Kia ora koutou,

Friday is Pink Shirt Day and at our Monday morning hui, we heard about the history of Pink Shirt Day. The idea of Pink Shirt Day originated from a story back in 2007 where two boys stood up to a bully who was teasing another child for wearing a pink shirt. Now, Pink Shirt Day is celebrated globally and it reminds us to work together to stop bullying by celebrating diversity and promoting kindness and inclusiveness. This aligns very well with what we believe in at Puketaha School and is reflected in our School Values… 

Integrity

“Stand up for what is right”

Celebrating Differences

“Recognise and appreciate others uniqueness”

So we encourage everyone to wear pink on Friday! The students across the school will also have the opportunity to talk about what Pink Shirt day means and talk about how to keep each other safe, value each other and be respectful.

Next week we are holding a Parent Consultation Evening around the Relationships and Sexuality Curriculum. Learning about Relationships and Sexuality is one aspect of the Health Curriculum. It is designed to help improve the overall wellbeing of children by making sure children are well informed with the knowledge they need as they grow and develop. 

We are holding a parent evening to tell you more about this learning and share the key themes. We will be running small workshops for each theme where we will share the learning progressions, possible content of lessons, and you can ask questions and share your feedback with us. See below for Learning Progressions...

We will use whaanau feedback to assist us to plan our next steps in implementing the Relationships and Sexuality Curriculum into our school. If you are able to make it, we would love to see you! Please indicate on the link below if you can make it. 

Relationships and Sexuality Curriculum 

Parent Consultation Evening

Tuesday 24th May

6.00pm - 7.00pm

Roopuu Maahuri

Light refreshments provided

Please click here to indicate if you are planning to attend. 

Take care and enjoy the rest of your week!

Ngaa mihi

Nyree Olliver

Many thanks to our Puketaha Community who supported our Scrap Metal collection last weekend. It was an opportunity to have a clean up and support the school in a very green manner. A win/win for all concerned. The bin was quickly filled by about lunch time on Saturday and we managed to fill another truck with all the other donations that were left in the carpark. It was all cleared away by about 11am Monday and we received over $1,200 from Sims so that was awesome. I think this was very popular and, in the end quite easy to administer in this format, so we are looking to do it again
next year.

Cross Country
We will be running food stall at the school cross country on Tuesday May 31 st so will be looking for helpers to man the barbeque, donate some baking, and help sell baking and juicies. Same goes for the East Waikato Country School’s (EWCS) Cross Country day on Wednesday June 8 th. If you can help on either of these dates, can you please let me know. (Especially the EWCS date.)

Oxford Pies
We have the last date for orders as being June 3 rd which is still the case if you are emailing your order, but if you hand in your order to the office can you get it to Christine by Thursday 2nd , as the Friday 3rd is a Teacher Only Day.

Spring Fair
As you know we had to postpone the Spring Fair last year due to Covid restrictions, so the new date is set for September 24 th this year. I realise this is ages away, but we are planning to have a plant sale/stall and so am appealing early to those who have green fingers in our midst to propagate cuttings of house plants or grow some seedlings with this date in mind.
That’s about it from me. We haven’t been able to move forward with the firewood idea due to heavy work commitments of the main organiser, so have had to park this idea for now.
Kind regards,
Merynn Connors - PTA Chairperson
Mob: 027 629 6820 E: pta@puketaha.school.nz

Entertainment Books are now avaliable to order with proceeds going to the school.

Entertainment Book Order