Monday, 1st November 2021
Kat, myself, Liz and Nicholas - Springboard Trust Strategic Leadership for Rural Teaching Principals 2021
Kia ora e te whānau
This year I have been part of the Springboard Trust Strategic Leadership for Rural Teaching Principals programme. It has by far been the best professional learning I have been a part of. What I have loved, is how it has given me the chance to reflect on and grow my own leadership, share my learning with our staff and help to grow their leadership capabilities, and also the opportunities to connect with our staff, BOT, students and community about our vision and strategic plan.
I am grateful to Nicholas and Kat who were our facilitators of the course and my Impact Coach, Liz Smith, who is the Manager of People and Engagement at Waimakariri District Council and who is also a board member at Leithfield School. Nicholas, Kat and Liz questioned me, enabled me to look deeper into my practice and into us as a school, and helped us to think strategically and set direction for our school.
At our board meeting next week we are finalising the Strategic Plan, so I look forward to sharing this with you in our next newsletter. Our next steps will be finding out how you would like us to report our progress and how you can be involved in our next 3 years. We are really proud of this plan, and grateful to have had everyone involved in the process through a parent and community survey, parent evening, talking to our students, and working groups with our BOT and staff.
Ngā mihi nui
Maree Lucas
Tumuaki/Principal
Principal@omihi.school.nz
School Notices
Character Strengths - Rowan (Year 6)
My top character strengths are humour, creativity, perseverance and forgiveness. Humour helps me to get along with my friends and having a fun time at school. It helps me with keeping a positive mindset towards jokes and inside the classroom. When we do art with Mrs Croft, creativity helps me have more ideas and what to paint. When I’m running in the cross country or triathlon, perseverance helps me to know I’m going to be all right and to do my best while running. Forgiveness helps me to let go of grudges.
Swimming Pool
Thanks to Tamar, Emma and Pip who are going to be looking after the testing of the pool. We are aiming to have the pool open after Show Weekend.
Teacher Only Day
School will be closed on Thursday 11th November for a teachers only day.
2022 Year 5-8 Camp
Our camp in 2022 will be in Hanmer Springs. We will have confirmed dates by the end of the year and will ask for parent helpers early next year.
Prize Giving Cups
Can you please send back the 2020 Prize Giving Cups.
School Docs Policy
This term we are reviewing the following policies:
* Harassment
* Māori educational success
Please take time to read through and review our school policies and procedures. These can all be accessed by clicking here and entering the following case-sensitive login details: Username: omihi. Password: glenmark
Mufti Day
A reminder that this Friday is mufti day. Please send along a gold coin donation to help us raise money for Guide Dogs. This was one of the areas that our student leaders chose to raise money for.
Working bee
Thanks to those parents who are able to come to the working bee next Monday. Once the outdoor learning space is completed, we will look at having a working bee in a weekend to get the final few jobs completed.
Drink bottles
A reminder for children to bring their own drink bottle to school as we don’t have our drinking fountain available during level 2.
