Holidays post for Week 1 Term 4

Hi team,

I hope you're all having a great break and enjoying spending time with your kids! I'm posting this now as I am off on my Rarotonga adventure tomorrow and won't be back until the Sunday night before school goes back. If you need to contact me before then I'll try check my emails while I'm in Raro (if i can find time) so that'll be the easiest way of contacting me. :)

The first week back at school will be focused on the musical!! We will be running through the entire show on Monday and Tuesday at school and we will be down at the Theatre for most of the day on Wednesday and Thursday. I will be able to confirm the exact details after our staff meeting on Monday after school. 

It's really important that all children have their full costume at school on Monday please as we may ask them to put them on for photos for the programme.

After a busy musical based 4 days we decided we will need to get back into some normality on Friday. We will be attending Mass (led by Room 6) and we will have an assembly in the afternoon to celebrate the success of the musical. You're more than welcome to join us!

There will also be Kapa Haka on Monday at the usual time. 

Week 2: The children will all need their bikes at school for a Bike Unit run by Mr Milford on Tues, Wed and Friday afternoons. If you've got time over the holidays it would be a good idea to pump up the tyres and make sure the bikes are in good working order. Thursday (23rd) is Athletics day!! 

As you can see the first two weeks are crazy busy, so hopefully your children all get a chance to relax and have a bit of down time before the mad Term 4 begins! 

CAMP:
Thank you to all of those parents who have offered to help. It was fantastic that so many of you to offer to help in one way or another. At this stage there are 11 parents attending the whole camp, they are; Regan H, Claire C, Debbie B, Grant L, John S, Lindsay/Kendra B, Aaron S, Tyron (Snr), Tracie/Harry H, Grant C and Adele W. There will also be parents who are joining us for day trips. If your plans have changed please get in contact with me ASAP.

We are lucky enough to have been offered the use of two 8 seater vans (Thanks Jenny and Grant) and also two bike trailers (Thanks Shayne and Camille). With these two trailers it means we will fit 45 bikes on which is awesome! However we are probably still going to be short on seats, if you are able to lend/source a vehicle for us to use over the three days I would love to hear from you!

I have a super helper who is currently sorting out the food and doing a food budget for me. With all of the food and activities (Hayes Engineering, curling, a farm visit (potentially), mini golf, swimming and a visit to Monte Christo (if it's open) we are looking at the $150 mark.  I will get a confirmed camp cost out to you all in the first week of school as well as more information. 

I think that is all at this stage.

Enjoy the holidays!! :) See you on Monday 13th!

Jo