CLASSROOM LEARNING

Our teachers are working with facilitators to develop

our Local School Curriculum. We continue to plan

opportunities for learning that interests and engages our

students—this year this involves an emphasis on

STREAM—Science, Technology, Religious Education, The

Arts and Mathematics. We are conscious of keeping our

Catholic heritage and focus in the centre of our learning.

We are continuing our learning journey with

Manaiakalani, with a focus around Learn, Create, Share

with devices. We have a facilitator supporting Tui, Kea

and Piwi classes with their learning this year.

SPECIAL CHARACTER

If you are new to PCS you will see our Special Character

throughout our leadership with our students, our

classroom programmes and our celebration days. We

have a rich Religious Education Programme, and in Term

1, there are many events and celebrations which you are

most welcome to join us for.

This year, we run Mass once a term, and it is great to

have as many students as possible taking part in the

Church. Mass begins at 9am every Sunday, and those

that are involved in Ministries of reading, prayer, altar

service and projector, we ask that you arrive at 8.45am.

At the beginning of the term, we also welcomed Father

Larry Rustia as our new parish priest. Father Larry is a

regular visitor to school. We are feeling very privileged

to have him with us. The children are enjoying getting to

know him. We look forward to working with him

throughout the year.

Our Sacramental Programme begins early this term, so

come in and see Mrs Ryken or Father Larry, if you wish

your child to take part in this very special sacrament of

First Holy Communion and Confirmation. From there,

the students take part as altar servers in the church which

we are always very proud of. The programme begins

with the first hui for parents after mass on March 1st.

I look forward to working with you all this year.

Many blessings,

Joanne Ryken

Greetings, Kia Ora, Talofa, Bula Vinaka,

Konnichi wa, Dobrodošli, Sawa dee, Failte

A very warm welcome back to school! For those that

are new to our school community, we wish you a very

warm welcome to our special community.

We welcomed our new staff, students and families in

Week 1, at the beginning of a short week of learning. It

was a great way to begin our term in partnership with

the parish. Thankyou to everyone who attended and

assisted us that day—especially the wonderful Helen

Payne and Vanya Snowden.

We have quite a few staff changes this year. Joanne

Ryken is Acting Principal, while Mrs Carey is on study

leave for the year, completing her masters degree.

Danni Cook (Whaea Danni) is our Acting DP and Te

Kahu class teacher for the year. We have also welcomed

Felicia Slattery (Miss Slattery) and Melissa Bothma (Mrs

Bothma), who are teaching in Tui and Kea classes. You

can read their introductions, later in the newsletter.

We have a great team of teachers, who have been

working hard to get to know the students, and plan for

some amazing learning for 2020.

Special points of interest:

• Shrove Tuesday 25th February

• Ash Wednesday 26th March

• Friday 6th March PCS Swimming Sports

• Central Zones Swimming 13th March

• Whanau Picnic 10th March—details later

Friday 21st February 2020 Week 3 Term 1

UNIFORM

We have a range of sandals available at school. In addition, we also have a some “pre-loved” uniforms available—a range of green and white shirts, plus other uniform items. These are all free of charge. Please call in to the office and see either Helen, or Donna.

SWIMMING

We have all been very grateful for our class

swimming sessions each Tuesday, Wednesday and

Thursday, as part of our ongoing PE programme.

The students have been enjoying having the

chance to cool of a little in the middle of each of

those days.

We have our school swimming sports on Friday 6th

March. We are looking forward to many of you

joining us for the day. Classes will be

demonstrating the skills they have been learning

and practising, prior to the competitive race

events. If you are not already committed to

helping the PTFA with the canteen, and would like

to help on the day - we would be very appreciative

of time-keeping assistance. If you are able to do

help with a session for part of the day we would

be very grateful—just let Helen or Joanne know.

WATER RESTRICTIONS

You will all be aware that the Far North District is now at a critically low level for water supply to the township. As a result of this we are only allowed water for “essential use” - at school this includes drinking water and toilet use.

We are in the process of limiting water fountain use, to avoid water wastage. We are asking students to bring a water bottle from home. If you are short of water at home, we can fill these at school.

The Ministry of Education is in the process of arranging for an extra water tank for all Kaitaia schools. This tank will be placed on site in the near future. This is to ensure that we have sufficient water for toilet use.

POMPALLIER STUDENT LEADERSHIP

Our Year 7&8 students are always great leaders and are a huge help in our school. They are great role models of our school values and gain lots of experi-ence in leadership to set them off into their next journey at secondary school. As in 2019, every Year 7&8 student is a Pompallier Disciple. Once again in 2020 every Year 7&8 stu-dents is expected to act as a Pompallier Disciple, as part of their service to the school. We have done some learning together about the role, to support them in their endeavours to awhi younger students in the playground during morning tea and lunchtimes. We have had many applications from students will-ing to be House Captains, or be part of the school Special Character Team. Unfortunately there will be some students that will miss out on these roles. We thank them all for their applications, and their willingness to be leaders in our school. We encour-age them all to continue to seek ways in which to be leaders, or to serve our school community. This year we also gave the opportunity for Year 6-8 students to apply to be librarians. These students will be trained to use our library computer system, and act as librarians during class visits, and during some lunchtimes.

PERMISSION

Enclosed is a permission slip that covers our day-to-day trips and activities. We will always notify you of any travel or walking that we do as a school, but this covers us for the year.

There is also a digital citizenship form that you need to discuss with your child. We are also teach-ing these skills at school.

All students in year 4 to 8 are required to sign digi-tal citizenship to remain responsible and safe.

We would love to take this opportunity to extend a

warm welcome to our new students and their whanau!

Piwi: Raila Kea: Payton and Khan

Tui: Michael, Kayde and Zack Kakapo: Tarzaya and Jamie

Te Kahu: Heavenly and Huatau

It is always wonderful to see our school grow with such enthusiastic and

confident students! We know they will love being at PCS!

Kia Ora, My name is Dannielle Cook and I am the classroom teacher for Te Kahu and also the acting Deputy Principal this year. I was born and raised in Kaitaia and am very excited to be back in my home town to teach the tamariki of our community. I have spent the last 6 years living, studying and working in Auckland and decided to make the journey home at the end of 2019. I enjoy the outdoors especial-ly fishing and camping and also love to cook. I'm looking forward to meeting you all and becoming part of the PCS whanau. Nga mihi—Danni Kia Ora, My name is Felicia Slattery and I will be teaching Tui this year. I am committed to creating a classroom environment where all students are valued, trusted and an integral part of our family of learners. This will be my first year teaching, I completed my Bachelors of Teaching (Primary) (Honors) at the Uni-versity of Newcastle at the end of last year. Three weeks ago I relocated to Kaitaia from Newcas-tle, Australia and am so very excited to get to know the community and explore this beautiful area. Looking forward to meeting you all.

Hi Everyone!

Thank you all for your kind warm welcome, I’m grateful to be part of the Pompallier family. I will spend the year in the Kea class teaching year 3/4. A little bit about myself, I’m 26 years old and South African born. My husband I moved over to New Zealand at the beginning of the year, this is my first time in New Zealand. I completed my de-gree in education at Nelson Mandela University. For the past three years I have been working at an International School in Johannesburg, South Africa teaching year 1 and 3. In my free time I enjoy going jogging and taking long walks (any outdoor activities) and I enjoying cooking and baking. I’m looking forward to a great year ahead, please pop into my classroom to say hi!

Kind regards—Melissa

STAFFING 2019—Teaching Staff

Class Teacher

Piwi Mrs Melissa Watson Mrs Leonie Murray

Kea Mrs Melissa Bothma

Tui Miss Felicia Slattery

Kakapo Mrs Stacey Cutler

Te Kahu Whaea Danni

Support Staff

Acting Principal Mrs Joanne Ryken

Acting Deputy Principal Whaea Danni

Director of Religious Studies Mrrs Joanne Ryken

Classroom Release Teachers Mrs Moira Davis Mrs Barb Hall Mrs Liz Summerville

Administration Manager Mrs Helen Phillips

Teacher Assistant Mrs Donna Scutt

Caretaker Mr Glen Buckingham

All of the “students of the week” receive their own Duffy Book to take home. These are sponsored by the school to encourage the children to enjoy reading. If you would like to help with this sponsorship, come and see us at the office.

Kiwi Pukeko Kea Tui Kakapo Te Kahu

Ice Blocks $1

For sale every Tuesday

and Thursday lunchtime

Te Manawa Hub

Does your child have difficulty speaking, hearing or learning? Managing their behav-ior, or getting along with others? Problems seeing properly, or other unmet needs and differences that set them apart from others? Any of these concerns can impact upon a child’s progress at school. Te Manawa Tahi is a learnuing support hub, where you can come in and talk to ed-ucation professionals about your child’s learning needs. This is a free Service. The Te Manawa Tahi Te Hiku Hub will be at Pompallier School on Wednesday 18th March 9.30-12.30pm. You can come to the hub without an ap-pointment, or phone 0800 5248 4256 to book one.

Reila, Andrea, Keita, Ryan, Oscar T, Dhruvika, Soham, Hannah, Kataraina S, Ro-man, Micheal S, Koby and Piper. Piper was also our STAR Pompallier Disciple for the first two weeks.

There are a large number of Winter Sports

Muster events coming up.

Pompallier School 2020

Soccer Season

The school is looking at putting together

teams for an Under 8s, Under 11s and Un-

der 14s divisions. The competition games

are on a Saturday morning, with the first

game beginning the first Saturday of Term

2. There is one coaching session per week,

straight after school on a Tuesday. The final

games for the season will be played in

September. There are parent volunteers

for coaching and management roles, but

any extra help is always welcome.

If your child is keen to join a team, please

contact Lisa Wright

0272846380

Or pick up an expression of interest letter

from school.

KAITAIA JMB/IMB Muster Thursday 27th Febru-ary Between 4.30pm-5.30pm at the club rooms To old and new members ... Come along and register your child to play in the following grades U7, U9, U11, U13, U14, U16, If you are unable to make it please contact Keri Hokai 0275606561 or email Keri.hokai@raywhite.com We are also calling for expressions of interest for coaches, assistant coaches and managers and keen volunteers to join me as committee mem-bers Please private message or call Keri We can’t wait to have another awesome season

• Te Rarawa Rugby Club U14, U16 and U18 Girls Rugby Muster

• At Ahipara

• Wednesday 19 February from 5.30pm

• All teams have coaches (who will be men-tored by ex-Black Fern Rawinia Everitt) Please bring a copy of your birth certificate, passport or a letter from your school stating your date of birth

Pompallier Catholic School 2020 Consent form

Permission Slip for children’s activities at school and outside of school. Can you please sign the form below allowing your child to take part in some or all of the activities listed. Please be aware that you will be fully informed of any activity that may warrant a permission slip prior to your child/ren undertaking it and if you wish to not allow your child to take part you will have the opportunity to do so. List of possible activities • Swimming programme/Swimming sports • Travelling on a bus or car or by foot to go on excursions • Year 7 and 8 technology at Kaitaia College • Class excursions and trips • School Cross country • Using the digital devices at school ( Teacher supervision) • Sport field days outside of the school grounds • Walking to Te Ahu Centre for play rehearsals/visits to places around town. • Sport Northland/Active Schools activities and excursions. • I give permission for my child’s work and /or photograph to be used when and if

appropriate in school or team newsletters and/or the Pompallier Catholic Schools website and Facebook page, classroom blogs and Skool Loop.

• Visits to local library, Te Ahu Centre, shows in town. I _________________________ understand this permission slip covers my child/ren for all activities that are associated with their class and give full permission in them taking part. Name of child/ren :……………………………………………… :………………………………………………. :……………………………………………… :……………………………………………... Signed _______________________ Dated ___________

Please return to the office

PLEASE NOTE!! A friendly reminder to all drivers to STOP at the bottom of the hill when leaving our school drive into Eden Terrace. It is safer to use Dominion Road so that our walkers do not need to worry about traffic. Thank you for your co-operation with this.

This calendar gives you an idea of what is coming up during the term. Put the dates somewhere important to remem-ber them. Dates can change at times, so please check this calendar each newsletter. If there are last minute changes we will notify you by text, and add comments onto our school Facebook page and update our free app Skool Loop. Make sure you contact Helen in the office to ensure you are part of our “phone tree”. Term one is certainly a busy and exciting term!

A reminder, for safety of our children,

please drive slowly in the carpark. No child

is to leave the gate area unsupervised.

Please do not park in the yellow lines.

February/March/April 2020 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

Wk1 3 4 Swimming

5 Swimming

6

WAITANGI DAY

HOLIDAY

7

TEACHER ONLY

DAY

8 9

Wk2

FEB 10

11 Swimming

12

MILK TANKER

VISIT

Swimming

13

Swimming

14

15 16

Wk3 17

18 Swimming

19 Swimming

20 Swimming

21 Newsletter

22 23

Wk4 24

25

Shrove Tuesday Swimming

26

Ash Wednesday

Mass at 9.15am Swimming

27 Swimming

28

Assembly

29 1

Wk5

MAR 2

3 Swimming

4 NO SWIMMING

5 Swimming

6

PCS Swimming

Sports Newsletter

7 8

Wk6 9

10 Swimming Families on the

Field—whanau

picnic

11 NO SWIMMING

12 Swimming

13

Central Zones

Swimming

14 15

Wk7 16 17 18

FN Swimming

19

St Joseph’s Day

20 Newsletter

21 22

FAMILY MASS

Wk8 23 24

25

26 27

Assembly

28 29

Wk9

APR 30 31 1 2 3

Newsletter

4 5

Wk

10 6 7 8 9

Passion

Play

10

GOOD

FRIDAY

11 12