Kia ora whānau, thank you so much for attending hauora interviews last week! As our children swim, cycle and learn, our boxes have arrived today and we start the pack up. It truly is feeling real that we are moving home...

I'd like to acknowledge our staff and all our helpers who are doing so much at this time to make our transition home successful. 

So just to fill you in on some important things about the next few weeks... We would like to invite you to join us to thank our bus drivers and supervisors on Thursday 26th March at 2pm in the hall. Then on Friday 27th March at 2pm we are thanking our friends at van Asch College. Please feel free to join either or both of these special thank you celebrations. Our children have prepared some special things to share. 

On Wed April 8th we are having a dawn blessing (whakawātea) at 7am with our staff, BOT and some students and our friends at Ngāti Wheke and Ngai Tuahuriri will be blessing our new school site before the furniture is moved in. 

On Wednesday 8th and 9th April Team Rangi will head to Prebbleton School to be 'adopted' for a couple of days by Kim Alexander's year 7/8 team. Te Ana 9 is staying at Van Asch but the rest of our school will be working from Sumner School. We are very grateful for the support of our friends to help us for these two days while Crown Movers come and pack our school. Buses will take children to Sumner or Prebbleton so please just head to the buses in the morning as usual. If you don't use the buses, please go straight to Sumner School or if you're in Team Rangi or Te Ana 9 please go to van Asch. 

There will be no end of term assembly on Thursday 9th April. 

Staff will be spending a big chunk of their holidays to help get our new school ready for our kids! We can't wait to do this! Our official handover day from Naylor Love to our hot little hands is Monday 27th April when Naylor Love will be gone and our staff will have 3 days to prepare for our Mihi Whakatau on Friday 1st May. We would like to ask everyone to come for a singing practice for our Mihi Whakatau on Thursday 30th April at 2pm in the Van Asch School hall. 

Good luck to Team Rangi campers for next week! Thank you for all your continued support during this busy time. Any questions or concerns at all please don't hesitate to ask me or any one from our team. We are really happy to help. We want this to be an exciting happy time. Wahooooooo we have almost made it! I can tell you now that it is the strength of this whole community that has got us to this point. 

I'll finish with this whakatauki that we have been gifted by Janina Konia and Lynne Te Aika, to help guide our vision Learn (ako) Grow (tipu) Flourish (puawai). 

Ka titia te rae me te kura

He tohu raekura 

Adorn your head with precious red feathers. As symbols of knowledge and excellence. 

Ngā mihi 

Rose