Ngā mihi e te whānau, welcome all to what has been happening in the Pōhutukawa Team for Weeks 7 and 8 of Term 4 for 2025, kia pai ngā rā whakata.
As we head towards the end of the year, we'd like to take the opportunity to say a big thank you, nga mihi nui, for your tautoko, support throughout 2025. Mā tātou kātoa te waka e hoe, we all row the waka together. We've all really enjoyed the year, and as always it's such a pleasure seeing our students develop self-awareness as learners, and grow in confidence, independence and maturity. We wish our Year 6 students all the best as they head into their intermediate years, and we are looking forward to seeing our Year 5 cohort flourishing in their role as tuakana in Pōhutukawa next year. Although we're not quite there yet, we wish you all a wonderful summer break. The final school newsletter for the year will be sent out next week with information regarding the final few days of school. Please do read on for some updates from the team, and information about an upcoming celebration to finish the year off here at kura for the Pōhutukawa students.
PTA Colour Run!
String Ensemble
Navigating the Journey
Next week we concluded our Navigating the Journey lessons. We will conclude with our last theme of Staying Safe. Students will learn about and discuss factors that influence personal safety online, and identify skills to ensure safe online use and strategies, and how to respond positively to challenging situations. The Navigating the journey Te takahi i te ara resources use the metaphor of navigation to describe a person’s lifetime journey of physical, social, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of hauora (wellbeing). Thank you for your support with this by discussing this with your tamariki at home.
End-of-Year Celebration: "Pōhutukawa Big Day In"
Library Books and Sports Uniforms
As we head towards the end of the year on December 18th, it's a good time to remind your tamariki to return any library books they still have issued, or sports uniforms that are sitting at home and need to be returned. The Lost Property on the library deck is where unnamed property ends up, and this is also a place to check as it will be taken to the Salvation Army at the end of the year
Ngā mihi nui.
The Pōhutukawa Teaching Team
Chris, Gayle, Nick, Megan, Rae, Georgie, Viv, Stacey and Laura