Kia ora parents, caregivers, and extended whanau
Next week's Kotahitanga Meetings have been postponed due to the high number of household's isolating. With parents and some staff members unavailable, senior leadership made the decision to postpone these until we have the majority of our parents able to attend these meetings face to face.
The school Reading Challenge is ticking along very nicely. I have been really impressed by the number of children giving it a go. Only a small number of students yet to get out of the blocks. What is equally impressive are some of the reading efforts of our leading book worms. Local family owned company Air Conditioning Services Ltd have come forward to kindly donate 2 brand new scooters as part of our major prizes. Thank you very much ACSL.
We continue to receive great parent feedback from our Dinner Talk initiative. Several of our teachers have shared lovely email snippets from parents. It appears that Dinner Talk is proving to be an effective way to bring you closer to us in terms of what is happening at school and to promote healthy and focussed learning based discussion with your child. Thank you for trying this at home.
I had a busy weekend with sport. I was brought out of 'retirement' (again) for a senior cricket match against Morrinsville. It was the Waikato Valley semi-final. We posted a commanding 302 with the bat and bowled them out for 160. I was once again given the new ball. No wickets but I didn't leak too much oil. Mind you my rusty joints need a bit of regreasing. As promised in last week's newsletter I must also give a quick report on our senior golf pennants encounter against Windross Farm. We had a torrid battle against their number 1 ranked team. The combined handicap of their 8 man team came to less than 3. We eventually went down 5-3. Our final round robin encounter is against Waiuku at Waiuku this Sunday, where we only need to beat them by a half point to make the semifinal. Fingers crossed.
Noho ora mai
Mr Tawhiti and the Patumahoe School team
