Te Panui o Te Kura o Te Kohanga

Te Kohanga School976 Tuakau Bridge – Port Waikato Road

Tuakau 2693Ph (09) 232 8881

TERM 1, WEEK 9

Our daily timetable is:8:35am School starts

10.30am – 11am Morning Tea12.30pm – 1.15pm Lunch

2.20pm Buses depart

DatesSchool Closed for EasterFriday 2nd AprilMonday 5th AprilTuesday 6th April

Week 9Wednesday 31st March @11.30am Duffy Assembly

Wednesday 31st March @5.30pm Te Tiriti o Waitangi training for the school Board of Trustees

Week 10Friday 9th April @ 9amFranklin Basketball Lessons

AbsencesPlease ensure your child is at school everyday. If they are not attending please inform the school via a phone call or a text on our SkoolLoop app.

Kapa HakaOur school festival Kapa Haka group isperforming at the Franklin Multi-culturalevent at the Pukekohe Indian Centre on April10th. We are performing at 2.45pm. There willbe lots of cultural groups performing andplenty of food stalls so please come along tosupport them! There is a gold coin donationfor entry.

Exciting news!!! - School Camp 16-18 AugustWe are booked to take the whole school to Camp Adair in Hunua for three days of adventure and fun! We do not charge for school camp, however, they are expensive

events so please look out for our upcoming fundraising (our recipe book and Brownie mixtures). We will be asking

for whaanau help to prepare and sell our products.

Te Panui o Te Kura o Te Kohanga

TERM 1, WEEK 1

After School CareWe can now confirm that KAS (Kids After School) programme are able to offer spaces to Te

Kohanga Students!! Our students will travel by bus

to OAS, where KAS will pick them up and take them to

Harrisville School where the KAS programme is run.

This may be a great option for fulltime or casual after school

care for your child.

Please phone the school for more information and we can send out fees and enrolment

details.

Important - Lunches

We will start FREE school lunches from next term for all students. We will stop selling pies/pizzas.

This term we have been collecting rubbish and packages from students lunchboxes to illustrate the amount of rubbish going to landfill. We would like to trial students not bringing any packaged morning tea next term too. The school will provide extra morning tea for all students.

We would encourage you to only send in a piece of fruit for your child if you have some at home.

Water and Milk Only We are a water only school so please no fizzy drinks or juice. The school provides milk to drink at morning tea for those students who want some.

REMINDER for term 2

- Free lunch for all students next term.

- Only fruit and water to be brought to school.

- No sold school lunches.

Our morning tea rubbish from just three days.

Healthy School Lunches

Te Kohanga School976 Tuakau Bridge – Port Waikato Road

Tuakau 2693Ph (09) 232 8881

TERM 1, WEEK 9

GREAT NEWS, from Term 2 our school will be receiving FREE Healthy School Lunches funded by the Ministry of Education and made by Te Whare Kai a te Whanau Hapori – Family

Community Kitchen.

Every child in the school is eligible for a free lunch which is amazing, and we want our kids to not just eat but eat WELL, the rules are pretty strict about what we can use to make the meals and the variety of all the food groups especially Fruit and Vegetables. We also know

kids can be fussy, and some of the lunches might take a little while to be accepted, some things might get picked at or out, some kids might just go YUK for a little while. But our

cooks and team will watch what is happening and work closely with School and Children to make food appealing and healthy to as many children as possible ….. even if it take a little

while to get there. Our community has a wide range of cultures, dietary requirements and tastes so we have tried our best to mix things up a little for everyone while sticking to the

rules, we will keep doing this as the programme continues, changing by season and including as many favourites as we can.

Here is a Sample Menu which will change so it doesn’t get boring. Meals have to be yummy AND healthy so there will be quite a few veges hiding throughout and everyday there will

be a piece of fresh fruit. All children are given the same meals unless they have special dietary needs ie, allergies, intolerances and cultural/lifestyle diets, most of the time a

similar meals can be offered with items swapped to suit. Parents/caregivers will be asked to provide information about children who have special diets.

Monday

Roast Beef and slaw Sandwich

Yummy muffin and a piece of fresh fruit.

Tuesday

Chicken and salad Wrap

Cheese squares and a piece of fresh fruit

Wednesday

Works Burger (sometimes Chicken sometimes Beef)

Yoghurt for a snack and of course a piece of fruit 😊

Thursday

Pasta Salad and a bun.

Hard Boiled Egg and a piece of fresh fruit

Friday

Sushi Sandwiches – no not in bread, it’s a big piece of sushi you can eat like a sandwich.

Hummus and vege dipping sticks

Monday

Spaghetti Bolognaise (Spag Bol – family favourite)

Home baked banana bread and you guessed it fresh fruit 😊

Tuesday

Hot Roast Chicken with Gravy with rice and veges.

Hummus and vegesticks….yep and a piece of fruit…

Wednesday

Ham, cheese and egg Omelette with a few vegestoo.

Yoghurt pot and fresh fruit.

Thursday

Beef & Mashed Potato and gravy.

Yummy fruit muffin

Fresh Fruit

Friday

PIZZA DAY

Chicken Supreme Pizza

Home made loaf slice and to top it all off…… A piece of fresh fruit.