Epuni Primary School
2017
Monday 19th June Sharing our news with the School Community
Phone - (04) 939 7702
Email -
office@epuni.school.nz
Website -
www.epuni.school.nz
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Next Family/Whanau
Meeting is scheduled for
Thursday 29th June
8.30am in the Library.
Hutt Intermediate
School Open Evening
For prospective 2018
enrolments. Tuesday 4th
July 7pm-8pm for parents
and children.
Whole School
Celebration of Learning
Breakfast Wednesday 5th
July 8.30-9.30am. We will
also be having a Gymnastic
Exhibition on the school turf
or in the school hall.
Parents are also welcome to
classes to view Social
Sciences inquiry learning
that has been happening
this term.
School DiscoThursday
6th July 4pm-6pm.
Theme SUPER HEROS.
Gold Coin Entry.
Message from our Acting Principal, Kim
Dear Families/Whanau,
Polyfest:
Only a few more weeks until the big performance at
Walter Nash Stadium. Practices are becoming more
frequent, the children have been practicing hard, are
looking and sounding fabulous and teachers are full of
encouragement and praise for the wonderful effort being
put in by all. Dont miss out on coming along to Polyfest
on Monday 3 July at 6pm. Tickets are on sale at the office
for $5 per person. I cant wait to see our talented students perform.
Enrolments:
If you have a child turning five this year or early next year, who you want to
enroll here, or you know someone who does, can you please let us know.
Having this information helps us plan ahead and also means we can schedule
school visits for new entrants. We also accept enrolments at any time of the
year for older students. Spread the news about what a great school we are,
the wonderful things we do, like the garden, Kapa Haka, Miniball and amazing
classroom programmes. Please feel free to come into the office and pick up an
enrolment pack, and once completed return it to us.
Incidents of Concern:
at Recently we have experienced situations where children have gone home and
talked about incidents of bullying that they report are happening in the
playground. Id like to assure you that we take all concerns seriously and do
our best to stop this happening. We aim for Epuni School to be a fun and
friendly environment for all, and for children and adults to enjoy being here.
Bullying is defined as a deliberate, repeated, power imbalance involving
actions that cause harm, either physical or psychological to another person. It
is important that we talk with children about what bullying is and isnt, and
give them strategies for dealing with these situations. Often students confuse
bullying with the minor disagreements or incidents that happen when you
have a number of children playing together. We need to ensure they
understand exactly what bullying is and that it is an adults responsibility to
deal with it. In the first instance we encourage children to let a teacher know
immediately so that we can investigate and if necessary, implement
consequences. This means we can find out what happened at the time, not the
next day, or as sometimes happens several days later. If issues continue, and
you are concerned the next course of action is to talk with the classroom
teacher and then finally to bring it to my attention.
Kim
Out of Tune
By Marco Rm 4
When I am out of tune I walk at the beach to make me feel better.
The birds talk to me and make me feel better. The waves make me feel
fine and make me feel cooldown.
I make my feelings calm.
July School Holiday Programs
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"Term 2 Inquiry is "My Village"

All students have been exploring their families, their community,
their cultures and themselves. Here is some artwork from our Junior
students."

"English Language Learners - Sharing and Learning Together"

Our students have been sharing their cultures with each other.
Marco showed Effie and Jan the "Salsa", Effie showed Marco how to
use chopsticks and Bureyra shared photos of schools in Somalia.