WHAT'S ON TOP
Paremata School's Daily News
Term 1 - Week 8- 2026
Wednesday 25th March
Ko te Wenerei tēnei rā
te rua tekau ma rima õ Māehe
WHAKAPONO KIA KOE
Believe in Yourself
Attitude Determines Altitude
Keep working on your Movin' March goals and fill in your wall chart
It's great to see so many people walking, biking, and scootering to school.
Please remember to walk your bikes and scooters on school grounds before and after school. These are very busy times of day and this rules is to keep everyone safe.
Don't forget chocolate donations for the Easter Raffle. To the office please
Has anyone seen this hoodie? It is a size 10 so may have gone to a senior class but it belongs to Naomi in Rm 5.
Patrols
Things you will need to remember before going out on duty.
You must report for duty by 8:20 a.m. (mornings) and 2:50 p.m. (afternoons).
Uniforms (vests & jackets) must be zipped up at all times.
Follow the duty roster for your team to ensure everyone is contributing.
If you cannot make your duty day, it is your responsibility to find a replacement and inform Ian and Rachel before you are due for duty.
Under no circumstances are you to go out on road duty WITHOUT an adult.
Paper bins -
When you take your paper bins to be emptied, please leave your lid in your classroom
Compost-
Week 8: Jahzyrus, Finnley, Mitchell, Linkyn
Week 9: Kenudi, Braxton, Campbell, Tipene, Robbie M
Please collect bait from Rm 5 after lunch and check and rebait traps. Remember to wash your hands afterwards.
ICE BLOCKS FOR SALE - $1.00 – CASH ONLY
Due to some tamariki not eating their lunch on Friday no ice blocks can be purchased until after the 1.10pm lunch bell. All children must eat their lunch/ burger first before buying an ice block.
No online payments – cash only.
New Zealander of the Week...
FIELD & SENIOR FORT NOTICES
Please no running around corners - signs are back up! This includes when you are playing team tag. Be respectful of eachother!
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: Juliet & Ange
TERM 1 IMPORTANT DATES:
Week 8:
Thursday 26th March, Road Patrol Refresher in Room 15 at 9 am.
Book Fair Garden : Catch the Reading Bug open Monday 23rd - Friday 27th March
Week 9:
Paremata School Book Week - Monday 30th March - Thursday 2nd April
- Book Quiz every morn, entries to Emma C by 10:30am
- Class window display
Author Visit - Fifi Colston Monday 30th March, 9:30-12:30
Book Character Parade - Thursday 2nd April, 9:00am Netball Courts
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)
🌼🐞 The Book Fair Garden is NOW OPEN! 🐞🌼
Catch the Reading Bug and hop into our Reading Patch—a buzzing garden full of stories waiting to bloom!
Wander along our garden path and leaf through amazing books. You might crawl into a silly story that makes you giggle like a grasshopper, or get tangled in a thrilling adventure that spins a web of suspense!
Our shelves are swarming with stories for every busy bookworm:
🐛 Funny tales
🕷️ Spine-tingling adventures
🦋 Magical mysteries
🐝 Awesome facts and comics
Bring your family along and explore our hive of page-turning treasures. Dig up new favourites, branch out with something different, and share the stories you love.
The Scholastic Book Fair is also a wonderful opportunity to support our school while growing home libraries. Every purchase helps earn rewards that go toward adding new books to our school library
🌱 Let your imagination sprout
🌸 Watch your love of reading grow
🐞 And let the Reading Bug bite!
Come and bug out with books, get caught in a great story, and grow your reading garden!
✨ See you in the Reading Patch! ✨
From Emma the Book Bug 🐞
Monday 30th March – Thursday 2nd April
Leaves are falling, and it’s the perfect time to catch the reading bug! Our school is excited to celebrate our annual Book Week—a week full of fun, learning, and adventures through stories.
Throughout the week, students will be able to test their knowledge with daily quizzes, guess how many bugs are in the jar, showcase their creativity in the window display competition, and take part in the magical book character parade, where favourite characters leap from the page and come to life.
Whether you’re a budding bookworm or a seasoned story explorer, there’s something for everyone. Book Week encourages imagination, creativity, and the joy of reading—helping students develop a love of books that can last a lifetime.
We are also lucky enough to have a visit by Fifi Colston, on Monday 30th March, to talk to the whole school. Fifi Colston has had a varied career as writer, illustrator, poet, wearable arts designer, and costume props maker for the film & television industry. She is an award-winning junior-fiction novelist and illustrator of more than 30 children’s books, Her visit is provided free by the New Zealand Book Council with the support of Read NZ programmes.
| FIFI COLSTON |
For 30 years, she has designed amazing outfits for the World of Wearable Arts show, and she has won lots of prizes for her creative work. She studied art and design, especially drawing, and has illustrated many picture books for well-known New Zealand writers, like Pearl in a Whirl, Marvellous Marvin, and the Little Yellow Digger stories. Later, she learned even more about writing and became an author too! She writes fun stories for children and interesting true books. In 2019, she was chosen as a special Children’s Writer in Residence at Otago University. Some of her books, like Janie Olive: A Recipe for Disaster! and Glory, were recognised as top junior fiction stories. Her books about costumes, like Wearable Wonders and Ghoulish Getups, have also won awards. She has illustrated lots of other award-winning books as well! When she’s not busy creating, she enjoys visiting schools and community groups, where she helps young artists and writers learn how to be creative and share their ideas. Pearl in a whirl : how one fluffy cat braved the floods by Catherine Robertson and illustrated by Fifi Colston The true story of one fluffy cat's wild, windy week. A tale of chaos and courage, ruin and rescue, as Pearl's home - like s o many others - was ravaged by Cyclone Gabrielle. Pearl loved doing all her favourite things- swatting the dog, slurping tap water, hiding in bags, and curling up to sleep. But one Monday night, with a whoosh and a whirl, her comfortable life was turned upside-down ... Pearl's family home in Puketapu, in Hawke's Bay, was destroyed by Cyclone Gabrielle and it took a week for her to be reunited with her family, as the community came together in the aftermath of one of New Zealand's worst weather events. |
She has had a varied career as writer, illustrator, poet, wearable arts designer, and costume props maker for the film & television industry. She
Masher by Fifi Colston
What would you do if you accidentally created a barking-mad glove puppet, with sharp teeth, a fierce attitude and an unpredictable mouth?
A boy and a fast-talking terrier glove puppet form a hilarious double act in this warm and funny illustrated novel for readers eight years and older. Twelve-year-old Freddie Foxworthy just wants to do arts and crafts. He finds them a lot easier to deal with than his peers, and far more rewarding. His latest project is to create the perfect glove puppet from papier-mache. But when ashes from his metalhead neighbour’s deceased bull terrier get into the mix, he finds he has accidentally made a growling puppet with an unpredictable mouth! Freddie has an overload of mysteries to solve – who is to blame for the late Masher’s death? Was Masher responsible for the disappearance of a neighbourhood cat? And, most of all, is Masher actually for real? Surely Freddie couldn’t be causing all this chaos himself?