About Our SchoolPicton School is a co-educational primary school that caters for tamariki children from Years 1-6. Our school (opened in 1861) occupies a sunny, open site with spacious grounds for physical activity, play, and rich learning experiences. The kura maintains a high profile in the community and a positive partnership exists between whānau families, kaimahi staff, our tamariki children and the school community which has high achievement expectations for their children. We recognise that our ākonga come from many different cultures, whānau and pathways, but we enter the same gateway to discover capabilities, our community and our world. Picton School is proud to be a Positive Behaviour For Learning (PB4L) School and an Enviroschool. Our staff are actively engaged in and committed to Poutama Pounamu as we continue to grow our bicultural capability and culturally sustaining pedagogy. We are committed to progress and achievement for all of our precious children and the uniqueness of each child is highly valued. “Ko te ahurei o te tamaiti arahia o tatou mahi" Let the uniqueness of the child guide our work.” Classroom programmes are designed to be challenging, success-orientated, engaging and fulfilling. We value social, academic, collective and personal achievement, positive attitudes, pride in effort and the willingness to take part in the opportunities the school provides. Our curriculum programme promotes, explicitly teaches and rewards the 3 school values which we are learning to grow:
For each of these Values we have explored how Kupe the legendary leader demonstrated them as he chased Te Wheke o Muturangi the octopus across the Pacific Ocean and founded Aotearoa. We would love for you and your whānau to join us at Picton School. Please come and visit us! Katie TalbotTumuaki | Principal |
Kia ora e te whānau,
Happy Week 10! The end of term always seems to sneak up out of nowhere, but what a fabulous way to finish this one off.
Here is a quick couple of notices and highlights for the week ahead:
Wishing everyone a great final week and a well-deserved, restful break ahead!
We hope you all had a lovely weekend. Here are our notices for the upcoming week:
A friendly reminder that our school gates open for supervision at 8:30am. We currently have a large number of tamariki arriving before this time when staff are not available to supervise. Please drop your children off between 8:30am and 8:55am so they are ready to begin learning when the first bell rings.
Breakfast Club runs Monday through Thursday starting at 8:30am (serving for 15 minutes). Apologies for the mix-up in the last pānui where 8:15am was listed - it is definitely 8:30am!
Camp notices for our Year 6 learners are due back this Friday. All whānau helper names will be entered into a draw to select our volunteers. Thank you so much for your support!
On Tuesday, Kōwhai, Rimu, Kaikōmako, and Nīkau classes will be travelling to Kaipūpū Point Sanctuary. This will be an exciting trip learning about pest-free sanctuaries right on our doorstep!
Please note - there is no assembly this week.
Finally, a massive thank you to our amazing Whānau Fundraising Group for pulling off an incredible Drive-in Movie event on Saturday! It was a huge success, bringing whānau from as far as Richmond and the Awatere Valley to support our kura. We look forward to making this an annual event!
Have a great week, and please feel free to pop in anytime.
Ngā mihi nui,
Katie
Please see information attached
PAID UNION MEETING
On Friday 22nd March a number of our kaiako teachers are attending a paid union meeting in Blenheim at 1.30pm.
School will remain open as we have the Duffy Theatre performing in the afternoon. You are most welcome to come along and watch.
Please note - there will be no assembly that day.
If you have any pātai questions at all please email me at katie@picton.school.nz
Thanks!
Kia ora e te whānau,
We are excited to run our first assembly at 2.15pm in the hall this Friday.
If you can make it, you are most welcome to join us!
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