Newsletter Thursday 13th March 2025

Ngaere School

School Newsletter

Living & Learning with RESPECT

13/03/2025

Kia ora koutou e te whānau,

Not a lot of info from me this week as our amazing teachers are doing such a great job of communicating what’s happening in our classes. HERO seems to be doing its job as intended.

It’s hard to believe that we’ve reached the end of Week 7 already. It’s been a jammed packed term with lots of professional learning experiences for staff as well as sporting and cultural opportunities for our tamariki to get amongst. These all support ensuring we offer first class educational experience for our young people.

Gala: A massive THANK YOU to our amazing PTA, team of helpers, staff and our sponsors for their support in ensuring that the gala is set up to be raging success. A real-team effort to be proud of!

Rural Cluster Swimming Yr 5-8 – Tuesday March 18th: Stratford Pools – 10:00am start – all Year 5-8 students will be involved, come along and support if you can.

Kapahaka: This takes place for all students every Monday afternoon at 2pm – parents and whānau are welcome to attend

Music Lessons: This year, we’ve managed to get Karl Anderson into the school to offer music lessons in drums, guitar and ukulele. So far, uptake has been positive. If this is an experience you’d like to explore – reach out to Karen or I and we will put you in touch with him. These are currently happening during school hours on a Wednesday.

PTA/Board of Trustees Hui: We have a PTA meeting at 7pm Monday 24th of March and Board of Trustees meeting at 6pm on Wednesday 26th March.

These are public meetings and we’d love for more parents to come along and get involved in supporting our staff to ensure Ngaere is the ‘local school of choice.’ We do need some new members to embed and sustain what our outstanding current teams have started. If this sounds like you, reach out and we can chat about what’s involved.

The PTA AGM is set for Monday 5th May (7pm)
Board Elections will take place in September – watch this space

Feedback: As always, we welcome and encourage feedback from our community. It’s always nice to hear what we’re doing well as well as any areas that may require growth. Please reach out to me at any time, or pop in for a chat!

Looking forward to seeing you all at the Gala!

Ngā manaakitanga

Shane Burgess – Tumuaki/Principal

principal@ngaere.school.nz

022 451 5809

Thank you to the following sponsors of the Ngaere School Gala, your support is very much appreciated:

Adan Larsen Builders, Baldock Earthmoving, Eltham Fire Brigade, Fonterra-Corrinna Pollock, Gernhoefer Contracting, ITM Stratford, Joblin Motorsport, Kara Prankerd, Renee Beck, Silverfern Farms, Smaxtec, The Family Butchery & Uhlenberg Haulage.

INFORMATION:

Baking: Could we please have all baking donations dropped at school by 3pm Friday. This will give the PTA time to price and set up the Bake Stall. Thank you.

Helpers Roster: Thank you to everyone who has offered to help, please see below (also attached to download if you want)the roster. A copy of this will also be available from the school office if you need to check. If you’ve not previously offered to help, but can lend a hand – let a staff member or one of our amazing PTA crew know – many hands make light work!

Download: Gala Roster.xlsx – Sheet1.pdf

Reminding our whānau that we are running a ticket system so you’ll need CASH to purchase tickets which can then be used at the Ngaere Games Stalls, BBQ & Bake Sale.
Non school run stall holders will still use cash/eftpos
Parking on Field: We have managed to make a bit of room on the school field; this will be managed by parking wardens who will manage traffic flow to ensure safety. They will also close the space when full and pop a sign on the gate. If parked in there please be super vigilant around safety as there’ll be a multitude of young ones running around
There will be NO parking in the Cheal Road carpark or behind the pool – these will be used for stall holders, so please be considerate of this request

Other than that….it’s set to be an amazing event! Once again. a huge thanks to our sponsors and “helpers/organisers” – these events can’t be run without you!