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TERM Two - Week 4 - 22nd May 2018

From The Principal...

HERE ARE A FEW OF OUR RECENT

CELEBRATIONS AND SUCCESSES

Possum Challenge - Record entries and possums! Go4IT programme

Celebration Corner

News

Diary Events

Home and School News:

SCHOOL LUNCHES

PIE DAYS: Monday & Wednesday.

LUNCH PACKS & SANDWICHES:

(ham, luncheon or egg) are available every day.

Please place your order in box in the office.

Front Page Photo

School sports results:

SOCCER

5th Grade Storms: Played Invitational P.O.D - Hapai Gurran-Niao

6th Grade Whirlwinds: Played Eastlake Harriers, Westbrook Leop-ards and Eastlake Eagles.P.O.D The whole team.

HOCKEY

Maxi`s Hockey: v`s Lynmore - Won 1:0 P.O.D Genevieve Farrell Fair Play - Leah van den Eng

: v`s Manuka - Lost 6:0 P.O.D Alex Suzuki Fair Play - Magdalena Farrell Congratulations to Alex Suzuki who won Fair Play draw from Roto-rua Hockey Association.

Intermediate Hockey: v’s JPC Blue P.O.D Kowhai Gurran -Naio

Scott from Canopy tours talking to the juniors about how they get rid of pests in the Dansey Reserve Forest.

Sports Notices

• Sports Committee meeting - 23rd May @ 1:30pm

• Home and School meeting 28th May

• Mamaku Schools Cross Country on the 8th June (Please be aware of the date Change).

• Matariki Celebration Lunch on 15th of June

• Tamati Coffey visits us for the Duffy Books on 15/6

Week 4, Term 2 Tena koutou katoa Well done to everyone involved with the “Mamaku Possum Challenge” this year. It was an amazing effort by everyone on the Sports Committee, teachers and and Home and School. With your support this has been the best Possum Challenge we have had so far. An extra thanks to Josh Goodman and Cam Hancox from Rotorua Canopy Tours who helped MC the Possum Challenge. Thanks to Darryn Dodge who at the last moment jumped in to run the Auction. We had 25 teams enter the Possum Challenge this year that eliminated 614 possums, 101 Wallabies and 86 Rabbits and Hares from the environment . This is great news as we fundraise to help get more kids into sports at our school and also improve our environment We also had some fantastic art work and technology projects completed by the students. My highlights were the students who completed technology projects like the bird houses, bird feeders, pest scarers and invented some cool projects related to keeping our native animals (fauna) and trees (flora) safe from pests. The work will be up for this week in the hall for viewing if you were unable to make the possum challenge prize giving and the prizes for students will go out on Friday. Ngā mihi nui Gary Veysi

Room 1st 2nd 3rd

Room 1 Colouring In Tree Charms

Michael Gage-Brown

Hapai and Jayden

Tyde McCaskill Turner

Daniel and Cody

Hapai Gurran-Naio Kahira and Jayden

Room 2 Colouring In Pest Scarers

Natasha Sklenars Sophia Dickinson

RJ van den Eng Damen Davies

Auroa and Skyla

RJ and Kaley

Room 3 Colouring In Bird Feeders

Kahu McCaskill-Turner Magdalena Farrell

Ethen Gilbert Zavier Te Kani

Magdalena Farrell Vanika Boonen

Room 6 Colouring In Enviro Projects Writing

Seth Price

Whole class Harrison Gilbert

Room 7 Colouring In Hypertufa Writing

Genevieve Farrell

Whole class Leah van den Eng

Casey Riedinger

Cameron Hauser

Paige McLean

Pre-Schoolers Colouring In

Daniel Dempsey Isobel Nicholson

Open division Colouring Competi-tion Bird houses Bird feeders

Olivia Taylor

Leah van den Eng Paige McLean

Kowhai Gurran-Niao

Blake Pachoud

Shayla Roberts and Ms C

Rebekah Watchorn And 4th all students entered

Possum art, Environmental projects and activities winners:

Assembly Celebrations

Community Notices

Term 2 Monday 30 April - Friday 6th July Term 3 Monday 23rd July - Friday 28th September Term 4 Monday 15th October - Wednesday 19th December 2018 Public Holidays Queens Birthday - Monday 4th June Labour Day - Monday 22nd October

THE CUT OFF TIME FOR ITEMS FOR THE NEWSLETTER IS 9AM TUESDAY.

PLEASE EMAIL ALL INFORMATION TO OFFICE@MAMAKU.SCHOOL.NZ

2018 Term Dates

Rachel’s Office Hours Monday, Wednesday - Friday 8.30am - 3.15pm Cindy’s Office Hours Tuesday 8.45am - 3.15pm

Monday Assembly

This is held on most Monday mornings at 9.00am- 9.15am. This is when we have a chance to

celebrate any sports results from the previous week or weekend.

Friday Assembly

This is held on most Friday afternoons from 1.45pm - 2.15pm. We then move into our House groups or Buddy classes for activities and events, caregivers and community members are

always welcome to attend and join in on the fun.

Each week our senior leaders run Assemblies - Week 4 - Assemblies run by Kowhai House Captains Week 5 - Assemblies run by Kakariki House Captains Week 6 - Assemblies run by Kikorangi House Captains Week 7 - Assemblies run by Whero House Captains Week 8 - Assemblies run by Kowhai House Captains Week 9 - Assemblies run by Kakariki House Captains Week 10 - Assemblies run by Vice Head Boy and Girl

Congratulations to the following students who will receive certificates at the Friday

assembly:

Stars of the Week

Room 1 - Jake Korodi: Welcome to Room 1 Florence Farrell: Writing independently Room 2 - Holly Drake: A very positive attitude toward all learning activities. Keep it up!

Room 3 - Vanika Boonen: Awesome improvement in writing.

Room 6 - Harmony Grooby: for demonstrating the value of Achievement, showing dedication and commitment to her learning. Levi Watchorn: for demonstrating the value of Achievement, producing high quality writing. Logan Cassidy: for listening to feedback and forward.

Room 7 - Marliese Tapsell: For always having a positive attitude and working hard in class. Lucas Pachoud: For being a positive role model and challenging himself in class.

Principals Awards

Khyro Te Kani - for finishing Earlywords 1 Shania Gilbert - for finishing Earlywords 2

Positive Awards - Positive, positive, positive, positive and positive

Congratulations to the following students for winning a Duffy Book last week

Giavanni Pukeroa : Awesome effort in reading and learning about compound words.

Vanika Boonen: Being a great friend - giving somebody a turn.

Nathan van den Eng: For trying new things and being brave.

Kids Biz

Mamaku School Possum Challenge - 2018 The Sports Committee would like to say a huge thanks to everyone who came and supported this event, it was our most successful to date! Fundraising total TBA. Please support our generous sponsors where you can. MAJOR SPONSORS:

Hunting & Fishing Rotorua, Archers Auto Springs, Simmonds Ball, FMG, Hamurana Lodge, Blackman Spargo, TD Haulage, Tarawera Publishing

Polynesian Spa, Vet Plus, Bike Force, Mamaku Garage, Ngo Pharmacy, Ngo Books, Mitre 10 Mega, Countdown, Farmlands, DOC, Kilwell Sports, Reading Cinemas, Skyline, Gull Ngongotaha, Golds Fitness, Palmers, Macpac Rotorua, Mamaku Takeaways, Piako Tractors, Mamaku Clue, Patterson O’Connor, Rail Cruising, Rainbow Springs, Extra Mile Auto, Animal Health Services, Off Road NZ, Waikite Valley pools, Capers, Hikoi Productions, Serious Shooters, Giltrap Trac-tors, Pig n Whistle, OGO, Gun Supplies, Stoney Creek, BOP Regional Council, Hells Gate, The Novotel, Gourmet Foods Ltd, Huntaway Farm Horse Treks, Wealleans, Duck Tours, Lonestar, River Rats, Carson Taylor Motor Co, Heritage Farm, Waimangi Volcanic Valley, Cobb & Co, Paul Gee Contracting, Holiday Inn, Ngo Books, Farmsource, Claas Tractors, Stihl Shop, Ballance, First Credit Union, Ravensdown, Canopy Tours, Cookie Time.

Sports Committee

If you have not yet paid sports fees, please get these in ASAP. Payment plans can be set up with Rachel in the

office. Mamaku School Sports Jackets - $40.00

Room 6 have been working on using hooks and show not tell in their writing. Here are some of our pieces of writing.

The Final Game

Head down, feet running, legs aching. That was all I had thought to do. Just run, keep on running. The team was relying on us. If we didn’t pull through now, we would fall even lower on the placing scheme. I kept running, following the footsteps of the rivalling team, attempting to out-play them. I felt a drop of sweat flow down the side of my face. Although the rain poured onto us, I felt as if I was in the Sahara desert. Even though exhausted and sweaty, we all listened to the orders of the captain, constantly adjust our game plan. Then I heard the dreadful noise, my name. I had been subbed off, the worst possible thing to happen at an intense part of the game. My mind couldn’t focus on anything else, all my thoughts came back to the game. Hand grasping my hair, breathing deeply, quietly panicking while I painfully watched the rest of my team play. As quick as I was off, I was on again. My name was called, my feet lighting, my eyes telescopes ready to find and attack any near enemy. They always say that ‘It’s just a game’ but we were fighting for something more than just a game, we were fighting for a reputation. The endless fight continues. The score would go one way then even out, over and over again. Then it sat for a while, not altering, almost being affected, but still not. It felt as if we had been playing for an eternity. An eternity which came to sudden halt. The dreadful noise of the final whistle rung out through the entire venue. I fell to the ground in a heap of sweat and crazy hair. It filled me with pain to look at the scoreboard. 5-6. They had beat us. That was it. We lost. They had beaten us. After all this pain and sweat, we failed. By Levi Watchorn Year 8

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