Kia ora,

I am writing this as I prepare to leave to attend a Leadership conference for Intermediate School Principals from across New Zealand. It will be good to meet others who run similar schools and have a chance to hear what they are doing so we can ensure Bohally is maximising the potential of our learners.

Many of you have visited the school over the past week or two viewing the awesome work that has been done in the classrooms around local history. The museum displays were quite outstanding and some students had truly put in a lot of effort. Special thanks to Peter Meihana, Kiley Nepia, Keelan Walker and John Orchard who worked with some of our students to share a local iwi perspective.

The rest of this term will be a literacy focus around myths and legends, with a specific focus on developing writing skills. If anyone in our community has a special skill in storytelling please get in touch with Jo Sena, one of our deputy principals. Next term we will be moving into a science focus, looking at forces and motion. The annual speech competition will also be another focus for term 3.

We have just had word from our Nelson counterparts that the annual top of the south tournament (commonly referred to as the Waimea tournament) will now be a one day tournament and not two. The main reason behind this is the difficulty around organising suitable billets for visiting teams. As much as we are disappointed about this, we respect their decision and will still take a large group of students over the hill to compete, although just for the day on the 20th of August. Staff will start organising teams for this later in the term.

Finally, we do our best to ensure all of our students enjoy their time at school, but we realise there are times when things aren't going so well. Please remember in the first instance to contact your child's class teacher as they know your child the best. The emerging adolescent stage of a child's life can be tricky but we all get through it and with support from family, school and community, we hope to grow our students into great adults for the future.

Ngā Mihi,

Nicky Cameron-Dunn

The Bohally 2021 school cross country is on Tuesday the 15th of June. This is a compulsory event. Students will either be entered in the 2km or 3km run.

Where: Pollard Park Church Hill Glade area.

When: 15th June 2021

Time:

• 10.30am Boys competitive 3km Year 7&8 together

• 10.45am Girls competitive 3km Year 7&8 together

• 11.30am - Boys non-competitive 2km Year 7&8 together

• 11.45am - Girls non-competitive 2km Year 7&8 together

Details: Students are to wear school uniforms. Please ensure your child has a water bottle.

The national young leaders day was so much fun, I was very lucky I was able to go to Christchurch and get to listen to some amazing speakers. The speakers were very inspiring to listen to and I have learnt some very amazing things, for instance, Cam Calkoen spoke to us about his disability and his favourite word AWESOME. He was teaching us about getting comfortable with who you are and instead of worrying about what people think, give them something to think about! Going to the national young leaders day was amazing. I learnt so much about leadership and we were lucky enough that Jacinda Ardern made a video for us to listen to, this was an amazing experience and I am very grateful I was able to go.

Ben Muir, Room 2

Last Monday the young leaders went to Christchurch. On Monday we got settled in our cabins, went to the mall, played in the playground and went for a long swim. The following day we went to the conference. There were two speakers that ran the show. They called the first person out and his name was Cam Calkoen and he talked about awesome changes and working together because that was the topic of the day. The next speaker was Brooke Neal and she talked about careers and sports and obviously teamwork. My favourite thing was when the singer Benny (the boy) sang two of his songs and it was very cool and loud.

Drew Materoa, Room 2