Monday 10th March, 2025
Kia ora koutou,
Ferg and Michael trying on the police uniform.
We are looking forward to seeing you at our Food Truck Friday this weekend. It’s on Friday 14th March from 5-9pm, across the road at the Omihi Hall. It is a community event, and a chance for us to collaborate with Rural Support North Canterbury. Bring a picnic rug or some deck chairs and come down with your families or friends. Food Trucks take cash and card.
Next week we welcome Holly to Paemoana. It’s lovely to have Holly and her family joining our Omihi whānau.
Today I took a team of 4 to the PCT Challenge (Police Competence Test). It was such a great morning, and it reminded me of the amount of opportunities that our students are able to be a part of. They competed against a number of schools from North Canterbury and Christchurch, and participated in a variety of team building exercises with other schools. We’re looking forward to sending a team with Miss Fletcher to Agri kids in a couple of weeks.
Congratulations to all of the children who participated in the Small School Swimming Sports last week, and good luck to Harry, Ze’ev and Ruby-Grace who are competing in the Kowai Swimming Sports this Thursday. See all of our results below.
This week we have our whole school assembly on Thursday at 2pm. We welcome you to join us.
Ngā mihi
Maree Lucas
Tumuaki/Principal
principal@omihi.school.nz
School Notices
3 Way Learning Conferences
On Tuesday 25th and Wednesday 26th March, we welcome you in for our 3 Way Learning Conferences. This is a chance to sit down with your child and their teacher and look at their learning, and their goals moving forward. Please book your time in here.
Strategic Planning Community Afternoon - Wednesday 7th May
Every three years we review our strategic direction and look ahead to the future to where we are heading as a school. This year all schools in NZ are reviewing and resetting, ready to have a new strategic plan ready for 2026. All stakeholders will be invited to be a part of this throughout the year - staff, students, BOT and our community. We would like to invite you to a community afternoon on Wednesday 7th May, from 3.30 - 5.30pm. There will be a movie on for the kids, and we will provide food for everyone. It’s important we hear everyone’s voice. You may have ideas that are different, and that’s great, as we can draw on diverse perspectives to create a collective vision. If you are not able to make it, there will be an opportunity to fill out an online survey, or make a time to come and meet with Maree. We will send out a sign up form nearer the time.
Positive Education (update from Georgie)
This term we are focusing our Positive Education through "Wellness Wednesdays." On Wednesday afternoons, we are spending time working through our Pos Ed lessons, with a big focus on Character Strengths. The children have all completed a character strength survey, which we do every few years as the childrens top strengths may change as they continue to grow and develop as young individuals. It is important to note that everyone has every strength, but for each person particular strengths shine stronger than others. As a staff we have all completed this survey too, as we will use it not only during lessons, but as a staff. If you would like to know more about the 24 character strengths or even take the free survey yourself so you can talk to your child/ren about it, here is the link.
Teacher only day
A reminder of our teacher only day on Monday 17th March. The school will be closed on this day.
Small Schools Swimming results
Congratulations to the following students:
Year 4 novice freestyle: 2nd - Lavi
Year 5 novice freestyle: 1st - Alex 3rd - Theo
Year 6 novice freestyle: 2nd - Ze’ev 3rd - Noah
Year 7 novice freestyle: 3rd - Hugo
Year 8 novice freestyle: 2nd - Ava
Year 6 novice backstroke: 1st - Ruby-Grace
Year 5 novice breaststroke: 1st - Alex 2nd - Theo
Year 6 novice breaststroke: 1st - Fergus 2nd - Ze’ev
Year 7 novice breaststroke: 1st - Michael
Year 5 boys swimmers freestyle: 1st - Harry
Year 6 girls swimmers freestyle: 1st - Ruby-Grace
Year 6 boys swimmers freestyle: 3rd - Fergus
Year 7 boys swimmers freestyle: 3rd - Michael
Year 5 swimmers backstroke: 1st - Harry
Year 6 swimmers backstroke: 2nd - Ze’ev
Year 7 swimmers backstroke: 3rd - Michael
Year 5 swimmers breaststroke: 1st - Harry
