First of all, thank you all for supporting our Matariki evening last Thursday night. We ran out of sausages on the BBQ which is always a good sign that there were heaps of people coming into the school! It’s always great to see the Gleniti School Community getting in and supporting our events .. which essentially are your events! We enjoy putting them on, and the excitement levels around the school on the day of our Matariki night were very high. Of course we were all celebrating Matariki together in a uniquely kiwi way!

Congratulations to our Kapa Haka group who played such an important role in the night. Great effort all round!

Congratulations also to our Cross Country Team who competed in the South Canterbury Cross Country event out at Waihi School last Thursday. For the record in the team event our Year 7 Team came 1st; our Year 8 and Year 5 Boys came 2nd; and our Year 7 Boys Team came 3rd. Wow! Great effort by everyone involved.

Today we see three of our Jump Jam teams away competing at the annual Jump Jam competition held at the Theatre Royal. Best of luck to our teams; Year 7-8 Gleniti Lightning; Year 4-6 Gleniti Rebels; and Year 1-4 Gleniti Rockers.

Congratulations to our Yr7&8 Basketballers. The Gleniti Supersonics beat Bluestone to finish 3rd in the year 7/8 boys ‘A’ grade winning 39-34. Liam James scored 22 points with Rowan Waller 7.

Well done to Liam, Rowan, Layton Koning, Jaemin An and Sunny Chen for making the South Canterbury U13 team this year. In the girls grade congratulations to Molly Fitzgerald for making the South Canterbury U13 A team and Sam Giddings, Mia Donaldson and Nadia van den Bosch for making the South Canterbury U13 B team.

Finally I hope everyone is excited about our Wig Mufti Day tomorrow. The School Council are running this mufti day to raise funds for the Child Cancer Society. If you can’t find a wig or a hat then normal mufti is fine. As usual a gold coin donation thanks J

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

Steve Zonnevylle

Principal

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