Thanks to all the families who supported our Book Fair.  This year we sold $2,652.35 worth of books.  From the book sales, the school received $795.70 worth of free books for our library.

Scholastic NZ Ltd, who provided the Book Fair, donated 20 books to be drawn as Lucky Draw Prizes.

Congratulations to the 20 students who received a free book:

Rm 1: Aiden Wisnewski

Rm 2: Callum Miers

Rm 3: Kaleb Hancock, Alex Stoupe

Rm 4: Christian Meade, Cory Townsend

Rm 5: Nicholas Ormsby

Rm 6: Hannah Caulton, Jonathan Ormsby

Rm 8: Mychaela Koytze

Rm 10: Sean Maxwell-Lecheminant

Rm 12: Braith Andrews, Mathew Gavin, Ella Stephens

Rm 15: Sean Palmer, Chloe Wright

Rm 16: Vincent Pooley

Rm 18: Jena Finlayson, Logan Mennie

Rm 19: Bodelle Morgan

This Friday is Daffodil day supporting the cancer Foundation. We will be having a coin trail – anyone who brings a coin for our trail will receive a daffodil to wear.

A fantastic effort from everyone involved! It was great to see so many kids running the course and smiling at the end.

Our school team competed in the group event last week and was very successful! Well done to everyone who ran in the muddy conditions – a special congratulations to the following top ten runners;

Year 5 and below Girls – Aliesha Neary 1st, Kerry Douglas 4th, Jessica Cox 6th.

Year 5 and below Boys – Royce McCallum 1st, Andrew Carney 5th, Dominic Chartier 8th.

Year 6 Girls – Jamie-Lee Greenwood 1st, Rebecca Cheyne 2nd, Saskea Greyling 9th.

Year 6 Boys – Mathew Caskie 1st, Petera Thompson 2nd, Shaquille Maea 7th.

Team Competition

A big thankyou to BOC for donating a new gas bottle to Valley School. Their support is much appreciated.

Thank you also to the Williams family for providing a PC for use by one of our pupils.

New signs have been put up in the East Street drop off bay as the council have changed the designation of that area. Please take note of the signs, as the council will be enforcing parking restrictions in that area.

Another reminder to parents and families – please do not use the driveway or car park to drop off or pick up pupils before school or at 3:00pm. The area is too small and it becomes dangerous. The driveway and car park are for staff vehicles only.

There has been a lot of work going on at school over the past week on our electrical upgrade. We are part way there! We have lots more power coming in to the school and we now have to have a new sub-mains put in before we can start installing heat pumps in classrooms. Apologies if you find you are walking through a bit of mud at times – hard to get away from it when work happens in this wet weather!

Keep an eye out for a special invitation coming home soon from our PTA. The PTA will be hosting a special meeting where we will present a proposed new parent report format. At the meeting we will be asking for your feedback and ideas about what we are doing with reporting to parents so we hope you will come along.

Every two years we must consult with our community on our Health and Physical Education Survey. The survey will be sent out before the end of the term and we look forward to all your feedback and ideas.

There will be a Positive and Negative photo weekend coming up on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th September.

10-minute times will be available for family/sibling photos (black and white only). A $5.00 sitting fee per family will apply.

Phone Lisa on 239 0663 to book your time.

September

7- PTA Cake Day

10 – Mufti Day

24- Term 3 ends, 3:00pm finish

October

11 – Term 4 starts

December

16 – Term 4 ends, 12:30 finish

Guitar lessons are available at school during school hours. If you are interested leave your name and contact details at the office and our guitar teacher will be in touch.

Term 3 vacancy

Lessons are held at school-individual tuition. Opportunity to take part in exams and competitions.

For bookings call Joanne Allan

ph. 238 4488

NZ Modern School of Music

House t-shirts are for sale every Friday morning 8:30am to 9:00am. The cost is $15 per shirt and it is a great way for pupils to support their house.

School Website

Have a look at our school website – more is being added to it all the time. Latest newsletters are on there with lots of other information about Valley School.

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Or phone 238 8774, fax 238 5490