Tena Koutou Katoa Weber whanau,

I hope everyone had a lovely long weekend, classrooms are busy with new routines and this week we are all starting our rich learning inquiry of 'Citizenship' using the new New Zealand histories curriculum.

Unfortunately we are unable to use the school pool at the moment, we are experiencing some technical issues - Clearpools will be on site soon to rectify this.

Our House Captains, Sports Captain , School librarians, and Kaitiakis will be represented with their badges this Friday at our School assembly- 2.30pm in the Hub. Whanau are welcome to attend. We hope to see you there.

Just a reminder of our working bee happening on Friday 24 February, we have a range of gardening / caretake type jobs, if you are able to help for all or some of the time please contact Kirsty via email or phone. This will be from 12-3pm - afterwards stay for a sausage sizzle and a cuppa to say thanks. Many hands make light work. We so appreciate all the help we continuously get from our amazing parents and caregivers!

We welcome Alby Hales to our school community, we are excited you are here.

Ngā mihi nui

Lisa

We would like to thank Greg Mitchell, from Growater for the prompt and hard mahi over the holidays installing our 2 brand new water tanks and water monitoring system.

We would also like to thank those who nominated Weber School during the 2022 bobby calf season, we received a donation of thirty five cents from every calf. As a result we received $135.10 from Farmer meat export. Thank you.

We would also like to thank all the wonderful members of the community that have contributed to our school by nominating us to receive fifty cents for every 100L of bulk fuel they got from Fern Fuels, as a result of this amazing generousity we have $919 in the kete, we are so close to the $1000 goal, where we then can redeem this for sporting goods, technology and music packs!

These are the wonderful farms and businesses that have nominated us:

The Willows Trust

Makino Partnership

Waimarie Farming Partnership

Waipunga Station Limited

ADB Williams Trust

Arnold Farming Ltd

BD & AE Speedy Partnership

Crispin Grove

MC & AJ Ransom

RW & JA Ransom

Greenhill Station Ltd

Rave Farming Limited

Adelaide Holdings 2004 Limited

Melness Farm Limited Partnership

B T Agriculture Ltd

We appreciate you all (:

Do you have a few hours to spare a week ?

Our fantastic Green team are looking for some parent help.

We are keen to start the 'Garden to table' programme this year ( planting, growing and cooking our own produce) and are looking for some amazing parents to help us.

If you have some time to help please email or call school office.

Many thanks

TERM 1 2023

30 and 31 January - TOD

1 February - First day of term 1 2023!!

6 February - Waitangi day- school closed

10 February - Swimming lessons with Wai splash instructor ( 6 weeks this term) at school

15 February - BOT meeting 5pm library

20 February - St John training - first aid for all classes

24 February - Working bee 12-3pm

2 & 3 March - Weber Dog trials in Weber hall

15 March - BOT meeting 5pm library / Country Swimming sports at Wai Splash

20/21 March - Parent interviews

22 March - Inter school swimming sports

6 April - last day of term

If your child/ children require their own sunscreen, please feel free to send their preferred lotion to school with them in their bag and we will ensure that it is applied before they go out into the sun.

Please save the date (24th February) for a working bee from 12pm to 3pm.

A few jobs we would like to get done are:

*De-heading the agapanthus in front of the office

*Building shelves in the green house - treated timber would be great for this if you have any off cuts lying around

*General garden tidy and prune

*Cleaning out gutters

*Sand and paint lunch benches

*Putting the sand back into the sandpit (free of rocks)

Please bring along if you have them, a pair of gloves, secateurs, loppers, a spade, rake, ladder, hammer, nails and a drill to name a few things!

We would also like to ask if anyone has a trailer that we could borrow to put the green waste and for it to be taken away.

Please stay afterward for a cuppa and a sausage sizzle to thank you for all your hard work.

We appreciate all the help we continuously get from our amazing parents and caregivers!

Many hands make light work!!

Please email office@weber.school.nz or phone 3743808 to put your name next to a job that you will be able to complete.

Lisa Anderson

Principal