Monday 24th February, 2025

Kia ora koutou

Walter, Amelia and Eddie focusing on their artwork.

We have a number of new families that have joined our whānau and some that will be joining us throughout this year, plus lots of lovely preschoolers around the community. We look forward to welcoming our preschoolers to our preschooler morning this Wednesday at 9am. Please bring morning tea for your child and their hat.

I was so proud of our students at our school triathlon, and the 5 that then went on to the Kowai triathlon. We are really excited that Harry is heading to the Canterbury triathlon this week to represent Kowai and Omihi School! What a great achievement.

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



School Notices

Food Truck Friday - Friday 14th March, 5-9pm
We are looking forward to our Food Truck Friday again with North Canterbury Rural Support Trust! We have the following food trucks confirmed:

  • Sabaya (Israeli Cuisine)

  • Big B’s Tucka

  • Woodfired Pizza

  • Mythos Greek Souvlaki

  • One scoop or two (ice cream truck)

Year 4-8 Swimming Sports
This is on Wednesday 5th March at Amberley pool. Here are all the details. If you are meeting us there, please be at the pool by 9.15am. If your child is coming on the bus, or needs a ride back to school on the bus, please add their name to this doc. If they are not on the doc, we assume they will meet us there. Thanks to Aimee who is our lifeguard on the day. We need one more parent helper to be a back up timer. Please let Maree know if you are available.

School triathlon results
Congratulations to the following students:
Year 1: 1st - Walter and Alice 2nd - Hope and Ned
Year 2: 1st - Amelia and Arly 2nd - Eddie
Year 3: 1st - Emma and Freddy 2nd - Maddy and Jack 3rd - Arty
Year 4: 1st - Charlotte and Hugh 2nd - Mackenzie and Stanley
Year 5: 1st - Harry 2nd - Theo 3rd - Alex
Year 6: 1st - Arlo 2nd - Noah 3rd - Ze’ev
Year 7: 1st - Hugo 2nd - Michael
Year 8: 1st - Jessica 2nd - Ava

The following students also qualified for the Kowai triathlon, and had the following results:
Year 5 boys: 1st - Harry 7th - Theo
Year 6 boys: 5th - Noah
Year 7 boys: 3rd - Hugo 5th - Michael

Congratulations to Harry for qualifying for the Canterbury triathlon, taking place tomorrow!

School Docs policies to review
We work on a 3 year cycle, and each term we review a number of our policies. These are open for review from our community as well. Please review the following by going to http://omihi.schooldocs.co.nz. Username: omihi Password: glenmark

  • Health, Safety, and Welfare Policy

  • Safety Management System

  • Risk Management

  • Worker Engagement, Participation, and Representation

  • Healthcare

  • Recording and Reporting Accidents, Injuries, and Illness

HPV vaccinations for Year 8 students
A public health nurse will be at school on 8th May for the Year 8 immunisation programme. Please see information about this programme in the community notices section below. In the coming weeks we will receive consent packs for those due immunisations. These need to be filled in regardless of whether parents are or are not consenting to the immunisations being administered. We will be in touch with parents once these are received from the nurse.

Community Notices

Omihi Hall cleaner
We’re in need of a new cleaner for the Omihi Community Hall from March. If you are interested, please email principal@omihi.school.nz.

Omihi School Office