From the Principal - Wednesday 27th November 2019
We are certainly ramping up with events, activities and celebrations! Thank you for all of your whanau support of all of these, without your willingness to be involved and support with parent help, transport help and as an audience they would not occur. There will be a final newsletter sent home in the last week of term along with a letter with details about class placements for 2020.
On Tuesday evening we celebrated our Performing Arts opportunities at KNS. The variety and skill level of performances entertained the audience. We enjoyed performances from our ukulele group, choir, jump jam team, hip hop teams and school rock bands. Congratulations to our Year 8 trophy winners Ella Van Meer, Angam Vraich, Loucee Coutts, Aaliyah Newton and Lauren Clark! Thank you to our music teacher Mrs Claire Osgood, performing arts lead teacher Mrs Olivia McCarthy, and choir teacher Mel Poynter for your superb job in providing opportunities and organising these groups throughout 2019. There were many badges and bars presented throughout the evening.
What an impressive effort by almost 120 Year 5-8 children (and parents) who have now completed their 3 Peaks challenge for 2019! Tramping up Godley Head, Mt Richardson and Mt Isobel is a tremendous effort - something to be very proud of! Thank you to Mr Johnson, Mr O, Miss Hurley and Ms Matthews and the many parents who all made this possible.
Well done to our Year 5/6 Ki O Rahi team who learnt a new sport and competed to a high level at the Canterbury event. Congratulations to Ambah Robinson who was presented with one of just two individual medals for showing Manaakitanga (Uplifting the mana/morale of others), Kotahitanga (Showing unity – a team player on and off the field, and Rangatiratanga – (Showing leadership)!
We are very proud of Aaliyah Newton and Max Dunbar who were selected as part of the South team in the North Canterbury Basketball All Stars game on Sunday. Not only did they both contribute greatly but their South team won the game and Max was named MVP for the match - ka pai Max!
We are working through our class list placements for 2020. If you would like to share any information with me about class placements for 2020 please do by this Monday 2nd December via email jason.m@kaiapoinorth.school.nz. There will be an email next week giving you an update for your child's progress and achievement. If you would like to speak to your child's home class teacher about the information please get in contact directly with him/her.
There is still a lot to look forward to in term 4, here are some coming up for your calendar at home:
KNS Raupo and Akeake Athletics - Monday 2nd December
Celebration evening - Sports, Outdoor and Coding (6:00pm Thursday 5th Dec)
First Lego League team in NZ competition in Auckland - 1 & 2 December
Canterbury Athletics - Wednesday 4th December.
Year 5-8 Road patrol, Librarian, computer monitor badge assembly and sharing of Year 8 2020 school leaders - 2:00pm Thursday 5th December
Kaiapoi Santa Parade - PTA float - Saturday 7th December
Year 8 Prizegiving and Social Tuesday 10th December 6pm start
Term 4 and 2019 school year ends - Friday 13th December, 12:00pm - final assembly from 11:00am.
Term 1, 2020 begins - Wednesday 29th January