Newsletter, 13th March 2019
Our cover stars this week are our Gleniti Triathlon team who competed in the South Canterbury Primary Schools Triathlon last Thursday at CBay and Ashbury Park. Our team swam, ran and cycled around the course in some seriously hot conditions. They all did very well, with Caleb Turner producing the best result coming 5th in the Yr 5-6 race. Congratulations team!
Our cover could have been a whole host of things this week, as there’s so much going on at present at school. On Monday we held our swimming sports. Nic Parmenter once again organised a great event for the school and everything ran like clockwork.
On Monday evening the Ice Skate Tour crew arrived at our hall to put up the ice skating rink. Thanks to our PTA team we were able to do this in record time! All classes now get the opportunity to have a crack at ice skating throughout the week! The rink will be open after school and during the weekend, so if you’re child/ren come home buzzing from their experience at school then bring them back for another session!
And if you’re around on Sunday at 5:00pm then I’m sure the PTA would appreciate your help pulling the rink down again.
Yesterday we waved goodbye to our Yr 6 students as they climbed on their bus to head out to their annual Raincliff camp. They’ll be back on Friday, no doubt full of great experiences!
On Tuesday I spent the day with Lindsay Robertson. Lindsay will be the acting Principal here at Gleniti School during my sabbatical next term. Lindsay comes to us with plenty of experience in the world of running a school.
Lindsay is also on the hunt for some accommodation during next term. If you have a house that you wouldn’t mind being “house sat, Monday to Friday” for Term 2 then please let us know.
Next week it is the turn of our Yr 7-8 students to head away on camp. I’m looking forward to spending Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday up at Aoraki/Mt Cook with them all.
Congratulations to Luke Winter who has been crowned our Gleniti Senior Chess Champion. He bet Juhyeong Kim in an epic final!
Congratulations to those students who received Principal awards at our assembly on Friday.
Steve Zonnevylle
Principal