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KOKAKO NEWS
OROPI SCHOOL NEWSLETTER TERM 4 WEEK 3
Kia ora koutou
I am taking this opportunity to remind you all Thursday, December 5th End of Year Prize Giving,
of the Parent Consultation Hui to be held the Y8 Speeches, and Y8 Leavers Dinner
week after next in the school library and the • 10:45 am Whole school to the Hall
End of the Year Prize Giving arrangements: • 11 am 12 pm Year 8 Speeches at the Hall
• 12:00 pm Lunch & Ice Blocks back at school
November 11th at 9 am, 2:45 pm, and 5:30 pm (parents welcome to join their children for lunch
Parent 2020 Strategic Planning Consultation & at school)
2020 Updates / Plans Hui • 1:15 pm EOY Prize Giving at the Hall for all
• Teachers and classes students
• Staffing • Normal End of Day Routine at 2:40 pm
• New classrooms and class configurations
• Curriculum & Operational Goals As I am in the mode of pondering some 2020
• School camps, fees, and donations and Strategic priorities I can't help but think we NEED
what it means for Oropi 2020 to make it a focus to see how we can reduce our
• An opportunity for your input, ideas and
thoughts for 2020 as a school
waste as a school to reduce our carbon footprint.
Wandering around the school, I notice a huge
Group Day
amount of unnecessary wrappings etc flying
Group Day was held on Saturday 26 October.
around the school, in our bins, and in kids lunch
Isabella & Caramel had great success winning
boxes. I am sure there are ways as a school we can
three trophies and loads of ribbons. Well done
promote and encourage more sustainable
girls!
solutions for food wrapping. Watch this space and
if you have any great ideas let us know when have
our consultation meetings. One example is all
children making beeswax wraps for their
sandwiches. I am sure there are other solutions
and 'ways tomotivate' out there.
Kia pai to ra whakata
Andrew King
Principal | Oropi School
Celebration of
Cultures
Samosa's are available to purchase for lunch next
Thursday. Due to limited flavours available, orders
must be made in Kindo BEFORE Wednesday
midday. We will not be taking cash or internet
banked orders. My calf is called Caramel. I love my calf and she
loves me. She even tries to eat grass. She drinks
Volunteers Wanted
warm milk and she eats hay and muesli. My calf
likes scratches on her head. I love her because she
is a girl, she is like an angel. My calf loves the
On Thursday 7 November we have Bunnings ribbons she won because she slobbered on them.
coming on site to donate a shed for the junior By Isabella Applegate
discovery area, and sand for the sandpit. We are
2020 Enrolments
looking for volunteers to come up to School at
9.30 am to help fill the sandpit. Please bring
spades and wheelbarrows.
Is your child turning 4 in 2020? Please make sure
you have completed enrolment forms before the
end of next week as we are in the final stages of
finalising enrolments for next year.
Calendar Art End of Year
We have set up one more order for late orders. This Awards &
Celebration
closes on Monday 4 November at 9 am. This is the
final opportunity to order calendar art. No late late
orders will be accepted after this date.
This will be held at the Oropi Memorial Hall on
Thursday 5 December at 1 pm.
Go to www.kidsartworks.com and enter the code
on your order form.
Medication at
Ball Photos School
Remember to order your ball photos. Click the Please remember that all medication MUST be
link below for more information. held at the office. No medication is permitted
in School bags. This includes any type of
http://bit.ly/Oropi2019BallPhotos medication including antibiotics,
antihistamine, and ashthma medication.
Photolife Photos Parking
Photolife should be sending order information
Please remember that the bus turnaround
out next week for School photos.
area is not a drop off zone. This must be kept
clear at all time for buses. This is especially
School Hats important now that the Kea crossing is
operating.
School hats are compulsory for all children in
We encourage families to park at the hall and
term 1 and 4. Hats are available to purchase
walk along the path to School and use the Kea
from the office for $20 each, or you can order
crossing.
on Kindo.
Garden to Table Finally a week of sunshine and everything in the garden is growing fast. The dishes the classes cooked this week used a variety of vegetables; a sweet and tasty Parsnip and Caramelized Leek Tart and a Green Salad with Avocado dressing. With so many avocados around at the moment the kids highly recommend this creamy yet zingy dressing to make at home. There were lots of Spring tasks to be done in the garden. We planted more beans, transplanted nasturtiums, started on the pumpkin patch, pulled out winter veges that had bolted and started clearing space and preparing beds for summer planting.
Weetbix TRYathlon We are only 3 weeks away from the Mount Maunganui Sanitarium Weet-Bix Kids TRYathlon, we hope your students are getting excited. Participants need to be entered by midnight on Sunday, 3 November, 2019 if they want to take advantage of the Early Bird price of $45 as well as the option of having their TRYathlete pack either couriered to home or included in the School Courier delivery. Entries will continue to remain open but participants who enter after this date will need to collect their TRYathlete pack on the event day.
Reminders
• Please ensure the School has your current • We encourage families to park at the hall
contact information. We must have your and walk along the path to School. Please
mobile number, email address and avoid parking on the yellow lines. Please do
emergency contact information. not park in the staff car park or in the bus-
turning bay at any time.
• School starts at 8.55 am. Any child arriving
Kindo
after this time must report to the office before
going to class. To avoid office queues please go online to
make payments through your mykindo
account.
• Children who do not use the bus can be
dropped off at School from 8.15 am. Not
If you haven't used Kindo before, click this link
before please.
to get started (all you need is the email
address we have on record)...
• School finishes at 2.40 pm. Children who do https://shop.tgcl.co.nz/shop/handshake.shtml?
not use the bus must be collected before 3.10 shop=Oropi%20School
pm.
If you already have a mykindo account, go to
www.mykindo.co.nz or via the link on our
• If your child uses the bus and you are picking
school website.
them up, please ensure you call the office
BEFORE 2 pm by calling 5431479 option 1. If
you collect your child on a regular basis,
please notify the office.
• If you have any health and safety concerns,
please email healthandsafety@oropi.school.nz
Remember to call the office to report your
child's absence.
School Bank Details
Call 543 1479 and leave a message or email
office@oropi.school.nz
Preferred payment is made via Kindo.
Alternatively payment can be made into the
We have over 330 pupils so PLEASE include
School account. Oropi School
the class your child is in AND the reason they
ASB 12-3440-0087772-00 - Please use your
are absent.
surname as a reference.
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