PTA Newsletter – 13 October 2020

School community news and upcoming PTA events and initiatives

If you have a Google calendar you can add events directly to it via the Calendar page. For more events go to the Full School Calendar List.

WE URGENTLY ARE IN SEARCH OF PARENT HELP PLEASE …

Wednesday Sushi Helpers

We are looking for people to help sort the Wednesday sushi – 10-11.15am each Wednesday.  If you are happy to be on the roster and help out a couple of Wednesday’s this term please contact Lynda kohiptachair@gmail.com

Community Events

GARDENING WORKING BEE THIS Sunday 18 October  between 10am – 2pm 

Come for an hour or as long as you like! You don’t have to be a gardening guru to help – our focus will be pruning the unruly grasses along Rawhitaroa Road fence line.  The more people we have to help the more we can do.

Kids are welcome and there will be a BBQ lunch provided at 12 noon

Fundraising Events

Trivia Night Returns – Sat 7th Nov – SPORTS NIGHT IN! 

** TICKETS NOW ON SALE **

Third Time Lucky … our annual Trivia Night returns! Trivia Night provides a great ‘warm up’ to the All Blacks test that will be played later that night.  ‘Sports teams’ themed this year, be sure to register your table early so you don’t miss out!

• Saturday 07 November – 6pm-midnight, Kohimarama School Hall
• Arrive from 6pm, Quiz 6.30-9pm, All Blacks game 9.30pm to midnight

Ticket prices are $40 per person with 10 per table. Register for one, two or an entire table of ten – everybody is welcome. If you don’t have enough people to create a table of 10, we will help match you up with people from your year group. Tables are limited so secure your place/table now – REGISTER YOUR TEAM BY 29 OCT

MORE INFO AND TO REGISTER

Kids Literacy Quiz-A-Thon – 04 Nov

The ever popular QUIZ-A-THON returns.

19th Oct – Each class will be given their literacy questions (Kiri 10, Cowley 15, Hillary 20 and Snell 25 questions) which they will learn in class and at home. It would be great if you could also please support your children and encourage their learning of their questions at home. Sponsorship form will also come home today so you can start gathering your sponsors!

4th Nov – Kids will be tested in class and teacher will advise how many questions were correctly answered. We would appreciate your support in celebrating your child’s QUIZ-A-THON success and obtain sponsorship from family and friends

12th Nov -Final date for Sponsorship form returned to the teacher with fundraising money (in cash) or if you prefer, direct deposit fundraising money into the PTA Bank account (if depositing funds to the PTA account, the form will still need to be returned to the teacher)

THE PRIZES …

1. The class who raises the most money will each receive a free Fruity Kanuti

2. The first class to return all their fundraising money will each receive a free Fruity Kanuti

Calendar Art Fundraiser 

The ever popular calendar art fundraiser is returning next term.

Artwork will be done for the majority of the classes in the first week of term 4 (years 7/8 in second week of term 4).

19 Oct – order forms home

06 Nov – last day for paper form orders to be returned

08 Nov – last day for online orders

Early Dec – products delivered to kids to bring home

Christmas Trees …

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree … there is something truly special about a real Christmas tree!

We are again working with Zach’s Christmas Trees who will provide Kohimarama School a commission for any Christmas trees sold – the more trees sold, the higher the funds!

Ordering is really simple … just click here to order your tree by 01 December.

For more details, view flyer here

… & Christmas Treats!

Let us make your Christmas baking easy this year!  Arobake provides a smorgasbord of delicious Christmas treats perfect for gifts, family gatherings and Christmas parties, all without the workload and supporting our fundraising efforts at the same time! Order by 26th Nov via online shop, with collection of your Xmas Treats from the school on Sunday 6th Dec between 12.30-2pm

Christmas Cake – Fruit & Nut top or iced – $45

A buttery and fruit filled cake, soaked in sherry once baked. Beautifully flavoured with Christmas spices, adorned with nuts and cherries or with a traditional white icing. Finished in a gorgeous Christmas paper.

Mini Christmas Mince Pies / 200g – $20 per box

Delightfully packed with a spiced, sherry-soaked fruit filling and wrapped in a butter sweet pastry. Boxed so perfect for gifts or indulge yourself!

Vanilla Crescents / 200g – $20 per box

The Jem of the shortbread world. Hugely delicious, these little jewels are covered in icing sugar hot from the oven, removing them when cool to create these sugar encased, almond and vanilla sensations. Boxed so perfect for gifts – best seller!

Stollen / 550g – $15

A rich, yeast-risen cake encasing a marzipan log. This rum steeped, fruit filled wonder is immersed in melted butter before its rolled in sugar. It’s Christmas, indulge yourself!

Christmas Trees / 5 per pack – $10

Rich, chocolate shortbread, chocolate topped Christmas Trees. Great for gifts and the kids love them!

Order here via online shop no later than 26th Nov

Activity Update

Sushi Wednesday and Fruity Kunity/Pizza Friday returns this week! 

Don’t forget to put in your sushi order by end of day Tuesday and fresh sushi will be delivered to school for your child’s Wednesday lunch. Go to the Sushi Wednesdays page for more details.

Kids can again enjoy a Friday treat – bring along $2 and kids can choose an ice-block OR slice of pizza (cheese or ham & pineapple) on Fridays for $2. They will be sold 1.15-1.30pm out of the Hall Kitchen window.

Yummy Stickers – 5421 stickers collected – Thank you!

Thanks to you all for collecting the stickers from the ‘Yummy’ branded fruit – there has been a lot of apples eaten by our Kohimarama kids!

The school received a grand total of 5421 stickers which will be ‘swapped’ for school sports equipment. Huge congratulations to two children who individually collected 820 & 600 stickers – that’s a lot of apples!  You will be recognised at this weeks assembly.

Keep munching those apples and continue to collect stickers for next year!

Weetbix Tryathlon – Registrations Open 

The annual Central East Auckland Weetbix Triathlon will be held on Sunday 14th February 2021 at Pt England Reserve. Kohimarama School has created a school group so when registering your child follow the instructions and enter them into our school group. More info can be found at tryathlon.co.nz

We are looking for a parent volunteer who is keen to create a training regime and help support the Kohimarama school kids training in the lead up to the event next year. Please contact Lynda on kohiptachair@gmail.com if you can help.

2021 Centennial

Do you have social media, website, communications & content expertise?

We are wanting to grow our Alumni database and would love some help from someone who has experience in social media, comms and content creation to assist us with this?  Please contact Lynda on kohiptachair@gmail.com if you can help.

Centennial Fundraising Cookbook 

In commemoration of Kohimarama School’s Centennial, we will create a ‘collector’s edition’ fundraising cookbook to celebrate 100 years of Kohimarama school and our community.

What’s Your Original Family Favourite Recipe?

Shortly we will start the search for your original family favourite recipe – just note recipes need to be your own original recipes, something your family loves to eat or a recipe that has been lovingly handed down from mums and grandmas rather than something you love to make from a published cookbook!

More details to follow.

Get involved and have your say in 2020

We are always looking for more parents to get involved – if you have some ideas we’d love to see you at our PTA meetings held the first Monday of each month in the school staff room, or happy to hear from you anytime – email Lynda kohiptachair@gmail.com

You can also:

• Join the PTA mailing list to be in the loop with PTA meeting agendas, minutes and help requests.
• Like our Kohimarama School PTA Facebook page

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