18th May 2017 - Week 3 Term 2

School Calendar May

22nd Scholastic Book Fair Starts

24th Chess Tournament

26th School Disco

31st Onetahua Marae visit

June

2nd Scholastic Book Fair Ends

5th Queens Birthday

16th Cross Country

19th CC Postponement Day

22nd Library Quiz

23rd NZ Playhouse ‘Puss n boots”

Macaroni Cheese $3 Choc Marshmellow Slice $2

Thanks Cathy & Katie for making school lunch this week.

Kia Ora,

We have decided to start this week by focusing on our School Calendar App. In the past we have

been using texts to send out messages to our school community. The sad reality is that this costs

us for every message we send. Going forward it would be great to see as many of our friends and

family downloading the app so we can send instant school messages and notices to you.

It is a really simple design and it has some great features such as the ability for you to quickly send

us a message when your child is absent, view current newsletters (always handy to check what the

school lunch is for the week), it has a school calendar and all the current school notices.

One thing we have found with our parents that currently use the app is that is does needs to be

refreshed so that is always up to date. This is really simple to do and is just a case of tapping an

arrow to go back to the home screen.

Please see above on how to download it from the Play Store

or App Store.

Anzac Letters During Noel and Carolyn Baigents pre-ANZAC presentation at school recently Noel mentioned it might be a good idea for the pupils to write a letter to a NZ military person stationed on a peace keeping mission, a humanitarian aid mission, disaster relief or operational deployment somewhere around the world (anywhere from Antarctica to Somalia). From personal experience he said it was real neat to receive a food parcel when away from home for months on end and it's extra special to also get a card or letter in the parcel with stories and thoughts from a child back home, no matter where they live. Room 1 and 4 decided to do just that and we dropped them off and here is the response from Noel. “Wow! the cards from your pupils are awesome! Carolyn & I read every single one and they're so personal and well written..I'd love to be the recipient of any one of them. It's great to know the 'kids' have a good understanding of what ANZAC is about and also the role our Defence people play overseas today.”

STARTS MONDAY IN THE SCHOOL OFFICE

Motupipi School Details:

435 Abel Tasman Drive

Takaka 7183

Phone: 03 525 9986

EMAIL: markc@motupipi.school.nz

Or: office@motupipi.school.nz

New Banking Account No:

03 1354 0401412 000

2017 Dates Term 2 1st May - 7th July Term 3 25th July - 29th Sept Term 4 16th Oct - 13th Dec

Netball Season Starts!

Our two netball teams had their first game last Saturday. Motupipi Magic played against Motupipi Mystics and it was a very close game! Players of the day went to Luca (Magic) and Holley (Mystics). Well done to all the girls! This Saturday Magic are playing at 11.15am at the Rec Centre and the Mystics have a bye. Come and support the girls if you can!

I played goal shoot and goal attack and I got 2 goals. I could do with a bit more practice. The courts at the Rec Centre are really big and there is lots of space on the court. Emily C

I played for Motupipi Mystics and we played our other team the Motupipi Magic. We won 5-4 so it was a close game. I played against Emily in Goal Defence and it was hard because she is so tall. I moved to Centre at half time and it was better as I could move around more and I got the ball more. Iyla

Sport Comments from the weekend...

We lost to Waimea at rugby last week 55-35, which was a lot of scoring. I play prop for the team and we also have Hugo and Archie from Motupipi in the team. Jack

I played striker on Saturday and had one shot at goal and scored. My Dad reffed the game. We play our games at Takaka and don’t have to travel over the hill. Kiyo

We played Wanderers and won 60 -25 and I got 6 tries. Brodie, Kahu, Lochie and Hayden are all in our team. Teru

I’m going to a football tournament in ChCh in July where we will play teams from all over the South Island. We train after our Saturday game in Nelson. Jay

T – Shirts

Could all the t-shirts that were given out for the Anzac Parade and the Rippa Rugby

please be returned to

school.

Cross Country Training

Please bring shorts and running

shoes for cross country training

Fonterra Farm Visit Last Thursday we sent a group of interested students from Rm 4 & 5 to the Fonterra Farm for a visit. The visit was fantastic

and it would have been great for the whole school to have gone however health & safety is pretty tricky with such large numbers as well as the stress on the cows with having lots of strange people around the milking shed.

Dairy farming plays an important role in our local and national economy and this was a great chance for some students to

learn close up some of how this happens.

The children

saw cows getting milked,

followed the path the milk takes from the cow through the various pipes, filters and coolers through to the storage vat.

checked out a milk tanker and watched the process the tanker driver goes through when collecting the milk and well as the

different tests that need to be done at each pick up,

talked to a vet about cow welfare/health/needs, and saw just how much grass a cow eats and water it drinks in one day.

Jeff Riordan the Farm Manager and Emily the farm worker also were on hand to answer the children’s questions.

It was really interesting as I’d never seen cows milked before. I learnt that they drink 6-9 litres of water a day and they are milked either once or twice a day. Aurora

I enjoyed watching the cows being milked and how they did everything and we got to see it close up. I was surprised at how much a cow can eat in a day so that it can make milk. Chloe

I loved the trip because I learnt heaps. I didn’t realize that the milk had to be cooled down after it came from the cows. Kiva

Te Maatu - A story by Lily in Room One

I woke up to another day. The whare* was silent apart from Papa’s loud snoring.. My kuri* is a guard dog so he stays awake all night and the only time he sleeps is little naps in the morning. Now my family are starting to wake up and do their jobs.

My job is to get some food. So I get up and get dressed and get to work. First I go and get some vegetables from the garden. Onions, carrots, broccoli and much more. I bring them home then go to the awa* and check the tuna* trap, yes!!! Two tuna! The chief will be so happy!!!

We are all a big whanau*. It's like pararaha*, everybody loves it here. My name is Moana and I have a little sister named Airini. She is only 10 months old and that reminds me, my next job is to look after Airini! I ran back to the whare finding her snuggled up to kuri. I smiled and sat down next to her and she cuddled up to me. Later we went for a walk down to the awa then went back up to the whare and she had a nap…. it's perfect here except for one thing…

The white people! They’re mean and scary and the worst thing is they are trying to push us out of the village. Every once in awhile they come and try to push us out and the only thing we can do is fight even though we don't want to!!! Bang! Bang! Bang! Oh no! It's the white people! They have come back and that is the drum that helps us know when they come… I grabbed Airina and ran to a tree and climbed up with her in my arms. When we got to the top we sat in the tree and watched. It sounds very silly but what else could we do? We were not allowed to fight and the last time we were in the whare we got trampled! So we just waited...and wait-ed….and waited..... We became really confused and Airina started to cry. I rocked her side to side. She slowly fell asleep. I looked out on the village, the white people are coming. I have to warn the others but where are they?

I woke Airina up and slid down the tree and went looking for them. I looked in the bushes. I looked in the garden and I looked by the river but there was no sign of them. Suddenly a thought struck me, are they in the whare? I ran back past the river, back past the garden and back past the bushes and sure enough they were there having some sort of meeting. I burst in and yelled, “The white people are coming! You have to fight!”

But no, they has a better plan...a way better plan… we were going to run away and find a new place to live. A safer place with more food, more water and more land for growing our gardens and making the village. So we gathered some food and ran out the back door just in time.

We ran and ran and ran! We ran for our lives! After a while we stopped and had a break and in the distance we could hear the white people and they didn’t sound very happy.

After we had some food and a little rest we kept on travelling and travelling and travelling….it took ages but then we found the place! Beautiful beaches with water as clear as can be. It was filled with fish and there were big forests with lots of herbs and mushrooms, strawberries and many more foods.

This is our new home!!! Te Maatu*, The Big Wood.

Maori translations... Kuri = dog; Whare = home; Awa = river; Tuna = eel; Pararaha = paradise; Te Maatu = Motueka

School Disco - 26th May

5pm—6.30pm in the Motupipi Hall

$2 entry

If you are able to help or provide food to sell at the disco please let Jane, Melissa or Kylie

know - Thanks

HOME HELP WITH MATHS Here are a few tips with ideas and activities for helping children with maths at home. Every little bit helps.

YR1/YR2 Involve your child in: using words in everyday play like "under", "over", "between", "around", "behind",

"up", "down", "heavy", "light", "round", "circle", "yesterday", "tomorrow". asking questions like "How many apples do we need for lunches? What do you

think the weather is going to be like today/tomorrow? sorting (washing, odd socks, toys, cans) while tidying up telling you what their favourite things are – food, sport, colour reading - notice

and talk about numbers. ask questions about the pictures like “how many birds are there?” a shape and number search together wherever you are, like numbers of shoes,

shapes of doors and windows. preparing and sharing out food – "two for me and two for you". Ask, "How many

for each of us?" talking about time – "lunchtime", "storytime", "bedtime"

YR3 / YR4 Involve your child in: telling the time – o’clock, ½ past, ¼ to, ¼ past learning their 2, 5 and 10 times tables repeating and remembering telephone numbers they use a lot. doing a shape and number search when you are reading a book or looking at art helping at the supermarket – ask your child to get specific items (medium-sized

tin of red beans, 2 litres of milk, 250g of mince, choose items to weigh – how many apples/bananas weigh a kilo? Look for the best buy between different makes of the same items (eg blocks of cheese) – check on the amount of sugar or salt per serving

reading together – help them look for numbers and mathematics ideas looking for shapes and numbers in newspapers, magazines, junk mail, art

YR5 / YR6 Involve your child in: helping at the supermarket – choose items to weigh. Look for the best buy be-

tween different brands of the same items item and different sizes of the same item (e.g., toilet paper, cans of spaghetti, bottles of milk, breakfast cereal, spreads like jam or honey)

practising times tables – check with your child or their teacher which times tables you could help your child with

telling the time e.g., 5 past, 10 past, 20 past, ¼ to, 25 to... making dinner at home– look at how many and how much is needed for the

people eating (potatoes, bok choy, carrots, sausages). Talk about fractions (half, quarter, fourth) to calculate how much to cook and

cooking times looking at the nutrition table on food labels – how much fat, sugar, salt - and

deciding on the healthiest choice