I was very lucky to head down to the Caroline Bay Hall today with our International students for the annual Mayoral welcome. Today Renee Phimister and I took with us Dayeon, Chaebeen and Yeon. Dayeon stood up as our representative to speak to the large crowd of about 350 people. Great effort Dayeon!

Today and tomorrow are our Learning Teams 2,3 and 4 Meet the Teacher Parent Interviews. Today, for these classes, we close early at 2:00pm (Learning Team 1 , Rms, 1,2,3,4,17 are away swimming and will be back by 3:00pm as normal). Tomorrow, Thursday we close at the normal time of 3:00pm.

Our Board of Trustees met last Monday night. For many years the school has supported a Religious Education programme run by volunteers in Yr 5-6. After a long discussion the Board has decided to cease running this programme during class times. We would like to thank Chrissy Linton, Sue Sherwin and Rory Grant for volunteering to run this programme over the last few years. We certainly appreciate the time and effort you have put into teaching our students about your passion. We are currently working with Chrissy about the possibility of running a weekly lunchtime club that would be available for any student who would like to join.

The Board also discussed the School Transport Plan. At the end of last year we ran a consultation week where parents were able to respond to the display boards of Transport information! One question that we asked during the consultation was whether parents/whanau supported “compulsory” helmets for children riding bikes, scooters and skateboards to and from school. Overwhelmingly parents supported this, and the Board moved last Monday night to make this a requirement for all children travelling to and from school on a bike/scooter/skateboard to wear a safety helmet. Please support the school by actively and positively promoting this with your children.

Congratulations to all the students who were awarded Principal Awards at our assembly last Friday.

Steve Zonnevylle

Principal

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What a great turnout to our annual school picnic last Thursday night. Once again we lucked in the weather and we were all able to enjoy a laid back evening of fun and games. Our cover stars this week look as though they are having the time of their lives at the picnic!

Tomorrow we will be running a House Group Fun afternoon. We’ve got 18 different fun activities organised for the afternoon all designed to promote our House Groups. Tomorrow will also be a House Group Colours Mufti Day. Please come along dressed in your house colours. Please note that the mufti day will go ahead irrespective of what the weather is planning to do! For the record; Kiwi is Orange, Kereru is Red, Kea is Green, Kotuku is Yellow and Kakapo is Blue.

Meet the Teacher Parent Interviews for our Yr 3-8 students (Learning Teams 2,3 and 4) are set to run next Wednesday 20th February and Thursday 21st. These interviews are designed for parents who have students new to the class or Learning Team to meet their teachers. Interview times can be booked by going to www.schoolinterviews.com.au and entering the event code 8gxf5. Bookings close on Monday. As we have done in the past, the school will be closed on the Wednesday from 2:00pm. Thursday will be normal closing time at 3:00pm. We will be providing supervision at school from 2:00pm in the Library on the Wednesday. If you can’t pick up your child/ren at 2:00pm and would like them to be supervised then please notify the office ASAP.

Please note that Learning Team 1 (Rms 1,2,3,4 and 17) are starting their swimming sessions next week. Because of this Learning Team 1 won’t be finishing early on Wednesday, and will finish at 3:00pm as usual when they come back from swimming.

Our Board of Trustees met for the first time on Monday night. The Board would like to welcome Julia Brunton and Beth Park onto the BOT as new parent representatives through until the BOT elections in early June.

Finally just a reminder that children need to be collected from school daily at 3pm. If parents think they will be running late, children will wait at their classroom, or outside the school office. Please don’t arrange to pick them up from playground as we can’t keep an eye on them during this time.

Congratulations to all the students who were awarded Principal Awards at our assembly last Friday.

Steve Zonnevylle

Principal

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Welcome back everyone! I’m sure that you’ve all had a wonderful summer break and are all set for the busy term ahead. It was great to welcome all the smiley faces back yesterday. 2019 is certainly shaping up to be an exciting year.

A huge thank you (yet again!) to our proactive PTA who have funded and built our sand pit. Our cover stars this week are all our new students and they are photo’d enjoying the wonderful sand pit. Thanks PTA!

We’ve started the year with a school roll of 360. Our enrolment zone is now well and truly in place and everything is working as planned.

A huge welcome to all of our new children and their families. Welcome also to Nadine Jones (Rm8) and Dave Calder (our new Caretaker) and Daile Greer (our new Cleaner). Welcome back to Angela Fitzgerald in a full time capacity teaching in Rm 16.

Next week we look forward to our annual meet and greet Family Picnic. This will be held on Thursday evening from 5:30pm on the main field. It’s a bring along your own dinner sort of event, with lots of fun and games thrown in. The perfect way to meet the Gleniti School whanau!

With so many new families in the school I thought that it was timely to remind people about how to get access to the weekly Gleniti Newsletter.

· via School Bag: Delivered weekly into your child’s schoolbag every Wednesday!

· via email: You can have the newsletter emailed to you weekly every Wednesday, email me;

stevez@gleniti.school.nz to get your name on the list

· via Smart Phone App: Go to the App Store (for IOS) or the Google Play store (for Android) and search for Skool Loop. Download the free app and then search for Gleniti. You’ll receive the newsletter directly to your phone, along with other updates about upcoming events.

· via Facebook: A link to the newsletter can also be found every Wednesday on our Facebook page.

Search for Gleniti via Facebook and “like” our page.

· via www.gleniti.school.nz: The newsletter is posted to our website every Wednesday. You can also see

all of the other recent newsletters there as well.

So really there’s no excuse not to know what’s going on in your school! J

Finally, I just have a couple of things to remind people.

First of all a message about uniforms. It’s a great time of year to remind everyone of our uniform expectations.

Uniforms should be just that; uniform. So please when you are purchasing new black shorts please avoid

anything that might have a logo on it. The Warehouse have plenty of plain black shorts, and they’re a good

price.

Don’t forget your sunhats as well everyone. It’s very important that all children wear their sunhats at school.

Secondly just a reminder about dropping your children off at school. As the school roll has grown so has the number of cars driving up and down Heath Street and Springs Road looking for parks. Please be considerate to all parents and above all be super conscious of all children making their way to school. And just another reminder that the carpark is for staff, visitors working in the school and emergencies.

Don’t forget we have Waitangi Day holiday on Wednesday 6th February.

Steve Zonnevylle

Principal

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