Cheese Rolls

We have hit an all-time record with cheese roll orders: 557 dozen! Huge thanks to those of you who have placed orders, especially those who asked around family and friends and obtained large orders. The ingredients have been ordered and we are now rolling into the operation management phase. We need some help with equipment and a few adult helpers on the making day: this Thursday, March 12th.  Please click on this link to see if you can help.

Leadership Week

What an awesome week we have had with your fabulous children! I have had so much positive feedback from our NE - Year 4 teachers about how fabulous the Year 7s did with their leadership on Thursday and Friday.




Leadership camp was a great opportunity to see our Year 8s grappling with challenges in groups. So many of them stepped up to provide support, ideas and encouragement. As well as developing leadership skills, this was a good opportunity to further develop relationships. Lots of fun was had and many lasting memories made! At the end of the camp, the children filled in nominations for the Sir Peter Blake Leadership Award. This award is decided on and presented later in the year. We have a number of children who received multiple nominations. We will watch to see how their personal leadership develops before deciding on the recipient of this award.

Creating shapes blind

Balancing multiple people on small spaces

Downtime dancing

The best chips in town!

Fun at Margaret Mahy Playground

Win-win challenge at Spencer Park

Synergy challenge

Nothing like a Friday BBQ lunch

Nominating young leaders

Isaac Giesen, 'The Blue Rower' shared lots of wisdom and advice, which the children referred to in reflections over the two days.

7 Habits matching activity

Last weekend we gave final feedback for the 'My Whakapapa' writing assignment. Lots of beautiful sentiments and some interesting stories were shared. Please remind your child to email a photo of the person they wrote about to themselves, so that it can be added to their final presentation tomorrow, Wednesday.

Key reminders for Year 8 Leadership Camp: this Thursday and Friday, March 5th and 6th

• Bring bedding (including something to sleep on) and change of clothes for next day. All bags go into the Nook upon arrival on Thursday.
• In a daypack, lunch for Thursday, drink bottle, sunscreen sunhat and waterproof coat.
• Have $2.40 in change or Metro card for the bus
• Have paid $25 at the office or online (reference Leadership Camp)
• Bring food donations (cereal for Nicky's home-group, fruit for Megan's home-group and baking for Hannah and Jenny's home-groups). We'd love these by Wednesday if possible.
• If your child's health profile form is not back at school yet, we need this urgently.
• Any mediation in a named ziplock bag to be handed to home-group teacher first thing on Thursday.
• If you need to contact us urgently outside school hours or on Friday when we are at Spencer Park, call Nicky on 0276229403

Cheese Roll Fundraiser

Looking for parent or grandparent help

Year 7 Leadership Day

Swimming Sports

Leadership Guest Speakers

A huge thanks to everyone who has ordered cheese rolls. If you have yet to place your order, you have until this Thursday to get it in. Click here to order.

If you are gathering multiple orders from friends and family, please arrange this as one payment to school, i.e. get people to pay you cash or put money into your account and then make one payment to school. This message probably just applies to Kauri families.

Next week we will put boxes in front of the hall foyer to collect your containers. Please make sure your child's name and hub are on your container. If you don't have a container, we will provide one, however the less we need to do this the better.

Many thanks for your support with our camp fundraising.

The past week has involved a number of visits to the Life Education van and art work on our collaborative canvases that we are creating for the Twilight Fair art auction. We were so impressed by the leadership displayed by our house captains and their deputies at our first house games last Friday. Excitement is building for leadership week, next week. Please read on for important details.

Camp Fundraising:

Many thanks to those of you who have offered to help with our camp fundraising. We will be in touch soon. The Comedy evening is set for Saturday May 16th. We will be auctioning a new Mt Bike; details on this will be out by the end of the week.

Our cheese roll fundraiser is underway. There is the potential to raise thousands with this one. We just need lots of orders. Please contact friends and family and collect their orders as well as your own.  We have the manpower (childpower) and the enthusiasm. We just need the orders! Many thanks to those who have already submitted an order. You are welcome to submit another if you manage to get more interest. Please click here to submit your order or use the paper order form which was sent home on Monday.

We have also submitted an application for funding through the Southern Trust. Once we hear back from them, we will be able to let you know the cost of our week in Dunedin / Waihola. Keep your fingers and toes crossed for a big 'yes' for the Southern Trust!

Leadership Week: March 2-6

What you need to know:

Year 7s:

Wear mufti to school for their leadership day on Monday March 2nd.

Year 8s:

Thursday 5th - Friday 6th of March: two day leadership camp, with a sleep over at school on Thursday night.

We would like families of Year 8 children to send along food donations, on Wednesday March 4th, as follows:

Te Maunga (Nicky's home-group) - a packet of breakfast cereal
Te Awa (Megan's home-group) - a bag of fruit
Te Tai and Te Ngahere (Jenny and Hannah's home-groups) - some baking

The cost per child for attending the Year 8 leadership camp is $25.00. Please pay this at the office as soon as possible. This is a cost that is separate to the school donation, as it involves an overnight camp.

Gear list: Your child needs to come to school on Thursday dressed in clothes suitable for physical activity, i.e. track pants or shorts, t-shirt, polypro if cold, a warm top and sports shoes, suitable for running. The following needs to be packed in an overnight bag:

• Sleeping bag, pillow and something to sleep on, e.g. sleeping mat, stretcher or lilo (please let us know if you need help sourcing something to sleep on)
• PJs
• Toilet gear
• A change of clothes for the next day, again suitable for physical activity

These things should be packed in a day pack:

• Packed lunch and refillable drink bottle
• Sunhat
• Waterproof jacket
• Optional: camera, cell phone (these will be collected in)

Please make sure asthmatic children have inhalers with them and that medication is in a labeled bag. This needs to be handed to the home-group teacher as soon as your child arrives at school.

On Monday a health profile form was sent home to Year 8 caregivers. Please complete this form and return it to school by Friday of this week.

If you need to contact us outside of school hours or on Friday when we are at Spencer Park, please contact Nicky on 0276229403

House captains in action ...

Kia ora everyone,

Year 7 & 8 are heading down to Dunedin for an exiting week of learning at the end of this term. We are kicking our fundraising off with our annual cheese roll business.

We have had fabulous feedback on the quality of our cheese rolls in the past, so you can be guaranteed a tasty product! They do well in the freezer, so this is a good opportunity to stock up for the winter months. Details are in the link below.

Please click on this link to order.  There will also be paper order forms available at the school office.