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Variety Show

A massive congratulations to our senior leaders who, with the senior leaders from JPII, who organised the whole variety show, It was such a fantastic night all of the acts were amazing. A special congratulations go to Ms Wise and Ms Nitesh who showed us their amazing talents with Ms Wise singing and playing the piano, and Ms Nitesh’s traditional Indian dancing. I especially enjoyed the final act of all of the senior leaders singing songs from across the ages - fabulous!

Basketball Nationals in Palmerston North

I was so fortunate to be able to attend the Girls’ and Boys’ High School Basketball Nationals in Palmerston North in the first week of the Term 3 holidays. I had a fantastic time watching nearly all of our students’ games. They all played so hard and with so much heart I was really proud. The photo that I chose for this week’s newsletter really epitomises to me how fantastic sport is. It is great to win but what is even better is becoming a great person!

I would also like to thank the parents and whānau who came to watch and to all of our sponsors!

The Pub Charity Limited for a grant which assisted our families even further for sending away our talented athletes.

Boys’ Sponsors:

• Honey Cafe

• Dp1 Cafe

• Badboy Graphix Ltd

• West Coast Basketball Association

Girls' Sponsors:

• Isaac’s Construction

• Whāia Legal

• DP1 Cafe

• TEAM Architects

• Badboy Graphix Ltd

• West Coast Basketball Association

Term 4

We are asking every student to be signed off by their Dean before they leave school. We want to ensure that all of our students get their highest NCEA qualifications possible this year and our teachers are there to support them to do this.

Senior Key Dates

• Years 11 and 12- last day - Thursday 3rd November
• Year 13 last day - Friday 4th November
• Senior Prizegiving - Tuesday 6th December

Our juniors are busy finishing internal assessments and have exams and tests at various times during the term.

Ka ora, Ka ako

We have some amazing news for next year! We have been accepted onto the Ka ora, Ka ako programme - free school lunches. This will start up in Term 1, 2023 and is available for all students. We are still in the early stages of investigating all of our options and as soon as we know more we will be in touch with you. For now, check out the link below.

https://www.education.govt.nz/our-work/overall-strategies-and-policies/wellbeing-in-education/free-and-healthy-school-lunches/

Accord Days - School will be closed for instruction

We have our final two Accord days in November:

• Tuesday 29th - we are based at school

• Wednesday 30th - we will all be at the Arahura Marae.

If you have any comments please feel free to email the office at office@greyhigh.school.nz

“Whāea te iti kahurangi - strive for success”

Ngā mihi nui

Samantha Mortimer

Principal