Kura Tuatahi Toko Panui

1st February 2024

Quality learning for all in a caring community.

Kounga ako mo katoa i roto i te taiao e atawhai ana.

Dear Parents and Friends of our school Kia Ora/Hello/Kamusta

Kia ora koutou,

Welcome back to school 2024. We have had a great start and it has been wonderful to see everyone back at school rearing and ready to go. We had our first assembly under the trees in front of our new stage :)

As has been shared via facebook over the holidays there has been a lot of work occurring in the playground with the upgrade of our existing sandpit and the construction of a new play area with an additional sandpit, water area and car.

Most of the upgrade has been made possible through our Friends of Toko School (FOTS) and the community's combined efforts to participate and assist with fundraising events. A big thank you to FOTS for your coordination of events and fundraising to support the children's learning experiences at our school.

We also received a donation from TET towards our new shade structure which we are very appreciative of.

The building work continues in the main block and we hope to have this all completed by the end of February all going to plan.

We have decided to renumber the classrooms so they are in order:

Room 1 and 2 remain the same.

Room 6 becomes Room 3 - Mrs Fuller

Room 5 becomes Room 4 - Miss Harcourt

Room 4 becomes Rooms 5 - Miss Smith

Room 3 becomes Rooms 6

Ngā mihi,

Kim Waite

Principal

Welcome to Miss Harcourt in Room 4, Chad K Room 4, Kyeleigh K Room 2 and Theo W who started in the last week of term 4. Happy Toko School days to you all :)

FRIENDS OF TOKO SCHOOL

Welcome to the Friends of Toko School (FOTS).

Each year our school community support our school by participating in a variety of events/activities that are fun, sociable and supports your own children's school experience at our great school. Some of the events/activities raise money and others support the school curriculum and general running of the school. We really encourage all of our school families to get involved and to get to know other families in our school.

"Together everyone achieves more"

Our committee meet once or twice per term, term time only and our sub committees meet as required. We are on the lookout for new parents to join our committee and for each family to indicate which events/activities that may be able to assist with during 2024.

Can you please fill in this form to indicate how you can help out during 2024:

How I can assist at school

Lunch Orders

Here is the link for lunch orders for this term. Orders for the term need to be in by Tuesday 6th Feb please. Lunch Order Link

FOTS MEETING MONDAY 5TH FEBRUARY - 7PM STAFFROOM

BYOD Forms

At interviews on Monday all children intending on bringing a device to school were given a form that needs to be filled and returned - regardless of whether you have filled one in before. We need these user agreements back asap. Children will not be able to use BYOD if the form is not returned. If you did not receive a form or need another one, please ask your child's teacher.

MISSING LIBRARY BOOKS

The following books are still missing from the library but have not been issued out by anyone:

The Arab-Israeli conflict

Asterix and the Roman agent

Courageous First World War stories

Fun facts & silly stories. Book 3

Funny bums

Herobrine goes to school. Book 1

Minecraft : the official Redstone handbook

Minecraft - Ultimate Survival Guide

Racing cars

Ripley's believe it or not! : special edition 2013

The Israel Adesanya Story

Thomasina

Ultimate book of foul & funny facts

Scholastic Book Club

The book club order forms have been given out to the children today and they are due back at school by 20 February.

SPORTS UPDATE

Touch Rugby

Touch starts in Term 1. If your child is interested in playing please complete the form by Wednesday 7th February. This competition will be on a Tuesday night from 4.30-5pm (Year 3/4), 5-5.30pm (Year 5/6) and 5.30-6pm (Year 7/8).

The competition will be played at Stratford Primary School and begins in Week 3 of Term 1 (Tuesday 13th February) and will run for 6 consecutive weeks. Subs for the competition are $10 per player and will be charged to the child's individual school account. Please complete one form below for each child.

https://forms.gle/3aNH1AmXDjdckw2PA

Tennis - Year 4 - 8

If your child is interested in tennis lessons at school with Bruce Cleland these will start on Monday 13th February for 6 weeks at a cost of $50 per child. There would be approximately 6-8 children in each group for a 1 hour lesson. Lessons will take place during school time. Sessions will run and alternate each week from 1-2pm and 2-3pm

Tennis rackets are provided, if you have your own it's fine to bring this along too.

If your child is interested in lessons please complete the form by Wednesday 7th February.

https://forms.gle/wzgwoEuFXo7ZdBML7

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A FEW REMINDERS/REQUESTS

Year 2 - 4 have a camp notice coming home today.
Children need to bring togs and towel, in a bag, all named every day to school please.

We are looking for someone to assist us with the bees that may be able to become a bee mentor. If you can help out please give us a call.
Tramp Matt - we are having some trouble getting the new matt on apparently there is a tramp tool to help with this. Does anyone have one that we could borrow?
Is anyone expert in weaving harakeke (flax)? if so we are looing for someone to assist us with this on the Year 2 - 4 camp. give us a call if you can help out :)