From The Principal's Desk

Dear parents and caregivers

Welcome back to term three. We have had a great start to the term and I hope this newsletter finds you and your family well, despite the colder, wet and windy weather. This is an exciting term where each class will be focusing on their art/sculpture installation project. We are making our vision, values and learner profile visible in our school. The children will go through a design process from planning to trialling to installation and completion. Your child's teacher will let you know what they are looking for in regard to materials, equipment and help. We will also put out a list of things that we need school wide and hope that you may be able to help us.

We had a very successful evening session by Jenny Hale from the Parenting Place. Thank you to all the parents who supported this event. The topic was how to raise happy, confident, resilient children. Jenny talked about the importance of teaching our children to fail and the ability for them to know how to bounce back. She had many handy hints and scenarios that parents and even teachers could relate to.

We would like to welcome our new PTA chairperson, Mrs Dawn Gillard and we thank her for volunteering to take on this role. We would also like to thank Mark and Renee Steel for all the work and organisation they have put into the PTA and its events over the past two years.

Our winter Glow in the Dark Disco was a great success and a big thank you to all the PTA members and the parents who helped out on the night. It is great to see the children enjoying themselves along with parents and caregivers, especially those that were having their own quiet boogie!

The teachers were very grateful for the $80 per classroom from the PTA to spend on games for our children to play with. A few classrooms asked the children to nominate what games they would like and they voted and the teacher bought the games the children wanted. Some bought further materials or items for the children to use in their play based learning or rapu time.

The new Mellons Bay School jackets are out with the fleece lining and have proved very popular in this colder weather. These can be purchased on Kindo.

Shortly, we will be sending out two surveys for your thoughts and opinions. These will be about our reporting and also Health and Physical Education . Your views and ideas are important to us; to build on our partnership and gain guidance on ways forward. We appreciate your participation and completion of these surveys for the benefit of our children.

Ngā Mihi

Colleen Margison

Principal 

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