Kia ora everyone.
What an amazing Te Reo Maori Language Week assembly this morning. Kia ora and thank you to our assembly team for putting this together. I was very impressed with the amount of Te Reo Maori spoken by our tamariki and staff. It was also great to see parents and past pupils taking up the opportunity to participate. It was awesome to have Whaea Mel from the Northern Territory in Australia as our guest speaker, and I appreciate what she shared with us.
I would also like to commend our students and staff today for the increase in digital and editing skills, even since last week, which enhanced the online assembly. This was truly a Learn, Create, Share event. Ka pai everyone.
We now have some certainty regarding the school holidays. I received the following announcement from the Ministry of Education this morning.
The school holiday dates will remain unchanged. They will start from Saturday 2 October and Term 4 will start on Monday 18 October.
The Minister has carefully considered advice on how moving term dates presented challenges that would have had a wider and long-term impact by disrupting curriculum and activity plans already in place for students, whānau and educators.
Keeping the holidays as they are will avoid adding stress and anxiety to children and their education and wellbeing.
The Minister was also aware that an extended length of Term 4 for Auckland would add to fatigue among your students and staff at the end of a school year.
Next week there is a high possibility that Auckland will move to Level 3. While there is not much change between Levels 3 and 4, it does mean that we are getting closer to returning back into a full school environment at Level 2.
tēnā koa tiaki ia koe
me te atawhai
Mr Nigel Davis (tumuaki)
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