NEWSLETTER No. 2 February

Wednesday 17 February 2021

COVID update for Papatoetoe Intermediate School

Kia ora koutou

After the PMs announcement  at 4.30pm this afternoon we are looking forward to welcoming all our students and staff back at school tomorrow at the return to Alert Level 2.  Our health and safety plan is in place as it has been under every alert level, and you can be assured we’ll continue doing everything we can to keep children safe. To keep everyone safe please look for and follow instructions as your whanau returns to school.

Please confirm with your child’s teacher that they will be at school this week. If they are not returning, please let your child’s teacher know when they are expected to return and the reason you are keeping them home. To support students remaining at home, learning will continue online.

At home, please continue with good hand hygiene, cough and sneeze etiquette, appropriate physical distancing when out and about and keeping your child home if they are sick. Face coverings are another way we can help keep ourselves and others safe. Face coverings will be required on public transport at Alert Level 2 and above. This does not apply to any child who is under 12 years of age and does not apply to school transport (we have good systems in place to manage safety on school transport). Public Health officials have advised that children under the age of 6 should not wear face coverings. Children and young people do not need to wear face coverings at school. Other public health control measures are in place including children and staff staying home if they are sick, contact tracing, and hygiene requirements. If your child doesn’t need to wear a face covering but they want to, that’s fine.

Until Monday 22nd February students will only be able to order lunches and morning tea online on the Deejays website. Please send your child to school with their own drink bottle (water only) and their lunch

We’re continuing contact tracing by having QR code posters at our entrances, so please check in every time you come onsite. If you haven’t already downloaded the NZ COVID Tracer app the Ministry of Health’s website has information to help you do that. We’ll also keep a visitor register for anyone who doesn’t have the app, and also for anyone who comes onsite for a period of time. This will help us with contact tracing in the unlikely case it is needed. For more information about public health measures at Alert Level 2 you can visit the COVID-19 website, and if you have any questions about next week please get in touch.

See you soon!

Ngā mihi
Pauline Cornwell, Principal

What’s on this term ……..

Tuesday 23rd February
Youth Law presenting to students in teams this week – To be confirmed

Thursday 25th February
School Leaders out today – William Buck in the City – To be confirmed

Friday 26th  February
9.00 a.m. Whole school Assembly in the Gym – Room 13 hosting
Kapa Haka Noho Tahi – To be confirmed

Tuesday 2nd March
Boys Softball Team out today – To be confirmed

Tuesday 9th March
Girls Softball team out today – To be confirmed

Friday 12th March
9.00 a.m. Whole school Assembly on line -Room 5 hosting

Tuesday 16th March
Boys Softball Team out at Interzone – To be confirmed
Photolife in to do Class photos
2.30-6pm Reporting to parents – Getting to know the Learner Conferences – Year 7 / 8  (Those not on IEP meeting list) (Tues / Wed  / Thurs 2.30-6pm school finishes at 2pm)

Wednesday 17th March
Girls Softball Team out at Interzone
2.30-6pm Reporting to parents – Getting to know the Learner Conferences – Year 7 / 8  (Those not on IEP meeting list) (Tues / Wed  / Thurs 2.30-6pm school finishes at 2pm)

Thursday 18th March
2.30-6pm Reporting to parents – Getting to know the Learner Conferences – Year 7 / 8  (Those not on IEP meeting list) (Tues / Wed  / Thurs 2.30-6pm school finishes at 2pm)

Friday 19th  March
9.00 am. Whole School Assembly in the Gym – Room 16 hosting

Friday 26th March
9.00 a.m. Whole school Assembly on line – Room 6 hosting

Monday 29th March to Thursday 1st April
EOTC Week

Monday 29th March
6.00 p.m BoT Meeting in the Principal’s Office. All welcome [please let Barbara Ferregel, BoT Secretary – barbaraf@papint.school.nz know if you intend attending. This is to make sure extra seating is available]

Thursday 1st April to Tuesday 6th April
Easter break – school is closed Friday, Monday and Tuesday

Thursday 8th April
Interzone boys and girls Tag – To be confirmed

Friday 9th April
9.00 am. Whole School Assembly in the Gym – Room 2 hosting

Friday 16th  April
9.00 a.m. Whole school Assembly on line – Room 12 hosting
Final day of Term 1 – school closes at 3.00 p.m.

School Holidays
Monday 19th April to Friday 30th  April

Monday 3rd May
Term 2

SCHOOL EVENTS

BBQ PERFORMANCES – To be confirmed

Wednesday 17th March
5.00 p.m. Team Rehua – BBQ and Performance Night [5.00 p.m. BBQ and Meet the Teacher. 6.00 p.m. Performance starts]

Thursday 18th March
5.00 p.m. Team Puanga – BBQ and Performance Night [5.00 p.m. BBQ and Meet the Teacher. 6.00 p.m. Performance starts]

Please read the appropriate newsletter that will come home highlighting these evenings. Halai Chicken or beef sausages will also be available  for $1.00. We look forward to you all joining along with the start of the year celebrations.

POWHIRI – 4th February 2021

Thank you to Room 1  for this article in our Newsletter

On the 4th of February 2021 the Year 8’s welcomed the new Year 7’s with a Powhiri. We sang songs and the teachers led with their prayers and speeches.

At Papatoetoe Intermediate we have various subjects such as Food tech, Performing Arts, Music and more. Learning from these different subjects has been an amazing experience for all of us in the previous year as year 7’s. We are thankful and appreciative for what the hard working teachers have taught us throughout last year. It’s been fun, amusing and challenging at the same time. 

The second week of school we discussed the Treaty of Waitangi and its importance and awareness of this monumental event to New Zealand’s history.  In addition to this our class has created our own treaty that will resemble good qualities, good behaviour, perseverance and respect.

We hope the Year 7s are enjoying their time here at Papatoetoe Intermediate and we hope also that they will learn something important and valuable from their prospective teachers. We also hope the Year 8s will do well and excel in all their subjects and strive to achieve all that wasn’t achieved in the previous year.

We can achieve our goals by learning what we need to learn, reading everyday and listening to what the teacher has to tell us.

Our Neighbours

Please speak with your children regarding respecting our neighbours and their property.
–   Do not park in surrounding properties driveways
–   Our neighbours letterboxes are not to be used as ‘rubbish bins’ . Students please take your rubbish home or dispose of it in the correct manner.