Tawatawa News

13 December 2024

He mihi mahana ki a koutou katoa
Bonjour à toutes nos familles

Transition times next week

Next week on Monday and Tuesday our children who are moving spaces will spend time with their new teachers in their new spaces. This gives them the chance to hang out with their teacher for next year.  Year 6s will have James Ford as their kaitiaki teacher and he is currently in Auckland so he will be zooming in online for this one! 

Water fight Monday!

As one of our PB4L rewards, we have our end of year water fight on Monday afternoon. Everyone gets pretty wet so your child should bring togs, towels and something to soak their friends (and enemies, if they have them). It starts at 2pm on the field. Kōtare have the option to stay up the top and just splash each other, rather than joining in with the big kids on the field. 

Artist in Residence next year

We are lucky to have Steve Mushin working with us next year. Steve will run a series of his full-day Ultrawild Design Lab workshops with the Year 5 - 8 students. These are high-energy, full-day design workshops where students learn rapid design sketching, 3D drawing, model making to a set scale (1:100) in cardboard, and idea pitching, as they develop their own ultra wild designs.

Steve will challenge each student to design a futuristic ultra wild building for a future Wellington. Each student will create a model to the same scale (so that all models can be brought together to create a city at the end). As part of this project we hope to to involve parents and other local community experts (for example engineers and scientists from Wellington's Predator Free projects) and finish with a grand exhibition.  Something to look forward to! 

Farewell to our Italian interns

Last week we farewelled our lovely Italian interns, Sara and Lorenza, who had been working in Tūī and Kōtare. The children really enjoyed getting to know these two Italian student teachers! 

Sports teams for Term 1 2025 - reminder to sign up

We’d like to get sports teams sorted early for Term 1 next year so please sign your children up below:

Futsal all ages - sign up for Term 1 2025

Netball Y1-4 - sign up for Term 1 2025

Upcoming Events

• 16 December - Water Fight! 

• 17 December - Year 8 Leavers’ Celebration and Potluck/BBQ

• 18 December - Junior Final Assembly (9.15) and Senior Final Assembly (2.15)

• 19 December - Last Day of School - 1pm finish

• 19 December - Year 6 Celebration at VBC
  
  

• 3 February 2025 - First Day of School

• 5 February 2025 - School Picnic - Meet the Teachers - 5 - 7pm

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Sarah Patterson
  Principal/Tumuaki
  Te Kura o Tawatawa - Ridgway School