What a fantastic week we have had with the launch of The Resilience Project. A special thank you to the many parents who attended the parent session last night that Hugh (the Project founder) led. In listening to his presentations this week, I couldn’t help but think how lucky we are to be one of the four schools to be involved. Teaching strategies for mental wellness is as important as teaching knowledge, if not more important, as the statistics on mental illnesses such as anxiety and depression, are shocking. We owe it to our students to give them strategies to build resilience, not just for the years they are at school, but for life beyond. They will have trauma at some level at some stage in their lives, we all will, and what this programme does is create habits that will help them to bounce back faster.

Thank you to all parents who have registered their child to play netball for the 2020 season. If you have not already done so please ensure your child is also registered on the NNH website. They cannot be confirmed in teams until this is done.

We are looking for the following players to complete the hockey teams this year: 1 x Year 3 or 4, boy or girl, to play in the Year 3/4 mixed team 4 x Year 5 or 6 boys to play in the Year 5/6 boys team

We may have the best principal ever! She will come and listen to any music if we ask her to. The orchestra group was lucky enough to have Mrs Cattell come and listen to us playing supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. She even had a go at conducting us! She said that the orchestra can pick a piece to put on the bell! We are looking forward to learning new music and playing them.

Next Thursday, 12th March, parents and students of Milford School are invited to leave those cars on the drive, or park a short distance away from school, and join us in a Park and Walk Travelwise event. Mrs Cattell and teachers from Milford School will join you all outside New World in Milford ready for a fun walk to school. We will have some special guests join us including the Travelwise mascots and Councillor Chris Darby from Auckland Council. What a great way to start our school day! Fresh air, exercise, an opportunity to chat with friends and maybe even make a new friend or two!

We have some amazing items up for grabs at the silent auction being held in the school hall at next week’s school fair. Fancy a Newsroom Tour of TVNZ including watching 1 News live from the control room for up to 6 people? A weekend escape to Omaha or a VIP Experience front row watching TV3’s The Project being filmed live? Then make sure you place your bid before 3pm on one of the 80 items on offer including vouchers to your favourite restaurants and beauty clinics. 100% of the money from the winning bids will go towards sunshades for the school. It’s a great cause so click the link below to view the list of items up for auction.

Mainly Dance have kindly given us an amazing prize for the silent auction at our upcoming school fair. However, if you are unsuccessful in winning it on the day, or would like to find out more about their wonderful studio, they have also offered us some free trial flyers. Print off the attached flyer and pop down to check out their amazing dance studio.

Part of being an Enviro School is our commitment to reducing our environmental footprint on our earth. One way we can do this is to reduce the amount of waste we produce, by repurposing or recycling it. Milford School works with TerraCycle in Australia. We have been a community collection hub for oral hygiene products for several years already. We have recently become a community collection hub for writing instrument recycling. That means all pens, whiteboard markers, vivids, mechanical pencils (but not ordinary pencils). For either waste stream, we need to collect a minimum of 5kgs worth of products before we can ship it to Australia. For every item we send, we receive points.

Tuesday 17 March (9:30am-1pm) Social Room, Te Tuhi 13 Reeves Road, Pakuranga, Auckland FREE entry and ample FREE car parking (at the rear of building) Complementary light lunch included.

Thank you to Parallel Imported North Shore Mega Store, Constellation Drive for supporting Milford School Fair by sponsoring the Face Painters. As a special offer to Friends of Milford School (FOMS). Parallel Imported Mega Store, Constellation Drive (beside Burger King) is offering 20% off all sunglasses and fragrances until the end of April 2020.

The concert will involve a lot of interaction from the kids, plus there are spot prizes up for grabs. Our goal is to expose as many kids to the different instruments in a wind band as possible, so we have a few free tickets up for grabs to facilitate that, especially for families that may not be able to attend otherwise. We will have 10 free student tickets per school available, so they need to register to get the free tickets. Simply email admin.nsyswb@gmail.com requesting the free tickets, first come first served. Students may be accompanied by an adult, also for free.

Win a week of lunches for your child and their teacher! That’s five days of yummy ezlunch options for two - just order an ezlunch school lunch for delivery between Monday 9th and Friday 20th March and you’ll automatically be put in the draw to WIN. The winner will be notified by 5pm on Friday 20th March and both the winning student and their teacher will receive a $50 ezlunch voucher.

Be sustainable and remove the need for plastic bags for wet togs and towels. FOMS are once again offering the Mum2Mum wet bags as a fundraiser, with monies raised going towards shade sails for the junior playground. Bags can be ordered until Monday 9th March using the order form below. Plain designs are $10, printed designs are $12. There is a sample bag in the office. These are a similar size as regular drawstring bags, and the domed strap can be attached to the outside of school bags - no more getting tangled in drawstring bags!

Please read below for more information.

Our school fair is fast approaching and we hope you have Saturday 14th March in your diary and are spreading the word to your family and friends! We are asking families to donate various items to make the day a success. We are fundraising for sun shades for the school.

Have you entered yet??

Did you know, you can now buy fantastic Munch Products through your KINDO account?

Love ice cream? Please hold on to your empty 2 litre ice-cream tubs over the summer break and bring them to Mrs von Collas in Room 19 so they can be re-used for our new Enviro recycling initiative. T-shirts too small? Please send t-shirts that no longer fit to Room 19 also, so they can be repurposed. Many thanks.

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