Kia ora koutou.

Tomorrow is athletics day. Hopefully the weather holds off and it's fine enough for us. We will inform you if our plans change. Could you please send along some spare clothes just in case your child does get wet during the day. 

Next Wednesday the 16th is our teacher's paid union meeting. Thanks to the families who have let us know if their children are being collected or walking home at 12:30 or remaining at school until 2:55. If you haven't completed the survey could you please do so. Knowing this makes our job easier to plan supervision and ensure everyone is accounted for. Usual classes will not be operating in the afternoon - all remaining students will be combined in the hall. Buses will operate at the usual time. The link to the survey can be found here.

Arts Day is on Friday the 18th November. Family and friends are welcome from 12.30pm to view all of the hard work that has happened over the year.

Ngā mihi,

Scott Lincoln
Principal

NOVEMBER
Friday             11           OSS Athletics
Wednesday   16           Teacher union meeting  - earlier collection of students request
Wednesday   23           COPS athletics day
Friday             18           Arts Day
Mon 28-Thurs 1 Dec   Senior Camps

Our KETE value for this week is Engaged!

Learning to work as part of a team will help our tamariki hone many social skills, such as patience, empathy, respect for others, compromise and tolerance. It also helps them develop confidence in themselves and trust in other people. Teamwork involves working together with other people to achieve an end goal. By working as a team, children develop important life skills like problem solving, listening, leadership, and creative thinking. Nurturing teamwork skills also develops higher levels of self-confidence, self-esteem, empathy, and compassion.

There are many ways to give your tamariki opportunities to practise their teamwork skills at home. You might like to try:

We really appreciate our whānau using our 'KETE language' at home with your tamariki, below the ways we encourage ENGAGED n two of our school settings:

The Middle Syndicate will be running a BBQ for our Junior Sports and Senior Athletics Days which are to be held on tomorrow, Friday 11th November.
Pre-orders have been taken for South School students, but all items will be available for whanau to purchase on the day.

South School Athletics tomorrow! Students are to come to school as usual with the first event starting at 9.20am. Parent and whanau are welcome to come along and support our students throughout the day. Please see the timetable of the days events below. These are approximate times as some events may run longer than others. 

Please also see the flyer for information on the Sausage Sizzle the Middle Syndicate will be running on the day. 

This year we are coming together as a school in colours. Classes have been put into 3 colours and students are asked to come dressed in their assigned colour and support their “team” throughout the day. At the end of the day we will have a “Colour Relay” with students from new entrant to year 8 racing together. Below are the assigned colours for your child/children's classes. 

Blue: Room 1, Room 4, Room 12 & 17, Room 10 & 11.

Yellow: Room 2, Room 5, Room 7, Room 9.

Green: Room 3, Room 6, Room 14, Room 8.

Room 16 can choose which colour they would like to come in.

 

Location:   Junior Field

Time:         From 11:00am

Rotation of tabloids - Vortex, Egg and Spoon, Quoits, Hurdles, Sack Race, Three Legged Race.
Once the tabloids have finished we will have a fun relay. You are welcome to stay and sit with your child for lunch. We will then head around to the front of the school at approximately 1:15pm to take part in age group sprints.
Some students have been chosen for the colour relay which will consist of students from every year level. This will be at the end of the day.

Click here for your last chance to make a Book Club order before Christmas. Last day for orders is Thursday 17th November.