Dear Parents

I trust you have all enjoyed the long weekend with an extra day to rest and revitalise yourselves ready for the second half of the term. We are very aware of the viruses and bugs that are circulating and we have seen many in our school and community struggling with ongoing sickness. For this reason we are still encouraging both staff and students to wear masks as we head into the cold and flu season.

Please report all absences to the school office or on the School App as we always follow up if a child is absent and this is very time consuming when we have a large number of students absent.

Nga manaakitanga ki a koutou katoa
Julie Paul

Principal

This Friday, the school will farewell Mr Young with a Mass and some cultural items.

We were not able to hold this event earlier due to COVID-19 restrictions. We are delighted that some of the Senior Cultural groups will be able to perform for him.

The cultural groups will perform later in the year for our school community.

It was great to see you at our workshops last week. Feedback has been very positive.

Our next workshops are on Wednesday 16 June. While there will NO LONGER be any 9am sessions, however we will continue with 1.30pm and 5.30pm sessions.

Have a great week. See you next week!

We will be reviewing our waiting list 2023 rolls during the holidays and confirming places by the end of August. Enrolment forms are available in the school office or on the website.

Sincere thanks to our Samoan teachers and students in our school who wholeheartedly shared their culture with our school community last week. We were able to learn some phrases, songs and prayers in Samoan and during breaks there were opportunities to do Siapo Patterns, make Ula, Pale fuiono, seis, create Tatau lima designs as well as House teams practising milimili’s. It was a wonderful week and as always I think the highlight was the Samoan Assembly. This was followed by the beautiful sapasui and rice after which everyone enjoyed a panikeke.

Special thanks to the team of parents who organised and prepared the lunch for our students. It is a mammoth task and is always carried out willingly, without any problems and we truly appreciate all the work you do to give our children these valuable experiences,

I believe we are truly blessed to be able to share in the cultures of our families. It deepens our understanding as well as encouraging our students to be proud of their heritage and ensures their culture is kept alive.

We have also noticed a number of our students without suitable coats or jackets to keep them warm and dry and so this week we will be distributing jackets which have been donated by KidsCan Charitable Trust.

Students are to keep these jackets so please make sure you name them clearly so they do not get lost. The jackets that have been given to our school are quite large so we will give them to our Years 3 - 7 students who require them first.

We also have some smaller size school jackets sizes 5 - 6, 7 - 8 and 9 - 10 for sale in the uniform shop. These have been reduced to $30.00 each if anyone wishes to purchase one of these.