Kia ora koutou, and welcome back to school for our final term of the year! 

What's On This Week....

HATS! This term it is a requirement for all students to wear a sunhat when they are outside. The hat needs to have a wide brim, so caps are not suitable unless they have a flap at the back to protect the neck. Mr D has given the children until Friday to remember to bring their sunhat to school. From next week, no hat = no play unless in designated sheltered areas. 

AG DAY: 
This Friday is of course our annual Agricultural Day! Emails have been sent to everyone who registered their child/ren and animal/s. If you have not received confirmation of your child's calf or lamb entry please get in touch asap as I will be printing the programme midweek. 

Pet Entries: If your child does not have a calf or lamb, you are invited to bring along a pet for the morning. No dogs allowed, as much as we love them. Click HERE or grab a form from the office if you would like to bring a different pet along to meet the children. 

A Fun Day Out! If your child is not competing you can still come along to enjoy the day, or send your child with some cash to purchase a sausage, juicie or some baking from the PTA. We will also have our Cow Pat Bingo competition, where you could win back half of the takings for guessing which square the cow will poop in! 

Help Needed: We need some help with the following tasks:

• One lamb marshall for the Junior competition... can you help? If you have a child in the competition you will be right there watching all the action!
• One person to help on the PTA stall.

Baking Needed! Are you able to donate baking for the PTA to sell on their stall? Please email pta@rotoorangi.school.nz to let them know if you can provide something for them to sell. All donations will be gratefully received!

Keeping up to date:
This term is 10 weeks long, with us finishing for the summer break on Wednesday 16th December at 3pm. It's going to be an action-packed one, so please make sure you are keeping up with our newsletters. You can view these:

• on the Skool Loop App
• on our website
• via paper copy every 2nd Thursday from this week.

Notices will usually be on all 3 platforms, as well as being emailed, and often posted to our Roto Parents facebook group too. In addition to this, I send out a 'What's On' email every Monday to give you a look at the week ahead. Skool Loop and our website have live versions of our school calendar too. 

Have a great week, and please get in touch about helping on Ag Day! :)

WORKING BEE on Saturday.

Moving the wood chips and removing the circular garden bed outside Room 1.

And the biggy - edging the new bike track.
A front-end loader or 2 would make this manageable; otherwise, it could be a huge task. Any farmers able to come down and move the dirt would be greatly appreciated. Start at 9.00 and have the track edged by lunchtime.
If front-end loaders aren't available, trailers to load the soil into would also be helpful. Loads of wheelbarrows and shovels required.

​Kia ora e te whaanau, 

We are in need of some support to enable our Ag Day run smoothly this year. Could you help with any of the following tasks? Often a grandparent, aunt or uncle will be keen to help too, so please ask them :)

• Checking in our baking and gardening entries at the library from 8.30am to 9.30am
• Marshalling our lamb rings - 2 marshalls needed - hands on help for our kids, supporting the judge, and if your child has a lamb you will be right there watching so you won't miss anything!
• Marshalling our calf ring - 1 person needed to support our judge and help our kids as the enter and exit the ring. Again, if your child has a calf, you will be there watching them and won't miss out!

Marshalling can be shared as a split shift if need be - it doesn't have to be one person for the whole event.

Please email me if you are able to help. office@rotoorangi.school.nz

Ngaa mihi

Roxy

#  7am  #

The Te oko Horoi Celebration morning starts with Paimarire karakia at 7am tomorrow (Thursday), not 7.30am which was in the newsletter and calendar. It is held down on the foreshore of Lake Te Ko Utu, on the Carter's Flat saide of the lake. Following the karakia and a few words from mana whenua,  there will be some shared kai.

Parents will need to get their child/ren to and from the celebration.

​Ahiahi maarie e te whaanau, 

It's our final week of what has been a busy Term 3, and it's not slowing up yet! 

Today there has been a buzz of excitement from the children, wanting to know who purchased their artwork on Friday night! Thank you to our PTA and Teachers for a successful event! 
Today was also the last Milo Monday of the year, and as our year 6s reminded us - their last one FOREVER!  Thank you to those who have taken time out to make milo for our children, they really do love it.

Please take care at pickup this afternoon - it's cone-city outside our school, with roadworks of some description going on!

Tuesday
- Performance by CMS Drama Llamas

Wednesday
- Final hot food day of the year
- PTA Pizza orders to be in by today with cash 
- Cambridge Interschools Cross Country (those who made it have been contacted)

Thursday
- Te Oko Horoi Celebration morning 7.30am Te Koo Utu
- Te Ohu Kaiaarahi o te Kapua Iti 9.30am - 2pm Ngaa Hau e Whaa
- Elgregoe the Magician 9.15am

Friday
- PTA Pizza lunch
- Assembly 2.10pm all welcome
- 3pm Term 3 ends.