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Newsletter No. 10, 2 July 2020

Term 3

Monday 20 July to Friday 25 September

Term 4

Monday 12 October to Friday 18 December

Contact Details:

Website: www.redwoodprimary.school.nz

Email: office@redwoodprimary.school.nz

Ph: 03 352 6739

Absence Text: 027 783 1473

Absence Email: absence@redwoodprimary.school.nz

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Principal - John Stackhouse

Email: principal@redwoodprimary.school.nz

Deputy Principal - Ellie Cherry

Email: ellie@redwoodprimary.school.nz

Deputy Principal - Nick Gunn (Matua Nick)

Email: nickgunn@redwoodprimary.school.nz

Learning Support Coordinator - Jan Manawatu

Email: janmanawatu@redwoodprimary.school.nz

Contents

Blown Away in Room Three!

by Lynda Selwood & Nick Gunn

Last week, Room Three read the poem Windmill In Old Amsterdam.

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Matariki Celebration Day 2020

by Lynda Selwood

This year, Matariki falls in the school holidays, from 13th - 20th July. As Matariki is a celebration of new beginnings, we will celebrate Matariki in Week 1 of Term 3.

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Cross Country

Whole School Cross Country

by Chris Thurlow

Our Cross Country will now be held on TUESDAY 21 JULY

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Principal

End of the Term:

by John Stackhouse

Yes, those four words again. It has certainly been an interesting term and has had its challenges along the way.

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Parent Workshop

Parent Education Workshop: Strategies to Build Our Kids’ Resilience

by Nick Gunn

Thursday 20th August 7:00-8:30pm - We are excited to be able to provide our community with a further parent education opportunity facilitated by Anna Mowat from Real Parents. This workshop will follow up on the Building our Kid’s Resilience session that Anna and Dean facilitated in March.

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Sparklers 

Parenting Resource: How to help kids sleep

by Nick Gunn

The following information is from the Sparklers website and is used with permission - many thanks to Anna Mowat and the Sparklers team. Head to https://sparklers.org.nz/ for more great resources!

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Calendar

What's coming up in Term 3?

by Pauline Prescott

Mark your diary now

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PTA

A Huge thank you from the PTA team for submitting your thoughts via the survey.

by PTA

If you wish to see the results of this survey in detail, please pop into the office, there is a smart bar graph displaying the results.

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Kindo

PTA Kindo online school shop

by PTA

We are excited to introduce our PTA Kindo online school shop.

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Sausage in bread

Friday Lunches are here !!

by PTA

Let us do the kids lunches for you. Every Friday from Term 3 we, the PTA, are committed to serving up a hot savoury lunch.

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Library

Mrs Matai has discovered some great books at the Redwood Public Library which would appeal to many of our pupils.

by Sandra Matai

Three photicular books (Dinosaur, Jungle and Wild) by Kathy Vollard which give movement to the animals in the pictures.

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Heritage

School Photos

by Pauline Prescott

Our school photos have been taken

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Lost Property

Please check the Lost Property bin in the office

by Pauline Prescott

As well as unnamed uniform items there are some warm jackets and hats you might need over the holidays.

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Bags

Bread bags needed

by Pauline Prescott

Do you have any plastic bags at home? We would welcome them at the office.

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Community Notices

Check out what's happening in our community

by Pauline Prescott

Holiday programmes, sports, education, drumming and drama

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