Thursday 6 June, 2024

Thursday 6 June 2024      Rāpare te ra ono o Pipiri

Kia Ora, Kia Orana, Sastrikal, Namaste, Talofa, Malo e lelei, Fakalofa lahi atu,
Bula Vinaka, Salam & Warm Pacific Greetings to you all

WHAT’S ON AT RPS

Wednesday 12 June
South Auckland Intermediate Chess Championship,
 Manurewa Intermediate School

Thursday 13 June
South Auckland Primary Interschool Chess Championship
 Flatbush Primary School

Wednesday 19 June
Team/Group Photos taken at school

Thursday 27 June
Mufti Day – fundraising for AIMS and Sports Camp, gold coin koha

Friday 28 June
Celebrating Matariki – Public Holiday

Tuesday 2 – Thursday 4 July
School Production – Te Haerenga (keep a look out for more information to come)

Friday 5 July
Final day of Term 2

Monday 22 July
First day of Term 3

Friday 23 August
RPS Board Mid-Term Break – school closed

Monday 26 August
Staff Professional Development day – school closed

Friday 30 August
Alfriston College enrolments for 2025 due

CERTIFICATE RECIPIENTS

Congratulations to our tamariki who received a certificate last week at assembly.
Keep up the fantastic work tamariki.

CJ Carle, Room 1	Kihana Kavya, Room 16
Unaloto Fiva, Room 3	Aamaia Edwards, Room 18
Aiga Simi, Room 4	Harmandeep Kaur, Room 19
Kysha September, Room 6	Leya Mataafa, Room 20
Walter Feero, Room 9	Grace Tulua, Room 22
Jasreet Kaur, Room 10	Koriata Waha-Rai, Room 23
Lopeti Hausia, Room 12	Jaden Bijo, Room 25
Javahn Tobin, Room 13	Jasimeh Kaur, Roo, 26
Posydon Wallen Fortes Kereopa, Room 14	Harleigh-Lili Marsters, Room 27
Sunui Schuster, Room 15	Willy Roberts, Room 31
	Simione Ato, Room 32

SCHOOL VALUES AND DISPOSITIONS

Positive and Kind

Two of our school values and dispositions (skills) are Positive and Kind, Kindness was a value that came through strongly in the voice we gained from our whānau community when they were surveyed last year. 

Positive: Being positive is about coming to school with a positive attitude, making positive choices, and having a positive outlook on school life. It is someone who embraces all opportunities, is a challenge seeker, takes feedback and feedforward well, and positively resolves conflict. 

Kindness: Someone who demonstrates all of our school values and is aware of how their words and actions impact on others. They show empathy for others and include all tāmariki in activities and games. They celebrate everyone in our school community.

We are so proud of the students we have at RPS and how they show our school values and dispositions at school. 

CELEBRATING SAMOAN LANGUAGE WEEK

EARTH DAY

Thank you to all our students and staff who supported  Earth Day last Thursday. We made $404.00 which will go towards continuing to develop our school gardens.

RELATIONSHIP & SEXUALITY EDUCATION

PARENT/WHĀNAU INFORMATION

Thank you to all whānau who were able to attend our hui earlier this term. The following is an outline of the learning that is being addressed at the different year levels.

Rimu, Totara and Kowhai Teams (Year 0 – 4)

How am I the same? How am I different?
– Describing similarities and differences to others.

Expressing my feelings
-Using “I” statements to express ideas and feelings.

My growing body and the things it can do
-Describing how their bodies change as they grow, such as getting taller
-Identify things that they can do now and set goals to work on

4th to 7th June
My body parts
-Identify and name body parts, including private body parts.
-Discuss how we care for our bodies, including keeping clean

Standing up for myself and others
-Recognise bullying behaviour and strategies to stand up for themselves and others.

My body is mine
-Understand that their body is their own
-Develop strategies to keep themselves safe
-Safe and unsafe touching and the difference
-What to do if they experience a touch that hurts or that they don’t like
-Identifying people who can help them keep safe

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Pohutukawa Team (Year 5&6)

Area 1: Establishing a positive learning environment – Te whakarite i tētahi ao ako
huapai
Activity: Establishing safe ways to ask questions and inquire together
-Students will develop strategies for safely asking and answering questions about
aspects of sexuality.

Area 2: Who am I? Ko wai au?
Activity: Recognising media influences on identity
-Students will explore messages communicated in the media and how these can
influence our identity and self-worth.

Area 3: Relationships – Ngā whanaungatanga
Activity: Managing relationships
-Students will identify strategies for coping with changes in friendships.

Activity: Understanding different perspectives
-Students will develop awareness that the same situations can be perceived differently by
different people.

Activity: Making decisions
-Students will identify the factors that influence decision-making.

4th to 7th June
Area 4: Growing and changing – Te Tipu me te huri o te tangata
Where appropriate, boys and girls will be taught the content separately.

Activity: Pubertal Change
-Students will identify the changes that occur during puberty and recognise that most of
the changes happen to everybody.

Activity: Looking after our bodies
-Students will explore strategies to look after their bodies before, during, and after
puberty.

Activity: Truths and myths about hygiene
-Students will discuss useful strategies for managing change during and after puberty.
-Students will develop some key statements that will reinforce learning about hygiene

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Kahikatea Team (Year 7&8)

At the Year 7/8 level, we invite The Village Collective to work alongside our tamariki. Their mission is: “Equipping Pasifika Youth with the knowledge and resources they need for better-informed, well-being and sexual health decisions.”

The topics they cover include:

• Respect 
• Friendship 
• Puberty
• Online Safety

For more information on the Village Collective please visit their website https://www.villagecollective.org.nz/

4th to 7th June
Respect

Balancing rights and responsibilities
-explore how our rights and responsibilities increase as we get older
-identify their current responsibilities and prepare for those they will have in the future
-identify rights and responsibilities in given situations.

Understanding gender and stereotypes
-identify gender stereotypes and their impact on people’s sense of identity
-discuss strategies to challenge gender stereotypes that they can use
-identify how social messages about gender can affect people’s experiences of
becoming an adult

Puberty session 1

Pubertal Change
-review and identify the changes that take place during puberty and recognise that most
of them happen to everybody.

Puberty session 2

Managing Pubertal change
-explore how people experience pubertal change and identify and discuss practical ways
of managing changes and feelings
-explore concepts about body image and how to foster positive body image.

10th to 14th June
The Human Reproductive System

Use the correct terms for the reproductive parts of their bodies and understand their functions.

Support & Assertiveness and making decisions
-develop and demonstrate assertiveness and decision-making skills.

Online Safety

Cyberbullying
-identify and manage the impact of online bullying.

If you have any questions about any of the Relationship and Sexuality programme we
will be teaching across our kura please do not hesitate to contact your child’s teacher
and/or the Team Leader.