Blockhouse Bay Primary School

Today we welcomed our new Whānau to our school with a Pōwhiri. The kapa haka did a great job and the singing was excellent :)

Happy Holiday!
See you all back on Monday 22nd July for the start of Term 3! Stay safe and take care.

Mānawatia a Matariki e whānau!

We have really enjoyed celebrating Matariki at our kura this week, and especially with our performances and shared lunch today. Our Kapa Haka groups and Manu Matauranga really shone on stage, and now our stars are shining in the Te Whau windows! Our creations were guided by the whetū, Pōhutukawa and Hiwa-i-te-rangi. On one side we spent time remembering people who have passed, and on the other we shared our hopes for the future. Make sure you take a look when you come into school!

Ngā mihi nui to all the whānau who were able to come. We know you were all so proud of the wonderful performance our tamariki put on for us.

Have a great long weekend everyone. We hope you enjoy celebrating and remembering with your whānau.

Interschool Cross Country today
It was great to see our cross country runners competing in the interschool event today at Blockhouse Bay Recreational Reserve. There is always tough competition and we are very proud of all our runners who demonstrated determination and perseverance. We had many runners place in the top ten across many ages groups. Interschool results will be published in the next newsletter in a couple of weeks. Well done everyone!

Thank you to all of the parents that supported today and helped with marshalling and walking. It was lovely to see you all there!

Kia Ora whanau
After a great day we are on the road! See you soon with some happy (very tired) children.

Morning everyone! We still have some energy left after our disco and camp concert for our last activities this morning. Parents - we suggest having your washing machines ready! 😉

Lakewood Lodge - Day 2. A bit of rain isn’t stopping us having loads of fun.

Morena whanau, we are having a great time and the children did pretty well for their first night. We have even dodged a few rain showers. Breakfast was a hit and we have a busy day ahead!

We're having an awesome afternoon at camp! The sun is shining and everyone is having fun!

Camp has begun! Everyone has arrived and is enjoying a snack on this beautiful Waikato day!

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Eid Mubarak to all our families celebrating today. We hope you have a wonderful time celebrating with your family and friends.

This week at school the Eid planning team coordinated a couple of events - colouring in and menhdi!

Happy Easter to all our families who celebrate this event. We would like to wish you all a safe and fun Easter break. Enjoy time with family and friends :)

Happy Holi to all our families who are celebrating. So great to see so many colourful tamariki today. We created a handprinted Holi Banner which is being displayed in Te Whau Foyer. We also had dance performances during second break. Well done to all the performers! The kids loved watching you.

We had a Pōwhiri this morning to welcome our new whānau to our school community. Thanks to Matua Jarrod and our Kapa Haka for leading us. What a wonderful start to our new school year!

IT'S TIME TO HAVE YOUR SAY

Our Board of Trustees are considering what is important for our school over the next 3 years. We would like to know what you think and have a few questions for you to answer.

Please fill out this google form

Community Consultation 2023 IT'S TIME TO HAVE YOUR SAY Our Board of Trustees are considering what is important for our school over the next 3 years. We would like to know what you think and have a few questions for you to answer.

Math-a-thon Fundraiser! We are fundraising to fix our school pool.

How to Register

Go to https://blockhousebaymathathon.raiseit.co.nz/hub to set up a fundraising page which takes around two minutes. If you have any trouble signing up, email [email protected] or call in to the office and we will help you with this. Your fundraising page can be shared online easily with your family and friends.

Prizes Prizes Prizes

There will be spot prizes just for signing up. We suggest you use your child's first name and first initial of your surname (e.g. Peter S.) so we know who to give prizes to!

Top 3 fundraisers: The top three fundraisers this year will be win one of: a scooter, a family pass to go up the skytower or a $100 Whitcoulls voucher. The person who gets first place will get to choose first , second place will choose second and third place gets the remaining prize.

Top 3 Classes: The top 3 fundraising classes win a movie and popcorn.

First 3 classes - 80% signed up: The first 3 classes who get 80% of their class signed up will win a hot chip lunch so it would be great if you could get this do this as soon as possible.

Increase Maths Skills

Apart from helping to fundraise for the school pool, the Math-a-thon is also an opportunity for the children to focus on improving their mathematics knowledge and we will be testing them on this later in the term. They will be bringing home practise sheets.

Thank you for your support of the children's learning and to improve their access to our school pool.

Each term we hold a whakatau to welcome new students, whānau and staff to our school. Good job Dejanae for doing the karanga to welcome the manuhiri on to our school. There were speeches and waiata and now we are a new, bigger, whānau group. Welcome to the family!

Mānawatia a Matariki! We had a lovely ceremony before dawn this morning to celebrate Matariki (the Māori New Year). We started stargazing, Matua Jarrod lead us in a waerea and some children said a karakia for each of the stars. We then moved into Te Whau for breakfast and were treated to performances by the Kapa Haka groups. So nice to see so many whānau at this community event and to celebrate together - the last time we did this was 2019. Huge thanks to Whaea Nicky and Mrs Crisp for all the organisation.

We have been learning about Cultures of the World and we had an expo yesterday to celebrate. HUGE thanks to all our whānau who came along. The kids were really proud of what they shared with you :)

Talofa!

We have had a fantastic week celebrating Samoan culture. Some children tried delicious chop suey, keke and o'tai, some children dressed up in lavalava, we had our Pasifika Fono and we finished the week with Moana. Huge thank you to our Pasifika Leadership group who planned all the fun activities and to all our agia who helped out.

Fa'afetai!

Today we celebrated pink shirt day by wearing pink clothes and having a parade. Everyone looked fantastic! We discussed what it means to show kindness and manaakitanga and how to be an upstander.

A superb day for our Cross Country today! Well done to all our tamariki for trying their best! It was a tough course, but you did so well. Thanks to all our teachers and parents for your support today.

Archery in the woods.