Dear Parents

It is still a very uncertain time but our school cases are tracking like the country’s statistics and we too had a drop in cases from Monday to Friday last week so let us hope this trend continues..

Please remember to inform us if your child is positive or a household contact as we need to be able to track children’s attendance and reasons for their absences.

We would still like to see most children back at school unless they are a positive case, a household contact or have symptoms and are unwell.

If they have been a positive case or household contact and have isolated for 10 days they are able to return to school, even if there is a new case in their household as they are not considered infectious if they are symptom free,

Face to face learning is still the preferred way of learning for our students.

Blessings to you All

Nga manaakitanga ki a koutou katoa
Julie Paul

Principal

The following points need to be continually reinforced if we want to remain safe during this Covid outbreak,

• Masks to be worn for Years 3 - 8 (optional for Year 3 but highly recommended as our classes are multi age classes)

• Good hygiene with regular hand sanitising

• Ventilation - all windows and doors open allowing good airflow

• Social distancing

• Stay home if you are unwell or have symptoms.

This week Year 3 - 8 students will be undertaking some formal assessment tasks.

They will be doing the following standardised tests: PAT Reading Comprehension, PAT Reading Vocabulary, STAR Reading test and a PAT Mathematics Test.

We fully understand that some students are unable to attend this week due to sickness and isolation constraints and we will continue to administer these tests to all students when they return.

All students should now have a Book Bag which they need to bring to school everyday so they are able to take home school readers, spelling books and library books. This is our school policy and it helps us to look after our resources as they are taken between school and home.

Please help us to reinforce this as a way of protecting our resources.

Thank you to all our families who are now paying their attendance dues online or by automatic payment.

If you wish to pay this way please set up your payment please deposit in the following account: BNZ bank account 02-0232-0158405-97 using your child’s name as your reference.

All families will receive their attendance dues this week. Your account will show the total owing for the whole year including the Catholic Special Character Contribution of $50.00 . If you wish to pay term by term it is $117.00 per child per term.

Please note the above BNZ account is only for attendance dues and the Catholic Special Character Contribution.

This Wednesday 9 March we will be holding our transition to school meetings for our Year 1 Term 2 intake. I look forward to meeting with all these families who have children joining our school community next term.

We are constantly monitoring and reviewing these lists and so I encourage you to make sure you have enrolled your children for 2023 and 2024.

If you have any family or friends who wish to join our school please remind them to get their enrolments completed as soon as possible for all levels within the school.