Tena koutou katoa. It has been a lovely week at school. A highlight was to see the Year 4-6 students wearing their production t-shirts that were given out, they looked so good!

If you borrowed a school Chromebook during the lockdown, and your child has now returned to school, can you please return it now as they are needed for class learning. Please ask your child to bring it to the office in the coloured bag you were given, and make sure to include the charger. Thank you to those who already have.

If you would like to download your child's work on Seesaw this year to keep as an online portfolio, please see the instructions below. Please ensure you do this prior to 31 December.

This week I received a lovely email thanking Milford School students for the lovely Christmas cards many of our children made, and posted, to Voices of Hope in their campaign to 'End Loneliness'. They now have enough cards to ensure everyone they wanted to send cards to will receive one which is fantastic news.

The Bubble class, which has students from year 1 to year 4 is making the most of being in the Pouaka Room this term. This week the students made chocolate brownies. They worked in small teams, carefully following the recipe and cooking instructions. This microwave recipe needs just 4 minutes to cook and we all agreed the brownies are really yummy.

Since returning to school Year 3 have been working on writing descriptively. We have learned that there are many different language features that we can use to build a picture in the reader's head. Check out our poetry below to see how we have used amazing alliteration, interesting adjectives and wonderful verbs!

It was so disappointing to have to cancel our prodctions, but we didn't want our students to have to miss out on getting to wear their awesome t-shirst, so during the week, all Year 4's, 5's and 6's got to wear their coloured t-shirts for the day. It was amazing to see the array of colours out on the playground during break time.

These books need to be returned to school please. This is especially important for the Year 6 students leaving our School this year. In case you can't remember what your child had out, I will be providing teachers with a list of what their students still have. There is a box outside the school office for returns. Thank you very much for your help with this. Susan Jury, Librarian.

We are excited to announce that sales from this year’s online exhibition have so far broken all records! With such a bumpy ride, that at times threatened to derail us completely, we are delighted with how sales are tracking for participating artists, and it’s not over yet!

Charlie and Dustin Henderson (past students) of Milford School have christmas trees for sale at 10 Inga Road, Milford again this year. (Opposite Milford Marina)