Welcome back everyone! I’m sure that you’ve all had a wonderful summer break and are all set for the busy term ahead. It was great to welcome all the smiley faces back yesterday. 2019 is certainly shaping up to be an exciting year.

A huge thank you (yet again!) to our proactive PTA who have funded and built our sand pit. Our cover stars this week are all our new students and they are photo’d enjoying the wonderful sand pit. Thanks PTA!

We’ve started the year with a school roll of 360. Our enrolment zone is now well and truly in place and everything is working as planned.

A huge welcome to all of our new children and their families. Welcome also to Nadine Jones (Rm8) and Dave Calder (our new Caretaker) and Daile Greer (our new Cleaner). Welcome back to Angela Fitzgerald in a full time capacity teaching in Rm 16.

Next week we look forward to our annual meet and greet Family Picnic. This will be held on Thursday evening from 5:30pm on the main field. It’s a bring along your own dinner sort of event, with lots of fun and games thrown in. The perfect way to meet the Gleniti School whanau!

With so many new families in the school I thought that it was timely to remind people about how to get access to the weekly Gleniti Newsletter.

· via School Bag: Delivered weekly into your child’s schoolbag every Wednesday!

· via email: You can have the newsletter emailed to you weekly every Wednesday, email me;

stevez@gleniti.school.nz to get your name on the list

· via Smart Phone App: Go to the App Store (for IOS) or the Google Play store (for Android) and search for Skool Loop. Download the free app and then search for Gleniti. You’ll receive the newsletter directly to your phone, along with other updates about upcoming events.

· via Facebook: A link to the newsletter can also be found every Wednesday on our Facebook page.

Search for Gleniti via Facebook and “like” our page.

· via www.gleniti.school.nz: The newsletter is posted to our website every Wednesday. You can also see

all of the other recent newsletters there as well.

So really there’s no excuse not to know what’s going on in your school! J

Finally, I just have a couple of things to remind people.

First of all a message about uniforms. It’s a great time of year to remind everyone of our uniform expectations.

Uniforms should be just that; uniform. So please when you are purchasing new black shorts please avoid

anything that might have a logo on it. The Warehouse have plenty of plain black shorts, and they’re a good

price.

Don’t forget your sunhats as well everyone. It’s very important that all children wear their sunhats at school.

Secondly just a reminder about dropping your children off at school. As the school roll has grown so has the number of cars driving up and down Heath Street and Springs Road looking for parks. Please be considerate to all parents and above all be super conscious of all children making their way to school. And just another reminder that the carpark is for staff, visitors working in the school and emergencies.

Don’t forget we have Waitangi Day holiday on Wednesday 6th February.

Steve Zonnevylle

Principal

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Well here we are! Virtually at the end of the school year! Where has the year gone? This will be our final newsletter of the year.

It’s certainly been an eventful year full of highlights. We’ve seen buildings arrive and classrooms upgraded. But the major highlights for me have included our Kapahaka performing at the Flava festival for the first time, the Matariki evening when we saw a huge turnout of our community come along to celebrate the event, the Great Gleniti Gala in the first term, and the Colour walk/run fundraiser in the third term. All were great events that encouraged our children to get involved with their community.

As always there are plenty of people to thank. Suffice to say the school can’t be the success it is without the on-going support of a whole heap of people. Thank you all!

On Monday we celebrated our Year 8 Leavers with our annual Year 8 Leavers dinner. Ex-Gleniti student Emma Brown inspired us with her leadership talk. It’s always great to listen to past Gleniti students and hear about their thoughts, plans and aspirations. Thank you again to the PTA who organised such a successful evening. Our cover stars are all from the Year 8 dinner J

The good news continued on Tuesday evening when the Basketball season came to a close. The Gleniti Stars came 3rd in the Girls B Grade. As did the Gleniti Thunder in the Boys B Grade. The Gleniti Heat played fabulously in their A grade final against St Josephs, losing the game literally in the last minute. They produced a valiant effort and can be very proud of the way that they all played.

The good news continued in the Boys B grade final with the Gleniti Warriors beating the Barton Rural Jets 21-10. Well done boys! What a fabulous result.

A huge thank you to all Coaches, Managers and supporters of our teams. As usual we couldn’t have done it without you.

Can all singlets please be returned to the office before the end of the term, except for those students who are still using them to play touch rugby.

The final event of the year of course is the End of Year Celebration which will be held at the Southern Trust Events Centre on Morgans Road from 6:30pm on Monday 17th December. The event begins on the dot at 6:30pm and we ask that all children are seated by 6:15pm thankyou. As usual children are asked to wear their uniform unless told otherwize by their teacher. The event is normally over by about 7:45pm.

School officially closes for the year at midday (12pm) on Tuesday. Tuesday is traditionally a tidy up day.

Congratulations to all those who received Principal Awards at our assembly last week.

Steve Zonnevylle Principal Gleniti School

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Our cover stars this weeks are all the students who participated in the 800m run as part of our curtailed athletics sports. All through last week Nic Parmenter ran athletics events here at school in a quest to put together a Gleniti team to compete at the South Canterbury Athletics day on Tuesday. On Monday we had a break in the weather and were able to take nearly 70 children down to the track and run our sprints, 200m and 800m races. Phew! What a mission! Thank you Nic for the great work that you did in organising all of this.

Yesterday we were able to take a Gleniti team to the South Canterbury’s. All of our children competed exceptionally well. We placed in over a dozen different events and broke a South Canterbury record in the U9 relay. Detailed results in next weeks newsletter!

Over the last few days we have been running a School Transport Travel display at school. It has been great talking to parents and whanau about the issues that they see when transporting their children to school. As a result we have two prezzy cards to give out, and the winners will be announced early next week J

Congratulations to Pippa Davies who competed so well at the recent Dance Barre Jazz dancing competiton. Pippa received the Top Student Overall award for 2018. What a great achievement J

I’m just repeating these important dates in case you may have missed them. Some key dates to put in your diary as we head into the final straight!

· Year 8 Leavers Dinner at Sopheze on the Bay on Monday 10th December

· Our End of Year Celebration will be held at the Southern Trust Events Centre on Morgans Road from 6:30pm on Monday 17th December

· School closes for the 2018 year at 12pm on Tuesday 18th December

·School begins for 2019 on Tuesday
29th January

Congratulations to all those who received Principal Awards at our assembly last week.

Steve Zonnevylle Principal Gleniti School

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