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This year has been another exceptional year for Mauriceville School and its students. With a steady stream of 5-year-olds coming into the school we’ve been busy settling them into school life and enjoying seeing their enthusiasm for learning and love of being here. All students are making great progress with their learning and our older students are becoming independent active learners who identify what they need and want to learn, then go ahead and work on developing their knowledge and skills with teacher support. It’s an exciting time at Mauriceville School with new links being formed with both our local and wider community. It’s been wonderful to experience the ongoing support of our community and have people visit the school and enjoy working with our children.

Kim Lupo

When you re ect on what’s happened in a year, we wonder how we’ve had time to t in all the amazing learning opportunities and experiences our children have had.

Mauriceville School is certainly a very busy place and it’s good to see our new school values being lived each and every day by our students and sta . Academically our students are going from strength to strength and there is a lovely ‘learning’ buzz about the school. This year we implemented the Garden to Table programme which has seen us spending weekly sessions in our vegetable garden or cooking with whatever produce we grow. It’s early days yet, but we are looking forward to being able to harvest silverbeet, beetroot, potatoes, cabbage, onions, strawberries and enjoy the fruit from our pear, apple and plum trees. At the beginning of the year we added some Orpington chickens to our little school whānau, and it’s a real treat for the children to go and feed the chooks or collect the eggs each day, and to be able to use them in our cooking. As usual, sports is always a highlight for us and we’ve enjoyed swimming lessons at Masterton pool, cross-country and athletics with the other rural schools and participating in Have a Go day. This year the older students participated in the Te Rerenga Ake programme with Rangitane. They learned much about themselves, as well as about local Māori history, culture, traditions and customs, culminating in a fabulously emotional presentation and performance. We were fortunate enough to be gifted a Trapping and Tracking kit, and this has been a well used addition to our curriculum, especially when it came to trapping a large rat who had made a home in our grounds. Our environmental focus comes through strongly by having developed a native garden, combined with our trapping and tracking, establishment of vegetable gardens, planting of fruit trees and the use of solar panels on the school to provide a more sustainable energy source for the school. Mauriceville is a quintessential country school so come along and check it out.

The school chooks.

Noah busy weeding the vege garden. Camping and camp res on the eld.

Te Rerenga Ake graduation.

Our holiday reading challenge stars. Awhi making scrambled eggs.

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