SCHOOL NEWSLETTER “Mana te Tuatahi”

P.O Box 95 Galileo Street, NGARUAWAHIA ph (07) 824 8426 E mail: office@ngaruawahia.school.nz School Website: www.ngaruawahia.school.nz

Wednesday 27 March 2019 Term 1 Panui 2Quote of the Day“Smile, if you want a smile from another face.” The Dalai Lama

From the Principals DeskChristchurch TragedyIt is unbelievable that the horrific events that happened in Christchurch had targeted so many “innocent” people. The deep sense of shock and sadness that we have seen and heard has been astonishing. Our sincere and heartfelt condolences go to the Muslim community and to the many others that this affected. It is hoped that our actions in the days, months and years to come makes New Zealand more united, empathetic and understanding. It shouldn’t matter what race or religion we are, we should all feel valued, accepted and safe. At a whole school assembly, we observed a minute’s silence, spoke briefly about what had happened then shared the importance of our ‘SCHOOL VALUES’ - caring, respect and kindness. During class time, teachers also took the opportunity to share further details with their tamariki to help clarify some of the misunderstandings and questions they had.

At the same assembly we acknowledged the 1 year passing of our much loved, gentle natured student Moareen Rameka. This was positive as we could relate the grief and hurt our school experienced during this time to that of the families and others in Christchurch.

Schools were informed that a government service will take place from 10-11a.m on Friday 29 March to pay respects for the 50 people who died. This will be available for live streaming for all New Zealanders. As a school we will be having a full school assembly on this day at 10 a.m. have karakia, a minute’s silence followed by a himene to show our respect and aroha. We

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envisaged that whanau/parent/caregivers will be doing something similar too wherever you are.

Prospective Board of Trustees Invitation A reminder that this is the year for Board of Trustees elections. We take this opportunity to invite any whanau/parents who are interested in being a board of trustee’s candidate to come along to the next Board meeting which is TODAY at 4 p.m. in the staffroom OR at the next BOT meeting which is scheduled during the holidays Wednesday 17 April at 10 a.m. It will give you an idea what happens at a Board meeting.

The BOT Triennial election date is Friday 7 June 2019 and below are the key events

 Staff Members UpdateWe are pleased to welcome our new teacher, Amanda White to Room 6. Amanda comes to us with loads of enthusiasm and fresh ideas, having recently graduated from the University of Waikato, with a Bachelor of Teaching Degree. Amanda is currently in a fixed term position with us.

We acknowledge Joyce Symons, Raewyn Tarawhiti, and Geoff Irving who are currently away on sick-leave. We wish them a speedy recovery and thank fellow staff members who are ‘holding the fort” - Ann Tuki, Maree Tonga, Hohi Moeke also Cliff Barton and Dave Hogg. Congratulations to Heremia Symons, on the arrival of his new-born son, February 14th (Valentine’s Day).

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New EnrolmentsWe would like to extend a warm welcome to the following recent new enrolments to Ngaruawahia Primary School who have settled well into our school’s environment.Room 1 – Kazel Kiri Kihi,Dee’Jae Wallace-ReedyRoom 8 –Andre RyabukhinRoom 9 – Kyra Black

2019 Student Council Amazing Race Hamilton The Amazing Race activity for student council members required them to be energetic, cooperative and focussed. All 4 teams displayed these attributes and therefore completed the tasks to the best of their abilities. Kia kaha rangatahi ma!!!!!

Capt Matt Gauldie

Water Fountain

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Health and safety instructions explained by LEAP manager to student counsellors before LEAPING

A well-deserved lunch after the exhausting task to complete the Amazing Race on time.

A few sites in Central Hamilton that needed to be visited to find the answer.

Garden Place Sundial

JUNIOR SCHOOL -VisitorsOn Wednesday the 28th of February, the Junior School had a visit from the Waikato District Council Animal Control. Zoey came and taught us all about keeping ourselves safe around dogs. Zoey brought a special furry friend named Charlie Brown. The junior School loved petting Charlie Brown and we look forward to having them visit us again next year. 

NPS “Student Roll of Honour”We congratulate these wonderful recipients for being OUTSTANDING Students of the WEEKS 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 Tumeke tamariki ma

WEEK 4:Junior SchoolRoom 1: Montey Pohoiwi-Horne Room 2: Jahlun DavidsonMiddle / Senior SchoolRoom 5: Rion NgaruheRoom 6: Phoenix Simon-Matthews Room 8: Ezrah Broadhurst

Room 9: Rayne Reti

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WEEK 6 Junior School Middle / Senior SchoolRoom 1: Kiri Kihi Room 6: Ngahiraka Pohoiwi-Horne Room 2: Kaalirose Walters Room 8: Alaska PungaRoom 5: Elin Rangihika Room 9: Legend Tukere-Fraser

WEEK 5:Junior SchoolRoom 1: Azza Rameka Room 2: Aiden SoundyMiddle / Senior SchoolRoom 5: Kaycjae WipaniRoom 6: Tama Soundy Room 8: Maia TamatiRoom 9: Harmony OtiTechnology Bio: Calmyn NgaruheFood: Jayalin Pohoiwi-HorneHard Materials: Alaska PungaElectronics: Ezrah Broadhurst

NPS Swimming Sports On Wednesday 20th February, we held our school swimming sports at the Town Pools. Our students should be congratulated for their participation on this day, as much as for their success. Huia & Tui houses were standouts in their house colours, and Weka & Tui certainly had a lot of swimmers gathering points in the races. The weather was great and the efforts of our students were too.

Girls BoysOpen Butterfly

1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rdHarmony

Girls BoysWidth

freestyle

Age 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd7,8,9 yrs Rangimarie Elin Tynaya Kingston

Girls Boys

25m Freestyl

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Age 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd8yr Te Huinga Ceejay Tokorangi Sione Conrad

9yr Hine-ArohaJaiden-Chanel Tama Pouakani Rion

10yr Tatiana Phoenix Peggy

Morgan Ezrah

Non-competitve Calmyn Kahlais Braxton

50m Freestyle

11yr Rayne Sharnty Kaylah

Bobby-Joe Korua Harlem

12yr Harmony

Tatiyahna

Italia-Capri Waka Hayz Legend

Non-competitve

Te Koha

Jayalin

Girls BoysWidth Age 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd

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backstroke

RangimarieShannaya Mihiwai

7,8,9

yrs Kasdal Elin Tynaya Kingston

Girls Boys

25m Backstr

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Age 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd8yr Te Huinga Ceejay Conrad Sione Tokorangi

9yr Hine-ArohaJaiden-Chanel Kawhia Lexus Tama

10yr Tatiana Peggy

Phoenix Morgan Ezrah

Non-competitive Alaska Calmyn Shakur Kahlais Braxton

50m Backstro

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Rayne Jvl Sharnty BoyceBobby-Joe

Harlem/Korua

12yr Harmony Tatiyahna Reggae Waka Legend Hayz

11yr Girls BoysFront

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Age 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd

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Mihiwai Tynaya Kaycjae Kingston

1 lengt

h Rangimarie Shannaya Elin

Girls Boys

25m Breaststro

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Age 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd8yr Te Huinga Conrad Sione Tokorangi

9yr Hine-ArohaJaiden-Chanel Kawhia Pouakani Tama

10yr Tatiana Phoenix Peggy Morgan Ezrah

Non-competitive Calmyn Kahlais Shakur Braxton

50m 11y Sharnty Tearoa Kaylah Bobby- Harlem Korua

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Breaststroke

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aHarmony Anjulz Waka Tamatu Hayz

Non-competitive

Te Koha

Jordan Jayalin

Medley open

Girls BoysHarmony Jvl

Reggae Waka

Bobby-Joe Boyce

Tatiana/Sharnty Rayne

Tatiyahna

Harlem Korua Morgan

Relays 1st 2nd 3rdJunior mixed Weka Kiwi TuiIntermediate

mixed Weka Kiwi TuiSenior mixed Kiwi Tui Weka

Flying Squadron Weka Tui Kiwi

House Points Huia Kiwi TuiWek

aPlacings 546 883 1193 700

Participation 54 53 61 60Manamotuhake Huia & Tui (100 each)

ManaakitangaHuia, Kiwi, Weka (40 each) Tui (80)

Kotahitanga Weka 200Whakapiringatan

ga Huia & Kiwi (100 each)TOTAL: 600 936 1254 760

***It was just a little disappointing that some of our students decided to bomb into the pool at the end of our day. We need to remember that we are using a facility that has a “NO BOMBING” rule and we need to respect that rule.

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INTERSCHOOL Swimming Sports This was held on Tuesday 6th March at the Huntly Aquatic centre. It was fantastic to have arrived early this year and I’d like to thank our whanau who ensured their tamaiti/tamariki were ready to roll! We enjoyed yet another year of seeing our students challenge themselves at that ‘next level’, and saw a number of our students meet the challenges set by students from other schools. We do have some talented swimmers at our kura!The results were:

Inter school Swimming Results 2019All results are from FINAL races

Freestyle

Age 8 9 10 11 12

Boys Tokorangi 2ndConrad 3rd

Tama 2nd Waka 1st

Girls Te Huinga 3rd Rayne 3rd

Backstroke

Age 8 9 10 11 12

Boys Sione 3rd Morgan 2nd Boyce 3rd Aotea 2nd

Girls Te Huinga 3rd Tatiana 3rd

Breaststroke

Age 8 9 10 11 12

Boys Pouakani 3rd Aotea 3rd

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Girls Te Huinga 1st

Hine-Aroha 3rd

Tearoa 2nd

Anjulz 1st

4 Length Freestyle - Open Tamatu 3rd

3 Length Medley Waka 1st

Intermediate Relay Boys team 2ndGirls team 2nd

Senior Relay Boys team 2ndGirls team 2nd

Medley Relay Boys team 2ndGirls team 2nd

Flying Squadron Boys team 1st = with WaipaGirls team 3rd

Once again I’d like to thank the whanau who came to support on the day with transport and positive encouragement - we cannot do these sorts of things without you!

Waka Koopapa- Whaingaroa and Turangawaewae Regatta What a season we have had with koopapa!!! We hit the ground running with trainings early in the Term, and as always, we are so grateful for Matua Ikemoke and his whanau for their support with these. During our trainings our Senior girls team was specially invited to the Whaingaroa race day on Thursday 8th March. What an honour kotiro ma! These girls did us proud coming away with FIRST PLACE!!!The Turangawaewae Regatta race days were on Wednesday 13th & Thursday 14th of March. We had a total of 5 teams entered this year, and we hope all our tamariki are proud of their achievements up against so many other schools across the Waikato!

The results were: Div. 4 - Yr 7/8 Boys 2nd

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Div. 2 - Yr 5/6 Boys 3rd Yr 5/6 Girls 2ndYr 7/8 Girls 4th Yr 7/8 Girls 1st

Ngaa mihi to our whanau who were supporting us over these two days

Rugby Visit: WRU (Waikto Rugby Union & Ngaruawahia Rugby Sports Club(NRSC)On Friday 15th March we had 2 rugby visitors pop in to promote their game! It was great to see some of our tamariki already involved in playing Rugby Union. If you are thinking about signing up your child/ren to play Rugby this year, we would like to recommend Ngaruawahia Rugby Sports Club! Rm 8 were taken out for a few drills and a quick game of Ripper! Top try scorers of the day were Sharnty for the Yellow team and Alaska for the Red team!

Room 5’s report on Lake Areare and Pukemokemoke ReserveConservation dogs Kimi is a black conservation dog. Kimi finds Bitterns. That’s her job. She also does tricks. She is fun. She listens well. Kimi finds stuff really quickly. She has a sensitive sense of smell. Emma taught us all about Conservation dogs. Emma is so nice. Kimi is the best dog at finding bitterns. Kimi can shake hands. She can spin around when we tell her to. She is so fun to play with. When we move our hand left she will walk left. Some conservation dogs are trained to find other native birds like Kiwi. Their job is really important. They can find native birds way easier than we can.

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Mark the tracker We went on a trip to Lake Areare to see what the Department of Conservation does to look after our native birds there. We were in a group with Mark the tracker. Mark taught us how to track a bird. He gave us a receiver. When the beeping noise got louder that meant that we were closer. If it was quiet, then we were far away. On the receiver there were S’s. These were like the sound. Mark walked in a triangle. He gave it a special name. It’s called triangulation. We had to find a fake Kiwi with a transmitter on it. Mark told us that Kiwis are endangered. This means that there are not many left. The Department of Conservation has to track birds to see how many there are and where they are. This helps to keep them safe.

Pest Control On our trip to Lake Areare went learnt that there are pests. Pests are animals that can kill our native birds. Some pests are cats, ferrets, weasels, stoats and rats. Rose, the Department of Conservation worker, showed us a map of all the places where traps are set. There are lots of traps set to catch pests. There is a wooden box that catches one at a time. There are also other traps. These can kill up to 24 pests before being reset. Some of the baits used to catch the pests smelt like coconut, chocolate and cinnamon. Rose also had lots of stuffed animals for us to look at and feel. We learnt a lot.

Pukemokemoke Reserve During our class trip we visited Pukemokemoke reserve. This is a place where native birds and trees can be safe. We went there to learn about trees, birds and other native stuff. We had our picture taken at the bottom. We had to wash our feet in a special cleaning station to help stop the kauri trees from getting a disease. We saw lots of traps that kill the bad animals. We saw Kauri trees in the Kauri grove and Totara and Kawakawa, which has heart-shaped leaves. At the top there was a lookout. We climbed the lookout and saw right across the Waikato. You can see lots of maunga from up there. We could even see Taupiri and the Hakarimata.

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Newsletters / Panui This year our school newsletter/Panui will be sent home once a MONTH with the eldest child in the family OR emailed.

Lost Property: Please ensure all your child’s clothing and personal gear is clearly named. Please check with your child’s classroom teacher. THEN the unclaimed items of clothing may be viewed ON FRIDAY outside Junior Classes. All unclaimed gear is held until the END OF TERM and then disposed of. 150TH JUBILEE: Meetings are being held regularly, fortnightly on Thursday afternoons at 4pm, in our Staffroom. Whanau are most welcome to come along. We have electronic registration forms via FB and also hardcopies available from the Office. Facebook Page: This form of communication is also being used to update or let whanau know, if there are general day activities or changes. Please check it out.   CALENDAR COUNTDOWN  TERM 1 2019 Wed 27 March Board of Trustees Monthly meeting 4 p.m.

Fri 12 April Last day of Term 1Mon 29 April First day of Term 2

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