Kia ora Whanau. It's been a busy few weeks at school. We have also seen a rise in illness over the last two weeks. There seems to be a lot of winter ills about. We appreciate you keeping your tamariki at home and letting us know when they are unwell. At this stage, we have only a small number of active Covid cases, but it is still in our community.

Thank you Mr Miller: We are very grateful to Mr Ali Miller for donating his yummy Yams to school to sell as a fundraiser.  Thanks also to our PAL's sales team, we made close to $800!  Our PALs are thinking about exciting ways we could use the money to enhance our school.  Mr Miller also donated an Enormous Pumpkin.  We have given him a thank you goodie bag but we could not convince him to have a photo.  We thank him very much for his support and kindness. 

The Enormous Pumpkin:  Mr Miller ran a competition to see if anyone could guess the weight of the Enormous Pumpkin.  We took the pumpkin to assembly so everyone could see it.  We had a range of guess all the way up to 100Kg!  The actual weight of the pumpkin was 10.9Kg and we had three students that guessed 11Kg.  Mr Miller decided we should therefore have three winners!  Congratulations to Tama (Rm 3), Alex (Rm 8) and Lexi (Rm 17).  Mr Miller kindly gave all three children a prize from Netherby Meats.

Nanogirl Science Show: We all learned something new at this very interactive show.  It was a great opportunity to see some very cool science experiments that the children were able to join in with. 

Lost Property: We continue to have a large number of unnamed uniform items in our lost property.  We return named items to students and the rest is available for collection in the cloak bay between Room 6 and 7.  Once a term, we put everything on the veranda for classes to check for any lost items.  Items that remain unclaimed will be washed and taken to the Red Cross shop.  

EPro8: Our Year 5/6 students enjoyed having additional EPro8 kits at school to experiment with.  Congratulations to Lucas (Rm 11), Jack (Rm 8), Alex (Rm 8) and Cohen (Rm 10) who will go to compete against other Year 5/6 students in the EPro8 competition on 7th July. 

THANK YOU OUR AMAZING SUPPORT STAFF: We would like to give a massive shout out to all our Support Staff Super Stars: Mrs Forrester,  Mrs Marriott , Miss Rose Wilson,  Ms Murcott, Mrs Overend, Miss Shea, Miss Johnston, Mrs O'Brien, Mrs Frost, Mrs Cameron, Miss Dodd, Miss Darrell, Mrs Gray, Miss Anderson, Mrs Allan,  Mrs Ritchie.  These amazing people do so many things to support our school and our students.  We appreciate everything you do.  Thanks a bunch!  We have attached some photos of some of our class Thank you displays to celebrate Support Staff Week.

Students of the Week: We had two this week!  Tommyano is a kind and caring boy who always gives every activity or task a go. He will put in 100% effort and produce high quality work done to the best of his ability. He is very well mannered and polite to his peers and teachers. Tommyano is a helpful and kind member of Room 17.  Lavinia is kind and caring towards everyone.  She can be reliable and responsible. She takes on every opportunity she is offered. Always has the biggest smile on her face. Loves learning and gives everything 100%.

Meetings: Our next Board of Trustees meeting is on Wednesday 22 June at 6.30pm (following the Information evening at 5.30pm) in the Staffroom. Please note change of date. Our next PTA meeting is Tuesday 2 August at 6.30pm in the Staffroom. All Welcome

Paid Union Meeting: Teachers will attend a Paid Union Meeting on the afternoon of Friday 17 June. School will finish at 12:30pm on this day and children will bring their Kai for Kids home with them.

Coming Up:

• Matariki Night: Monday 20 June from 5pm
• Board of Trustees Information Evening: Wednesday 22 June from 5:30pm
• Matariki Holiday: Friday 24 June
• Queens Birthday Holiday: Monday 6 June
• Paid Union Meeting: Friday 17 June, school finishes at 12:30pm.
• Last day of Term 2: Friday 8 July
• First day on Term 3: Monday 25 July

Regards
Claudine Campbell
Principal