Newsletter Week Ending 02nd May 2025

Ngaere School

School Newsletter

Living & Learning with RESPECT

02/05/2025

Kia ora koutou e te whānau,

Ngā mihi nui ō te rā me te wiki katoa

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter break with your whānau. It’s been a wet and windy start to the term but no doubt our farmers will be happy.

We have all the winter sport codes about to kick off, so I’m looking forward to catching up with some of you on the sidelines throughout the season. A big thank you to those parents who’ve put their hands up to coach/manage teams. It allows us to ensure sporting opportunities are alive and well at Ngaere School.

Fundraising

Another huge shout out to Kylie & Fabian Rupapera for their organisation with the Ngaere Kids Trail Ride. Also a huge thank you to the PTA and parent helpers who also supported this event. This was an awesome day with a round 75 kids getting amongst it. This event raised around $2000 towards supporting in reducing the costs of the end of year Senior Camps.

The T-Shirt Fundraiser currently being run has also taken off with great momentum. By Tuesday morning, we’d already had three students fully cover the costs of their camps! Thanks to Kylie Keller for spearheading this one. We’re blessed to have such amazing parent support. A small request from Karen. If possible, can sponsors please pay parents the money originally with one final lump sum payment made into the Student Council Account upon completion of the fundraiser on 13th June. This just makes managing money much cleaner on our end. Thanks!

Kapahaka/The Arts

We started Kapahaka and Music lessons again this week. It’s great that we’re able to offer these programmes to help enrich our school curriculum. Students in Room 4/5/6 & 7 are getting involved in Kapahaka and are starting to sound amazing! We’re looking forward to getting out and performing in local cultural events as the year progresses. Karl Anderson and Fiona Martin are offering music tuition in guitar, drums, ukulele and piano. If you’re keen for your child to get involved, please make contact via the office in the first instance.

Property

We have a few property projects underway at the moment. The Board is working to get Phase 1 of the Hall Redevelopment underway. We’re just getting this scoped out and priced up at the moment looking at how we can make better use of this area. The long term goal is to have a multi-purpose space with a slightly larger indoor footprint – allowing for community based events to be run/held. The other property project moving along slowly in the background is a refresh of the main block outside of Room 1/2/3 – alongside a refurbishment of the staffroom.

Mid-Year Reporting

All students will receive a mid-year progress report aligned with the refreshed English and Maths curriculum towards the end of term. I’m still working with the staff and waiting for a little more guidance from the Ministry of Education. This will look different from previous years and will be sent out via HERO. Further information will come out shortly.

HERO parent contact:

Just a friendly reminder that parent contact via HERO is the preferred method as it centralises everything for all of us. The link HERE helps you navigate the app from the parent lense. Reach out if you need any help with this.

Have a great weekend and reach out or pop in at any point

Ngā manaakitanga

Shane Burgess – Tumuaki/Principal

principal@ngaere.school.nz

022 451 5809

REMINDER PIZZA ORDERS ARE DUE IN TODAY!

This will start next Friday 09th May and run for 8 weeks. There have been questions around Friday the 20th June which is Matariki Day a public holiday. The pizza’s will be had on Thursday 19th instead.

Spare order forms are available from the school office.

DON’T FORGET TO KEEP SENDING IN YOUR MILK/CREAM BOTTLE LIDS!

Bring them to the school office or place in the big orange recycling bin outside the school office.

We would like to acknowledgee those members of the community are that have contributed to our school through the Fern Fuel For Schools Programme, they are listed as follows:

Rotorangi Farms 2021 Ltd, Kacey Trust, Willowbrook Partnership, Rupapera Family Trust, Te Rahui Trust, G & J Hunger Contracting Limited, Cooper Family Trust No1, The Hyjinks Trust, Wayne Francis & Brenda Louise O’Neill as Trustees, Dusty’s Hill Co Ltd, Hu Farms Limited,Fergie Partners, Benjamin Berger Partnership, G & T Curran Limited, Holeshot Farms Limited, GA & BJ Burke Partnership, Nikorima Trust, Macbe Partnership, Te Koa Dairy Farms Limited, MYKA Farms & Styger Rotokare Trust.

THANK YOU