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Kia Ora Koutou,

Thank you to all those families who supported our Tamariki in bringing their taonga to school today. It has been fantastic to see our students family treasures. We will have further opportunities to share throughout the week and look forward to seeing more wonderful taonga and discovering their significance to your whānau.

For this weeks homework we will be continuing with our Ōku †ūrangawaewae focus. Please take the time to look over this (attached below and available on the blog) with your child as they are looking to find out more about you!

There will be no School Assembly or CRE this week. CRE will commence again on Friday 2nd March 9.00 - 9.30am. If you wish to have your child excused from these classes you will need to put this in writing to durham@whakarongo.school.nz. For those parents who opted out last year, the request has been carried over to this year.

Our Senior Swimming Sports for our Year 5-8 students is fast approaching. This event is set for Thursday 8th March 2017 at the Makino Aquatic Centre in Feilding. Our Senior Swimming Sports will comprise of two events; competitive and fun, non-competitive events. This means that all of our Year 5-8 students, from the Kahurangi Pod, Navigator Centre and the Year 5’s from Haepapa will participate. We will be asking students to enter into both the competitive and non-competitive events tomorrow. All non-competitive swimmers will be awarded house points for participation. Further information regarding swimming sports will be sent home next week.

Wednesday swimming at Ashhurst will continue this week. The cost of these lessons has been calculated to $54. This will be added to your child's account.

We will be starting Mathletics this week. Please make sure your child has the app downloaded to allow them to participate in this part of our Mathematics programme.

Ngā Mihi,
Kahurangi Pouako