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A warm welcome to our new student Taine Newall
There is a buzz of learning happening around the school and excitement is growing for Sports Camp next week, Camp Raglan as well as the Spring Fair organisations hyping up. In every little nook of the school, small groups of Year 5-8 students have been practising their speeches, in hopes of making it through to the upcoming EWCS Speech compeition.
Last week I had the pleasure of sitting in on one of our Shine Girls lessons. Shine Girls is a personal development and group mentoring programme we offer our Year 8 girls. The lesson was around “Powerful” and “Powerless” behaviours people may show and the effect of each.
You could see on the children’s faces that there was some thoughtful self reflection going on and, as an adult I was also deep in thought.
For years, we have used the term “Puketaha Powerful Learning”. As I listened, I was making connections to how we use the word “powerful'' and how it was being used in this context. The traits listed are things we do try and develop in our learners and they are interwoven into our School Values and 6 C’s. The concept of ‘taking responsibility’ is linked to our Self Determined Learner profile as well as our School Value of ‘Integrity’. Another connection I made was with being ‘comfortable with the unknown’ and how that links to having a Growth Mindset, as well as our 6 C of being ‘Curious’.
It reminded me of a similar infographic which has come in handy over the years when supporting tamariki to reflect on their behaviour, the role they played in the situation, what they might do to fix it up and the learning that happened for them along the way.
On Tuesday night we held a Spring Fair P.T.A meeting. This is the school's major fundraiser and a ‘powerful’ way that we can come together as a community. You will start hearing of ways you can get involved such as putting your name forward to help run a stall or be rostered on to help at a stall. The Cake Stall is very popular and we will be asking for baking from each family if possible please, as this often sells out early. You can also be collecting up items to donate to the garage sale and your children might be interested in entering The Wearable Arts Competitions. Make sure you mark ‘September 24th’ in your calendar!
Ngā manaakitanga,
Nyree Olliver
Last day for applications for out of school zone enrolments for 2024 is Monday 18th September.
The Puketaha School Board of Trustees invites applications from parents who wish to enrol their children at Puketaha School for the 2024 year. Enrolment to the school is governed by an enrolment scheme. Parents of students who live within the home zone should also indicate their enrolment by this date to assist the school to plan appropriately for next year. Students who live in the home zone are entitled to enrol at the school. Ballot applications are required for siblings of children who attend the school.
The Puketaha School Board of Trustees advises that they will be operating one ballot for Out of Home Zone enrolments for all of 2024.
The Board has determined that there will be separate ballots held for different year levels:
18 spaces for Year 1 Term 1, 25 spaces for Year 0 Terms 2,3, & 4, 1 space for Year 2, 1 space for Year 3, 5 spaces for Year 5, 4 spaces for Year 6, 10 spaces for Year 7 & 8
There are no spaces in Year 4
The exact number of places will depend on the number of applications from students who live within the zone.
The Board is prepared to receive applications, in addition to those they already hold to reach the school by Monday 18th September 2023. If a ballot for out of zone places is required, it will be held on Wednesday 20th September 2023.
Applications are available from the School Office or the Puketaha School website and to be returned to Puketaha School R D 1, Hamilton or office@puketaha.school.nz
Allocations from out of home zone students will be processed in priority order as set out by the Ministry of Education.
Results will be notified as soon as possible after the ballot.
Now that the winter sports season is over could all uniforms and gear not being needed for Summer Sports please be returned to the School Office as soon as possible.
Thank you
Sports team photos are now available to order online Puketaha Sports Photo Order
You can show your support for these children and their whaanau by joining us for Wig Wednesday this September the 7th.
Hello all,
Thank you to those who attended the Spring Fair meeting we had on Tuesday as we tried to finalise the events/stalls for our upcoming fair. Next week we will be ramping up communications regarding this year’s Spring Fair as it is now less than one month away. There will be a dedicated Spring Fair newsletter explaining what is happening and when, plus what we need from our wonderful Puketaha Community to make it happen! We are desperately seeking some people to oversee certain events. There will be a roster going up soon where we also will need helpers/volunteers for various stalls in one hour time slots. Please can you message me if you think you can oversee an event, or write your name down as soon as possible when the roster appears. (Or message me and I can write it in for you!)
If there is anyone or company who is still interested in becoming a Sponsor for this event we are looking to finalise our printed documents so it would be great to hear from you sooner rather than later!
There are tiers available: Gold $500, Silver $250 and Bronze $100. This money is use to hire equipment or purchase materials required for the fair and just make the event more profitable. Sponsors are welcome to put their flags up at the School next to a stall, provide a blurb that the MC will read out and will have their logos on the Flyer/Map handed out on entry. Plus, they will be recognised in the school newsletter.
Let me know if you can help in any way.
Regards,
Merynn Connors
E: pta@puketaha.school.nz M: 027 629 6820
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