We'd love you to please view our introduction video before your conference this week.
Please bring your child's stationery with you to the conference. You are welcome to wait inside the hub and your child's homegroup teacher will come to greet you.
Kind regards
Katie, Charlotte, Lisa and Amber
Kia ora whanau,
We are looking forward to celebrating our last days together for 2020! There are plenty of things on and we encourage you to please check the community calendar to make sure you are up to date with everything.
Important dates:
Week 8/9:
Friday 4/12/20- Noho Kura - Year 3 and 4 students
Tuesday 8/12/20 and Wednesday 8/12/20 - Year 3 softball skills
Wednesday 9/12/20 - Junior Athletics @ 1:40-2:40pm Whole School House Relay @ 2:45 3:00pm
Thursday 10/12/20 - Waltham Pool and Picnic
Friday 11/12/20 - Celebration Assembly
Week 10:
Wednesday 16/12/20 - Last day of school - school ends at 12:30pm
Hats
It is getting hotter and sunnier every day. Hats must be worn when our tamariki are outside, this includes morning tea, lunchtime and any learning times during the day.
Noho Kura/School Sleepover FOR YEAR 3's
We are all very excited for our Noho Kura tomorrow night. We have shared this social story with the students. You may want to also read this at home with them.
Athletics Afternoon
We have our Junior Athletics afternoon on Wednesday the 9th of December. We will be doing an Athletics Rotation of Shotput, Discus, High Jump and Relays from 1:40-2:40 and then the whole school house relays will be from 2:45-3:00.
Kia ora koutou,
We have had a fun-filled fortnight of learning in the Kahikatea team.
Rāpaki Marae Trip
The sun shone for us last Wednesday, as we ventured off to Rāpaki Marae. We hopped on board the buses at the start of the day and traveled through the tunnel and around the bays to Rāpaki. We walked down a long, steep driveway, and were in awe of the beauty before us. We were greeted with a pōwhiri, followed by stories from Maui, who explained the history of the area and of the marae.
We had a fabulous time down at the beach, exploring and searching for items on our scavenger hunt.
A very special thank you to all of the parent helpers who came along to support us!
Kia ora e te whānau
Kahikatea End-of-Year Picnic and Swim
The Kahikatea children are booked in to have a picnic lunch at Waltham Park, followed by a swim at Waltham Pool on Thursday 10th December. This fun day is to celebrate our fantastic year of learning.
The children are able to wear either their house t-shirt or school shirt for the day and will be required to wear suitable shoes for walking to and from Waltham Park/Pool. They will also need suitable swimming costumes: either shorts or togs (no bikinis please). Please send your child with their togs, towel in a bag, making sure all items are named. We will be leaving school at 11:00am, arriving at the park at approximately 11:15am. There will be a range of fun games and activities as well as the opportunity to play in the adventure playground. We will eat lunch slightly earlier at 12:30pm and leave for Waltham Pool just before 1:00pm. We will be leaving Waltham Pool at 2:30pm to arrive back at school before 3pm.
To enable this activity day to happen, we will need the assistance of at least 4- 5 adults for each homegroup. If you would like to volunteer to do so, please complete the google form here or contact your child/children's homegroup teacher as soon as possible.
There is no additional charge for this trip as the cost is covered by your school donation. If you would like to discuss any aspect of this trip, please contact your child’s homegroup teacher.
Kia ora e te whānau
We have had a lovely 2 weeks of swimming and water safety lessons at Pioneer Pool. Ngā tamariki have had developed confidence and water safety skills, as well as strengthening their swimming strokes and breathing techniques. This would not have been possible without the fantastic help from our wonderful parent community. Thank you for all that do to assist us and tatou tamariki to have the best experiences possible. Also a huge thank you to our amazing tamariki who were fantastic throughout, shining through putting our Kete Values into action.
