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Tasman Drive

Papakura 2113

Phone (09) 298 5410

office@opaheke.school.nz

www.opaheke.school.nz

Fax (09) 298 0739

Thank you to all the children who are punctual for school. Please ensure your child is in school for 8:25am. The side gates will be closed at this time. We encourage punctuality in order for students to

be in and settled, ready for learning.

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PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGES Kite Day - A Matariki Celebration

This term we have been learning about Flight. Last week we held a

kite day to help celebrate Matariki and share some of our learning.

Students from across the school were

involved in making kites of all kinds.

Different materials , structures and

designs were used to create a colourful

array of kites. Here are some pictures of

Rangitoto Team ready to fly their kites.

Liberty of Being Me

Four of our Year 8 students and their mums/grandmothers

came along to this workshop on Tuesday evening last week.

These students participated in activities designed to

strengthen the relationship and communication between

mother and daughter, and encourage critical thinking in

regards to media and self image.

“I learnt so much about my Mum that I didn’t know before “-

Dharma Special thanks to Mrs Stride who co-ordinated the

evening

Professional Learning

The dedicated staff at our school are

always involved in ongoing learning.

Our incredible bunch of teacher aides

have begun learning about OneNote

and how this tool helps support both

teachers and students in their daily

work. Here they are engrossed in their

online introductory modules.

Computational Thinking in the Junior School

A small group of students from the junior school are learning to

code using programs such as Moana, Hour of Code and Lightbot

this year. This term we have begun

using our knowledge and experience

from the coding programs to describe

position and direction of movement,

as well as, interpreting others’

descriptions of position and

movement on mats and mazes.

Kia ora koutou,

Thanks to those parents who attended our

Junior Three Way Conferences last week and

we look forward to welcoming our Year 4 to 8

parents to our Student Led Conferences this

week. Being able to share our learning with

whanau is something we value greatly.

Our students have been involved in many

learning experiences and have experienced

many successes over the past term. Sports

days, academic competitions and fundraising

efforts just to name a few. A big thank you to

the staff, parents and whanau who help make

these experiences happen for our children.

Your efforts and commitment are greatly

appreciated

We would like to extend a warm welcome to

two new members of staff - Malcom Ngere

Ngere and Christie Moore. They will be

working with students to help support their

learning.

We wish all our Opaheke whanau a restful

and relaxing break. We look forward to a busy

and exciting Term 3!

Ngā mihi

Denise Horley (Acting Principal)

LEARNING HIGHLIGHTS

Issue 10, 2017

Wednesday 5 July, 2017

Malcom Ngere Ngere Christie Moore

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NORTH COUNTIES RUGBY REPRESENT COUNTIES AT ZONE COMPETITION 11 of our Year 7 & 8 students were part of the North Counties Team who went through to represent Counties at Auckland Zone last Tuesday 27th June. The boys played excellent rugby and after pool play they made it through the the semi-finals where they played a very strong Sacred Heart team. Although they made some strong plays they were not good enough to topple the Sacred Heart team who went on to win the tournament. The North Counties team met Glenn Eden in the play off for 3rd and 4th. They played their best game of the day and stormed home to win and place 3rd. Well done boys!

A big thank you to all the parents who came along to support the team and to their coaches - Mr Cantwell and Mr Wickers, your time was greatly appreciated. Well done—Joe, Amore, Matthew, Kelton, Teiti, Timothy, Campbell, Quinlan, Brynn, Joshua and Calum.

CELEBRATING SUCCESS

WIG WEDNESDAY - FUNDRAISING FOR CHILD CANCER FOUNDATION Wig Wednesday is a new fundraising event that Opaheke School participated in for the first time to raise awareness for child cancer. Staff and students were encouraged to dress up in funny and funky wigs bringing a coin to support this worthy cause. A special thank you to Aleksandra (Kosta’s Mum) for her time and kindness that day. We raised $235 towards this worthy cause.

CHEER GIRLS WIN GOLD! Kenzie, Maddison, Nikki, Emma and Kaylee attended cheerfest last weekend and each of their teams won gold! Teams: Kenzie - Blackjack, Maddison, Emma and Nikki - Supremacy, Kaylee - Tiaras

Blackjack won overall with the highest score of the competition!

AUCKLAND CITY MISSION - ONE CAN TWO CAN APPEAL Our school councillors would like to thank everyone who contributed to the Auckland City Mission’s Can

appeal. Last week we gathered enough cans to fill four boxes . The food will be used in emergency

food parcels delivered to individuals and families in desperate need.

Schools throughout Auckland took part in the appeal.

40 HOUR FAMINE - SUPPORTING SYRIAN REFUGEES Over the weekend of 9-11 June, our students participated in this years

famine by giving up food, TV, or social media, sleeping in a box, washing

cars, and living out of backpacks, to raise money for World Vision’s life-

saving work with Syrian refugees as part of World Vision’s 40 Hour

Famine. $1089 was collected at school in addition to money that was

collected online. Great effort everyone. A special congratulations to

Tessa, Tom and Ty for being our top three fundraisers!

Tessa O, Tom P and Ty J

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Results 24 June

Magic vs PR12 won 8-3 Player of the Day Andrew

Stars vs CG Turquoise won 19-6 Player of the Day Addison/Shyah

Shooting Stars

Lightning Bolts

Storm vs Aztec Int lost 8-9 Player of the Day Anjali

Diamonds vs Hillpark draw 6-6 Player of the Day Alyssa

Results 1 July

Magic vs St Marys Thunder won 10-3 Player of the Day Whole Team

Stars vs TG Hibiscus won 26-1 Player of the Day Whole Team

Shooting Stars

Lightning Bolts

Storm vs Whatapaka Flames lost 10-14 Player of the Day Ezekeil

Diamonds

Our Opaheke School Netball Club was visited by three of the Northern Star’s players for a training session a few weeks ago. Leana de Bruin (former Silver Fern), Afa Rusivakula, and Sulu Fitzpatrick came down to the school courts and took our girls for a warm up, skills based session, some netball games, Q&A session and some auto-graphs to finish. It was so amazing to have them come down and spend some time and inspire our young netballers. They were friendly, knowledgeable, super tall and taught the players some new skills!

Also - look out for some of your fellow Opaheke School students on Sky Sports, as they shot a small piece on the Northern Stars visit and it is being replayed a fair bit currently.

Thanks to the Northern Stars

PTA FUNDRAISING NEWS REMINDER

NETBALL CLUB RESULTS

NORTHERN STARS VISIT OUR OPAHEKE NETBALL CLUB

Looking for a way to support school’s fundraising efforts? – then maybe this is it. We are looking for someone to help with the PTA Calendar Art fundraiser. This would entail a few mornings in the latter part of Term 3 collating orders, counting money, matching artwork to orders and then distributing the calendars once they are returned to school in Term 4. You wouldn’t be working alone and times can be arranged to suit. If interested please contact the school office.

Dogs on the School Grounds

We have noticed that some parents are bringing dogs with them when they are

delivering/picking up children from school.

Dogs are not permitted on the school grounds even when they are on a leash. This is a health

and safety issue and we ask all parents to leave

dogs at home when visiting the school.

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Krystal

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Room 24—Year 4 have made kites for Matariki. We had great fun designing our kites

based on the traditional manu tukutuku used by Māori

This is how we made our manu tukutuku. Materials: Kebab sticks (6 per child), plastic shopping bags (one each), vivid markers of different colours, a lot of different

coloured feathers, string, sellotape, scissors

Our materials. Miss Hamill helped to cut

our plastic bags.

Then we made a frame out of our

kebab sticks.

We coloured in our bags with

vivid pens and attached it

around our frame.

After that we attached feathers

on each corner and also on the

tail.

Finally we had beautiful kites to

share. We felt proud of what we had

made.

Ruma rua tekau ma wha kua hanga manu

tukutuku mō Matariki

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Opaheke School Newsletter

26 June 3 July

R1 Alix Jacob

R2 Renee Rylea

R3 Eli Shawnell

R4 Cornelius Mitchell

R5 Niwa Anja

R6 Debra Andrew

R7 Charli Ilah

R8 Daniel Jasmine

R9 Dhruva Nuku

R10 Joel Hunter

R11 Katie Taylah

R15 Room 15 Jordan

R17 Rebecca

R21 Harrison Emily

R22 Luke Chase

R23 Lexi Sarah

R24 Liberty

R25 Jasmine Manaaki

R26 Vincent Karmanjit

Jnr Hub Nathan John/Brooklyn

Snr Hub Anjali/Amelia

Respect is our focus for STAR Certificates this term

Wednesday 5 July Incredible Science—Year 7

Wednesday 5 July Student Led Conferences Year 4-8

Thursday 6 July PTA Disco - NE - Yr 4…. 5.30pm - 6.30pm

Yr 5-8…..6.45pm to 8.00pm

Friday 7 July Last Day of Term 2 (Finish at the normal time)

Monday 24 July Term 3 begins

Download the Opaheke School PTC App to receive instant notifications of changes or cancellations.

TERM DATES FOR 2017

Term 2: 1 May—7 July

Term 3: 24 July—29 September

Term 4: 16 October—14 December

A warm welcome to the following students who have

started at our school: Alicia and Blake—Junior Hub

Remember to wear your shoes

arriving and leaving school

PEDESTRIAN CROSSING SAFETY

Please take extra care around our pedestrian

crossings. Below is a note issued by the Police

regarding safety around pedestrian crossings.

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ROAD PATROLLERS NEED YOU!

Can you spare 25 minutes in the morning before school or 25 minutes in the afternoon

after school to help our children cross safely on

Opaheke Road, Tasman Road, and Short Street Crossings. We need Supervisors to keep our patrollers safe - you just need to stand, watch and meet our awesome community one day

a week - morning or afternoon. Our helpers at the moment are

covering more than one session due to the low

numbers of helpers

If you can help please contact the school office or Keith

Buchan on 027 23 55 999 Text or Call

Email: keithbuchan@xtra.co.nz

HELP NEEDED for next Term!

IMPORTANT DATES

ASSEMBLY CERTIFICATES WELCOME TO OPAHEKE

COMMUNITY NOTICES