SENIOR PLAYGROUND
A reminder that this playground (particularly the slide) has been designed for use by older children. Parents who arrive early to collect children at the end of the day should exercise caution if you are allowing pre-school children to use this area. If you need to lift a child onto a piece of equipment, then it probably hasn't been designed for someone that small.
What about our juniors? Well, our incredibly motivated PTA have already set about planning for a new junior playground! Watch out for information that will come home soon about a Walkathon, aimed at raising money for this new project.
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School Entrance Our new gate looks great, and will look even better when the waharoa is complete (we will be consulting our community on this very soon). Please avoid using the bus stop at pick up and drop off times. We have vans that use the bus stop with larger groups of children and the swimming bus also pulls in there. | Road Patrol This is Ethan, one of our valued road patrollers. He is great at keeping your children safe when crossing the road, and he really appreciates it when everyone, including adults, use his crossing. He finds it difficult to see when people park in the bus stop or on the yellow lines beside his crossing. | Church Car Park This is a great place to drop off or pick up your child. Please park considerately when using this facility as it does not belong to our school. We are grateful to the church for allowing us to use the car park at peak times. Please park in nearby streets when signs indicate funeral parking only. |
School Entrance
Road Patrol
Church Car Park
ŌTĀTARA KĀHUI AKO NEWS
This week we are introducing the dimension/pillar or wall of
‘Taha Whānau’
Taha - aspect (in this case of overall all well being/hauora)
Whānau - family
Taha whānau is about who makes you feel you belong, who you care about and who you share your life with. Whānau is about extended relationships – not just immediate relatives. It's your hoamahi/colleagues, friends, peers, community and the people you care about.
Activities to support Taha Whānau at home and out and about …
Play games together.
Enjoy a pot luck meal together
Create and enjoy together an at home family meal where each person cooks a different course.
Go for a walk with somebody who is part of your whānau group.
Watch and support a member of your whānau group play sport.
Invite whānau and friends to watch you play sport.
Write a letter or postcard to those whānau and friends that live further away.
Zoom call or facetime those whānau and friends that live further away.
Make a surprise visit to somebody you haven’t spent time with in a while.
Talk with an older member of your whānau about your whakapapa - where you come from.
Ngā mihi,
Hauora Team
YUMMY APPLE STICKERS PROMOTION
We are again collecting the Yummy cut-out labels from bags (each cut-out label is worth 10 stickers) and individual Yummy apple stickers. With the apple stickers we can claim for our school’s share of free sports gear. Your child can bring in the stickers and/or cut-out labels and teachers will have a chart in their class to stick them onto.
