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Fishing Competition

Our Annual King of the coast Fishing competion was a great success once again. Thank you to everyone who supported our fundraising event.

School Open Day - 23rd March: Come and see how we teach and learn in reading! We will be dressing up as our favourite book characters.

Pet day

Congratulations to Anna-Lee Davies-Sherwin who won this years event!

School Camp at Wainui Bay

We had a wonderful, action packed camp. Thanks to all the parents who came out and helped.

Christmas Craft Market Day

What a success! The children did an amazing job. Check out all the great crafts we had for sale!

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Kaeo Christmas Parade

A fun day for us all and we took home the trophy for the second year! Thanks to everyone that contributed.

Cultural Festival

We rocked the recent cultural festival with our rock'n'roll dancing & singing...

Totara North Primary School Pantomime

Cinderella and Rockerfella!

On Tuesday morning 24 August, Totara North School hosted a special concert for their grandparents and elderly of the community. 

While they watched the children perform, these VIP’s sat down to a fabulous morning tea, prepared by the lovely parents of Totara North School.

Cinderella (Olivia Frear), Rockerfella (Sam Shepherd), Buttons (Shannen Frear) her cool dog (David Frear) and off course the ugly stepsisters (Oscar Martin and Mason Frear) had the audience in fits of laughter with all their antics.  Fairy Nasty Boots (Eve Constantinos) tried her best to upset the applecart, but luckily the Fairy Godmother (Antonia Cathcart) and her fairy brigade (Melody Brogan, Anna-Lee Davies-Sherwin, Leila Isherwood) came to the rescue time and again!  The warm-up girls (Anneka Hyde and Keela Cashmore) kept everything nicely together. The town crier (Isabella Nicolay-Barnes) and the inspectors (Damian Isherwood and Ryan Smith) made sure everyone was well informed!

The whole school, from 5 year olds to Year 6’s had a part to play and did so brilliantly.  As this was a Pantomime there was a lot of singing to do and the brilliant voices of these young children were amazing! A very sick Monsieur Bunn le Baker (Michael Gregory) was specially brought in for his solo and although he could barely stand, sang his song brilliantly!  Well done!

Term 2 Technology Challenge

Our challenge:  Make a raincoat out of 6 plastic shopping bags and only 2 m of sticky tape!

The criteria:      WInd test, water test and a walking test! 

Our winning team were Kayle Hyde Yr 2 and Olivia Frear Yr 6 (Pictured above, center):

"If you want to make a raincoat with plastic bags these are the right people to come to Kayle and Olivia.  Kayle has got a waterproof and wind proof raincoat on plus she can walk comfortably in it and it’s got two pockets for things. Come to Totara North Primary School."

King of the Coast Fishing Competition

Our first King of the Coast funraising event was as great success! Thank you to all the generous sponsors, supporters, and parents who made this event possible.

   
Ryan Smith - Winner Largest Sprat                                                                      Jonathan Fulton - Winner Heaviest Snapper

Duffy Hero Assembly

Anna Richards, former black fern came to talk to us about reading and her experiences playing rugby for New Zealand all over the world. Each child recieved two duffy books to take home.

Hockey Six-a-side Fun Day

Our hockey team had a great day in Kaikohe on the 9th of March. We played 5 games against other schools from the Bay of Island area. All children played exceptionally well for such a new team, and it was great to see them winning games. Well done!

 
Technology Challenge

Our first technology challenge took place in week 3. We worked in groups to design and construct a nomadic shelter using only newspaper, sellotape and string. Meeting all the requirements of this task was challenging. All the children learnt a lot about group work, problem solving, and perseverance!