Ata maarie e te whaanau, and welcome to our final week of Term 2!

Student Conferences
Today, and on Wednesday, we have our Student Conferences. This is a great opportunity to meet with your child's teacher to discuss their learning, and to see your child's classroom and have them show you some of the work they have been doing this year. Most parents have booked in but if you haven't there is still time to do so via the Skool Loop App under the Interviews tab. If you are unable to do that please get in touch with me and I can book you in. There are lots of absences today, so if this means you won't be coming to your booked conference please let me know asap.

School Photos and Reports
In other news, school photos finally arrived on Friday (thanks to Mr Hepi for his courier support that morning!), and your child's Mid-Year Report will be in their bag from Friday, if you haven't already seen it!

Matariki Breakfast and Assembly
Onto our other big event this week - Te parakuihi o Matariki - our Matariki breakfast! If you missed the email from Mr D last week, please read it (below) and complete the food order form if you will be joining us at 6.30am on Friday morning! Click here for the details Food order form Please complete this no later than 4pm Tuesday so we can order the kai!
Please only order what you'll eat so we avoid the wastage that occured last year. If you're able to help, there's room on the form to let us know. 

Before that we'll have hot food on Wednesday and Newsletter on Thursday, and finally, on Friday afternoon at 2pm we will gather for our end of term assembly. During this time we will also farewell Rod, who is retiring for good this time! Please join us if you are able to. 

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From: <Roto-o-Rangi_School@etap.co.nz>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2026 at 20:54
Subject: Parakuihi Matariki - Matariki breakfast
To: <BCC@etap.co.nz>

Ahiahi marie ngaa maatua. Good afternoon parents.
The last day of term is our parakuihi Matariki/Matariki breakfast for 2026.

Below are 2 links. One is for information about the Matariki day and the other is the link to the google form to order your kai/food. We will be purchasing the kai/food on the Wednesday afternoon, so need the form completed by lunchtime on Monday 29th so we can collate the numbers and purchase the amounts needed.
The reason for celebrating Matariki is about coming together to celebrate the year that has been, come together as a community and share some time together. It will be very helpful if we get loads of parents/ngaa maatua to help out with the breakfast - the cooking, the serving and the dishing up. Many hands make light work, so the more volunteers we get, the more everyone gets to enjoy the time. There is a space on the food ordering form to indicate where you can help, either on the day or contributing to the breakfast (like making some fry bread, or soup, etc).
It has always been a fun, c-o-l-d morning, so we would love to see as many of you as possible.

Information
Food order form.

Wayne Donnellon Principal Roto-o-Rangi School

Kia ora e te whaanau, 

We have chased up Masterpiece Photography this week and we should have your photos here tomorrow, ready to send home with mid-year reports!

We are aware that Masterpiece have experienced staff shortages, and appreciate how patient you have all been in waiting for your child's photos, as it has been a very long time!

Until this year, our teachers have used Class Dojo as a method of sharing your child's learning with you. They have replaced Dojo with a platform named Skool Books, so as they become more familiar with this platform you will receive notifications in your email inbox.  Some of you will have already received these, and may have been confused as Skool Books failed to send parents the 'Welcome' email!

The attached document explains how to log into Skool Books and see what your child's teacher has shared with you. It's a great way for them to show you what they are learning about in class. 

If you have any questions about this please speak to your child's teacher. 

Logging-Into-SkoolBooks.pdf

Kia ora e te whaanau! 

We hope you all had a great weekend of sport, activities, and some time for resting too! A huge WELL DONE to our two Velodrome cycling teams, who were absolutely amazing yesterday in the Battle of the Schools competition! Flying around the velodrome on bikes with no brakes! 3 laps in 1 minute 20-something seconds is just amazing, and we're proud of you all! You can check out the photos in an album in our Roto Parents group on FB, and watch the videos of each of their races in the album's comments. If you aren't on FB and would like to view them please get in touch.  

Here is what's on this week:

Monday - Milo Monday, and a huge thank you to the Thorne family for your donation of chocolate fish for today's milos, they were a huge hit!

Tuesday - Wishing our Yr6 team the best of luck in this afternoon's CAM Maths Competition!

Wednesday - Hot food, Kapa haka.

Thursday - Roto Speech Competition this evening! Everyone must arrive no later than 5.50pm for speeches to begin at 6pm sharp. All welcome. Congratulations to our nine finalists, 3 from each age group Year 1/2, Year 3/4 and Year 5/6. We know how difficult it was this year for the teachers to narrow it down to just 3 finalists per group. 

Friday - Assembly 2.10pm. All welcome to attend. Mid-Year Reports will be sent home with your children today. 

Next week is the final week of Term 2, and we have the following events coming up...

Student Conferences - Please make sure you have booked your student conferences for Monday or Wednesday afternoon/evening via Skool Loop, or through Roxy if you're struggling with the App. 

Te parakuihi o Matariki - Also, Friday morning will be our Matariki celebration as we come together for an early morning parakuihi, breakfast. We hope you can all join us! We'll be sending out a notice today.

Moorena e te whaanau, 

Thank you for sending your children wearing yellow for Harold the Giraffe and the Life Education Trust! We have collected $49 to send through to them. If you would like to contribute to this you can pay into the Roto-o-Rangi School account 02-0316-0126443-000 reference 'Harold' and we will add it to our total before transferring it to them next week.