Newsletter Monday 30th October, 2017
Kia ora Koutou
It’s been an exciting first two weeks of school. A big thank you to Tracy Wiltshire for organising our pet day and Leighton Croft for organising the Agri Sports. The children had loads of fun! It was great to see so many members of our community there as well. Trophys for pet day will be given out in our assembly this Friday. Congratulations to the following 1st place winners:
- Best lamb - Alice Barnes
- Best dog - Allie Lowry
- Best miscellaneous animal - Evie Croft
- Lamb drinking competition - Lily Banks
- Best dressed animal - Evie Croft
We’ve also had an exciting week with our staffing organisation for next year. I have applied to the Ministry of Education for an extra teacher and through a long process we have managed to secure extra funding for 2018, so we can now confirm there will be a teacher in each class for 4 days a week. The BOT will still be funding part of a teacher, but it won’t be as much as we had first anticipated.
Jo Richards has decided not to apply for a position for 2018 as she would like to spend more time with her family, especially before Arlo starts school during next year. Jo has been a real asset to our school and the children absolutely love her, so she will be missed. Hopefully we will see her to relieve throughout the year.
We had very experienced teachers apply for our recently advertised position and were able to appoint two teachers. Katherine Hanna will be teaching in the senior class 4 days per week and Jennie Manson will be teaching in the junior class 4 days per week. I will teach in each class one day per week and sometimes they will combine on a Friday.
Katherine is currently teaching at Broomfield School, and has been at Loburn and Rangiora Borough prior to Broomfield. She has years of experience throughout all of the year groups. Jennie has two young children. Since going back to work she has been teaching at Tuahiwi School and Kaiapoi Borough School across a variety of ages. Katherine and Jennie will come in this term to meet the children.
Ngā mihi
Maree Lucas
Principal
P: 03 314 5857 E: principal@omihi.school.nz
School Notices
Pool Keys
The pool is going to be ready to use again by Show weekend. Families are welcome to use the pool outside of school time. There will be a charge for the key which will contribute to the maintenance cost of the pool. If you had a key last year and no longer require it, please return it to our school office. If you would like one this year, you can purchase these from our school office or email Ruth on office@omihi.school.nz. They are $50 (school families), $70 (non-school families) and there will be a $20 refund when the key is returned. There is also a contract that all families with a key must sign.
School Fundraiser
$10 a ticket. You can either donate $10 onto www.givealittle.co.nz/org/omihischool or drop $10 into school. Every $10 you donate puts you in the draw to win a prize. Prizes are on our website - https://www.omihi.school.nz/school-fundraiser/. Prizes will be drawn on Friday 1st December at 2pm. Thanks to all of those that donated at the Amberley Show!
John Parsons - Cyber Safety
John Parsons is an Internet Safety and Risk Assessment Consultant. He runs workshops all over the country. I have seen him twice and he is brilliant. He has very relevant information for our students, right from Year 1 - 8 and he has great tips for parents and teachers on how to keep our children safe online. John is going to be working with Amberley, Broomfield and Leithfield School in term 4, and they have very kindly said we can join them. Our students and staff will be part of his workshops, plus he is running a parents session which I highly recommend all parents attend. The parents session will be at Amberley School on Wednesday 22nd November - time TBC. For more information on John - http://www.johnparsons.nz/. Our school have recently purchased his book and are happy to loan it to parents if you would like to read it.
Jan and Mark Archbold
I would like to say a big thank you to Jan and Mark who deliver our newsletters out to our community. We really appreciate your contribution to our school.
Concerns
If you have any concerns about our school or ideas for us, please feel free to contact Maree on principal@omihi.school.nz. If you would like to make it formal, please follow the correct procedure on www.schooldocs.co.nz. Our username is omihi and password is glenmark.
Small School’s Athletics - Year 4-8
This is on Thursday 2nd November at Waipara School. We would love to see our community there to support us.
Junior School Assembly is this Friday at 2pm. Everyone is welcome.
Community Notices
