Kia ora koutou
We had a great turnout at the community learning meetings last week.  It was great to see new and old faces.

The next meeting with your child’s teacher is the Learning Snapshot meeting on 6 and 7 March. This is an opportunity for families to have a conversation with the teacher about how your child has settled in.  It is also an opportunity for families to share any information with the teacher that you would like them to know. Meetings are 10 minutes long and can be booked using the following link. The school code is svstf.
There is no written report.
https://www.schoolinterviews.co.nz/book/step1?z=jLMIB9

FroGSS Meeting
The first meeting of the year is this Monday 25 February @ 7pm in the Staffroom. All welcome

Teacher Only Day
We also have a teacher only day on Monday March 11.  This day will be spent with all teachers updating and stretching our vision.  This is really important for us to work on as we have met the goals we have previously set and also we now have lots of new staff.  We have employed the original expert that we used in 2014 to work with us again.
Play Time are running a programme in the Multi Purpose Space for this day. See their advertisement further on in the newsletter

Hats and Helmets - Safety at School
Two things that we need to remind you!  Please ensure that your child has a school hat so that they can participate in outdoor activities.

We are also focussing on helmet wearing.  It would be fantastic to see adults that are riding to school with their children modelling good safety and wearing helmets too.  Children follow what we do and helmet wearing can save your life. Thanks for your support.

Welcome to the following new students this week - Aleyna in Batten and Kaius in Rutherford

Swimming sports - This Friday 22 March
To provide a better connection between swimming lessons and our swimming sports events, this year we are going to provide a fun event at the end of the children’s swimming lessons in term 2 and 3.  This will be a non-competitive event.

For our very able Year 3-6 swimmers there will be a competitive event held at Papamoa Community Pool on Friday 22 February.  For the Year 5 and 6 children this event will give children the opportunity to be selected for clusters.

Ezlunch have kindly offered to add funds to your account balance so you’re not affected by the LunchOnline policy.  

Set up your account on mykindo.co.nz then send proof (like a screenshot) of the money forfeited to LunchOnline (with your ezlunch/mykindo account email address) to hello@mykindo.co.nz . We will get this sorted for you."

Orders need to be in by 8am on the day the lunch is required - not 9am as previously advertised