Church Service and Free Lunch !
This Sunday 7th March is our first church service for the year. We are celebrating International Children’s Day and it all starts at 10am in the church. We will also have the Early Childhood Centre with us as well. Children wear school uniform as normal but if they wish to wear National Dress (or the family does) - this would be great ! Following the service there are a number of activities happening for the children, including a sausage sizzle for lunch that is free.
Bereavements in our Community
We send our prayers and thoughts to Rev. Graeme Pilgrim who lost his mother this week as well as Mrs Foster whose father died this week as well. The children have been working on expressing their sympathy with class cards.
Basketball
After the in-school training with the HB Hawkes, for our year 3s and up, we sent some children to a Basketball Tournament this week. It was great seeing them enjoying themselves. We are very grateful to the Hawkes for coming in and working with the children and being available for the photo shoot !
Ecosustainibility
Our year 6s are exploring Ecosustainibility in their technology sessions on a Thursday afternoon. Dominic Salmon (the Waste Minimisation Officer at the council) visited them last week. They have started to look at our rubbish in and around our school with a view to reducing it and recycling more. Watch this space !
Friends and Family News
We have an Easter Raffle coming up for the end of the term. We will run a mufti day on Friday 19th March. To wear mufti clothes your child brings something to add to our Easter Raffle (Easter Egg, chocolate etc…) The tickets to sell will come out soon. A DISCO is planned also for later on in the term as well, more information is coming soon. The meeting on Monday also came up with a number of great ideas—you’ll here about them soon.
Beach Rugby / Triathlon
We have teams heading to Waimarama beach on the 16th and 17th March. Year 7/8 on the 16th and year 5/6 on the 17th. We need extra help with transport on the 16th. We also need transport help next Monday the 8th for the triathlon. Please contact the office or Miss V if you can help.