Newsletter Friday 13th December 2024

Friday 13th December 2024

Kia ora koutou e te whānau,

He mihi nui kia koutou katoa!

Santa is officially packing his bags as he prepares to board his sleigh and take flight from the North Pole.

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all the staff, students and parent community who have all taken the time to make me feel so welcome in my first term here as part of the Ngaere School Community. I’m excited for 2025 and looking forward to working as a team to continue to build and strengthen our amazing school ensuring we offer outstanding educational opportunities for our students.

I wish everyone a safe and happy festive season with your whānau. 

Ngā mihi nui

Shane Burgess (Mr B)

principal@ngaere.school.nz

Key information below:

End of Year Prizegiving: 

Date: Monday 16th December

Time: 7:00pm (start) – kids to arrive by 6:45pm

Venue:  Stratford High School Hall, Swansea Road, Stratford. 

• Students are to wear school uniform; no shoes please
• If is essential that the students are at school on Monday as they will be taken to the Stratford High School Hall – by bus – for a practice so they are familiar with the set-up prior to the evening event
• Students in Rooms 1-3 are welcome to be picked from school at 1:30pm to be taken home for a rest if parents desire
• The PTA will have raffle tickets on sale (cash only).  See more information below.

Tuesday 17th December

• The school is still open for instruction; but we will be running alternative programmes for those in attendance to release teachers in hubs to plan and prepare for 2025

School Magazines

• These are for sale from the school office at a cost of $25 cash or you can transfer the money into the BOT Account 15-3951-0380444-00 – please put “Magazine” and “name” into the description. Note: the Year 8 students get a free one as part of their leaving gift.  A huge thank you to Miss Hulme and our Year 8 students for the hours of work put into getting this ready for you all to enjoy it looks great!

School Pool

• This opens for community use from Wednesday 18th December. As mentioned in the previous newsletter, it is essential that all keyholders follow the expectations outlined to ensure that health & safety regulations are met and the space can remain open in years to come for all to benefit from.

WELL DONE TEAM!

For those who have not yet heard the news, Ngaere School placed first with their Xmas Parade Float last Friday.  A huge thank you to Mrs Andrews, Mr Wells, Brenton Vesty, the students and parents involved with the preparation and participation of the float – all the hard work paid off and it looked amazing.  Also huge thank you to Michael from Water Hog who lent the school his truck for the event.

HERO – New Student Management System

As indicated earlier, we will be centralising our systems over the break to allow for a new system to be the main portal for reporting absences, making payments, communicating between home and school as well as reporting acheivement and progress. There will be a short period of time that eTAP & Skool Loop will still run in the background while we work through the process of getting all students loaded and parents onboarded. In the meantime, if you are able to download the HERO app using this link for Apple devices and this one for Andrioid devices, that would be helpful.

PLEASE BE SURE TO CHECK THE LOST PROPERTY BOX BEFORE THE END OF TERM AS THIS WILL BE CLEANED OUT OVER THE HOLIDAY BREAK.  THANK YOU.

• Wednesday 29th January 2025 – Beginning of Term 1 2025
• Friday 7th March – Teachers Only Day – Kāhui Ako Professional Learning
• Friday 14 March – Ngaere School GALA

Findlays Flower Studio in Stratford are having a colouring competition – Please see attached,  or copies are available from the school office.  Once they are coloured in please drop them into Findlays Flowers,  Broadway Stratford.

THANK YOU TO THE FOLLOWING MAJOR SPONSORS FOR THEIR SUPPORT TOWARDS THE SCHOOL PADDOCK