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Kia Ora whānau rāua tamariki,

We hope you all enjoyed the long weekend and managed to have some quality time with your whānau. It was great to hear of the adventures of our tamariki mixed in with some much needed quiet time. This week we have started developing wonderings for our Food for Thought inquiries. Check them out on Seesaw - we uploaded our Padlets today! We look forward to broadening and developing these wonderings with our students this week.

We are really excited to finally have Cross Country - held on Friday 8th June. The postponement day, should weather become an issue, will be on Thursday, June 21st. Students are not to bring devices on this day. Please find more information attached below.

Interschool Cross Country will be held in Week 7. Just in case the weather does not play it’s part on Friday, we are holding pre-cross country practices at school over the next 2 days (Tuesday and Wednesday) with Haepapa Pod. Names for our top runners will be taken and used to determine Inter School Cross Country participants if we are not able to run this Friday. As we will be running on the track, please ensure students have suitable footwear as they will not be able to run without shoes.

Pae Tamariki is fast approaching! Our tamariki have been working super hard on their performances and they are looking and sounding amazing! Our groups will be performing on Friday 15th June - with our tēina group performing first up at 9am and our tuākana group at 10:40am. If your child is a part of Kapa Haka but is not intending on taking part in Pae Tamariki, please let their Hapu teacher know asap. A letter with further information and details is attached below.

School photo information and order forms will be coming home tomorrow. School Photos will be held on Wednesday 20th June. All photo orders are due back by Friday 15th June. Note that this year there are no classroom photos - only POD photos.

Online orders for the next PTA lunch are now open through Kindo. You can purchase 2 slices of pizzas for $3. Orders close 12 noon on Monday 11th June.

There is no assembly this week due to Cross Country. CRE is still on as we are not leaving for Cross Country until after 10am.

On the subject of clothing, during these colder and wetter months we do still like to have our tamariki out and about as much as possible. We ask those students who like to get out on the fields to bring a spare change of clothes to ensure they don’t end up wet and uncomfortable for the afternoon sessions.
Homework continues to be the Chapter Chat independent tasks. We are loving seeing the creative work that our tamariki are bringing in!

Ngā Mihi,
Kahurangi Pouako