Newsletter Wednesday 28th February 2024

Ngaere School

School Newsletter

Living & Learning with RESPECT

Term 1 Week 4

Wednesday 28th February 2024

Welcome – Nau mai haere mai

Tena koutou katoa

A very warm welcome to George and Kendall who have joined Room 1 this week!

HEARING AND VISION TESTING AT SCHOOL MONDAY 4TH MARCH

Vison and hearing screening is completed by Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand Vision and Hearing Technicians at our school. The technicians will be visiting our school on Monday 4th March.

Eligible children include:

New Entrants – for children who are new to school, and/or have not completed their B4 School Check and/or require further testing post B4 School Check.
Year 7 & 8- Routine vision screening is completed for all Year 7 students and any Year 8 students who have not completed the Year 7 screening and/or students that require further testing.

If you have any queries or concerns, or do not wish for your child to have this screening done, please contact the school office.

REMINDER:

TEACHER ONLY DAY Friday 8th March.

This is a Kahui Ako initiative that allows local schools the opportunity to come together for professional learning and sharing opportunities.

PARENT/TEACHER INTERVIEWS: Thank you to those families who attended interviews this week. Room 4 / Whaia Mandy will have times available next week to catch up with any parenst needing interviews. Please look for her Seesaw post or arrange a time with her directly.

Although we have Parent / Teacher Interviews twice a year, please do not hesitate to make a time to catch up with your child’s teacher outside of these dates should you have a concern. As teachers have other professional and personal commitments on some days after school, please ensure you make an appointment time.

RAFFLE TICKETS FOR SALE

There a two awesome raffles up for grabs. Tickets are $2 each.

Call into the school office and get yours now!

Senior Swimming Sports: Tuesday 12 March

The Rural Group Cluster Swimming Sports will be held at the Stratford Pool on Tuesday 12 March beginning at 10.10am. This event is for children in Year 5-8 (includes some children from Room 4). Parents are welcome to attend. if available to assist on the day ie. as a time keeper please see Mr Mercer.

All children will travel by bus to this event and will be returning at approx 1pm.

Tennis Coaching: $40.00 for a 30mins for 1 on1. $25.00 each for groups of 2 children or $20.00 each for groups of 4 children. Lessons 30 mins. once a week for next 6 weeks. May be at lunchtime or during school time depending on the availability of the coach. Please let Karen in the office know if you are interested in one of these options.

Year 7 & 8 Tech: Each Tuesday our Year 7 or 8 learners head to Stratford High School for Tech. This is the second year we have been able to be involved and while the programme is still being tweaked and adjusted we are happy with the level of engagement from our children.

Winter Sports: Please ensure all sports notices are returned to school by Friday this week. This will allow our Sports Coordinator, Mr Mercer time to determine the number of teams to enter in each code competition for this year. Thankyou to those who have indicated a willingness to coach. We cannot enter teams without coaches so fully appreciate the commitment you make.

Please note, the registration costs of these sports is not set by the school and we do not want the costs to prohibit any child playing sport. Please make a time to discuss this confidentially if needed.

TENDERS FOR MAIZE

The maize is looking amazing! The PTA are asking anyone who may be keen to purchase the maize to send their tender in to the school office (in an envelope with price, name and contact details) by Tuesday 19th March. The crop covers just over 1ha

Weetbix Tryathlon: Wednesday 27 March

As in previous years we will not be entering this event as a school. Should you wish your child to take part the entry form and details are on the webpage at https://tryathlon.co.nz/locations/new-plymouth/ Early bird registration of $52.50 closes today!

William Pike Challenge: This year we are very excited to offer our Year 8 learners the opportunity to take part in the William Pike Challenge, a year long programme combining outdoor learning experiences which challenge the individuals, service activities to explore, develop (and strengthen) empathy and compassion, and passion projects to develop self belief and perserverance. Miss Hulme is exploring different options for covering all interests and levels of fitness with the outdoor challenges as well as looking for ideas of service activities. If you have any ways you can support this programme we would love to hear from you. This may be knowing someone who would appreciate someone giving a couple of hours to stack firewood, weed a garden, walk a dog…

Room 7 will be sharing more once they are more fully into the programme.

If you would still like to order a William Pike T-Shirt for your child please have orders and the payment of $32 back to school by Friday 01st March. Payment can be deposited into the Student Council account 15-3951-0377712-00. Thank you.

Last week to come and visit the Amazing Maize Maze

A huge thank you to the PTA, parent helpers and sponsors for all the work on the Maize Maze so far. The first two weekends have been a great success. Don’t forget to tell your family and friends all about it! If you are able to help at any of the up and coming Maize Maze dates, please see Karen in the office.