Kia ora e te whānau. Week 5 has been a wonderful full week at kura! ALS plays were performed, some students were selected for Grow Waitaha Digi Awards and the Lego League team have been working incredibly hard!

Well done to everyone who performed their play on Tuesday. It can be daunting but everyone did a fantastic job, we are so proud of you all! Congratulations to the plays that were selected to perform to Peka Peka on Thursday afternoon and will perform one last time to our buddies on Monday! 

Week 6: For Maths, year 6's will start percentages and year 7's will continue revision. Reading, Writing and Inquiry will continue as usual! 

This coming week year 7's are going to Te Kōhaka to choose what value or disposition they would like on their tops for next year. They are very excited about this! Over the weekend have a chat with your child about what one they might want to choose. The options are:

- whanaungatanga, ako, kaitiaki, thinker, adventurer or creator. 

Year 6 Camp:

Thanks to everyone who volunteered to help with transport. We have now got enough seats for students to get to camp, yay! 

Camp Meeting

On Thursday the 23rd of November at 8am there will be a camp meeting held in Manga Kawari. This is for all whānau who are interested in the information about Orton Bradley Camp. You are more than welcome to ask questions at this meeting too. Please can all transport parents and overnight parents come to this meeting. If you are unavailable please email Sophia Paterson so we can give you the information needed.

Email: sophiapaterson@pegasusbay.school.nz

Maungatere hīkoi/Mount Grey walk

Thank you to all those who have completed parental consent forms and offers of transport. If you haven’t filled in the consent form can you please do so as soon as possible. Out of 59 students we only have permission for 33. Currently we only have transportation for 43 students so if we could get a few more parents offering then the trip can go ahead. Please see below for the trip information.

Permission form

Transport form

Please note - if you child is not attending the walk and swim day they will be back at school in another learning community as the year 6s are at camp.

Please email your child's teacher asap if they are not attending so we can make arrangements and adjust the transport numbers.  

Grow Waitaha Digi Awards!

A huge congratulations to Corinne, Caitlin, Abby K, Quinn, Kelani, Vida, and Summer O who's digital animations have been selected for an award at the Canterbury Digi awards. This was a group entry called Matariki Magic - a collection of some outstanding animations and projects the children created this year.

AND.... to

Cerys Flye, Esha-May, Maya Kneebone, Eden Peacock (Year 7) Quinn Duffy, Grace Lovelock, Izzie Coster, Seth Heslop (Year 6) Cormac Heslop, & Willow Mathis-Pearson (year 2)

Who were nominated for an award for Influencing change through the SDGs - an istop motion and digital rap!

AND .... to

Caitlyn Yerro for her individual entry of her digital picture book.

The awards night is on Thursday 23rd November and all students and their Whānau are welcome to attend this event!

Reminders:

No school this coming Thursday (16th) as it is a staff only day and Friday (17th) as it is a public holiday.

Tech for all Year 7 students is this coming Tuesday (14th).

Library - on a Thursday our ALS goes to the library.

Don't forget to order your subway or sausage sizzle order through your mykindo account!

Enjoy your weekend!

Ngā mihi nui,

Rachel, Sophia, Todd, Sonya, Mark, Alice, Alison, Rosalie, Liz and Linda.