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School Wellbeing Drop-in – every Thursday 8:30am to 9:30am – School Staff Room

Tuesday, March 26, 2019, 10:26 AM

Kia ora koutou te whānau I would like to invite whānau to access our weekly ‘Drop-ins’ run by two of our kaimahi, Kevin Hapi and Anna Dawson working as part of Mana Ake. Mana Ake is an early intervention service promoting wellbeing and supporting positive mental health for students in years 1-8. The sessions will run every Thursday morning form 8:30am to 9:30am. These sessions are focused supporting whānau around well-being and also what the Mana Ake service can provide for our community. One of our inschool Social Workers, Lauren Thompson, will also be available to provide support to whānau around well-being and what the inschool service can offer. This is a wonderful supportive service so please make use of it. Warmest regards Ngā mihi Bernadette May

Hurry, Hurry to book your Lego Movie Tickets!!!

Tuesday, March 26, 2019, 9:38 AM

Hurry, Hurry to book your Lego Movie Tickets!!! Sunday 7th of April at 3pm. We need to know how many of you are coming to the S’Mart Family Movie so we can book the correct size cinema. Our last two school movie events have been a sellout and families have missed out on tickets!! Don’t miss out – get in quick… Payments can be made online – only $13 per ticket for a pre-release viewing at Reading Cinema at The Palms. If paying online:- S’Mart Community account ASB 12-3147-0420521-00 with your name and “Movie” as reference or pay cash (exact change please) at the office. Thanks Aimee and the S’Mart Team

School closed today, 25th March 2019

Monday, March 25, 2019, 7:27 AM

As advised in previous newsletters and school wide emails, school is closed today due to staff training. We will see you all tomorrow.

School Assembly today, Friday 22nd March

Friday, March 22, 2019, 10:31 AM

Assembly will go ahead at the normal time of 1.30pm at St Martins School today. We will have our time of silence during this assembly. Because of the range of children sitting in the hall, the message given will be one of peace, respect and unity and there will be no reference to the specifics of the tragedy of last Friday. Please feel free to join us if you would like.

Missing scooters and skateboards

Friday, March 22, 2019, 9:20 AM

We are discovering some scooters and skateboards are going missing after school. Some reappear and some do not. Please check to see if you have any scooters and skateboards at home that do not belong to your children, and if so could you return them. This behaviour is causing great inconvenience and upset.

Smart Community PTA AGM – new date

Friday, March 22, 2019, 9:17 AM

Drinks and Nibbles **NEW AGM DATE is Tuesday 2nd April 7.30pm** All parents, caregivers and whanau are invited to join us. We are a dedicated group that achieves lots for our school. This includes the school disco, regular afterschool BBQs, movie nights, second-hand uniform sales, working bees, quiz nights and lots of other community and fundraising events. Join us at the AGM to find out more! Cheeses on the night kindly supplied by Barry’s Bay Cheeses – Many thanks!

Mufti Day this Friday 22nd March

Thursday, March 21, 2019, 8:55 AM

We will be holding a school mufti day this Friday 22nd March with the theme “Colour your Day” with students asked to wear colourful and vibrant colours (please avoid red at the request of our Muslim community as this is culturally inappropriate). This mufti day is to directly raise funds for Cashmere High School to support their famillies who were directly affected by last Friday’s tragic events. We would ask for a gold coin donation or a more generous donation if you are able for this very specific cause.

Measles Alert for schools from CDHB – update

Wednesday, March 20, 2019, 12:24 PM

Message from CDHB: As you know there is currently a measles outbreak in Canterbury – so far there have been 31 confirmed cases. Attached to this email is Canterbury DHB’s latest information sheet for school communities – it replaces the information provided to you recently. canterburymeaslesoutbreakschools19march

Smart Community PTA AGM POSTPONED

Tuesday, March 19, 2019, 1:37 PM

Smart Community PTA AGM Meeting Postponed due to clash with the planned Cathedral Square Memorial this Thursday. Tentative new date for the AGM is 7.30pm Tuesday 2nd April but this will be confirmed in the next few days or so.

School as usual Wednesday 20th March plus other info

Tuesday, March 19, 2019, 12:42 PM

Thank you for your support and understanding since the tragic events of last Friday. As there was a lot of information coming through, we want to reiterate a few important details. This Wednesday 20th March will be school as usual. The NZEI Stop Work meetings have been postponed so school will be open all day this Wednesday. The Teacher Only Day on Monday 25th March is still going ahead and we remind you that school is closed for the day. A decision on whether the Parent Evening that is scheduled for Monday 25th March will go ahead will be made soon and we will update you as soon as we know. Again, we thank you all for your support at this difficult time. St Martins School Management Team.

St Martins School