We hope you have all had a wonderful summer holidays! 🌞

Term 1 2023 starts next Tuesday 7th February at 8.50am.

We are so looking forward to welcoming students back and meeting our new students and their families!

Please remember to pack a wide brimmed sunhat and apply sunblock before coming to school. We also have wide brimmed sunhats for sale at the school office for $10 ☀

John Parsons Presentation & Sausage Sizzle for the children!

On Wednesday 8th February at 5:30pm John Parsons will be presenting to our school about cyber safety. We welcome all our parents and caregivers to come along to this fantastic talk, your family and friends are most welcome to come along too 🙂

We will have a sausage sizzle for children and have teachers organised to supervise them outside while you attend this presentation.

John Parsons is New Zealand’s leading authority on cyber-safety for children and the author of “Keeping your children safe online”. He works with victims of cyber-crime, the New Zealand Police and within the education and health sectors.

John is an engaging presenter and will share statistics, facts and everyday stories about children and families in our community who had been affected by unsafe internet usage. This will be a practical workshop with John providing skills and strategies to help you to be safe online and be responsible digital citizens in the digital world.

For more information about John Parsons, visit Citizen21 Internet Safety John Parsons Cyber Safety or check out his Facebook page (5) John Parsons: S2E | Facebook

School Lunches

On Monday, Tuesday and Thursday each week you are able to order lunches from Macarthur Street Dairy.

You can order by setting up an account via www.lunchonline.co.nz or by clicking the following link: lunchonline . These orders need to be placed before 8.30am to be delivered for that day.

Subway lunch orders will be available each Friday this year.

To order you need to head to www.subwayexpress.co.nz and select school lunch programme.

The order needs to be placed before 8.30am to be delivered for that day.

📝Stationery Lists

All of our stationery lists are on our website, please click the following link to view: stationery lists

I have also attached these below.

Year 8 Technology

The year 8 technology run through Waiopehu College will commence on Thursday 16th February.

🗓 Upcoming Dates:

*  First day for Term 1, 2023 - Tuesday 7th February 8.50am

*  John Parson's cyber safety presentation - Wednesday 8th February 5.30pm

Nga mihi,

Alasdair Maclean