Week 7 is here!

Good evening everyone,

We hope you enjoyed the weekend with whanau and friends and celebrated the first All Black win of the season. Twenty five of our Turanganui leaders alongside our Turanganui teachers are heading to Wellington after school this Friday for the second All Black match against Wales so keep an eye out on the telly next Saturday night. We will be seated down the goal end closest to the entrance to Westpac Stadium and will blacked out to support our AB's.

Celebrating Turanganui Success

There are so many wonderful children in our syndicate who have been achieving success across different realms. We are very proud of them all.

Contribution Badges

Well done to the following students who have earned their contribution badges for service to the community and school. We look forward to the next wave of Turanganui Taonga receiving this acknowledgement. Students must contribute to six different tasks to be eligible. It is wonderful seeing our students proudly wearing their badges around the school.

19 - Alyssa Herbert, Jade Vercoe

20 - Matariki Kaa - Absent when presented

21 - Nathania Takitaki, Rossleigh Wharehinga, Manaia Haenga, Celeste Akuhata-Raeina

Aroha Noa - Kindness Competition

Well done to Alani Dunn, Waylon Uatuku, Kaea Rennie and Jacob Wyllie who won the best dance at the Aroha Noa competition held at the War Memorial last Wednesday. We had a group of around 30 students accompany Matua Puri, Matua Walter and Koka Kat to support our boys and they were lucky enough to meet Laura Thompson a.k.a Victoria from Shortland Street. Our boys once again graced the front cover of the Gisborne Herald on Saturday night but were accidentally listed as attending Ilminster. Well done for your creativity, commitment, teamwork and contribution to this competition boys!

Chess Competition

Congratulations to Oliver Lodewyk, Amelia Pasikala and Anna Manuel for representing Gisint at the local chess competition held at Te Wananga o Aotearoa last Thursday. Amelia and Anna were 2nd and 3rd placed girls and Amelia received special acknowledgement from our librarian Mrs Cal Robinson for stepping up and thanking the organisers on behalf of our school. Mrs Robinson said the whole day was a pleasure and all of our children made her very proud. 

Students of the Week

Well done to Hayley and Nathania who received the Yr 7 and Yr 8 student of the week awards at assembly. Tau ke korua!

Above Left - Hayley Ahu from Room 24 with Claudia Shanks from Room 10 

Our Year 7 Students of the Week

Nathania Takitaki from Room 21 

 Student of the Week. 

Our Heroes

Well done to Nik Patumaka and Daniel Lee for putting out a fire at school in the weekend.  Our boys were walking their dog and came across a small fire outside the office. They stomped it out and then alerted their whanau who were able to send a fire engine to school to check that everything was safe. Mr Udall and all of the Turanganui teachers are very proud of you both. 

Ruma Rua Tekau Poetry

Room 20 have been completing some outstanding poetry based on their Maunga, Awa and Marae and they will be sharing and teaching the rest of our team how to construct these very special poems. Here are two awesome poems by Irie Eyles and Montana Te Kani-Williams entitled 'I do not have a dusty marae'. 

Speeches

Congratulations to all Turanganui Taonga who have said their speech to date. Every class will be finalising these over the next two days in preparation for our syndicate finals on Thursday morning at 9am in the hall. Room 22 started last week and every student who spoke did a wonderful job. We will announce our syndicate finalists on Tuesday and whanau are welcome to come into the hall on Thursday morning to listen. 

Taimana Teneti - Six Facts about me!

Jazmine Manuel with her very informative speech on  Money

Christopher Tangira giving a mihi (thanks and feedback of a positive and next step) to Taimana Teneti after his awesome speech

Tori Spooner giving her mihi to Andre Tangaroa after his very interesting speech on 'The Greatest Inventions'.

 Tamati Ingram and his awesome Pecha Kucha on Duck Hunting

Year 8 Rep Netball
Well done to Manaia Martin-Akuhata, Alyssa Herbert, Peyton Riri, Nathania Takitaki, Wai Rawiri and Manaia Haenga for representing our region in Whakatane over the weekend. 

Nga Uri a Maui Matariki Performance

Many thanks to Koka Jodi Ria and our friends from Nga Uri a Maui for coming in and sharing their beautiful Matariki performance with us. It was a beautiful start to our morning and a great way to build relationships with other schools around our region.

Action Week Deposits

Action Week deposits were due last Friday so if you did not manage to get yours in please let your childs teacher know when you are able to. There will be another action week meeting for your child in week 10. 

Get Oliver to Boston Donuts and Mufti Day

A friendly reminder that donut orders to support Oliver getting to Boston for surgery need to be in by this Tuesday. For only $2 get a delicious treat from the Sugar Kitchen and help Oliver in the process. There is also a school wide mufti day on Tuesday for a gold coin donation to help Oliver as well. Oliver and his brother James are much loved members of our syndicate and we want to help them and their whanau as much as we can. Donuts will be delivered on Thursday. Thank you all in advance.

Monday

Tech

ICAS Writing Exam

Tuesday

Tech

Donut Orders must be in

Mufti Day - Gold Coin donation

Mau Rakau and Poi Workshops

Wednesday

ICAS Spelling Exam

Thursday

Turanganui Speech Finals 9am in the hall

Donuts delivered

Friday

Kapa Haka

Kapa Haka Extension

Ultimate Frisbee Comp

Assembly

Orchestra and Music Lessons

Our latest Mathletics champs will be celebrated tomorrow...We have so many awesome mathletes working hard to make our team leaderboard and we have a couple of very exciting results to verify before publishing. Every Turanganui teacher has reported a huge improvement in basic facts knowledge which is fantastic as this is the foundation necessary to set us up for further learning. 

Please keep encouraging your children to access their Mathletics accounts at home as the students who are regularly doing so are thriving!

Have a wonderful week everyone and please remember to email or pop in if you have any queries.