Newsletters

We send home a newsletter every Tuesday. Our newsletter is very informative and lets parents know what is happening at school.

Backdated newsletters available below as well.

Newsletter 5                              9 March 2010                              Week 6

Tena koutou katoa 

Welcome to our new students Benjamin, Skyla, Hadassah and Armand. We also welcome back Supreme. 

Thank you to everyone involved in the organisation of our whakatau for the Education Review Officers yesterday morning. I was a very proud Principal. Our students sang beautifully and behaved very respectfully. 

The paid Union meeting that I talked about in a recent newsletter has been postponed until Term 2, so school will run as usual on 16^th March. 

Jolly Phonics. During the summer holidays the teaching staff learnt about the Jolly Phonics programme. We are running this programme throughout the school to boost reading and writing levels. The facilitator, Mary, has offered to come to school on the afternoon of Thursday 18^th March and run a parent seminar on the programme. All welcome at 3.15pm. We will set up a ‘creche’ for the children for the afternoon.  

We welcome Constable Carl into our school for the next few weeks. He is assisting the teachers with the Keeping Ourselves Safe unit. 

We send our warm thoughts to our Year 6 pupil Fa’a Lemaga who had a major operation last week and is now recovering in hospital. 

If you have a child about to turn five, pop into the school office for an enrolment pack.   

Girl Guides biscuits will be sold from outside the staffroom Thursday and Friday afternoons for the next two weeks.  

From the Chairman of the Board of Trustees 

Become a trustee
Help to shape OUR children’s learning, and the direction of OUR school. It's as simple as that. 

So what do you need to be a Trustee?

• A common sense approach to problems.
• A desire to help our school be the best it could possibly be.
• A few hours per month for meetings.

So if you want to make a difference then put yourself forward in this year’s trustee election.  OUR children are worth the effort.
Parents are trustees at every school in New Zealand.  And training is available. 

It is very satisfying and it has been a pleasure to be a part of over the last 3 years.  Now it's your turn, so grab it.I am happy to answer any questions, so please contact me through the school office. 
Vaughan Gray - BOT Chairperson 

Term Dates 2010

Yours sincerely     

Linda Mayow
Principal