Kia ora e te Whānau

Ko te wai te ora o ngā mea kātoa

Water is the life giver of all things

Our Positive Behaviour for Learning Value – We respect our school. 

Our Te Reo Māori phrases are –

• Kua Mārama – Do you understand?

• He pātai?  Questions?

What an amazing effort for our Gate Activation this morning.  Thanks for the input in decorating the children’s bikes and scooters.  I was so impressed as the kids wheeled along toward me.  We also had a bike that generated power to make a blender work to make smoothies – sounds complicated but it worked.  The whole event was so good and we’ll repeat it again later in the year.  Karma Tamarapa, Ayla Standen, Tyree McCausland-Ellwood and Hayley Kremers won pool passes for the best decorated bike/scooter. 

Pink Shirt Day

Now that today is done we have another event on Friday with Pink Shirt Day, when we will be participating in celebrations supporting our school to be a safe, supportive, welcoming and inclusive place for everyone. On Friday 16th May we will be having a non-uniform day and encouraging the kids to wear pink. Please bring a gold coin donation to the office which will be donated towards Pink Shirt Day.

Attendance

We are doing well with attendance for this stage of the year.  We can always do better though.  It’s not good that we are sitting on 54% of our students with regular attendance which is the same as last year.  I’d like us, as a school, to aim for more than 60% to start and then build up from there. 

Last week the voucher was won by Octavia MacDonald for being at school every day and on time. She won a Kmart voucher.

Kahikatea won the class attendance for having the highest percentage attending for the week.

Another Reminder Teacher Only Day – Friday 30 May.  School will be closed for students. 

School Cross Country

The students participated brilliantly in the School Cross Country on Monday.  We had to postpone it from Friday.  Huge thanks to Mrs Gourlay who made it such a success with her organisation.  Thanks, too, for the parents and caregivers who turned up to watch. 

Wednesday Challenge

The winning class this week who had most students getting to school by their own ‘steam’ is Kahikatea.

Care Cards

Students who have earned their next 20 Care Cards are:-

20 Care Cards: Tyree McCausland-Ellwood, Maddy Hopkins, Avi Pothabattula and Blaze Howell.

40 Care Cards: Kayden Harris-Sanders, Shanti Mahanga-Ward, Arsalan Hakimi, Ubaida Shurab, Raibey Soriano, Jax Ellen and Wyatt Dover.

60 Care Cards: George Rixon, Maria Shurab, Logan Dew, Jaydashay Hemaloto, Abraham Asefa, Nelson Latu, TJ Eru, Nikau Yates-Davis, Ayla Standen, Zack Dench, Chaz Theunissen, Kasiyas Van Den Dorpe, Hoturoa Eru, Eman Ayoubi, Zahra Mohsini, Aroha Hapeta, Ridwaan Ashenafi, Irie-Leigh Hughes-Taylor, Jahmyn Hughes-Tahitahi, Mata Millar, Te-One Taare Pao-Toleafoa, and Arren Gurung.

80 Care Cards: Maddie Wanhalla, Johnny Matthews, Leo Mackie, Dean Deepu, Nadia Omidi, Noah Edwards, Cassidy Rogal, Kabeer Kashif, Ezra Xu, Ardijah Pairama, Kitana Renata-Taituha, Kapish Bhiwagade, Shyla-Rae Isaacs, Duke Braid and Maddi Taituha-Ropoama.

100 Care Cards: Tevunga Vaea, Caitlyn Matthews, Ocean Blue Mahanga-Ward, Mandy-Anne Potts, Taylor Diedrichs, Dagmawi Asefa, Barry Moore, Hayley Kremers, Lexi Humphries, Aaliyah Ali, Kinley Meredith, Vinz Delos Santos, Santana Tautari-Matthews and Wirere Phillips.

120 Care Cards: Casey Taare Pao-Toleafoa and Iain Pearson.

Welcome to New Students

We would like to welcome a new student to our school. Flaymez Strickland who has joined us in Kōwhai. It is great to have you join us here at Bishopdale School.

Newsletter Competition

The question is what is Pink Shirt Day raising money for? 

This is worth 3 Care Cards this week. 

As always, write your answer on a piece of paper, name it, and place it in the kete in the office.  One entry per child.  This is worth 3 Care Cards each for the Junior and Senior winner – and a lollipop.    

This will be drawn at random from the kete on Friday morning.   Last week this was won by Lexus Carmichael and Anaayajot Randhawa.

Ngā mihi

Jill McArthur/Mrs Mac

Tumuaki (Principal)