Paremata School

Friday 23rd October

Term 4 Week 1 2026

This is our waiata hou for term 4. It is a call for unity, kinship and whakapapa among Ngati Toa descendents.

E poho kererū ana mātou i a koe.

We're all so proud of you.

Show tautoko with this kīwaha. It literally translates as saying that we all have the puffed up chests of a kererū thanks to you.

The cake and toy Sale is happening again on the 21st of November

As part of the cake and toy sale, please remember to bring in chocolate bars for the Chocolate Raffle and have a sort through of your old toys.

NASA has released a striking image of dawn on the Martian surface taken by its Curiosity rover, showing sunlight bathing jagged crags formed billions of years ago.

Curiosity, which is about the size of a Mini Cooper, landed in 2012 in Gale Crater near the Martian equator, and since 2014 has been climbing Mount Sharp, a 5 kilometre-tall mountain rising from the crater floor.

The image was taken by the six-wheeled rover's Mastcam camera about an hour after the sun rose above a landscape featuring wind-carved cliffs in the distance.

"The bright craggy peaks in the distance are a rock layer that is quite different in appearance from all the layers the rover has driven through so far," said planetary scientist Ashwin Vasavada of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.

"We think it once was wind-blown sediment, maybe sand or maybe even ash that blew into the crater from nearby volcanic activity.

"After the sediment hardened into rock, eons of wind carved up the rock layer into ridges called yardangs," the Curiosity project scientist said.

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

Week 2:  Niamh, Brooke, Isla G, Elizabeth

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.

The checking and rebaiting wasn't happening towards the end of last term. 

Please make sure you take you turn, or let me know if you are not keen to be part of the team any more.

Kai iti: Alex and Whaea Lisa

Kai nui: Mrs Moore and Jacqui

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

Here is the new road patrol roster for the rest of the year. You will notice that all the experienced patrollers are buddied up with 2 new trainees. The idea is that they will get some on the job experience ready to go for it in 2027.

Kids need to be at school ready to go at 8:25 and at the end of the day they don't need to report for duty til 2:55pm. 

Week 5: Tuesday 10 November - Parumoana Athletics

Week 6: Saturday 21 November - Cake and toy sale

Week 7: Thursday 26 November - Run Jump Throw

Week 8: Friday 4th December - Parumoana speech competition

Week 9: Year 7/8 EOTC week

Week 10: Tuesday 15 December - water fight

                 Wednesday 16 December - school finishes at 1pm

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

BOOK OF THE WEEK
Mother of the nation : Whina Cooper and the long walk for justice by David Hill Non Fiction (993.03) Meet Dame Whina Cooper, the kuia who championed Māori rights and women's rights and led a famous hīkoi for positive change. The true story of one of Aotearoa New Zealand's most exceptional leaders and a courageous wahine toa, who united thousands of Māori and Pākehā to address injustices, and whose mana and determination continue to inspire us today.
PUKAPUKA PIKITIA (PICTURE BOOK)
Kupe & the great octopus of Muturangi	Tait, Mat	T
The boy who found his voice	Gordon, Tyler	G
All about brains : a book about people	Bell, Lake	B
KORERO PAKI (FICTION)
The seriously epic holiday of Lottie Brooks	Kirby, Katie	KIR
The raven's eye rebellion	Mabey, Claire	MAB
The mushroom in the sky	French, Jackie	FRE
KORERO PONO (NON FICTION)
Food for all : what we eat and where it comes from	Hoffman, Mary	394.12
Whales	Maclaine, James	599.5
Football jokes rule	Mugford, Simon	793.7
The world's best book of riddles	Davies, Bryony	793.73
The junior football encyclopedia	Stead, Emily	796.334
World of racing : the ultimate guide to motorsports around the globe!	Rice, Alex	796.72
Formula 1 greatest moments	Gifford, Clive	796.72
Niue	Nemaia, Mele	996.2