25th May 2017 - Week 4 Term 2

School Calendar

26th May School Disco

31st May Onetahua Marae visit

2nd June Scholastic Book Fair Ends

5th June Queens Birthday

16th June Cross Country

19th June CC Postponement Day

22nd June Library Quiz

23rd June NZ Playhouse ‘Puss n boots”

7th July Last day of term

Spaghetti Bolognaise $3 Chocolate Chip Biscuit $2

Thanks Jo and Fumiko for making school lunch this week.

Tomorrow - 26th May $2 entry

5pm—6.30pm in the Motupipi Hall

Food Donations required for the disco shop. Thanks to all those that have already made

food and goodies to sell at the Disco, we still need a bit more so if you are able to donate

it would be much appreciated.

School T shirts It has been great to see the new school t-shirts being used and the children look terrific in them. We still have a few outstanding from the ANZAC ceremony and the recent Rippa tournament. Please return these to the School Office so we can use them for the next events.

Our book fair is going well and we have a lot of very enthusiastic children waiting at the office door every morning and afternoon, excited about looking through the books. Thank you for the great support we have had so far, as every dollar spent helps us buy new and exciting books for our school library. The fair goes until next Friday, 2nd June and we can accept cash and credit cards.

Cross country training Tomorrow we start whole school cross country runnning training over the Hurst family farm tracks. Thank you Hursts for allowing us to use your farm. Children will need to bring suitable shoes and shorts for running in every day. Bring them every day, even if it is raining, as we will go running if the weather clears up.

Get well soon Mark Mark is going to be away from school for several weeks recovering from his total knee replacement operation that he had last Saturday. Jude will be taking over his duties, supported by the rest of the staff and Mark will be advising from home!!

Rippa Rugby Training

Thank you Logan Solly and Dan Darwen for giving up your time to help train up the school Rippa Rugby teams in readiness for their big tournament in Nelson. The children are very enthusiastic about their training sessions and are enjoying improving their skills.

School Saturday Netball Thank you to Kylee and Melissa for organizing our two school netball teams and running practices for them at afternoon breaks.

Motupipi Magic played against the Bumblebees from Collingwood on Saturday. We had a loss this time, but the girls showed some amazing defensive work and passing skills.

Our player of the day went to Jasmine (from Central) who never gave up chasing the ball, and had some awesome intercepts and tips.

The Mystics had a bye last week, but are back playing against the Silver Kiwis at 9.45am at the Rec Centre. Magic are up next, again the Breakers at 10.30am.

Hope to see you courtside!

Weekend Rugby

I play for Takaka Under 8s. We get up to the showgrounds at 9.30 am and it is quite cold. Our team has been doing well. We are getting better at blowing over, when a player is on the ground and our scrums are getting stronger. Saxon and I are really good at blowing over. Ashton C. I scored four tries last weekend because I am a fast runner. I felt pretty proud. I play tackle rugby and I am getting better at tack-

Weekend Football

I went really well and scored two goals. I defended well and helped stop quite a lot of goals. I like playing football. It was really cold and there was snow down low on the hills. I was only wearing a t.shirt. Kian. Last Saturday it was really cold and I was freezing. I scored two goals and had to go and get some hot chips to warm up. Rosy.

U10 Rugby - by Jack Rm5

On Saturday we went over the hill to play rugby. The under nines came on the bus with us, when we got there it was freezing. I scored one try. We lost, I think it was 65 - 40. We had a snow fight on the top of the Takaka hill.

U9 Rugby - by Teru Rm5

On Saturday I played rugby over the hill in Upper Moutere. It was a boring trip over the hill, no one in my team got sick. We were finally in Upper Moutere, it was freezing cold. We did a few warm ups and then we were on. We played the easiest team we had played, I scored 8 tries with a lot of help we won 85 to 40. We have won all our games this season. We went back on the bus and on the way back we went to McCafe and had some food and had a snow fight on top of the Takaka hill.

Teacher Appointments If any parents wish to see a teacher about a concern please make an appointment to see that teacher at a mutually convenient time after school. It is helpful if both parties have time to plan for the meeting. Between 8.30—9.00am each day, and impromptu parent/teacher chats may often result in an unresolved issue and a disorganised start to the day. Thanks Judy

Chess Tournament

At the Chess Tournament I enjoyed the Knights Tour. At the Chess

Tournament I learnt to use my Queen more. Kier

I really enjoyed playing chess and I want

to improve on using my King more. Joe

I really enjoyed the Chess

Tournament. My favourite thing was that I got a Gold

Medal. I’m going to the National Champs in

Hamilton. Jay

On Wednesday we went to the

Chess Tournament in Nelson. It was really fun playing against other

people and I would like to play more chess at home and on the

computer. Lief

On Wednesday, the Motupipi School Chess team travelled to Nelson to compete in the Regional Chess Power Tournament. All the children played some brilliant games of chess and enjoyed the banter over the chess board. Jay managed a perfect score and won the Gold medal overall. He has further earned the opportunity to play in the National Championships in Hamilton later in the year. As a team, the top five scoring players, Kier, Archie, Jay, Joe and Trey earned Motupipi the Silver medal.

I really enjoyed playing chess yesterday.

I think I played really well. I won three games and tied two. I think I needed to

play more games of chess before. Archie

I really enjoyed the

Chess Tournment. One of my favourite things to

do was stacking chess pieces up the highest.

Holley and I were in a

team together and we came first! We won one

badge to share. Lola

At the Chess Tournament I really enjoyed

playing a little game called the Knights Walk. Bella C

Motupipi School Details:

435 Abel Tasman Drive

Takaka 7183

Phone: 03 525 9986

EMAIL: markc@motupipi.school.nz

Or: office@motupipi.school.nz

New Banking Account No:

03 1354 0401412 000

2017 Dates Term 2 1st May - 7th July Term 3 25th July - 29th Sept Term 4 16th Oct - 13th Dec

Fish 4 Schools – Thank you for supporting this and thanks to Kate and Jenna for organising. Next week Terakihi — $25 per kg.

Marae Visit

Our children are looking forward to the whole school visit to the Onetahua Marae next Wednesday. Parents, Grandparents and interested family members are invited to accompany us at the powhiri and stay on to help with our cultural activities.

Motupipi Choir

On Saturday night the Motupipi School Rock ‘n’ Roll Choir are part of a performance at the Playhourse. We’ll be performing in the first half of the program, which starts at 7.00pm. Entry is by koha of a suggested $10. We’re pumped!

We are performing at the Takaka

Memorial Library on Friday 26th May at 4.30pm. Hope to see you there!

Tara, Lola, Bella & Bayleigh Art by Gabriel Rm5

Room 3 Art - from the legend of Maui and the Sun

Bikes home please A number of bikes are still at school and have been here since our Bike Safety Week. Please pick up your childs bike a.s.a.p. because we need the room in our P.E. Shed and cloak rooms. From Monday these bikes will be kept in the outdoor bike stands at the owners risk.