Te Kura Tuarua o Piopio

Piopio College

Newsletter COMING EVENTS

Panui 35 — 1 November 2018

Kia Ora e te Whānau,

Well seniors, only five more sleeps to go before your year is done! It has been great

to work with you guys this year and I wish you every success in the next phase of

your journeys.

At the moment our library is not fully operational because we had to brace the walls

to accommodate the books. A big thank you to Kate, Ian, James and all those who

rolled up their sleeves to fix the shelves. We are now open to the public and should

have all the books back in their shelves and sorted by the end of next week.

I also want to thank Charmaine for working with our students to prepare them for the

25th Anniversary Celebration of our Wharekura.

A special shout out to Jadalee and Mrs Goodhue, both of whom are recovering from

surgery to their legs. May both of you have a speedy recovery.

We are also making an appeal to anyone who has found a key as we have lost one

for the canteen. So if you have found one, please drop it in to the office, it will be

much appreciated.

Finally, watch your mail boxes as senior reports are being mailed out this week.

Ngā mihi nui,

Johan van Deventer

- Principal / Tumuaki

FINANCE OFFICE HOURS

8.45am - 2.15pm

Student access:

Monday to Friday

10.25am to 10.40am

Monday and Friday

12.50pm to 1.05pm

Tuesday to Thursday

12.25pm to 12.40pm

LIBRARY HOURS

Monday - Thursday

10am to 2.30pm

Term time only

library@piopio.school.nz

PIOPIO COLLEGE

18 Aria Road, Piopio 3912

07 877 8173 or

0800 240 173

www.piopio.school.nz

PRINCIPAL/TUMUAKI

Johan van Deventer

admin@piopio.school.nz

7 November (Wed)

- Year 13 Morning Tea

8 November (Thurs)

- Seniors Prize-giving 12.45pm at

Piopio War Memorial Hall

13 - 16 November (Tues - Fri)

- Year 7 trip to Parnell

22 November (Thur)

- NZPPTA Paid Union Meeting

26 November (Mon)

- Waitomo District Sports Awards

27 November (Tues)

- Wharekura 25th Anniversary

Celebration

30 November (Fri)

- Piopio College Wearable Arts

Show, College Gym, 10am

3 December (Mon)

- Year 7 & 8 Golf Day

3 - 7 December (Mon - Fri)

- Year 10 Work Experience

Week

13 December (Thurs)

- Junior Prize-giving 11.30am at

Piopio College Gym

- Last Day of Term 4

SENIOR PRIZE-GIVING REMINDER

Our senior prize-giving will be held next week on Thursday 8 November. This is a

full-school prize-giving held at the Piopio War Memorial Hall, starting at 12.45pm.

Please be seated by no later than 12.40pm.

Weather permitting, the students will be walking to the Hall supervised by the

teachers. If the weather is wet, buses will be provided.

Please fill in the attached (back page) permission slip for your child to attend with the

school, and return to the office by Tuesday 6 November. Alternatively if there are

any issues with this please contact the office ASAP.

Mrs Louise Sheeran - Deputy Principal

CONGRATULATIONS TO...

Wairere Brown-Muraahi for making the Waikato Touch U12 Mixed Black Team!

Shelby Carey for doing very well in the ICAS English test. Shelby got a Merit which puts her in the top

37% of Year 9 participants in the NZ and Pacific Region.

Emma Carter and Clay Harris for receiving certificates from Primary ITO for packages completed on

Farm Placement. Emma completed the Fencing Package, receiving 20 x L2 Credits and 3 x L1 Credits, and

Clay completed the Sheep/Cattle/Deer package receiving 27 x L2 credits and 3 x L1 credits.

Well done everyone on your outstanding achievements!

WHAREKURA ANNIVERSARY (25 YEAR CELEBRATION)

Tēnā Tātou e te Whānau,

Celebration Date: Tuesday 27th November 2018

A fantastic opportunity for us all to celebrate this momentous occasion. We welcome the young and the old (not

so old…) ex-students, ex-staff, parents, those still to come, mokopuna mā, and anyone who came through back

in the day, to join us. This is a time to reminisce and to give value to those lifelong friendships, so please make

the time!

“He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tangata! He tangata! He tangata!

What is most important in this world? ‘tis people! ‘tis people! ‘tis people!”

Our students, we ask for uniform No1’s, nothing less. We welcome back our seniors to set the example for us all.

Girls/kōhine mā:- black stockings, white shirt, black skirt, black shoes, any taonga to be worn on the day, poun-

amu/bone carving, if you have these, it is your time to shine!

Boys/tama tāne mā:- black dress pants, black blazer, white shirt, tie, black shoes, any taonga you have to be

worn on the day, let’s give this your best shot!

Our students will demonstrate our values: Manaakitanga! Whanaungatanga! Kōtahitanga! Rangatiratanga!

Come one, come all. Nau mai, haere mai!

Programme details to come, watch this space!

Whaea Tania Taitoko - Te Reo

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Day 5 Day 6 Day 1 Day 2 Day 3

TIMETABLE

Right: Our scheduled timetable

days for Week 4, of Term 4.

NEW PLAY AREA

It is wonderful to see our students have been enjoying the new play area. A huge thank you to our Caretaker, Ian

Small, for painting the game gridlines and assembling the net and bats gear. Ka pai!

THANK YOU!!

A huge thank you to all the students and staff who have helped with the library these past couple of weeks:

Ian Small and James Hicks for all your hard work taking the shelves down, putting in more shelf support and

putting the shelves back up; (staff) Jo Taitoko, Leigh Anselmi, Katie Sammons, (students) James McLean, Tamzyn

Huggard and Jorja Knox, for all your hard work putting books back up. Thank you!!

Mrs Kate Dawson - Librarian

SCHOOL MAGAZINE ADVERTISEMENTS

Please send the digital copy of your business card to cfoss@piopio.school.nz if you would like to support us with

our school magazine printing costs, by Friday the 9th of November. The cost is $25. This can be deposited into

the Piopio College BOT account: 01-0447-0039040-08. Please put MAG2018 as the reference.

Thank you for your support!

Mrs Caroline Foss - SENCO

WAITOMO DISTRICT COUNCIL PUBLIC

MEETING - YOU ARE INVITED

WHAT: Piopio Wastewater Treatment Plant Community

Liaison Group Meeting

WHEN: Wednesday 21 November 2018, Starting 5.30pm

WHERE: Piopio Hall (corner of Moa Street and Weka

Street, Piopio)

“The purpose of this meeting is to provide feedback and

comment on environmental issues relating to the operation

of the Piopio Wastewater Treatment Plant.”

For any enquiries, please contact David Karrol, Manager -

Water Services, on 07 878 0800 or email:

enquiries@waitomo.govt.nz.

LOST PROPERTY

Are you missing uniform items? Please check the lost

property at the Main Office. There is a large number of

un-named uniform and non-uniform items. Despite putting

these items out in the Student Centre on a Monday, the pile is

growing! Please come and check to see if you have any

items.

FEEDBACK

At Piopio College we strive ourselves on being a community orientated school. We value all your feedback and love to

hear from you. You are welcome to call in at anytime for a visit or chat. Some feedback suggestions: would you like a

newsletter weekly or fortnightly? What would you like to see more of in your newsletter? Any questions on uniform or

stationery? Help us to keep the lines of communication open. Give us a call, make a time to catch up with your child's

whānau teacher or the Principal Johan van Deventer, on 07 877 8173 or 0800 240 173, or email

admin@piopio.school.nz.

RETURN SLIP - PIOPIO COLLEGE OFFICE

I give permission for my child/ren to walk/bus to Piopio War Memorial Hall Senior Prize-

giving - Thursday 8 November 2018.

Student Name: ______________________________________________________________________________

Student Name: ______________________________________________________________________________

Student Name: ______________________________________________________________________________

Signed Parent/Caregiver: _____________________________________________________________________

PLEASE NOTE THAT HARD COPIES WILL ALSO BE DISTRIBUTED TO STUDENTS TODAY TO BRING HOME

FOR SIGNING.