Ritimana Community Pānui 
​Wednesday 14th May 


                                                                      Kia ora             Talofa lava             Greetings               Bonjour

It is officially Support Staff Week this week. We are blessed to have a range of support staff that help our school run as well as it does...from learning assistants to language support to office and admin management to resource development. It is the topic of conversation at the moment for Principals and kura, that we need more support staff in schools. Our support staff are a major part of our school community and we are so grateful for them and the ways they work with other staff, parents and our children, always with our School Values at the core. If you see them around this week, or any week, please mihi to them. We will be acknowledging them in different ways this week to recognise their ongoing work. The Term 2 overview for parents is below to stay up-to-date with the events for the term.

Term 2 2025 Overview for Parents

Wheels Day - Thursday 15th May
Our Kaunihera Kura - School Council - brings you the return of Wheels Day tomorrow - Thursday 15th May. This includes scooters, skates, skateboards, carts and bikes. Helmets are compulsory to participate in this event. This will be at playtime and lunchtime only. Bikes will be on the field in the coned area on Thursday. All other wheels are in the middle court with the top court and canopy being a wheel free zone. When you arrive at the school on Thursday, please park your wheels in the area designated by the teacher. There is no riding before school starts.

Book Week in Week 4
Book Week is next week, starting with the Book Character Parade on Monday, 19th May starting at 9.20. A guest speaker is also coming in on Tuesday morning. The library will host a Book Fair fundraiser, and volunteers will be needed to help sell books before and after school if you can help, please let us know by placing your name on the roster. Book Week celebrates everything about books and reading. Thanks in advance for your support!

Book Week Whānau Roster

Linewize at Te Kura o Ritimana - all Year 4 -6 classes in each rōpū
Linewize serves many schools and communities around the world and from the beginning of term 2 in 2024 we have had access to this service at our school for our senior students and classroom teachers. School Manager provides schools with wellbeing alerting and reporting, internet usage/trend analysis, and flexible & granular filtering, among other benefits. Includes 24/7 protection of school-managed devices where applicable, as well as school Google accounts used on Chrome.
This means if children or other family members are using the school google account we will be alerted to the activity. In the classroom, Classwize empowers teachers with visibility and management over student internet use during lessons, keeping students focused and on-task. Teachers can monitor activity, view screens, download student journey reports, and easily create rules for internet access, among other benefits.
​It has been a really focussed resource as our staff and students learn more about the tool and platform and how it can be conducive to learning in the classroom.   If you have any questions please ask your child's teacher about it. A reminder this is for our Year 4-6 students. If there are other classes with Year 3 students who use this platform, your child's teacher will alert you to this.

Ngā mihi