Safety: Glass, China, Knives, Scissors, Secateurs, skewers, etc. Please have the children’s equipment clearly named and breakable items well wrapped. Small boxes and buckets can be useful. Sharp items also need to be carefully wrapped. Please send along only small vegetable knives with a chopping board- all named. These are to be used under teacher supervision. School Uniform / Farm Gear: Students who are entering calves, kids or lambs are permitted to wear suitable farm clothing tomorrow. All other students are required to wear full school uniform.
Parking Information: Due to space restrictions with the reserve developments in progress, we have a change to our usual parking structure for Ag Day. If your child has a lamb or kid entered, please drop them off on the pool side of the school and park your car in the Ice Pak area. For those delivering calves to school, you are to access the field at the rear of the TCC and park carefully on the grass near Totara 10 and Rata 9. All of our children will be involved in our special rural day - agriculture as well as horticulture will be celebrated on the day. While children with farm animals and caged pets will be out with their animals, the rest of the children in the school will be involved in a section called Horticultural Happenings. These children will be creating a variety of displays and arrangements selected from the list below - also for judging. On the day, all of our children will be able to enjoy seeing the young farm animals as well as the pets and horticultural creations. Classrooms will be open for viewing on Friday 14th, to share some of the week’s activities. As well as this there will be specific judging areas to visit with the Friday Horticultural Happenings on display. Pet diaries are due at school on Monday 10th October. We are looking forward to a great day and hope you are able to join us on this special day.
Horticultural Happenings All children are involved in this except those showing lambs, calves and kids.
Listed below are the activities and equipment required to achieve these, for the 3 syndicate groups. These activities will be worked on by the children between 8:30am and 10:00am on Friday morning. This year, Taupiri and Pirongia will be having activities that children will choose from the ‘must do’ list and the ‘can do’ list. Taupiri Junior School Activities:
Pirongia Middle School Activities:
Maungatautari Senior Syndicate:
Fair and Honest Competition: As the Horticultural Happenings on Friday morning are to be judged, they have to be fully created by the children during their morning slot. This means that no pre-cutting of vegetables etc is to be done prior to school. Practising at home is fine, but ultimately it is the children’s work that is to be judged.
Safety: Glass, China, Knives, Scissors, Secateurs, skewers, etc. Please have the children’s equipment clearly named and breakable items well wrapped. Small boxes and buckets can be useful. Sharp items also need to be carefully wrapped. Please send along only small vegetable knives with a chopping board- all named. These are to be used under teacher supervision.
Prizes: This year, there is a prize for 1st place in each category.
PROGRAMME 8.20 – 8.50am Pet registration (back field)
Notes: *Farm Animals to back field *Caged Pets and Pet Rocks to the TCC
8.30am Meeting of Judges in the staffroom 9.00am Judging commences for calves, lambs and kids 9.30am Vet Nurse to visit Caged Pets 11.50 am Raffle Draw 12.00pm Presentation of Cups and Ribbons 12.45pm Viewing of Horticultural Happenings 1.30pm All pets to be taken home 2.10pm Horticultural happenings to be taken home |
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