Newsletter Wednesday 01st May 2024

Ngaere School

School Newsletter

Living & Learning with RESPECT

Term 2 Week 1

Wednesday 1 May 2024

Welcome – Nau mai haere mai

Tena Koutou

Welcome back to term 2! I hope you all enjoyed the holiday period and feel refreshed and ready for the next ten weeks of school. It was great to see our tamariki enjoying the sunshine as they played with their friends over the last couple of days. We have started the term with 155 students and expect at least 11 new entrants before the end of the year.

This term marks the beginning of the winter sports and we have teams playing netball on Saturdays, hockey on Mondays & Thursdays and basketball on Fridays. This would not be possible without the support and committment of our parent and family volunteers to coach the teams. Please take the time to thank those who are coaching your child’s team and offer to help as needed.

Some of our year 8 students managed to tick off a few hours of service for their William Pike Challenge during the holiday break by turning up to help Eltham Lions members clear the grass and weeds from around trees behind the Eltham Swimming pool as well as helping make small posies to brighten the cemetary for ANZAC day. Then on Monday all of Room 7 helped spread the bark on the playground. A great effort, thank you all so much! And a huge thank you to the PTA who funded the new bark!

We have a few things planned this term so please keep checking in with the ‘Calendar Reminders’ in the newsletter. Teachers will also keep you informed using ‘Seesaw’ messaging. If unsure, please ring Karen in the office.

Nga mihi,

Megan

School Captains Harry, Kaylee & Kelsey, along with Tyler attended the ANZAC service at Eltham as ambassadors for our school. Thank you!

Starting

Friday 10th May

This term we have decided to intoduce “Friday Pie-Day” instead of our Hot Food Tuesdays.

Instead of children bringing something to keep warm in the pie warmer we will be offering a normal sized mince pie $5 or smaller bridge pies $1 for lunch each Friday. Orders can be placed for every Friday or can be done weekly but must be placed and paid for by Thursday 9am each week.

Order details out soon!

POOL KEYS

There are still pool keys outstanding! Please return asap.

The lock will be changing next season, so if you do not return the past years key, you will not be issued a new key next season.

MUFTI DAYS: To kick off our Term 2 focus on ‘Community’ the junior team have planned a mufti day for this Friday, 3 May. Children are to dress as a hero from our community – could be a nurse, a doctor, a teacher, a policeman, a farmer, a mum, a dad or a genuine super hero. No limit to your imagination! We ask that those dressing in mufti bring a can of either cat food or people food for the local foodbank.

We will also take part in BullyFree NZ Pink Shirt Day on Friday 17th May where children are asked to wear something pink and bring a gold coin donation which will be sent on to help support our youth.

PTA Update: Next meeting Monday 6th May in school staffroom 7pm.

We are still in need of a Chair for this awesome group of people who do so much for our school. If you have a bit of time to spare and think you can help please see Megan or Karen at school. There will be plenty of support if you decide to take on this role!

All are welcome to attend the meetings.