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On the last day of term we held a Veteran Car Day – a follow up to earlier Holden & Ford days held in the last few years. We had a very exciting line up of cars – three Ford Mustangs, a Rolls Royce Silver Shadow, three midget race cars, a 1929 Ford roadster powered
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On Friday was the Matipo School Speech Contest. The competition was for our Year 3 to 6 students. The school final was judged by Brad Cross the manager of the ASB bank in Te Atatu and one of his assistant managers Tracy. He commented on the high quality of speeches this year. Congratulations to our
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Felilia in Room 14 made this wonderful model of a Kiwi for her homework project. She called it “Kiwiana”.
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Mike Allsop, who is an Air New Zealand pilot, visited our school to talk about his climb to the top of Mt Everest. It cost him $50,000 for his share of the costs. He gave us the link to his photo gallery.
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On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Room 10 went planting on a farm in Waitoki. The owner of the farm is Phil. It took ages, like a century to get there. Our driver was Graham who is in Rotary and also helps us plant. Finally we were there. We went up the hill to a huge
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Last week Matipo School celebrated Matariki. Each winter the stars of Matariki and Puanga signal the end of one year in Aotearoa and the beginning of the next. Traditionally Maori have recognised the rise of Matariki as a time to celebrate and prepare for the indigenous New Year. In class we learnt about Matariki through
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We are requesting the donation of potatoes, kumara or pumpkin by THURSDAY, and a gold coin donation for Friday’s hangi.
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Today the Year 6’s visited Te Atatu Intermediate. It was an opportunity for the children to spend some time in the Technology Rooms. The children were divided into 6 groups and went to a Tech Room to either do Science, Visual Arts, Workshop, Soft Materials, Hard Materials and Food Technology. They thoroughly enjoyed their visit!
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Last Week we had a Pasifika Parents Night. We were totally overwhelmed and pleased by the huge number of Parents and Children that attended the evening. Thank Miss Oto and the Polynesian Group for performing their items for us.And a big Thank you for all the positive feedback from the night! A very worthwhile evening
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Last week Matipo focussed on Samoan Language in preparation for this Weeks Samoan Language Week. Many classes used this time to practise Samoan Language in the classroom, investigate Samoa and its culture and also to do various styles of Samoan Art. MTV used this time to teach us new words each day! We finished the
