A huge thank you to the people who came and helped out at the working bee on Friday. We had a small but hard working group of parents who achieved a lot in the two hours. I really appreciated the time and effort that you gave to getting one of our gardens on track to becoming a native garden that will require a lot less maintenance and still look good. This is one of three gardens that we are looking at changing over to a lower maintenance native garden. Thanks to Tyler and Sam who dug the holes for the plants and to Ryan for watering them in. 

I would like to extend our sympathy and thoughts to Robin Siataga’s family, friends and to the Macrae’s School staff and children and wider community as they mourn the loss of their loved one, colleague, teacher and principal. 

Well done to our kapa haka group for their performance on Thursday at the Maori and Pacific Island Festival. You made us proud. Kā mihi nui Megan Gallagher for your work with our children getting them ready for the event. Kā mihi nui also to all of her helpers - Rachel Scott and Kirstin Engelbrecht as well as those students from EOHS who have helped with our kapa haka group. I was very impressed watching the haka - Tika Tonu _ at the end of our performance. Everyone gave it their all. 

Please remember that school opens to children at 8:30am. Before this time teachers are getting ready for the day. At times you may need to send your child to school earlier than this for a variety of reasons. Please let your classroom teacher know if this is the case so that we can be aware and make provisions for it. 

Don’t forget to keep the evening of Wednesday 19 October free to attend the Netsafe talk on how to keep your child safe online, whether it be playing games, using social media or surfing the net. It will be at the Waikouaiti Event Centre. This is a great opportunity for you to get some practical ideas on how to manage this tricky area that is both very useful and can  be full of pitfalls if we don’t follow some simple guidelines as a parent of children who use the internet and as ourselves  as users of this service. 

 

One off public holiday - Due to the recent announcement of the one off public holiday the school will be closed on Monday 26 September for the commemoration of Queen Elizabeth II who as we all know died recently at the respectable age of 96. 

A huge thanks, ka mihi nui, to our community for all your support to get us ready for polyfest this year. The tamariki have put in a lot of effort over the last two weeks to be ready to perform and I'm so proud of them; both for their performance on stage and their behaviour backstage... They did us proud! Ka mihi nui to Barry and Clary, our kind and accommodating bus drivers, and ka mihi nui to Macraes mine for sponsoring one of the buses. I'm so grateful for the support of the whanau and kaiako who helped get uniforms and hair sorted this morning so we all looked great on stage. To the whanau who joined us today... He whetu koutou- you are all stars! Tino pai ano to our tamariki for your fantastic effort x
Check out the below link for photos of our group.

Our tamariki are very busy creating props, painting backdrops and writing the script for our end of term creativity showcase.
Make sure you save the date and come along!  
EVERYONE IS WELCOME

Fri 16 Sep              NPC Rugby Players visit Senior school

Mon 26 Sep          Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Public Holiday
Fri 16 Sep              NPC Rugby Players visit

Wed 21 Sep          BOT Meeting @ 6.30pm (Change of date)

Tue 27 Sep            Home & School Special Mtg @ 3.15pm

Thu 29 Sep            Learning Celebration Exhibition

Fri 30 Sep              Last day Term 3

Mon 17 Oct           First day Term 4

Wed 19 Oct          Whanau & Community Online Safety (Community Notices for more details) 

Thu 20 Oct            3 Peaks Athletics (PP 25th Oct)

Mon 24 Oct           Labour Day

Fri 4 Nov               MINI FAIR fundraiser for (Y6 Camp & Y5 Activity Week)

28 Nov - 2 Dec    Year 6 Camp and Year 5 Activity Week
Fri 16 Dec              Last day Term