Contact Details Ph: 09 422 1835

Mob: 021 027 09327 office@tapora.school.nz

www.tapora.school.nz

Office hours: Monday - Thursday 12 - 3:30 and Friday 8.45-3.15(even numbered weeks)

‘Empowering our children to discover their passion and fulfil their potential’ Welcome to our new student and her family...Salvina Picton. Also a belated welcome back to Matthew and Charlie Macleod. Our senior class is growing and we now have seventeen students there and 31 students in the school. It’s been a bit of a messy week for the last one of the term, with the senior students participating in the junior tough guy and gal challenge and Mrs C being away due to sickness. The holidays can’t come quickly enough. With all the bugs around we all need time to refresh and build up our resistance for the next term. Kapa Haka We were so pleased with our small group’s performance at their first public performance out of the community. They were excited and nervous but gave it their best and sounded absolutely wonderful. Unfortunately we can’t keep traveling to Rodney College for instruction and so it would be wonderful if there was someone in the area who could help give the boys support and instruction in performing haka. Heidi and Michelle do a wonderful job with the singing and actions but a male is really needed for the haka actions. Ag Day - 14th September Ag Day will be a week earlier this year. Here is a little information to help you prepare for the rearing of animals particularly for those of you new to the school. Tapora School Agricultural Day is a fantastic occasion to celebrate our unique rural school identity and bring together the wider community, allowing our students to display their talents and efforts with various indoor and outdoor exhibits. A large part of our Agricultural Day is the animal rearing and training competitions. Rearing an animal is a wonderfully rewarding experience for a child as well as an opportunity to learn and develop valuable personal skills such as commitment, patience and time management. We greatly encourage participation in this aspect of the day. Biosecurity NZ have sent information to all schools with suggestions enabling calves to participate. The BOT will make a decision and we will inform Parents as soon as possible. Alternatively, there is an online competition available at calfclubnz.co.nz Rules and information on page 2 Electives Many thanks to Jamii, Etsuko, Sandy, Sarah, Koby and Connell for running the electives for the last four weeks. We hope to run some more electives next term starting in week two and running for another 4 weeks. We will need some more people to offer to share a skill or interest with our lovely students. All materials needed are either supplied or paid for by the school. Anything will be considered in the way of interests or skills and groups usually are not more than 6. Nga Mihi Keryl Lee, Principal

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Week 10- term 2 2019

Coming Events

July

5th Last day Term 2 6th Vintage Car Club Rally - lunch fundraiser 22nd First day Term 3 23rd -Second round of electives

August 13th - Rodney College enrolment visit 16th - Tapora School Speech Competition 22nd - Rural Schools’ Speech competition 29th - Netball/Touch Rural Competition

Ag Day Rules 1. Only ONE entry per child. 2. Only children enrolled at Tapora School are eligible to enter. There will be a pre-school lamb/pet section if any entries. 3. All classes are dependent on entry numbers. 4. Goats and lambs must be born on or after 25th of June, 2018. 5. Lambs must be docked or in the process of (i.e. rubber ring). 6. Lamb and Goat judging will be divided into 3 sections – Senior, Junior and Pre-school, with classes for all sections in Leading,

Calling, Care and Effort. 7. Pre-school entries are not eligible for the Champion awards. 8. NO washing of lambs. 9. All goats and lambs must be hand-reared i.e. not “bust” reared. 10. There will be one Pet Section 11. NB: Cats will be excluded from participation; it is too stressful for these animals to be in a cage for the whole day. 12. There will be art and craft activities open to all children. Leading: • Lambs and goats shall be led around three sides of a ring, approximately 10m2. • The child shall hold the lead in the right hand about 15cm from the collar. • The lamb/goat should walk steadily with the child (the lambs/goats shoulder by the child’s leg) and should not be pulling ahead or dragging back. • The judge will require the child and the lamb/goat to stop and restart at some time during their progress around the ring. • Further leading tests may be done at the judge’s discretion. Rearing: • The best reared lamb/goat will be judged mainly on condition, size and general appearance. The Judge will take into account the age of the lamb/goat and the breed. Calling: • For this event the child shall leave their lamb/goat with a steward, who will take the lead off while the child walks to a peg about 10 metres away. When the judge signals, the child shall call the lamb/goat. When the lamb/goat comes, the child shall quietly take the lambs/goats lead (not grab it) and lead the lamb/goat away. • Points will be given for the promptness with which the lamb/goat comes, and how quietly it stands while being caught. • If, after reasonable time of calling, the lamb/goat does not come all the way or at all, the judge will then tell the child to catch the lamb/goat. Points will be given for how easily this is done and how quiet the lamb/goat is. • The stewards will see that the child has a fair chance, free from undue noises and distractions. The champion lamb/goat will have received the highest aggregate points in the 3 classes—Leading, Rearing and Calling. Other Pets Judging will be based on visual condition and behaviour of the animal along with the conversation with the child enabling them to show their knowledge about the care required for their pet. Taporapora Community Environmental Annual Award sponsored by Tapora Landcare. (one more reminder) This award is open to all students at Tapora School. To be considered for the award they need to be able to show the judging panel what they have done to help the community and the environment. Parents are encouraged to support their tamariki particularly the younger ones. Students can be judged as individuals, pairs, groups or whanau groups. Judging is prior to our Agriculture day where the first, second and third placegetters will be announced.

Certificates for Assembly 5/7/2019: ROOM 1 CERTIFICATES The most class dojos: Takara Whittle Basic Facts: moving up levels : 1 level: Charlie, Misty, Taylor, Abby , Leiera Rose Lexia Core 5 Reading Level 10 -Matthew Macleod ROOM 2 CERTIFICATES CLASSROOM CERTIFICATES For achieving our Effort school rule by having courage to participate at the Matariki Kapa Haka festival: Briana, Journey, Oliver, Sam, Melody, Tillie. For graduating from the Oral Language Speech Programme: Logan

ROOM 2 CERTIFICATES CONTINUED: Studyladder: Platinum: Melody Silver: Leo, Leon Bronze: Briana Basic facts: 5 lists: Ginger, Melody 10 lists: Leon Lexia: Level 5: Ginger, Jackson Skool bo: 1,000:Tillie, Journey, Leon 2,000: Tillie 7,000: & 8,000: Melody, Progressing reading levels 3 levels: Leon Spelling: 5 lists: Melody, Tillie

LUNCH MENU

UPDATE PIES Mince - $2.50 Mince & Cheese - $2.50 Butter Chicken - $3.00 Apple - $2.00 New pie added: Bacon & Egg —$2.50 TOPPERS Butter Chicken - $2.50 Lasagne - $2.50 Vege - $2.50 Macaroni Cheese - $2.50 American Hotdog -$3.00 Butter Chicken Wraps - $3.00 Hawaiian Pizza - $2.50 Sausage Rolls - $2.00 Tomato Sauce - $0.50 Juice Box -$1.50 Juicies Ice Block - $1.50

Please provided payment in a named envelope with your order written on the front. Thank you for supporting Tapora School through our FOTS

FOTS Fundraiser - Winter Woolies Car Rally lunch 6th July On Saturday 6th July the Vintage Car Club will be coming to Tapora and have requested the school provide lunch for them at the Hall as a fundraiser. Thank you to those who have offered to help or provide food. We are now catering for 87! All baking etc to be at the school by 10am and anyone able to help make club sandwiches and set up, could they be at the school at 9.30. We could do with another person to help on the day. Contact Keryl or Jamii Smith on 0226125268

_________________________________________________________________ BOT INFORMATION Wednesday 26th June 6:30pm Room 3 Returning members Simon Robinson and Rodney Cotton were welcomed back. New board member Garth Mackay was also welcomed along with Co-opted member Ashley Whittle. Simon was reelected as Chairperson. Five policies were reviewed and a progress report on strategic aim 3 presented . Next meeting is a rural schools’ collaborative board meeting for training held in Wark-worth 20th August.

Tapora Board of Trustees Casual Vacancies for elected trustees

There are two casual vacancies on the board of trustees for elected parent representa-tives. The board has resolved under section 105 of the Education Act 1989 to fill the vacancy by selection. If ten percent or more of eligible voters on the school roll ask the board, within 28 days of this notice being published, to hold a by-election to fill the vacancy, then a by-election will be held. Any eligible voter who wishes to ask the board to hold a by-election should write to: Chairperson Board of Trustees Tapora School 1 Okahukura Road RD 7 Wellsford by: 2nd August 2019 _______________________________________________ Many thanks to: -Gary Picton for mending our fallen down fence. -Willie & Jamie Dodd for donating 4 large boxes of tissues to the school

Tapora Microgrid Update – June 2019 - Letter from Vector: As you know, we have been working with the Tapora community to provide a microgrid for backup power supply to the area. Civil works have been completed, as have the installation of overhead field devices. Electrical installation has been progressed, with 60% of this completed. Our investigation showed that the battery system was incorrectly packaged for sea freight, and therefore has been damaged by water. We have removed the faulty battery systems from site and will be replacing them with new ones. The estimated time for this replacement is around 4-5 months, towards the end of November 2019. Our apologies for the delay. We will update you again when there is progress with this project. If you have any questions, please contact me directly on 09 978 8320. Teina Teariki-Mana Community Engagement Manager Vector

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Tapora Hall: Library has changed to every second Tuesday(day before recycling) Playgroup is Thursday at 10am