Monday 14th August, 2023
Kia ora koutou,
Ze’ev, Zac, Lily, Thomas and Andy practising their scrums with Craig!
I loved seeing the excitement of our students last week when they got to play tackle rugby at school! A big thanks to Craig Mullan, from Canterbury Rugby, who came out for a coaching session. It’s wonderful to see the opportunities our students get - from reading to preschoolers at Bloomfield Preschool, visiting the Hurunui library, playing tackle rugby, and this week performing at the North Canterbury Kapa Haka Festival. We enjoy seeing their grit, determination and positivity when trying new things, and pushing themselves out of their comfort zone.
This week we welcome Arly and Judah for their preschool visits and can’t wait for them to join our Paemoana class next week. It’s always lovely to see those tuakana-teina relationships when our seniors look after our juniors throughout the day.
I would like to say a big thank you to Elizabeth Maddren who finishes this Friday, after teaching Paemoana for 5 weeks. We have loved having her join our Omihi whānau, and Paemoana have been very lucky to have such wonderful learning over the last few weeks. I would also like to acknowledge Liz Grigg who is one of our regular relievers. It’s very hard to get relievers, so to have two experienced and excellent relievers that we can use regularly, and who know our children well, is a real treat.
Have a lovely week, and remember my door is always open if you would like to catch up.
Ngā mihi
Maree Lucas
Tumuaki/Principal
principal@omihi.school.nz
School Notices
Kapa Haka
We are performing in the Kapa Haka festival this Thursday. Kelly will share the transport info with you today, and we look forward to seeing you there. If you have ordered tickets, these will be sent home with your child in the next day or two.
Online Auction
A big thank you to Anna Williams who is gathering items for our online auction again this year. If you have any contacts that could help with this, please contact Anna directly, or Bryleigh and she will forward it on. We are looking forward to our auction going live on Facebook on Friday 8th September.
3 Way Learning Conferences
Please book a time on this doc to meet with your child and their teacher on either Monday 4th September, or Tuesday 5th September. This will be an opportunity to discuss your child’s progress, and next steps.
Reporting
Your child’s teacher will be sending home their Maths comment via Hero at the end of next week. Please get in touch with them if you don’t receive it.
School Photos
These will be at 9am on Thursday 24th August. There will be the opportunity for individual and sibling photos as well.
Precision Yamaha Omihi School Trail Ride - Saturday 4th November (pp Sunday 5th November)
We are well into the planning of this. This is our major fundraiser of the year, and to make it work we need parent volunteers on the day. It would be great to have someone there representing every family if possible. Please add your name to the doc or email me if you aren’t able to access it. Thank you to Sofia who is going to lead the BBQ again this year.
Community Notices
The Hurunui Theatre Group presents ‘A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum’
Book by Burt Shevelove & Larry Gelbart; music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Based on the plays of Plautus.
Show runs from the 25th August – 2nd September at the Waipara Memorial Hall.
Tickets available online through TryBooking.com
Clip Clop Equestrian Presents - PRIMARY SCHOOLS SHOW JUMPING COMPETITION
SATURDAY 14th OCTOBER 2023
Year 1-8 - 2 classes per rider at either height. Composite teams accepted.
Competition 1 - SEFTON RIDING CENTRE TROPHY
Morning 9am
Class 1-Poles on the ground obstacle course
Class 2-Up to 25cm
Can be assisted
4 in each team, any mix of classes 1 and 2.
Competition 2 - ALANA ADAMS TROPHY
Afternoon 12pm approx.
Class 3-45cm
Class 4-60cm
Class 5-80cm
4 in each team, any mix of classes 3, 4 and 5.
Entries should be made by the team manager (with a phone number).
Teams of less than 4 riders are acceptable (even a team of 1 rider is okay) and we will create composite teams from the entries we receive.
All entries must be emailed to clipclopequestriannz@gmail.com. Children’s names need to be on team entries.
Entry fees $10 per class
Entries close 6th October
Payment must accompany entries and no late entries will be accepted.
Please make payment to Sefton Riding Centre 03-1395-0168899-000 (ref-name of team and name of school).
