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A warm welcome to our new students: Ryan Bryant, Tyson Billing, Maevie Mitchell, Kayden Davies.
Ngaa mihi nui ki a koutou katoa,
Warm greetings to all of you, and welcome to Term 4! There are many exciting events to look forward to this term, including Athletics, Orini Fun Day, the Kaakano trip to the A & P show, Book Week, Greats and Grands Day, the Kaakano 2 sleepover, Year 3 and 4 Camp, Student-Led Conferences, P.T.A Disco, Christmas Picnic, Year 7 and 8 Waimarino trip, and our End of Year Prize Givings. It's a busy term that flies by quickly.
On Tuesday, we had a very successful Agricultural Day. Agricultural Day has been an annual tradition at Puketaha School, dating back to the 1960s. Back then, Puketaha students were mostly from farming families in the local area. Over the years, our school community has grown to include a mixture of farming, lifestyle, and urban families. Ag Day serves as a great reminder of our agricultural heritage, and this year's event was one of our largest Ag Days.
We would like to extend our gratitude to Stephanie Philburn and our office manager, Christine Jeffery, for their work in organising the event. We would also like to thank the parents who helped set up and all the parents who supported their children in raising animals to participate in the day. It was inspiring to see the students leading, calling, and talking about how they raised their animals, which demonstrated the effort and time they invested in preparing for this event. Well done to all the competitors and their animals.
This term, in addition to the exciting events, our teaching team will conduct more assessments with the tamariki and compile all the assessment information to make an Overall Teacher Judgment regarding each child's progress within the Curriculum. These decisions will be reflected in the End of Year written reports, which will be sent home at the end of the year. Our Student-Led Conferences will be an opportunity for you to see how your child has been progressing as well.
We look forward to seeing all of you at the events this term!
Kia pai too raa. Have a good day.
Nyree Olliver
With such a busy term ahead of us please make a note in your calandar of these key dates.
Could all cups and trophies recived at the end of last year please be returned to the school office. Thank you
Students are in school when ultraviolet radiation levels are at their peak. Sun protection is an important part of being Sunsmart.
Please send your children along to school with a hat to wear outside at break times.
Welcome to term 4 everyone, especially to any parents new to the school’s environment.
Just a quick thank you to all who helped with last term’s Monster Garage and Car Boot Sale, which we had a lovely day for. We raised just over $3000 for the school and any leftovers we donated to four different charities (Red Cross Five Crossroads, Vinnies Chartwell, Salvation Army Victoria St, and Clothe our Kids Waikato) so it was a great community undertaking where there were lots of positives stemming from it.
Looking ahead to what is coming up this term which we will need help with are the Senior Athletics Day (31 Oct) where we will have a food stall/barbeque, then later on we will be selling Holland Road Gin again and the new idea of Meyer Cheese (keeping it local); and we round off the year with the School Disco on December 11th. Also, the Christmas Picnic is pencilled in for December 14th, which is the second to last day of the year.
I will be sending off any Yummy Stickers on Monday 15th so if you have any last ones to hand in please do so by this Friday. And on that note, if anyone has any New World Stickers they do not think they will be using can you hand these in also I will see if I can pool resources and see if I can’t get some free prizes for our Golf Day or such like.
The PTA’s next meeting is Tuesday 24th October in the Staffroom at 7.30 pm. Please come along to share your ideas, all are welcome.
Kind regards,
Merynn Connors
PTA Chairperson
M: 027 629 6820 E: pta@puketaha.school.nz
Lucky Book Club Issue 7 is out now. Orders are due in by Friday the 20th October at 9am. Thanks, Whaea Emma.
Our school policies are available to be viewed on line at http://puketaha.schooldocs.co.
Enter the Username (puketaha) and password (puketaha) and follow the links to the relevant policies. There is alos a schedule of policy reveiw which are completed by the board on a Termly basis. Caregivers are welcome to send feedback on polices via this website.
Kindo & Ezylunch
Parents and caregivers can order lunches online via Kindo on a Friday. On Thursday 16th November there will be a Hell Pizza lunch instead of the usual menu with the Teacher ONly Day on Friday.
now offers Online EFTPOS for school payments
You can now enjoy using online EFTPOS with the following banks when making payments on your mykindo account- ANZ, ASB, BNZ, Co-operative Bank and Westpac. Check out the support page for more information.
If you don't bank with one of the above banks
The Online EFTPOS team are currently working to bring on other banks.
Telephone Road Closure
Kia ora
From today Waka Kotahi and Waikato District Council are inviting the Puketaha community to complete a survey to tell us about how you use the Telephone Road intersection and what impact a proposed option of closing Holland Road towards Hamilton City would have.
The survey of the community is to gauge interest in this potential option as well as gaining a better understanding of traffic patterns in the area and how the ongoing closure of the SH1B rail crossing has affected the local community.
A hard copy of the survey (attached) will be delivered to households in the Puketaha area today and it will also be available to complete online at www.nzta.govt.nz/projects/sh1b-telephone-road-rail-crossing/.
The survey closes at 5pm on Friday 3 November.
Ngaa mihi
Kaye
Kaye Whitfield
Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive
Waikato District Council
Learn to Swim
Hamilton Aquatics learn to swim lessons at Hillcrest Normal School.
Contact lts@hamiltonaquatics.nz
Kids in Need Waikato
Open Day Sunday 12th November 10am - 2pm. 118 Fencourt Road, Cambridge.
Special guests, music, bouncy castle, face painting, saudage sizzle, coffee, tours, pcik a Christmas wish.
Te Miro Mountain Bike Club
Thursday night summer series starts 12th October. Register between 6pm and 6.20om. Phone 027236378
Northern United Fotball Club
Football programmes for all ages for Term 4. Contact
https://www.northernunitedfootball.co.nz/Football-1/northern-united-fantails
https://www.northernunitedfootball.co.nz/Football-1/junior-football-1
Kanga Training
Cambridge Festival of Sport
Great activities are:
- A Pool party, bar-b-cue, and swimming for 25m, 50m, 100m certificates - at the Perry Aquatic Centre in Cambridge on Friday afternoon/evening (24th)
- A 2.2km fun run - or the last 2.2km of a Rod Dixon's Kids Marathon - at the Cambridge Raceway on Saturday morning (25th).
- Teams to do a 4 x 1km relay - they can be children, competitive teams, business house (staff), families.
- A Triathlon NZ supported split triathlon - swim Friday evening (200 for 14 and under, 400 for 15 up), run at the Cambridge Raceway on Saturday morning, cycle at APL Hautapu on Saturday afternoon.
- A 5km fun run for adults.
- Attend a great concert in Hamilton for Gumboot Friday (Mike King). It is alcohol free and family friendly.
It will be a wonderful event for your school to be involved in.
https://www.cambridgefestivalofsport.co.nz/
https://premier.ticketek.co.nz/shows/show.aspx?sh=GUMBOOT23
Alwyn Poole
Innovative Education Consultants
Cambridge Festival of Sport
Waikato A & P Show
