Harold 'The Giraffe'

Last week we had Harold 'The Giraffe' from Taranaki Life Education Trust work with the children in his mobile classroom. Each room had 2 sessions with Harold covering: Making Choices, Friends, Happy & Healthy and All Together, (looking at our body & how it works). In return Harold left his mobile classroom to visit the junior rooms and caught up with the senior rooms, who were playing activities out on the back field.

Support Staff Day

Last Wednesday was Support Staff day and the staff and students of Matapu School held a special assembly to show their appreciation of the help they receive from them. Each class put on an item and presented the Support staff with a gift and card, which was signed by all staff and students.
Raewyn, Vicki, Janette & Liz appreciated this gesture.

Taranaki Regional Council Environmental Award

WOW this was so cool!!! Mr David Macleod and Mr Kevin Archer came to school today to present us with an environmental award. This was for the great work that the children have done in planting up the river banks and the environmental efforts at school. The presentation was a cool plaque that we will hang in pride of place around the school and a cheque that will go into our environmental fund.

Mr Macleod told us that there are over 300 creeks and rivers come off the mountain and that they have over 17000km of banks. That is just amazing.

French Online

Over the last 12 months we have been working with schools around New Zealand and the Ministry to develop Intermediate languages online. Mr C has started taking French language lessons using Adobe Connect and wikispaces with Pukeatua and Cambridge East School. We are hoping to develop this into other curriculum areas as time goes by. Using this media small and rural schools are able take advantage of each others strengths and resources and to provide languages or subjects that they would not otherwise have been able to.

If you are interested in this please contact me at principal@matapu.schoolzone.net.nz