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Following the water contamination and restrictions last week,
Puketapu School is opening tomorrow (Monday) with the following measures:
- Children are encouraged to bring at least one litre of drinking water for themselves.
- A limited supply of back up water will be available should anyone run out.
- All taps and drinking water sources will be covered.
- Hand sanitiser will be provided.
- It will be parents' decision to send their children to school or not.
- Staff will educate children around safe practices and the measures they need to go through, ie. sanitise after toileting and before eating.
Ex Cyclone Gita caused damage all over the place - including water pipes in the New Plymouth area, leading to contamination and water shortages.
Following advice from the New Plymouth District Council, the Board of Trustees made the decision to close the school.
School closed at 12.30pm on Wednesday 21 February.
The school remained closed for Thursday 22 February and Friday 23 February.
A decision about opening the school on Monday 26 February will be made once we have more information.
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After plenty of community consultation, we have changed our values.
Our new values are
Kia kaha – Do your best
Kia māia – Be courageous
Kia manawanui – Have a heart
You can watch the video we made about our new Values:
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We celebrated many special achievements at our final assembly of 2017.
As well as recognising achievements from tamariki from all classes and ages, we celebrated the graduation of our Year 8s and presented the winners of our senior trophies.
We also said farewell to some very special adults:
We wish them all the very best - we will miss them all.
There was singing, dancing and a whole lot of celebrating!
Tonight our hapori gathered in the quad on a beautiful summer evening, to join us in celebrating 2017.
Every class took part, presenting an item or two and some students humbled us with their speaking and singing. Our Home & School (PSG) kept us fed and watered and we raffled some amazing prizes again.
Thank you to everyone who has made 2017 such a special year for us all.
Merry Christmas Everyone!
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