Tomaratians clip their noodles for brave kids

On Saturday the 25th of August Simon Drinkrow, Mike Stevens, Ty Stevens, Rafe Macdonald and Tamsyn Farr shaved off their hair for cancer. Cancer effects thousands of people world wide and we think it is a very worthy cause. So far we have raised over $1000 and the number keeps rising. There is still a donation bucket in the Tomarata school office, the lotto shop and the Mangawhai optometrists if you would like to donate. To keep the most hair we could Ty tied her hair into bunches which were chopped off by Rafe Macdonald, Carol-Ann Stevens, Mike Stevens, Tamsyn Farr and Lynn Duffin. We would like to thank everyone for your support and would like to give a special thank you to Sean Pearson who did the clipping.


Ty Stevens, Rafe Macdonald and Tamsyn Farr

Tomarata School Mathex

On Friday 17 August, Yr 4-8 students competed in the Tomarata School Mathex Problem Solving competion. Students had an enjoyable day. There were many exciting competitions including 3 tie breakers among the 5 year levels.

The Room 6 Worm Farm

On Wednesday the 25th of July Room 6 made their very own worm farm. It was very dirty work. Everybody worked very hard on it. First we were split into groups and assigned jobs.
The jobs were:
*Cutting up the food
*Collecting the worms
*Ripping up the paper
*Setting up the worm farm
After we completed our tasks we put everything together.We started by placing the netting on the bottom of the bath tub, and then we placed in the soil. After that we put in the ripped paper and then we placed in the worms .Then placed a pile of food on each set of worms and put cardboard on top so the worms didn't get too hot. Now we are feeding them every week so we can have our very own organic fertiliser for our garden.

By Holly and Nicky