He mihi mahana kia koutou katoa - Warm greetings to all.

This week has been  busy culturally with the Tawai and Mokihi kapahaka groups performing at the Kahukura festival last night. Thanks to Daniel Caigou for preparing both groups for their performances and to Whaea Aniwa for helping with the Somerfield kids.  Please check out the photos attached.

Bike week

This week was bike week for the Year 6's and part of our safety programme. Although we got off to a rather damp start the tamariki eventually got to ride their bikes!

Website

Our new website has been under development and will be launched soon. I'll also send out a form for you to give us some feedback.

Teachers for 2020

We have not yet finalised classes for 2020 . You will receive information about classes and teachers on the Friday ,13 December with your child's report.

If your child is  leaving at the end of the year, please let the office know so we can farewell them and take them off the 2020 class list.

Below are the teachers in each year level for 2020. We have re-organised the ropu names . See article in this newsletter.

Waka Mōkihi

 Term 1 New Entrants - Tanya Barnes

Year 1 -  Kirsten Koutol, Michelle Fraser

Year 2- Kim Radcliffe Price, Janet Davidson, Latiesha Egan

Acting Ropu Leader - Gillian Cree

Waka Kōpapa

Year 3 - Rebecca Whitehead, Dave Harrison, Jane Rutherford

Year 4 - Jacob Katsipis,  Julie Welbeloved, Vicki Fahey

Acting Ropu Leader- Dave Harrison

Waka Tētē

Year 6 - Sanchia Paterson, Daniel Caigou, Jane Brittenden

Year 5 - Nicole Crow, Kellie Engelfield, Jo Finch

Ropu Leader for 2020 in this ropu  - Kellie Englefield

Part-time Teachers

Paulette Knowles, Simone Squires Brown,  Gavin Stevenson, Dan Versteeg