Newsletter Week Ending 11th April 2025

Ngaere School

School Newsletter

Living & Learning with RESPECT

10/04/2025

Leader’s Assembly postponed until the end of Week 2 Term 2 – Friday 9th May

Kia ora koutou e te whānau,

Wow – it’s hard to believe that we are a quarter of the way through the year! What a busy term it’s been. Some real highlights amongst the busyness:

95% turn-out to home/school partnership hui
Room 6/7 overnight camp to Te Wera
Turnbull Cup (Swimming) – Winners!
Rural Schools Swimming – Relay Champs!
Extremely successful ‘School Gala’
All teachers upskilling/training in Structured Literacy

Term 2 promises to be another fun-filled, action packed term as we head into the cooler temperatures and our winter sporting codes.

School Attendance:

This is currently a national focus: How our school stacks up:

90% – Regular Attendance = 123 students = 85% of our total number of students

80-89% – Irregular Attendance = 14 students = 9.6% of our total number of students

Less than 80% – Moderate/Chronic Attendance = 5 students – 4.4% of our total number of students

On the whole this shows that we’re currently tracking at the Ministry of Education’s goal to have 80% of students attending school 90% or more of the time. Tino pai rawa!

The weather has definitely taken a turn of late and with a drop in temperature and increased rainfall. Some nasty bugs are starting to circulate, so please keep us in the loop if your children are away sick, we’ll ensure we accurately code attendance.

HERO parent contact:

It’s been great to see most parents have on boarded and embraced the change to HERO as our primary source of communication. For those still needing a hand with navigating the app, I did put a short tutorial together outlining how it works from the parent view. The link is HERE should you wish to have a nosey. Apologies for the poor sound quality.

PTA (Parent Teacher Association)

We have our AGM coming up on Monday 5th May. This will take place at 7pm in the school staffroom. Over the break, we’ll be popping out a “PTA promo” providing all with a bit more information around how the PTA operates, what they’ve achieved in recent times as well as mapping out the plan of attack for supporting the school over 2025/26.

Please save this date and come along for a listen. It’s a chance to help shape the learning experiences your child/ren may have whilst attending Ngaere School.

Sponsoring/Advertising:

As mentioned, we have moved away from Skool Loop as a form of communictaion so there is an opportunity for any local business that may be interested in advertising through our community newsletters and information sent out via HERO. If this sounds like you, please click on this LINK for further information

I hope you all have a great Easter break over the next couple of weeks and enjoy some time together with your families.

As always, please reach out and connect with any concerns/questions etc

Ngā manaakitanga

Shane Burgess – Tumuaki/Principal

principal@ngaere.school.nz

022 451 5809

REMINDER: THERE A STILL A FEW OUTSTANDING POOL KEYS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN RETURNED YET. AS THE LOCK HAS BEEN CHANGED THESE KEYS WILL NOT LONGER WORK AND ARE REQUIRED TO BE DROPPED BACK AT SCHOOL ASAP. THANK YOU.

Year 5-8 Camp Fundraiser

Ngaere Kids Trail Ride – a fun-filled community event that promotes trail riding and adventure based learning.

All proceeds are going directly to Ngaere School to reduce the costs of our Year 5-8 students end of year camps.

There is also an awesome raffle up for grabs – see flyer attached. Contact Kylie on the Trail page link below if you wish to purchase some.

Thanks for supporting what will undoubtedly be a fantastic event!

If you have any questions, please directly message Kylie Rupapera on the Ngaere Kids Trail Page HERE

A huge thank you to Hannah Geater and Alivia Kells, two Stratford High school students who have written and donated a copy of the book “Chip Takes Flight”. This book is reminder that you have the strength to keep going no matter what, perseverance is the key to your dreams, never give up and always believe in yourself.