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Meningococcal B Vaccination |
Wallet Found |
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Maraetai Rd School Entrance |
Student Absences |
Short Days |
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Dear Parents / Caregivers
Our School Council at its meeting last Thursday decided it wanted to show
the South Waikato District Council that the students of Tokoroa Intermediate
School supported the re-opening of the local picture theatre and were
willing to do their part by contributing.
On Friday students were given the opportunity to make a donation towards the
opening of the theatre.
Representatives of the School Council then visited the South Waikato
District Council office on Monday and gave the mayor a donation of $400.00
from the students of Tokoroa Intermediate School as well as a list of
students who contributed.
Hopefully the South Waikato District Council will realise that the picture
theatre is an amenity that has the support of not only many adults in the
area but the youth of the town.
Meningococcal B ImmunisationStudents received their second
meningococcal B vaccination today. Teachers monitored the students
during the day.
If your child is unwell tomorrow we request you keep them at home as we
don’t have sick bay facilities at school for a number of unwell students.
With the last meningococcal vaccination, the vast majority of students
showed no adverse reaction although a number did feel unwell and needed to
lie down and rest the following day.
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Wallet Found
A wallet was found in the bus bay off Maraetai Road. Inquiries should be
made to Tokoroa High School.
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School TargetsTargets are
now a charter requirement. Parents, at the consultation meetings in 2002 and
again last year, indicated they wanted Tokoroa Intermediate to focus on
numeracy and literacy. All our targets are in these areas.
The targets include oral language, vocabulary development, written language,
reading (finding information in books and reference sources) and computation
(multiplication and division).
Over the last two weeks and next week students will be carrying out tests
and assessment tasks to measure progress made and the areas we need to focus
our teaching on over the remainder of the year.
We not only aggregate results to measure the progress made over the whole
school in each target area but also have results for each child.
If you wish to see your child’s results and progress since the beginning of
the year, please ask your teacher for these at mid year interviews at the
end of this term.
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Dropping off and Collecting Students from the Maraetai Rd Entrance
With the large number of parents now using this entrance and waiting for
students on the hard court area outside the old Matarawa school there is the
potential for an accident as many of our students come to school and go home
via this entrance.
As well, Tokoroa High now use the old Matarawa site and their students go
backwards and forwards to the High School through the hard court area and
paths.
A request from both schools:
1. Drive slowly along the driveway and on the hard court area.
2. Look out for students at all times.
3. No cars are to park on or go across the fields.
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Short Days
If the lunchtime is shortened by half an hour because of wet weather, school
will finish at 2:40 p.m. If parents want to know whether or not we are
finishing early, please phone 886 0804 after 12:15 p.m.
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Student AbsencesIf your
child is away from school we would appreciate a phone call as we carry out
absence checks every day and use the service of Tokoroa Truancy Service.
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Warren Long
PRINCIPAL
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