Welcome Back

WOW it’s great to be back for 2012. A big welcome to everyone and to all of our new students and their families, great to have with us at Matapu School.
We have some really cool things happening this year. Firstly we have developed Matapu Achievement Progress Booklets (MAP Book) for the children. Each child will have their own MAP Booklet and will use this to track their Reading, Writing, Math’s and Key Competencies. We have developed the MAP Booklets to give the children more responsibility for their own learning. They will now know where they are with their learning journey and their next steps to learning with documented proof. These MAP Booklets will be used next year in our Parent/Teacher/Student interviews, as the children will be running these next year. I will shortly have copies of these booklets on our web page and the teachers will be showing you them during the Feb 28 Parent/teacher interviews.
Our topic studies this year are:
Term 1: Water Safety. Term 2: Native flora and fauna.
Term 3 Olympics and Production. Term 4: Individual investigations
The production will be held on the evenings of 26/27 September keep these dates free!!
Interviews will be held on 28th Feb and 25th July please feel free to come and talk to us at any other time.
Reports will be out on 29th Jun and 7th Dec
Subway orders on 22 Feb and 21 Mar
Year 7-8 Camp 14-17 Feb
School Athletics 1 Mar Interschool Athletics 8 Mar
School Swimming 15 Mar Interschool Swimming TBA
If any dates change we will inform asap.

A big welcome to Natarsha Hey who is the new front office receptionist. Natarsha is working from 8:15 –12:15 daily.

Please can we have the ALL of the children's clothes named. We have piles of lost property every term that we give to the Op shop. It must be costing you a fortune!!!
Swimming is a part of our curriculum the same as reading, writing and maths. It is school policy to swim every day and we expect the children to have their swimming gear everyday. Generally ,if they are too sick to swim they are too sick to come to school, there are a few exceptions to this . If you think that your child should not be swimming please ring the school and talk with me.

It’s great to be back and look forward to working with everyone on our children’s learning journeys.
Keep safe
Rick