Cross Country Has Been Postponed

Unfortunately we have had to postpone the cross country that was scheduled for tomorrow. An overflow in our tanks and the heavy rain has caused significant damage to a significant portion of the course. We will schedule the cross country within the first few weeks of next term.

Great News

A huge thank you to all those people who got behind us and expressed concerns about our intersection.  We are very happy to hear that something will be done about it in the near future!

A big thank you to Shane Reti for continuing to put this case forward on our behalf.

Agricultural Day - 2016

2016 AGRICULTURAL

Each year a special highlight of the Kaurihohore calendar is Agricultural Day.  We consider it important for a number of reasons.  It is part of being in a rural school and the Board and Staff are committed to keeping the rural character of the school. Children bring a pet lamb, kid or calf that they have reared to parade and compete in various events.  In classes children also prepare items to be judged.  The Board and the school community wishes to encourage as many families as possible to enter an animal for this section of the day, and if you have not considered keeping an animal, or have thought about it briefly and felt daunted by the prospect, we invite you to take a moment to read on.

 Rearing an animal is a wonderful experience for a child and is a focus for its own learning and development.  They will learn how to care for their animal and train it.  They will learn personal skills such as commitment, time management and patience.  This can be a greatly rewarding experience for the child, seeing their animal respond to the care and attention they give it.

 ANIMAL HANDLERS

•    Children are encouraged to raise, feed and care for a lamb, kid or calf.

•    Animals are eligible if they are born between 1 July and 31 August of this year.

•    Calves are judged for leading, rearing (child’s effort) and beef or dairy type.

•    Lambs/kids are judged on leading, calling and rearing.

•    Any competitor may compete at the Whangarei Group Calf Club day at Barge Park, Maunu, usually in November.

•    Booklets on animal handling will be available soon from school, at the school office; more specific details will be available closer to the day.

•    Animal feed (Milk Powder) and teats can be obtained from farm supply outlets. Feeding regimes and mixing instructions are always on the container.

 

Cross Country - Friday the 1st of July

CROSS COUNTRY - OUTLINE OF THE DAY

At 10.05am the school will assemble on the courts.

All races other than the Year 0/1 races go outside of the school

grounds. It is very important that cars are parked and not exiting the

school during the events.

Times on these events are approximate and we often run ahead of

time, please do not expect office staff to know which races have run or

are due to run, your best bet is to be there during the block of your

child’s race e.g. if they are in year 3, come for the morning block

before morning tea. The block of junior races are often over very

quickly.

(NB This inter-school event will be based on age rather than year

level.)

10.15 New Entrants Year 0 (Girls/Boys) - 1 lap around field

10.20 Year 1’s Girls/Boys– 2 laps around field

10.30 Year 2 Girls/Boys - 1 lap around school

10.40 Year 3 Girls/Boys- course running up to 100km sign

11.00 Morning Tea

11.35 – 8yrs competitive (Girls/Boys) Trophy for Junior Champ

12.00 – 9yrs competitive (Girls/Boys) Trophy for Middle Champ

12.20 – 10 + yrs competitive (Girls/Boys) Trophy for Senior Champ

Please ensure

Board Meeting Summary

Board Meeting – Tuesday 14/06/16

Board Members Present:

Shane Burns 

Leslee Allen – Principal

Emma Campbell

Kasey Hindrup

Zak Foote

Richard Smales

Other

Gina Priestly 

Brett Hogan

Board Members Absent

-Yvette Johnston

Main items Discussed at the meeting:

• As this was the first BOT meeting since elections Shane Burns stepped down as Chairperson.  He was then re-elected.
• Emma Campbell has taken over the role of secretary, with Zak Foote taking on the treasurer role.
• Kesey Hindrup will act as PSG liaison.  
• The timetable for the ERO visit was circulated.  The Board look forward to working with ERO.
• Ideas for establishing more car parking for staff to free up other parking spaces was discussed.  Richard Smales will look into this further.
• Learning targets were discussed with information presented by Leslee.  It is pleasing to note that some very good progress is being made particularly by our target learners through in-class support programmes.
• Health and safety register was presented.  All hazards are being appropriately identified and dealt with in a timely manner.
• Current classroom inquiry topics were presented as part of Leslee’s report.   
• The Board reviewed and accepted the following policies 

*Reporting Suspected Abuse

*Child Protection Policy (this is a new policy for our school)

*Cyber Safety

*Road Safety

• Leslee promoted the upcoming NetSafe meeting at Kamo High School.  This is a great opportunity to ensure you know how to keep children safe online.
• Financially the school is on track, however there is no money for any extras needed around the school and in classrooms.  Emma Campbell offered to take over responsibility for applying for grants and this offer was gratefully accepted.

Next meeting: Tuesday 9 August, 7pm.  Community members welcome to attend.

ERO Review Postponed

Our review has been postponed due to illness.
This means the Powhiri will not go ahead tomorrow.

Join us in raising money for child cancer on Wednesday the 22nd of June.  #WigWedNZ

Good Citizens

A very important information evening - we urge you to attend if you can