Kia ora Amazing Tī Kōuka Families, We are so lucky to have you all as part of our Community. In the last 2 weeks, we have had parents offering support for the fete, Kōwhai Sanctuary trip, classroom activities and camp. Without your help, none of these events would be able to happen, so thank you. We end the week as quite a tired group. Year 4’s had an amazing time on camp, accepting all the challenges and opportunities that came their way. We were very lucky to have such a great group to take on camp and amazing parents too. A big ‘Hip, hip, hooray’ to Marianne Irving, Tracey Hilton, Ben Hayes, Mark Leadbetter and Carl Smith who were brave enough to offer to spend the 3 days on camp with us. You were absolutely awesome and camp would not have run as smoothly without you all. Thank you also to the fantastic parents who came out to help on the Tuesday and Wednesday - without your help, the children would not have been able to complete as many activities. Our Year 3 learners had a great 3 days with Mrs Pengelly. We told her to plan a boring programme but it sounds like she disobeyed our instructions and a lot of fun was had! Mrs Pengelly will be back in our Community for the last part of week 10 and all of week 11 (while Mrs O’Connor heads off on an overseas adventure!) so it will be great to have her back in our Community. It is good to see that our Year 3’s are feeling better and hope that our Year 4’s manage to avoid the bug that has been going around school.
Our trip to the Kowhai Sanctuary would also have not been able to go ahead without our Parents that came along. We were based at ‘The Willows’ were we took part on an orienteering course and planted a heap of small plants, that will grow lots in the next couple of year. This is a new space that Environment Canterbury has created and will be open to the public around April 13th. It is a place to picnic, walk and there is a loop bike track as well. Look out for publicity around this. Last week we had the Science Roadshow visit our School. We were able to try a lot of different activities and had the opportunity to watch some science demonstrations. Mrs Newcombe’s pod and Mrs O’Connor’s pod will be following this up with ‘Science with Dr Smalley in the next couple of weeks. Miss Howden’s pod had Science earlier in the term. Our day based around kindness today was a fantastic way to end what has been an emotional week for many of our community. As I write this notice I am observing some our senior students working alongside some of our little people playing board games. We are lucky to have such an amazing group of students in WMI. Next week, Sunday, March 31st, is our West Melton School fete. Tī Kōuka is running the chocolate wheel. We are looking for volunteers to help support us with this. We are thinking that for each child who can help, we need an adult to support. If you have a loud voice and like a bit of an audience, you might feel the need to offer to help be the wheel spinner and crowd encourager. Please let anyone of the Tī Kōuka teachers know ASAP if you can help on the day. We already have a number of our Tī Kōuka parents helping organise and run the fete, so this is an opportunity for different families to get involved. On that note, have an absolutely lovely (and healthy!) weekend. Natasha, Mandy and Jane n[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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