Paremata School

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Friday 22nd May

Term 2 Week 5 2026

Purea Nei is a gentle and reflective waiata often used for healing and clearing emotional burdens. It speaks about releasing pain, sorrow, and negativity, allowing us to be carried away and transformed. 

Singing this waiata helps create a sense of renewal and lightness, supporting people to feel uplifted, comforted, and ready to move forward with a clearer mind and spirit.

He rōreka koutou - You all have sweet voices

Use this kīwaha to compliment people you hear singing their hearts out.

Kaua e wareware:

• People waiting on the court after school, please do not touch the PE gear left outside the PE shed. This is not for you to play with - it is waiting to be put away.
• Term 2 and 3 - Please stay off the field before school to give it a chance to dry out and avoid mud and grass through the classrooms.
• Please don't pick flowers or shake trees to get flowers down. Let's leave them alone to look beautiful and provide food for the bees.

Thousands of previously unknown species have been discovered lurking and thriving in our oceans, as part of a scientific effort to catalogue and discover 100,000 new species.

While the collected eyes of humanity were fixed on Artemis II's journey to the stars in early April, scientists at The Ocean Census were focused on what lay beneath the waves.

2025 to 2026 was a bumper year for the organisation, with 1,121 marine species discovered including a ghost shark and the "life in a glass castle" symbiotic worm living on a submarine volcano and named for the intricate chambers of a glass sponge within which it makes its home. 

Pictured above is a newly discovered carnivorous tree sponge that hooks unsuspecting crustaceans drifting in the current before slowly devouring its prey.

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

Week 5: Felix, Finnley, Mitchell, Linkyn

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: Clare and Mrs Moore

Kai nui: Whaea Lisa and Juliet

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

Week 6: Thursday 28 May - Parumoana cross country

               Friday 29 May - Teacher only day

Week 7: Monday 1 June - King's Birthday no school

               Thursday 4 June - school photos

 

 

BOOK OF THE WEEK
We are all amazing by P Crumble (Picture Book - C) No matter who you are with all your unique talents and quirks, this book celebrates the ways in which we are all ... amazing.
PUKAPUKA PIKITIA (PICTURE BOOK)
The friendship book	Louise, Zanni	L
KORERO PAKI (FICTION)
Which way to the future	Cowell, Cressida	COW
FICTION SERIES
Legend of Chocolate Hills	Stilton, Geronimo	Geronimo Stilton
Partypooper	Kinney, Jeff	Diary of Wimpy Kid
KORERO PONO (NON FICTION)
Dinosaurs : awesome facts	Matthews, Rupert	567.9
Dragons : meet the legendary monsters of mythology	Stevenson, Cait	398.24
Football legends 2026 : stats, profiles, top players	Ballheimer, David	796.334
Kea : the low-down on NZ's inquisitive mountain parrot		598.7
Shark encyclopedia		597.3
GRAPHIC NOVELS
Dog Man. Big Jim believes	Pilkey, Dav	PIL
I survived the shark attacks of 1916	Ball, Georgia	TAR
The new girl	Andelfinger, Nicole	AND

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