From The Principal's Desk

22 November 2022

I hope this time of year and the weeks ahead bring you some joy as we head into the carparks and stores in readiness for Christmas! It is at this time of year that we need to hold onto or dig deep for whatever Christmas means to you and enjoy celebrating with others. I know that families and people get very busy at this time of year, with Christmas “do’s”,  break ups of teams and clubs. So please take care and look after yourselves and your family as we navigate this next month.

I must say hearing our students in song, seeing them performing, playing with instruments and rakau sticks, creating works of art and practicing their items for the end of the school year fills me with joy and brings a warm smile to my heart. 

We managed to complete our senior school athletics on a good day of weather last week.  We look forward to the juniors next week and the Interschool athletics tomorrow. Our students conducted themselves very well and I thank you if you came to watch. The organisation was like a well oiled machine - not that I would refer to Mr Harder in that way! The teachers did a great job especially Mrs Ingrid Holland and Mrs Cat Mellor. 

The final relay at the end of the day is always one to watch! I do have to say that the parents, gave the students, namely the boys, some serious competition. Our parents really applied themselves and won the relay in style. I thank our staff that participated as well, had it been me in the relay, there would have been an even greater distance and time difference! Most importantly was to hear the children cheering and enjoying the closing race to a fabulous day. 

We look forward to the many more events and final assemblies coming up for the rest of this year. Please check the dates to make sure you don’t miss out on your child’s class.

We have good attendance at school at the moment despite COVID still being present for some. Thank you to everyone for abiding by the guidelines that are in place when this occurs.

Having our children at school is really important, right to the end of the year. 

We know that when adults and children are coming into school most of the people flow in the same direction and at different times. Therefore the pavement walkway is safe and we ask that children and adults do not walk in the car park and to please use the walkway on the left, coming into school.

When the bird song goes at 3.00pm the people flow can be congested on the walkway. This is why we have allowed people to walk through the car park at the end of the day. We have done this since COVID. However we have had cars driving into the car park around the same time as adults and children are trying to leave and this is very dangerous.

Because of this we will be putting the barrier arm down every day at 2.45 and opening it again at 3.15pm.

This is for the safety of all involved. If your child has a leg injury you are welcome to park in the car park before 2.45pm. This will begin from Thursday 24th November.

Last term we communicated that our lovely Janine Wymer was receiving treatment. This is continuing for Janine and upon the advice of her cancer specialist she has unfortunately had to resign as our music teacher. Janine has been such an asset to our school and has blessed the lives of many of our children and whanau. She has given us the gift of song and music for which we are all grateful and she will be sorely missed in this role. We hope she is able to pop in and see us. I know Janine misses the children already and she hopes to be able to help out from time to time if possible. 

Please take care of your families and yourselves at this time. It will be the end of the year before we know it. 

Ngā mihi nui

Colleen Margison
Principal/Tumuaki

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