Our cover stars this week are our amazing Gleniti Cubs Softball team. They have just won the under 11 South Canterbury softball competition beating Celtic Greensliders 9 – 4 in the final. Greg Newton tells me that the team improved out of sight from the start of the season with some great hitting and fielding in the final. Apparently there are some up and coming South Canterbury rep players in this team and they are looking forward to competing for the title in the 2019/20 softball season.

A huge thankyou to Greg for everything that he did in coaching and supporting the team. Further to this we would also like to acknowledge the under 9 Gleniti Giants T ball team who had a winning season, and thank coach Nick Symister for his time and effort.

Congratulations also to our team of swimmers who competed in the South Canterbury Primary Swimming Sports last Friday. Phoenix Smith came third in the 10yr Boys 25m Backstroke and the Freestyle, Rory Baxter came third in the 10yr Boys 25m Breaststroke, Tom Coupland came first in the 9yr Boys 25m Breaststroke, 2nd in the 9yr Boys 50m Freestyle, and 3rd in the 9yr Boys 25m Freestyle. To top it off our 9yr Relay of Tom, Athan, Yeon and Kea came third. What a great set of results.

Congratulations to following students who received trophies at the Highfield Tennis Prizegiving: Eva Callon –(best all round girl (Hotshots), Reuben Wheeler (best all round boy (Hotshots) and Addison Sparkes – Most Improved Girl (Hotshots).

Next week will be the last week of Term One. Just a reminder that Friday is a Teacher Only Day, and therefore Thursday 11th April will be the final day of the term.

There are two events coming up that the school would like to support. Firstly this Friday is Gumboot Friday. Maybe you have seen the adverts on TV. This initiative is being run by Mike King, New Zealander of the Year who is raising funds to provide counselling support to young people throughout New Zealand. The school fully supports this drive and children are more than welcome to wear their gumboots on Friday and we’ll collect the gold coins. We fully appreciate that we have been asking a lot money wise over the last few weeks (we raised over $1,000 for Christchurch just a couple of weeks ago) and so we fully understand if families don’t want to participate in this. Your call at home.

The second event happens on Saturday 4th May, just after the school holidays. A number of local organisations including the Timaru District Council are endorsing the Youth United Against Bullying Rally and March as part of the United Nations Anti-Bullying Day. The Rally will begin at the Soundshell from 10:30am and then everyone will march down Stafford Street and back again. Again, this is your call from home if you want your child to be involved but it certainly sounds like a great initiative to be involved in.

Steve Zonnevylle

Principal

Gleniti School

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