We are holding parent teacher conferences on Tuesday, 1 March from 1.00pm - 7:00pm and Wednesday, 2 March from 3.15pm - 5pm (school finishes at 12.30pm on Tuesday 1st March). We will be discussing your child's aspirations and main focus areas for 2022. Please book your times at www.schoolinterviews.co.nz using the code 3cnz2. Please ensure you are wearing masks on school site and arrive 5 minutes before your interview. Following your interview we would like you to visit our school hall to meet with Matt McCallum (Principal) and Lewis Karaitiana (Deputy Principal) to discuss school communication and complete a whānau survey.

Tamariki are enjoying our new technology option. Robotics and Engineering is a specialist subject that will incorporate the key elements of designing, planning, building, construction, coding, and project management. Students are using Lego Robotics equipment (Lego Spike Prime) to create innovative solutions to proposed problems. They will also use coding and digital design technologies to solve ‘real world problems’, such as making resources using 3D printers and CAD design technology that will make every day tasks easier. These designs may require both virtual and physical prototyping, so the workshop technology area will also be utilised to allow students to create resources required for some of their identified ‘real world problems’.

It was awesome to see so many student's wanting to try out for our competitive Kapa Haka group Ngā Iti Rearea this week. This year we will be competing in our regional competition in November. We are lucky to have so many talented tamariki at our Kura.

Lifts in student achievement have been part of the success of DMIC, but the more important focus has been on other valued outcomes including an increase in student voice and agency, increased pro-social skills, enhanced mathematical dispositions and the valuing of the mathematics within the home and cultural context.