Newsletter Thursday 15 October 2020

He mihi mahana ki a koutou katoa - warm greetings to all.

Welcome to Term 4. We wish it was a warmer start to the term and didn't expect to need the heating on in this summer term!

Video from the board announcing our new school name

We are pleased to share with you a short 5 minute video

about our new school name and kaupapa. Thank you Barbara Dean, our board chair, for presenting from the board.

Volunteers for the bike track

Our volunteer extraordinaire Mike Barker needs some people with wheelbarrows and shovels/spades and weed eaters to help out with the bike track on Sunday from 9am for a few hours. If you are able to help him send him an email on lizmikejh@gmail.com.

Reminder about our information evening for our 2021 Year 7 and 8s - tonight

This is on tonight. It starts at 6pm in the Year 7 & 8 class on the field.

Opening Event for our Bike Skills Track - all welcome!

Details to be confirmed but we are thinking music, sausage sizzle, ice creams and lots of biking!

Calendar Art

This will be coming home soon. If you missed out and would still like to order you can get in touch with anneleah@ridgway.school.nz for an order form.

Touch Rugby

Is anyone interested in playing Touch Rugby? It's a fun sport, which is great for teaching team work, fair play and sportsmanship. Currently we have a Y1/2 team, a Y3/4 team and a Year 5/6 team. We have mixed teams with boys and girls playing together. It would be great if we could have a couple more players in each grade so that we can have some subs (it gets pretty tiring having to be out there for a whole game!) It's a great atmosphere, there's a sausage sizzle and we have some great kids playing already. Cost is usually around $25-31 and depends on how many players we have (it won't be any more expensive but can get cheaper if we have lots of players!). Practices are at lunchtime on Fridays. The season runs for 6 weeks and is starting on the 28th of October. We play at Wakefield Park, which is the turf on the way to Island Bay on Wednesday afternoons between 4 and 6pm.

If you are interested please let me know at brown_kath@yahoo.co.nz .