Increasing Traffic The Topic Of Conversation

Kia ora koutou katoa, Talofa Lava, Malo e lelei, Ni Hao, Anyoung haseyo, Konichi wa, Gruetzi, Guten tag, Bonjour, Ola, hello

As you are all aware NZTA have placed a variable speed area outside the school at peak traffic times for pick up and drop off of students in line with the agreement they made last year. With growing traffic numbers due to the growth of Tauranga we continue to have safety issues as impatient drivers make bad driving decisions at our school gate. 

Recently I placed a statement on our school facebook page that created a great deal of discussion in our community. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and information about what you have seen. I have sent this link to Simon Bridges, Martin Parkes (TCC), Adam Francis (NZTA), Richard Standing and Arona Jacob (MOE). They are able to view your comments. Several have been in touch about trying to get a meeting time together to discuss the carpark that was promised last year. The Bay of Plenty Times have run a story today (28 February, 2017, pg 7) discussing the growing issue.

It is heartening to hear that the TCC are also discussing the possibility of free buses for urban students. The large cost of buses to parents in the city is causing many to choose to drive their children to school. If this does go ahead we might talk to the TCC re morning and afternoon buses for our urban routes. 

  

All our students in Rooms 9 - 12 are in their new and renovated classrooms and have settled into to learning beautifully. The builders are still finishing off projects after school hours on the new modular classrooms and the new toilet block and ramps are nearly finished. We all can't wait until we see the fences come down and then we will just need to be patient while the grass grows!

The students are enjoying their colourful new environments and different furniture.

 

Our students are all involved in a range of PE curriculum learning at the moment. Our Year 1 & 2 students have been learning hockey skills with Sport BOP specialist instructors, all students are learning swimming in our school pool and our Tall Poppies have been involved in specialist swimming instruction down at the Polytech Pools with Jenni's Swim School instructors. PE is part of the New Zealand Curriculum (NZC) which is delivered in all State and State Integrated schools in New Zealand. 

As a celebration of our learning in swimming we hold a whole school swimming sports event down at the Greerton Pools. This enables children to show everyone how they have progressed in their learning and confidence and to experience competition progressively across their time at Tauriko School. We want all students to experience success in reaching personalised goals and challenges.

This year our school swimming sports are on Friday 17 March. Details of the programme for the day are on our Tauriko School website . 

All school notices and the school newsletter are posted on our website so if you think you have missed anything or this has been misplaced at home don't hesitate to look here.

Language Support

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Technology Center - Tauranga Primary

Tauriko School Intermediate students (Tall Poppies) are so fortunate to be able to spend five full days a term at the purpose built, muli-million dollar Technology Centre at Tauranga Primary. There students learn a range of technology dispositions and skills. All students absolutely love their learning here and are very fortunate to have this facility available. Having full days here, rather than hour sessions also means they really get their teeth into projects for the time they are there and achieve a lot.

Thank you to the staff here for all you do for our students!

                                                                

Tall Poppies have also been learning about water as a precious resource this week and learning ways that water can be conserved and used globally. Here they look at Hydroponics