Welcome to Term 4 2007

flickr
Well, managing school photos can be a big job ..I'm just experimenting with the use of flickr as a storage house and an access point for Toko School photos. What do you think? Please note that you are leaving the school web site to view these photos, and therefore beyond the Toko School flickr page I can't guarantee the content.

Toko School teachers head to Auckland to the ULearn 07 conference on Tuesday the 2nd. Check out the conference.
We are all really looking forward to it!

Blogging and school links
Out of the ULearn conference we have had an "explosion" of Blogging. Here are some keen sites to keep up with!!
http://room3tokotaranaki.blogspot.com/

Check out what room 3 have been up to lately
http://room5toko.blogspot.com/
Check out what Room 5 have been up to lately

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tokoschool/
Check out some of the latest photos. It is cheaper, easier and easier to put school photos here. But it is not the Toko School web site so be careful.

http://tokotalk.podomatic.com/
Check out eh podcasting that is going on! I think podcasting is terrific and we have some neat examples!!

Calf and Lamb day
Another neat Toko School calf and Lamb Day . A huge thank you to the PTA and the Fundraising Committee who both work so hard to make this day a success. Here are some pix

Swimming
The children have been swimming twice weekly at the TSB pool, for the first 4 weeks of the school term. This is clearly benefiting the children's swimming ability. This time we spent little more money and hired tuition for the pools. It is making a real difference

Speech Competitions
One of the early events on the calendar was the Toko Lions Speech Contest. Congratulations to Georgia who won this and Olivia who came third. An awesome achievement! The next Monday the same children went to the inter school competition between the rural group. Guess what! Georgia won this one as well! Huge success!

Production Development
Preparations ar well underway for the end of year school production. The children in the senior class all having speaking lines! Most are making excellent progress learning their lines off by heart! This is essential and at the end of week 5 is needed to allow time to really start acting.

Life Education Bus
The Life Education Bus was here the week of November the 14th of November. Again this was well worthwhile with a range of topics for each class.

Squash Court
The mobile squash Court was here for the entire week. Kids love this annual event!

Mountain Camp
Lots of preparation has been going on for our EOTC Week. All classes are involved. Rooms 4 and 3 are staying up the mountain and Rooms 1 and 2 are staying over night at school. Awesome fun.


Tabloid Sport
On Monday the 19th we all went to Midhirst School for a fun day of Tabloid Sports. What a beautiful sunny day. Lots of fun and the kids knew their games well and competed in a friendly competition.

Volleyball
We entered a team into the Volley Ball competition and the first night was Monday the 18th. Eight very happy kids having fun at the TET with just about as many mums upstairs too!

End of Year Production
We had our three concerts of Tom and Huckleberry.
One for Schools on Wednesday the 12th Community 13th and family 14th. It was very successful. An enormous amount of work went into the preparations.. but a quality result at the end. Good photos available on flickr.

Rising Star Award
Our end of year award has been revamped to the Rising Star award. It was donated by the Jager family.
Nathan Weir won this award and of course also received the Guinness Book of records as well! Well done Nathan.
This years leavers were:
Madison, Makayla, Georgia, Brian, Nathan, Ethan, Nicole, Sally, Frank, Nicholas, Elysse, Victoria, Stein, and Brooke ( know I have elft someone out and will check later!!)
Awesome kids heading off to high school... very well prepared!

Well it has been a very abbreviated Events Page this term. Just got too busy to keep everything going!! But will endeavor to do a more thorough job in 2008!