Kia ora whanau. Welcome back everyone. Our Term 4 calendar is already looking really busy with lots of exciting learning programmes being planned. Let's hope we get no interruptions and the summer weather arrives very soon. Congratulations to our Tough Guy/Gal competitors they certainly had a fabulous time on Tuesday. I loved seeing all their happy faces in the photos. Also a big congratulations to our Khandallah Rockets Grade A Netball Team, who were undefeated this season. What a great achievement.

The following events can also be found on our school calendar on our school website.

42 of our students attended the Tough Guy & Gal event on Wednesday at Camp Wainui. A HUGE thank you to all the parent drivers and helpers - without you all we wouldn't be able to attend the event .. you were all awesome! After having a year of kids missing out on events, it was so great to have this go ahead!

The annual St. Brigid’s Kapa Haka festival is still going ahead, although it is digital-only this year. On Wednesday of Week 3, the 28th of October, we will be filming our Kapa Haka performance to be included in the Northern Suburbs Kapa Haka video compilation.

We would like to welcome all our new students and their families to Khandallah School:

The Student Enviroschools Team (Green Team) has been looking at the possibility of our school having plastic free lunches. Plastic rubbish is a real problem in the world today. Plastic rubbish is dumped in landfill slowly degrading to toxic chemicals for upto 1000 years. Plastic is often washed out to the ocean forming the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Sea animals eat the plastic thinking that it is food and can get sick or die. They die because their stomach gets filled with plastic and they are not hungry so they starve to death.

Issue 7 will be coming home today. Orders are due back Thursday 22nd October please. Good ideas for Christmas gifts. We can hold items as gifts at the office to collect. No cash sales.

The Northern Zone Netball Prizegiving was held on Monday night. The Khandallah Rockets won the Year 6 girls A Grade final and were undefeated the entire season.

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