Ngā Puna 2021

Term 4 Week 8 Check the school bags - class and individual photos sent home today All school library books will need to be back in by Friday 10th December. Please search the house and return everything that needs to come back to school. Please return all reading books too that are hiding under beds and around the house. We are having a tennis lesson on Friday morning this week. We are lucky that the Waimairi tennis club staff are coming to us and saving the young children a long walk.  Tennis rackets are provided but if the kids want to bring their own they are very welcome.  With two weeks to go, we are very excited about Christmas singing, reading Christmas stories, hearing about holidays, and also doing Christmas activities. All the best for the pre-Christmas rush and festivities!! Kids are welcomed to wear festive headware Please bring togs to school each day just in case we get a swimming slot. The weather doesn't look great for the beginning of the week.         Early 2 pm fi

Greetings everybody. Hope you had a lovely weekend. Not many more weekends left before the end of Term!  Christmas is fast approaching.  A reminder that this Wednesday the 1st school finishes early at 2pm due to parent teacher interviews. Also the following Wednesday the 8th, 2pm finish. Please let us know via email A.S.A.P if you require supervision for your child at this time.   Nga Puna are fortunate to be having 2 tennis lessons at school provided to us by the Waimairi Tennis Club at a total cost of $3.  This has been added to your term 4 2021 activity contribution.  These lessons will happen on Friday the 10th and Monday the 13th of December.  This Wednesday, 2pm early finish Wednesday the 10th, 2pm early finish Togs everyday please team. We like to be as flexible as we can with our swimming times. Bike day Friday Tennis dates - Friday the 10th and Monday the 13th of December Thursday the 16th of December - Last day of school Have a lovely week all. As usual, any questions or quer

Kia Ora whanau. Welcome to week 6 of our 9 week Term. They certainly are flying by! A big thank you to our fabulous caretaker Darren who has our pool up and running. Soo lucky to have a school pool! Please send named togs and towels in a tog bag to school daily. We only go if the outside temperature is 16 degrees or above. Initially, we focus on safe entry and exit of the school pool, gaining water confidence, and moving in different ways through the water. Our official times are: Tania and Tina- Tuesday/Friday  Vanessa and Sue- Monday/Wednesday Even though these are official times the kids can bring their togs and towels each day just in case there is a free-swimming slot. The school pool will be open to use outside of school hours for families that purchase a pool key from this Friday 19th November.   A big thank you to Darren who has been working hard to get the pool and surrounding areas up and running in preparation for this! It is expected that the pool will be open until  March

Kia Ora Koutou. Welcome to week 5 everybody. we hope you all had a wonderfull long weekend. A bit of a mixed bag weather wise but lovely in Christchurch all the same! Thank you so much to our wonderful connect Waimairi Crew for the sausage sizzle and ice blocks on Thursday. These ladies work so hard for us organising, supporting and connecting with our we people and families. We appreciate them so much! Our kids had a blast on Thursday, first time on the bike track and to top it off, sausages and ice-blocks, dream day :)  Check out this link to join the Connect Waimairi Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/WaimairiSchoolPTA/    Lots of fabulous information on there and weekly reminders re pool keys, ez lunch orders etc, up coming uniform sales etc. Mike recently held a whanau webinar to share how Waimairi School will 'roll'  from Tuesday (tomorrow) onwards with the new government mandate on vaccinations taking affect. Please have a look/listen and familiarise yourself with w

  Welcome to Elijah who starts school today. We are so pleased that you have joined us here at Waimairi school. Happy Birthday to you! Short week - Enjoy an extra day off for Show Day on Friday  Connect Waimairi are putting on a sausage sizzle for the kids Thursday lunchtime to say thank you to the kids for hanging in there.  Mikaela and Jordan from Sport Canterbury are coming again this Wednesday morning to take the children for small games and skill-based activities. The children are loving it!! Wednesday-Bey Blade Day, lunch orders, Monday Tania and Tina's ora groups have Library and Vanessa and Sue are on Wednesday. We still have some children without hats. if the children take their hats home please make sure that they are returned each day. The duty teachers will be checking and the children without hats will be asked to play in the shade. No toys at school. We are finding that children are bringing too many toys and these are beginning to be disruptive and are also getting l