Newsletter Friday 06th December 2024

Friday 06th December 2024

Kia ora e te whānau,

Another busy week at Ngaere School with great weather for all to enjoy!

We’re now only seven days from the end of the school year. As you can imagine, the school is a hive of activity with festive frivolity as we prepare for end of year celebrations before everyone heads off for a well-deserved break over the summer.

2025 Transition Afternoon: Thursday 12th December 1:30 – 3pm

This will be an opportunity for students to spend a block with the students and teacher that they’ll be based with for 2025 and provide a chance to connect and talk about what lies ahead when they return on January 29th. Teachers will all send our more formalised information for parents/caregivers on Day 1 next year.

Pool Keys: These will be available to purchase for school families from the school office on Monday 09th December for $60 (cash only) a key.  This money goes towards the upkeep of the pool. There are limited keys – so first in first serve.  The pool is not open to the public until after the end of the term, Wednesday 18th December, as there is a re-roof of the changing rooms to be completed. 

Due to the stringent Health & Safety regulations around pools, there is new signage on display and we ask that pool users please read and abide by the rules. Failure to comply with the rules and regulations will result in the pool being closed to the public. 

A first aid kit has been attached to the wall of the ladies changing rooms for your convenience and the school is in the process of aquiring an AED to be onsite for the community to use. Please ensure that any concerns regarding behavior and/or safety are immediately reported to the people named in the signage displayed. This helps ensure a safe, enjoyable space for all to enjoy.

End of Year Prize-giving: Stratford High School – 7pm  – Monday 16 December

Further information to come. The School will be open for instruction on Tuesday 17th, but we will be running alternative programmes for students in attendance as we clean, pack and move classes  to prepare for next year.

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.

See below for Key Dates for next week:

Week 9

• Tuesday 10 December – Monster Raffle Tickets Due Back
• Thursday 12 December – Year 8 Leavers Celebration

Week 10

• Monday 16 December – Monster Raffle Drawn
• Monday 16 December – End of Year Prize Giving SHS 7pm
• Tuesday 17 December – Last Day School for 2024 – Merry Xmas & Happy Holidays!

Key Dates for Term 1, 2025:

Wednesday 29th January: Start of school year

Week 2/3: Dates to be confirmed – Parent/Teacher Interviews – a chance to set goals for the year and for parents to be onboarded with HERO (as outlined aboce)

Friday 7th March: Kāhui Ako Teacher Only Day (School will be closed)

Monday 10th March: Taranaki Anniversary

Friday 14th March:  Ngaere School Gala

Have a fabulous weekend!

Ngā mihi nui

Shane (Mr B)

principal@ngaere.school.nz

Please CLICK HERE to see which class your child/ren are in next year.

Please see below information relating to 2025 Strategic Priorities – note: these priorities are aligned with the ERO recommedations

As we move towards 2025, our two main Strategic Priorities will remain:

1. Strengthening Capability through “growing & developing a culture of growth and learning by and for all”
2. Curriculum – ensuring our learners have access to a rich and innovative curriculum that reflects the community in which we live and embeds the schools’ sense of identity, language and culture

In 2025, we are looking to have annual targets around:

1. Improving literacy outcomes for all learners – with a focus on boys in writing
2. Strengthening explicit teaching in Mathematics, developing common practices to accelerate progress and achievement
3. Developing our culturally responsive practices to ensure equitable outcomes for all – with a focus on marginalised learners

Please feel free to use the survey link HERE (or the URL address below) to provide feedback on the proposed focus areas or to offer suggestions for consideration.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KSWN7XM

PET DAY CUPS ARE BACK

The Pet Day Cups are back from the engravers.  If your child was a cup winner, please get them to collect it from the school office.

These will be required to be returned to school in September/October 2025.

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

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