Ngā Puna 2020

 Kia Ora families. Welcome to week 10, the final week for Term 3 before holidays. We hope you all have an enjoyable holiday coming up and get in lots of rest and relaxation.  This Friday as a 'celebration' we are heading down to Plynlimon Park (Follow the cycle way over Wairakei road and it's on your right hand side). We are leaving school at 1:30. It would be great if you could meet us down there. A good  way to meet and connect with some of our new to Waimairi School families and/or getting together again...cause we can! Yay for level 1!!  You are more than welcome to leave for home from the park. Please just let us know your intentions and we can make sure your child brings their bag down with them. Upcoming dates and events Monday 12th of October - Beginning of Term 4 - school starts Staff only days for moving into new building - Week 2, Thursday and Friday, 22nd and 23rd of October. Mufti Day - This Friday the 25th is Mufti day. lease bring a gold coin that wil...

Greetings all. School mufti day is now next week the 25th of September - Last day of Term 3. Apologies for the confusion. Many thanks MUFTI DAY Not long till our next mufti day! This will take place on Friday 25th Sept, the last day of term! (Please note NOT this Friday 18th as you may have read elsewhere) Please bring a gold coin donation which will go towards prizes for our up and coming community open day of the new building (see Mike’s email this afternoon) A reminder will be posted again next week

 Kia Ora Whānau. What a lovely time we had at St James Park last week 'Spotting Spring!". The children thoroughly enjoyed themselves and we found the journey equally as exciting as the destination! We waved to our old kindy through the tunnel, said hello to our friends houses along the way and enjoyed each others company as we explored our surroundings. Below are a few snapshots of our time. Can you see the shoot sprouting out of the acorn?! Spring has sprung. Reminders This Friday the 18th - Mufti day. More details to come Calendar art orders - Due in this Friday the 18th. See below for details Friday - As usual bike day - hotdog day - online orders only Have a lovely week all. Tina, Lynley and Fiona

 Kia Ora Whanau. Welcome to week 8 of our 10 week Term. This Term is certainly zooming by! We have been busy the last few weeks planting our vegetables as part of our 'little garden' topic. This links to our overall Termly topic of belonging, connection to people, places and things. We have been showing such wonderful Manaakitanga  (care and kindness) towards our garden, just as we do to our friends and school environment. We have even had some children showing Manaakitanga by sweeping pathways and removing rubbish from our surroundings. Well done Nga Puna kids. Welcome to our new children Khaleesi and Eddie. So happy to have you with us you big 5 year olds. Calendar Art. Have a hunt through the reading folders. Calendar art order forms have gone home today. We have made some beautiful butterfly's in Nga Puna. This is a fundraiser run by our P.T.A. A great way to support our school and stock up on Christmas presents for Grandparents and the likes. Spotting Spring! Spring is...

 Kia Ora all. A big thank you to all of you for your support during these level 2 times. You are all brilliant. Thanks for following the rules during drop offs and pick ups by waiting outside the school grounds. Again, you should feel very proud of your we people. They are so resilient and come in beautifully each morning. If you need to contact Lynley or Tina we are always available by email or you can phone the office to pass on a message. By following the level 2 rules now we are doing our part to get back to level 1 sooner. lynley.cummack@waimairi.school.nz tina.dower@waimairi.school.nz A big welcome to Maddie and Emma who have joined us in Nga Puna. So lovely to have you at school with us girls, and happy birthday! Also welcome to Fiona who has joined our teaching team and is working with us in Nga Puna. We are lucky to have you Fiona. Welcome to the team. We are growing in numbers and are looking forward to heading back to our old Nga Puna building (Currently called Ti Kouka)...

 Kia Ora Koutou. What a wonderful day we had today. The sun was shining and kids were happy. We continue to be amazed at the resilience  shown from our tamariki this year. All our children came in beautifully this morning on their own under our new level 2 requirements. You can be very proud of them all. Also lovely to see the care and attention older siblings and friends are showing towards our Nga Puna kids. Just lovely. We are re familiarising ourselves with the 'moist breathe zone' song this week. Key messages, catch your coughs and sneezes in your elbows, wash hands, stay out of moist breathe zone and stay home if sick. Here is a link to the song  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZvtoVrykb8&t=133s Ordering hotdogs for this week? Please follow instructions below. Only online purchases for hotdogs are available this week. As usual, we will take our Nga Puna kids over as a group and supervise the 'getting' of the hotdogs.  Just the usual reminders this week....