Our musicians

These talented students performed at the Shirley District Music Festival last night. Well done!


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Planning Meeting

The teachers are planning well together! Collaborating and connecting!






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Welcome to Term 2

On Friday we had a mihi whakatau to welcome new students and staff to Shirley Primary. The kapahaka group (lead by Mrs Piper) were very welcoming.



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New classrooms, finally ....

Our new classrooms have finally arrived and we are hoping they will be ready for term 2. The builders are working hard and the classrooms are on their new foundations already!

Term One over with a great FUN FRIDAY

Yes, we finished the term with another popular and successful FuN FridaY! Bouncy castle, toys from home, fizz, hot chips, apples and a sausy in bread, mmmm.

elearning PLD

I am REALLY enjoying our staff meeting today. We are updating our skills with using the ipad and activboard. Here are Mrs Ward and Mr Loughnan using blogpress!





Mr Sim is a good teacher!!

Ms Fidow
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New Playground(S)

Check out some of our students trialling one of our new playgrounds - the eagle's nest. Both playgrounds should open Monday and we are soooo excited.

Meet the teacher

Week 1 went very fast with Waitangi day and 48 new students to transition!

This Tuesday is our 'Meet the Teacher' fish n chip evening from 5.00-6.15 outside the hall. Please bring along your own tea. There will be a camp meeting at 6.00p.m in Room 5 for all parents of Year 5/6 students who will be attending camp.

See you there:-)

Welcome back to 2013

Welcome back to 2013, the staff have all been busy preparing for an exciting new year at Shirley Primary School.  Here we all were taking some time-out together on Thursday...

This year we welcome lots of new students from Hammersley Park School which closed in December, a special welcome to you and your families; we also welcome a group of new entrant (Year 1) students and some new students who have moved into the school zone. A warm welcome to our new teachers, too: Miss Ashley Masters and Miss Genevieve Fenton, and we welcome Miss Victoria Glassey back from Melbourne.

Up and coming changes ....

• The new playgrounds are almost ready to be installed, work on these will begin in week 2 this term.
• The two new re-locatable classrooms have been approved by the Ministry of Education and hopefully these will be in our school by the end of the month...in the meantime Miss Glassey and Room 2 will temporarily work in Room 1 with Mrs Foulds and Mrs Piper, Mrs Murray and Mr Sim and Room 14 will temporarily work in Room 2 (back to the juniors:), and Miss Masters and Room 13 will temporarily work in the library. Thanks everyone for your patience.
• The playing fields will be re-sown to make them safer for our ankles around Easter of this term (week 8/9) so the anticipated cooler and rainier weather will help the new grass grow.

Finally, if you are driving to school tomorrow please leave with plenty of time as we anticipate the roads will be busy and unfortunately there will NOT be parking spaces outside the school on Shirley Rd. As major roadworks are underway this will have an impact on the roads at the back and front of the school. The NZ Police will be there tomorrow to help us with our road patrol as there will only be one lane with east-bound traffic and a Slater St detour...so take care on the roads and if you live close you may be able to walk with your child to school.

Early to bed tonight for all of us, I am looking forward to seeing you all soon

Sylvia (Ms Fidow)

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PS Thanks to Aaron Cooper and Tom Thumb Logistics who are giving our school pool repairs another go with some new products, watch this space...