Celebrating the fundraising efforts of our online auction.

Kia ora koutou

I hope you had a lovely two weeks with your whānau. We went away in our caravan for the second week, and it was great to get in the outdoors and explore around Hanmer Springs and Kaikoura.

Some exciting news to share with you to start the term. Bryleigh is expecting her second baby in term 1 next year. We are thrilled for Bryleigh, Ryan and Maia. We will be advertising for an Acting Office Manager to work with Bryleigh one day a week in term 1, then for three days for term 2 and 3, whilst Bryleigh is on maternity leave. If you are interested please feel free to get in touch with me to find out more. The ad will be in the next newsletter.

You will see below that we have a number of things on this term. We hope to see you at some of the events, and feel free to pop in and see us any time.

Ngā mihi

Maree Lucas
Tumuaki/Principal
principal@omihi.school.nz

School Notices

Principal Award Winners
Congratulations to our latest Principal award winners….Lavi and Alex!

Dates for 2024
Our start date for 2024 is Tuesday 30th January. To make it less mucky, we have decided to close the school on Monday 5th February, as it is Waitangi Day on Tuesday 6th February. We were originally going to start school on Wednesday 31st, but brought it back a day to make it possible to close on the 5th.

Agri Sports/Pet Day
This is on Wednesday 18th October. Please fill out this google form to let us know what animal your child will be bringing. Thanks to Kurt for organising the Agri Sports, and to Julie for organising the lamb drinking competition. We need some parent helpers for Agri Sports. Please email Maree to let us know if you are available. Timetable of the day is:

9.30am Agri Sports
11.30am Early lunch
12.00pm Pets arrive
12.30pm Judging begins
1.30pm Lamb drinking race
1.45pm Fancy dress competition
2.30pm Prize giving

River Safety/Beach Safety
Each year we go to Waikuku Beach for beach safety. We have decided to alternate this with River Safety. So this term we will be visiting the Waipara Boys Brigade for river safety run by the Waipara Adventure Centre on Friday 3rd November. Thanks to Penny for organising this. We will need parent help, so please let Penny know if you can come along.

Preschooler morning
We welcome you in for our preschooler morning on Wednesday 25th October from 9.00am - 10.30am. Please bring morning tea and a drink bottle for your child.

John Parsons - Cyber Safety
John Parsons will be coming to work with our students and staff on Tuesday 28th November. He is also going to do a parent session for us in the evening at 6.30pm. We will have a movie playing in the classrooms if you want to bring your children, and the parent session will be in Kahiwi. He has a lot of great information on how you can keep your children safe online. This is a free session, and please feel free to invite anyone else that may be interested.

Precision Yamaha Omihi School Trail Ride
This is not far away! If you have volunteered for the event, we will be in touch with more details nearer the time. If you are available to help, please let Maree know, we still need a couple more volunteers. It would be great to see every family there if possible. The funds from this race help us to fund our third classroom and ensure we have smaller class sizes. You can also enter the trail ride at www.iticket.co.nz.

Congratulations….
A big congratulations to Macy who was awarded Amberley Netball Club’s most promising junior player for 2023. Also to Delia, who won her ‘Time to ride endurance race’ in the weekend. She beat all of the adults in her race, and her pony had the lowest heart rate.

Dates this term
* Agri sports/Pet day - Wednesday 18th October
* Preschooler morning - Wednesday 25th October
* Enviro leaders to visit Woodend Beach - Friday 27th October
* Year 1-3 athletics at Waikari School - Tuesday 31st October
* Precision Yamaha Omihi School Trail ride - Saturday 4th November (pp Sunday 5th November)
* Year 4-8 Athletics at Waipara School - Tuesday 7th November
* Kowai Athletics - Monday 13th November
* Canterbury Anniversary Day - Friday 17th November (please note there is no teacher only day on the Thursday this year)
* Kowai Sports Spectacular - Wednesday 22nd November
* Whole school assembly - Friday 24th November
* Parent session with John Parsons - Tuesday 28th November
* Science Roadshow at Omihi Hall - Thursday 7th December
* St John training - Friday 8th December
* Prize giving, whānau picnic and last day of school - Wednesday 13th December

Online auction
Thanks for helping us raise $2,720 for our school with our online auction! A huge thanks to the following sponsors of the auction:
* Tyre General
* Southern White Water
* Kaiapoi Golf Club
* Amberley Golf Club
* Air Force Museum of New Zealand
* Learn to Surf
* Hanmer Springs Ski Area
* Hall & Co Funeral Directors
* Supa Karts
* Adrenaline Forest
* Coffee Culture
* Ferrymead Heritage Park
* Hynds, Amberley
* Cloud 9 Float Club
* Beauty & You, Amberley
* MoveX
* North Canterbury Veterinary Clinics Ltd
* Black Estate
* Activity Hanmer
* Juniper Distillery
* Canterbury Honda
* Balcairn Stock Food
* Pegasus Pharmacy
* Karikaas
* Waipara Gardens Country Store
* Farmlands
* Goughs Nurseries
* Launchpad
* FMG
* Amberley Seedling Trees
* Kings Truffles
* Alice Strange

Community Notices

We’re grateful for McBreen Contracting Ltd’s support of our Precision Yamaha Omihi School Trailride, coming up on Saturday 4 November 2023. See details below to register.

A 515 litre trough, one of our amazing online auction items, modelled by Jonty and Arlo and kindly donated by Hynds.

Kia ora koutou,

What a treat to be able to see our tamariki in action at the Top Team Challenge last week. They were split into groups with children from some of our local schools, and I was really proud of their perseverance, resilience and team work. It was nice to see them shining as leaders.

Thanks to Anna Williams, who has put in a huge amount of work to gather auction items for our online auction, and thanks to Bryleigh who collated this for us. It is now live on our Facebook page, and finishes this Thursday at 8pm. We would love your support to share it around for us, and feel free to pop in a bid or two.

This is our last newsletter of the term. We look forward to seeing parents this week for our Year 6-8 speech competition on Thursday, and our junior assembly on Friday.

Ngā mihi nui

Maree Lucas
Tumuaki/Principal
principal@omihi.school.nz

School Notices

Te Wiki o te reo Māori (Māori language week)
This week is Te Wiki o te reo Māori. Our tamariki will be celebrating one of our national languages every day, and learning new kupu along the way. Look out for our Facebook posts!

Trail Ride
Our major 2023 fundraiser for Omihi School is coming up next term. We really need some more volunteers to make this happen. Please can you sign up to help at the trail ride at this link or email me on principal@omihi.school.nz. Entries are now live on www.iticket.co.nz.

Life Education
We look forward to welcoming the Life Education van and Harold to Omihi on Tuesday this week.

Year 6-8 Speech Competition
We welcome our community in to watch our speech competition this Thursday 14th September at 1.30pm.

Reports
There will be a health and science report comment coming home in the last week of school via Hero.

Junior Assembly
We welcome our whole community to our junior assembly on Friday 15th September at 2.00pm.

Grandparents Day
We are excited to welcome our grandparents or special person on Wednesday 20th September from 9.00am - 10.30am. We ask that our students please bring a plate for morning tea to share with our grandparents.

Community Notices

Junior Holiday Tennis Coaching with Shane

Where: Scargill Domain
When: Mon, Tues, Wed (25, 26, 27th Sep)
$25 per lesson per child
High school age children welcome
Contact Milly 027 552 1644 to register

Kia ora koutou

Our new bus driver Emma with her boys Alex, Theo, Arty and Michael.

I’d like to welcome Emma Hughes-Games onto our staff as our new bus driver. Emma and Fi will be sharing the role. The three of us are completing a number of unit standards over the next three days to complete our bus drivers licence training. There is a lot that it entails, so we appreciate these two ladies for what they are doing for our school.

Often parents say to me that they ask their child what did they learn, or what did they do at school today, and they say ‘nothing’. I found these suggestions of questions and conversation starters to ask when your child comes home, and I thought they might be helpful:

• Did anything funny happen at school today?

• I was thinking about you! Want to know what I was thinking about?

• Did you make any mistakes today? Great!

• What do you need right now? I’m here for your tears, quiet time, or a chat.

• What did you read at school today?

• Who did you play with? What games did you play?

• Tell me about the best part of your day.

• Can you show me something you learned today?

• Was maths easy or hard today? Why?

• What was the hardest thing you had to do today?

Ngā mihi
Maree Lucas
Tumuaki/Principal
principal@omihi.school.nz

School Notices

Principal Awards
Congratulations to the latest Principal Award winners….Ruby-Grace and Liza!

Top Team Challenge
This will be held on 6th September at Amberley Domain. It is for our Year 5-8 students, and we need to be there by 12.20pm. Mrs Lucas will drive the bus and leave school at 11.50am. We are also looking for some parents who can take cars. If you are able to do this, can you please email Miss Fletcher and let her know. All children will need a change of clothes, as there are water based activities that they will get wet in. We won’t be back until 3.20pm, so children will need to be picked up from school or from the Amberley Domain at 2.45pm.

Bus Run
Due to the Top Team Event there will be no afternoon bus on Wednesday September 6th.

Trail Ride
Our major 2023 fundraiser for Omihi School is coming up next term. Please can parents sign up to help at the trail ride at this link. We appreciate all your support.  Entries will be live on www.iticket.co.nz from this Friday 1st September.

School Uniform
We have noticed a lot of non-Omihi uniform being worn at the moment. Please can you make sure your child has the correct school uniform, and that all of their uniform is named. We currently have a size 9/10 Merino in the lost property that isn’t named.

Preschooler Morning
We welcome all preschoolers on Wednesday 6th September from 9.00am - 10.30am. Please bring along morning tea and a drink bottle for your child.

Bloomfields Preschool
After visiting Bloomfields, we look forward to welcoming some of their children to visit us on Tuesday 5th September.

3WLC
We have Three Way Learning Conferences next week. Please follow this link to book in - 3WLC.

Amberley Rugby Award Winners
Congratulations to Taylor (Bruce Rickerby JAB Player of the Year and Forward of the Year), and Jack (Back of the Year), for their fantastic rugby season for Amberley this year!

We would love to celebrate what our tamariki are doing outside of school as well, so please feel free to send through any accomplishments that we can share.

Community Notices

Kaikoura Greens present two films: ‘For the Blue’ and ‘Those Crazy Greens’ at Amberley School, Douglas Road (in the Arahura Hall) on Saturday September 9th, 7pm-9pm. Entrance by koha. Refreshments in the interval. Enquiries to Richard McCubbin 027 435 4013 or mccubbin@netspeed.net.nz. Authorised by Miriam Ross, Level 5, 108 The Terrace, Wellington.

Greta Valley Physiotherapy Services
Hi Everyone! My name is Flora, I am the founder of PhysioFlow. PhysioFlow is a newly established Physiotherapy practice located in Merivale Christchurch providing Musculoskeletal and Pelvic & Women's Health Physiotherapy services. We are a fully ACC accredited healthcare clinic. I am excited to announce I am now taking bookings at my Greta Valley clinic on Tuesdays and Thursdays. To find out more about the services PhysioFlow offers or to learn more about me you can visit www.physioflow.co.nz or find me on Instagram @_PhysioFlow_

Online bookings will be available shortly, but for now if you would like to make an appointment please call or text me on 027 302 9159.  As someone who also lives rurally and understands the need for more accessible healthcare in the rural community I look forward to offering my services and working with you. I look forward to hearing from you soon! 

Kia ora koutou,

Ze’ev, Zac, Lily, Thomas and Andy practising their scrums with Craig!

I loved seeing the excitement of our students last week when they got to play tackle rugby at school! A big thanks to Craig Mullan, from Canterbury Rugby, who came out for a coaching session. It’s wonderful to see the opportunities our students get - from reading to preschoolers at Bloomfield Preschool, visiting the Hurunui library, playing tackle rugby, and this week performing at the North Canterbury Kapa Haka Festival. We enjoy seeing their grit, determination and positivity when trying new things, and pushing themselves out of their comfort zone.

This week we welcome Arly and Judah for their preschool visits and can’t wait for them to join our Paemoana class next week. It’s always lovely to see those tuakana-teina relationships when our seniors look after our juniors throughout the day.

I would like to say a big thank you to Elizabeth Maddren who finishes this Friday, after teaching Paemoana for 5 weeks. We have loved having her join our Omihi whānau, and Paemoana have been very lucky to have such wonderful learning over the last few weeks. I would also like to acknowledge Liz Grigg who is one of our regular relievers. It’s very hard to get relievers, so to have two experienced and excellent relievers that we can use regularly, and who know our children well, is a real treat.

Have a lovely week, and remember my door is always open if you would like to catch up.

Ngā mihi
Maree Lucas
Tumuaki/Principal
principal@omihi.school.nz

School Notices

Kapa Haka
We are performing in the Kapa Haka festival this Thursday. Kelly will share the transport info with you today, and we look forward to seeing you there. If you have ordered tickets, these will be sent home with your child in the next day or two.

Online Auction
A big thank you to Anna Williams who is gathering items for our online auction again this year. If you have any contacts that could help with this, please contact Anna directly, or Bryleigh and she will forward it on. We are looking forward to our auction going live on Facebook on Friday 8th September.

3 Way Learning Conferences
Please book a time on this doc to meet with your child and their teacher on either Monday 4th September, or Tuesday 5th September. This will be an opportunity to discuss your child’s progress, and next steps.

Reporting
Your child’s teacher will be sending home their Maths comment via Hero at the end of next week. Please get in touch with them if you don’t receive it.

School Photos
These will be at 9am on Thursday 24th August. There will be the opportunity for individual and sibling photos as well.

Precision Yamaha Omihi School Trail Ride - Saturday 4th November (pp Sunday 5th November)
We are well into the planning of this. This is our major fundraiser of the year, and to make it work we need parent volunteers on the day. It would be great to have someone there representing every family if possible. Please add your name to the doc or email me if you aren’t able to access it. Thank you to Sofia who is going to lead the BBQ again this year.

Community Notices

The Hurunui Theatre Group presents ‘A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum’

Book by Burt Shevelove & Larry Gelbart; music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Based on the plays of Plautus.

Show runs from the 25th August – 2nd September at the Waipara Memorial Hall. 

Tickets available online through TryBooking.com

Clip Clop Equestrian Presents - PRIMARY SCHOOLS SHOW JUMPING COMPETITION

SATURDAY 14th OCTOBER 2023

Year 1-8 - 2 classes per rider at either height. Composite teams accepted.

Competition 1 - SEFTON RIDING CENTRE TROPHY
Morning 9am
Class 1-Poles on the ground obstacle course
Class 2-Up to 25cm
Can be assisted
4 in each team, any mix of classes 1 and 2.

Competition 2 - ALANA ADAMS TROPHY
Afternoon 12pm approx.
Class 3-45cm
Class 4-60cm
Class 5-80cm
4 in each team, any mix of classes 3, 4 and 5.

Entries should be made by the team manager (with a phone number).
Teams of less than 4 riders are acceptable (even a team of 1 rider is okay) and we will create composite teams from the entries we receive.

All entries must be emailed to clipclopequestriannz@gmail.com. Children’s names need to be on team entries.

Entry fees $10 per class
Entries close 6th October
Payment must accompany entries and no late entries will be accepted.
Please make payment to Sefton Riding Centre 03-1395-0168899-000 (ref-name of team and name of school).