It is hard to believe that there are only two more weeks of Term 3 left, it has truely flown by here in Mahuta.

It has been great to see the sun shining this week and the students have been outside practising for athletics. Please continue to make sure your child is bringing their P.E gear to school on Wednesday and Friday.

Market Day Ako Base - Fiona, Caitlin and April.

This term in Mahuta, we have been busy preparing for market day. We have been following a Ako base which has the different steps of what we need to do.

We have chosen to do lip scrubs for the market day. Some of the steps we have been doing are researching ideas on what to make, finding out how to make it, how much it costs and more. We are currently on step six which is making some prototypes of our lip scrubs and seeing what people think of them. We are having lots of fun testing our product and can’t wait to sell and buy stuff at market day.

A reminder that our Market day will be held in Term Four on Thursday 2 November.

Tuakana Teina in action: Making Coffee with Liam - By Amber  

On Wednesday Liam taught me how to make coffee with his coffee machine. We poured some milk into the milk warmer and turned it on then we had to put some water into the holder. We then put a little coffee pod into the machine and put a cup under where the coffee comes out and pressed the button to make the coffee come out. Then once the coffee had finished coming out we poured the milk into the cup and stirred it. Liam was a very awesome teacher and I really enjoyed learning from Liam.

A little bit about our new Mahuta teacher Mrs Wray

Kia ora, my name is Mrs. Hélène Wray. I am married to Andrew and we have two children, Danielle, aged 11 and Benjamin, who is 8.I met Andrew, who is from Christchurch, in London and we moved to New Zealand 16 years ago.My sister and I grew up in Belgium with a French father and a Flemish mother. At the age of 15, the whole family moved to London due to my mother’s work commitments.In 1999, I graduated with a Bachelor of Accounting (Honours) at Paisley University in Scotland. In 2016, I retrained to become a primary school teacher.I am so excited to be part of Merrin School and I am looking forward to getting to know you all.

Merrin Netball Club Dinner

It was the Merrin Netball club dinner on Thursday evening and there was a fantastic turn out, thank you to everyone that came along. A special congratulations to Juliet Phoon and Mia du Toit who won two of the club trophies for this season. Juliet received the overall junior netballer of the year and Mia received the most improved.

Dates for your diary:

Friday 29th September 11.00am - Full school assembly  for Lisa Mac

Friday 29th September - Last day of Term Three

We hope you all have a lovely weekend.

From Lisa, Urmi, Peri, Helene and Laura.