It was been an incredible term, and it is hard to believe just how much we have managed to fit in! First, there were our Shakespear Trips, and the building of our Tuakana team spirit. Then we had our class names, where we focused on team spirit within the classroom, built around the naming of the classes around mythical creatures, from the Griffin to the Phoenix, they were all in there!

There was also Swimsports, which was a tremendous day down at Stanmore Bay Pools, where the students excelled in their support, fast-swimming and all-round fun - they were awesome that day, a real privilege to behold. There were the Swimming Sports Finals that took place recently, where the students represented the school awesomely!

The students have worked their socks off, too, with excellent recounts about a fictional beach day, where they focused on improving their vocabulary and use of words for effect in description, to making huge improvements in their basic facts Maths skills, as well as being able to create different forms of data.

As teachers, we were also truly bowled over by the Passion Projects, which were simply awesome - some of those 3-D creations were the best, let alone the slideshows, scratch programming and short stories - simply unbelievable!

MORE FM FRUIT DROP

It was wonderful to have More FM come in yesterday to Room 25 to deliver a large amount of Fruit as part of their Fruit Drop Programme. The students got to be on the radio, tuck into the fruit and also did some Math Statistics as a follow up - fantastic!

Finally, there were the wonderful Inquiry Projects that blew us all away - the slideshows about the children’s Pepeha (Maori introduction) were stunning, with links to google earth and hyperlinks to their Personality Projects.

All-in-all it has been a stunning term and we’re only just getting started! Next term, based around our Inquiry Topic of Living World, we can look forward to our ‘Pet Days’ (more on that coming soon), as well as a superb visit to the Museum in May!

I wanted to say a huge thank you for the continued support of parents and carers, as well as those of you who have already put yourself forward for supporting our Showcase plans as we build towards our Showcase Performance in Term 3. Your support is invaluable, so thank you again. Hope you very much enjoy the break - your children certainly deserve it, and roll on Term 2!

Next Term: Museum Visits and Outstanding Payments

You will receive more information on Hero

Just a reminder that our fantastic Museum Visit is taking place in week 5 of next term. If you have not yet paid for the visit, please pay via Kindo/School Shop shop to make that payment or contact the office. Thank you so much for those who have already paid, as this helps us to organise final numbers well in advance.

There are still some outstanding payments for our excellent spelling programme, STEPS which is invaluable for teaching spelling, grammar and punctuation - Kindo/School Shop

2023 Year 5/6 Camps

Please see below the dates for three camps that will be running for our Tuakana students.  More information will be placed on Enrolmy during the first week of Term 2 in regards to this.

Friday 11th - 13th August : Leadership Camp - Mangawhai - Cost $350

Monday 16th October - Friday 20th October : Year 5 Camp - Mangawhai - $400

Monday 11 December - Friday 15 December : Year 6 Camp - Motutapu Island - $500

We are aware that these camps are expensive despite trying to negotiate prices to keep them affordable.  

Non-refundable deposits must be paid via Enrolmy (deadlines for this will be shared shortly). An invoice will be sent to you with the final balance which can then be paid via Enrolmy as one lump sum. If you would prefer to manage your payments over a longer length of time, you can set up an automatic payment for the outstanding amount into our school account: 

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Please contact Sharon Beard at s.beard@ghs.school.nz if you require assistance in setting up this payment method.

We will be holding parent information online meetings next term.

You will also notice that we have withdrawn some of the previously planned activities to help ease financial stress for our families.  

If you want to check out the Wider Learning Opportunities Payment Schedule in more detail, it is below: