From The Principal's Desk

Dear parents and caregivers

What a great year this has been!

I would personally like to thank you and your family for all your support throughout this year. It has gone really quickly with lots of learning along the way. This term has been one of celebration of our students and their wonderful talents.

During the term, we were able to share our talented choir with the community at Stockade Hill. Plus our year 4 choir did an awesome job at the Kids 4 Kids concert. 

The final assemblies, that took place last week, were an absolute highlight for me this term. To see the development of the children as they progress from year 0/1 through to year 6 is a privilege and absolute pleasure.

Our aim is to watch our children develop into confident, caring, connected, communicative and creative individuals and this was evident throughout the levels. To see our students up on the stage enjoying themselves, confident in knowing what they had to do and smiling, is what we want to see for all of our children. We can then watch their progress as they become more self managing over the years when they are able to show their initiative and be totally independent self regulating learners, making the most of their strengths. I have had great feedback from staff and parents about the quality and the enjoyment of all the performances.

The Salvation Army have sent us a letter to thank our families, staff and students for the very generous donation of toys and food towards their Christmas appeal.

A big thank you to all the parents who helped out with our Float in the Howick Santa parade. It looked great and it was lovely to see the children celebrating during and after the parade.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our year 6s the best for 2019. They are a great bunch of young people and we look forward to the bridges they will cross and the stories they will tell as they navigate the next part of their learning journey.

To any of our families where this is your last year with us, thank you for your support and thank you for your contribution to our Mellons Bay community. We are blessed to be where we are and with the people we come into contact with.

Thank you for all the trips, sports events, camps and activities you have supported this year. Your support means we can go ahead and ensure that our children flourish and are exposed to different learning environments.

I would also like to acknowledge our Board of Trustees for their role of governance this year and all that they do to ensure we continue to raise student outcomes and achieve our goals in our strategic plan.

Please note that our updated school policies and procedures are always available to you on the school website.

Attached below is the infographic of our journey from the end of 2017 and the development of our school vision. Thank you for your input into this process; we will unpack next year as a school, where we are Learning to Navigate our Changing World. Please click to view our Vision Process 2018

I would also like to thank all of our PTA members who have given a lot of time this year in various roles, fundraising for our school and their efforts and work with our community. We have some exciting news coming up around our new build and once this is completed we will be able to move onto other projects around the school.

Drum roll please ........ We are pleased to announce that our new build will go ahead! This has been in the pipe line for the past 6 years and we now have the Ministry of Education approval and official sign off.

What does this involve? The demolition of rooms 14, 15, 16.

What will happen? A two-storey building will be built with 2 classrooms downstairs and two upstairs

When will this happen? Demolition will start when school finishes or at the beginning of next year.

How long will it take? It is proposed to be finished by the end of the Term 2 holidays 2019.

What does it look like? The plans are available in Colleen's office and a drawing is available in the office.

Anything else? When the new building is finished Room 12 will be demolished.

This will mean that Janine Wymer, our wonderful music teacher, will need to move rooms and this is also why we have had to move classrooms this year and move two classes into the library and move the library back to The Hub ....again!

We will update you of the progress as we go and also as we Learn to Navigate our Changing World.

Please click here to view of vision process

I would also like to thank our fantastic staff; our teachers, learning assistants, office staff and caretaker, who have worked so hard this year. They are a wonderful bunch of people to work with and I appreciate all they do.

We wish Sarah Rowley all the best as she has gained a permanent position at Wakaaranga School and also Aminah Mai, our learning assistant, who will begin her teaching career here in New Zealand. Two of our learning assistants, Kate Baverstock and Sharon McGrath, are also training to become teachers and we wish them well on their journey as we need them!

I wish you all a safe and happy Christmas. I hope you are able to rest, relax and find time to spend with family and friends. We look forward to a new year of learning in 2019.

I wish you all a safe and happy holiday. Take time to rest, relax and enjoy time with family and friends and we look forward to another great year of learning in 2019.

Ngā Mihi

Colleen Margison

Principal 

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