FROM THE PRINCIPAL
Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa!
It has been another busy two weeks with lots of engaging learning experiences and opportunities going on at our kura. It is Māori Language Week - Te Wiki o te Reo Māori and the students have been involved in lots of tikanga and te reo and practicing our new school karakia.
Our Kapa Haka performance group is sounding amazing and will be performing at Eastbourne Library next Tuesday September 20th at 1 p.m. I do hope you can pop in and watch them. They will be taking part in Hutt Fest alongside other schools from around the Hutt Valley the following week.
With the passing of Queen Elizabeth 2nd, we will be closing our school on Monday September 26th to enable everyone to pay their respects.
Having the Pukutakaro programme running over the past two weeks has been great. The students have interacted with a range of different pieces of equipment. They have learnt to explore the same equipment in a variety of ways, work together and have a go. Thank you to those parents who also came along to the after school sessions.
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| Tidying up the Lizard Garden |
Last week we had a WOW week which involved the students across the school taking part in a variety of art projects to beautify the spaces around our school. Among the activities were making gardens, decorating stones, painting murals and studying artists.
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| Rock painting by Room 6 |
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| Artists studies from Room 8 |
KAHU ART ATTACK
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| Refurbishing our murals to reflect our school values |
By Elliott Halman
BUDDIES
Each child across the school is either a little buddy or a big buddy. Today Rooms 3 and 9 worked together to plant some seeds.
ONESIE / PYJAMA DAY
DRESS UP AS YOUR FAVOURITE BOOK CHARACTER
Next Friday we are all dressing up as a book character - this will be a fun day and there is no donation involved. Sue, our wonderful librarian, has been at Muritai for twenty five years and we are going to celebrate this amazing milestone. She is not leaving. We are so lucky to have her - she has a wealth of knowledge which she shares with every student. I wonder what you will be dressed up as?
WORKING BEE
Next Saturday September 24th we are going to have a working bee to tidy up and refresh some of the areas in our senior school. Thank you to those families who have already offered to come along and help. It will be from 10 a.m. for about an hour or so. If you have any suitable tools, spades, wheelbarrows, gloves, secateurs, etc, please bring them along. We’ll have a cup of tea or coffee with biscuits together, after our work.
SCHOOL ASSEMBLY
Today our Tūī team hosted and shared some amazing learning that they have been involved in over this term. It was great to see the artwork, listen to poems, learn about the technology process leading up to our market day in Term 4 along with finding out where some of our staff come from when asked No hea koe?
A poem by Amelie
SCHOOL AT FIVE INFORMATION EVENING
We had a wonderful evening hosting twelve new parents and caregivers of four year olds who will be attending Muritai in the near future. Thanks to Felicity Lovell for presenting this.
THANK YOU
A huge thank you to Elisabeth Hector for purchasing a new microwave for us to use with our students. It is greatly appreciated and will certainly be well used.
HOME AND SCHOOL NEWS
I am sure you will be delighted to hear that the Muritai School Cook Books have been delivered. Home and School will be sorting through all the orders and further information will be coming out shortly about collecting them all. Then you can get cooking and baking!
LOOKING AHEAD TO TERM 4
There will be a Teacher Only Day on Friday 21st October adjoining Labour Weekend so mark your diaries for a four day weekend.
LOOKING AHEAD TO 2023
Planning for next year is underway. Thank you to those parents and caregivers who have already let me know of their intentions for next year but if not, could you please do so as this greatly assists us with staffing and class placements of our students?
Please email me with the following details -
1. If your child/children are leaving at the end of this year
2. If you know of anyone who is intending to start their child at Muritai School during 2023, e.g. has moved into the area or hasn't enrolled with us as yet.
On another note, although we are unable to offer a teacher selection option to our parents, I do encourage you to email me at principal@muritai.school.nz if there is something you would like us to know or consider about your child that we need to be aware of when we begin class placements. All our students have a voice in our process as well and are able to select some students they work well alongside to be in their class for next year. We begin class placement drafts early in Term 4, the deadline for any input from parents is Friday October 21st - the end of the first week back.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.
Have a wonderful weekend with your family and friends.
Ngā mihi kia koutou,
Maureen Buckley
Acting Principal
buckley@muritai.school.nz
FROM THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Elections
Voting concludes on Friday 23 September at 4pm. Please ensure you get your vote into the box in the office before the cut-off or in the post prior. Votes will not be accepted after this time.
FROM THE SCHOOL
MURITAI BAND
Muritai School band, “Lords of Confusion” performed two songs at Bandquest 2022 which was held at Sacred Heart High School on Saturday night the 3rd of September. Lords of Confusion won the “Rockstar Styles Award” with the judges commenting “we loved the outfits you rock…. you played together like a group with great movement and performance!”. Lords of Confusion were one of many bands that entered; there were many others from schools such as Hutt Intermediate and Rangikura. Thank you to Charles and Ruth for preparing us for our two songs which were Money by Berry Gordie and Home Sweet Home by Motley Crew and to the parent helpers on the night - Fitri Salma and Martin Cooper. Also a huge thanks to Rockshop who sponsored the event. Band members included Bodhi Kane, Finlaeic Forde, Eloise Mathewson, Dilyan Kusnadi, Elliott Halman, Rory Maxwell-Lamb, and Jagger Lissette. The photo below demonstrates our great rock-style look.
CONGRATULATIONS STIRLING TITO
Stirling recently played in the 'S Series' of 3 Tennis Tournaments where he was very successful, winning his division in 2 of the 3 Tournaments and dropping only one match in the Series.
This resulted in Stirling being named as one of 3 S series champions from the entire Series.
Here he is with his trophy
FUTSAL
Two teams from Kereru recently had the chance to take part in a Fun Futsal Festival run by Lower Hutt Primary School Sports Association. The focus of the event was on "having a go", with many players trying out the sport of Futsal for the first time.
Teams played 5 fast-paced games over the day at Walter Nash Stadium. The Year 5 team, Muritai PSG, finished the day with 3 wins and every member of the team getting on the scoreboard. The players adapted quickly to the fast moving style of the game, and came home keen to play again.
The Year 6 Futsal team had a great day at the tournament displaying some skilful play in retaining possession, utilising all team members and relentless defence work.
There was some exemplary sporting play both towards the opposition and each other making for some hard fought but fun contests!! They won 3 of their games, drew 1 and lost 1.
Kahu teams have their own Futsal Festival coming up on 20 September.
DIARY DATES:
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