Term three comes to an end this Friday. Wow! What a busy term it has been. At the beginning of the term we celebrated Room 17’s move from the staffroom and into the new room. During the term there have been many highlights including the Ski-Skating day at Tekapo for our Yr 7-8’s, Footpath Frenzying with Mayor Damon Odey, and the amazing Student 50c Gala.

Today the PTA run their Walkathon-Colour Walk fundraiser. The weather has certainly been kind to us, and we’re looking forward to a great event after lunch today. Keep an eye out for all the colourful photos on Facebook later on in the day. A massive thanks needs to go out to Sarah Johnson and the PTA team for organising this event. No doubt it’s going to be a great success, and your dedication and support to the school is greatly appreciated.

Our cover stars are some of our Team leaders getting the colour ready for the big event! Looks like it’s going to be amazing.

Tomorrow we are lucky to be hosting three of our own rock bands for a lunchtime concert. I’m really looking forward to hearing what our students can do. It’s bound to be entertaining and a lot of fun! Feel free to come along and listen if you like.

Last week in the newsletter we mentioned that seven of our students were heading away to Nelson as part of the South Canterbury Cross Country team. Overnight we heard that Ashley Batt and Nadia van den Bosch will be the team captains for the Yr7-8 teams. What a great honour!

Congratulations to Corban Sprague who came third in the Aoraki Secondary Schools Yr 7-8 Mountainbike Cross Country event in Oamaru recently. Great effort Corban J

During the holidays Rooms 9-10 will under go a well overdue refurbishment. This means that Rooms 9 and 10 will begin the fourth term for a couple of weeks or so in different accommodation as the refurbishment is carried out. Room 9 will begin the fourth term in the meeting room beside the hall (we used this as the staffroom last year), and Room 10 will begin the term in the Library. Obviously this is just temporary as the refurbishment is undertaken and the inconvenience will no doubt be well worth it!

Footpath Frenzy will run for the final time in 2018 on Friday. This week we’ll be up on the corner of Pages Road and Hunter Hills Drive at 8:30am. See you all there .

Enjoy your holiday break everyone, we’ll see you all back at school fit and healthy on Monday 15th October.

Steve Zonnevylle

Principal

Gleniti School

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