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I think I started watching my weather forecast app the week before Ag Day. I’m not

sure why I bothered, it changed each time I looked, and we all accept that a day in

Auckland can contain every season anyway. And I do know that what will be will be...

But… still I did, even making the effort to turn on the TV to see what TV3 weather

experts had to say about it in the lead up. And the reason is because a lot of people

put in a lot of effort into making the day a great one and we know that weather really

impacts on how it all runs. All this effort is to make sure Ag Day is a recognition of our

rural environment, honours past traditions, opens up our doors in order to share our

fantastic school, is a real celebration of our children, and an opportunity to enjoy our

time together as a community.

As the rain started to fall just as our kapa haka group, Te Kotahitanga o Kaukapakapa,

came out to open the day, the signs were ominous. The wind and rain were literally

lashing the food tents, the poor animal competitors, judges and stewards already

drenched, the bouncy castle became a water slide, and a lot of people were looking

less than impressed under the shade. And then our head student and one of our

senior kapa haka leaders, Guinevere Leslie called out to begin the performance, we

were all drawn in as the group’s voices filled the space. If we had been on the court

as planned it just wouldn’t have been the same. Boy they were good! If you are free on

Friday, they will be performing at the Kaipara Festival (held at Kaipara College) at

12.30pm and will be in their full (new) uniform.

And then the sun came out! The most overwhelming feedback I had (as I carefully

watched who put money into my Pie in the Face jar) was about the lovely ‘feel’ the day

had. This isn’t something we can measure, something we can put on a check list to

happen next year, but given a part of our ‘Communication’ strategic plan is to have an

engaged community I think we can tick Ag Day 2019 off as a positive indication of how

well we are achieving this goal.

We do want to keep getting better, and part of this is listening. Here are some of what our most important

voices had to say about the day…

What we liked:

No booklets (most common feedback)

Candy floss (next most common feedback!)

Different options for the teams

Certificates

Just choosing one thing for the class and one thing for the library

Doing all the activities in our classrooms this week

Pie in the Face

Bouncy castles

Harakeke

Slushies

The library looked cool

What we would like to see for next year:

Two teachers getting a pie in the face (hmmmm also a very popular piece of feedback!)

Something else for the seniors like a climbing wall

Models

Pets

More games

More food, the queues were long

What would you like me to know? Please email me directly with your thoughts and ideas so we can put it into

the mix for 2020. andreac@kaukapakapa.school.nz Already I have:

Great to know the activities before the school holiday

All the information we needed was in the booklet

Classrooms open for just a bit longer

Chicken judging to be shortened

Bring back the beef sliders!

Loved the Christmas themed Room 13

Great to have all the seating options out

Neat to be able to look through all of the classrooms

Flash new signs on the roads

Thank you to the many people who contributed to such a successful day. We do see and appreciate the hours

of your time that went into its organisation. As always, it is a small group of committed people that give back

because they can, and want to. You are the meaning of community. Please continue to support the

businesses that gave raffles, manned the food stalls, donated products and sponsored

the day.

Images of our fantastic day are now on our website page.

Kia Kaha, Kia Maia, Kia Manawanui

Be Strong, Be Steadfast, Be Willing Andrea Clarke

25th October

Kaipara Festival 8am start @

Kaipara College

8th November (save day 11th)

Years 4-8 Athletics Day

13th November

Year 5/6 Norwest Cricket

15th November (save day 18th)

Kaipara Athletics

19th November

New parents evening 6pm Room 2

22nd November

Norwest Athletics

27th November

Year 5/6 Norwest Touch

12th December

Wind up night

13th December

Junior School Athletics

17th December - Last day of school

For up to date information,

celebrations, newsletter

publications and much more,

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Would you like to win a FREE

2019-2020 pool key?

Keep and eye out for our

community consultation coming

out this week!

Complete the consultation and you’re in the

draw!

This week’s value is Respect - Whakaute

Assembly was cancelled today due to bad

weather. Certificates from the last two

assemblies will be handed out at the next

whole school assembly.

Agricultural Day Acronym Poem

Ag day this year marks the 46th Anniversary of National

Ag Day!

Groups of excited children are rushing off to examine the

stalls.

Running adults are trying to catch up to their children.

In the classes families look at all the activities the kids

have done in class.

Crammed stalls are all selling out quick with the rush of

people.

Unique crafts hang around all the rooms in the school.

Little children run around trying to find their parents.

Tired families resting to watch the kapa haka

performance.

Unusual creations stand in the decorate cake or cupcake

stand.

Refreshments in the stalls are all gone with the big

crowd.

Animals are still competing to win first prize in their

contest.

Lamb judging finish and the children go collect them.

Delighted children are still buying things at the stalls.

All the raffles have been given out to all of the winners.

Young children are being taken home and all the families

were happy how the day went.

By Annabel Drew Ross

AG Day ACRONYM

Kotahitanga O Kaukapakapa.

Actions in sync

Poi is perfect

And the

Haka is loud.

All of

Kapa Haka

Are amazing.

Room 5 Ag Day 2019

Mice, that’s right. We decided to celebrate the iconic rodent who has remained the most well known

pest in the world, Mickey Mouse. To create these cartoons we followed directions from a YouTube

cartoonist and together we all created a Mickey Mouse. First we used sketching pencils and drafted

our first drawings. Then we used metallic gold, yellow and red paint to add Mickey’s

colourings. Finally, we observed Ms J carefully apply the black Indian ink. This gave

the paintings a smooth professional looking finish. Here are some of our finished

cartoon drawings.

One preparation we completed before the schools annual Ag Day was to create a painting that showed what we saw as a

clean New Zealand. A requirement was also to add some Maori design somewhere on our art. We ruled our page into three

and designed a painting of nature. First thirds was hills and sky, the second the sea and the third was also the sea but

with a creature (such as a whale or taniwha). We changed the colour to express the different depth of the sea.

Room 12 have mice!

Contemporary

Ag Day Art

Get your Postman Pat hats on! It’s time to start planning this year’s Local Phone Book Deliveries! This fundraiser earns our school over $4000 every year! Thank you to all those families who have participated in phone book deliveries over the years, many of these families have now moved on so we need your help to get the job done! This year we have 27 runs to deliver, each run only takes an hour or two to complete which you can do anytime between the delivery dates of Friday November 22nd and Sunday 1st December. We would love to have enough families on board so each family only has to complete one run! And to say thanks for your time, you will go into the draw to win a Gull Petrol voucher and a Shark ‘n Tatties voucher!! Please contact Louise Banks if you are able to help with a run this year: 021 333 506 or louise@banx.net.nz

Keep an eye on the SSG Facebook page for the amazing prize bundles up for grabs!

7 down 20 to go!

EVER SEEN SOMETHING

SCARY?

The Art Club got into the

spooky season this week.

With a mixture of pastel,

dye and some straws,

scared the socks off

these people!

Wow, what a fabulous Ag Day!!

Don’t forget to check our website

for more photos!!

Kaukapakapa Tamariki Rise to the Challenge

On Wednesday the 16th and Thursday 17th October 3 teams of students from Kaukapakapa School competed against several local schools in the Vector EPro8 Challenge.

Year 7 and 8 team: Russell, Theo, Libby and Luke

Year 6 team: Caleb, Quinn, Denny and Eli Cunliffe

Year 5 team: Joshua, Lenny, Ruby and Ryan

The teams represented our school in an educational experience that was both challenging and exciting. The EPro8 Challenge is an engineering and problem solving race! Every year over 10,000 students from 900 schools from throughout New Zealand take part.

Teams compete to build large sized structures, solve practical problems, engineer using pulleys, motors, gears, wheels and axles. They get to invent machines that can complete simple tasks and undertake unusual and fun experiments, as well as construct basic electronic circuits and solve interesting problems using practical maths.

Each team of four was based at a workstation containing an impressive assortment of easy to use parts and equipment. The 3 hour event began with a tutorial on the equipment teams would be using. All our students proved themselves up to the task with the 7 & 8 team placing 3rd and therefore advancing to the semi finals to be held in November.

Awesome job!

Disclaimer: These are community notices that are no way connected with Kaukapakapa School. Parents should make

their own judgements as to the safety and suitability of any of these programmes for their children.

Our school football sessions are run at each school in the area, we have lunch and after school sessions. Our sessions are full of FUN activities, games and football drills which will develop kids mo-tor skills in a safe environment. programme is the perfect introduction to

football and a way to learn and improve their skills. All our coaches working in this sessions are : -) First aid qualify and have access to a first aid kit -) All our coaches are police vetted -) New Zealand Football coaching qualification -) Child protection trained -) Sign out procedure in place to guaranty kids are in a safe envi-ronment and are going home with their parent/caregiver. Lunch football programme: When: Tuesdays (start on the 22nd Oct) Where: Stanmore Bay school fields Time: 12:15 - 1 pm Cost: $64 (for 8 weeks) For more information and to register your child in Term 4, please visit here: https://hibiscuscoastafc.typeform.com/to/wFGkOf We have limited spaces for this activity.

Congratulations to our

staff member Averil,

her husband Chris and big

sister Paige on the arrival of

their gorgeous

son and brother

Mack.

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