Paremata School

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tua whā o Haratua

Monday 4th May

Term 2 Week 3 2026

This waiata is sung by Ngati Toa Rangatira to welcome visitors from all places and cultures to Porirua. 

Kua puta a iho  - you have all succeeded!

Use this kīwaha to praise people who have done really well.

Kaua e wareware:

• Please remember to walk your bikes and scooters on school grounds before and after school. These are very busy times of day and this rule is to keep everyone safe.
• Please no running around corners. This includes when you are playing team tag.
• You cannot use the Mobil Station after school unless you are accompanied by a parent, grandparent or college age brother or sister.
• The deck outside the Junior Classrooms is for Year 0-2 only to play on during morning tea and lunchtime.

The bluebuck, an antelope which had a prized silvery-slate blue coat and distinctive horns which disappeared from Africa in 1800, is to be brought back from extinction.

It will be brought back to life by US company Colossal Biosciences.

To bring back the bluebuck, scientists decoded its genetic make-up from a specimen at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, and are identifying DNA that makes it different from antelopes today – such as its small body size, bluish-grey coat, and characteristic white facial pattern. The team will then create an embryo and transfer it into a roan antelope mother. The mother should then give birth to a recreated bluebuck.

Colossal Biosciences also has plans to “de-extinct” the woolly mammoth, dodo, thylacine and moa.

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

Week 3: Havish, Will, Temes, Boston

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. 

If you have not yet been taught how to rebait the new black rat traps, make sure you check with Clare before going out.

Kai iti: Avalon and Jacqui

Kai nui: Emma and Mrs Britz

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

Week 3: Tuesday 5 May - school photos

Week 4: Friday 15 May - pink shirt day

Week 5: Thursday 21 May - cross country