Paremata School

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Friday 28th August

Term 3 Week 6 2026

Another opportunity for us to practice our waiata hou, acknowledging the succession of Te Arikinui Kuini Ngā wai hono i te pō.

Me āwhina ahau i a koe?   

Can I help you?

Show manaaki and kindness by offering to help someone.

How well will your class do? The Student Council will collect the answers in the morning and announce the winner at assembly.

1. In what year was the first official "Daffodil Day" launched by the Canadian Cancer Society? 

2. In the Victorian "Language of Flowers, " giving a single daffodil was a sign of misfortune. What does giving a bunch symbolise? 

3. Daffodils contain galantamine, which is used in modern medicine to treat which disease? 

4. Which country first introduced Daffodil Day to the Southern Hemisphere in 1986? 

5. True or False: Squirrels usually avoid eating daffodil bulbs because they are poisonous. 6.Aside from the leek, the daffodil is the national emblem of which country?

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If you are being collected at the drive through, you need to be waiting quietly by the gate. It's not Ian's job to shout for you when your parent arrives because you are playing tag on the other side of the court.

If you are waiting by the clothing bin outside the back gate make sure you are waiting on the footpath well away from the road.

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La Tomatina is an annual world-famous festival held in the Spanish town of Buñol where participants throw overripe tomatoes at each other in a massive one-hour food fight. The tradition is said to have started spontaneously from a local street brawl in 1945.

Around 20,000 participants gather to hurl roughly 120 to 165 tonnes of overripe tomatoes. Tickets are required to cap attendance, and participants must squash tomatoes before throwing them to reduce the chance of injury.

After one hour, fire trucks hose down the streets and participants. The citric acid in the tomatoes actually leaves the town's stone streets looking very clean.

When you take your ipu pepa to be emptied, please leave your lid in your classroom.

Week 6: Emmy, Olivia, Niamh, Isla

Please collect the masks and gloves from Ursula after lunch on Thursday and return them when you have finished.

Please collect bait from Rm 5 after lunch and check and rebait traps. Remember to wash your hands afterwards.

You are welcome to check traps on other days and deal with any catches.

Kai iti: Mrs Moore and Jenny

Kai nui: Whaea Wendy and Alex

Tārere nui timetable is in place from 8.20am. No helmet, no wheels.

Week 7: Friday 4 September - Tarapekepeke hui  

                                                 - Disco

Click here for more details about the winners

To find out more about these latest new books to the library Click here

BOOK OF THE WEEK
Whenua : Māori Pūrākau of Aotearoa by Te Aho-White, Isobel Joy (Non Fiction -398.2) This title is a winner in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children & Young Adults 2026. ​From sleeping giants to battling mountains, fiery sisters to adventurous trees, dig into Whenua and discover eleven tales of how Aotearoa was formed beneath our feet. Whenua takes readers back in time with each purakau, exploring the ways in which Aotearoa's land was formed and introducing children to legendary Maori figures and atua. A beautifully illustrated collection that will delight the whole whanau, from award-winning illustrator Isobel Joy Te Aho-White.
PUKAPUKA PIKITIA (PICTURE BOOK)
The princess and the wizard	Donaldson, Julia	D
My dog is as smelly as dirty socks : and other funny family portraits	Piven, Hanoch	P
KORERO PAKI (FICTION)
Forest of forbidden magic *	Morris, Eve	MOR
Detective Stanley and the mystery at the museum *	Tunnicliffe, Hannah	TUN
SOPHISTICATED PICTURE BOOK
Left to nowhere *	Chapman, Ian	C
GRAPHIC NOVEL
Folk remedy : the hidden world of the Yokai. Book 1 *	Yoshioka, Jem	YOS
KORERO PONO (NON FICTION)
Omnibird : an avian investigator's handbook *	Clarkson, Giselle	598
Survive Aotearoa *	Wall, Bronwen	613.6
Hooked : learning to fish *	Brown, Al	799.1
*NZ Book award 26 Finalists