Dance!! – Many of you will have heard we are all “dancing”!! More will be revealed at our special Christmas in the Country event!! Meanwhile every day we are all participating in dance with a professional from the New Zealand Dance Company – Omar!!

End of year events starting with:                                                                                                         

• • • • Year 8 Graduation – Is this Wednesday 30th November at “The Wainui” (Golf Club). We are all looking forward to celebrating with the year 8’s and their parents at this very special event. These young people are graduating from school, some have been with us since they were 5 years old, others joining in over  subsequent years. It is great to be able to all celebrate together again as this was one of the events affected by the pandemic.

• • • • • • Christmas in the Country – Thursday 8th December, start time 5:30pm!! This year we are moving to the field, all the food and the Intermediate years enterprise stalls will be down on the field. A truck supplied by the Mexted family will be our stage!! Food can be purchased; hot ham rolls, sausages, summer fruit treats, etc. The staff will all be serving you as families, and selling raffle tickets. We are all excited this event can return and we can all celebrate Christmas together!!

• • • • • • Summer Sports Prizegiving – This will be held on the last week of school on Tuesday 13th December, 9.10am – 10.10am. The following events will be acknowledged, Athletics, Touch, Spring Netball and Summer Hockey, Basketball, Cricket certificates. All parents are welcome to attend.

• Prizegiving – Thursday 15th December 1:00pm start. This year for years 5- 8 we will be celebrating our successes, achievements and awarding certificates and cups for achievement; academically, sports, the arts, innovation, and of course most importantly our values!!  This is a time to celebrate with those that win awards, and be grateful we have all been able to be at school all year!! We celebrate that parents and family members are invited as well.

• Picnics – The Kiwi team will celebrate the end of year with a picnic on Tuesday 13th December. The Pukeko team will celebrate the end of the year with a picnic on Wednesday 14th December. Teams will share the details of these special events.

Swimming Pool – The pool is looking good for swimming, it is just a bit cold still. The Board is keen to enable the community to purchase keys for summer. If you are interested in a key at a cost of $70.00 and are willing to sign the pool use contract please let us know. There will be 50 keys available. We will need to sort opening hours depending on if there is a member of the community willing to test the pool every day and keep it clean. Training will be given. Mr Bray will be taking annual leave from 20th Dec – 16th January. Please let me know if you would be willing to take responsibility for the pool in this time.

FINALLY  

• Driveway and Carpark – Thank you everyone for adjusting to parking and walking to meet your children, everything feels so much safer now we are mostly off the road!! With no-one now parking in the bus pick-up area between 2:45 and 3:10pm the buses are a lot more efficient as well.

• The Lost Property – Is only decreasing slightly!! Please come and rescue your belongings, this will all be sent to charity at the end of the year.

Ka kite ano,

Gillian Bray