Art Exhibition Wine & Cheese, Tuesday 20th September, 6:00pm

An opportunity for past students, whanau, staff and community members to catch up with others, mix and mingle, view current students' art, Pinehill class photos wall (photos from foundation year to current) and photos over the years. Bring some old photos to reminisce.

At 6:30pm student leaders will take groups for a tour through classrooms and around our school.

Top Playground Opening Thursday 22nd September, 12:00pm

An opportunity for current students, whanau, staff and community members to celebrate our new ‘Top Playground’ opening. This is a 25th anniversary gift to Pinehill School from the Board of Trustees.

School Assembly Celebration & Open Hour - Friday 23rd September, 11:00am

• 11 am Whakatau welcome and ceremony

• Speeches from all three Principals (Julien, Tracey, Carla)

• Entertainment performances by our talented students including Kapa Haka, Marimba Group and School band

• Memories and stories from past students, staff members and community members

• Time capsule snapshots to current 25 Birthday capsule slideshow

• Pinehill Way Song

• Singing Happy Birthday / cutting of the cake (cake to the hall foyer - people can take cake on tour or enjoy after tour with house leaders.

• 12:00pm - House Leaders to lead tours through the school. Classrooms will be open as part of the tour. Visit your “old room”

• Photo display memories in hall and foyer

• Informal group photos

• Merchandise will be available to purchase or collect if pre-ordered

• Coffee cart will be available on the day

Parent and Family Class Sharing

Term 3 Week 2 is our Culture and Identify celebration at Pinehill School. To celebrate we would like to invite parents into the classroom to share their culture in Week 2, 1st August - 5th August.

Some suggestions are

• read a story in your home language to the class or small group

• share pictures/photos, teach our children a game

• share a dance from your culture

• play a musical instrument etc.

Please email your child’s teacher about what you would like to share and when you are available.

Parade

As part of our Cultural Celebration we are holding a Celebration Parade on

Monday 8th August at 11.30am.

You are very welcome to come and watch or take part in the parade, we would love to see as many parents and caregivers there as possible. Please see the school map below displaying the trail we will walk for the parade. Some of our cultural groups will be performing and we have a special surprise, depending on the weather!

Our children will have the option to dress in their cultural dress and march around the school with the country’s flag of choice.

We understand that children and families may identify with more than one country. For them to be able to express their ethnicity we are asking parents to talk with their child about their family ethnicity. Rather than teachers directing children to a country, children can parade carrying two flags that symbolise the country they identify with and the one where they were born. Please talk to your child/ren about this so they are able to communicate with their teacher which flag group they will be walking with during the parade. We hope that in this way everyone’s ethnicity can be shared and celebrated.

Shared lunch

After our Parade on Monday 8th August we are having a shared lunch in classrooms.

You are invited to send your child in with a small plate of food to share from your culture. Please be aware we will not be able to reheat food, cut up or provide cutlery. Food will need to be pre prepared and ready to eat and enjoy.

Please be mindful that there are children in the school with peanut allergies and would appreciate peanuts not being in food sent to school. All food must have an ingredient list so children can pick what they are able to eat. We will be encouraging them to try something different.

A big thank you for your ongoing support.

All parents attending are asked to sign in through the SchoolApp.

Pinehill Staff

Room 2 - Megan Moyle

Room 3 - Chloe Kim

Room 4 - Zoe Qiu

Room 5 - Olivia Wang

Room 6 - Lillian Wang

Room 7 - Olivia Haycock

Room 8 - Matthew Xu

Room 9 - Marcus Zhang

Room 10 - Niu Niu Dang

Room 11 -

Room 12 -

Room 13 - Lucas Zhou

Room 14 - Emilia Alrashed

Room 15 - Jason Tse

Room 16 - Zoe Zhou

Room 17 - Archer Ying

Room 18 - Ellie Zhu

Room 19 - Aditri Nakkala

Room 20 - Louis Liu

Winning House - Kawau

Indy Hendricks and Amarnee Tapu

Year 4/5 Pinehill Kiwis

Jaehee Noh

First Fun Food Friday of Term 32 – This Friday, 5th August

It’s Fun Food Friday this week! Online orders close tonight, Wednesday 3rd August. Don’t

miss out! Please place your orders using the Kindo Online Shop. Lunch will be delivered to

your child’s classroom at lunchtime. For every order, we raise $1 for the school. We

appreciate your support!

We will be selling snacks in the hall foyer at lunchtime between 12.40 pm and 1 pm. From

the health point of view, we suggest 1-2 snacks and a $5 note is enough for your child. We

encourage children only buy snacks for their own consumption. Please let your child know

that the parent helpers may turn them away if they spend more than $5 per purchase and/or

buy for their friends.

Jesters Pie Day is BACK this term, and it’s on EVERY TUESDAY!! Orders close

1 day prior at 11 am.

Due to increased costs, new prices for term 3 are:

● Pies $6.30

● GF Pies $7.90 (suspended temporarily due to shortage of ingredients, we

apologise for any inconveniences caused)

● A new price for sausage rolls will be available in Kindo.

The school will receive $1.50 back from every order you place. Thank you so much

for your support!

Friday 5th August

• Fun Food Friday

Cultural Week

• Monday 1st to Friday 5th August

Monday 8th August

• Cultural Parade

Monday 8th to Friday 12th

• Walking to School Week

Do you want to get better at speaking and understanding

English? If yes, we invite you to join us to come and talk in

English with friendly New Zealanders over a cup of tea. We

meet between 1pm and 2.30pm on Wednesdays during the

school term at Mairangi Bay Presbyterian Church.

Come and connect with us. We are an informal and very friendly

group with a lot of good humour. We have people who have

come to New Zealand from many different countries including

China, Korea and Ukraine. Vehicle entry 10 Penzance Road

Mairangi Bay. There is no charge.

Just turn up or ring Grace Liu 021 048 7978 or Stewart Milne

027 293 8499

你想在说英语和理解英语方面做得更好吗？

如果是这样，我们邀请您加入我们，

与友好的新西兰人用一杯茶来进行英语交谈。

我们是一个小团体，周三下午1点至2点30分在

Mairangi Presbyterian Church会面。

2022年第一次会议将于2月13日星期三举行，因为2月6日是

公共假期的怀唐伊日。我们是一个非常友好的团体，大家来

自中国，韩国和日本等许多不同国家，充满幽默。快来和我

们联系吧！

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