Kia ora e te whanau. We are nearing the end of term 3, thank you for your support and involvement in our school events!

In the past 2 weeks we have had much to celebrate including our ART EXPO(click link to see more).

Our Show Quest group performed with much skill and passion at the Canterbury event at the Christchurch Town Hall. They had a heartfelt ANZAC theme and put their all into it. The costumes and props were superb and the music and video backgrounds. Our item got by far the biggest cheer! Thank you Mrs McCarthy, Mrs Gilmore, Miss Hurley, Miss Ritchie and Miss Cherry for your effort, expertise and energy throughout.

SHOW QUEST SPECIAL AWARDS

Whetū Rangatahi (Star of the Show) - Anna Viljoen

Public Speaking Award - Elisa Taulava and Arliyah Fletcher

TECHNICAL AWARDS

KAIAPOI NORTH SCHOOL - Best Styling, Highly Commended Props

TOI AWARDS Wearable arts BEST USE OF INNOVATIVE MATERIALS - Misty  - Adelyn Wilson

Well done Te Kura o Ruataniwha KNS community for supporting our Matariki celebrations last week! We started Thursday with a whanau breakfast gathering with over 100 children and adults in attendance. We then enjoyed a House group Matariki Day where each group worked together in activities to build their Te Reo and Tikanga.

On Friday our Kapa Haka performed at the Kaiapoi Matariki Celebration - they were amazing, warming up the large crowd at the opening of the event. Well done to all, and thank you to Mr Hamish Dale for leading our Matariki celebrations!

Congratulations to the 5 students (Indiana May, Isla Tafu, Cooper Jolly, Jack Edinburgh, Elisa Taulava) who competed at the Canterbury Cross Country on a very cold and wet course! All of our runners competed strongly in the large fields of 120-180 per age group.

Congratulations to our students who have competed in the ePro8 challenges hosted in our school hall this week. Each team has been up against 12 other teams in their heats. Congratulations to all of our children for your skill, teamwork and enthusiasm for STEM challenges. Thank you to Miss Darby, Miss Ritchie and Mr Dean Sole for your coaching and support of these teams.

Yr 7/8
Team 1 - Sam Gilmore, Charlie Lawrence, Raymond Xu, Jacob Cations - Came 1st Place (qualified for semi final in Chch wk 3 of next term)

Team 2 - Xavier Hurcomb, Ethan Matterson, Sam Plunkett, Braxton Beaumont

Yr 5/6

Team 1 - Rowan Mitchell, Connor Wallis, Flynn Tucker, Liam Macgregor - Came 3rd equal (qualified for semi final in Chch wk 3 of next term)

Team 2 - Lauren McGrane, Layla Schimanski, Ben Plunkett.

All the best to our Year 7/8 basketball teams competing in the holiday tournament in Oamaru. Our boys and girls A teams and boys development teams will enjoy competing against other schools and representative teams at the 3 day tournament. Thank you to Mrs Gilmore for leading this and to all staff and parents for your support to make this happen.

Upcoming events

Katote Music Festival (choir)- Wednesday 3rd July @ KHS

Term 3 ends - 3pm, Friday 5th July

Kaiapoi Art Expo - 6th and 7th July

Year 7/8 Basketball teams at Oamaru Tournament - middle weekend of holidays

Term 2 begins - Monday 22nd July

Canterbury Hip Hop competition - Wednesday 24th July

Spellathon testing day - Thursday 1st August

Board of Trustees meeting - Monday 5th August, 5:30pm

Year 8 Whanau KHS information session in Tiwai - Mon 5th Aug, 7pm

Year 5-8 North Canterbury Winter Sport tournament - Tues 6th Aug

KNS Whanau hui - Tues 6th Aug, 6pm

Thank you for our positive school-home partnership! Wishing you a safe and enjoyable holiday break ahead.

Nga Mihi,

Jason Miles, principal