Newsletter: Term One, Week Four

Kia ora Whanau 

Dropping Off and Picking up Your Children—Safety Issues

If you are picking up or dropping of your children please do not use the staff  carpark.  It can become extremely dangerous for our children with so much congestion around the  entrance of the school.  We recommend that you park at the carpark by the swimming pools where there is plenty of parks for everyone, this also lessens the danger to our     children.  We recently had an incident where a child was hit by a car running across the road at the corner of Canning and Mascot Ave.  Our little ones are not good at judging the distance and speed of cars so keeping this area clear will help keep our children safe.  We do not encourage children to run across the road, they need to use the crossing at all times.   We appreciate your support with this matter.

 Walking School Bus

The Nga Iwi Walking School Bus has started again this year on Pershore Road.  We need some more dedicated parents to  become involved with this.  If you are interested please attend the meeting tomorrow morning (Thursday) at 9.00am in the staff room.  We look forward to seeing you there.

 School Lunches

We have started to see quite a few of our children having lunch packs bought from the dairy for their lunch.  These packs tend to only have potatoes chips of some sort, cookies and a sugar filled drink in them.  Please do not send these to school for lunch as they are very unsuitable.  Also if your child is ordering a school lunch they must order in their   classrooms by 8.55am.

 UP COMING EVENTS

BOT Elections—Nominations forms posted out by 15 March 2010

Parent Hui—4 March from 5.30pm 

Inter-school Cricket  16 March Centre Park  (date change)

Inter-school Softball 18 March—Aorere Park

Inter-school Swimming  11 March Moananui a Kiwa 

 Parent Hui

Our Parent Hui is being held on Thursday 4 March.  There will be a sausage sizzle starting at 5.30pm, hui starts at 6.00pm.  The focus of this hui is on National Standards.  If you have any questions  that you would like answered on the night please fill out the form    below and return it to school. There will also be a short discussion on the upcoming BOT elections.  There will also be door prizes on the night.

 Associate Principals

Jan Sutherland

George Ihimaera

Annemarie Simpson