Leaders Visit

Today the leaders were fortunate enough to have a visit from our local labour MP Poto Williams. 

She came in to talk about her role as a member of parliament and a leader of our community. Here are the key things we took away from Poto. 

• Put yourself out there, don´t be scared and no matter what always stand up for what you believe in.
• If you are the only person that believes in something then get together a small group of people who do believe you and use all the different strengths of the group.
• Often you will have to persuade and negotiate with people until they agree with you.
• Being a good leader and a good person also comes with having a lot of values.
• Be compassionate - Kind towards others, help them when they need it.
• Be accessible - Being an easy person to talk to, a person that people can ask for help or take their problems to when they need it. 
• Integrity - This is the most important value of a good leader. Be true to yourself and if something does not feel right in your heart then it´s not right for you and you should not do it. Also when you are true to yourself it makes it easier for other people to trust you. 

Overall I think Poto William´s visit is definitely going to help us improve our skills as leaders and being role models across the school. We are all very grateful that she took the time to come and teach us about leadership. We all really enjoyed it and we can´t wait for the next leader to come and talk to us.

Hell Reading Challenge

Hells Pizza Reading Challenge

This year, all of the Year 1-8 students in Pukeko-Toroa can choose to participate in the Hell Pizza Reading Challenge.

Each student can earn 1 pizza wheel per term. If they wish to do more you can go to the public libraries and get some from there(the librarians tick it of, not the teachers).

How it works is that once a student reads a chapter book or signs off their reading log for the week, they will have to give an explanation on what happened in the book and will get questioned by their teacher about different characters.

Because there are lots of different aged students that read lots of different sized books, there are rules to make it fair for all children.

It will be exciting to see the children reading and being encouraged to read different books.

ECO Friendly Marshland

Campbell's role is Eco Leader.  As our school gets bigger, we want to make sure the we are being ECO friendly.  

As part of this, we have contacted the Council and got more recyclable bins delivered to our school.  Each hub have been allocated their own bin, and the office have two.  To help ensure that only the correct items are being put into the bin, Campbell and his selected committee stuck signs to the front of each bin with pictures of what is recyclable and what is not.  Campbell will speak to the assembly on Monday to reinforce this message.

Campbell and his committee will be responsible for taking the bins out, and bringing them back in weekly.  To help encourage hubs to recycle successfully, Campbell will also be handing out awards to hubs that have fantastic recycling behaviours!

"I am really looking forward to Marshland being up there with the top schools in Christchurch for being ECO friendly!"  Campbell