Holiday jobs!
Well it as been a busy place in the holidays:
Rooms 3,4,and 5 and the hallway re carpeted with really good new carpet!
Boys toilets have had an overhaul with the old 'smelly' urinal is now history, replaced with clean new porcelain!
Rugby posts up. Tennis nets are down! Thanks Gavin and George and Richard L
Lino around the school has been resurfaced!
New grounds person appointed, welcome Vanessa!
Jackie did her usual clean around all this!
Playhouse door and roof replaced.
Teacher only day on Friday the 19th!
Welcome to term 2.

Congratulations to Mrs Spencer. She is the Toko School Deputy Principal.
Sadly we farewell Rebecca (Teacher aide) and Geoff (Grounds man)

Crickey Week 3 already
I was in Auckland on the weekend to attend Video editing course Saturday and Sunday. It was great!

A very successful fundraising TRAIL BIKE ride was organised by our Fundraising Committee. Approximately $4000 was raised... WOW FACTOR

Kelly has been very busy getting Jones Cup ready. Children have really enjoyed their practices which the parent coaches have been organising!
We have had three league sessions which have been very well run and popular. BIG THANKYOU To Benji and the team for being so well prepared and for giving our Year 5 to 8 children a great fun and skills on a Tuesday afternoon.

Teachers attended a stop work meeting on Tuesday the 8th of May between 1.30 and 3.30!

We are into our second week of our Talent program!!
This year we have 10 teachers working with our 100 children. On a Monday children are working in small groups focusing on an area of talent or interest! Our relieving teachers are: Jan, Sue, Claire, Velda Plus charlaine, Richard, Teresa, Megan, Kelly and Scott. I think it is a great program and I hope it is very worthwhile. Just an example of the something special the Toko kids get!

Rugby League Program
We have had 4 visits from Benji Marsh and his team, introducing our Year 5 to 8 children into League ball skills. They have really done an excellent job and great ambassadors of the game! Thanks

Jones Cup
We had a wonderfully successful day this year on May the 14th. A foggy start but a clear and warm day. All schools:Ngaere, Midhirst, Pembroke, Rawhitiroa, Toko and the Eastern Districts schools were present.
Here are the overall results of the day! But it was one of full participation and excellent behaviour. Kelly did an excellent job preparing for this big event on our school calendar! Awesome.
Coaches this year were again a huge help and an excellent way to get involved in the school! Many thanks to the mums and dads that gave up their time to work with our children and offer them these life long skills!
Just a couple of snaps from the day!

Jones Cup was won by Toko Gold! Congratulations girls
Junior Rugby Toko
Junior Netball Midhirst
Intermediate rugby ED
Senior rugby Ngaere
Intermediate rugby Midhirst

Choir
Miss Jones has been working hard preparing our children for the Kids for Kids concert. Practices have been once or twice weekly!

Kids for Kids Concert.
35 Toko children were invovled in the Kids for Kids concert in New Plymouth on Wednesday night. Big thanks to Ms jones for organising it all and preparing the children so well too. It was very successful.

Literacy Leaders 24th of May
Charlaine and Megan spent a very profitable day attending their 4th literacy contaact day. The focus was on developing profiles for children that need them which highlight current reading behavious and levels. These profile sheets are nver developed independently.. teachers must work together to create them! Great idea. The second focus was clarifying and reinforcing the benefits that can be had fromteachers observing teachers in their daily practice. Thes eobservations are followed up with conversations. The end result must, at a minimum be the opportunity for discussions and reflections on teaching practice. Good stuff!

Skills for Growing 26th and 27th of May
Scott Charlaine and Richard attended a weekend Skills for Growing Skills for Adolesence course in Palmerston North this weekend! Hugely profitable. Big thanks to the Lions that supported us financially! But an even bigger thank you to the teachers that give up so much of their own time to focus on the learning needs and other needs of our children.

School Trip
Rooms 3 and 5 went on a day out on Monday the 28th of May to Pukeariki as a part of their unit on the Rich Earth. A valuable day by all accounts.

Talent Program
Just a reminder that this is our second talent program up and running and we had the 4th session today. 10 groups of children, ten teachers and 100 children! WOW factor I think!

More PD
Megan Charlaine and Richard went to a Literacy Leaders Day in Inglewood as part of the schools literacy development. Andrea and Melanie are the tutors and they are a very knowledgable team. A very full day. Looked at developing individual profiles for children in most need. Looked at developing in class observations to impove learning, looked at developing learning intentions for children after studying their AsTTle and STAR and writing samples and BURT and PROBE!! Sound like another language?? Sort of is really!!! Seems learning to read, or rather teaching children to read is pretty complicated, more so than in the past. Better results? Well, that is what this Professional development is really all about. Better results for children.

Talent Assembly
We had a neat Talent Assembly on the last Wednesday of school, to show off the Talent Program that ran for 9 weeks during Term 2. Big thanks to our relievers that do such a great job: Jan, Sue Richard, Velda, Claire!
It was a busy end of term, but sadly again the weather probibited the Taranki Rescue Helicopter arriving at Toko School for an end of term treat as planed.
The winning house was Totara! Well done. Mr bradley won the Douglas Challenge of the week for the tidiest desk! WOW