Heading towards the end of the school year, there are still things happening, right up until the last minute!

Dear Parents

As we race towards the end of the term there are a few exciting events and projects yet to happen in the next two and a half weeks. Building is well underway for our Makerspace and is expected to be completed by the start of next year ready to use for making, creating, inventing and innovating!

Tiwai is off to camp next week at Kauaeranga Valley Christian Camp for three days. The Year 8 Graduation Dinner is coming up where we honour and farewell our graduating students formally. Our very first JCS Athletics Day is this Thursday at Olympic Park. Houses will be competing against each other so come dressed in your child’s house colours and join in the cheering. There may even be a teacher/parent race. Manu and Wai are going to bless the residence of Selwyn Park rest home with a Christmas concert. The Pasifika Homework Centre is having their Christmas party this Thursday with a dance performance celebrating two terms in operation. This has been such a great initiative with so much good learning happening, making a real difference for our Tamariki. There will be a Mufti Day on Friday 4 December with a double coin donation, one in support of our TEAR Fund sponsor child Benimana from Rwanda and the other in support of Paralympics. The theme is "come dressed in anything GOLD". The Ika Learning Area have been sizzling sausages madly to raise money for their end of year trip to Jump.

The year will end with the Junior and Senior Awards Ceremonies. I am looking forward to seeing as many of you as can make it to these two special occasions. Summative progress reports will be given out on this day.

There will be one more newsletter coming this year with a recap of a year that will go down as one of kind, where learning and connecting took on a whole new way of doing. Staff, parents and students have done so well to cope with what, quite suddenly, came upon us and to keep going as best we could. It is the faithfulness of a steadfast God who has been our anchor and strength. He is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow and in an everchanging landscape this is a great comfort. May we be faithful unto death to the call He has given us.

Yours in His service

Sandra Bosman