Ata maarie e te whaanau, 

It's Week 9 of 11, and here's what's coming up...

Monday

• Speeches! Today sees the beginning of the students presenting their speeches (or poems) to their class groups. From here, three students for each age group will be selected to compete against their peers at the Roto Speech Competition on the evening of Thursday 25th June. We wish all our tauira (students) well as they dig deep for their resilience this week!
• Milo Monday
• Gymnastics News - From today, parents of students who have been involved in gymnastics sessions will receive an email to let them know if their child has been selected to represent the school at Gymfest 2026. 

Tuesday

• Preschool visit - BestStart Educare will be visiting Room 1 in the morning with a small group of preschoolers. This is the first visit, and something we hope to expand on in the future.
• Board Meeting 6pm.

Wednesday

• Hot Food - please double check the requirements if unsure.
• Kapa Haka

Thursday

• Newsletter Day
• If you haven't already, please head over to the Skool Loop App, click the Interviews tab and book your student conferences. This is a great opportunity for you to share your child's learning with them, and to speak with their teacher about how things are going. Conferences are on Monday 29th June and Wednesday 1st July. Spaces are filling up now, so please make sure you book yours soon. 

Friday

• Wear Yellow For Harold! Please come to school wearing YELLOW, or even dressed as a giraffe! We'll be collecting gold coin donations too, in support of our favourite giraffe from the Life Education Trust.

Sunday

• If you don't have plans this Sunday please come along to the Grassroots Velodrome to support our two amazing teams in The Battle Of The Schools cycling competition!! We are very excited about this, as it's the first time we've ever had students from our school taking part, and it's an extremely challenging sport to participate in! If you've never been to the Velodrome, it's certainly a sight to behold! We believe the event begins at 10am, but as yet have not been given specific details. Once this comes through we will send it out on all our platforms. 

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Fieldays has begun!

For us this means it will take a bit more time to get to school in the mornings and home in the afternoons, so please take care on the roads and allow a little more time and patience for your journey. 

For parents of our tamariki catching the school buses, please be patient and know that the buses WILL be coming, they will just get caught in traffic around the town - particularly our morning town bus, which has other runs before ours.  

In previous years we have held a TOD on Fieldays Friday as we attended a special PLD organised by the Kahui Ako. Following the nationwide scrapping of Kahui Ako, we no longer have this day, hence no TOD on Friday. We have already had 3 TODs this year for Maths PLD, and one coming up in August, so that's enough extra days for our families to be managing.

If you're heading to Fieldays on Saturday, have lots of fun and remember to tell us all about it on Monday!

Kia pai too raa,

Roxy

Kia ora e te whaanau, 

We're heading into week 8 of our term so here's what's coming up...

Monday 
- Yummy Milo Monday! Thank you for donations of marshmallows to keep supplies going, and thank you to Christie who serves up the Milo every Monday, assisted by some other supportive parents. The kids are loving this! 

Tuesday 
- ERO (Education Review Office) are visiting our kura today and tomorrow. 

Wednesday 
- The usual; Hot Food, Launchpad, Kapa Haka.

Thursday 
- A group of senior students are attending Te Ohu Kaiaarahi o te Kapua Iti. If any of their whaanau can support us with getting them there and back please get in touch. Whaanau are welcome to attend for some or part of the day too.

Friday 
- Assembly 2.10pm in the MP Room, all welcome to attend. 
- The Hearing & Vision technician will be in to check on any students who have missed their B4 School Check/Screening, or those who are new migrants or failed their previous screening. Parents of students on the list will be contacted for permission prior to the visit. 

Gymnastics - Over the last 2 weeks, Christie has been running lunchtime coaching sessions for several different age groups wanting to participate in next term's Gymfest competition. There was an enormous intake for this, so in the coming week the groups will become smaller, and more manageable, as the ones who will go on to compete at Gymfest are selected. Following this, invoices will be sent out to their parents for the Gymfest comp fee - these will need to be paid if they are to attend the festival.

If you missed last week's newsletter you can find it here in Skool Loop under the Newsletters tab.

Student Conference Bookings are filling up fast, so click on the Interviews tab here in Skool Loop to book them in. Students are encouraged to attend the meeting with their parents, so they are able to share their work with them and show them things they are proud of. Please arrive on time for your meeting and do not go over the allotted 15 minutes as you will be holding up teachers and other parents. If you feel you need a longer meeting with the teacher, please contact them directly and arrange a time outside of student conference dates. 

​Monday - King's Birthday - No School Today!

Wednesday - Hot Food, Launchpad, Kapa Haka. PTA meeting in the staffroom at 7pm; all welcome. 

Thursday - Newsletter Day

​Other Information: 

​Coming up in the next few weeks.....

Week 8 - Te Ohu Kaiaarahi o te Kapua Iti (Thurs 11th - Parents of attending students are aware)
Week 9 - Wear Yellow for Harold Day (Fri 19th)
Week 10 - ​Our annual Speech Finals night! (Thurs 25th) 
Week 11 - ​Student Conferences, Matariki Breakfast, end of term.

Student Conference bookings are now live! Head to the Skool Loop App, click the Interviews tab, and book your preferred time slot ahead of the last minute rush! Conferences are 15 minutes each. We ask that you keep to your allocated time and don't arrive late or overrun. If you feel you need more than 15 minutes with your child's teacher, please arrange a meeting with them outside of conference dates.

Kia ora e te whaanau, 

Every second Friday on assembly afternoons we will have our kai table at the front gate. We will be selling kai from our own maara (garden) and from The Microfarm! Gold coin donations and online banking will be accepted, so if you would like to tautoko our growing efforts please give us a koha! 

Today we are a little late getting this notice out, but there are some salads, a pumpkin, a potted fennel and some other items for sale.