Kia ora Koutou SWIMMING SPORTS!

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2 14 March 2019 Kia ora Koutou The competition is on! Your child should have brought home some information about signing up to their online portfolio, Seesaw! The first class to have all students and whanau signed up, wins an awesome prize for their class. Seesaw is a great way to keep informed on your child's learning at Tamatea Intermediate School. You can receive regular notifications when your child posts new work and even give feedback from your mobile phone! PAID UNION MEETING: There is a union meeting for teachers next Thursday (21 st March) at 2pm. This will NOT affect our students, there will be enough staff here to continue school for the afternoon with the usual 3pm finish. The only change will be that lunch is pm. CHOCOLATE STORM: Many thanks for your support with our chocolate sales. We had some very helpful students assisting us in getting ready for the big launch of our major fundraiser. Many thanks to Joshua Moefiti, Noah O Brien, Rico Kara and Taniora Kingi for opening up the boxes and setting up all the chocolates ready for our students to collect last Wednesday. This was a big task and done really efficiently, great job guys! (photo front page) Please continue to bring in the money to The Permorming Arts Room (Rm 16) BEFORE school. If you are struggling to sell your boxes please bring back what you can t sell (all in good order) to the office. SWIMMING SPORTS! We held the swimming sports last week with some fantastic results and lots of fun, well done to all students who competed to earn points for your House. Congratulations to: Year 7 1st place 2 nd place 3 rd place Girls Kate Hurley Maggie Drain Shylar Evans Boys Bailey Porter Jayden Parker Camryn Gooch Year 8 1st place 2 nd place 3 rd place Girls Reed Smith Penelope Fowler Athena Pattison Boys Khan Smith Declan Thorogood Sacha Pickering

3 ATHLETICS AT MAREWA PARK ON THURSDAY 22 nd MARCH (Next week): A notice has been given to students detailing the following information: Students need to be at Marewa Athletics Track, Marewa Park, Herrick St at 8.40am. Students go straight to the park, they DO NOT go to school. Students will be dismissed from the park at 2.40pm. The school bus students will be dropped off and picked up at the park. Bay View bus students are the only students who will be brought to school and then transported from school to the park and vice versa at the end of the day. All other students that travel on a public bus will have to make alternative arrangements in order to get to and from Marewa Park on time. PE uniform must be worn, house colour props over the uniform are fine. Students need to bring a packed lunch and water bottle. Whanau are more than welcome to join us for a fun day! If the weather forecast is poor an App will be sent out early in the morning to let you know if it is a normal school day. Please send a text to Vicki on if your child is absent. We will be marking the roll in the usual way. Order of track races: Year 7 s will be on the track from 9am-10.30am and Year 8 s 11am-12.30pm. EPRO8 CHALLENGE Congratulations to our two teams entered in the recent EPro8 Challenge, held in our school Hall. EPro8 is an inter-school engineering, science and technology challenge. TamTech 1 (pictured top right) fought off close competition, immunisation injections and a tough Netball practice to finish in 7th place. Well done Ella Harrington, India Pimm, Reed Smith & Acacia Matangi-Huhu. TamTech 2 (middle picture) achieved a new school record and placed second and now move on to the regional finals in Hastings later this month Watch this space.good Luck! After 2.5 hours of tough challenges they were still smiling congratulations to Jayden Parker, Logan Maxwell, Deacon Miller, Noah Simonsen. We look forward to hearing about your next challenge.

4 UP TO DATE CONTACT PHONE NUMBERS AND ADDRESSES PLEASE!! Is your address correct on our database? Early next term we will be posting out nomination forms for our Board of Trustees elections. Also, it is SO important that we have your current phone numbers. If your child is sick or injured we need to be able to contact you to collect your child urgently. In emergencies we do not hesitate to phone an ambulance, however, the Hospital need to be able to talk to you. We have noticed quite a few incorrect phone numbers on our system, please phone the office to update your details or office@tamateaint.ac.nz $3 Pita on Friday 29 th March only Normal prices resume the following week Pita Pit deliveries have changed They will be delivering every FRIDAY ONLY Commencing 29 th March Create an account at to place your order Ph 0800 LOL LOL if you need assistance info@lunchonline.co.nz ONLINE SAFETY: Please take a look at the last page of this newsletter. There are some great tips and info on TIKTOK. Keeping our children safe online is always a huge concern. It is great that information like this can help keep us informed and as up to date as possible! ABSENCES: Please don t forget when your child is away to contact the school! It is really important that we are advised before 9am if possible. Please text or phone Vicki on Also late students must report to Vicki s office for a late pass to give to their teacher. If your child is going to be late please also let Vicki know on this number. Thank you.

5 Taradale Junior Football Open Day Junior registration for the 2019 season. Come along to our Registration day on Saturday 16 th March 10am 1pm Taradale Sports Association, Symons Lane, Taradale Download a registration form or register online tafcjuniors@gmail.com or phone for more information. Ages from 4 to year olds boys or girls teams. All other ages mixed. Season starts Saturday 4 th May. Volunteer Coaches and Assistants wanted. See you all there to sign up again or for the first time. Bring friends along too. NAPIER CITY ROVERS is now accepting registrations for their winter junior football programme, to run Saturdays from May 4. If you would like to register your child to play with Napier City Rovers in 2019 visit www,cityrovers.com to find out more. If you would like to make an enquiry regarding options for junior football please NCRs Junior co-ordinator Chris Marwick at juniors@cityrovers.co.nz. Come join us! Napier City Rovers are also offering their First Kicks programme, for 4-6 year-olds FREE. Children in this age group signing up to play football will pay NO fees. To find out more visit ESKVIEW JUNIOR FOOTBALL CLUB is now taking registrations for all children interested in playing Soccer aged We will be having a registration day on Saturday 15 th March from 12 noon 1.30pm at clubrooms Petane Domain or alternatively you can request an registration form from eskviewjuniorfootball@gmail.com Registrations must be in by 6 th April. Season will start on 4 th May. If you have any questions please contact Nicci on Regards Jo Smith PRINCIPAL The rest of the term. 18 March Unsold chocolates to be returned to school 19 March School Leaders Presentation 5pm 22 March Athletics at Marewa Park 25 March Chocolate money due back 29 March $3 PITA PIT through lunchonline 4 th April Chocolate Storm Prize Giving 11.00am Interim Reports home 8 th, 9 th April Informal parent conferences 12 April Last day of Term 1 Happy holidays!!!! Don t forget to sign up to our Parent App for notifications, cancellations etc!!

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