WHAT'S ON TOP
Paremata School's Daily News
Term 1 - Week 5- 2026
Tuesday 3rd March
Ko te Tūrei tēnei rā
te tua toru õ Māehe
WHAKAPONO KIA KOE
Believe in Yourself
Attitude Determines Altitude
Keep working on your Movin' March goals and fill in your wall chart
Seaweek is New Zealand’s annual national week about the sea. It is coordinated by the Sir Peter Blake Marine Education and Recreation Centre (MERC) and includes a wide range of events, activities, competitions and opportunities for action.
Seaweek 2026 runs from Saturday 28th February to Sunday 8th March and is a collaborative, community-led initiative to bring all people together to celebrate the wonders of the ocean, Aotearoa's native sea creatures, the local marine environment and explore the ways our lives are connected to it.
Get Involved
Whether you’re an educator, student, researcher, or ocean enthusiast, there’s a place for you in Seaweek! Explore our resources, attend an event, organise an event, or share your own Seaweek story. Together, we can celebrate, learn, and take action to protect our ocean.
Our seas are our survival: The ocean makes life on Earth possible. It’s critical that people feel connected to the environment and are empowered with knowledge and skills to protect and restore it.
This year Seaweek will focus on Ocean Literacy Principle #6: The ocean and humans are inextricably interconnected. This theme compliments our Ngā Kōrero III Series and highlights the human connection to the ocean.
Seaweek builds ocean literacy by helping people recognise ways the ocean influences us, and we influence the ocean. We aim to inspire and empower people through increasing awareness of interconnections between ocean health, biodiversity, climate change, and wellbeing.
Patrols
Paper bins -
When you take your paper bins to be emptied, please leave your lid in your classroom.
Compost-
Felix, Finnley, Mitchell, Linkyn
There will be a pest trapping refresher at 9am on Friday in Rm 5. You must come to the meeting if you want to be on the trapping team roster. Remember, you have to be ok with dealing with dead rats and mice.
New Zealander of the Week...
FIELD & SENIOR FORT NOTICES
Please no running around corners - signs are back up!
A note from Matua Bryce:
Big Swing Timetable
Rāhina - Yr 3&4/ Kōwhai Team
Rātu - Yr 5&6/ Kauri Team
Rāapa -Yr 7&8/ Kahikatea Team
Rāpare -Yr 3&4/ Kōwhai Team
Rāmere - Yr 5&6/ Kauri Team
The Big Swing Timetable is in place from 8:20 a.m.
Duty Teachers
Morning Tea: Alice & Finella
TERM 1 IMPORTANT DATES:
Week 7:
Thursday- Multi Challenge day
Book Fair Garden : Catch the Reading Bug - Class pre-views
Book Fair Garden : Catch the Reading Bug opens :-
Thursday 19th March, 2:45 - 5:00pm, Friday 20th March, 2:45 - 4:00pm
Week 8:
Friday 27th March, Road Patrol Refresher in Room 15 at 9 am.
Book Fair Garden : Catch the Reading Bug opens :-
Week 9:
Paremata School Book Week - Monday 30th March - Thrsday 2nd April
Class Library Timetable
Monday: Rūma Tui (2), Rūma Kakariki (11), Rūma Kea (10)
Tuesday: Rūma Kākāpō (13), Rūma Kiwi (16)
Wednesday: Ruma Takahē (14), Rūma Miromiro (1a)
Thursday: Rūma Rūrū (3), Rūma Korimako (4) Rūma Pukeko (8)
Friday: Rūma Kererū (5), Rūma Pīwakawaka (6), Rūma Kōtuku (7)
| BOOK OF THE WEEK | ||
| Quest by Alice Ponder (JF - PON) Sylvalla escapes Avondale castle and the life of a princess, in search of the adventure she's always wanted. Once found, adventure bites back. Fortunately, she is not alone. Unfor  tunately, her new-found companions are less than heroic. Jonathan would rather make money. Dirk would rather live a long and happy life. And at 150, old Capro would rather stop gallivanting, and harangue unsuspecting wizardry students about his glory days over a nice cup of tea. Quest has everything: heroes, monsters, chases, escapes and a complete lack of true love. | ||
| PUKAPUKA PIKITIA (PICTURE BOOK) | ||
| I can do that too | Teckentrup, Britta | T |
| My supercharged ADHD brain | Vee, Dani | V |
| My path | Curll, Jana | C |
| The Kraken's rules for making friends | Jacobs, Brittany R. | J |
| What feelings do when no one's looking | Oziewicz, Tina | O |
| KORERO PAKI (FICTION) | ||
| Mermaid's diary | Riddell, Chris | RID |
| Real pigeons flap out | McDonald, Andrew | MCD |
| Toad surprise | Gleitzman, Morris | GLE |
| The tree that sang to me | Molloy, Serena | MOL |
| FICTION SERIES | ||
| Eloise the flame dragon | Mara, Maddy | Dragon Girls |
| Alien mission | Avatar, Ari | Diary of a Roblox Pro |
| Jail breakout | Avatar, Ari | Diary of a Roblox Pro |
| Surprise pets | Avatar, Eliana | Royal school for Roblox princesses |
| Thea Stilton and the search for the secret garden | Stilton, Thea | Thea Stilton |
| KORERO PONO (NON FICTION) | ||
| 24 hours in Antarctica | Prentice, Andy | 998 |
| 24 hours in space | Jones, Rob Lloyd | 629.4 |
| Guinness world records 2026 | Guinness World Records Ltd | 30.2 REF |
| The magic & mystery of space | Weider, Shoshana Z. | 520 |
| Splash : Donovan Bixley's coastal creatures of Aotearoa | Bixley, Donovan | 577.54 |