KIA ORA KOUTOU KATOA, TALOFA LAVA, MALO E LELEI, NI HAO, ANYOUNG HASEYO, KONICHI WA, GRUETZI, GUTEN TAG, BONJOUR, OLA, HELLO.
Students are all getting excited now as the last
practices for our Maui The Magnificent production happen. Next week will be a
busy week for students as they spend Monday at School running through the show
and the Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday down at the Bethlehem College Performing
Arts Centre running through the show and performing. Details around this have
come home as a notice with students this week, check their bags if you haven’t
seen this and make yourselves familiar with the organisation and times for this.
A huge thank you to the PTA for funding the buses
for each student to travel to Bethlehem College, Tuesday to Thursday. We
encourage all parents to have their children at school on time to go on the
buses as Bethlehem College will not allow Tauriko School parental traffic
through the school as this is a busy time for their own parents dropping
students at school and after school picking them up. Remember students need to
be dropped off at the theatre for evening performances at 6pm and they can be
picked up after the show outside the side of the theatre at 8:30pm.
Tickets are selling fast and be aware there is a
matinee performance on Thursday that is great for pre-schoolers to attend,
instead of them having a late night. Extended family members may also find this
a great option if they can’t make the night performances.
There is a public consultation for the Tauriko West
development proposed for around our school and the future roading options for
SH29 currently being held down at The Tauranga Crossing in the building right
next to Eves Realty today, Friday, and Saturday. There are big posters up outlining
where the planning is at so far, options being considered for roading and staff/consultants
from NZTA, TCC, WBOPRC and MOE there to answer your questions. This will have
implications for our school. I encourage you to get down there at some time
over the next two days to learn about what is being proposed and give feedback
to these staff. Dallas Collett and Gavin Sowry from the Ministry of Education
will be there to talk to about what this means for schooling in the area. There
is a feedback booklet you can fill in which will mean you are able to have your
say about what is important to you about the wider Tauriko Area and what you
would like the project team to consider in planning for the future.
The feedback period closes on 16 June 2017. You can
also fill in an online survey if you
wish.
Currently our library is being refurbished due to
wonderful fundraising from our PTA two years ago now that the space is no
longer being used as a classroom. A team has supported Lisa Rose in this
refurbishment – Emma Cumming from the PTA, Fay Burke, our past BOT
Chairperson and Cathy Ball our part-time
librarian. Yesterday they, other parent volunteers and student helpers from Aquinas College helped to get books back on the new shelving. It is so
exciting to see this happen! Furniture is soon to arrive. An opening of the
refurbished library will happen at the end of this term in Leadership week,
with our Library leaders taking on leadership roles as part of the celebration.
Look out for information coming out after the
production around our annual Leadership Week. Of course our school motto is “Learning
Today, Leading Tomorrow” and growing leadership in all students from Years
1 – 8 and amongst our staff is a focus of our school. Active citizenship is
promoted and supported and of course often this also means our parents and
whanau stepping into leadership roles. The PTA and the BOT provide fundraising
and governance leadership and often there is a call out to parents and whanau
to lead utilising their expertise – hangi, our Creative Community Curriculum
(CCC), sports coaching and management to name but a few.
Recently one of our parents, Cherie Bulley,
approached me to have an amazing “Time Mangement guru” speak at our school. I
have heard Robyn Pearce speak around time management in professional roles and
thoroughly enjoyed listening to her and found her ideas both practical and
hugely helpful. Robyn has just put out a book for parents. I know the practical
advice she has to offer around this will be hugely beneficial to all parents
and I encourage you to obtain tickets. Put Monday 26 June in your diaries and look out for further information which will be coming out shortly. I will certainly be going along to pick
up tips!! Having a speaker of this calibre at our school is wonderful. A big
thank you to Cherie for stepping up and organising this for us all.
Have a great weekend and to those of you out there on the side of sports fields building lasting memories with your kids - wrap up warm and enjoy!
Suzanne
