Awards Assembly

This will be held at 12pm today.  Please note this is not a half day, school will end at 2.55pm as usual.

Cross Country Results

Click here to view the results of our recent school cross country.

Good Citizens

DANGEROUS ROAD CONCERNS

As a school we have long been concerned about the dangerous nature of Apotu Road-SH1 intersection and the sale yards road –SH1 intersection.

Last week, a barrier was erected on the south going lane of the SH 1 rail over pass between Apotu Road and the south end of Sale Yards Road. This has meant that vehicles turning into Sale Yards Road can no longer pull off the road before turning left. Due to poor visibility, vehicles going south can often not see turning traffic until they are right over the bridge hump… by then it is too late to slow (even at the 80k speed limit). A collision can only be avoided by swerving into the north bound lane: disastrous if there is oncoming traffic! Trying to turn right, across, SH1, at the northern end of Sale Yards Road is precarious, at best, as no turning lane available…

There has already been one serious accident and there will be more if we do not act NOW.

 A few years ago we wrote to Transit along with letters from our community to raise our concerns.  At the time we were told that road changes were planned that would increase visibility and make this road safer.  Sadly this has not happened.  As a school we are very concerned about the safety of these intersections and think it is timely for us to again raise our concerns with our local MP and transit again.  We need your help with this.  Please put together letters that raise your concerns and perhaps even give real life accounts of ‘near misses’ you may have had.  If you have neighbours that may not have children that go to our school, but are willing to support us, please ask them to put together their thoughts as well.  The more people we have behind us the better.

You can email your letters to reception@kaurihohoreschool.co.nz or principal@kaurihohoreschool.co.nz 

What can we do?

·       Ring the NZTA on 08004 HIGHWAYS (0800 44 44 49) and tell them of your/our concerns – make yourself known to Jacqui Hori-Hoult Journey Manager at NZTA.

·       When leaving school, take the left hand option, north from Apotu Road onto SH1. Travel past Sale Yards Road to the Fonterra turn off, where a turning lane is available. Turn in, across SH1, and loop back onto the south bound lane of SH 1, exiting at the northern end of Sale Yards Road.

·       Write a letter to support the schools submission.

Please make this your highest priority so that we can get our concerns heard as quickly as possible.  

Gala Helpers

Our gala is coming up on October the 17th.  We need your help on the day.  Please have a look at the google document and fill in your name next to the activity you can help with.

Click here to view

Good Citizens

Cross Country

SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY - OUTLINE OF THE DAY

On Wednesday 12th August at 9.50am 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. This year we do have the

luxury of a postponement date, so if it is raining we will cancel and hold it on

Friday 14th August.

10.00 - New Entrants 2014 (Girls/Boys) - 1 lap around field

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

10.20 - Year 2 Girls/Boys - 1 lap around school

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

11.00 - Morning tea

11.25 - Year 4-5-6 Fun run (one lap of the school) girls and

boy’s all in together, no places will be given for this race.

11.35 - Year 4 competitive (Girls/Boys) Trophy for Junior Champ

12.00 - Year 5 competitive (Girls/Boys) Trophy for Middle Champ

12.20 - Year 6 competitive (Girls/Boys) Trophy for Senior Champ

CROSS COUNTRY DAY SAUSAGE SIZZLE

The PSG will be having a sausage sizzle (at lunchtime) and muffins (at morning tea time) on Cross Country Day – Wednesday 12^th August.  Sausages and muffins will sell for $2.00 each.  Please support us!