Welcome to week 3

Rooms 22 and 24 enjoying our first game of a Gisint classic 'Magic Potion' last Friday. This is a Gisint favourite and will be played on camp and at school.  

Kia ora koutou,

I hope you are all enjoying this beautiful Gizzy weather outside with your whanau. We are truly blessed to live in paradise.

Thank you all for attending last weeks Meet the Teacher evening. It was a pleasure meeting you all and I look forward to working with you throughout the year. Please take a moment to give us some feedback on our night 

Turanganui Meet the Teacher Feedback Form

You may notice on the side panel of this blog that a fourth Gisint value 'Excellence' has been added which is an exciting addition because our four school values now create the acronym 'RISE' - Respect, Integrity, Self Management and Excellence which fit perfectly with our school vision which is to 'Grow Great People'. The children are already becoming familiar with and using this terminology and each week our team will have a focus on these terms as well as our Turanganui Core Values of Kotahitanga - Unity, Whakawhanaungatanga - Relationships and Manaakitanga - Caring for others. 

Introducing two more awesome 22'ers from our room who are settling into Gisint life like pro's and already grasping a number of opportunities.

Hikurangi Reid - Te Hapara School

McKenzie Pepere - Te Hapara School

I have updated our team blog with essential information for the week ahead so please check that out carefully.

Last week one of students had his scooter removed from our cloak bay. Unfortunately I was not made 

aware of this until a couple of days later but I am hopeful that someone knows something and we can return this scooter to it's owner. Please email me if you have any queries or concerns as the faster I know, the faster I can sort things. 

I continue to be impressed with the fantastic children in our room. Their organisation and attitude toward their learning and each other is exactly what we want at Gisint. 

Congratulations to our first class assembly certificate recipients Latrelle Rangirangi and Jazmine Manuel. Both of these students have lovely, respectful and caring personalities and have been completing excellent schoolwork in and out of class. I will be showcasing our students work on our blog and the students will be setting up their own blogs this week to regularly share their class learning with home. Please leave comments to encourage your child and let them know that you are following their work. 

Thanks to everyone who has been returning their notices. More camp information will come home tomorrow. If you need assistance with paying the $90 camp fee please email me or send a note to school. Please confirm your availability for camp by completing this Parent Helper Form

Your child will be bringing home a Sugar Kitchen Donut fundraiser form to sell Cinnamon Donuts that will be delivered next week. This fundraiser is to cover their term 1 Mindlab trip and go toward the materials for their Turanganui Taonga that they will be making. We are very conscious of how expensive this time of year is for our whanau so we want the children to assist you by helping out and getting something back in return. By selling 2 donuts alone they cover their Mindlab cost and get two donuts to eat or share too. All money and orders need to be in by Friday.

If you have any other queries, please feel free to email. I will update our class and team blog throughout the week so you stay in touch with what is happening in our team. Don't forget you can also access our school daily notices via one of the tabs at the top of our team and class blog - this is where the children find out what opportunities are on offer that week. 

Finally, congratulations to our class swimming sports representatives, Attlee Waitoa, McKenzie Pepere, Hikurangi Reid, Charles Te Puni, Taimana Teneti, Tamati Ingram, Lena Baty-Akurangi and Jazmine Manuel who did us proud at Friday's swimming sports. We will be organising ourselves this week for our Turanganui Triathlon scheduled for next Friday at 11am. Whanau are most welcome to come along and support our children. 

Kind regards

Koka Ana