Kia ora koutou. 

Last Friday we celebrated all of our students who reached tier 2 in our KETE awards with a breakfast. They really enjoyed being served by their teachers. Some students are well on their way to reaching their tier 3 award - we are looking forward to celebrating the milestone with them at some stage.

Thanks to all of the parents and family members who came along for parent-teacher interviews this week. If you missed out and have some questions - please make contact with your child's teacher directly via their email address or alternatively contact the school office for support.

Cross country training is well underway. We will be holding our school cross country on Friday the 11th of August. We will confirm times closer to the date, but you can plan for Junior (yr 1 - 4) races before lunch and Senior ( yr 5 - 8) races in the afternoon. 

Please note that we will be holding another teacher only day on Monday the 13th November as part of the Ministry of Education's roll-out of the new curriculum. We will keep reminding you of this.

Scott Lincoln 

Principal

2023 TERM DATES

Term 3 - Mon 17th July - Fri 22nd Sept
AUGUST:
Wednesday 9th - Sports Photos
Friday 11th - OSS Cross Country

Term 4 - Mon 9th Oct - Fri 15th Dec
NOVEMBER:
Monday 13th - Teacher Only Day

Our values focus for the first half of this term is Engaged.

Our school-wide values are explicitly taught in all our classrooms and across a variety of settings. These value lessons are also supported by our school councillors sharing messages and role-playing at assemblies, as well as value reminders over the school intercom each morning during our daily notices.

Below is an example of our school-wide expectations of Engaged in one of our settings.

Being engaged means that we are actively involved and enthusiastic about our learning.

We are engaged when we are:

The creative juices have been flowing in Room 13 lately!
The students enjoyed weaving Matariki stars as part of a unit on Matariki and made tukutuku panels, as part of a craft programme.

Ford also loves to spend time working with playdough and tinfoil.

The Scholastic Book Club magazine went out to students last week. Final orders are due in tomorrow, Friday 28 July.

31/07/2023 - 04/08/2023

Kia Ora - The 2023 Waitomo Miniball season is coming up.  The competition will run for approximately 12 weeks starting later this term and is played at the basketball courts in Te Kuiti. Final details of venue and games still to come.

In order to have this sporting opportunity, parent volunteers are essential to fill coaching/scorer positions.  Teams will only be registered if there is a Coach/Manager and Parent helper/scorer.  Transport to Te Kuiti is the responsibility of the parent/caregiver   NO Coach and Parent Scorer = NO TEAM

Please respond to this survey by Friday 11th August to register your child for miniball.

Please return all netball and soccer uniforms. 

Ikura|Manaakitia te whare tangata is an initiative set up by the Ministry of Education to provide free period products in all state schools across New Zealand.  The main aims of this scheme are to support whānau with the rising cost of living and to make a positive impact on student wellbeing. If you would like to opt into the scheme, please contact the school office. 

 

Many families now choose to spread the cost of the Technology fee as well as the Middle and Senior Syndicate Camps over many months by making small, regular payments to the school bank account via internet banking. These costs will be applied to your child's account early in the year and emailed to you so that you have all of the information on hand. The camp cost is not due until later in the year, but you are welcome to start making payments at any time. If you choose to take up this option, please use your child's name as a reference.

School Account:
Oto South BOT
01-0391-0023110-00