Tuesday 2 December 2025 Rātu, te rua o Hakihea
Kia Ora, Kia Orana, Sat Sri Akal, Namaste, Talofa, Mālō e lelei, Fakalofa lahi atu, Bula Vinaka, Salam & Warm Pacific Greetings to you all
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WHAT’S ON AT RPS
Monday 24 November- Friday 5 December
Rimu Team swimming
Junior Sports Day – POSTPONED
Thursday 4 December
Rimu and Totara Team to Massey Park Pools
Friday 5 December
Year 8 Rainbows End trip
Saturday 6 December
Wānanga Rautaki, 9am-12pm, all welcome
Monday 8 December
Kahikatea Certificate Assembly, 2pm
Junior Sports Day – more info to come
Tuesday 9 December
Kowhai Cross Country, 11.30am
Wednesday 10 December
Senior Sports Day
Thursday 11 December
Celebration in the Park, 4 – 6.30 pm
Friday 12 December
Arts and Sports Awards – Year 5-8
12pm in our hall, all whānau welcome
Monday 15 December
Cultural and RPS Awards Assembly, 12pm in our hall, all whānau welcome
Year 8 Graduation Dinner, 4.30pm – more info to come
Tuesday 16 December
Rimu and Totara final assembly, 11.45am
Kowhai final assembly, 1.50pm
Wednesday 17 December
Pohutukawa final assembly, 12pm
Thursday 18 December
Graduation Assembly
Final day for 2025, final bell 12.30pm
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JUNIOR SPORTS DAY POSTPONED TO MONDAY 8 DECEMBER DUE TO THE WEATHER
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HOUSE CHALLENGE – WEEK 8’S WINNER
Our winning house last week with the most points collected was Kotahitanga!
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CHECK OUT OUR NEW HOUSE FLAGS!
You may have noticed something new on the Randwick Park School flagpole! We now have four house flags, one for each of our school houses. Each week, the flag of the winning house will be raised and flown proudly over the week for everyone to see.
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ATTENDANCE – EVERYDAY MATTERS
Last week’s attendance challenge was won by Kotahitanga House, with an outstanding 71% regular attendance, well above the school average of 64%! Mana took second place, followed by Te Hiringa and Ururoa.
Our three LEGO prize draw winners were Stan (Room 22), Jasmine (Room 23), and Hesadha (Room 26). Ka pai, enjoy your prizes!
Whānau, please continue sending your tamariki to school over the next three weeks. We have lots of exciting events planned, and learning continues right up until the very end of the year.
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CELEBRATION IN THE PARK – STALL HOLDERS
Thursday 11 December
It’s that time of the year! Celebration in the Park 25, Randwick Park School’s very own version of Christmas in the Park. This festive celebration is a wonderful opportunity for our community to come together to reflect on the year and celebrate the talent of our students.
If you would like to hold a stall please contact Mr Lologa through our school office
0800 438 777.
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YEAR 6 DAY OUT
When we went to the Orakei Basin with Youth Town, we went at 8:45 am in the school vans. There we parked the vans, then we got out and got told to walk to the building but some of us ran to the building. When we got in the building we put our bags and clothes behind a blue curtain and the instructors gave us a buoyancy aid. After everyone put on their buoyancy aids we all sat down in our groups.
After everyone sat down in their groups, we started to do the activities. The first one that my group did was stand-up paddleboarding. The person that was telling us what to do was Amir. We played Simon says, the first Simon says was put your hands on your head. The second Simon says was to stand up. The third one was jump. The fourth one was to push someone in the water. After doing stand-up paddleboarding, we did kayaking. When we were kayaking, we got told to do a challenge. The challenge was to stand up. While doing the challenge, some of us fell off the kayak and some of us stood up with no struggle.
We got our kayaks out of the water and hung up our buoyancy aids. Then we ate some pizza (two people shared a whole pizza). After everyone was done eating their pizza we got back in our groups. After everyone was in their groups my group did windsurfing. When we were windsurfing we had to wear a helmet. While we were windsurfing we were allowed to jump off the board whenever we wanted to.
After windsurfing for about one hour we went to the shore and got all the stuff out the water and put it in one area. After we did all that we cleaned all the salt off the equipment we were using. After we cleaned all the salt off the equipment we got our bags and went in the vans back to school. While we were on the way back I was thinking about how fun it was. It was so fun that I wish I could go back there for another day.
By Marshall Smith-Hughes-Puaha
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CCSA CUPS
It has been another magnificent year of Year 7-8 sport at Randwick Park School. As a school, we are part of the Central Counties Sports Association (CCSA), which is a cluster of 12 schools in Manurewa that have Year 1-8 students. Each year, schools in the CCSA compete in 14 tournaments including rugby, tag, football, softball, athletics, and so on. At each tournament schools receive points based on how well they performed at that tournament.
For the third year in succession, Randwick Park has emerged triumphant, winning the CCSA Overall Champion Trophy for the top school. Not only that, we also won the CCSA Boys Trophy (for the second year in a row), narrowly edging out our great friends and rivals, The Gardens.
But even better, we won the CCSA Sportsmanship Trophy for the second time in three years. This is a huge honour, as it means our school has not only played hard, but we have played fair. Our tamariki have brought the right attitude to every event they have competed in, and this has been acknowledged by a combination of independent referees and nominations from other CCSA schools.
A massive ka mau te wehi to all of our students, coaches, managers, background staff and anyone else who has been involved with Year 7-8 sport at Randwick Park this year. Our school continues to cement its reputation as the number one full primary sports school in Manurewa.
Here is the final points table for the year:
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COUNITES CUPS
Randwick Park School is part of the Central Counties Sports Association. Central Counties competes against the six Counties intermediate schools (Manurewa, Greenmeadows, Rosehill, Waimahia, Papakura and Pukekohe), as well as the East and North Counties clusters. The winning school (or cluster) at the end of the year receives the prestigious Counties Cup.
This year, for the first time since 2017, Central Counties has won the Counties Cup, overtaking Manurewa Intermediate in the very last event of the year (athletics) to win. Manurewa Intermediate has held the Counties Cup since 2019, so this is an amazing effort from our schools!
Incredibly, we also won the other, arguably even more important, cup available at Counties level – the Counties Sportsmanship Cup. This recognises schools and clusters whose athletes and coaches have brought the right attitude to each event throughout the year. Not only is this the second year in a row that Central Counties has won this cup, it’s also the fifth time in the last seven years!
As the current Central Counties champions and Sportsmanship winners, Randwick Park will be holding on to the Counties Cups for the next year. Come and visit Room 22 if you’d like a closer look at them!
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SCHOOL HATS
As the weather is getting warmer and the sun is getting hot, please ensure your son/daughter start coming to school in our full school summer uniform. It is great to see a number of our tamaiti already wearing our school sunhat.
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USING OUR PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS
Please ensure you and your child/ren are using the pedestrian crossings before and after school. Some adults have been crossing Riverton Drive by the school gates with students, this is dangerous role modeling. After school traffic is very busy and we do not want any students copying adults and getting hurt. Thank you for your support with this and making sure everyone gets home safe.
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BRING A BIKE & SCOOTER LOCK TO SCHOOL
If tamariki ride scooters or bikes to school, please make sure they bring a lock to keep it safe during the day. Locking rides helps prevent them from being taken. Thanks for helping us keep our school community safe and responsible!
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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
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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: Iris, Rm 24
2nd: Yoneli, Rm 24
3rd: Aaradhya, Rm 23
READING EGGSPRESS
1st: William, Rm 4
2nd: Marylynn, Rm 27
3rd: Naairah, Rm 17
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.
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CHRISTMAS RECIPES FOR KIDS
STAR BISCUITS
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- Butter – 225 g
- Icing sugar – 3/4 cup
- Vanilla extract – 1 tsp
- Flour – 2 1/4 cups
- Raspberry jam – 1/2 cup
- Icing sugar for dusting
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1. Preheat oven to 160°C. Beat butter, icing sugar and vanilla until pale and creamy. Add flour and mix well.
2. Tip dough onto the bench and knead thoroughly. Roll dough out into a 1cm-thick rectangle.
3. Cut out 30 stars with a cookie cutter approximately 6cm in diameter. Using a 3cm star cutter, cut a star shape out of the centre of 15 of the biscuits.
4. Place biscuits on a baking tray and cook for 10 to 12 minutes until firm. Cool on a wire rack, then spread the 15 full biscuits with raspberry jam and top with a cut out biscuit. Dust with icing sugar.
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