Whanau Afternoon

This coming Thursday (1st March) is our Whanau afternoon.  The school will be open from 3.20pm- 6.30pm and all teachers will be available in their classrooms to speak with you.  This afternoon replaces parent interviews.  We urge you to come along between these times at some stage to meet your child's teacher and talk about how they are settling in and ask any questions you would like to ask.  Turn up at a time that suits you, and stay as long as you like.

Members of the BOT will be sizzling some sausages in the courtyard area and would appreciate your ideas on the Health curriculum and how we can ensure success for Mãori learners.  Please take the time to talk to them and fill in the surveys they will have on hand.  We appreciate your input greatly. (please note the newsletter said they would be in the library, but that was incorrect.)  These surveys will also be available in classrooms if you do not have an opportunity to meet with a member of the BOT.

The targets we have set for our school in 2018 will be on display in every classroom so you know what we are aiming for this year.

You are welcome to wander through all classrooms and to join in on the games on offer.  Netball, golf and soccer will have activities on site.

The coffee girl will also be on site, so bring along some money if you would like a coffee or hot chocolate.

As always if you need to speak to your child's teacher more formally, please take the time to email them and set up a time that suits you both.   We are happy to catch up with you at any stage and want to keep the lines of communication open. 

Zero Heroes

Although the title of this post sounds frivolous, the intention behind it is certainly not.

For many years now we have been doing our part as a school to reduce waste.  One way this can easily be done is considering what goes in your child's lunch box.

We encourage a rubbish free lunch box, the beauty of this is that by default, lunch boxes often become healthier.

Even better, this approach to reducing lunch box waste often makes the making of lunches cheaper for you.

We encourage you to buy in bulk and use small reusable containers to give a portion to your child each day.  This can be done easily with crackers, chippies, yogurt etc.  We encourage you to look for alternatives to muesli bars, that contribute to a huge amount of lunch box rubbish and to walk past products like Le-snack crackers that are simply more packaging than product!

Sandwiches do not need gladwrap, nor for that matter does anything else if you invest in a lunchbox container with compartments.

We want to instill in children positive attitudes to be reducing rubbish, not because it is nice, but because it is an absolute necessity to protect our planet and environment.

We believe with a little bit of effort now, you can help your child establish lifelong habits, that will benefit everyone.

We have what we call 'zero heroes' each week we total up the amount of children in each class who have zero waste in their lunch box.  This is then turned into a percent, and the class with the highest percentage of zero heroes wins each week.  At the end of the year, the class with the most wins, receives the zero waste shield at prize giving.  Last year this award went to Room 10.

You can help your child's class to win, by supporting your child to make good, rubbish free choices in their lunch box. 

This week the winner was Room 8.  Our school total was 84%. 

We urge you to support this value, it is a huge part of our school and who we are.