Our lovely Mrs Fraser is having a BEEutiful birthday week!

Top Treasure Hunters!

Congratulations to the winners of our Square treasure hunt. Great effort guys!

The Egg Drop Challenge

Athletics Day 2017

Well done Tautoko students on a fabulous Athletics Day!

Square & Lido Trip Update

Happy birthday Mrs Monaghan!!!

Well done to Lucy who was a winner in the Year 3 - 8 Library Ag Day competition.

Gorgeous rural landscape painting Lucy!

 

SCHOOL ATHLETICS 2017

Middle School (Years 3-4)

Wednesday 15 November

The Middle School Athletics Day for Year 3-4 students is to be held on Wednesday 15 November.  The event will be at Whakarongo School, from 9:00am to 12.30pm.  Students will be in Year Groups and will rotate around the events.  Parents and family are warmly invited to attend to support our athletes.

Can you please check that your child brings the following to school on that Wednesday:

• School hat
• House coloured t-shirts and school shorts
• Polar fleece and long pants (in case it's cold)
• Sunscreen
• Appropriate footwear (sneakers or running shoes – not jandals, sandals or gumboots)
• Morning tea, lunch and a full drink bottle of water

If we are forced to cancel due to bad weather, an alert will be sent out via the school app.

Ag Day prep done and dusted - bring on the fun!

Ag Day: Table Centrepiece Inspirations

This Friday we are completing the last of our school tasks: Our Table Centrepieces (don't worry - there are no tasks to be completed at home!).

Please remember to send your child to school with a glass jar (or appropriate container or oasis) along with materials that they can use to create a table centrepiece e.g. floral arrangement with. 

It would be greatly appreciated, if you have access to flowers/foliage to spare, if you could send extra to school (in a separate plastic bag marked "SPARE") to help provide for those that may not have these available in their own home gardens.

Please see below for some inspirational, rural-themed ideas that we've found and take time to discuss with your child what they may like to do.

We thank you for all your support and look forward to seeing you this Saturday at Ag Day!

Ag Day 2017

VOW Recipients: Weeks 8 & 9

Winter House Sports... postponed 😔

Year 4 students only - makeup instructions for Wednesday night

Production Reminders for Week 8: Year 4 Students only

Please note that Mrs Mayston and Mr Mildenhall will be accompanying all our Year 4 students to the Regent for rehearsals.  Our Year 3 students will remain at school with Ms Matangi.

VOW Recipients: Week 7

Winter House Sports

VOW Recipients - Week 6

Narrative Writing: WALT Narrate and Animate

As part of our learning around coding, we have been investigating how to create a good narrative story so that we can then animate it using coding through Scratch Jr.  Take a look at these first few examples... we can't wait to see them ANIMATED!

VOW Recipients: Weeks 4 and 5

Junior Production Wrap Up!

Last week our Year 3s were out and about filming, ON LOCATION, for their Once Upon a Rhyme Movie Production.  We had some lovely days and it was a great experience all.

We would like to take this chance to say a BIG thank you to all those parents who came along and helped supervise, and to all parents for getting those little extras for costumes sorted for us.  It was much appreciated, especially to see them all come in so quickly.

We look forward to watching the final product in week 8 at our Performance Evening!

Thanks to Matt Young for the photos below.

Student Achievements

Finding Fractions

Ms Matangi's Maths Workshop Groups have started looking at finding fractions of sets this week.  Take a look at the different strategies from Ronald, Isaac H, Lucy, Weston & Jordan G.  Ka mau te wehi, tamariki ma!

VOW: End of Term 2 and Start of Term 3

Apologies for these coming up so slowly but a big congratulations to all of these wonderful students displaying these values over the last few weeks!

 

Recent Student Achievements

We've had some students who've been celebrating great achievements and we'd like to you to join in with celebrating them with us.

Josiah Lo - Piano Competition

Josiah recently competed in a competition run by the Manawatu Performing Arts Society for the Under 8 Years group and he came third!  Kau mau te wehi, Josiah!

Shaye Ormsby & Jack Barnett - Junior Tough Guy & Gal Challenge

Last Friday, Shaye, Jack and some friends from Whakarongo School competed in the tough guy/gal challenge and had a fantastic time.   It looks like it really was a 'tough' challenge!  Congratulations to all those that competed and gave it a go!

Year 3 Costume Notice

Year 3 - Tautoko Production Script

Here it is for those Year 3 students with speaking parts so that you can practice.  Thanks to all our Year 3s for taking on different roles and taking on this challenge - you are all valuable parts of our scenes.

Good luck!

NB. parents - we are looking at organising our costumes currently.  We will let you  know if we need any assistance.

End of term science fun

End of term science fun in Tautoko!

End of Term Notice

A special thanks to Mrs Monaghan

From some of those you work with most...

Special Matariki Celebration this Thursday

Special Achievement: Addisyn Dingwall

Congratulations to Addisyn Dingwall who participated in a Pony Competition yesterday and was very successful... check out all those ribbons.  Ka mau te wehi, Addisyn!

Check out Week 9's Timetable...

Take note that on Thursday we have our Learning Celebration afternoon.  This starts from 2pm but we would like to invite all whānau to attend a special Tautoko celebration of Matariki first, which will begin at 1.30pm.  We hope to see you all there!

VOW Recipients: Weeks 6-8

Pae Tamariki 2017

Sense of Adventure - Writing

Students have done some awesome writing, based on this clip, by putting themselves in the riders shoes.

WALT Collaborate - Homeroom 25 Presentations

We have been learning about how to collaborate... take a look at our collaborative presentations about how to collaborate!

Some groups found it a struggle putting what they had been learning into practice and when we shared these with the class, it was really good to discuss what problems we encountered and why... and how they affected their final presentations.   Some are not perfect but there was so much learning involved in how to work together well so... Ka mau te wehi Homeroom 25 - Awesome efforts and developing learning: being a good collaborator is something that takes a lot of practice and time!

Please note that a couple of group's presentations are awaiting to be uploaded and will be added ASAP!

Rātaka o te Wiki: What's on for Week 7

Cross-Country 2017

VOW Recipients: Week 5

WALT Solve Multiplication Problems

Take a look at these great examples of some of our Multiplication group solving problems using addition, skip-counting and facts we know.  Ka mau te wehi Tautoko tamariki!

Cole...

Hami...

Ice...

Jake...

WALT Describe: Poetry writing with Ms Matangi's group

VOW Recipients Week 4

VOW Recipients Week 3: Courage

Fantastic Achievement

Congratulations to Addisyn Dingwall for her achievements in horse riding last weekend.  She did so well and is set for yet another competition this Sunday.  Ka mau te wehi, Addisyn - Awesome achievement!

VOW Recipients: Week 1 & 2

Book Fair - dress up day

Term 2 Weekly Overviews

Check out our week 2's overview here ...or click on the Weekly Overview tab above each week to see what's happening...

VOW Recipients: Cooperation - Week 11, Term 1

WALT Describe: ANZAC Poetry

A group of us has been using the story, "The ANZAC Puppy" to help us create some simple but effective poetry.  Take a look at our stanzas about "Freda was..."

VOW Recipients: Week 10

WALT Describe: ANZAC Poetry

Showcasing more Tautoko talent

Isaac Hook has been learning to play the drums. Check out his awesome drumming skills.

Way to go Isaac!

Homework: Creating our Joke Books...

One of this week's homework tasks was to share your 3 favourite jokes so we can create a shared joke book.  We've had heaps of students send their jokes in so far... take a look... some of them are pretty funny! (And don't forget to get yours ready for tomorrow if you haven't done it yet!)

VOW Recipients: Week 9

Congratulations to our Week 9 Values Certificate Winners...

Tautoko Student Achievements this week

We have two of our students to celebrate for their sporting achievements.

Finn Bennett, with his brother and sister, has been doing well for the Ashhurst Athletics & Harriers Club.  Finn was awarded for Outstanding Improvement for the Under 10 age group.  Congratulations, Finn!

And Amelia Connor has just completed the Crank-It Triathlon series for February and March 2017, spending the last several weeks participating each Monday to do an amazing 750m run, 1.5km cycle and 25m swim each week.  Great effort, Amelia!