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KOK
KOKAKO NEWS
Kia ora koutou
Mid Term Board Election results
Camps & Events
Exciting announcement I would also like to acknowledge one of our
At some stage later today or over the weekend, retiring board members, Ryan Kilfoil for his time
there is going to be an announcement in the local and contributions on the board over the years,
media related to our Garden To Table Ryan is stepping down and will be replaced by
programme. As soon as we spot it, we will put the Lucy Townley so a big welcome to Lucy, it will be
link up on our Facebook page. great to have a new member on the board with
new perspectives and ideas!
Summer time
With this coming Monday being our last official Thank you also to all volunteers, without your
day of the year, I want to thank you all for your input and assistance we would not be able to
ongoing support of the school and wish you all a deliver everything we do for our children.
restful and safe summer break.
It’s great to see the school with all buildings finally
Enjoy the fabulous outdoors we have on offer in in place, it certainly has been a long time coming
our wonderful corner of the world. I am very and we were very fortunate to get them! 2021 will
much looking forward to sea swimming, BBQs, see upgrades of the turf, pool sheds and the
long summer evenings, camping, and most of all discovery shed which already looks awesome, so
time with and for my family. the school really is going to be a great place to
come and learn.
Nga mihi nui
Andrew King I hope you all have a great Xmas and a Happy
Principal | Oropi School New Year!
Best Wishes
From the
Mark Weston
Oropi Board Chairperson
Chairman
Dear Oropi Community
I just wanted to write a few lines of gratitude on
behalf of the Board of Trustees, firstly I want to
thank Andrew King and the entire staff for their
hard work and dedication during the year
keeping all aspects of the school running well in
these interesting times we have had!
Baby News! Stationery 2021
Stationery packs can be ordered by going to the
School website and clicking on the 'newsletter,
events, lunches, payments tab, and selecting 2021
Stationery.
All other fees including bus fees will be invoiced
later in January.
Kindo
If your family is leaving our school and moving to
another school that does not use ezlunch or Kindo
for school payments, you need to close your
account. If you’re not sure about the new school,
log in, go to My Details and click on the list of
schools, scrolling to find your new school.If your
new school is NOT on the list, use the 'close
account' button on that screen. You can choose to
donate your balance to school or have it paid out
to your nominated bank account.
Roman Mark Wairua arrived four weeks early - he
didn't want to wait until his Mum got to the end
of the school year! He weighed 6 pound 6 oz and
2021
is currently being well cared for in SCBU at Information
Tauranga Hospital.
2021 Term Dates
Well done Emma! We are pleased to be able to confirm the
following:
Last Day The first day of school for all children will be
We finish for the year on Monday at 1pm. Wednesday February 3rd at 8:55am. We begin
Remember to notify the office before 9am on with a Pohiri at 9:00am to welcome all new staff,
Monday if your child will not be attending School. students, and families, followed by tea/coffee and
muffins.
Korimako
We finish school on Friday December 17 2021 at
1pm.
Camp Highlights
Term 1 February 3 - April 16
Term 2 May 3 - July 9
Term 3 July 26 - October 1
Term 4 October 18 - December 17
2021 Teacher Only Days
In 2021, we will be utilising four of these days as
follows:
Tuesday February 2nd for start of year
planning
Friday April 16 for work on our new Student
Management System (HERO)
Friday July 2nd to attend a Kahui Ako
Conference with all Tauranga Peninsula
Schools
Monday September 27, to work on Term 4
planning and our Student Management
System (HERO)
These dates are showing on the 2021 calendar.
This can be accessed via the School website
www.oropi.school.nz
Garden to Table It was the last GTT session for the year for Tui , Korimako and Ruru. We made a delicious roasted cauliflower salad with snow peas, parsnip kale chips and a tahini dressing. To celebrate the end of a successful GTT year, the children baked chocolate cupcakes, which we enjoyed with strawberries and cream. We are so appreciative of all the family and friends who volunteer their time to make Garden to Table so special at Oropi School. We were able to thank many at a morning tea on Tuesday but classes across the school have made thank you cards or posters to all our helpers - all 34 of you! Whether you help once a term or every week, it is wonderful to see our community sharing in our enjoyment of growing and eating good food with our tamariki. In the garden, Tui Hodgson and Ruru did some last minute garden jobs to prepare for the summer, including feeding our young plants and planting out a few more seedlings. Then we did a garden Scavenger Hunt where we dashed around answering questions about what is growing and where. In their last session, Korimako Higgins planted out courgette and patty-pan squash, dug out weeds from the pumpkin patch and planted a very special Kowhai tree for Mrs Pendergrast's retirement. It was scorching hot by the time we finished working so a few of us enjoyed a jump around under the hose before our shared meal.
Tui Fast Five Football
Term 4 Sport I would like to thank all the players in the "Oropi
Tui" Fast 5 Football team, every week they gave
Pukeko Flippa Ball 100%. We didn't always win! but they did amazing,
always having a good attitude and following the
Oropi School Moto: BE ALL YOU CAN BE - WHAIA
TE MATAURANGA. I am very proud of their
growth/development and sportsmanship as a
team, so thank you Cooper, Ellie, Ellyana, Finn,
Meghan, Conor, Jesse, Waimirirangi and our super
sub Ashton for making Soccer fun this year. Big
thanks to the parents and grandparents for all their
help and support to our players.
Oropi Pukeko had their final game of the season
and came away with a great win 9-3. Once again
the team showed great defence skills against the
opposition and fantastic passing between team
players which resulted in the winning score. Players
of the day went to Conrad, Abi, Lachie and Hayden.
Well done!
Year 5 & 6 Flippa Ball
Sumer League Netball
Oropi Pukeko continue to grow in pace, strategy
and ball skills every week. This Wednesday, Oropi
played the speedy whippets at Golden Sands, who
eventually beat us 20-9. Our players of the day
were expert defender Kiani, and ace goal attack
Lexi. Last week we beat Tauriko 4-2 in a fairly
evenly-matched game. Our player of the day that
week was our newest recruit, Vivy, who was fast on
Year 5/6 had a tough and physical battle with
her feet and even managed a couple of goals on
Green Park but in the end went down 4-0. Well
debut. Ariki also impressed our sideline fanclub
done to Elise and Carys in goal but a huge team
with his exceptional coordination and a
effort.
determined stint at goal shoot. The summer series
resumes at the end of January.
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