The past month has been challenging for everyone with the road works. I have praised the council though as they have been excellent to work with and have really tried their best to work around our kura needs. 

They will be finished shortly and I'm so grateful for the work that they have done in our community to slow traffic down outside the preschool and school. Thank you for your patience with this. 

As has been communicated before we really want our whānau to support good examples of road safety. This means reminding your child to use the zebra crossing, not yelling at them to run across the road, watching where your children are running and not leaving them to their own devices.

I was on road duty on Wednesday and saw several examples of poor road safety behaviour from our whānau and older ākonga. While much of this type of behaviour has been reported to me and I have addressed this, the behaviour continues. 

In the recent whānau survey parking and road safety was a major concern to many whānau. If you see things that are dangerous point it out in a non confrontational way or let us know. It is helpful if you know who the person is so we can address this directly with them. 

You must tell your tamariki to walk to the zebra crossing if they are going to have to cross the road. I will not accept our tamariki running across the road to someone who is waiting to pick them up. 

Please help us to keep all of our tamariki safe.