THIS WEEK’S MEMORY VERSE

“The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise him.” 

Psalm 28:7

 PRINCIPAL’S NOTICE

Tena koutou whanau ma – warm greetings to everyone

It is great to see the Spring season beginning to make its mark – it certainly signals that warmer days are just around the corner.

At this time of the year our students in the senior school are rounding out their learning and preparing for external examinations that start in early November. The plan is for them to have finished all of their internal work/assessments by the end of this term as much as possible so they are able to focus on reviewing and revising for the externals.

When we do get to the external examinations, and providing a student has completed all of their internal work, we will be asking students to keep connected with their subject teacher right up until the day of their subject exam. For most students this will mean they keep attending school each day until their exams have finished.

School Enrolments

As you are aware, our school roll is full, along with a waiting list for new enrolments to come in. Currently we are in the process of identifying the students who will be leaving us at the end of the year – mainly our Year 13s so we can make room for new enrolments.

In the fourth week of next term we will start the process for students on the waiting list to be enrolled. This will enable the school to be ready for a solid start in 2025. We will contact whanau who have students on the waiting list soon to begin this process.

As with previous notifications, if you are considering enrolling students at the school, or if you know of anyone who is interested in that, please get in touch with the school early so we can register your interest on the waiting list.

Attendance Rewards Trip

Last week I sent letters home with students who have maintained attendance rates of 90% and above (about 1/3 of our students). It is really pleasing to see this great improvement in attendance – I know we are all aware of how strongly student achievement, progress and well-being is linked to this statistic.

We do still have a number of students struggling to develop consistency in attendance. There are many and varied reasons why this is the case, and we are sensitive to individual circumstances as we work with whanau to support strong attendance. Please continue to help us in this area – my encouragement is to ask you to make it hard for students to stay at home when they are fit and well enough to attend school .

Cellphones

Just a reminder that our school fully complies with the requirement for our students to have “Phones away for the day”. This means that students are not to have access to cellphones at school during the school day.

For those students who need their phones for home contact after school, we understand that important need and ask that in those circumstances, phones are brought into the office first thing in the morning an collected at the end of the school day. Unfortunately we are still needing to remind students about this new aspect of school life.

Psalm 133 1

How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity! It is like precious oil poured on the head, running down on the beard, running down on Aaron’s beard, down upon the collar of his robes.

Blessings to all

David Rogers

PRINCIPAL

KEY DATES:

IMPORTANT SCHOOL DATES

SCHOOL TERMS

 PUBLIC HOLIDAYS

Minutes: 

• Minutes 10th September 2024
• Minutes 18th June 2024
• Minutes 14th May 2024
• Minutes 13th February 2024
• Minutes 17th October 2023
• Minutes 28 November 2023
  

TEACHERS NOTICE

ENVIROMENTAL STUDENT’S PROGRESS

Everest Anderson Podal attained the silver award for her research project on Social Media and how it impacts the mental health and well being of teenagers.

It was well written and concisely researched using data sourced from the students here at school.

Lucus White attained a Gold award and was placed in the top five of all submitted science fair projects across the Far North science fair. He was the top student scientist in years 5-7.

His project ” I wet my plants” was thoroughly researched and thought through. He grew from seed the snow pea plants using correct techniques and multiple plants to validate his results.

His data was processed to demonstrate his results and the discussion reflected on the possibilities as to why the results was not as expected.

FITNESS FOR FANATICS

KOTAHITANGA 1ST XV RUGBY GOES DOWN IN AN EPIC SEMI-FINAL

DAILY REPORT

KERIKERI BUS 

Kia ora Whanau

Kaikohe bus company has given us the new Bus route for Kerikeri Bus run. This will start on Monday 2nd September. Your children have been given a panui with the new Bus Route for Kerikeri to take home. Below I will also add the new bus route as well.

Kaikohe Christian School & Waimate Harvest bus route

EXCHANGE STUDENTS

Last week we hosted Chinese students. We enjoyed getting to know them and learning about their culture. Year 7-10 students spent a morning learning to write and read Chinese characters! They could probably tell you what the individual characters and the message that Ruby, pictured below, with the Year 5 & 6 class wrote as a way to say ‘Thank you.’

COMMUNITY CLEAN UP

RUGBY 1ST XV

VISION AND HEARING SCREENING

 Monday 16^th September 2024 we will have Te Whata Ora (Health New Zealand) come in to our school and conduct a Vision and Hearing Screening. There  Screening Programme is for;

• New entrant children if they have not had a B4 School check.
• Re-screens.
• Any children that come up on our ENROL report that are either new to the country or new to your school and have not been screened elsewhere.
• And, if applicable, Year 7’s vision only.

Nga mihi

MOBILE DENTAL CLINIC

Kia ora Whanau

We will be having a Mobile dental clinic coming to visit our school on Monday 9th-Friday 13th September. This is a opportunity for our Year 9-13 tamariki to get their teeth  check if they are not signed up to a local dental place already. Below I have attached a form for you to fill out for your children.  Please call the office if you need further assistants.

Nga mihi

Kaikohe Christian School Parent Form

CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

Kia ora schools and kura,

The Northland Chess Championship is back again! This year the event will be held on Saturday the 2nd of Nov in Kerikeri.

Thank you!

Regards,

Lasse Pedersen

Kerikeri Chess Club

Event organiser Northland Chess Championship 2024

YOUTH 412

Celebration Youth 412. Youth event for those aged 12 and over at the Celebration Centre (school hall) on Friday at 7:00 pm. Contact Josiah Shaw 021 022 42000 or Brian Heihei 022 198 1757.

Mike Shaw

CEO Celebration Trust

 PO Box 235 – Kaikohe

Phone +64 9 405 3996

Cell     +64 21 842 302

www.heartofthenorth.co.nz

WHAT ARE ATTENDANCE DUES?

The Ministry of Education does not fund building related costs at our School. Attendance Dues are only used to pay for building related costs. They can not be used for any other purposes.  Paying Attendance Dues is a condition of enrolment for all students attending our School. Attendance Dues are compulsory – there is a legal requirement for parents and caregivers to pay Attendance Dues under the Education and Training Act 2020. They are not a donation.

Mike Shaw

CEO Celebration Trust

COMMUNITY NOTICES

Lunch For The Week

Blessings to you all and stay safe!