Thursday, June 16, 2011
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Re-opening Thursday 16 June 2011
Great news, we are re-opening tomorrow. Yippee.
Please bring boiled water for your child. It would be great if you could also please send them along with slippers or extra socks as they will be taking their shoes off to enter rooms.
There will be a mobile van in at 8.30 with $2 hot drinks for our community.
See you tomorrow
Sylvia
PS there will be no winter sport tomorrow
PSS The middle and senior school trips to Orana Park planned for next week have been re-scheduled to Week 11:)
Please bring boiled water for your child. It would be great if you could also please send them along with slippers or extra socks as they will be taking their shoes off to enter rooms.
There will be a mobile van in at 8.30 with $2 hot drinks for our community.
See you tomorrow
Sylvia
PS there will be no winter sport tomorrow
PSS The middle and senior school trips to Orana Park planned for next week have been re-scheduled to Week 11:)
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Another update
Well, it has been a very busy day at Shirley Primary School.
Michael from DD Architects came in and did a site and building inspection. Once again, our buildings have 'passed the test.'
Thanks to Mr McKenzie and Mr Sim who spent the day shovelling silt (I did a wee bit but luckily my phone kept ringing so I had to keep stopping and then thought I was better inside!). Big thanks to Helen McLean, Tony and Zoe Turner who turned up with some shovels and a wheelbarrow, too, and to the crew from the Addington Rugby League Club - most appreciated.
As I type 4 people from the HITMEN are currently removing silt from the junior block entrance ways, office and Room 3 doorway, steam cleaning and de-contaminating the area. Mary, our cleaner from TPS, has been working, too.
We have had the plumbers and drainlayers checking the septic tanker.
In the morning we have a sweeper booked from City Care to spruce up the concrete areas as much as possible.
All of the staff will be back in sorting out their classrooms. We will also debrief as a staff as I know many of their homes have been affected again, too.
We are hoping that we will be able to re-open the following day on Thursday, 16 June. Thank you for your patience once again.
I will confirm tomorrow after speaking with the architects and the BoT.
Hopefully, we all have a good night's sleep tonight.
Sylvia
Michael from DD Architects came in and did a site and building inspection. Once again, our buildings have 'passed the test.'
Thanks to Mr McKenzie and Mr Sim who spent the day shovelling silt (I did a wee bit but luckily my phone kept ringing so I had to keep stopping and then thought I was better inside!). Big thanks to Helen McLean, Tony and Zoe Turner who turned up with some shovels and a wheelbarrow, too, and to the crew from the Addington Rugby League Club - most appreciated.
As I type 4 people from the HITMEN are currently removing silt from the junior block entrance ways, office and Room 3 doorway, steam cleaning and de-contaminating the area. Mary, our cleaner from TPS, has been working, too.
We have had the plumbers and drainlayers checking the septic tanker.
In the morning we have a sweeper booked from City Care to spruce up the concrete areas as much as possible.
All of the staff will be back in sorting out their classrooms. We will also debrief as a staff as I know many of their homes have been affected again, too.
We are hoping that we will be able to re-open the following day on Thursday, 16 June. Thank you for your patience once again.
I will confirm tomorrow after speaking with the architects and the BoT.
Hopefully, we all have a good night's sleep tonight.
Sylvia
Post 13 June 2011
THANK YOU to our amazing staff who were so calm and super organised yesterday. The children showed amazing levels of resilience, too. What superstars. The last children were picked up by 4.30.
We got home to no power and as it was cold and dark we decided to spend the night in a motel in Woodend. Unfortunately, the fish and chip shop was out of stock so we had bananas and potato chip sandwiches for dinner, what an adventure!
Anyway, I am in at work now with some of the BOT and we are just in meetings with the engineer so will update you soon....Big thanks to Mr McKenzie and Mr Sim who are currently shovelling silt away out front!
take care
Sylvia
We got home to no power and as it was cold and dark we decided to spend the night in a motel in Woodend. Unfortunately, the fish and chip shop was out of stock so we had bananas and potato chip sandwiches for dinner, what an adventure!
Anyway, I am in at work now with some of the BOT and we are just in meetings with the engineer so will update you soon....Big thanks to Mr McKenzie and Mr Sim who are currently shovelling silt away out front!
take care
Sylvia
Monday, May 9, 2011
Stars 4 Kids
We are very excited by the new fundraising initiative by one of our talented Mums - well done Mandy.
Check out http://tvnz.co.nz/news for more information.
Thanks once again to all of the other communities who have supported us - post quake, too.
Onerahi Primary School in Whangarei, Pillans Point School (and Room 2) in Tauranga, Epuni Primary in Lower Hutt, Frankton Primary in Frankton, the New Brighton Lions, Richie McCaw, Erin Simpson and the original Karate Kid.
Our students are doing really well but many of them have had to move and in some cases a couple of families are now living under one roof. Our children are resilient but there are still a significant number of children not sleeping through the night, who are experiencing anxiety and who have increased worries. Some children have not been able to continue learning an instrument or playing sport because of financial worries. We are doing all that we can to support our students and families and really appreciate everyone's letters and cards and contributions.
Please check out the links to Stars 4 kids and Trade me on the front page of the website (special thanks to Mr Gunn for all of his clever technical work with the blogging and links:) )
Take care and keep warm
Sylvia/Ms Fidow
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Check out http://tvnz.co.nz/news for more information.
Thanks once again to all of the other communities who have supported us - post quake, too.
Onerahi Primary School in Whangarei, Pillans Point School (and Room 2) in Tauranga, Epuni Primary in Lower Hutt, Frankton Primary in Frankton, the New Brighton Lions, Richie McCaw, Erin Simpson and the original Karate Kid.
Our students are doing really well but many of them have had to move and in some cases a couple of families are now living under one roof. Our children are resilient but there are still a significant number of children not sleeping through the night, who are experiencing anxiety and who have increased worries. Some children have not been able to continue learning an instrument or playing sport because of financial worries. We are doing all that we can to support our students and families and really appreciate everyone's letters and cards and contributions.
Please check out the links to Stars 4 kids and Trade me on the front page of the website (special thanks to Mr Gunn for all of his clever technical work with the blogging and links:) )
Take care and keep warm
Sylvia/Ms Fidow
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Sunday, May 1, 2011
Happy Term 2
We ended Term 1 with a really fun, Friday!
We had yummy food thanks to the New Brighton Lions, water from Richie McCaw, special guests Mr Ralph Machio (aka the original Karate kid) and theeeee Erin Simpson from the Erin Simpson show, bouncy castles courtesy of Mitre 10 Ferrymead and Hornby, candy floss, freshfruit, games, discos, wearable arts....it was a lovely way to end a shaky term!
We are now looking ahead to Term 2 with a focus on sustainable futures!The big question on everyone's mind will be 'how can we assist or what can we do?' to support our future?
The Year 5/6 students will be participating in swimming and winter sport and we have a whole school trip planned.
We will also be starting up our new Superstar Discovery programme on a Friday for all of the children.
So, hopefully everyone is having an early night tonight :)and have their school bags and uniforms all ready for tomorrow
see you there (here!)
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We are now looking ahead to Term 2 with a focus on sustainable futures!The big question on everyone's mind will be 'how can we assist or what can we do?' to support our future?
The Year 5/6 students will be participating in swimming and winter sport and we have a whole school trip planned.
We will also be starting up our new Superstar Discovery programme on a Friday for all of the children.
So, hopefully everyone is having an early night tonight :)and have their school bags and uniforms all ready for tomorrow
see you there (here!)
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