Tuesday 11 Nov, 2025

Tuesday 11 November 2025     Rātu tekau ma tahi o Whiringa-ā-rangi

Kia Ora, Kia Orana, Sat Sri Akal, Namaste, Talofa, Mālō e lelei, Fakalofa lahi atu, Bula Vinaka, Salam & Warm Pacific Greetings to you all

WHAT’S ON AT RPS

Monday 10 – Thursday 20 November
Totara Team start swimming

Wednesday 12 November
 Pohutukawa Bake Sale at morning tea – Fundraising for our 2026 Camp
 Totara Team trip to Howick Historic Village

Friday 14 November
Pohutukawa Team to Howick Historic Village – Rooms 26, 27 & 32
Whole school assembly – Rooms 10 & 14, all whānau welcome

Monday 17 November
Sunny Memorial Football game, 11.30am on our field

Tuesday 18 November
Counties Zone Athletic Finals

Friday 21 November
Teacher only day – school closed

Monday 24 November- Friday 5 December
Rimu Team start swimming

Friday 28 November
Learner Experience Day at Alfriston College, Yr 8 students

Friday 5 December
Year 8 Rainbows End trip

Thursday 18 December
Final day for 2025

CELEBRATING NIUE LANGAUGE WEEK

COUNTIES MANUKAU GAMES

Last week selected Year 5-8 students took part in Netball, Volleyball, Tag and Football at the Counties Manukau Games at Bruce Pulman Park. Here are the amazing results:

HOUSE CHALLENGE – WEEK 5’S WINNER

Our winning house last week with the most points collected was Te Hiringa

YEAR 5/6 INTERSCHOOL ATHLETICS

Last week a group of Year 5/6 students took part in the Interschool Athletics Day. Well done to the students below who placed

ALFRISTON COLLEGE NEW LEARNER INTERVIEWS
WEDNESDAY 19 NOV, 2.50 – 6.30PM

Appointment details have been emailed out to whānau who have completed their Year 9 Alfriston College enrolments. If you have not received an email from Alfrisotn College, please email your query and childs name to j.roberts@alfristoncollege.school.nz.

Please note that if the learner and whānau don’t attend a Home School Partnership meeting that the learner won’t be enrolled at Alfriston College.

ATTENDANCE – EVERYDAY MATTERS

Last week at Randwick Park School, 64% of our tamariki attended school for more than 90% of the week. We need to keep building on this as we work towards our goal of every student attending school regularly, with no more than five days absent per term. Please continue to support us by ensuring your child/ren are at school every day.

A big well done to Ururoa House, who made an impressive jump from the lowest attendance the previous week to the top spot this week with 66%! Te Hiringa followed closely in second place, with Mana just behind and Kotahitanga only one percent behind them.

Congratulations to our LEGO prize winners from Ururoa – Cairo (Room 15), Israel (Room 31), and James Dean (Room 13). Enjoy your prizes! There’s another LEGO draw next week for the house with the highest attendance so keep sending your tamariki to school every day for their chance to win! Let’s see which house takes the top spot next! 

EPRO8 SEMI FINALS

At the Epro8 Semi-final competition, our team – the RPS Engineers, took on the challenge of constructing a working Thunderbird Machine, just like from the movie.

We completed the frame, and the next step was to make a roof with the linear bearings.  We added a belt drive and motorised it so that the roof would open with the press of a button,  this was the first criteria.

After that, we placed a ram at the bottom so that when the roof opened, the ram would rise with the Thunderbird, then the air would pump the Thunderbird with air.  When the pressure was right, the Thunderbird would shoot out.

The last step was to sequence the entire build, so after re-wiring everything into the sequence box, the Thunderbird was done.

The competition was thrilling, though we did have some bumps along the way.  In spite of that, we finished in the top 10, so I say we represented RPS well.

A very big thank you to Miss Stickney for helping us practise during school and Mr. Dawson for taking us.

Aarush Raj, Room 13

RIMU AND TOTARA CROSS COUNTRY

Mahi whakamiharo tamariki ma! Fantastic work to all our Year 1 and 2 students who participated in the cross country. Thank you to whānau who came to support their tamariki.

KOWHAI TEAM MASSEY PARK POOLS TRIP

Our students have been learning water skills at school. As part of our Kowhai EOTC program, we visited the Massey Pool to refine and practice these skills in a new setting. The students showed great enthusiasm and confidence in the water, building on what they had learned at school. It was a fantastic opportunity to develop both their water safety and swimming abilities!

RANDWICK PARK SCHOOL POLICIES – HAVE YOUR SAY

Randwick Park School’s policies are hosted on a site called SchoolDocs. These policies are regularly reviewed, and this term’s focus is on the Health, Safety, and Welfare section. This includes the following policies:

• Bullying and Harassment
• Behaviour Management
• Searches, Surrender, and Retention of Property
• Minimising Physical Restraint
• Stand-down, Suspension, and Exclusion
• Staff Wellbeing and Safety
  

All members of the RPS community can give feedback on the policies being reviewed. You can choose to review just one or all of them. To access SchoolDocs:

• Username: randwickpark
• Password: rpscommunity

Well done to this week’s top three students who have completed the most lessons on Reading Eggs/ Reading Eggspress over the last week:

READING EGGS
1st: James-Dean, R13
2nd: Osyris, R6
3rd: Aaradhya, 23

READING EGGSPRESS
1st: Sukhreet, R15
2nd: Sierra-Lino, R18
3rd: Keith, R18

Mrs Lindsay will call you over for a prize!

If you are unsure of your child/rens Reading Eggs/Eggspress login please see their class teacher or Mrs Lindsay our Learning Support Co-ordinator through the office.

HEADLICE

We are experiencing problems with headlice in a few of our classrooms. We ask that whānau please check and treat your tamariki. For more information, please visit: https://www.kidshealth.org.nz/head-lice