Dear Parents and Whānau,
Board Matters
Nominations for Board members close in eight days, at noon on 6 August 2025. HERE is an informational video about board membership. Please contact the school office if you need any further information around elections.
Thanks to all families who have participated in our recent community survey. In due course, feedback will be summarised and shared with you.
The Winter Term
Attendance
You will be well aware by now that our Ministry of Education is expecting schools to monitor attendance carefully. Please see a summary of our students’ attendance for last term.
It is important that all children attend school regularly, as this helps them in their learning and with social relationships and confidence.
If a child is sick and doesn’t feel well or is contagious, they should stay home. Parents are asked to inform the office at the earliest opportunity.
Safety on the Roads around our School
With wet and wild weather, parking at the front of the school was unbelievable yesterday. There were double and triple parked cars, cars in the bus bay and cars left in the P2. Only one line of cars can be parked, and not in the bus stop. Drivers cannot leave their vehicle in the P2 parks.
We will be stepping up our monitoring of driver behaviours at the front of the school, and have asked for police and Auckland Transport assistance. The police have suggested we photograph infringements and report these to them. This is a last resort for us, as we seek your cooperation with keeping the roads safe for children. It is important, for children’s safety, that basic road rules are obeyed.
Everyone is rushing at drop off and pick up times. Please try to allow extra time, and follow road rules, so that our children are kept safe. A flyer is being sent out today, in English and Chinese, with specific road rules that need to be followed.
N.B. Please do not use the Litten Road shops, nor the Howick College drop off bay, for drop offs and collecting students. Our staff carparks are not available either, and this includes pulling into reception. Thanks.
We really appreciate the help of our Trelawn Crossing volunteers, who help ensure that children navigate the road safely. If you could assist for 15 minutes once a week, kindly contact the school office. We often have a shortfall of helpers, so a few extras would make a real difference.
Digital Agreements
Thank you for reading and going over digital agreements with your child/children, and returning them signed to school. Find the link HERE.
If you have overlooked this, it is important. Kindly note that phones and smart watches are not permitted.
The last page of this document needs to be signed and returned to the classroom teacher on the first day of term 3. You may scan and send this to the teacher instead.
Toys at School
The school cannot take responsibility for toys brought to school and asks that they remain at home. Items brought for news should not be highly valued objects, as we cannot guarantee their safety. Named balls can be brought to play with, at the owner’s risk, to supplement the sports equipment we provide at school. Children may not bring to school any object that could endanger safety, affect the learning environment, or be harmful. I’m sure everyone in our school community expects us to provide a safe environment.
Ngā mihi
Dorothy Bigwood
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