in long jump and softball throw to Atarau Finn-Wipaki; 9 & 10

year old girls: 2nd place in high jump to Sereana Vaqiri;

and 9 & 10 year old boys: 2nd place for shot put and discus to Maeroa

Finn-Wipaki; 2nd place in long jump to Logan Ryder and 2nd place in

discus to Rory King.

Taihape Country Schools Swimming Sports: Well done to our children who attended our annual country schools senior swimming sports last Thursday. It is wonderful to hear our children expressing how proud they were of themselves for the improvements they have made with their swimming such as more confident, stoke development and pace. Thank

you to Mrs M for the fantastic effort you put into organising our

children’s swimming lessons.

Taihape Cluster Science Fair 2018: This event is organised for Term 2 this year. Our learning focus is currently related to science

experimentation and how to write these up correctly. Over the next

couple of weeks our children will need to create a question for

investigation that must relate to a topic of interest and be relevant to their own experiences.

Reminders:

Friday Heat-up: As usual, the school pie warmer is available on a Friday

for our children to bring a heat up from home.

School Lunches: Now that our children are back at school and the

weather is warmer, they will be spending a lot more time outdoors using more energy and needing lots of fuel – snacks and a hearty lunch. Could parents please ensure lunch boxes have enough in them to carry our

children through the day.

Sun-smart Term 1: Now that the summer weather is here, all children need to have a sunhat at school to wear during breaks, preferably brimmed. Also sleeved t-shirts / tops are best to wear to keep the sun from burning our children’s shoulders. Reminder: No hat, No play!

Mangaweka School

Raumaewa Road

P.O. Box 32

Mangaweka, 4746

Phone/Fax: 06-382 5703

office@mangaweka.school.nz

www.mangaweka.school.nz

GPS Location

S39° 48.485, E175° 47.438, Elevation: 1042ft

(317m)

For the Calendar

Next Assembly

TBC

Next BOT Meeting

Wednesday 28th March @

3.30pm

Next BOT Fundraising

Sub-Committee Meeting

TBC

Term Dates 2018 Term One

29 January - 13 April

Term two

30 April - 6 July

Term Three

23 July - 28 September

Term Four

15 October - 11 December

Student Absences: If your child/ren are going to be absent from school please let us know on the day or before-hand if possible. This ensures the school is notified of absenteeism and lessens the need to

make phone calls to parents / caregivers. Thank you!

Open-door Policy: We have an open-door policy at Mangaweka School. If you have any questions,

queries or have great suggestions or ideas, do call in and let us know.

Have a great week!

Maree, Dianne & Ann

What a fabulous day it was on Saturday for ‘Mangaweka Day’– the sun was shining and we had heaps of visitors call into school to browse through our memorabilia and share a few yarns and lots of laughs as past students reminisced about their time here. I enjoyed meeting new people and hearing

their stories and learned a lot about how our school and township has changed over the years. One topic I was keen to talk to people about is the upcoming 125th Anniversary of our school which is happening next year. There was a positive vibe and some great suggestions on how we are going to celebrate this occasion. We have started compiling an email list to keep people up to date with developments. If you would like to be added to this list, or know of anyone who would, please contact Ann at the school office. It was also great to hear feedback about what a bright, happy atmosphere our school has, and how awesome the classroom lay outs are compared to ‘back in the day’, so a thank you to our teaching Staff for creating these awesome learning environments. The children recently competed in athletics at Moawhango and on Wednesday and Thursday of last week at Junior and Senior swimming sports. Out there making our school proud! Well done!! Thank you to those school families and community members who have donated goodies to Sereana’s and Rory’s Easter Hamper Lucky Draw. The prize looks amazing and it is a great start for the children’s fundraising effort to help cater for their end of year prize-giving dinner. If you are keen for a ticket or two, feel free to call into school. The children have also been discussing hosting a ‘Food Festival’ later on in the year which sounds pretty exciting!– watch this space!! We had ERO in our school for 3 days during the last fortnight and we look forward to sharing their findings when we receive their over-all report. Have a good week everybody. INFORMATION EVENINGS: Railway Building, Te Kuiti Monday, 19 March 7.00 pm Normanby Hall Wednesday, 21 March 7.00 pm REAP Centre, Taumarunui Thursday, 22 March, 7.00 pm Regards Paul Verić Headmaster

Dawn Eaton HEADMASTER'S PA / HOSTEL APPLICATIONS AND ENQUIRIES NEW PLYMOUTH BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL 06 758 5399 ext 816

Mangaweka Playcentre

on Broadway Please call in during session

Monday & Wednesday 8.30am -

12.30pm

or phone 022 3285649 Everyone with

pre-schooler’s is welcome to join

Come and visit during session and

Friendly monthly meetings: 3rd Monday of each month, 7.30pm at the Mangaweka Plunket Rooms Home Help contact Ange Ramsay on 06 3229756

Mangaweka, Ohingaiti, Rangiwahia

Sub Branch of Plunket

Next Meeting: Monday 19th March @ 7.00pm Mangaweka Plunket Rooms

Home Help Service

Mangaweka area Plunket Group offer 5 hours of home help to ALL families living within the sub branch area at the

time of the birth of the baby. Ideally these hours are offered to help support families with a newborn baby,

however, they can also be used at any time until the your child turns 5 years of age.

10 Hours Home Help for Caesarean Births

Mangaweka area Plunket Group offer 10 hours of home help to all families within our sub branch area where a

caesarean birth has occurred. These hours are ideally for use while Mum is recovering from her c-section. As

Plunket doesn't take over from the midwives until baby is a few weeks old, anyone not with the Taihape Midwives

may be unaware that this service exists. If you have a caesarean birth, or know of anyone within our sub branch

area that has a caesarean birth, home help can be arranged by contacting our Home Help Co-coordinator.

If you would like more information, please contact our home help co-ordinator,

Ange Ramsay on 06 3229756

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