Term 2 Week 5 Newsletter – Wednesday 1 June

Term 2 Week 5 Newsletter – Wednesday 1 June 2016 - Rāapa 1 Pipiri 2016
TERM DATES 2016
Term 2: Mon 2 May – Fri 8 July
Monday 6 June – Queen’s Birthday holiday
Term 3: Mon 25 July – Fri 23 September
Ngatimoti Festival Sunday 23 October
Term 4 Mon 10 October – Thurs 15 December
office@ngatimoti.school.nz tony@ngatimoti.school.nz
Principal: Tony Draaijer
Tel: 03 526 8842
Text Absences: 027 526 8842
BANK ACCOUNT: NGATIMOTI SCHOOL BOT
03 1354 0359568 00
CLASS BLOGS FOR IMPORTANT UPDATES: http://www.indigo-ngatimoti.blogspot.co.nz/ http://www.ngatimotiseniorroom.blogspot.co.nz/
What’s happening this week? Week 5
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Thursday 2 June: Interschool’s Cross Country at Rabbit Island
for selected Years 5-8 students. (postponement date Friday 3
June)
Friday 3 June: PARENTS GROUP MEETING – All welcome,
meet outside the hall 1pm onwards.
Friday: Y8 Leadership day – thanks again to parents for
transporting our students to Nelson for this 
Friday: Senior mini ball. The Ngatimoti Attackers play Parklands
Pacers at 4.30pm. Good luck!
What’s happening next week? Week 6
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MONDAY 6 JUNE: QUEENS BIRTHDAY HOLIDAY. No school,
no intermediate miniball, no netball training – have a fun
weekend!
Tuesday 7 June: Rippa Rugby tournament for selected Y4-6
students in Motueka. Separate transport notice sent out for this.
Thank you again to transporting parents!!
REMINDERS…
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Please pay outstanding Miniball fees ($15 per player) online
to 03 1354 0359568 00. Also MOTEC and CAMP fees, thank you.
School Donations: For 2016 for 1 child at school = $25, for 2
children = $40, with a maximum family donation of $50 for 3 or
more children.
Return your pool key to the school office for your $10 refund.
Note: $10 refund cannot be paid on purchase of next year’s key in
December; this is so we can gauge how many keys we need to
get cut each year. Thanks for supporting our school pool this
year!
Healing Species Programme continues every Thursday morning
for Y7 & 8 students. This week’s theme is “Diversity and
Tolerance”
GET SET GO! Continues on Fridays with Sport Tasman – ask
your child what they are learning at Get Set Go!
FURTHER DATES FOR YOUR DIARY…
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Week 7
Monday 13 June: ROOM 3 visit Motueka Library
Wednesday 15 June: Board of Trustees meeting – 6pm at school
Week 8
Tuesday 21 June: NZ Playhouse performance here at school
Thursday 23 June: B Grade Gymnastics Motueka (Y4-6)
Thursday 23 June: 10am Motueka Library Book Quiz
Friday 24 June: A Grade Gymnastics Motueka (Y7&8)
Week 9
4-8 July: Life Education Trust visiting – whole school programme
We’re not Rubbish! Well done everyone for
taking your rubbish home and/or bringing less
packaging in your school lunches! Our bins
are collected fortnightly and this fortnight we
only filled one wheelie bin for the whole
school! Woohoo! We think that’s good going!
Our whole school visited Te Awhina Marae last Friday, thank you all for
your support, for providing food to share and helping transport and
supervise students throughout the day. Tino pai - te tāpaepae o te rangi!
Welcome A warm welcome to Mrs Amber Beech who will be teaching in
Room 3 on Mondays for the rest of the term instead of Mr Hepburn.
BUS NOTICES Please let us know if your child is not to travel home on the
bus if they usually do so! SEND A TEXT TO 027 526 8842. If you do not
receive acknowledgement of your text it may not have reached us so call
03 526 8842 or email office@ngatimoti.school.nz. The safety of our
students is our first priority and it is of great concern if we cannot find them
and they are on our list of students to board the bus at the end of the day.
The bus roll is held at the office so please just text or call to let us know.
Thank you for helping us to get your children home safely.
School Photo orders Thank you for returning your order envelopes to
school. The deadline for returns is next THURSDAY 9 June. A couple of
points to remember when returning your envelopes:
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You must return your blank envelope to school if you want to
receive your free class photo. (Thanks Festival 2015!)
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If you purchase a value pack take $12 off the price as the class
photo is free, so either value pack costs $13, NOT $25
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Do not pay to school. All queries and payments to be made
directly to Scott Kilmore (details on your order envelope)
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You may also order a whole school photo (as in last week’s
newsletter) at a cost of $10 for 20 x 30cm print, or $12 laminated. Please
request this on your order envelope if required.
Inter-schools Cross Country – Rabbit Island Thurs 2 June
Thank you for all your offers of transport to this event tomorrow – you
parents are amazing! We have 29 students entered into the race – good
luck to all of you! RUNNERS: Please assemble outside the hall at 8.50am
in the morning to find your ride – ask Amanda in the office if you are
confused. You will return to school for the afternoon following the race.
The Tackle 7s Rugby tournament finally went ahead with a sunny day yesterday! Well done to Josh, Arowen, Miro, Amy, Jamie, Ollie, Kim, Noa,
Josefin, Maya and Ashleigh who came 5th overall. Thank you too to supporting parents and to Mr Hepburn for being an awesome coach!
SCHOOL ENVIRO PROJECT – HELP! We are looking for donations of the following materials so we can build a solar food dehydrator at
school. We need: 13-18mm untreated ply (marked scraps are ok) in the following sizes:
2 x 600mm x 400mm
1 x 900mm x 400mm
1 x 900mm x 800mm
1 x 900mm x 600mm
2 x 900mm x 600mm food grade steel
10m 1x1 untreated pine
mesh
2m 2x2 untreated pine
Old greenhouse glass
Please contact Debs in Room 3 if you can help or have any questions – thank you!
Ngatimoti Netball
Well done to last week’s players of the day: Amy, Aaliyah and
Lexus!
There are no netball games this Queen’s Birthday weekend.
Y1 & 2 continue training at lunchtimes on Fridays. There are still a
couple of fees outstanding. Please pay Lou directly or online to 11 7426
0018373 00; If you cannot remember if you have paid or not please
contact Lou 5268815 / 0210457798. Thank you!
NGATIMOTI SCHOOL PARENTS GROUP - CAKE ROSTER
We offer cakes for sale for $1 each as a Friday treat to students. Parents
donate the cakes and their time for this and the children really look
forward to their Friday cakes! So as a parent is it clear to you what you
need to do on your cake duty day? Please arrive in time for lunch with
approximately 24 muffins, slices or cake. If you can’t be here on the day,
please send the cakes along in the morning to Amanda, and we will
organise somebody to serve. By 12.30pm, arrive, set up the big table in
the hall. As students line up (little ones first), serve. Wipe the table and
clean up. This terms roster is as follows; If you are unable to do your
duty please swap with another parent or call Catherine on 526 8891.
Fri 3 June, Week 5: Evelyn D, Louise R, Joanne W N
Fri 10 June, Week 6: Lisa F, Allison M, Gali G
Fri 17 June, Week 7: Suntah H, Vanessa H, Sooyir L
Fri 24 June, Week 8: Rachel G, Nicola H, Carolin L
Fri 1 July, Week 9: Karen H, Hobbit G, Leonie M
Fri 8 July, Week 10: Alison T, Andrea G, Wendy M
Kune Kune Piglet FOR SALE
5 month old boar, well handled, friendly and fat!
$55. Call Vanessa 526 8832
also
10 bales of HAY WANTED
Call Vanessa 526 8832 or 0272633550
Ngatimoti School Cross Country
By Fern – Room 5
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Last week on Tuesday the 24 of May Ngatimoti held its
school Cross Country. Everyone participated in this event,
tried their best, and had a lot of fun. Well done to all of
the students that took part! 
Everyone supported their house colours Red, Blue, Green
and Yellow, by cheering their houses members and
everyone else on, and wearing the colour of their house.
Great job everyone! And well done Green House who
gained the most house points and celebrated by receiving
a trophy!
A big thank you to: Glen who organized the event and
trained some of the students; Ed for letting us use his land
for our track and the amazing students that joined in! 
Good luck to everyone who was chosen to represent
Ngatimoti at the interschool Cross Country tomorrow! 
NGATIMOTI FESTIVAL 2016:
NEW FLYER/POSTER DESIGN WANTED.
We are looking for a fresh new flyer design for this year’s festival. We have
heaps of time and are lucky to be able to get the flyers and posters printed
free of charge so if you fancy having a go, we just need an image! Think
scarecrows and the uniqueness of our beautiful valley; this year will be our
15th Festival! Contact Amanda in the office if you have any ideas!
Kiwi Kids Newsletter – BACK NEXT WEEK!! 