COVID-19 UPDATES

Update on Covid @ South Mak

Evening family and whanau, The weather truly has made it very pleasant around school for all those able to attend.  Just as an update, alongside our current number of students and families isolating due to Covid we have been informed of a student who was at school today that has

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Update on Start of Year managing Covid:

Friday 28th January Dear Parents, Caregivers and Whānua, There are exciting times ahead. Come Tuesday the 1st of February we will enter another interesting year for education and for our whole community. I have waited to send information about how we will be starting the year until we have the

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Tennis opportunity Term 4

Tennis Term 4

Friends of School have kindly agreed to pay for every class to be given four 30 minute lessons by a tennis coach from Palmerston North, at the start of Term 4.  We are so lucky that our children are given these opportunities which are provided through the hard work many of our families put in during the hay season with the FOS.       

Alongside these lessons there is the opportunity for your child/children to have private group lessons during school hours. Matt Ward will be the coach.  He has a wealth of experience at all levels.  There will be three ability groups, and each lesson will be 45 minutes.   

It is $80 for one child for a 8 week program, $140 if you have two children and $180 if you have three children participating.

Please complete the google form via scanning the QR code or the link provided.

Pet Day

In light of our current Covid restrictions, we have had some clarity about having gatherings at school.
I have been working with the Ministry of Education guidelines which are as follow:

“As soon as your event or activity brings people onsite who are not there for education purposes, including students, parents and caregivers, then the rules for gatherings do apply, including limits on numbers attending. This would include performances such as school plays, cultural events, and sporting activities.

You’ll need to treat the running of any large programs with strong caution, particularly if there are large numbers of students (and parents and caregivers) involved at the same time. We’d recommend that these types of events are deferred until your school returns to Alert Level 1.”

We are in the position of really wanting to have our pet day go ahead but we will be in the situation that our pet day is open to the community where we are not able to stay under the 100 limit which will also includes our students.

We will enable parents to do the dropping off of animals and will need to schedule times but will not be able to have parents as spectators for the day.

We really would like your feedback on how we can make this work.

Pet Day 2021 Thursday 30th September

Pet Day 2021 Thursday 30th September Click the link to enter.

Pet day is scheduled for Thursday the 30th of September. We are still planning to manage this even if we are at Alert level 2 as we can safely manage the number of spectators around our school site by spreading people out.

We need to get entries from students with what pets they are intending to bring along.

The timetable is attached with a few changes from previous years to hopefully make it easier for our invited judges. We have also moved the starting time to ease the pressure on families getting animals to school so early.

Please complete a separate entry form for each child.

Pet Day 2021

 

Term 4 Touch opportunity in Feilding. Sorry link wasn’t working.

Touch-Feilding 

 

We have the opportunity of entering some teams in the Feilding Touch module for term 4 on Thursdays. Games are played from 4-8pm at Victoria Park, Feilding.

This is available from year 1-8 depending on numbers. 

Teams would be mixed teams in:

Year 1-2

Year 3-4

Year 5-6

Year 7-8

 

We would need a minimum of 9 players in each team to ensure we don’t run short when players are unable to play.

 

We would also require some support managing teams at each week’s games.

 

Training will be held during lunchtimes each week. If you are interested in helping please indicate on the online form.

 

Entry fees which include uniforms, will cost $10 per student.

Please scan to complete the online form or contact the office to speak with me.