Issue 9: Week 10, Term 1 2025
Principal's Message - Karere a te Tumuaki
Kia ora and welcome to the second to last edition of the newsletter for Term 1. With our Peter Pan Production just around the corner, we are starting to feel the excitement and classes are practising every day. Mr Dyer is making great progress with our cast of main characters and the last pieces of the puzzle are coming together behind the scenes with props, lighting and logistics. You can see a sneak peak of what we have been creating for the backdrop images using AI in this week's picture!
One thing to note is that the Production is likely to be around 90 minutes long. This should ensure normal pick up and bus times next Thursday providing the Matinee kicks off right on time at 1pm. If you would like to make the evening easier on the dinner front, our awesome PTA will be cooking bacon and egg baps and sausages from 6pm for purchase. Feel free to make use of this prior to watching the show, or as a quick dinner option when you bring your child back for the evening performance (even if you're not staying to watch).
Note that all children are required to be back at school by 6:30pm that evening to get ready for the show. If children come earlier they will need to be supervised by parents until the classrooms open at 6:30pm. Parents of younger children will have been notified by their teacher as to the earliest collection time after their class dances are finished. Please do not purchase tickets for the evening show if you are planning to collect your child early - there is nothing worse for children on stage than having people walk out of a show half way through.......!
Last Wednesday we had the PTA's annual AGM meeting. With some key roles changing hands, it seems a good time to express my gratitude to those who have played a key role in the PTA over the past 12 months, and to officially welcome some new people on. Firstly, a huge thank you to Renee Parlane who has supported the PTA as Chair and Co-Chair for the past 5 years, with the support of Stu Powrie as Co-Chair behind the scenes over the past 12 months. We are really grateful for all your hard work 'rallying the troops' and running events - you are awesome! It is also really great that you have agreed to stay on in a Co-Chair 'behind the scenes' capacity for 2025 to support our new Co-Chair - Sonja Baker. Congratulations and welcome Sonja!
A heartfelt thank you to our outgoing Treasurer (Navin Singh) and Secretary (Kirsty Clark). We are really appreciative of all your work behind the scenes to ensure the smooth financial running of the PTA, as well as keeping everyone up to date with communications. We are pleased that Kirsty will be staying on the PTA as a parent representative for 2025. Congratulations to our new Treasurer, Lisa Tate, who we know will also do a great job. Congratulations also to our new Secretary, Claudia Konzen, who is one of our brand new parents to Karaka School this year. It is always exciting to have new people join the PTA.
One last thing to note in your calendars is the change of date for our school and class photos. This was originally booked for next Thursday 10th of April. However, the Production quickly took precedence over photos on that day, so we have postponed Photolife's visit until next term. The new date has been confirmed for Friday the 2nd of May (the first Friday back in Term 2).
And that's all from me.
Ngā mihi nui,
Anna Powrie
Celebrating Learning and Achievement
Assembly Certificate Recipients 28th March -
Production Tickets and Programme Winners
We are very lucky to have such a variety of talents within our School! We are all hyped for our Production next week and you will see our amazing tickets when they are handed out.
Congratulations to Lilly-Anne H And Elizabeth C whose ticket designs are being used for the two shows.
We have some amazing Programme cover entries and have decided to use a couple of entries with Amaya G design on the front, Adam H design on the inside and Ruhaani S on the back cover.
A huge THANK YOU to Robin Bowkett who is kindly printing all our tickets and Programmes! Your generosity is much appreciated.
Well done for all your efforts creating designs and congratulations to all our winners.
Here is a photo of some of our students 'cutting the grass for a special visitor to school'.
April fools trick!
Notes from the Office
Photolife - Friday 2nd May - Note change of day
If you wish to have a Sibling photo taken, please call into the office to pick up a Sibling Photo Request form - sibling photos will not be taken unless this form is signed.
Thank you to our Sports Camp Sponsors so far - we greatly appreciate your generous support -
Uniform Reminder
The mornings are beginning to get a bit cooler as Autumn makes itself known. With this change in temperature, please ensure your child(ren) are wearing the correct school sweatshirt. Closed in shoes are to be black and socks, black or navy. Please make sure all school uniform items are named. Please leave the fancy colours, sparkles and logos for the weekends. Wearing the correct uniform instills confidence and pride in ourselves and our place of learning.
PTA News
The PTA are excited to share that on Thursday 10th April, the evening of the Peter Pan show, we will be running a Sausage Sizzle and serving Bacon and Egg Baps from 6pm.
Pre-orders for sausages and baps are open on Kindo now until midday Monday 7th April. See poster attached for more details.
Any questions/fundraising ideas or if you require uniform items urgently, you can email the PTA on karaka.pta@gmail.com
The Karaka School PTA account is 12 3031 0851231 00
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