Thursday 12 September 2024 Rāpare tekau ma rua o Mahuru
Kia Ora, Kia Orana, Sat Sri Akal, Namaste, Talofa, Mālō e lelei, Fakalofa lahi atu,Bula Vinaka, Salam & Warm Pacific Greetings to you all
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WHAT’S ON AT RPS
Sunday 8 – Friday 13 September
AIMS Games in Tauranga
Monday 16 – Friday 20 September
Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori – https://www.reomaori.co.nz/
Thursday 19 September
Pohutukawa Team Ballet in a Box at the Due Drop Events Centre
Friday 20 September
Kowhai Team Ballet in a Box at the Due Drop Events Centre
Friday 20 September
Whole school assembly, Rooms 3 & 20, 2 pm in our hall, all welcome
Monday 23 – Friday 27 September
Sports Camp, Camp Adair, Hunua
40 selected Year 7-8 students participating
Monday 23 – Friday 27 September
Mental Health Awareness Week – https://mhaw.nz/
Friday 27 September
Final day for Term 3
Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 September
New Zealand Intermediate Chess Nationals in Wellington
5 RPS tamariki representing South Auckland
Sunday 29 September
Daylight Saving begins – clocks go forward 1 hour
Monday 14 October
First day for Term 4
Monday 28 October
Labour Day – Public Holiday
Friday 20 December
Final day for 2024
Monday 3 February
Start date for 2025
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OUR AIMS TEAMS!
Our Netball, Rugby, and Futsal teams made their way to the AIMS Games in Tauranga last weekend.
Our Futsal Teams played off in the finals and have finished second overall. At the time of writing this our netball team are about to play off for the semi finals at 4 pm.
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KIDS SING CHOIR – PSAMONY
Congratulations, Psamony another Gold!
Last week our Randwick Park School choir, Psamony, shone brilliantly at the 2024 Kids Sing Choral Competition at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Parnell. Their stunning performance left the audience in awe. We were very proud that Psamony was awarded Gold for their outstanding performance and voted by the audience to receive the Audience Award.
We acknowledge our Choir Conductor, Rev. Ieremia Amituana’i Amani, who has worked with our tamariki training them to deliver an unforgettable sound. Alongside him was the very talented accompanist, Seumanu Simon Matãfai. These two have guided our choir for the past 7 years, leading us to a legacy of success. Mr Sala’a Lologa works tirelessly behind the scenes to ensure our choir is disciplined and immaculately presented.
Under their leadership, Psamony has consistently made our school and community proud with their achievements:
2017: Silver & Adjudicator’s Award
2019: Gold & Adjudicator’s Award
2023: Gold & Adjudicator’s Award
2024: Gold & Audience Award, Audjudicator’s Award, Lawson Award New Zealand Composition Award, and Volunteers Award.
Then….
Breaking News: Psamony Choir Dominates Kids Sing Choral Competition Special Awards Section
The day after our performance Mr Lologa received a phone call inviting members of the RPS choir Psamony, to the final night of the Kids Sing Choral Competition.
At the overall award presentation Psamony, not only captured the coveted Audience Choice Award. They also took home the Colleen Elliot Adjudicators Award for a successive year. For the first time, they were the recipient of the Lawson Award for best performance of a New Zealand Composition, as well as the Volunteers Award, selected by the volunteers who helped run this prestigious event. We are especially proud of this award because it highlighted our school values of respect, positive, and kindness!
There are five major awards in the Full Primary and Intermediate Section, and our Psamony Choir took home four of them! The choir’s outstanding success has set a new standard for excellence in the competition.
Finally special thanks to the New Zealand Choral Federation (NZCF) Auckland for organising this event and allowing our children to perform and shine alongside other Auckland school choirs.
Following the Kids Sing performance we received these lovely messages from anonymous audience members:
“Morena,
As a mum from a different school I just wanted to congratulate Psamony Choir for last night. Your incredible choir brought me to tears. The conductor had a sense of purpose, full of passion and belief. This fed down into every choir member who sang from the heart and soul. Their souls and voices rose to the Cathedral roof and beyond. Bravo Bravo Bravo!”
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“Hi there,
I was an audience member in at the 2024 Kids Sing Choral Competition at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Parnell on Tuesday night and heard your Choir sing.
Just wanted to say how AMAZING they were.
They were the highlight of the evening.
A joy to listen to.”
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EARTH DAY
Thank you to all students, staff, and whānau that supported our Earth Day last Thursday. We raised $610.00 which will go towards more raised garden beds.
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YEAR 5-8 MATHEX
It’s been a busy few weeks here at RPS, we have seen our Year 7/8 Mathex teams compete at the Auckland Mathex competition, and our Year 5/6 teams competing in our own interschool Mathex Competition against some of our local school teams. As always we showed skill, strategy and teamwork! Well done to our year 7 team who finished in the top 40 of 126 teams and one of our Year 5/6 teams who came 1st in their competition. Well done Mathematicians! Maths is strong at RPS!
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CENTRAL COUNTIES BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
Earlier this term our Boys’ and Girls’ Basketball teams competed at the Central Counties tournament at Bruce Pulman Park. Both teams played brilliantly during the day, placing second in their divisions. Thank you to Mr McNaught and Moses for your coaching and Miss Lita for helping out on the day. Both teams have qualified for the Counties Zone finals next term.
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VISION BUS
At the beginning of this term we had the University of Auckland Optometry Clinic visit our new tamariki and have their sight tested.
Yesterday 24 of our students received brand new glasses. Both testing and glasses were fully funded.
Thank you to the University of Auckland Optometry Clinic for giving this opportunity to our students and whānau.
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MID-YEAR OVERALL TEACHER JUDGEMENT (OTJ)
BETTER START LITERACY APPROACH (BSLA)
This data is for Year 1 and 2 students and is based on the BSLA assessment.
We are in our second year of BSLA and OTJs.
Our Year 1 tamariki have not yet been at school long enough to be below or above the expected level.
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If at any stage you would like to come and discuss the information we share with you in our newsletters please do not hesitate to contact us.
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DROPPING AND COLLECTING YOUR CHILDREN/TAMARIKI
When dropping your tamariki off in the morning please use our yellow coned drop-off area. This is for the safety of you and your tamariki. If you would like to walk your child/ren to class, please park on the road.
Our school gates are closed from 2 pm. Only parents/whānau who have a parking permit are permitted through the gates as we have limited parking spaces.
If you have any questions, please contact our school office on 09 2670112 or 0800 438777. Thank you for your ongoing support and cooperation in keeping our tamariki safe.
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HELP OUR SOUTH AUCKLAND INTERMEDIATE CHESS CHAMPIONS GET TO THE NATIONALS IN WELLINGTON!
Chess has taken off at our school as a break-time club. After a year of growing, the skills of our students (thanks to our chess coach Ronald), we entered two teams in the Regional Interschool Competition. Our Primary team came third and our Intermediate team WON.
Five students will be competing in the National Competition in Wellington.
Thank you to everyone who has supported our fundraising efforts
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CYBERSAFETY – PROTECTING OUR TAMARIKI ONLINE
As parents/whānau, you do everything you can to keep your tamariki safe.
Being online is no different, but the strategies to keep our tamariki safe are.
Here is this week’s Cyber Safety tip to ensure the online safety of our tamaiki.
Be ‘share aware’ to protect your privacy
If your child is a regular user of social networks, they need to be made aware of the risk of personal information or images being made public once they post it. While they won’t fully understand the consequences of revealing personal information online, teach them to be cautious and thoughtful about what they post and share. Encourage your tamaiti to ask themselves before posting anything if the information (i.e. name, phone number, home address, email, name of school) or photo is something they would give a stranger. If the answer is no, don’t post it.
If your child is sharing photos or posts online ask your child to let you see what they are sharing first.
Make sure that your child understands that it is illegal to post photos or videos of other people without permission and that any form of being mean or writing mean comments about others is online bullying and is breaking the law. The Digital Communication Act developed in 2015 now does not allow for any form of online bullying as it shows “An intent to harm” others which is unacceptable.
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RPS STATISTICS
We are proud that our RPS whānau is made up of:
- 25 % Maori tamariki
- 47% Pasifika tamaiti
- 16% Indian students
- 12% are from a variety of other cultures that all contribute to the vibrancy of our learning community.
We have 30 different languages.What great opportunities this offers our ākonga (learners).
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LABELLING CLOTHING ITEMS
We regularly have an amount of lost clothing. As you are aware school uniform items are expensive. To assist us in ensuring that we can return any lost items to their owner, please clearly label all items.
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OUR SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKER
Matua Chad Robertson is our School Social Worker. He is loving working here at RPS.
If you need assistance or to chat you are welcome to pop in to see him through our school office or call him on
0220139535 or 09 2691009
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SCHOOL HOURS
School starts at 8:40 am & finishes at 2:45 pm. If tamariki arrive after 8:40 am they are late and need to sign in at the back of our office with Miss Dot, our School Liaison Officer.
All students are asked to be off school grounds by 3 pm unless they are attending a sport training.
This is for safety reasons as we do not have supervision in case of an emergency, injury or incident.
AFTER SCHOOL CARE
Please contact SKIDS (after-school care) if you need supervision for your child/ren on 0276275001 or 0800543922.
Thank you for your support with this.
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2024 COHORT DATES FOR NEW ENTRANTS (5 year-old tamariki)
Term 4: 14 October/18 November
If you have any questions about enrolments and start dates please talk to our lovely office staff or email enrolments@randwickpark.school.nz
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CHANGE OF CLOTHING FOR OUR JUNIOR TAMARIKI
If your child is in Year 0-4, we ask that you please pack them a change of clothing. This is incase of accidents which can occur at their age.
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READING EGGS
Well done to this week’s top 3 students who have completed the most lessons on Reading Eggs:
Christian Pasi, Room 17
Shivansh Kumar, Room 20
Justin pasi Lio, Room 16
If you are unsure of your child/ren’s Reading Eggs login please see their class teacher or Miss Tina Lindsay (our Learning Support Co-Ordinator) through our office.
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OUR SCHOOL COUNSELLOR
Whaea Brenda Paschke is our school counsellor. She works four days a week. She can be contacted through our school office or by email counsellor3@randwickpark.school.nz
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BREAKFAST CLUB
MONDAY – FRIDAY
8:10 – 8:30 AM
in Te Kahukura,
all welcome
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KEEPING THE SCHOOL
UP TO DATE
Here are different ways you can
contact our school:
HERO App: You can view your child’s
progress and update their attendance
or
Call: 09 2670112 or 0800 438 777
between 8:15 – 3:30 pm
or
Email: rpoffice@randwickpark.
school.nz for general inquiries,
absences@randwickpark.school.nz for attendance, and enrolments@randwickpark.school.nz for
enrolment-related queries
or
Pop in to see our office staff from 8:15 –
3:30 Monday – Friday.
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