• Tuesday 24th January: Classroom placements confirmed by teachers at our Staff-Only Day
• Tuesday 24th January (afternoon/evening): Parents/students find out whānau teacher and team placement via email. This will also include information about stationery orders (through OfficeMax online) and optional BYOD (bring your own device) info for Kāhu students.
• Thursday 26th January 8.30am-10am: Optional Meet the Teacher drop-in session. This will be held at school and our teachers will be on site to enable you and your child to call in and say "hi".
• Tuesday 31st January: First day of school 2023. Our team will all place a huge focus on developing relationships at the start of the year.
  
• Monday 6th February: Waitangi Day - School Closed

I hope this finds you and your whānau well as we come to the end of another interesting year.

Despite the challenges and uncertainty that we’ve had throughout the last couple of years it has been inspiring to see our whānau and community working together and doing what we needed to do to empower our tamariki to be best versions of themselves.

The Board would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your ongoing support throughout the year and we looked forward to that continuing in to the new year.

It was a wonderful to see lots of you at Christmas in the Park last week. It’s been a while since we’ve been able to gather in larger settings and I’m sure all the tamariki had a blast. A big mihi goes out to the teachers and staff for organising the event, and especially to the tamariki for sharing some of their amazing talent with us all.

Tony and the team have been working on some awesome projects in the background and we look forward sharing more about these in the new year. Plenty of exciting times ahead for our amazing kura, tamariki and the community to look forward to so watch this space.

Here’s hoping the weather gods play their part this summer – make sure you enjoy the well-deserved break with your whānau and friends, make plenty of good memories and we look forward to seeing everyone again in the new year.

Meri kirihimete me ngā mihi nui o te tau hou.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Tama Tawhai
Board member