Ngā Puna 2020

 Kia Ora everybody. What a lovely week we had last week in our Ngā Puna space. It's great to watch the children share their interests with others whilst taking full advantage of what's out and on offer during learning choices.  We are on the hunt for ice - cream containers that are golden in colour. We have plenty of the blue and white. If you have any floating around home please pass them on to us, it would be greatly appreciated.  A big welcome to Waimairi School to Grace this week. Happy birthday Grace and welcome to Ngā Puna. Ngā Puna visited Wai iti (the library) today. A gorgeous space in our new building, right next door to the coffee shop. It's great to have a library in use by the school again and the kids enjoyed visiting. Up coming dates and events Monday - library day (No issuing as of yet) Tuesday - Kapa Haka Day Friday - hotdogs and bike day (hotdogs can only be ordered online, see the flyer below as a reminder) Friday the 13th of November - Canterbury Anniv...

 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...

 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 -...

 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