Kia ora koutou katoa. What a great day the Shore to Shore event was! Thank you to those who entered and helped us to be in the top 3 schools for entries. A Sports Distributor order form is on its way to school for us to choose free sports equipment! A huge thank you to Kylie Frost-Mackay and her family who set up and manned the Milford tent. While there were no sausages this year, the ice-blocks went down a treat. The event is being run at its usual time next year (March/April) so there is time to train for those competitive people. A massive congratulations to Joseph Hemphill who ran the 5.7km course, coming second in a time of 24.27! Awesome time Joseph!!

Catalogues were sent home this week, BUT if you didn’t get one don’t despair please check with your classroom teacher or the office to get your copy. Orders need to be placed by 24 November to ensure delivery before the end of term.

Our fantastic Milford School gymnasts competed recently and we are proud to announce that along with individual placings, the Milford Team came first overall! Well done to our risk-taking team! (More results and photos of our other teams to come.)

On Wednesday the 11th of November, two teams from Milford played in the annual soccer tournament. Luck was on our side as the weather held and a good day of action packed football was enjoyed by all. Both teams started slowly but over the day both progressively got better. The Year 5 team came 4th going down to Hauraki 4-1 and the Year 3 team saved their best for their last game defeating Hauraki 7 – 0, coming in third. A big thank you to Simon Ploughman for coaching the Year 5 Team and a big thanks for all the parental support.

It was great to see such a wonderful turnout of student's and parents at this year's Shore to Shore event, despite the weather. We had lots of children achieving personal bests and we are thrilled to tell you that one of our year 6 students, Joseph Hemphill, finished 2nd in a time of 24:27 and Cameron Gordon finished 8th and was the 6th boy home. There were 129 competitors in the timed run and we were told about 2000 runners overall participated on the day.

We would like to say a very big thank you for supporting this year's Garden to Table seedling sale. It is only the second time we have held this event but will certainly look to do it again next year! Although we didn't sell everything we still managed to raise $207.00 Every last dollar really helps us as it means we can purchase extra tools and items for our garden sessions.

I have noticed over these last few weeks that there are increasing numbers of children coming to school late. The bell goes at 8.55am, when all children should be in class ready for roll call. Your child is at risk when they either walk to school after this time or get dropped off. There is a teacher on duty outside the school on the crossing from 8.30am until 9.00am making sure each child is safe. After this they move to class closing the safety gate as they do so.

Over the weekend a few of our talented students took part in the Judo Auckland champs. Aly Elkholy won a gold medal in the open competition. Tomi and Leo Giordani, and Chloe Macleod also took part, with Tommy getting a bronze medal and Chloe a silver medal. A big congratulations to them!

On Friday we went to TNIS to compete in the EPro8 Semi-finals where 24 teams battled through 2.5 hours of engineering challenges for one of two places in the Grand Final. A huge congrats to our two EPro8 teams who competed at TNIS on Friday. The teams worked together to solve engineering problems for 2.5 hours with no breaks and did incredibly well, we are all so proud of you! A special mention goes to the Milford Maniacs who placed 3rd after leading the scoring for 2 hours 15 mins of the competition! Miss Brown is looking forward to seeing many more engineers get involved in EPro8 in the future to defend our titles!

Looking for some Christmas gift ideas? Or perhaps some name tags for back to school 2021? Funds raised will go towards the shade sail over the junior playground.

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.

On Friday 11th December, the whole school will be celebrating Christmas with an evening concert. This is a concert where the whole school dresses in red, white and green and sing Christmas songs to you from the deck. Parents, please bring a picnic blanket, a picnic, and sit on the field and enjoy the singing! Families arrive at 5pm, and children will sing from 5.30pm for about half an hour. It is always a wonderful community event, so please mark it in your diaries!!

One of our Year 2 students, Olivia from Room 8, will be joining the APO UP CLOSE show on 28th Nov at Auckland townhall, the part of the Carnival of the Animals. She will be playing the hand puppets of black swan and Pokeku.

AFTER SCHOOL CLASSES 2021

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

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