Welcome to Week 6, Term 2

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Bonjour parents and whānau, we hope you have had a wonderful long weekend thus far.

Congratulations to the children in our class who were Confirmed and received their first Holy Communion over the weekend. I am sorry that I was unable to make it, but I did hear it was a very special day for you all. 




We are now halfway through the term. It is going to be a very short Week 6 as Monday is Queen's Birthday Public Holiday and Tuesday is a Teachers Only Day. This means there are only 3 days when the children come to school, from Wednesday through to Friday. During these three days, all Year 3 teachers will be testing their children in Reading, Writing and Maths, in preparation for mid-year reports and to assess how much progress has been made leading up to the midpoint of 2022.

Weather permitting, our two 7s teams are competing in the inter-schools 7s tournament on Thursday.

We celebrated Pentecost Mass together as a school last week and weren’t our little readers fantastic. The singing was great too. Thanks to Mrs Mines and Mrs Dobson for organising the Mass.

Our Chess team performed particularly well in Taupo, being placed first, second and third and Claire Delos Santos received the top girl award. The team has now qualified for Nationals later in the year. A team is travelling to Hamilton this week to compete in a tournament over there. Thanks Mr G.

Things happening this week:

  • Monday - Queen's Birthday Public Holiday - no school.

  • Tuesday - Teacher Only Day - no school for children

  • Wednesday - Room 16 and 17 library. 

  • Thursday - 

  • Friday -  Pasifika, Choir

We hope you have a wonderful week ahead, 

Sophie Bowie and Team Kahikatea. 

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