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5 NOVEMBER 2021
Ponsonby Primary School
Te Kura o te Rimu Tahi
Message from the Principal
Namaste parents and whanau,
This week is the celebration of Diwali which is one of the
biggest and auspicious festivals celebrated by Hindus all
around the globe. The festival of lights signifies peace and
joy, the victory of good over evil, and light over darkness
every day. It was great to hear two of students from Rm 5 Week 3
Michale Raham and Keshav Mahraj sharing a beautiful
story about Diwali and sharing their experiences of how
Term 4
they celebrate on this special day.
I hope you are well and that we receive some clarity next week on the reopening of
Sibling
schools and how we will be able to operate in some sort of capacity. Enrolments
If you have a younger
The teaching staff are really looking forward to having our tamariki back in some form, sibling of a Ponsonby
even if it is staggered days, times etc… Once we have been given some guidance from Primary student turning
5 either in 2021 or
the ministry we let you know how this will look for our school.
2022 that you would
like to enrol. Please
End of Year Reporting contact our Office
Manager early to start
the process.
As you know, throughout the second half of 2021, learning has been very different from
khobday@ponsprim.sc
what we usually experience. Teachers, learners and their whānau have found themselves hool.nz
in a range of situations meaning that learning has looked different from household to
household, with each family working through their particular highs and challenges.
Our end of year assessment and reporting process normally consists of standardised
testing and, most importantly, a Best Fit Judgement based on the progression the
children have made in their learning. You will be familiar with the mid-year and end-of-
year reports. Our mid-year judgements were up to date and made with confidence as we
had the children at school on-site. As I said in my first weekly newsletter, we are not
reporting against the NZ curriculum levels for our end-of-year report, the report will have
more emphasis on our school values/competencies and a general comment on distance
learning.
Earlier this week you would have all received information for this year's knowathon. As we
are not able to run Guy Fawkes this year which is an important fundraiser for our school,
we do hope you can support our school with this year's knowathon . Mr Naera has
worked extremely hard with the questions and he has sourced some amazing prizes. With
the support of our board, we have decided to fund an extra teacher in 2022 which will be
funded through our school donations and fundraising efforts. Our reasoning for this
5 NOVEMBER 2021 being that we have seen the impact covid lockdowns have had on our tamariki. With extra staffing we are able to provide smaller class sizes which allows for an improved student to teacher ratio and more individual time with teachers for your children, students get to know each other better, teachers can tailor instruction more individually with less disruption. This is an optional learning activity but we do hope you can support our school. A big thank you to all the children who sent in their photos and videos for the house challenges this week. We will update you with house points next week as we still have a few more photos coming in today. The children can choose to do as many of these challenges as they would like. Each week we will announce the house that is currently leading the competition. There will be a special reward for the top house when we are allowed to return to school. Each activity is allocated a number of points. Students will need to send your evidence (Photo or a video) of the challenge to Mr Naera, Mrs Robins or Mr Rama, depending on what year level they are in. Year 1 and 2: srobins@ponsprim.school.nz Year 3 and 4: srama@ponsprim.school.nz Year 5 and 6: fnaera@ponsprim.school.nz Week 4 Challenge: 5 point Challenge: Fly a paper plane 10 point Challenge: Cook or bake one of your favourite food (Extra points if you use your house colour) 15 point Challenge: Clean the inside of your family car If the children want to take part in these challenges, they can send their videos or photos by the following Friday at 3pm. So far the standings after two weeks are. Tongariro Ngauruhoe Ruapehu Taranaki Have a lovely weekend and stay safe! Ngā mihi, Sanjay Rama
5 NOVEMBER 2021
Beau made halloween monsters this week - Sienna with a lion creation made with
he had to wait for the eyes to arrive in the clay from her birthday.
post!
Here is a screenshot of Room 9 on Halloween
last week.
Neel and his wonderful
writing about space.
5 NOVEMBER 2021 The Adventures of Ted. Year 4 Short Story Collection. To be continued each week.
5 NOVEMBER 2021
Ponsonby Primary Weekend
Weather Forecast
Starting today we have a brilliant offer for
Torpedo 7 for all Friends and Family of our
school. Simply share the offer and anyone can
get a great discount online or in-store, the code
to redeem online is FF-505B-28A7
Thank you Torpedo7
To order, parents/staff simply visit the Neat
Meat Store www.neatmeatstore.com and
follow the instructions on the flyer.
Either way parents/staff need to enter the
code “Ponsonby”. You need to use this code
so we can track number of hams sold via
the school.
Ponsonby Primary School would really
appreciate your support in helping
fundraise for the school.
5 NOVEMBER 2021
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALL THE CHILDREN WHO HAVE A BIRTHDAY IN NOVEMBER
Remy O'Neill 11/1/2010
Luca Hope 11/1/2010
Lucy Simeon 11/2/2012
Harry Davidson 11/2/2012
Sebastian Walker 11/2/2014
Hugo Jamieson 11/3/2014
Leonard East Cook 11/7/2013
Louis James 11/7/2014
Joshua Crawley 11/8/2012
Aggie Orme-Gee 11/8/2013
Fletcher Jessop 11/10/2013
Kalani White 11/11/2014
Carly Hannay 11/13/2012
Mia Forsman 11/14/2010
Charlotte Erson 11/14/2012
Anna Ekanayaka 11/16/2015
Spencer Bunbury 11/16/2016
Isaac Rendall 11/16/2016
Tyler Stephenson 11/17/2013
Isla Vuletich 11/19/2010
Zoe Russell 11/19/2011
Charlie Harrod 11/19/2012
Xander Shrive 11/20/2010
Alvin Shao 11/20/2012
Savannah Carpenter 11/20/2012
Jasper Dick 11/21/2011
Zhaleh Reade-Shareef 11/21/2015
Oliver Ekanayaka 11/22/2012
Edie Kirton Belich 11/22/2014
Maddox Pook 11/24/2012
Spike O'Neill 11/24/2013
Suliana Serrano 11/24/2013
Lucy Robinson 11/25/2011
Felix Aue 11/25/2012
August Buissink 11/26/2011
Rome Buissink 11/26/2011
Anabelle Allen 11/26/2012
Daniel Neville 11/26/2015
Claudia Hill 11/26/2016
Axel Van Houts 11/28/2012
Logan Vroegop 11/28/2013
Essena Phillimore-Smith 11/29/2015
Irene Moselen 11/30/2013
5 NOVEMBER 2021
This weeks Pegasus Flyer recipients are....
Louie Emery - Room 1 for writing amazing creative stories.
Alba Gee - Room 2 for her unwavering enthusiasm during home learning, and her mature leadership of a
collaborative digital meet-up with some of her classmates.
Oscar Reeves - Room 3 for his super effort with reading you are making great progress. Keep up the good
work!
Oliver Ekanayaka - Room 4 for working hard on planning and writing a wonderful narrative.
Hugo Wells - Room 5 for the thorough research he has done for his John John Florence biography.
Sunday Bartlett - Room 6 for her creative and entertaining FlipGrid videos.
Marius Fletcher - Room 7 for asking great questions, having an awesome attitude, completing ALL his
learning tasks and being a great learner while working from home!!
Scarlett Munday - Room 9 for demonstrating excellent online learning behaviours, and remaining
motivated in order to complete set tasks to a high degree.
Jax Munday - Room 10 for his amazing attitude , attendance and participation at the online learning
sessions.
Eva Forsman - Room 11 for turning up to online classes every day and being an independent home learner.
Keep it up, Eva!
Anton Iosefa - Room 15 for all the amazing reading he has been doing at home and the fabulous progress
he is making.
Beau Johnston - Room 16 he is always so creative and we can tell he is thriving in lockdown!
Sebastian Walker - Room 17 for his wonderful participation and learning in all of our zoom lessons.
Zara Dunphy - Room 18 for working so hard all through lockdown on her online learning and for being so
committed to coming on to all of our Zoom meetings. Fantastic job Zara - you're a star!
Anna Ekanayaka - Room 20 for great enthusiasm and energy on our zoom calls, I love to see you learn.
Luca Gee - Room 21 for being a conscientious, independent student who shows maturity when solving
problems in Maths.
WELL DONE, KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!
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