Tomorrow night the school will be celebrating Matariki. We’ll be hosting our Matariki event here at school from 6:00pm-8:00pm. Come along and hear our Kapa Haka group perform, learn more about Matariki, and enjoy the artwork on display in our classrooms. Believe it or not, the weather forecast for tomorrow evening is looking pretty good. There will be BBQ sausies for sale, and the PTA will be running a hot drinks stall. The Kapa Haka will be performing from 6:30pm. This is a great opportunity to celebrate something that is uniquely Kiwi, so come along and celebrate Matariki with us. 

Further to this, as part of Matariki we were very lucky to host Glenview Kindergarten today at school. Our Kapa Haka group performed some great songs, which we will post on our Facebook page. The children from Glenview Kindy also performed for us, as you can see by our Newsletter cover! What great performers they all are!

The Primary Teachers Union, the NZEI, will be running a Paid Union Meeting during the afternoon next Friday, 22nd June. The school will be open as normal, however we will be running an alternate programme for our students as most of our teachers will be attending the meeting. Parents are more than welcome to pick their children up early at lunchtime on the 22nd June. Please let the office know if you plan to do this. This will then help us with our planning for the afternoon.

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

Steve Zonnevylle

Principal

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Wow, weren’t we lucky with the weather yesterday for our Yr 0-4 Cross Country event! And what a great turn out of parents and whanau who came along to support all the children running. Most importantly what a great event! The children ran superbly, and looked as though they were enjoying themselves. Thank you to Nic Parmenter for organising the day for us. Great effort all round.

Last week our Yr 8 Leaders spent a night away in Christchurch. On Tuesday they worked with the YMCA on Leadership skills and spent the afternoon on the amazing climbing wall at the YMCA. On Wednesday they went along to the Horncastle Arena as part of the Young Leaders Conference. There were children from all around the South Island at the event, listening to keynote speakers such as Lisa Tamati, Amanda Wilson and Riley Hathaway. These speakers spoke of the success and failures in their lives and what they believe are the keys to being great leaders. Very inspirational for our young leaders.

Next Thursday night the school will be celebrating Matariki. The school will be open from 6:00pm-8:00pm. Come along and hear our Kapa Haka group perform, learn more about Matariki, and enjoy the artwork on display in our classrooms. We are also hopeful that we will have some telescopes available so that we can enjoy the wonders of the night sky. Come along and be inspired!

Steve Zonnevylle

Principal

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It’s been another busy week or so at Gleniti School. Friday found us celebrating New Zealand Music Month with a gig at assembly. Joash and Henry Jorgensen joined up as Mysterious, and performed a drum and guitar original song. Then Nina Baxter sang a song that she had written. It was great to hear students so young and talented getting up and playing songs that they had created themselves. I played a couple of songs that I had written as well, but really this was a celebration of our young students creating new and exciting tunes. We’ll certainly be doing this again.

On Monday we hosted our annual Yr 5-8 Cross Country down at the Scenic Reserve. Conditions were perfect for the runners (but cold for the spectators!). A huge thank you to Nic Parmenter for organising this event. It ran (!) very smoothly indeed. Results are published later in our newsletter.

We’re looking forward to hosting the Yr 0-4 Cross Country here at school on Tuesday 5th June, straight after the Queen’s Birthday weekend.

Thank you again to everyone who participated in our School Transport Survey. We managed to receive a 77% response rate from our families. That’s a great participation result and we’re certainly looking forward to reading all the responses when they come back from the CDHB analysts team.

Charlie Williamson was the lucky student who won the amazing spot prize from Bike Barn of a brand new scooter and helmet.

Our annual Teacher Only is due this Friday. The school will be closed for Teacher Only day on Friday 1st June, just prior to the Queen’s Birthday weekend. Teacher’s will be using the day for Maths Professional Development. The school will re-open on Tuesday 5th June after the Queen’s Birthday holiday.

Congratulations to everyone who
received Principal Awards at last week’s assembly.
Steve Zonnevylle

Principal

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