Newsletter Wednesday 06th March 2024

Ngaere School

School Newsletter

Living & Learning with RESPECT

Term 1 Week 5

Wednesday 6th March 2024

Welcome – Nau mai haere mai

Tena koutou katoa

The board select their Presiding Member ( previously known as Board Chair) at the first meeting of each year. David England was elected by the meeting to lead the board for the next 12 months. I would like to congratulate Dave while at the same time offering sincere thanks to outgoing Presiding member, Stacey Clough, who still remains on the board.

Dave shared a little about himself:

“Along with Hollie and our three girls, we have been farming in the Ngaere area for the last 10 years. One of our daughters is still at Ngaere School. My interests include motorbikes, mountain biking and enjoying family time. I was elected to the board 5 years ago and in that time have held the Property portfolio, being responsible for prioritising the upgrading and maintenance work with the Ministry of Education and more recently, replacing the turf. I was elected to lead our dedicated and hard working team to support Megan and her great team of staff going forward to do the best we can for all our children.

Thank you, Dave England.”

Moving forwards this year, the board would like to tidy up the school hall and seek suggestions as to what an upgrade may look like. If you have an opinion or idea, please feel free to email Karen in the office or call in and fill in one of our ‘Hall Upgrade’ suggestion slips in the office. As the hall is owned by the school the cost of this must be met by the school rather than through the Ministry. We are lucky enough to have a starting amount of $48,000 which was gifted to us by the now closed Ngaere Hall Committee. We will keep you posted on this project.

Late last year a small number of families responded to a school survey. While there were no obvious strong themes to emerge, as a board we were reassured that we are meeting the needs of the children at our school.

A reminder that school is closed on Friday (Teacher Only Day) and Monday (Taranaki Anniversary Day)

Nga mihi, Megan

Room 2 children enjoyed a great visit to Beck Helicopters to support their learning about “Things that Move”. A huge thankyou to Beck Helicopters and parents who helped with transport.

School is closed Friday 08th & Monday 11th March

Senior Swimming Sports: Tuesday 12 March

The 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. Children are to have enough food and water to snack on during the morning – we will not be stopping to eat. Please do not send your child with money – the shop will not be open to us.

WINTER SPORTS COACHES

We still need coaches for the following teams: Netball Year 3-4 Team and the Hockey Year 3-4 team. If you are able to help in any way please contact the school office. Thank you.

SCHOOL SUNHATS: Students are issued their first school sunhat for free when they start at Ngaere. Children must wear our school sunhats from Labour Weekend until Taranaki Anniversary for outside play. Outside of these months they are not compulsory. It is their responsbility to look after it and to put it somewhere safe after each break. The cost of these has risen so a replacement hat will now be $18.

TURNBALL CUP RESULTS: Congratulations to all those who participated in the Turnball Cup Swimming Competition on 21/02/2024. Results are as follows:

1st Daniel Taunt Year 8 Boys 50m Freestyle, 3rd Olivia Waite Year 8 Girls 50m Freestyle, 3rd Quinn O’Sullivan Year 7 Boys 50m Freestyle, 2nd Riley Otene Year 7 50m Boys Freestyle, 3rd Place in the Centenial Cup Relay, 1st & 3rd in the Small Schools Relay. Well done!

A huge thank you to the Stratford St Andrews Op Shop

who have very kindly donated a couple of boxes of stationery to the school.

Room 3 Pictured with the donated stationery

SCHOOL POOL: With the weather turning cooler classes may not be swimming every day. The pool will remain open to the public until after Easter weekend. If you no longer require a key, please return it to the office. We will be changing the lock at the end of this swimming season.

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.