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Netball 2012
Netball has started for 2012. Matipo School has eight teams this year, four who play on Thursday evenings in the year 1-3 grade, and four on Saturdays in the year 4-6 grades.
Our teams this year are:
Matipo Girls, coached by Olive Mereyato.
Matipo Wizards, coached by Karin Holmes & Deborah Thorn.
Matipo Cats, coached by Kelly Marsters.
Matipo Rubies, coached by Fiona Ibbott.
Matipo Angels, coached by Helen Gavin & Lou Davis-Barr.
Matipo Emeralds, coached by Tony Nemaia.
Matipo Chocolates, coached by Kathryn Wedding.
Matipo Fireworks, coached by Natalie Kennerley.
Newsletter April 26th
3 weeks ago
26TH APRIL 2012
Welcome back to Term 2 and with it, winter hours. School finishes at 2.45pm each afternoon (lunchtime is permanently shortened by 15 minutes). Children whose parents would normally pick them up at 3pm may wait in the library until 3pm.
WARM WELCOME THIS WEEK TO
Pene-Moana Thompson, Isaac Igusa, Jack Bonkovich, Chad van Dolleweerd, Kael Brown, Rydar James, Madison Smith, Ruby Mitchell and Mathilda Brem. We wish you a long and enjoyable time here at Matipo Primary.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK
Ezra Bowman, Eva Colthart, Zofia Blackie and Margaret Lowe. Also a happy belated birthday to Chad van Dolleweerd, Kael Brown, Rydar James, Madison Smith, Ruby Mitchell and Mathilda Brem, who all celebrated their birthdays over the school holidays!
NZ EDUCATION
Late last term I heard the very impressive new Education Minister, Hon. Hekia Parata speak at a conference. She asked that all schools try and counter media stories about the NZ Education System. We have a very good education system which consistently ranks in the top ten in the world in various surveys and was 4th in the OECD survey in 2011. Above us is Finland, South Korea and Canada. Our school is rated by ERO to be in the top 15% of all schools in NZ. Ms Parata says we should not regard ourselves as having a world class education system, when our underachieving ‘tail’ is around 20%. In this school the percentage of children underachieving is around 10%.
WINNER OF THE SCHOOL DONATION LUCK PRIZE DRAW
Congratulations Seth Stylianou who is now the proud owner of a new Sharp Mini System!
WINNERS OF THE EASTER RAFFLE
1st Remi Heremaia
2nd Amanda Lowe
3rd Olivia Gavin
A total of $1,300 was raised. This goes towards subsidizing school and class trips. Thanks for your great support!
RECYCLING
Clothing – use the bin at the back gate located on Crieff Place.
Cell Phones – hand in to the office for Starship.
REMINDERS
• No dogs in the school grounds.
• Children must wear helmets while riding bikes and scooters.
• Don’t drive into the school grounds during peak hours.
• Please don’t park over people’s driveways on Matipo Road and Crieff Place.
NEWSLETTER ADVERTISING
Any parents wishing to advertise in the school newsletter should contact Pam, either
Ph: 834 6909 or Email: pam@staff.matipo.school.nz. 16,000 copies are produced going home with 450 children for 40 weeks. An advertisement costs $170 incl.
SAMOAN LANGUAGE CLASS
This will start next Friday 4th May at 1.15pm in the library for those children who enrolled last term.
WANTED
Any spare (clean) changes of clothes for New Entrant age.
TERM DATES
April 23 School Starts
April 25 ANZAC Day
May 9 Science Show
May 22 Soccer Field Day
May 28 Samoan Language Week
June 5 Basketball Field Day
June 7 APO Wind Quartet
June 14 APO Chamber Brass
June 27 Speech Final
June 29 Middle School Concert
End of Term 2
Poetry Contest 2012
We held our Poetry Contest last week and congratulations to our winners:
New Entrants: Parthiv Sivakumar
Year 1: Miah Bult
Year 2: Zoe Anderson-Jones
Year 3: Evan Scrimgeour
Year 4: Luke Winther
Year 5: Steven Tuitama Muaiava
Year 6: Tayla-Lee Bainbridge
Athletics 2012
Last Tuesday, Mr Simpson and Mr Nemaia took our year 5 and 6 athletics finalists to the Trust Stadium for the zone finals. Our pupils competed against the best from eight other schools in the 60m, 100m, 400m, long jump, high jump, shotput and discus. We had a lot to live up to given that we’d won it for the last 3 years in a row. This year we only managed 3rd but that is still a great achievement against eight other schools. All our competitors gave all that they could and made Matipo proud. Stand out achiever though was Jonah Palota-Kopa.
Below are three sets of photos from the Matipo Athletics day.
School Athletics Postponed
Due to the inclement weather conditions, we’re postponing tomorrows School Athletics Day until this Friday. Same time, same place, just Friday instead of Wednesday.
Obviously, this date is also weather dependent.
Board of Trustees Notice – Dog Ban
2 months ago
Board of Trustees Notice
20th March 2012
At last night’s BOT meeting, a letter of concern was received about the number of dogs being brought to school, and the potential danger this may pose.
As a result, the Board has resolved to ban dogs from the school and ask people not to walk dogs to and from classrooms.
Wayne Bainbridge
Principal
Soapbox Derby Team
This is our Rotary Club Soapbox Derby team, weighing in our practice car at our first run at the North Shore event.
Room 12 Mural
Room 12 students stand by their mural at the Te Atatu Peninsula Sculpture Trail. The mural was started last year and the circles represent the different cultures who have come and enriched New Zealand culture. Before being part of the Sculpture trail, it was also displayed at the Abundance Gallery.
