Kia ora koutou katoa.
Welcome to our new children that have started at Muritai School - Joe Kanjanaphat and Jagger Lisette.
As we fast approach the middle of the term we are enjoying the slightly different pace of term 2. Walking through the rooms sees a rich tapestry of quality learning - the children are well engaged and the atmosphere of each classroom is quite lovely. Each class has built a team and while some of the work being done is individual, some of the work is collaborative and team based. It is all designed to make our children grow as people.
Our junior school is as always a very busy area of the school. Some of the flow of recent activities have involved -
- We have had all our local early learning centres (Kindy, Playcentre, Early learning centre) visiting frequently
- Completed the third parent information evening on curriculum completing how children learn and progress in reading, writing, maths
- Visited the Planetarium at the Carter Observatory
- PMP (Perceptual Motor Program) has started in room 2 for this term.
DAV PILKEY
Captain Underpants author Dav Pilkey has travelled to New Zealand to be a guest at the Auckland Writers Festival. He also visited Wellington recently to meet his fans and some of our Muritai students were lucky enough to go along and meet him. Below is Luke Tait and Izzy Carroll’s account of their trip.
On Wednesday 20 May, twenty one Muritai students went to see Dav Pilkey. He was talking at Eastern Hutt School in Lower Hutt. He told us about a new book he was writing called Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir-Stink-a-Lot. There is also a new movie of Captain Underpants, which is animated and coming out in 2017. Did you know why his name is ‘Dav’ but pronounced ‘Dave’? Well he used to work in Pizza Hut. He didn’t like his name with an E so he changed it to Dav! He also read us a chapter of Dogman (full story) which is coming out next year! We thoroughly enjoyed it and Dav even signed our books.
By Luke Tait and Izzy Carroll (Room 8, year 4)
THANK YOU
Last Saturday some hardy parents worked in the gardens planting around the library and tidying up the Oroua St entrance garden. There is still some work to do but we have made good progress and it is coming together nicely. Our next tasks is to plant the trees and Matt Diederich from Quercus Landscaping is helping us with that. Thanks to Kate Brownsword for leading this process - it is going to look great is the spring!
Zone cross country
Our Y4-6 cross-country team performed with real distinction at the Zone event at Boulcott School. While placings were hard to come by a real feature was the strength of the team and with the 8 children in each of the 6 categories we managed to bring each year group team home mostly in the top 10. It was a real lift to the Muritai supporters to see the green sweep through towards to top. This top effort saw Muritai comfortably secure second place overall behind Waterloo and ahead of Eastern Hutt.
Congratulations to our placegetters…
Rosa Blair - 1st year 4 girls
Mia Campbell - 2nd year 4 girls
Great Woolloff - 2nd year 5 girls
Fraser Bellis - 3rd year 5 boys
Basketball reps
The Year 7&8 boys basketball team are well under way in their new season and have currently won all of their games so far. Congratulations to the following boys for making the Hutt Valley Under 15 rep basketball team: Tom Flynn, Tobias Knight Lincoln Moffat and Callan Hughes.
JOSS FUNDRAISER
The Walk with Joss fundraiser will be held this SUNDAY 24 MAY. The Lions are looking for volunteers to help on the registration tables, serve drinks and a courtesy car in Karamu Street. If you can help, please ring Graham Wilson on 562 8819. The walk starts at 1.30 at the Eastbourne Sports and Services Club. Wear ‘dress-up’ and be in for some prizes. BBQ sausage and milo on offer after the walk.
Facebook/Twitter
Yesterday I used Facebook to share messages. With many parents now on Facebook you can access information and school news events via Facebook. At present we have 295 'friends'. You can sign up to our page and get regular updates of events. Alternatively, if you are not on Facebook you can still receive these updates via Twitter. Simply text 8987 and type followMuritaiSchool and you will receive updates, simple messages, reminders and cancellations direct to your cellphone as a text message. It is all free.
Teacher Only Day this term
A reminder that we have a teacher only day this term on Tuesday 2 June at Queen’s Birthday weekend. This is week 7 of this term. We also have a teacher only day on Tuesday 27 October which is the Tuesday after Labour Day.
DIARY DATES FOR TERM 2
26 May Year 5-6 Speech finals at 1.30pm
28 May Board of Trustees meeting
29 May Y8 Gardasil Immunisations
29 May Assembly
1 June Queens Birthday – School Closed
2 June Teacher Only Day – School Closed
3 June Starting School at 5 evening (7.30pm)
12 June Assembly
15 June ICAS writing exam/ School leaders at Young leaders day
16 June ICAS Spelling exam
16 June Interzone Cross Country
25 June Board of Trustees Meeting
26 June Assembly
3 July LAST DAY OF TERM 2
20 July FIRST DAY OF TERM 3
Entertainment Books
As part of our Home & School fundraising plan, we are once again selling the Entertainment Book membership. Once again, this year you have a choice of the book or the digital membership (can be downloaded to your mobile phone). The cost is $60 per membership. For each membership sold we receive $12, so this is a great fundraiser for our school.
If you do not wish to purchase a book, please return it to the school office as soon as possible.
To purchase securely online or to order an Entertainment Digital Membership, visit www.entbook.co.nz/10409n4
COMMUNITY NOTICES
INFORMATION
EVENING
Will be held for all parents/caregivers
and their students, who are interested in attending Hutt Valley High School in
2016
Hutt Valley High School Hall
Thursday 11 June 2015 at 6.00 pm
There will be introductions and brief addresses
plus guided tours of the school and advice on programmes.
NETBALL CLUB BBQ
The new Muritai Netball social club is having it’s first
function this Sunday the 24th at the RSA / Rugby club rooms. Bring BBQ food,
drinks for sale. All netball teams and families welcome from 4.30. For further
info please ask your managers or email kate@saltedherring.com
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