If your child has antihistamine medication at home and is suffering hay fever, please administer this in the mornings before school. We can keep prescribed medication at school in the office if you would prefer, but we will need a Medicine Consent Form signed too.

Sunhats & Sunblock
Please continue to send a sunhat every day to school and apply sunblock in the mornings.

Even on overcast days, sunhats are very important (especially in Terms 1 & 4). We will be encouraging students without a hat to play in the shade during break time.

Thank you for your support.

At our last hui we heard from Sandra Humphry as she reported back on students learning around te reo and tikanga Māori. Sandra shared positive feedback from Rongohia te Hau (cultural survey) and showed us where we sit with the Poutama Reo self review tool. She shared a number of questions to guide us as we move forward in this space and made some recommendations as we continue to look for ways to grow in this area while celebrating and strengthening our relationship with Ngaati Wairere. The School Board would like to thank Sandra, Buffy and Ruby for their continued mahi in this area.

We also discussed our EOTC (Education Outside the Classroom) policies and procedures and celebrated a successful Kāhu camp to Tūī Ridge. We acknowledge and thank the kaiako and parent helpers for the amount of mahi that goes into running this camp. What an amazing experience for our ākonga.

We looked at data that was shared around the impact that Structured Literacy and our ILAs (Inclusive Learning Assistants) is having on our ākonga. The results are incredible and show real progress.

E hara taku toa i te toa takitahi, he toa takitini
My strength is not as an individual but as a collective

Ngā mihi
Frank Young