Happy Holidays!
We can look back on quite an amazing term three.
We enjoyed a wonderful book week and book character day, a sensation ski trip with many outdoor adventures for our year 6 students and a highly successful interschool cross country championship hosted by our school. We have had a fun disco celebrating the dance unit we had completed, an awesome ag day with high quality entries and a huge number of visitors and nine of our senior students impressed us with entertaining, well constructed and superbly presented speeches at the speech final. We have continued to take our learning in maths to new levels through an intensive contract with the University of Waikato and our latest reading results are fantastic. We can also sprinkle on events such as Kiwi Golf, Kiwi Cricket, RWC celebrations, Group Day, the KWH prize giving and our learning agents programme!
One of the term’s major highlights was completing our regular Education Review Office (ERO) review. Their report recognized the high quality of education delivered by our school and indicated that ERO are so confident in our school that they will not return to review us for another 4 to 5 years. This decision is not made lightly and is awarded to a very small percentage of high performing schools.
The highlights described above would not have been possible without the incredibly support of our super students, their talented teachers, a sensation support staff, brilliant BOT and proactive parents! Have a wonderful break, we have certainly earned it!
School starts for tem four at 9.10 am on Tuesday 25th October (after Labour Day).
We would like to welcome everyone back for the final term of 2011 and what an exciting term it promises to be! It was great to welcome four new entrants who started with us today, we know that Isla, Ryan, Jack and Troy and their families will have a wonderful time at Karapiro. We also welcomed Ayla Sutherland and Lizzie McCreery who have joined us on practicuum from the University of Waikato.
