Kia ora koutou.

Please feel free to pop along to Pen Assembly tomorrow morning which starts at 11:15. We will be celebrating our pen recipients as well as our Tier 3 KETE award students, plus our students will be saying farewell to our staff who are leaving us next week. Please note - our last day is next Friday the 15th. It is a 1/2 day finishing at 12:30. Buses will not be running for our school in the afternoon.

On Tuesday evening whanau of Rm 5 and our Kapa Haka group were treated to a play by Rm 5 students - tracing the historical journey and search around Aotearoa looking for the 1st Māori King and subsequent beginning of the Kingitanga. It was then followed up with a performance by our Kapa Haka group who performed waiata, waiata poi and a haka. Ngā mihi nui to all of the students and Whaea Danni for putting on a wonderful performance.

Last week we had Lucian Poaneki and Cruz Te Wao represent our school at the Waikato Full Primary Athletics competition. The boys participated extremely well and put in a lot of effort. Lucian had some outstanding results on the day - he was placed 1st in the 100m, 2nd in the 200m, 2nd in the long jump and was awarded the overall Yr 8 Boy's Champion - well done Lucian!

Thanks to everyone who came along and supported last week's Christmas Float Parade. We were awarded 1st place.  A lot of hard work went into the designing phase - thanks to all of our staff and students for what they contributed and thanks to Daniel Mateni for the use of your truck and David Wild for the signage!

Next Tuesday is our Junior and Senior Prizegiving. Please come along and take part in the celebrations. Both events are very popular. The Junior Prizegiving starts at 11:15am and will take just under an hour. The Senior Prizegiving starts at 7pm. A light supper is provided at the end of the senior evening for the year 8 leavers and their families.

Please have a look at the lost property boxes before the end of next week. We don't hold onto it over summer. Any items not claimed get washed and donated.

Thanks to the families who have filled in the pre-school enrolment survey for 2024 and beyond. The survey can be found here if you are yet to fill it in. It really helps us out with future planning.
 
Ngā mihi,

Scott Lincoln

Principal

Ōtorohanga South School

Term 4 - Mon 9th Oct - Fri 15th Dec

DECEMBER:
Friday 8th - Pen Assembly - 11:15am
Tuesday 12th - Junior Prizegiving - 11:15am
Tuesday 12th - Senior Prizegiving - 7pm
Friday 15th - Last Day of Term - 1/2 day - School finishes at 12:30pm

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Our values focus for the second half of this term is Trustworthy.

Our school-wide values are explicitly taught in all our classrooms and across various settings. These value lessons are also supported by our school councillors sharing messages and role-playing at assemblies, as well as value reminders over the school intercom each morning during our daily notices.


Below is an example of our school-wide expectations of trustworthiness in one of our settings.

Ka Rawe to all of our tamariki who received a KETE award at last week's Junior and Senior Assemblies.

Those students, who have continued to exemplify all four of our values to a high standard, received a complete KETE certificate (Tier 2) and enjoyed a waffle breakfast with Mr Lincoln. 

Here's a sneak peak of some of the amazing art work that was on display for our recent Art Day.

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Today the Upper Juniors had a great time wheeling around at school on skates, skateboards, bikes and scooters. There were even some remote controlled cars! We also decorated our vehicles with Christmas decorations. Paityn was first, Willow second and Mitchell was third. To finish the day we watched movies and ate delicious ice cream sundaes.

It's time to hunt high and low for any library books that may be hiding in your home. Please return them to school ASAP!

A huge thank you goes out to this season's miniball coaches; Donna and Tony Russell, Scott Mouat, Kelly Gray, Leighton Parsons, Rob Blackman and Ephraim Emery and also to the parent volunteers who scored and helped out in each game. Without this parent support we would not be able to enter teams and students would miss out on this sporting opportunity.  From the six Oto South teams entered we had 3 teams reach the semi finals and 2 teams that made the finals.  A fabulous achievement which demonstrates how hard all our students practised and played each week. We hope to see this support and student participation for another successful season next year.  

We have been recycling noodle bowls, buttons and scrap material to create our snowman.

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Thank you to all the parents and caregivers who came to Rainbow's End yesterday. We appreciate you! Our tamariki enjoyed their reward to celebrate their hard work and service to our kura for 2023

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