Epuni Primary School
2018
Monday 30th July Sharing our news with the School Community
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Looking Ahead…
Tuesday mornings
9am-11am Gardening (if fine)
Each class has 1/2 hour in the
Unity Garden. Everyone is
welcome to join us.
Thursday 2nd August
Room 3 World of Waste Trip
Friday 3rd August
9.10am Whānau Time—
Celebration of Learning hosted
by Room 3
Friday 10th August
9.10am Whānau Time—Sharing
Time. Led by Student Leaders
Monday 3rd September
School Wide Photos
Saturday 8th September
Working Bee
9-2pm
Term 3 Inquiry Topic—
Kaitiakitanga
We are responsible guardians
of our environment. The
focus will be on sustainability
and how we reduce our
rubbish footprint.
Values focus this term—
Tūtika Responsibility
Namaste, Hola, Kia Orana, Bonjour, Talofa Lava,
Konnichi wa and Kia Ora
Welcome back to Term 3. It has been great to see how quickly
students have returned from holiday refreshed and keen to start
learning. This term there are many exciting activities planned, with our student
inquiry based around the big idea of Kaitaiakitanga: Are we responsible
guardians of our environment? Students will be investigating rubbish and
sustainability as part of the inquiry.
Our school is part of a Kāhui Ako - Community of Learning, which means the
school is working alongside other schools looking at learning pathways for
children and young people. Kāhui Ako provide opportunities to build knowledge
and expertise, and stimulate improvement and innovation. They also provide an
important opportunity to improve teaching and learning through collaboration.
We are part of the Naenae Kāhui Ako which is working alongside the Taita/
Stokes Valley Kāhui Ako. Both groups are working as one, as they have similar
strengths and challenges and it enables the funding that is received to go further
to provide greater resources for all schools involved.
The Naenae Kāhui Ako | Communities of Learning is made up of ten
schools: Naenae College, Naenae Intermediate, Naenae Primary School,
Belmont School, Dyer Street School, Epuni School, Kimi Ora School, St
Bernadette’s School, Avalon Primary School and Rata Street School.
The Taita/Stokes Valley Kāhui Ako | Communities of Learning is made up of
seven schools: Taita College, Taita Central School, St Michael’s School,
Pomare School, Tui Glen School, Koraunui School and Avalon Intermediate.
The Kāhui Ako’s Vision:
‘To be a strong, collaborative learning community which embraces our
cultural diversity and maximises the opportunities for all family, whānau,
students and teachers to meet their potential and enjoy success.’
The Kāhui Ako leaders meet regularly and appointments are being made for
Across School Teachers and Within School Teachers. This is an exciting
opportunity for us to work alongside other schools to improve student learning.
Lastly I would just like to say how amazing our Polyfest Kapa Haka Performance
group were. Although we were one of the smaller schools to participate, our
students sung with great passion and voice and I was so proud of them all. A
huge thank you to Matua Whaitiri and Karen Scoon who led the group of
students. Thank you also to Eli Maiava and Common Unity who helped support
us with the costumes. They looked amazing!
Nga Mihi Nui
Janet Evans
Principal
 Rm6 – Whaea Karen Kahikatea Rm5 – Mrs Hall
We do all sorts of different writing activities in Rimu
Kahikatea In Rimu we are learning about two dimensional shapes. We
looked at some pieces of art where the artists used geometric
shapes like squares, triangles, rectangles and circles. Here we
are making our own butterfly pictures using shapes. Whaea
Sherilyn put a picture of the TV screen so we could make sure
our shapes are in the right places.

Rm3 – Ms Dunseath & Mrs Stewart

Tawhairauiki
Tuakana teina, working with Whaea Karen’s class to
make found posters

Rm1 – Whaea Ancey Kowhai

"Some of the amazing readers in
Kōwhai Class doing buddy reading Kia ora families, For those who
during our reading program". don't know me, my name is
Rachel.

On Tuesday mornings I get to

spend time with your children in
the mara kai at the school,
showing them how to grow fruit
and vegetables which get
turned into yummy nutritious
school lunches three times a
week. Of course- it’s about SO much more than
gardening and healthy eating- lots of skills are
learned along the way. There's not much to re-
port in this edition- we have been rained off for
the last 3 weeks! Hopefully the next month will
be a bit drier for us. Have a great fortnight