Paremata School


Wahi Tautoko

This week the seniors at technology, showed incredible manaaki. They made a whole lot of delicious, healthy soup and tasty bread twists. Greyson and Oliver represented the group when they dropped the nutricious food off at the St. Vincent de Paul food bank on Mungavin Avenue. The ladies there were incredibly grateful and explained that it would be distributed to families this week and it would feed people around Porirua who would otherwise not have had anything to eat.

Shout out to Charlie who was demonstrating manaaki by carefully looking for beans, making sure they were bigger than her hand and kindly reminding others of the rules.


Ko te Rāapa tēnei rā te
tekau mā whā o Whiringa-ā-nuku


Wednesday 14th October

Term 4 Week 1 2026

This fun waiata helps us learn te reo and move our tinana at the same time. There are no lyrics provided, so whakarongo pīkari (listen attentively). Karawhiua! Give it heaps!


 

Nau mai, hoki mai ki te kura!

Welcome back to school! 


It is so disappointing that after having our rules about looking after our broad beans up on TPP last term, there are still many tamariki not demonstrating our values of manaaki and aroha. 

The broad beans are getting absolutely destroyed. Tamariki have been trampling the plants and even ripping them out of the ground. They have also been hitting and kicking each other and arguing over the beans. None of this is ok.

Remember:

  • Don't get in the garden
  • Beans need to be longer than your hand
  • Hold the bean stem in one hand before gently pulling the bean off with the other
  • Pods go back in the garden
  • Show manaaki to our plants and aroha to each other.

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Someone playing at the school on the weekend has lost their pounamu. It is green with a black cord, in the shape of a cross. He was on the field and in the bushes around the edge, so if you are playing there please keep your eyes peeled.

Two people in green jackets gently hold a kiwi bird outdoors. One person supports the bird’s body while the other holds its legs, showing the bird’s long beak and claws.


A pumpkin grower has set a new world record after producing a giant squash.

Ian Paton's pumpkin weighed 2,856.8lbs (1,295.8kg), has circumference of over 20ft (6m) and was officially confirmed by Guinness World Records.

Paton said growing the pumpkin named Bagheera, tending to it for up to six hours a day and providing about 130 gallons of water daily, had been "bloody hard work". It was the first time the 65-year-old, who has grown giant pumpkins with his twin brother Stuart for over 50 years, had entered the competition on his own.

Paton said the pumpkin would later be used as feed for cows.

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

Week 1: Emmy, Elizabeth, Chloe, Olivia

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: Mrs Wall and Whaea Lisa

Kai nui: Avalon and Jenny




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

Roster
This roster is very similar to last term, but there will be a new roster out soon which will include the new recruits. 

If you are unable to do your rostered duty, please find someone to replace you. If you can’t, please email Rachel rachelh@paremata.school.nz or pop into Room 13. 

Also, let me know if you are happy to be a "super sub" and do a few extra shifts.

Thanks for doing an awesome job to help our community!

Week 2: Wednesday 26 October - Shakeout

                                                       - Year 4-8 athletics

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 - w 



Click here for more details about the winners

                     

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

BOOK OF THE WEEK
Whenua : Māori Pūrākau of Aotearoa by Te Aho-White, Isobel Joy (Non Fiction -398.2)
This title is a winner in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children & Young Adults 2026.
From sleeping giants to battling mountains, fiery sisters to adventurous trees, dig into Whenua and discover eleven tales of how Aotearoa was formed beneath our feet. Whenua takes readers back in time with each purakau, exploring the ways in which Aotearoa's land was formed and introducing children to legendary Maori figures and atua. A beautifully illustrated collection that will delight the whole whanau, from award-winning illustrator Isobel Joy Te Aho-White.
PUKAPUKA PIKITIA (PICTURE BOOK)
The princess and the wizardDonaldson, JuliaD
My dog is as smelly as dirty socks : and other funny family portraitsPiven, HanochP
KORERO PAKI (FICTION)
Forest of forbidden magic *Morris, EveMOR
Detective Stanley and the mystery at the museum *Tunnicliffe, HannahTUN
SOPHISTICATED PICTURE BOOK
Left to nowhere *Chapman, IanC
GRAPHIC NOVEL
Folk remedy : the hidden world of the Yokai. Book 1 *Yoshioka, JemYOS
KORERO PONO (NON FICTION)
Omnibird : an avian investigator's handbook *Clarkson, Giselle598
Survive Aotearoa *Wall, Bronwen613.6
Hooked : learning to fish *Brown, Al799.1
*NZ Book award 26 Finalists



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