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Deesharn Crosby-Simmonds, Ryan Millington, Cooper Mitchell, Brooklyn Ngataki-Want, Mitchell Brown, Bianca Mould, Skylah Howlett, Elise Russell.
Dear Parents, Caregivers and Children,
A very warm welcome back to Term 3. Over the school break I was fortunate to receive a decent dose of both culture and sport. Week One our son Flynn played in the Waikato Wide Gwynne Shield Tournament held at Hautapu Rugby Grounds. Each team played 10 games over 8 days. Needless to say their was plenty of rugby and Flynn along with his team mates got a real taste of having to manage themselves from sleep to nutrition. An excellent week, where new friendships were formed and an experience he will take with him for many years.
In addition to this we made the voyage up to Auckland to indulge ourselves in the Arts, watching both the Lion King Production and the Madagascar Musical (not on the same day). The Lion King as you may have experienced for yourself or heard from others, was exceptional. The thought and multi layered talent on display left you in awe. However, during the Madagascar Musical, Flynn, Harry and I got a lesson around patience and seeing something through to the finish. At half time all three of us wanted to stage left and head to Pokeno for an Ice Cream. Amy was simply not having it and we stayed to watch the second half. If you ever wanted to see two boys and a Dad with their bottom lips out, arms crossed, having a little sulk, this was it. Never the less, we are now better for it and it made our ice cream taste that little bit sweeter.
The lesson I guess, is that patience, persistence, perspective can all look and take different forms and when exercising these behaviours there is not always a 'reward' at the end. Sometimes the reward is being given the opportunity to practise them and slowly (bit by bit), see them as a way of being. If we complement these three elements with effort and good judgement, we are on track to achieve some pretty special outcomes, whatever the line of sight is for you.
Obviously, the Olympics is a current context for the above to be seen in action and our team are enjoying using this event as a theme in the classroom. As a school we are keeping a close eye on ex Puketaha kid, David Nyika as he strives for an Olympic medal.
Finally, I know that many of you will be back into the logistics of after school activities and winter sports this week. Good luck to all involved. To the adults, I encourage you all to start any post game chat with your child or grandchild by saying "I really enjoyed watching you play today".
Warm Regards
Geoff
Photos will be taken on the morning of Monday 16th August. This includes sports teams who played in Term 1.
All children MUST bring their sports gear on the day.
Start time is 9am with photo order as follows:
Hockey teams - Bring sports shirt, shoes, socks & black shorts
Basketball Teams - Basketball singlet, black shorts & shoes
Cricket Teams - Shorts & Shoes - sports shirt if you have one.
Netball Teams - Netball uniform & shoes
Touch Teams - Shoes, sports shirt,black shorts
If you do not have a school sports uniform from summer sports one will be provided for you.
All Managers and Coaches are welcome to come along and have a photo with their team.
You can preorder and pay for Sports photos HERE or scan the QR code. Free delivery on all orders expires on Monday 6th Sepetmber.
Term 3 is here, and for the PTA this term it is all about preparing for the Spring Fair. As I have previously indicated, we will be following a pretty successful formula from the 2019 event, albeit with a few tweaks, as that day went so well. Funds raised are earmarked for a new Learning Through Play area. We would like to again offer the Puketaha School Community the chance to become a sponsor at this event. For those who supported us last time in this way you will be getting an email from me, but if there are new supporters to the school, or of this initiative please make contact with me via the pta@puketaha.school.nz email.
There are tiers of support available i.e. Gold $500, Silver, $250 and Bronze $100. These funds enable us to hire equipment and purchase goods to help with the successful and smooth running of this event. Just a reminder, the PTA operates as a Charity so donations are tax deductible and you will receive an invoice/receipt. Each sponsor has the opportunity to place their signage by an attraction and will have their logos on the information/map sheets that get handed out to the public on entry. The other thing I will mention is that we will be putting up the Spring Fair Support Roster by the school office. This year we would like to have one person act as the overseer for each event who then is responsible for messaging each helper who has their name down to help for the different time slots for each event. We very much rely on your help (or your family member’s) to assist at the various attractions so please support us if you can. Mark it on your calendar….. September 25th.
Thank you,
Merynn Connors
PTA Chairperson 027 629 6820
Afternoon Families,
In addition to the above, we are also offering the opportunity for our children to showcase their talent on stage at our Spring Fair Puketaha Got's Telent show.
If you think your child would be interested, please get them to, or support them with, filling out the attached form and bring it to the school office. We do encourage you to have a chat with them about it so the become more aware of what's involved.
We will come in and do info session next Friday, August 6th, from 1 – 1.30pm in the PAC.
Thank you
Linda McConnell.
Thank you to those families who have signed up to bring an animal to our Agricultural Day on 19th October or have indicated that they are interested. If you have not got in touch about bringing a animal lamb or kid goat please do this by Wednesay 4 August. Registration for the event will be sent out next week.
Due to low numbers there will be no calf competition this year.
Thank you to our families who have supported the school with selling chocolates, we appreciate the efforts that you have made with this fundriaser, and especially to those who have sold extra boxes these fundraising efforts.
Each box of chocolates is $72. Please return payment either cash to the School Office or internet banking payment. Bank account number 12-3171-0283600-00 with last name and 'chocolates' as a reference. Thank you.
Issue 5 of the Lucky Book Club is out now and orders are due by 9am on Monday the 9th August.
Thanks Whaea Emma