Tawhiti School

Thank you to those who have expressed an interest in enrolling your child at Tawhiti in 2025. We have determined that for 2025 there is likely to be 30 out-of-zone places at new entrant level.

If you wish to enrol your child and secure one of these spaces, please head to our school website (www.tawhiti.school.nz). Applications for 2025 will close on Friday 20th September. All 'out of zone' parents and whānau will be notified on Monday 23rd September to confirm whether your child has a space next year.

Any unfilled places or additional places that become available during 2025 will be advertised midway through the preceding term.

We have tickets left for our day shows - contact Emma in the office if you would like a ticket!

Below are our notices for the week.

We still have tickets available to our day performances of Shrek - if you would like to come along or even see a second show, please see Emma in the office.

Our notices for this week...

KIA TŪPATO - Be careful!

Tonight one of our tamariki was nearly hit by a car that failed to stop at the pedestrian crossing on Tawhiti Road. A black Mazda was travelling from town, didn't stop and as a result one of our boys has injuries on his face and body from getting out of the way.

Please remember to keep an eye out for kids crossing, slow down around schools and look out for our precious wee people!

We will also do our part through road crossing safety lessons with our children.

Safe communities together.

Happy Sunday!

Here are our reminders for the week.

Our latest newsletter is also now available - click here: https://tawhiti.school.nz/news/panui-term-3-week-3-2024.

This one contains lots of important information so give it a read when you have a few spare secs :)

Kia pai tō ra!

Sarah

EPro8 is an engineering and problem solving race and its game on in the hall today…

Welcome back to Term 3.
Our latest newsletter is now available online. We look forward to seeing everyone on Monday!
https://tawhiti.school.nz/news/panui-term-3-welcome-back

And just like that we are heading towards the end of Term 2. Attached are the notices for this week.

We also invite you to have your say on our proposed enrolment scheme (zone) - this can be done via the website link below:
https://consultation.education.govt.nz/education/enrolment-scheme-at-tawhiti-school-hawera
All submissions are confidential and will be considered as part of the final report. Submissions close 19 July 2024.

There are a few schools in town that have had to close due to having no water. At this stage, we still have water (at a low pressure) and the toilets are flushing. Therefore we are all good here! We will message you if this changes and we require you to collect your children.

Our latest newsletter is now available online...
https://tawhiti.school.nz/news/panui-term-2-week-6-2024

Please find attached our reminders for this week. A full school newsletter will be out later this week.

Thanks to everyone who supported our disco on Friday! A fabulous community effort to tautoko Axton and his whānau.

Reminders for this week are attached below.
Enjoy the upcoming long weekend.
Sarah

CHANGE OF VENUE AND TIMES FOR DISCO
SPREAD THE WORD!

Due to our fundraising disco clashing with rugby games this Friday, Southern Rugby Club Hawera have kindly sponsored the Camberwell Lounge at the Hub for us to host the disco. Hopefully this means many of our children in the Hawera community can play rugby AND support the disco.
Also a huge thanks to Hub Catering for allowing us to bring food onsite to fundraise for this worthy cause.

Just a reminder we have our disco next Friday!
We are grateful to the number of people who have contacted us wishing to make a donation. These donations can be put into our school account and we will pass them on...
Tawhiti School BOT 15-3950-0412950-00 (reference:Axton)

Our latest newsletter is now available on our website - https://tawhiti.school.nz/news/panui-term-2-week-2

Attached are the reminders for next week.

Stay warm out there today!

We had our first interschool sports matches today. Thanks Turuturu for the friendly competition- always a pleasure and look forward to our next matches at Bhana Cup!

****FUNDRAISER FOR A GREAT CAUSE****
One of our little guys, Axton, is having a real tough time! Let's get in behind him and his whānau.

Axton has been diagnosed with Aplasitc Anemia. He has already tried ATG (Anti-thymocyte globulin) treatment and sadly this has been ineffective. He has now been in hospital for a total of 124 days and sadly still counting. The next step is to undergo chemotherapy to prepare for a bone marrow transplant.

All funds raised from this disco will be given to Axton and his family. Spread the word and see you there...

Hangi is ready so can be collected between now and 5pm 😊

Just a reminder that we have road works around the school at present.
If possible, please drop children off on Tawhiti Road and get them to walk to school down Galt Street. For safety reasons the less traffic around school the better.

If you absolutely need to drop children off right outside school, please come down Galt street, around Tannahill street.

EASTER TUESDAY 🐰 A friendly reminder that Tuesday, 2 April 2024 is a school holiday.

Sometimes when Easter falls later in April, this holiday gets wrapped into the term break. But when it doesn't, Easter Tuesday is still a day off.

WHAT ABOUT EARLY LEARNING?
Terms and holidays are set for state schools under the Education (When State Schools Must Be Open) Regulations 2022. While many early childhood services follow school terms and holidays, some choose to operate.

Check with your provider if you're unsure. It's up to each early learning service to decide if they will operate on Easter Tuesday.

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/4arOVzw