Pokeno Focus - Pokeno School

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ANZAC Day
May 2016
POKENO FOCUS
Pokeno Parade
25th April 2016
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by Kayla,
Room 4
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Deadline for the
June issue is 20th
May 2016
The Focus is driven by
the Pokeno B.O.T to
highlight activities
within the School
and the
Community around
Pokeno School.
POKENO MARKET
We would like to introduce a couple of new food stalls to the market and can recommend both of them as we
have tasted their food!! Nick and his Lebanese Kai selling delicious lamb and chicken wrap combo’s and
Shareen and Tony in their Food in Abundance truck doing delicious home made pies (mince, steak, bacon
and egg) and also mussel fritters. Come along and try their food you wont be disappointed. Priscilla has
become a regular over the last couple of months supplying Hangi food too, this is very popular so come along
early to avoid disappointment. So few options to savour for Sunday lunch!
Most weeks we have one or maybe two hairdressers on site doing great haircuts for only
$10. Bring the kids along for a hair tidy up during the holidays. Time to start putting bulbs
and plants into the garden so come along and buy your bedding plants etc from the
market. Plenty of seasonal fruit available too with TK grapes and feijoas in abundance for
the next few weeks at around $3-$4 a bag. Rangi has fresh fish, mussels, kina and smoked fish and his wife
Joy has a stall beside him cooking up a storm with fish and chips and other yummy stuff.
Callum and Sue still doing Green Valley Milk, yogurts, cream etc and the milk is only $2.75 for 2 litres. Our
vegetable stalls are bigger than ever, carrying a great selection of fresh vegetables. Iain makes a mean
coffee and Sue, Becky, Mel and Betty have a great supply of fresh baking. These are just a few of our stalls
as not room to mention them all - come along and visit the market through the school holidays and buy the
kids some mini hot doughnuts and watch them have a bounce in the bouncy castle!!
New stallholders always welcome, check out our web page www.franklinmarkets.com or visit our facebook
pages on Pukekohe Market and Pokeno Market.
Vyvyan and Roger Vincent, 09 2388831
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Pokeno.
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ROOM 8 NEWS
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Pokeno School
PTA AGM
9th June 2016
at 7:30 pm,
Pokeno School Staffroom
Everyone is welcome.
GARDEN ART & WATER FEATURES
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Grease Trap Cleaning
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Bubble science
What makes the best bubbles?
An investigation to find: I used hand soap, bubble bath and
detergent. 1 tsp was put in each cup.
With a straw I blew the biggest bubble with hand soap. With
a straw I blew the longest lasting
bubble with bubble bath. With a straw I blew the smallest
bubble with detergent. With a straw I
blew a big pile of bubbles with hand soap.
An investigation to find What makes the best bubbles?
I used shampoo, hand soap and detergent.
We had to put them in 3 cups.
With a straw I blew the smallest bubbles.
With a straw I blew the longest bubbles.
With a straw I blew the biggest bubbles with shampoo.
I learnt that water with shampoo makes the best bubbles.
By Fyn
By ROOM 6
I enjoyed the part when Mrs Murray told us to blow through
the straw and make as many bubbles as you can.
By Tristan
Bubbles
What makes the best bubbles?
An investigation to find:
I used dishwashing liquid, hand soap, bubble bath
and three straws. With a straw I blew biggest
bubble bath. With a straw I blew the longest
lasting bubble with dishwashing liquid. With
bubble bath I blew the
best bubble. I enjoyed
blowing bubbles out of
the cup.
By Michael
WHAT MAKES THE BEST BUBBLES
I used shampoo/hand soap and detergent .
1tsp was put in each cup.
With a straw I blew the biggest bubble with
shampoo.
With a straw I blew the longest lasting bubble
with hand soap.
With a straw I blew the smallest bubble with
hand soap.
At the end I blew a big pile of bubbles. I learnt
how to make loads of different bubble
mixtures.
By Reilly
An investigation to find the best bubbles.
I used hand soap, shampoo and bubble bath.
1 tsp was put in to one cup.
With a straw I blew the biggest bubble with bubble bath.
With a straw I blew the long lasting bubble with shampoo.
With a straw I blew the longest pile of bubble with hand soap.
With a straw I blew the most colourful bubble with shampoo.
by JORJA
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Easter
At Easter time lots of families have
holidays or go to church to remember
Jesus. Easter day is the day Jesus both
died and came back to life. Easter eggs
are a symbol of life and are usually
made of chocolate.
Some Easter eggs are made of nicer
chocolate then others and are much
more expensive to buy. Gold tin foil
bunny shaped Easter eggs and oval
shaped Easter eggs are always in shops.
Easter eggs come from a factory and are
wrapped up in different colours of tin
foil like blue and purple are usually
used on Easter egg tin foil.
Easter
ROOM 6
WRITING
At Easter people have a holiday and do a
family Easter games like hunting for
eggs or just watching a movie with
your family.
People have a holiday from work and
school for a couple of days. In Easter
you celebrate new life and spending
time with your family.
Easter eggs are a symbol of new life. An
Easter egg is full of chocolate, maybe
caramel or melted chocolate and marshmallow eggs too. Easter eggs are a special gift and the reason why we have
Easter eggs is because they represent
new life. Sweet Easter eggs are made in
a mould with melted chocolate. Some
chocolates have popping candy and lollies inside too. Purple oval Easter eggs
in tinfoil can be bought in shops.
In the Easter holidays people can see
their families because they will have
lots of free time off work and school so
they can have holidays with their
friends and family like going to a
beach. Riding my bike was a fun thing
to do on a sunny day like Sunday.
Next Easter anyone can celebrate Easter
at home or make a party for Easter and
go to people’s houses.
Next Easter my friends and family will
come to celebrate Easter because it only
comes once a year and next time it is
here it will be 2017 and people can go
on holiday again.
By Samantha
By Paige
Easter
Easter
Easter
Easter families celebrate the day that
Jesus came back to life. At Easter people
celebrate a new life of baby chicks,
calves and bunnies.
At Easter family celebrate a new life.
Family celebrate Jesus when he came
back to life. Easter bunnies come once a
year to give us chocolate Easter eggs.
At Easter holidays families do Easter
games like hunting for eggs or just watching movies with your families. Easter
bunnies come once a year to give chocolate Easter eggs.
Easter eggs can be light brown, dark
brown and white chocolate. Easter eggs
can be oval and can be shaped like a
rugby ball.
Easter eggs wrapping can be blue, green,
pink, and yellow and it can have patterns
on the tinfoil.
Easter eggs are a symbol of new life
that can go over and over. Chocolate is
filled of caramel and mint. There are
lots of Easter eggs that have chocolate
inside it. Some have dark chocolate.
Purple Easter eggs can be shaped like
an
oval.
At Easter, families have holidays to
spend with friends.
During the Easter holiday people can go
to all kind of places or away on holiday.
Easter only happens once a year so in
2017 Easter will happen again.
Easter is the time of the year that we
celebrate once a year.
In the Easter holidays families go out for
the day for Easter. At Easter families get
together and celebrate an Easter hunt and
in the long weekends people can go out
shopping for eggs.
By Caprice
Room 6
By Charmaine
Room 6
Next Easter people can celebrate Easter at
home or celebrate Easter parties.
Jesus died on the cross and came back to
life. The chocolate Easter egg can be
filled with little eggs.
Crinkly tinfoil with bright colours is
wrapped around the chocolate rugby ball
shaped egg.
By Maddison, Room 6
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Tyres Repaired in Pokeno
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Mower tyres
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Ride - On tyres
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Save $$$$
All size tyres can be vulcanized.
Sidewall damage OK
Also Hi– performance low profile tyres repaired.
Don’t spend thousands replacing ripped
Tractor tyres.
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H & L Tables
Outdoor Furniture
 Hex BBQ Tables
 Bench Seats
 Planter Seats
 Made to Order
Phone : (09) 2369326 / (027) 6691444
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BEAVER ROAD PET MOTEL
Beaver Road East / Razorback Road Junction,
Minutes from Pokeno Village
Your Local Boarding
Kennels & Cattery.
Family owned & operated
since 1999
Small & Safe for your family pets
Seven days a week / Flexible hours
Ph: (09) 236 0661 / Mob: 0274 381566
www.petmotel.co.nz
LifeStyle Property Services Ltd
GREG ROBERTS
BUILDER
Your Local Lifestyle Block and Grounds
Maintenance Contractor
Mowing of Large Lawns including Catcher Work, Paddock
Topping, Subdivisions, Sports Turf, Fencing, Barberry Hedges,
Trees Felled, Hay Making, Post Ramming.
Ph: 233 6800
0274 970 659
[email protected]
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For all your building requirements
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Alterations
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Extensions
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Ph/Fax: (09) 2336051
Mob: (027) 4734472
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POKENO PLAYCENTRE
MANA MOWING
SERVICES POKENO
Pokeno Road, Pokeno
Ph: (09) 2336151
Email: [email protected]
Free Quotes
Weed-eating available
Ph: Malcolm
(09)232 - 6528
‘Nut Free’ Environment
Monday, Tuesday & Thursday 9.00 - 11:30
Age 0 - 6 Years
027- 207- 4983
LINDSAY
TISCH
MP FOR WAIKATO
All Day Breakfasts
Great Coffee
Delicious Home Cooking
Meals - Burgers - Sandwiches
Relaxing Country Atmosphere
For Confidential
Assistance and advice
please
phone (07) 826 4198
(collect).
Open 7 Days
8.30 am - 4 pm
Great South Road, Pokeno
Ph: (09) 2336890
FRANKLIN
Every Sunday 9am - 4pm
Come to Pokeno and enjoy the Country Market
Experience.
Stalls of interest: Fresh Fruit & Veges Arts & Crafts - Antiques - Organics - Plants Garden Ornaments - Pickles & Jams Woodware - Chocolates - Toys - Books Cooked Food.
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For any enquiries please contact
Roger or Vyvyan:
Home: (09) 2388831
Mobiles: 0274 480842 or 021 2303172
Email: [email protected]
www.franklinmarkets.com
Greetings to all our readers:
As I write this message I am conscious of the change of seasons. Our long hot summer has finished and autumn colours
surround the district. Time to get in the firewood!!
It was a privilege for our church to be involved with the 150th Anniversary service as Pokeno School celebrated this
important milestone. It is important on such occasions to give that for all that has been achieved. Our involvement is just
one of the ways that our church can reach out into the community.
Some of you will have been to see the movie Mahana, the story of two rival shearing gangs on the East Coast. It is
certainly a New Zealand movie that is worth seeing. The opening scene of the movie is centred on a funeral service. That
funeral service was filmed at our very own historic St Mary’s church in Avon Road, Pokeno.
Our churches continue to extend a warm welcome to join our parish worship. All are welcome.
You do not have to be Anglican.
Our services for May are:
1 May 9.30am
St Peter’s Family Service and Sunday School
8 May 9.30am
St Mary’s Family Service and Sunday School
15 May 9.30am St Peter’s Holy Communion
22May 9.30am
St Mary’s Holy Communion
29 May 9.30am
Combined with Bombay Presbyterian church at their church,
We would love to see you.
Blessings. Bruce Owen
Priest in Charge
09 2360870, Bombay Road, Bombay, We would love to see you.
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Pokeno Community Committee
NEXT MEETING : Tuesday 14th April 2016,
7:30pm at the Pokeno Town Hall
Our email is now [email protected]
Everyone is most welcome.
For more information contact - Helen Clotworthy Mob: 027-248-4275
(Meetings to be held every second Tuesday of the month)
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The Real ANZAC Biscuit Story
Last Updated: 6th April 2016.
“Biscuits! Army Biscuits! Consider the hardness of them. Remember the cracking of your dental plate, the breaking of this
tooth, the splintering of that.” From Army Biscuits by Ormond Burton.
Does this bring to mind images of our troops at Gallipoli eating the ANZAC biscuits we know and love today? Staff at the National
Army Museum did some research and found that contrary to popular belief there were no ANZAC biscuits at Gallipoli. The standard
Army biscuit at this time was a rock hard tooth breaker also called the ship’s ANZAC biscuit.
Although it’s a myth that ANZAC biscuits were sent and eaten by troops in Gallipoli, some evidence suggests a rolled oats biscuit was
sent to troops on the Western Front, although this was not widespread.
The majority of rolled oats based biscuits were in fact sold and consumed at fetes, galas, parades and other public events at home, to
raise funds for the war effort. This connection to the troops serving overseas led to them being referred to as ‘soldier’s biscuits’.
Fundraising was co-ordinated by local Patriotic Funds, raising 6.5 million pounds for the New Zealand war effort.
The basic ingredients for a rolled oat biscuit were: rolled oats, sugar, flour, butter with golden syrup used as a binding agent (no eggs).
This made them not only nutritious and full of energy but also long-lasting.
After Gallipoli, New Zealand and Australian troops were universally known as ANZACs. The term ANZAC soon became of great
national significance, so much so that in 1916 to save the ANZAC legend from exploitation, the name became protected by law.
It is fitting then, that after WWI, the most popular rolled oat biscuit had the name and association of ANZAC applied to it and thus the
legend of the ANZAC biscuit began. The first mention in a cookbook of ANZAC biscuits was in 1921.
From www.armymuseum.co.nz
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Save $$$$$
Tyres Repaired in
Pokeno
 Truck tyres
 Tractor tyres
 4 x 4 tyres
 Mower tyres
 Quad Bike tyres
 Ride - On tyres
 etc.
All size tyres can be vulcanized.
Sidewall damage OK
Also Hi– performance low profile tyres repaired.
Don’t spend thousands replacing ripped
Tractor tyres.
Phone: Grant 021 - 0233 - 5981
A note from Mr J…
After a two-week break, children and staff will be ready to launch into term
two on the 2nd May. The holidays are a great chance for children to
recharge the batteries, but they are usually ready to be back at school with
their friends and teachers. Staff will always spend part of their holiday
relaxing and spending time with family, but they will also spend time
planning and preparing for the new term.
Term two at Pokeno School promises to be another full term with a variety
of activities and events planned. Seniors will be involved in East Group Softball and it is likely they will also be
competing in the Franklin Soccer tournament.
Miss Lee and the teachers are also planning a number of visitors and trips in celebration of Matariki. This will be a
focus for the classes towards the end of the term.
This term is also an important one for schools around the country as it is time for Board of Trustees elections. Boards
are elected every three years and it is important that parents and community members consider putting themselves
forward. The Board plays a vital role in the governance of the school, as they are responsible for strategic planning,
financial management, property, student achievement, and employment to name a few.
If you would like to know more about becoming a board member or what it involves then please feel free to contact
me. Alternatively, more information can be found at www.trustee-election.co.nz
Have a great month,
Blair Johnston, Principal
A WORD FROM OUR MP LINDSAY TISCH
150 years of quality educational endeavour
I wish to acknowledge and congratulate the organising committee of the
Pokeno School 150th Jubilee for organising a superb event.
When I was at the school on the Saturday I was delighted to see the support
the school had received from local businesses and past pupils.
Providing quality education for over 150 years is quite an achievement. While I was listening to the
speeches and looking around the school I could not help but reflect on the changes in education over that
length of time. The most obvious change is the move from blackboards to electronic devises, but just as
important is the improvement in the training of teachers and their continued professional development.
Another significant change is that nowadays schools are governed by their own community.
I congratulate and thank the Pokeno community for the support you give your local school.
Constituents wishing to make contact with me or to arrange an appointment to meet with me can do
so by calling my Te Kauwhata Office on 07 826 4198.
(Authorised by Lindsay Tisch MP, 71 Duke St, Cambridge)
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