Kia ora e te whānau. It was with some relief we managed to come one step closer to being back at school by moving into Alert Level 3.

We will be holding a ballot for out of zone students in October this year, for entry to school in 2022. This ballot includes out of zone siblings of students already attending Milford School. The final day to get a ballot application into school is Wednesday 29 September. The ballot will be drawn by our Police Education Officer on Wednesday 20 October.

Next week our annual school wide Literacy Week is taking place so teachers in each year group have been busy planning some exciting literacy based activities that will be done with your children.

Melissa and her brother Tommy celebrated Chuseok and wore traditional clothes on Tuesday. Chuseok, or Korean Thanksgiving, is typically a time of gathering with family, cooking together and celebrating the year's harvest.

This week in Year 3 we continued to celebrate the Moon Festival, aka Mid-Autumn Festival, with the creation of Chinese lanterns. It was also Korean Chu-seok or Thanksgiving this week. The Kwon family have kindly shared a photo of their family in traditional Chu-seok clothing, han-bok. Happy Chu-seok to all our Korean families.

We are really excited to be sharing with you the finalized digital mural that six of our talented Milford students have contributed towards. They were - Flynn Barrance, Jafar Hosseini, Joshua Wild, Melissa Kim, Ashleigh Robertson, and Bailey Li.

Above is an amazing poem written by George S that Mrs Barrance wanted to share. Fantastic work George!

Eugenie Middleton has put together a video showing all the amazing things our students have been doing throughout this lockdown. We are so proud of their resilience and perseverance during this extended lockdown. Click on the link below.

This morning, Room 17 explored the living areas of the International Space Station with astronaut Suni Williams. We looked at the bedroom pods, the kitchen, and funnily enough the bathroom! We particularly enjoyed finding out about how to brush teeth in space and were intrigued by how the astronaut was catching the floating water droplets!

Year 1 and 2 had a combined Zoom/Youtube livestream with Suzy Cato on Monday morning. Lots of fun was had by all.

We have had another great week of distance learning. On Monday, we had Marlece Jensen, who is our student teacher, join us on zoom. This is a lovely way to make connections with the children before she joins us in the classroom next term. On Tuesday, Jacqui, from the Butterfly Trust, visited us via zoom to talk about the importance of Monarch Butterflies and then read a story to the children. I am so impressed at the participation, enthusiasm and engagement of our children during this distance learning time. I would also like to say a big thank you to our parents who are so supportive and focused on helping the children at home. We are all looking forward to having so many exciting activities planned for Literacy Week. Have a lovely weekend.

Tēna koutou katoa, I hope you are all doing well in your bubbles. I have been tossing up whether to send this out due to alert levels however, I will now collect Touch Rugby registrations, in case levels change before we are back at school. We also have a quick turn around for registration.

Thank you so much to all the parents and school supporters who have saved Yummy Stickers and sent them into school. If you have any completed sheets at home, please drop them into the school letterbox or bring them in to school next week so they can be tallied. Every sticker counts and goes towards new sporting equipment for our school.

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