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School Pool – TEMPORARY CLOSURE

Matapu School Pool is closed for a chemical clean from Sunday the 22nd at 5pm until Monday 23rd at 9pm. Everything will be back up and running for swimming again on Tuesday morning. Apologies for any inconvenience.

2022 Matamag

Kia ora,

With the last day of the school year now upon us, we thought it was timely to share our 2022 Matapu School Yearbook with you. It has been appropriately named ‘The Matamag’ in reference to a publication that used to circulate in the local community many years ago. Please see the history fact below for more information regarding the name. It is only available in a digital format. Please download the PDF document attached to this email/communication to flick through your copy now.

Reminders

2023 class stationery lists are available on our school website
We strongly encourage the use of BYOD in our senior classes (Rooms 1-3). Further information is also available on our school website
The school office will be open between 9 am – 12 pm on Thursday 26th and Friday 27th January 2023 for all of your admin needs

Matapu History Fact

The ‘Matamag’ – School principal Mr Charles Baunton first introduced the ‘Matamag’ in 1963 as a way of keeping the school and district in touch. At one stage it had a distribution of 150 copies.

Have a wonderful time over the summer holidays and a fantastic Christmas with your friends and whanau. Kia pai to hararei (have a wonderful holiday).

Ngå mihi nui

James Willson

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Water Day

Friday Pie Day

Pie Day will be on Wednesday this week due to our early finish time on Thursday.

All orders must be in by Tuesday afternoon.

Shared Lunch for the Whole School 

This is just a reminder that every class is having a shared lunch tomorrow at school.

As it is the last few days of the term, the whole school will be celebrating all of their hard work this year with a shared lunch at school on Monday 12th December. Could your child/ren please bring something to share for lunch with the rest of their class. If your child has any food allergies, please ensure that they have their own lunch to eat and know not to eat any of the shared food.

Matapu School Newsletter

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Matapu School Newsletter

Term 4, Week 8

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Sports Tees

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Sports Tees notice

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Library Books

Can all library books please be returned to school by the end of this week.

Invoices for outstanding returns will be sent home next week.

Matapu School Newsletter

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Matapu School Newsletter

Term 4, Week 7

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Our phone lines are currently down, if you need to contact the school please do so via our facebook page or admin@matapu.school.nz

Senior Prize Giving

Reminder: Our Senior Prize Giving is at 6pm tonight. Doors will be open from 5:45pm.

All students must be in school uniform and covered shoes.

Swimming

Just a reminder that our school pool is open to students tomorrow. Every class will have one session per day for the rest of the term. Please send your children to school with a swimming bag, togs, and towel.
Community pool keys are available to be purchased this week for $70, with key holders being able to use the school pool outside of school hours from Monday 5th December.

Matapu School Newsletter

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Matapu School Newsletter

Term 4, Week 6

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Matapu School Newsletter

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Matapu School Newsletter

Term 4, Week 5

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School Photos

Order codes for purchasing school photos have now been emailed out. Please check your spam/junk email if you have not received an email.

Contact the school office if you continue to not receive your child/rens code.

FREE DELIVERY EXPIRES Midnight Sunday 27th NOVEMBER, after this date you will be required to pay shipping fees to have orders sent to you directly.

Please note that images are yet to be approved by us, if you notice any issues please let us know

Early finish – Tuesday 15th November

Reminder: School is finishing at the earlier time of 12:15pm tomorrow Tuesday 15th November so that our staff can attend Teacher’s Union Meetings.

Please arrange for your child/ren to be picked up at this time, buses will also be running earlier with first bus leaving at 12:20pm.

Matapu School Newsletter

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Matapu School Newsletter

Term 4, Week 4

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Gumboot Friday

Reminder: Tomorrow we are supporting Gumboot Friday and their great cause of raising awareness for Mental Health Support and Counselling for children, come to school in mufti and your gumboots and bring a gold coin donation.

Matapu School Newsletter

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Matapu School Newsletter

Term 4, Week 3

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Cycle Skills

Tomorrow we have Roadsafe Taranaki coming in to run cycle skills sessions with our students. If your child has a suitable bike at home, can we please ask you to bring it to school for them to use tomorrow morning, along with a helmet and covered shoes. There will be an area fenced off in front of the admin area for the students to store their bikes during the day. Can you please arrange for the bike to be picked up after school tomorrow afternoon as we do not have the space to store the bikes over night.

Matapu Family Portrait Day

This is a great opportunity to get a family portrait at a great price and support the Matapu SPA at the same time.

More bookings are needed for the day to go ahead.

Click on the link below to make a booking.

Booking Link