Kia ora koutou katoa. In a previous newsletter, I mentioned how amazing our EPRO8 teams are and their achievements this year in competitions. Well the accolades don’t stop there. We have just heard that our Wonder Project entry has won the all of New Zealand title!!

Thanks to the beautiful weather, the Year 0 and 1 students had a very successful athletics morning. For most students this would have meant showing the Learner Profile attribute of being a risk-taker, and participating in events that they may have felt nervous or anxious about. The children participated in egg and spoon races, sack races, hurdles, shot-put, sprints and long distance running. Thank you to all the parents who came to support and cheer on the children, and then stayed to enjoy morning tea with them. Thank you also to the Year 0/1 teachers for organising and taking these events, ensuring that our students all had an enjoyable morning.

Just to let you all know that we are again collecting for Age Concern. If you would like to donate something, please either send it along with your child to their classroom, or drop it off in the office. The elderly people who are recipients of these gifts absolutely love receiving the special messages from the children. Many are on their own and do not have family to share Christmas with. We will have all goodies ready for collection on December 3.

Congratulations to the following students who have achieved really well in their music exams this year. They have all have passed their Piano Grade 1 with the Trinity School of Music, London. Considering the year we have had their music teacher is so very proud of their result. Well done!

Pform.nz would like to congratulate our Milford Primary School students who took to the Bruce Mason Theatre stage to perform various pieces in the Pform.nz Time Travel Show. We had Time Travellers, Maui and the Sun characters and Historians taking over the stage. These students have been working so hard to create magic on stage and they certainly achieved that this weekend! They were phenomenal.

Room 12 English language learners have worked really hard in their ESOL class and have learnt so many new and very, very tricky words related to their Unit of Inquiry - How the World Works. They shared their learning with Ms Dixon and Room 12 students.

On Friday, week 9 - December 11th the fabulous orchestra will be performing a wonderful concert to the parents in the hall. The concert will begin at 9.15 and will be about half an hour. It would be amazing to have a lovely audience for these children of parents of the orchestra, or any other parents who are interested to hear the orchestra. We look forward to seeing you there!

In our last two STEM sessions, we have been designing, constructing, improving and reflecting as part of the design process while building a functioning winch. Watch the video below.

Check out the photo of four of our wonderful Year 3 students who worked to create Shell Buddies this week! They used fine motor skills to use modelling clay, googly eyes, feathers and other bits and pieces, and came up with their own colourful shell buddies. They then were able to write about the process in an instructional text. Well done!

The Graduation Social Committee is holding a final Jesters Pie Day to help fundraise for the year 6 Graduation social.

It's taken nearly 3 months to process our package but our Terracycle points are finally in! 1,542 oral hygiene products have been processed at the Terracycle depot. That gives us 3,084 points. Together with points from another recycling programme, we currently have 5,402 points. That's worth $54 for Enviro projects around our school. That's something to smile about.

Thank you to our amazing local businesses! On behalf of the Year 6 Graduation Committee and Milford School we would like to say a huge ‘Thank you’ to our event sponsors! The Graduation evening is a highlight of the year and it wouldn’t be possible without the support of these generous businesses in our local community.

We will be having a 2nd Hand Uniform Sale on Friday, 4 December at 2.45pm Find us outside the junior block, opposite the Courts.

Saturday 5 December at Milford School Hall. 10am-5pm. 5% of sales is kindly being gifted to the school. Come along and grab a bargain or two and support a great brand.

December 16 and 17 at Belmont Intermediate School.

Need a safe and fun holiday programme for the kids over the summer school holidays? Our before and after school care team, SKIDS, are running their holiday programme filled with fun activities and trips.

AFTER SCHOOL CLASSES 2021

Get your kids excited about technology with these 13 awesome holiday programmes, or after school lessons either classroom sessions or virtual sessions.

A FULL DAY OF DRAMA, DANCE, SINGING AND MORE!

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