Kia ora e te Whānau

Mā pango mā whero ka oti ai te mahi

With red and with black the work will be complete

We have made it through to the end of term – the whole 11 weeks bar a few days for public holidays. It’s been a long term but we have had lots of successes. Our behaviour is smoothing out, we have 101 students coming to the Pizza Party today which means they have over 40 Care Cards. It’s great we can celebrate together. We also have gained our first whole school reward and enjoyed sausages and chips together a couple of weeks ago. Surprisingly, we have also nearly achieved our next whole school reward which is going to be a digi day – this will either be later this week on short notice or very early next term.

Next term we have lots of exciting things happening:-

· Year 6 Camp

· Elephant Park/Ōrauwhata Visit (Bishopdale Library)

· Science Week – in school

· Art Week

· Matariki

· Cross Country

· Bully Free Week

· St Johns First Aid Training – Whole school

· Reading Together Parent training

· Pasifika weekly

· Our Education Review Office visit

· And all of our routines that we have now.

Parent Volunteers

We thank the parents who are coming into school to help out. If there’s anyone else who would like to help out particularly with our lunch duties, please let us know. This definitely stretches staff capability so teachers have time to have their lunch and also go out on duty – teachers only have a 15 minute break when they are on duty – which is most days. You would be out with 2 teachers supporting them rather than having to control behaviour! You could even give out our purple counters for recognising good behaviour.

Pasifika

We are employing Pasifika tutors to come in on a Thursday for an hour starting next term. This will not be offered to all students but will be for those that identify with Pasifika or who are genuinely interested – even if they are not Pasifika themselves. There will be a separate notice coming home about this for you to return to let us know that you are interested but otherwise just ring us and let us know.

Enrolments

We are having a lot of enrolments at the moment. Please be aware of this as we will be ‘full’ before the end of the year. If you have a preschooler or know someone who is thinking of joining us then please enrol sooner rather than later. If you are in our zone we need to automatically accept you but we will be limiting out of zones.

Staff Car Park

This is not to be used for drop offs or pick ups before and after school. It’s dangerous to drop off there when it’s used for our courier deliveries, teacher parking, etc. It’s also tricky to get in and out onto the main road. Our gate is usually shut during this time – if it’s open it’s for a reason.

Welcome to New Students

We would like to welcome 2 new students to our school, Nuwayla Ali in Kōwhai and Peni Delaibatiki in Tōtara.

Newsletter Competition

The question for the week is:-

What National holiday is on during the holidays?

Write your answer on a piece of paper, named, and pop it in the kete in the office – 3 Care Cards for Juniors, 3 Care Cards for Seniors.

The winners last week were Sanuli Kotte Acharige and Maddie Wanhalla.

Attendance

Last week the voucher was won by Jayce Puklowski.  He won a Kmart voucher.  And for the week before the voucher was won by Maddie Wanhalla, who also won a Kmart voucher.

The class with the highest attendance wins an Ice Pop each from Mrs Mac. Last week this was won by Totara. When their teacher is ready they will receive their reward.

Care Cards

Students who have earned their:

20 Care Cards are:- Micah Coates, Jayce Puklowski, Lily Munyaka, Dae Dae Undersen, Raibey Soriano, Octavia MacDonald, Jesiah Rawiri, Paige Theunissen, Hunter Parkhill, Sara Mengistu and Ameika Sione Tindall.

40 Care Cards: Archer Booth, Arsalan Hussaini, Zainabjaan Afshar Haydari, Ubaida Shurab, Addyson Ischia, Simrat Singh, Nikiyah Almond, Emeline Vaea, Jeremiah Castillo, Sirat Kaur, Laynee Bates, Dipika Aryal, Pippa Chellew, Josiah Masoe, Deyah Shurab, Wairere Phillips, Uriah Panapa, Rhythm Hughes-Tahitahi, Sacha-Lee Isaacs, Xiamara Gatchalian, Kristen Entwistle and Ocean Blue Mahanga-Ward.

60 Care Cards: Kabeer Kashif, Johnny Matthews, Quentin Phelps, Abraham Asefa, Mia Taituha-Ropoama, Nadia Omidi, Anaayajot Randhawa, Lennox Jones, Kasiyas Van Den Dorpe, Angelica Morgan, Charlotte Scarlett, Kapish Bhiwagade, Leroy Pere-Epiha, Ceon Deepu, Meera Lamba, Oshen-Rayne Wharehinga, Avi Pothabattula, Laelani Wilson, Laylah Langdon, Rayyan Ashenafi, Lyon Otufangavalu and Jahmarley Falwasser.

80 Care Cards: Site Masoe, Shakur Millar, Logan Dew, Kinley Meredith and Ezra Xu.

Have an amazing break with your tamariki – we’ll see you back here on Monday April 29.

Ngā mihi

Jill McArthur/Mrs Mac

Tumuaki (Principal)