Principal Update

Weather Event  
It sounds like many of you have experienced some hardship as part of yesterday’s weather event. It is great to have most children at school as it gives them some normality and time for you to get on and sort things at home. We were greeted with lots of stories this morning and some children  have gone on to do some expressive writing about their experiences and feelings. 

It is great for your children to talk about their feelings as it helps them process what has occurred. 
We have had two wonderful St Peters students  come across the road to help load a trailer of branches etc. Thank you to Harrison & Josh. 
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Thank you to our wonderful  caretaker Brent, who was here early to clean up our grounds. He is just the best!

School Staff Strike
Thank you to you all for your support for the school staff strike yesterday. We do appreciate the inconvenience of this. 
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We are very determined that we want things to be better for your children in our New Zealand schools. The main areas requiring urgent support are: 
> Support for our children who require specialist help and extra support in their learning 
> Serious teacher shortage in all sectors. 
> A stop to major curriculum changes and expectations constantly changing for our learners

 Home & Garden Tour
Planning is going well for our upcoming event on Sunday 2nd November. 
We are grateful to our school community for: 
> selling raffles cards (already $5K banked) 

If you still have a raffle card on the bench please return to school asap, sold or unsold. 

> Baking for next Friday or delivered on Saturday morning. 
You would have received a tray home on Wednesday so check school bags. If you could like another one please come to the office. 

> If you are able to help on Sunday morning please let Anneke know. 

This is a very special and successful event for us and we are always so grateful to our Home Owners who make this possible.

Attendance
Thank you to those of you that are making an effort to ensure your children are at school, unless they are sick. 
We are monitoring all absences and following up on unjustified absences so we have an understanding of your issues. Please contact Linda if you have a situation that requires your child to be  off school.

Dolamore Park 
Thank you to those of you that have supported our classes at Dolamore Park. The weather has not played the game fro all classes so we will let you know of when we can fit the cancelled visits in.

Have a good long weekend and enjoy your day off on Monday (Labour Day).

Ngā mihi nui,

Linda Fraser
Principal