Time is certainly flying by. On Monday the 6th December we will have a transition day for students in Year 1-8 where our incoming students from Waiau, Rotherham and Hanmer come to visit our school for the afternoon and our Year 6 students cross the road to meet their new classmates.

On Tuesday the 7th we will have the first of our award assemblies with Year 11 from 1pm. We ask all Year 11 be in full uniform for this event please. All our presentation assemblies this year will be posted onto Facebook AND will be uploaded to our school YouTube channel with the links sent to you by email. This means if you do not have a Facebook account you can still watch if you wish. We will test run the new equipment we have purchased for live streaming at the Year 6 Graduation this week and I would like to thank Regan Clark in Year 11 for his expertise in putting this together.

Congratulations to Baylea Black, Lily Black and Ella Dawson for coming second and third in the Australian Super Nationals Cheerleading Competition.

Today (Friday 3rd) is the last day our Year 11 students are expected to attend classes. We expect to see them back on Tuesday next week for their final exam and achievement assembly.

As you are aware NZ will moving into the traffic light system from today. Schools are at this time an exception to this rule change and we are requested to operate under ALERT LEVEL TWO guidelines until the end of the year and adopt the traffic light system for 2022. This means no real change to us and we carry on as we are until the 16th December.

I am unwilling to send out a heap of information on traffic lights yet due to:-

1. I suspect there will be some changes over the coming weeks to the guidance as some of it is quite contradictory. I.e. in the RED level Year 4 and above have to wear masks all day at school but not on the bus until you are 12 or over?2. We have no idea where we will be in the colour system this far out.

My intention is to send our current and relevant guidance on back-to-school health matters late in January when we are in a better position to make it worthwhile and accurate.

Year 12 and 13 Prizegiving

With the change to the alert systems the Ministry of Education have made it clear to us that having parents on site for this is a NO!

We will have the event now on Friday 10th December at 2pm so it is within school time and we cannot allow parents to attend.

This will be live streamed on Facebook and posted to YouTube for you to watch. Sorry folks we did try but simply cannot make this happen in the current environment. All students in uniform please for the event on the 10th.

Hard to believe only nine days of school to go!

Nga mihi nui.

James Griggs
Principal

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Dates for Your diary

December

6th Year 7-9 Transition Day
7th Prizegiving for Year 11 at 1pm straight after final Science exam
8th Board of Trustees Meeting at 6:00pm
10th Prizegiving for Year 12 and 13 at 2.00pm in the Community Room
16th Prizegiving for Year 1-10: Staggered throughout the morning with buses leaving at 1.15pm on this day.
January 2022
24th School office opens
February
2nd Years 1-8 students and student leaders return
3rd All students return
7th Waitangi Day observed - SCHOOL CLOSED

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Roll of Honour
Jay Duncan
Marc Shein Quevedo
1st Merit
Ashlyn Abernethy
Zac Barbara
Rachael Bell
Reuben Chinnery
Ben Jimmink
Jourdyn Keepa
Rhys Lewis
Martha McRae
Ella Milne
Joricah Paragas
Caleb Parmar
George Thompson
2nd Merit
Jack Cater
Archie McDonald

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Ella Dawson, Lily and Baylea Black have just competed in the Cheerbrandz Super Nationals, a huge cheerleading event run across New Zealand and Australia where the teams who couldn't travel could enter virtually. Ella and Lily are on the Allstar Pride Superkatz and they came away with the bronze in the Elite Novice Youth grade.

Baylea is on the Allstar Pride Bengals team who took home silver in the Cheersport Grade 1 Mini division.

A massive achievement given the disruption they have had this season with most of their competitions being cancelled, Well done girls!