What's happening this Term…..

Term 2

5th June GB Rippa Rugby

10th June Yr. 3/4 Hockey - Nelson

12th June Yr. 5/6 Hockey - Nelson

16th June Kids for Kids Concert - Nelson

20th June GB Cross Country

24th June Project Janszoon Trip

25th June Assembly

26th June Reports home

30th June Rapunzel - Playhouse Theatre

1st July Parent Teacher interviews

2nd July Parent Teacher interviews

4th July Last day of term

5th June 2014 - Week 5 Term 2

Friday Lunches

Bacon & Cheese Pinwheels $2.50

(vege. option available)

Cake $1.50

Thank you to Janet and Kim

for lunches this week

Community Oral Health Service Mobile Update Our Mobile Oral Health Service will resume from Monday 9 June at Takaka Primary School. Those patients we are unable to see during this visit will be rescheduled as priority in October 2014 when the mobile returns to the Tasman area.

We apologise for any inconvenience. Please contact the service through the Tasman Unit 0800 833 846 if you have any concerns about appointments.

Year 3-6 Hockey Tournament Next week our hockey teams will head to Nelson, to take part in the Nelson/Tasman Inter-School Hockey

Tournament, to be held at the Saxton Field Hockey Turfs.

Our Yr. 3/4 teams play on Tuesday 10 June and the Yr. 5/6 teams on Thursday 12 June.

We hope to travel by car and minibus and will be leaving school at 7.00am sharp and returning between 5.30pm

and 6pm. If you are planning to travel over to the tournament and are willing to transport children please

remember to let us know.

We will be stopping for a swim at the wave pool on the way home.

Children will need

$5 for transport ( can be paid at the office or will be added to school account)

Shorts

Sports shoes

Shin pads or ½ a rolled magazine to put under socks (optional)

Lunch / snacks, plus something for on the way home

Warm clothes as it can get quite cool at Saxton Field

Refillable drink bottle

Togs /towel

School T shirt supplied

Hockey sticks supplied. (can bring own if they wish)

Assembly Assembly will be held next Wednesday. It will be a

singing assembly with the Yr. 4-6 children going

over the songs they will sing in the Kids for Kids

Concert on June 16.

Those children selected for soloist roles will also go

through their items. Sian and Briget are our singing

soloists and Todd is our ukulele soloist.

2014 Dates Term 2 5th May - 4th July Term 3 21st July - 26th Sept Term 4 13th Oct - 19th Dec

Kids for Kids Concert

On Monday 16 June, we are sending a choir of 65 members from Room 1,4 & 5 to the Everything

is Ka Pai, Kids for Kids Concert in the Hope Community Church. Tickets for the concert are on

sale at http://kidsforkids.nztix.co.nz.

We will be leaving school at 7am to be at Hope Church for a rehearsal at 9.00am through to

12.00. We will arrange activities for the afternoon before heading back to the venue at 6.45pm

for a 7.30pm concert. The concert will finish at 9.20pm.

Please let us know if you can help with transport.

Project Janszoon The Wainui Bay, Taupo

Pt trip will be held on

Tuesday 24 June. More

information on the trip

will be sent out later.

SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR

Thanks to all who purchased books at

the Book Fair over the past few weeks.

We sold $2,737 which entitled the

school to $800 of books for our library.

Cross Country Training Tomorrow we will be starting our cross country training for the

Motupipi School Cross Country on the 18 June and the Golden Bay

Schools Cross Country on the 20 June.

Training will be each day and will usually be from 2.20pm. This is

compulsory for all children and gear is to be brought to school

regardless of the weather as we will run when there is a break in

any bad weather.

Children will need to bring each day

Shorts

Sports shoes

We had a great night at the school disco recently with plenty of dancing, games, eating and general racing round the hall. Room 4 were the dance off champions. Thanks to the fundraising committee for organizing the evening.

Fishing on the Boat

By Yoshi

On the Monday of the long weekend we went fishing on the boat at Separation Point. I was happy as I like

going fishing. We launch the boat from Port Tarakohe. Dad puts the money in to lift the boom gate so we

can drive through to the boat ramp.

There were two or three other boats on the water near where we anchored. I saw black and white Shags on

the rocks. The water was very choppy and there was a strong current making the boat rock from side to

side. We dropped our lines over the side of the boat. It was a little bit tricky standing to start with

because of the waves moving the boat, but we soon got used to it. I caught a fifty centimetre Blue Cod and

one Sea Perch. Then we went closer to some rocks. The water was really calm. Teru used some small hooks

on his rod. Mum and I put some tiny hooks on a piece of fishing line with a sinker tied to the bottom. We

caught a lot of spotties and two baby Kahawai. We kept the Kahawai.

We all have different jobs on the boat. Dad’s job is to drive the boat and reel in the fish. Teru’s job is to

see the fish on the fish finder. Mum’s job is to kill and gut the fish. My job is to cut up the bait. Mum baits

all the hooks the first time.

Sometimes cutting the bait gets a bit boring; especially the stinky stuff!

Tuna Fishing

By Mike

In two months time I am going tuna fishing with Joe. Joe lives at the Tarakohe wharf in an old white and red wooden boat and was a commercial fisherman. We are going fishing out of the Bay. If we put enough fuel in the boat we could end up in Australia. The boat has been to Australia and back before. I want to go tuna fishing because it is a common fish that people eat. Japanese people eat a lot of tuna.

You catch tuna on either a line or a giant spear with a pointy end. I know someone who does welding and I am thinking of asking him to make a spearhead for me to use. I am not sure if it is a day trip or we are going to stay on the boat. If we do stay on the boat I will be catching squid because tuna love to eat them. We could also make squid rings for us to eat! You have to go out of the Bay to catch squid and sometimes they grow to two feet (or two thirds of a metre) long. Octopus have a round head and squid have a point with two little wings coming off the top and on the end of two tentacles are bits that glow. If I catch some tuna I will give some to the welder (who helped me make my spearhead) and put some in the freezer.

This week we have two fantastic fishing stories written by

Yoshi and Mike from Room Four.

HEADLICE We have been noticing lots of untreated headlice in the classrooms. We ask that you please check your children's hair regularly and treat if necessary. Headlice breed and spread prolifical-ly in primary schools and it ‘s important to eradi-cate them as soon as they are noticed!

Motupipi School Contact

Details:

435 Abel Tasman Drive

Takaka 7183

Phone: 03 525 9986

EMAIL: markc@motupipi.school.nz

Or: office@motupipi.school.nz

Today we had three teams taking part in the Golden Bay Schools’ Rippa

Rugby Tournament. The winning team goes on to represent Golden Bay at the Nelson Regional Finals.

Motupipi One and Motupipi Two won all their games to make the semi finals

against each other! Motupipi One beat Motupipi Two in a hard fought battle by two tries to make the final against Takaka.

Motupipi Three had both wins and losses in their pool games. They had a great time and improved as the day went on.

The Final was an exciting game with…..

Motupipi One Winning!

There will be a report and photos from the tournament in next weeks newsletter.

Congratulations

Congratulations to Abbie who sang at the

Golden Valley Country Music awards in

the weekend. Abbie sang a duo with her

Grandad, who had written the song.

Motupipi Cross Country -

Wednesday 18th June

Food will be available for adults and children when we hold our school cross country - this will replace

Friday lunch that week.

Menu Soup $2 Sausage sizzle $2 Cake/slice $2 Juicies (available after races) $1

If you are able to help cook and serve on the day

please let us know. Also any offers of baking would be very much

appreciated.

REMEMBER - to bring your shorts and running shoes for training every day!!!