Monday 25th November 2019

Kia ora Whānau

Ex-Omihi pupil Fraser Doake came to school to teach our tamariki about Micro-plastics.

We’ve had a wonderful couple of weeks of sport. It was great to welcome Leithfield, Broomfield, Amberley, Waipara and Sefton School to our school to host the Sports Spectacular last week. The North Canterbury Sports Trust do a wonderful job of organising this. We also had a number of children participating in the Kowai athletics and we now have three children heading in to compete in the Canterbury Athletics. Good luck to Daisy, Charlie and Tom! Also good luck to Billy and Sylvia who are competing in the Canterbury Triathlon this week.

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

School Notices

Principal Awards
Congratulations to the latest Principal Award winners….Monty Croft and Liam Galbraith.

Pita Pit and Sushi
A reminder that you can order these lunches every Wednesday through www.lunchonline.co.nz. When we have our Whānau picnic at Waikuku Beach in the last week of school, Pita Pit will be delievered to us at the beach. Parents are welcome to order these as well. A big thanks to Jaz for delivering our Pita Pit and Julie for delivering our Sushi.

Omihi School Farm Race 2020
Our race is on Sunday 22nd March, 2020. Earlybird entries open on the 1st December at www.iticket.co.nz. Please help us spread the word and get as many people as we can along to our race.

Stationery for 2020
We will be sending out the link to order your stationery for 2020 this week. It will be the same as this year, where you order all the pens, pencils etc through Office Max online and then we invoice you for any books you need next year. There are a few children that have received new books in the last term and haven’t been invoiced. This will be added to next year’s invoice, rather than sending an invoice for $3. When you receive your stationery please send it all in to your classroom teacher.

Omihi Bus
If you know your child is not going to be on the bus after school, please let me know as early in the day as possible.

Motorbike Trail
There was a bike trail run a couple of weekends ago over local farms. There was $1000 earned from this that has been donated to the school. A big thank you to Todd McBreen and the organisers.

Santa’s Grotto and Amberley Rest home
Paemoana will be visiting Santa’s Grotto in Rangiora this Thursday and then the Amberley Rest home on the way home. Jen will email you with further details.

Year 5-8 Assembly
We welcome our whole community to our final assembly of the year this Friday, 29th November at 2pm.

End of Year Prize Giving
Our End of Year Prize Giving is on Friday 13th December at 12pm. We welcome our whole community along. This is our last day of school for the year and children go home after the prize giving (approximately 12.30-1pm).

Tūpari Tiromoana Walk
On Tuesday 10th December we will be doing the Tiromoana Walk in the morning. We are looking for one parent to come along with us. Please let myself or Kat know if you can come.

Whānau picnic at Waikuku Beach
On Wednesday 11th December from 10am - 2pm we have our end of year Whānau picnic at Waikuku Beach. We will be meeting at the playground at 10am for some games and lunch, then will walk over to the surf club to go for a swim. We would love to have as many families there as possible. Please let me know if your child needs a ride to get there, so we know if we need to take the Omihi bus or not. Children are allowed to wear mufti, but it must still comply with our Health and Safety Policy - covering shoulders and wearing a hat.

The Vine Run at Pegasus Bay
The Vine Run organisers have approached us to see if we have anyone available to marshall at their event. It is on the 26th January at Pegasus Bay Winery. They will help promote our race in return. Please let me know if you are available.

Community Notices

AmberleyNZ Christmas Festival
Thursday 5 December 2019, 4pm-8pm
Come along and enjoy Markets - Art + Craft - Buskers - Food + Drink as well as the shop holders being open late.  Come along for great food entertainment, kids activities, get your Christmas shopping started and enjoy a fun, family evening out. 
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