May 22

Weekly Welcome #15

Last week was Anti-Bully week across the country and many schools and organisations celebrated this and took the opportuntity to dress up in PINK on Friday.  Our assembly looked amazing with all of the pink and crazy hair styles on display.  This week we have our school Cross country event and have our fingers crossed for some nice weather.  We look forward to seeing parents and whanau at school cheering on our kids as they give 100% around the course.

School Hangi

We are planning to have a School Hangi on Friday 10th June at 1pm to celebrate Matariki.  The cost for each tray will be $3.  There will be 100 trays for sale.  These will be sold on a ‘first in, first served’ basis.  You may start sending money to school with your child to secure your hangi (2 trays max per child).  This money will be paid to their class teacher.
Each tray will include the following items:
*chicken piece
*potato
*kumara
*pumpkin
*stuffing
*mixed vegetables
It will be great to see as many parents and whanau come down to school and enjoy having some kai with your child.  Please note the trays are children’s size (hence the price).

Cross Country

On Thursday the 26th May our annual Welcome Bay School Cross Country will be held here at school. Please refer to the timetable below for approximate starting times. The postponement date will be Thursday 2nd June.

It is advisable that all students run their race in non-school uniform so please send your child/children to school with mufti clothes for their race. To get into the spirit of the day it would be great if our tamariki wore clothes that represent the colours of their house.

Kereru – Red,  Falcon – Yellow,  Kea – Green,  Albatross – White,   Blue Heron – Blue.

The P.T.A. will be selling Juicies at lunchtime for $1.

Part of the course will be run along the footpaths around the school so if you could help with supervision on the day please let Michelle Barker or your child’s teacher know.

Course Distances:

Year 1/2    Girls & Boys        1 km

Year 3/4    Girls & Boys        1.5 km

Year 5/6    Girls & Boys        2.0 km

 APPROXIMATE PROGRAMME:

9.15am              Hub 1 and 2 assemble on bank

9.25am                   Year 0/1 Girls                  9.35am                   Year 0/1 Boys

9.45am                   Year 2 Girls                      9.55am                   Year 2 Boys

10.10am                Pre-schoolers run. Sports Leaders to lead them around the field

Hub 3 and 4 assemble on bank

10.20am                 Year 3 girls                     10.30am                 Year 3 Boys

MORNING TEA (10.45am-11.15am)

11.20am                 Year 4 Girls                       11.30am                 Year 4 Boys

11.40am                 Year 5 Girls                       11.50am                 Year 5 Boys

12.00pm                Year 6 Girls                       12.10pm                 Year 6 Boys

Bully Free Week

 

Thanks so much to everyone who put in a huge effort to come to school on Friday wearing pink to celebrate anti-bullying week.   We had some great outfits and hairstyles not just from the kids, but with some whacky teachers too!  We have included some photos and hope that the week inspired some conversation at home about what bullying is and how we can all do our bit to make sure and learning community is place where everyone feels accepted and safe.

 New Website and newsletter format

Remember to share with everyone you know about the newsletter format, we had a 50% open rate last week from 149 families and it would be great to grow this each week.  Remember you can access the newsletter via an email link or directly through our website via the “Our school information” drop down menu.

Have a great week.

Kindest regards,

Nik House – Principal