Principal’s Message Kia Ora Matariki, the Māori New Year, will soon be upon us. This year, Matariki starts on 2 July. Our students are all learning about Matariki and the significance this time of year holds for Māori . We are also planning a celebration of Matariki on the last Wednesday of this term (more … Read more
Principal’s Message Kia Ora Look at the vibrant self portraits from Room 19 below! I just love kids’ artwork; creativity like this stretches the brain, develops fine motor skills and produces positive endorphins. Check out the Kiwi collages later in this newsletter too! With the weather getting colder and colder, the cold and flu season … Read more
Principal’s Message Kia Ora Thank you for making other childcare arrangements for your children last Friday. We enjoyed an informative staff only day travelling by bus around some significant iwi and historical sites. Our tremendous gratitude to Ra Higgott, from Paraparaumu College, for being our tour guide and kaiako on this trip. Whilst I cannot … Read more
Principal’s Message Kia Ora koutou This Friday our school is closed for a Staff Only day. On this day staff will be developing their knowledge of Te Ao Māori by visiting significant iwi sites within our community. We are taking a bus tour with Ra Higgott, from Paraparaumu College, and will be visiting sites from … Read more
Principal’s Message Kia Ora Firstly I want to acknowledge our community’s condolscenes to Kapakapanui School who had a student pass away in his sleep over the weekend. We are holding their school community in our hearts at this incredibly difficult time. I have offered our collective sympathies and help from our team to theirs. It’s … Read more
Principal’s Message Kia Ora Last week I finally got around to reading KCDC’s draft Long Term Plan for their proposed activities, services and projects. Consultation for this draft plan closed yesterday, but I did manage to submit feedback before the close-off. My submission, on behalf of Paraparaumu Beach School, reiterated the traffic issues our school … Read more
Principal’s Message Welcome to Term 2 and welcome to our new teacher Cherie Parker! Cherie has joined us from Auckland to start up our new New Entrants classroom in Room 24. We are delighted to have you on board Cherie. Over the term break I attended the funeral of Bernie Noble-Campbell. Bernie was the Deputy … Read more
Principal’s Message Kia Ora Last Friday was an absolute blast! The kids got terribly active and terribly messy during the school Fun Run. The PTA did a superb job planning the course layout which included a slip n’ slide, dancing, crawling under cargo nets, manoeuvering through hoops and tyres, and of course dodging streams of … Read more
