Paremata School

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Tuesday 1st September

Term 3 Week 7 2026

Purea Nei is a waiata about letting go of worries and finding peace and strength. It reminds us that when we support one another and stay connected to our culture, whānau, and community, we can move forward with hope and confidence. 

Nau mai ki te kōanga. 

Kia tipu ngā whakaaro, kia puāwai te ako, kia hari tātou i tēnei wā hou.   

Welcome to spring. 

May our ideas grow, our learning blossom, and may we enjoy this new season. 

A massive telescope that scientists have called a "discovery machine" lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on Monday from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. The telescope reached orbit about 10 minutes later.

The telescope is designed to seek out otherwise invisible and faint space objects, and is named after NASA's first chief astronomer, Nancy Grace Roman.

Over the next five years, the bus-size telescope's observations could reveal answers to mysteries such as dark energy and dark matter.

It could allow astronomers to spot previously unseen galaxies and exoplanets, worlds around stars beyond our solar system, as well rogue planets that don't orbit stars at all.

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

Week 7: Lola T, Karina, Eva, Laura

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: Mrs Britz and Whaea Sonia

Kai nui: Rachel and Juliet

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

Week 7: Friday 4 September - Tarapekepeke hui  

                                                 - Disco

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 wizard	Donaldson, Julia	D
My dog is as smelly as dirty socks : and other funny family portraits	Piven, Hanoch	P
KORERO PAKI (FICTION)
Forest of forbidden magic *	Morris, Eve	MOR
Detective Stanley and the mystery at the museum *	Tunnicliffe, Hannah	TUN
SOPHISTICATED PICTURE BOOK
Left to nowhere *	Chapman, Ian	C
GRAPHIC NOVEL
Folk remedy : the hidden world of the Yokai. Book 1 *	Yoshioka, Jem	YOS
KORERO PONO (NON FICTION)
Omnibird : an avian investigator's handbook *	Clarkson, Giselle	598
Survive Aotearoa *	Wall, Bronwen	613.6
Hooked : learning to fish *	Brown, Al	799.1
*NZ Book award 26 Finalists