School Newsletter: Week 7, Term 2 2021

Tēnā koutou ngā whānau o Te Kura o Motueka/Allandale School. 

The term is flying by with it nearly being the end of Week 7! Our tamariki have been busy with various winter sports, maker space and learning through play. The seniors are involved with electives two times a week. They had 5 options to choose from including painting a mural, native tree planting, waiata, tiny houses and ICT.

Last week students in the Native Planting elective visited White Pine Bush. They studied which plants grow naturally in our area to help decide which plants we will choose to plant in our kura. Thank you to those whānau helpers who came along - you were all wonderful! It was great to see our tamariki in a different environment, searching and wondering.

Iceblock sticks, shoes boxes and paint are being used to create Tiny Maraes as part of the senior electives. 

Karearea Room 6’s had a new classmate for a few hours.. This butterfly hatched earlier in the week from a twig attached to the whiteboard and spent the afternoon in class drying its wings. The tamariki were very protective and caring of the butterfly.

Thank you 

To Kirsty O’Neill - one of our mothers - who recently treated the Allandale Staff to a lovely morning tea. It was a lovely surprise on a cold wet Monday. 

School Dental Clinic

The Mobile Dental Clinic has now left Allandale and will be back here towards the end of the year. If you would like your child to see a dentist, there is a permanent dental clinic at Whakatane Intermediate. You need to phone 07 307 1548 to make an appointment. 

New Enrolments 

We have had a number of new enrolments this term and it’s lovely to see new faces across the whole school. If you have a younger tamariki who will be looking at starting at Allandale in the near future we would love to hear from you. This helps us to plan our classroom numbers and staffing for the rest of the year. 

Lost Property 

We still have a lot of unnamed lost property here at school. As you walk into the new entrants area, there are 3 blue bins filled with shoes, jerseys, and various other items. Please take a look to see if anything belongs to your whanau. Naming uniform, shoes, lunchboxes etc helps ensure that they are returned to their owner. 

Alyssa, Taisha and Summer after competing in last week’s Interschool Cross Country competition at Ohope. 

Cross Country

Today we have several students competing in the EBOP Cross Country at Woodlands School in Opotiki. 

Arend Smith 8 year old boys 

Te Awamawhai Thrupp 9 year old girls 

Caleb O’Neill 9 Year old boys 

Lachlan Mackay 9 year old boys 

Ryan Baker 9 year old boys 

Phoebe Jones 10 year old girls 

Te Kohu Rangiheuea-Akuhata 10 year old boys 

Netball

Next Saturday 26 June is the last round of the 

9am Yr5&6 (6v6) Future Ferns season. Prizegiving for those teams in that competition will be held next week after the games.

Saturday 3rd July will be the last round of 7v7. 

Reminder

Next Wednesday the 23rd of June we close at 12.30pm because there is a Paid Union Meeting for teachers. We are still having school lunches that day so our tamariki will still be fed a delicious warm lunch before they head home. 

IMPORTANT DATES THIS TERM 

NZEI Paid Union Meeting - School finishes 12.30pm - Wednesday 23 June 

Gymnastics Competition - Friday 25 June at the Whakatane Gymnastics Club. 

BOP Cross Country - Tuesday 29 June 

Teacher Only Day - Friday 2 July 

Last Day of Term 2 - Friday 9 July 

Term 3 starts - Monday 26 July