Tena Kotou Katoa, Talofa, Greetings to our school families,
FROM THE BOARD CHAIR
Can anyone believe it is spring and we’re only seventeen weeks away from Christmas! Too soon parents? Not quite ready to put on Christmas carols? Me too, there are some other things that also feel “too soon” in the life of our school.
Last week the Board regrettably accepted Jill Corkin’s resignation as Principal. Jill will be resigning at the end of the school year and the Board has implemented a recruitment process to find her replacement.
This is both a sad and exciting time for the school. The board are sad to accept Jill’s resignation. The passion and leadership she has brought to her role has enabled the school and our staff to flourish and nourish in the garden of learning. It is also an exciting time. We are excited for Jill and her ability to help other parts of our community, and excited too to see the next steps our school will take to teaching our kids to feast upon knowledge and achieve their dreams.
The board and staff are organizing some formal acknowledgements of Jill’s contribution to the school, however, we also know that if you wish to personally thank Jill she would really appreciate that also.
If anyone has questions concerning the recruitment process or how this change may affect your child’s learning please feel free to email me at nathaniel.heslop@icloud.com.
Kind Regards,
Nathaniel Heslop
Board Of Trustees Chairman
SCHOOL NEWS
Mellow Yellow and Pinkalicious Day – Friday 28 August 2015
Our School Council did a fantastic job of organizing the activities for our annual fundraiser for the Cancer Society on Friday. It was a busy, fun filled day and we raised $997.50! What a great effort from everyone!
Thank you to everyone who got behind the day and dressed up and to the parents for supporting us with baking assistance and dress up assistance, and pocket money to spend too!
The winners of the cupcake baking competition were – Royston Bale and Aria Wood , and the cake baking winners were Yvenette Mahue and Thomas Vegar.
The Mellow Yellow Raffle was won by Tommo McGuire and the Pinkalicious Raffle by Jessica Vegar.
The junior colouring competition, which also formed part of Book Month was entered into enthusiastically by a number of children and the winners were:
Kauri 1 – Lucy Cole & Dylan Brangwynne
Kauri 2 – Jessica Vegar & Alex Palmer
Kahikatea 1 – Olivia Church & Elijah Howson
Kahikatea 2 – Micaiah Phillips & Roman Jones
Thank you everyone for your support!
Welcome to Our New Students – we hope you enjoy your time at our school!
Makeen Konate (Kauri 1), Rayden Lightfoot (Kahikatea 1), Noel Shirley (Manawa 2), Shawn Neale (Puriri 1), Taylah Neale (Totara 1).
School Diary
Week 8
Monday 7 September Senior School Speech Semi Finals
Tuesday 8 September Year 6 Enrolment Interviews @ Mahurangi College
Thursday 10 September 5-6 pm Year 5 Camp Meeting
Friday 11 September 1.30 pm School Speech & Poetry Finals. Parents and whanau welcome.
Week 9
Tuesday 15 September Interschool Hockey
Wednesday 16 Sept Interschool Hockey Save Day
Week 10
Wednesday 23 Sept 11 am Interschool Speech Final @ Warkworth Primary, 6.30pm BOT Meeting
Friday 25 September 2.10pm FULL SCHOOL ASSEMBLY – Kahikatea 2 presenting
Friday 25 September Term 3 Finishes
Holiday Break: 28 September – 9 October
Reminders for Parents & Caregivers
PLEASE do not park and leave your car in the bus drop off zone outside the office before or after school. You are welcome to use it to drop students off, but please respect the fact that our buses come in at different times before school and need to be able to stop and park in the place designed for them. After school, please respect the need for the buses to leave first at 3 pm. You are welcome to use the bus bay after that to pick students up, but again please do not park and leave your car here. There is visitor parking opposite the office and to the left of the entry gate as you come in if you wish to come into the school office or speak to a teacher. Thank you for your help with this to keep our buses moving and our children safe.
LOST PROPERTY. Please help us by regularly checking that your children’s school uniform is named. If an item of clothing is left lying in the playground or in the hall or library and it is named, we will make sure it gets back to its owner. If your child has lost his/her sweatshirt, please check first in the classroom AND in the adjacent classroom before checking in the sick bay where we collect items that are either unnamed or unclaimed. There are currently 7 unidentified sweatshirts in the office Lost Property Box. All items left here at the end of the term will be donated to charity or recycled into our second hand uniform for sale.
The Great Snells Trail is Coming! Saturday 14 November
Please note this date and set it aside for a fun day of events at school. This is our one big fundraiser for the year and we hope all of our school families will get behind it and promote it to friends and neighbours.
There will be a Garage Sale Trail again like last year ad this will run from early -mid morning. We are hoping to add an artists’ trail.
From 11am – 2pm there will be events at school – including the most amazing Art Exhibition ever! The children’s art will be available for purchase – more on how this will work later. There will also be performances by the children, food and other activities to enjoy.
Don’t miss it! Set the date aside now!
Inter-School Cross Country Competition
This was held at the Warkworth Showgrounds on Tuesday 18 August. We were well represented by our Cross Country Team who displayed great sportsmanship and courage in difficult conditions. Overall we had 18 Top Ten winners over 12 events – a very good performance. Five of those were in the top 3 placings. Thanks to Mr Morley & Mrs Bishop and the parents who came along to help.
Congratulations to all our runners and special congratulations to the following students:
Rai Thomson – 1st Year 0-1 Boys
James Elder – 1st Year 3 Boys & Quinn Morley – 2nd Year 5 Boys
Conor Gallagher – 3rd Year 2 Boys & Ethan Genet – 3rd Year 3 Boys
Paige B – 4th Year 4 Girls & Tommo McGuire – 4th Year 4 Boys
Rachel McGuire – 4th Year 6 Girls
Cristina Webb – 5th Year 4 Girls & Sophie Joblin – 5th Year 6 Girls
Alex Palmer – 6th Year 0-1 Boys
Olivia Prior – 8th Year 3 Girls & Elyjah Wood – 8th Year 4 Boys
Sophia Gardiner – 8th Year 5 Girls & Mitchell Heaven – 8th Year 5 Boys
Jessica Vegar – 9th Year 0-1 Girls & Annika Bayer – 9th Year 3 Girls
Anthony France – 10th Year 2 Boys
Poetry Finals
We were treated to a lovely afternoon of poetry recitals by the Year 1-3 students on Wednesday afternoon. Well done everyone who got up to give their poetry recital – it was a great effort! Thank you to the teachers for the fantastic effort you put into this and to Mr Morley for organizing the event. We had a great turnout of parents along to watch – thank you for coming along and thank you to Mrs Dove for her photos!
Congratulations to the following winners:
Year 0 – 1st Elsa Stanley, 2nd Lucy Cole, 3rd Lucas B
Year 1 – 1st Jessica Vegar, 2nd Royston Bale, 3rd Levi Bason
Year 2 – 1st Elijah Howson, 2nd Olivia Church, 3rd Tegan Stanley
Year 3 – 1st Dakota Corringham, 2nd Macy Ramel-Spain, 3rd equal Cayden Steffener & Annika Bayer
These winners will present their poems again at the Senior School Speech finals on Friday 11 September.
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