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Dear Parents / Caregivers A special welcome to all parents / guardians who have
children for the first time at Tokoroa Intermediate. We hope your
children enjoy their time with us and make good progress. We also hope
they make the most of the opportunities available in sport, cultural
activities and leadership. To the remainder of parents / guardians,
welcome back into the Tokoroa Intermediate School Community. SCHOOL STATIONERY The school is using School Supplies to provide stationery, which is extremely competitively priced. The “Special Prices” are for February only. We hope all parents will support the school by getting stationery from us as all profits come back to the school and your children. Students will be given a stationery list today. If stationery is not purchased at school the $5.00 paper fee must still be paid. This is to cover paper and photocopying the children use in the classroom. SCHOOL FEES $50.00 per child or $90.00 if you have two students attending Tokoroa Intermediate. This money is required to run our present programmes. The majority of school fees go to the Technology-Arts subjects as money is not asked for at the completion of each project and items of food do not need to be brought to school for the Food Technology Programme. If school fees are paid in Term 1, there is a $5.00 discount. This means the fees will be $45.00 or $80.00 if you have two students attending Tokoroa Intermediate School. When stationery is purchased from school, or fees paid, children will be issued with a receipt on the day. The school has a facility for parents to make automatic payments from their bank to the school. This facility is now being used by an increasing number of parents as a more convenient way of making school payments. For further enquiries please contact the school office between 8:30a.m. and 3:00p.m. STAFFING FOR 2005 We welcome four new staff – Miss Rachal Toy, Mrs Kirstin Smith and Mr Shaun Barton in Year 7 and Mr Jeffrey Gibson in Year 8. Mr Shaun Barton will be releasing Miss Toy and Mrs Smith for one day a week and Miss Potoru on one afternoon a week.
| SHORT DAYS If the lunchtime is shortened by half an hour because of wet weather, school will finish at 2:40p.m. If parents want to know whether or not we are finishing early, please phone 886 0804 after 12:15p.m. CELLPHONES If students need to bring cellphones to school they must hand them into the office when they arrive at school and collect them before going home. The cellphones must also have the student’s name on them. If there are extremely important messages that parents need to get to students during the school day, the office will deliver them to students. However, it is not possible to deliver general messages around the school to students because of the time involved. Messages can be put across the intercom system but it then becomes the student’s responsibility to listen to them and act on them. SWIMMING SPORTS The school swimming sports will be held on Wednesday 16th February at the South Waikato Indoor Pools between 9:00a.m. and 3:00p.m. Parents who wish to help with this event as timers or lane marshalls, please contact Mr Hopkinson at the school - 886 7687. MEET THE TEACHER EVENING Tuesday 15th February at 7:30p.m. in the Hall. This meeting will provide the opportunity for parents to meet their child’s teacher. The Education Outside the Classroom Programme for both Year 7 and 8 will be explained and details available for parents. The “Targets” which are a legal requirement for all schools will be briefly explained. During the first week, Year 7 parents and parents of newly enrolled Year 8 students will be requested to fill in a school enrolment form for our school records. Although some parents provided us with this information last year, it is important to make sure all our records are accurate and up to date, especially if we need to contact parents/guardians in an emergency. For all students who identify as Maori, their Iwi is also required on the enrolment form. An information sheet explaining this will be supplied. This is a Ministry of Education requirement, as it is to have the student profile forms signed. An Internet Acceptable Use Policy form needs to be filled in by all parents/guardians. All classrooms have the facility to use the internet, but students who do not have an Internet Acceptable Use Policy form signed by a parent, are not permitted to use the internet. In next week’s newsletter there will be an outline of our school wide Discipline Policy and the Term 1 Calendar of Events. It is advisable to keep the Calendar for future reference. Education Outside the Classroom class trips have not been recorded on the calendar. Parents will be advised of the dates and details of such trips separately. VISITORS TO THE SCHOOL - Must check in at the office It is important that visitors check in at the office. This includes parents/guardians. Although it may be an inconvenience it is to ensure student safety and welfare. There are three main reasons for this: 1. There are a number of students attending our school who have protection and court orders against family members having any contact with them. 2. To help us prevent older youths coming onto our grounds and hassling and intimidating our students. 3. To help us prevent people who have no right or authority to be in our grounds mixing with our students. When you call at the office you will be given a red permission slip. EDUCATION OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM (EOTC) & WAIKATO INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL SPORTS EVENTS Teachers are planning EOTC trips, and very soon parents will be asked to assist by attending these excursions. To enable trips to take place we need parent attendance. This is a Board of Trustee requirement as a part of our “risk management requirements”. If we do not have sufficient parent/guardian help, trips have to be cancelled. This occurred with some trips last year. When you receive the EOTC forms, which provide organisation, costs, permission to attend and parental help required, please send the “return slips” and money to school within the timeline provided. If this does not occur and the trip is in jeopardy of being cancelled, we have insufficient time to send out another newsletter requesting assistance. The same occurs when we attend Waikato Intermediate School sporting events. To help teachers ensure these trips take place please:
Warren Long PRINCIPAL
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