Stunning views on our trail ride.
Kia ora koutou
A huge thank you to Craig and Andy, our landowners, who put a lot of work into the trail ride and let us ride their beautiful farms. A big thanks to Todd for helping set up the track, and James from Precision Yamaha for helping set up the track and sponsoring the event. Thanks to Sofia who organised the BBQ, and all of our parent volunteers, riding marshalls, and students who helped on the day. The views from the track were simply stunning. Thanks to everyone who came and rode it, and helped fundraise for our little school. We raised close to $20,000!
Our students were awarded so many prizes for artwork in the Amberley Show! What a success. They should be very proud. And how lucky we are to have such arty teachers to share their talents!
Congratulations to all of our students who competed in the Small School athletics last week, and well done to the following students who came 1st, 2nd or 3rd:
1st:
Shot put - Andy
Long jump - Zac, Lily
Discus - Ruby-Grace, Zac, Jack and Lily
Distance - Alex, Hugo, Jack
Sprints 60m - Jack2nd:
High jump - Andy and Ruby-Grace, Zac and Ava, Jack
Long jump - Andy, Jack and Lily
Discus - Andy and Delia
Distance - Zac
Sprints 60m - Hugo, Zac, Lily
Sprints 80m - Theo, Hugo
Sprints 100m - Zac, Jack and Lily3rd:
High jump - Hugo
Shot put - Ze’ev, Hugo, Zac
Long jump - Alex, Ze’ev, Hugo
Discus - Thomas
Distance - Michael, Lily
Sprints 60m - Theo
Sprints 80m - Ze’ev
First and second place winners will be going to Kowai athletics this afternoon.
Ngā mihi
Maree Lucas
Tumuaki/Principal
Omihi School
principal@omihi.school.nz
School Notices
Preschooler morning
This is on Wednesday 13th November at 9am. All preschoolers are welcome. Please bring a drink bottle, sunhat and morning tea.
Year 5-8 Camp in Living Springs
Our senior camp is from Monday 31st March - Wednesday 2nd April. Penny and Kelly will be leading the camp, and Maree will be over there for part of it. Anna.S, Patrick and Aimee will be our parent helpers. We will send more info out about the camp before the end of term, and will send an invoice out as well. You can choose to pay it this year, or next year. The school is subsidising it, so it will be $220 per child.
Swimming Pool
Thanks to Kurt who has been looking after the pool, and has it ready to go for us to swim in! Swimming has started, so please send togs and towel along each day. If your child has a rash vest, or long sleeve togs, please send those in. Thanks to Emma, Tamar and Pip who are testing the pool daily for us. If you would like to purchase a key for the summer, please contact Bryleigh.
Attendance Letters
Attendance continues to be a focus for our current government, and they have targets that the Ministry of Education is working with schools on. Parents and caregivers are required to have their children attend school, and to develop habits of regular attendance, and it is the school’s responsibility to follow this up. We will be sending attendance letters out this week to any student who had less than 90% attendance in term 3.
School Facebook Account
Our school Facebook account has been hacked, so it’s currently not active and you won’t be able to find it. We are hoping to get it back up and running soon, just figuring out how! Our Instagram is still active, and we are posting on there.
Assembly
We welcome you to our assembly on Thursday 28th November at 2pm. Straight after the assembly at 2.30pm, we would like to introduce our BOT and have a quick chat with parents regarding our fundraisers. We would love you to stick around for 10 minutes if possible.
Raffle
Thanks to everyone who is in the process of selling raffle tickets. Please have all money and unsold tickets back by Monday 25th November. You can send in cash, or transfer into the school account. We know there are some families that will want more tickets to sell, and some that don’t sell them all. You just do what’s achievable for your family right now.
Non-Uniform Day
We have a non-uniform day on Friday 22nd November. Please send a gold coin donation, which will go to Big Brothers, Big Sisters, North Canterbury. This is a charity that the student leaders have chosen.
Prize giving and whānau picnic
We welcome our community to our End of Year Prize giving on Friday 13th December at 11am in the Omihi Hall. This will be followed by a whānau picnic across at the school between 12pm - 1pm. Please bring your own lunch for your family, and a picnic rug if you wish.
River Safety Trip
On Monday 2nd December we will be heading to the Waipara Adventure Centre for a day focused around River Safety. For those of you that drive past Waipara Adventure Centre, we can meet you there at 9.30am and you may collect your child/ren at 2.30pm. At the end of the day we will be swimming in their swimming hole. We will need adults in the water. If you are able to help out with transport and/or parent help on the day/swimming for this trip, please email Penny to let her know. Thank you to those of you who have done this already.
Children who are not confident in the water will also require a life jacket.
Year 8 Day Out
The Year 8’s will be going with Miss Fletcher and Mrs Lucas to Hanmer Springs on Tuesday 10th December. All of the costs are covered by the school.
Year 0-3 Sports Spectacular
Year 0-3 children will be going to Amberley Domain for the Sports Spectacular on Wednesday 20th November. We will need 3-4 parents to be there with us, and one to be a volunteer. Plus we will need a couple of cars for transport, and we’ll be taking the bus. Please email Penny if you are able to help with this.
Tough Kids Challenge
On Wednesday 4th December, Tūpari will be participating in the Tough Kid Challenge in Christchurch. We will transport them there on the school bus.
Transition Days
In the last few weeks of term we will be having one transition day a week, where our Year 2 students spend the day in Awaawa, and our Year 5 students spend the day in Tūpari. This will give them the opportunity to start getting ready for 2025. These days are noted on the school calendar.
