Newsletter: Term 1, Week 3, 28th February 2020

Kia Ora Koutou

Beginning of term activities make for a busy time balancing dates on calendars

for all of us; we include key dates in our newsletters. The hot dry summer

doesn’t seem to be slowing down and with drought conditions water will become

very precious over the next month.

Classes are settling into routines including enjoying a swim every day in our pool.

Yesterday was another amazing day for our School Swimming Sports. I was

very impressed with the organisation and how the day ran, thank you Mr

Higgison! The tamariki all enjoyed their day, with many taking the opportunity

to push their boundaries.

Congratulations to those swimmers who qualified to compete at the Zone

Swimming Sports with Parua Bay on the 10th of March. We are excited to be

hosting this event, which will be an opportunity to showcase our new facilities.

Great to hear all the positive comments from parents about our new swimming

complex, and how the day was run. A special thanks to Greg Ferrar, our

caretaker for preparing the pool.

Aubrey won with the most House points and the parents/teachers bet the

children in an exciting relay race.

We hope to see you all on Sunday at the Funky Fish, good luck to those who are

fishing!

Nga Manaakitanga,

Jodi Edwards, Principal

2019 HOUSE CAPTAINS

AUBREY LION

Jamie & Brianna &

Johanna Brady

MANAIA KAURI

Ayla & Adam Quinn &

Otis

It’s here!!! We NEED EVERYONE to help, on the day and afterwards with the

pack-up & returns. This is our school’s major fundraiser for the year.

A huge thank you to Greg Hartwell, Rachel Cleave and their team of helpers.

PLEASE SUPPORT US & PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS TOO!

*** IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY RETURNED YOUR FUNKY FISH RAFFLE

TICKETS PLEASE BRING THESE TO THE EVENT ON SUNDAY!!

GOLD AWARDS

Congratulations to our Gold Award winners:

Room 1 – Quinn, Freya, Ayla & Otis Room 2 – Rosa, Isaac, Aria & Thomas

Room 3 – Koby, George, Florrie & Macy

Kidspace – Shai, Ben, Conor, Gemma, Tui, Joey & Hugh,

Important Dates still to come this term ….

Kidspace Yr 0-2 Camp – 5/6th March Zone Swimming Sports – 10th March

Year 3&4 Camp – 11/12/13th March Whanau Tabloids – 20th March

Room 2 Camp – 25/26/27th March WILD KIWI EVENT – 4th April

Maunga Whanau Picnic & Walk – 7th April End of Term 1 – 9th April

We encourage you to use internet banking for any school payments.

School Bank Account Number: 12-3092-0033347 00

Manaia Junior Rugby Registration Day

Saturday February 29th from 10am – 12pm

Parua Bay Community Centre

All welcome

EPro8 Challenge 2020! A huge congrats to our

two teams entered into this science and engineering

competition. The worked hard for 3 hours on

Thursday to complete tasks for points. Out of 14

teams, team ‘City Solutions’, made up of Ayla,

Jamie, Brady and Quinn finished up in 5th place.

Team ‘Go Go Gadgets’, made up of Itay, Roey,

Adam and Lexi fin ished up in 8th place.