Kia ora koutou and welcome to term 3

Kia ora everyone,

We hope you all had a lovely holiday with your children and recharged your batteries in time for term 3. This is a short 9 week term which culminates in week 9 with our much anticipated Action Week. We have students heading to Fiji, Auckland, Mt Ruapehu, Waikato, Rotorua and Taupo as well as some awesome activities back here at home. Thank you for supporting our children with these awesome experiences - it will be a fantastic way to end another busy term at Gisint. 

Congratulations to all of our students who completed the cross country at the end of last term. All of the Turanganui teachers were extremely proud of everybody's participation and seeing our RISE and team values in play. 

Congratulations also to Mairangi Campbell who represented room 24 with pride in our school speech finals. Mairangi is an extremely talented young man and his speech on celebrities had everyone in hysterics. Tau ke koe Mairangi!

Well done to Paige Tamatea who was awarded the Year 7 Student of the Week award on the final Friday. Paige is a lovely role model who strives for excellence in all areas. She is a popular member of her classroom and our team. Kei runga noa atu koe Paige.

Well done also to all of our Turanganui students who earned a leadership badge and had it presented at our final assembly for term 2. Pictured above are our year 7 recipients with Mr Hooper and Mr Udall. 

On the last Friday of term 2 Matua Josh Wharehinga came in to speak to our year 7's about the great migration. The year 8's had already listened to this interesting korero the week before. We always love having our whanau and friends come in and share their knowledge with our children. Tomorrow every Gisint child will be bringing home a consultation survey that will help us to identify what we are doing well and what we can improve on for the benefit of our children. The MOE requires schools to consult annually with our Maori community so if your child is of Maori descent they will receive the same survey but there will be an extra question asking what Iwi they affiliate to.  It would be most appreciated if these could be returned to room 22 by this Friday. We are aiming for a 100% return rate. We will share the summaries in the near future.

Maori consultation survey

Non Maori Student Consultation Survey

Rona and the Moon - Room 20 Production

Thank you to Matua Puri, Matua Walter and all of the room 20 students who put on a wonderful adaptation of the myth 'Rona and the Moon'. The students put a more modern twist on this traditional kiwi legend and it was well received by the rest of the syndicate. Awesome work again room 20!

Well done to our awesome year 8 Mako Maths students who made positive improvements with their results. Mrs Barclay came to present her special certificates to our children. She was very proud of their improvements too. 

The year 7 group will start this term and Mrs Barclay has identified a handful of year 7 students to work in this area. Maths week is in week 3 of this term so we are going to get in as much practise as we can.

We had a lovely visit from Koka Kat and Emmi during our final week and hope to see more of them both this term too. 

A few brief reminders to prepare for tomorrow.

• Canterbury track pants may still be worn during term 3 with the correct shoes or shorts if you prefer. 
• Turanganui students have tech tomorrow - Year 8's First Block and Year 7's Last Block.
• Winter Tournament - Next Week
• Consultation Surveys

We look forward to sharing more updates with you all throughout the week.