Matau School

Dear Santa
Can I please have a yo-yo and some chocolates and some teddies.
From Victoria.

Dear Santa
I would like a little hot wheels car and a matchbox car.
From Aaron

For Xmas I would like some lollies, maybe some pens for next year, and if you make something better that I would like, that would be good.
See you end of the year.
By Adrian

Dear Santa

To Santa, for Christmas I would like...
The SIMS Vacation Island,
The SIMS Super Stars,
The SIMS Makin Magic,
Whale Rider – video,
Lord Of The Rings, The Fellowship Of The Ring – video,
My sister Kimberly would like a mouse for her Lap Top,
Hayley would like a Cell phone.
And here is an idea for New Zealand in four years time, - not that I’m glad England have it, but – the Webb Ellis Cup would be nice!!

Thank you Santa
From
Rachael Jupp

Matau School Newsletter.

Thanks to Mike Terril for spraying the school farm for free. The children really enjoyed watching the helicopter.

Observatory Visit.
This will now be on Wednesday December 10th with the observatory visit beginning at 8:00pm. The basic plan is to finish at lunchtime, meet at our accommodation, have tea, go ten pin bowling, then to the observatory. Back to school by lunchtime the next day.

Weblog.
This is up and running at http://matauschool.blogspot.com and all the newsletters and some of the children's writing can be viewed there. Next week we will publish "letters to Santa" which could be very useful. Our next step is to develop a full web page.

Hall Staging.
This has arrived and we set it up on Thursday. The children think it's neat as they are no longer scared of the stage moving around as they walk on it.

Pool Cover.
This has arrived and should be in operation from the weekend. We intend to set this up so that it is taken by the first swimmers and gets put back on at night. This should save a lot of wear and tear. The pool is open but it is a little cool at the moment.

EOY Concert.
The concert is on the evening of December 16th.
School will finish the following day and reopen on Monday January 26th.


Timetable
Nov. 28th Last day of manual.
Dec. 2nd Summer sports at Huiakama
9th BOT meeting.
10th Observatory visit.
16th Concert.
17th End of term.

Observatory Trip
This will be on Wednesday December 10th at 8:00pm.
Hopefully the programme will be
Tea in New PLymouth
Ten Pin Bowling
Observatory visit.

I like playing with my train,with Rueben, connect 4 with Rachael, my bike, my cars, with Mason, with Duplo, with Mum in the bath, noughts and crossess with Alan, in the snow, in the swimming pool, in the mud, in the hayshed, and rugby.
By Cameron

I like playing with Cameron's train,my cars, my toys my bike my friends, with Aaron, with Alice and Aaron playing lego, on the play ground with the other kids, Beetle, in the hayshed, at the museum, and ten pin bowling.
By Alan

Play times and lunch times at Matau School.
We play hide and go seek. I like art so I draw.
The others play on the computer or on the tramp.


By Victoria .



PLAYTIME
We play on the tramp and we play hiding-go-seek. We play on the computer when the weather is bad. I like playing scrag. It is a game where there is two teams and they just ran around with a ball tackling each other.
By =Aaron

I am Adrian from Matau School and next year I am going to Francis Douglas it is a boarding School.
I am not looking forward to boarding .I would rather stay at home .I am the oldest boy in our family and the second oldest child in our family I have 3 brothers and 2 sister .I am 13 we have lived in New Zealand for
4 and a half years .Before we were in Australia that is where I was born .Mum is from Switzerland and Dad is from England .I have never a computer until I come it Matau School or lived on a farm .It is a great experience.

I think pets’ day was mildly boring but it was all right. I ran a stall called nail driving. All up I think it would have made about $13. There were other stalls like balls in the bucket, guess the lollies in the jar, and gumboot throwing. Then people in our school lead calves and lambs. I didn’t but I’m still going to get a calf and I’m going to raise it for 18 months. then we’ll have it for dinner mmm!! Roast Janelle for dinner. Oh I forgot to tell you that’s what I’m going to call my calf.
By Mason

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