It was great to share with many schools and businesses across New Zealand Pink Shirt day last Friday. What an amazing array of different pinks and costumes showing our determination to be a part of the BullyfreeNZ initiative. We raised $507.50.

If you didn’t get a chance to view the Oat the Goat video, here goes the link again. This is a great resource that helps children learn the power of kindness … http://www.oatthegoat.co.nz/

Thank you 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.

At assembly this week we’ll name the spot prize winner. The prize is a SCOOTER and helmet, which has kindly been donated by the good people at Bike Barn.

The big news this week has been the arrival of our new building. How exciting! It was great to see the building arrive on the back of two trucks and then be lifted by crane into place. There are a few things that have to happen before we get to move in though; the building needs to be connected to electricity etc, and we need to build a ramp, but fingers crossed we’ll be using it before we know it!

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

Our Yr5-8 Cross Country is all set to run next week; Mon 28th May (12.15pm-3.00pm) with the postponement day being Thurs 31st May (12.15pm-3.00pm), down at the Scenic Reserve.

Our annual Teacher Only day is just over a week away. 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.

Steve Zonnevylle

Principal

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This week the school is involved in the Nationwide BullyfreeNZ initiative. Classes have been talking about ways that we can all work on to achieve our goal of being a Bullyfree environment. This lends itself to conversations about behaviour as a whole, whether it be poor behaviour or positive behaviour. No doubt this will be an on-going conversation.

We shared on our Facebook page a great resource that helps children learn the power of kindness … Oat the Goat is a very useful digital storybook well worth taking a look at …. http://www.oatthegoat.co.nz/

On Friday we are encouraging children to come along dressed up in Pink … any pink will do, please don’t go to any extra expense! Nationwide it is officially called Pink Shirt Day, but we don’t mind if your children don’t have a pink shirt, any pink will do. This gold coin mufti day will see the donations going to the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand.

This Friday is the last day of our School Transport Survey. So far we have had 163 responses to the online survey and we’ve also been running an in-class survey as well.

If you haven’t already, we’d appreciate it if you could take the time to complete a short survey about the way your children travel to and from school. The survey is anonymous, as the results are analysed by the CDHB analysts team, not within the school. However, you can also add your name for the chance to win a special spot prize! The prize is a SCOOTER and helmet, which has kindly been donated by the good people at Bike Barn.
We really appreciate your participation! Ultimately, the results will contribute to keeping our children safe.
HERE IS THE LINK… .https:// www.surveymonkey.com/r/Sch_Travel_Survey

Our cover stars this week are Sam Ollerenshaw and Kyla Botha. Sam and Kyla received the umpire of the week award last Saturday at Netball. It’s great to see Gleniti students step up to take on umpiring roles. Fabulous work girls!

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

Steve Zonnevylle

Principal

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I’m sure you’re all aware that we are currently running a School Transport Survey.

We would appreciate ALL school families taking the time to complete a short survey about the way your children travel to and from school. The survey is anonymous, as the results are analysed by the CDHB analysts team, not within the school. However, you can also add your name for the chance to win a special spot prize! The prize is a SCOOTER and helmet, which has kindly been donated by the good people at Bike Barn.
The survey will need to be completed THIS WEEK OR NEXT WEEK between 7th – 18th May. We really appreciate your participation! Ultimately, the results will contribute to keeping our children safe.
HERE IS THE LINK… .https:// www.surveymonkey.com/r/Sch_Travel_Survey

Our cover stars this week are our Year 4 students. Timaru Rotary annually provide all Year 4 students throughout Timaru each with a free dictionary. Last Friday was our turn to receive our new dictionaries. What an amazing initiative by Rotary!

During the weekend I was lucky to represent South Canterbury Primary schools at the Education Summit in Christchurch. 800 people from Invercargill to Levin and everywhere in between attended. There was a large mixture of people and backgrounds ranging from business owners, to city councillors, to volunteer organisations, to Yr 13 High School students, to Principals, to teachers, to BOT members, to MOE officials, to Ngai Tahu, to Ruud Kleinpaste the bug man. You name it, it seems that everyone was represented. This wasn’t just a Principal/teacher meeting. This was a whole community conversation. There was a lot of talking, sharing and listening in a quest to nail down the key components that will make up the NZ Education situation over the next 30 years. Quite an undertaking! Watch this space, there are changes afoot, and this Summit is just the beginning!

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

This week we welcomed the following new student Ava Simmons R1.

Steve Zonnevylle

Principal

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