Ngā Puna 2020

 Kia Ora families. Thank you so much for your support and understanding as we moved into our junior  Ngā Puna space at the end of last week. Yet again the resilience of our children and willingness from them to accept change is just outstanding. You should feel very proud of them all. We had a wonderful day in our new setting today. It was lovely to re connect with friends from the beginning of the year and with our other Junior teachers.   Our children walked through our lovely new building today to make connections with things that are the 'same' and things that are 'different'. The general consensus was people are the same, places are different! They did so well.  This Friday the 30th of October is our offical opening of our new school with ribbon cutting and all! It starts at 1:30 pm. You are welcome to take your child home early after this event. See the note below for more info. Also below is a copy of the note sent home today. Have a lovely short week all. As usu

 Kia ora families. Welcome to week 2. It's finally here,  moving week! Ngā Puna visited our building ( currently called Ti Kouka... where the office i s) on Friday to have a 'practise' at what our new space will be like.  It felt so good being back in our original space and we are all really looking forward to being back with Sue, Vanessa and all our other Ngā Puna friends. This Thursday and Friday the 22nd and 23rd of October are teacher only days as teachers will be setting up spaces ready for school on the Tuesday after labour day. We look forward to seeing you all Tuesday morning in our new but old to us! space. Thank you for engaging with our rhyming, segmenting and blending activities that are coming home in the K.I.T books. It's great to see the children so eager to participate during their reading times. Open afternoon You are invited to take a look around our new building from 3 to 5pm on Thursday 22 October. Connect Waimairi (PTA) have arranged entertainment.

 Kia Ora families. What a wonderful day we had together. We so enjoyed listening to your children's holiday stories and adventures.  This week we are welcoming 2 new children into Nga Puna. Welcome to school Zendaya and Hunter. We are excited to have you and know that you will just love school.  In children's K.I.T books you will find the activity we have done during the day. This activity supports learning happening in class. Please talk about this with your child.  Reminders Next week Thursday and Friday - teacher only days  -  please fill out the form sent to you by Mike if you need your child to attend school on these days Wide brimmed Sunhats - please ensure your child has a named sunhat at school this term  Kapa Haka Tuesday Friday - bike day at school Kelly sports info - please see below Here are a few pics of our first day back at school. Many thanks   Fiona, Lynley and Tina. Lynley rhymes with Finley! A ballerina with Tina and Nina - we love rhyming!