Just a short newsletter this week but there are a few important messages that you need to read.

There are some maintenance tasks taking place now and a development on our eastern boundary taking place in the next few months.

Teachers and children would like to say a huge thank you to the Friends of Papanui who gave us the funds to purchase 18 new Bee Bots and a new range of decodable readers. All of your fundraising efforts and support of the school is extremely appreciated. The children have really enjoyed getting to use the Bee Bots in class. Bee Bot supports children learning to code and they can remember up to 40 commands. The children also practise counting, sequencing, computational thinking, problem solving, estimating, directionality and vocabulary. These are all some pretty amazing 21st century skills that all our students need. Read on to hear what some of the children thought about our new robots.