Kia tiki ake te pai

ACCENTUATING THE POSITIVE

TERM 4 WEEK 1 - FRIDAY 18TH OCTOBER

TERM 4 SCHOOL EVENTS

WEDNESDAY 23 OCTOBER Whakaawhitanga Whanau

Information Evening 6-8pm

Mahi-a-toi (Maori Artwork) evening at Rutherford College 5.00pm start.

All welcome.

THURSDAY 24 OCTOBER Festival of Oral Languages (speeches)

FRIDAY 25 OCTOBER Staff Only Day - no school

MONDAY 28 OCTOBER Labour Day - no school

TUES 29 OCTOBER—FRI 1 NOVEMBER Languages Week

FRIDAY 1 NOVEMBER Festival of Oral Languages

(Cluster Speeches) German Fairy-Tale Evening - 6.30pm

MONDAY 4 NOVEMBER TAI year 6 testing

FRIDAY 8 NOVEMBER Disco

MONDAY 11 NOVEMBER Puberty Talks

TUESDAY 26 NOVEMBER Cluster Softball

THURSDAY 5 DECEMBER End of Year Picnic and Celebration

NOVEMBER 5TH, 6TH, 7TH Bikes in Schools

FRIDAY 13 DECEMBER Reports go home

WEDNESDAY 18 DECEMBER Year 6 Graduation

THURSDAY 19 DECEMBER Last day of school – Finish at 1.30pm

Kia Ora Koutou, Malo e lelei, Fakalofa Lahiatu, Kia

Orana, Namaste, Talofa Lava, Ni Sa Bula, Hola Kham Cho, Ho

Ma, Salaam, Yasou, Greetings.

Great first week of the term! Everyone is well rested and ready for learning.

As the temperatures rise and the sun begins to shine, hats and water are essential, as is sunscreen. Please make 'slip, slop, slap and wrap' part of your morning routines.

Next Friday we're having a staff only day, this means the children will have a four day weekend. With a Staff Only Day during the year, we tack on one more day to the end of the year. Our last school day is Thursday 19th December - finishing at 1.30pm. Friday is our only Staff Only Day in 2019 and we planned it the same time as Te Atatū Intermediate in an attempt to make it easier for our families.

Our community really enjoy discos. While supported by Rutherford staff on the night, the planning for the event is done by parents. We have one experienced parent who is great at planning discos. It would be helpful to have a one or two others work alongside her this round, so the mahi (work) is spread around. It takes about 5 hours of pre-planning time (ordering sausages, organising money, getting volunteers for the night). On the night, teaching staff provides all the supervision of students and heaps of parents put up their hands to help sell the food and glow sticks etc. Please let Michelle know in the office if you would like to be a part of fun in helping plan the disco next month on Friday 8th November.

Good luck to Belle Talagi who is representing our school in a singing competition in Vagahau Niue at Favona School this evening.

We are finalists for the Trusts Million Dollar Mission—this will go towards a much needed shade structure for our school. Don’t forget to vote!

GET READY FOR VOTING!

Million Dollar Mission voting starts on Tuesday the 22nd of October at 10am!

HOW THE VOTING PROCESS WORKS:

We will share this link with you through email and facebook. https://www.milliondollarmission.co.nz/finalists/rutherford-primary-school

You can vote once per day.

To vote, you simply enter your name and email address and click "vote." The first time you vote, you will receive an email to confirm your email address is valid.

You will need to open this email and click the link contained in the email to confirm your first vote.

Once verified, your email address can then be used for the rest of the voting phase.

For every vote we’ll get $5, so the more votes you make, the more funding we’ll receive.

Voting ends when $1m of funding has been allocated across the 57 finalists.

https://www.milliondollarmission.co.nz/finalists/rutherford-primary-school

SCHOOL ABSENCES

If your child is going to be absent from school please:

Phone 834 5467 (then press 1 to record your message)

Or Text 022 324 3942

If the school is not informed of your child’s absence/s they will be

marked as truant.

LATE TO SCHOOL Students who arrive after 8.50am MUST

report to the school office to sign in.

EARLY PICK UP

Children are not permitted to leave the school grounds unless accompanied by a parent/caregiver. The teacher and office

staff must be informed and the child signed out before leaving the school grounds.

AFTER SCHOOL PICK UP

It’s great to see our children want to still be here after school when they’ve had a busy

learning day!

Children that want to play after school must have a caregiver with them to supervise.

If you are going to be late to pick up your child/ren please call the office and we will

get the message to them.

Kia tiki ake te pai

ACCENTUATING THE POSITIVE

Lilith Fredickson, Georgia Thompson,

Jacob Gough, Levi Norris,

Jack Simpson, Jaxon Edmonds-Bell, Marei Karena-Tepu, Ruggar Karena-Tepu, Tihei Karena-Tepu,

Bronson Karena-Heta, Honey-Girl Karena-Heta

Staff Only Day Friday 25th October

(school will not be open for students)

Labour Day Monday 28th October

HATS! Don’t forget to bring a hat to school! Hats must be worn at break times. Children

without a hat must play in the shade or inside a

classroom.

1st of November 2019 6.30pm

In the Rutherford Primary School Hall

The German Teaching Group of Rutherford College and the German language learners of Rutherford Primary School would like to invite you to our

Marchenabend (Fairy Tale Evening). We want to get German language learners of all ages, their families and the

German speaking community together for a fun filled evening. Enjoy short films and performances in German, try some German snacks,

celebrate learning and get inspired by some of our guest speakers.

Kia tiki ake te pai

ACCENTUATING THE POSITIVE

Kia ora koutou, talofa lava, hola, namaste, mālō e lelei.

During Week 3 of this term we will be celebrating the different languages and cultures that represent Rutherford Primary School! Each team will be celebrating in their own special way. This will give an opportunity for tamariki from different cultures to share their specific cultural knowledge and to celebrate the diversity of our school. Please look out for Seesaw posts and notices with more information on what we will be doing on each day of the week.

MANA TAUTOKU RMS 1, 17, 18 AND 19

Mana Tautoko will start their week with parents and whanau visiting classrooms to share and celebrate a range of cultures through music, dance, story, and other activities. Wednesday is ‘dress to represent your own culture day’ with continued in class activities and a parade. Thursday is ‘Mexican dress up day’, children start and end the day in their own classrooms but will be moving throughout the team during the day experiencing aspects of Mexican, Paraguayan, and Samoan cultures and exploring rites of passage. We are looking forward to exploring new cultures that we have not experienced before and celebrating the diversity of our friends and classmates.

MANA WAIRUA RMS 12, 13, 14 AND 15

We are finding our place... Where in the world is Tautoku O Te Wairua We will learn about cultures, languages, dresses, food, and celebrations through the lenses of continents. Room 12 - Europe Room 13 - Australasia & NZ Room 14 - Asia Room 15 - The Pacific Triangle

Later on our classrooms will be open to other classes who can book a time and come and learn about the culture and language of that room.

KOTAHITANGA RMS 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 AND 16

Each room in Kotahitanga will be looking at the ethnic groups pertinent to them throughout the next few weeks. On

Friday the 1st of November we will have a celebration feast. Those children who would like to dress in their national

costume on that day can do so.

We would appreciate any parent involvement throughout our celebrations of cultures times.

All parents will have received a Kotahitanga letter this week that gives more details about our activities and how to be involved.