Matau School

Matau School Newsletter

AGM Wednesday June 1st – followed by ordinary meeting.


Firstly I must apologise for not sending out a newsletter for such a long time. So what ‘s happening at the school? Well for administration we are basically reviewing everything over the next two years. This review focuses on what we think is important and we wont be wasting any time on things we regard as peripheral.


In the class the main focus has been on maths. Currently New Zealand schools are doing a complete overhaul of the maths programme. The first stage involved the junior school. This year it spreads into the seniors and then to the high schools. The optimistic side thinks it’s a great move. The pessimist in me says I’ll believe it when I see it. We are continuing to develop our ICT and we now have the latest I-Mac and broadband. The kids weblogs have been great and our next step is to build an interactive website. This should be running by the end of this term. We have had the current website for a year and there has been 5 000 visitors to the site. It’s a bit clunky but it’s certainly done the job.
The address is www.matauschool.co.nz

Feijoas for sale – contact Purangi Orchards.

Upcoming Events
May 12th School photos – but open to others – contact the school.
16th Jones Cup Practice Day – Marco
20th Vaccinations at Toko School.
26th – 27th Life Education at Huiakama.
30th Jones Cup at Toko.

June 6th Queens Birthday.
8th – 10th Rural Principals Conference in Wellington.
20th – 23rd ERO audit.

July 1st Second vaccination jab at Toko
8th End of term two.Reports and progress books go out.

Cheers
Richard