Hoki mai ano - welcome back.

It is great to be back at school again. It was lovely to return to work to see the redesigned footpaths leading up to school along Withers Road. The new design and positioning of the pathways is far more pedestrian friendly. I encourage you to make use of the Badminton Club car park as much as possible to cut down on traffic congestion at the front of the school.

Road Safety

We need your help keeping all our students safe during drop offs and pick ups. Please use the Badminton car park. Parking on the yellow lines sends the wrong message to our children. When we teach road safety we talk about the right and wrong way to enter parked cars. Parking on the yellow lines and calling your children over is dangerous and contradicts our road safety messages.

Welcome

Welcome to Konini Owen Tumulty, Janet Koschir, Nikki Thompson and Anita Banse, who have all joined the team here at Konini for term 4. Owen is Room 21's teacher, while Janet is teaching in Room 15. Anita and Nikki have joined the Learning Support team and will be working in the Junior School to help support our newest learners.

A special welcome to all our new students who have joined us at the start of term 4.

We will be holding a mihi whakatau tomorrow at 9.30 am to welcome all new students, staff and whānau.

Important Term 4 Dates

School closed - don't forget that school is closed on Friday the 23rd of October. 

Planting bee - we will be holding a community planting bee on Saturday the 24th of October from 10.00 am -12.00 pm. Hope you can join us for our one and only planting bee of the year.

Picnic Performance - if you haven't already, pop this date in your calendar as our annual picnic performance is a very popular community event where our pupils get to share their talents and entertain whānau.  This year's date is Friday the 11th of December and we hope to start as close to 9.00 am as possible.

Ngā manaakitanga

Andrew