Newsletter 12th December, 2018
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