Kakano 8 2021

  Week 3 Kia ora Whānau Playing Cricket and  learning new skills. Exploring the Seniors playground! THIS TUESDAY Tuesday 2nd November at 2.30pm, our staff, along with teachers from St Michael’s Rotorua, St Mary’s Putararu and Bishop Edward Gaines in Tokoroa are involved in Titiro Whakamuri kia haere whakamua Professional Development. We will need to finish school at 2.15pm on that Tuesday so I ask that you pick your child up at 2.15pm. If you require after school care you can ring Maryanne Roling from Glenholme Afterschool Care. Mary Anne’ s contact number is : 347 0709 or 0211 215599 Raffles Thank you for your support with the selling of our PTA’s Raffle Books. We still have some outstanding books, can these please be returned tomorrow so the raffle can be drawn. If you have misplaced these can you please let the teacher know Swimming This week Kākano 6,7 and 8 will be swimming. Children will need to bring their named swimming togs and a towel everyday this week. Kakano 8's swimmi

 Dear Whanau, Can we please ensure no Peanut butter sandwiches come to class? One of our new students while not majorly allergic is still allergic to peanuts and it is quite hard to keep him away from it. Thanks very much. Could you please also double check your school jerseys to see if you have one that has Lola Doidges name on it please? And finally I have made hat hooks for our kids hats to keep at school if they wish. Have a discussion with your child to see if they want to bring them home each day or leave them here. I will send them home every few weeks for a wash.  Kind regards Jane Trask 

  Week 2 Kia ora Whānau We hope you have enjoyed the long weekend! Thank you for continuing to follow the Covid Alert Level 2 procedures. Last week’s blog post has a brief outline to remind you of what level 2 looks like for our Kākano students. Raffles Thank you for your support with the selling of our PTA’s Raffle Books. The books must be returned tomorrow Tuesday sold or unsold. Swimming This week Kākano 8 is NOT swimming. FYI Early Finish Tues 2nd November Tuesday 2nd November at 2.30pm, our staff, along with teachers from St Michael’s Rotorua, St Mary’s Putararu and Bishop Edward Gaines in Tokoroa are involved in Titiro Whakamuri kia haere whakamua Professional Development. We will need to finish school at 2.15pm on that Tuesday so I ask that you pick your child up at 2.15pm. If you require after school care you can ring Maryanne Roling from Glenholme Afterschool Care. Mary Anne’ s contact number is : 347 0709 or 0211 215599 Working Bee We intend to have a working bee this weekend

 Wow what a busy start to our Term with swimming everyday! A few reminders: We swim every afternoon at 2.10-2.30pmish - This sometimes means we are in a mad panic to finish at 2.45pm after helping everyone to get changed and do our end of day prayers. Please take some time to show your children how to do their sandals up and put their clothes on etc. WE ONLY SWIM IN ODD WEEKS: Wk1,3,5,7,9 Swimming is about confidence and water safety more than actual swimming lessons etc. As you can appreciate we are trying to keep 19 children safe in the water so we do not have specific time allocated to particular swimming skills.  Homework: for our new parents - homework is sent home daily in our book bags: this will usually contain a reading book( on Mondays and Wednesdays), orange reading log to record homework and other tasks that may need to be completed.  The homework learning / poem book also comes home on a Friday each week. If the homework reading log is not filled in by me each day, it may

  Kia ora Whānau and welcome back to T4 A big warm welcome to Mason, Seb, Emily and Leandro who are starting school this week! We hope you had a lovely holiday and managed to spend some time in the beautiful spring sunshine. Unfortunately we are still in Covid Alert L2 and ask you to follow the correct procedures for this alert level.  We thank you in advance for your co-operation. Here is a small reminder of what level 2 looks like for Rotorua St Mary’s Kākano Students: Arrive at school between 8:45-9:00 School pick up between 2:45-2:55pm NO PARENTS IN THE CLASS Children need a water bottle If your child is sick, please keep them home. Term 4 reminders… Uniform: This term children need to be wearing summer uniforms. Boys: Grey shorts Blue polo top Black/Brown sandals Girls: Summer tunic Black/Brown sandals It is compulsory for all children to have a school sunhat when playing outside during T4.  Please make sure your child returns to school on Monday in the correct summer uniform with