Author: Admin

1452 Forest Road, RD1, Atiamuri
07 333 9111 027 6291892
Email: office@countrykidz.co.nz

There is a lot going on for our learning community as we participate in all the good things our wider world has to offer! Last month we celebrated Samoan Language week, Go Greening week, and Pink Shirt Day. Thank you so much to Fou Walker for coming in and sharing the songs, language, and delicious kai of Samoa with our tamariki—there was so much to enjoy and learn from your time with us again this year, we are so grateful to you.
Speaking of gratitude, a huge thanks to the Steegh’s, Kite/Bicknell’s, and Owen/Richardson’s, and Schultze’s for the huge amount of time they gave to finish off our soft-fall area and help create the beginnings of our natives area. Seeing Serena’s vision come to fruition is wonderful and it would not be possible without the generosity of time and spirit from our whānau. It really is a gift having our community so involved in continuing to improve our learning and development spaces.
We have a couple of amazing fundraisers to finish of this term—we are partnering with Raise It to fundraise this year and help fill your freezers during the cold Winter months with delicious ready-to-eats! Ordering will be done online to make it easy for everyone, further details to come in whānau pockets. AND, of course, our big fundraiser of the year the Matariki Ball—tickets are $65 and are now available so be quick as this is definitely an event not to be missed! Email or phone the office for tickets or a 6 person bar leaner. Details of both these fundraisers are included in this newsletter.
As we head into this last month of the term, we will see our Pump Track excursions continue for all our tamariki. Thank you for all the warm Winter clothes you are sending your tamariki in. These occasions are loved by our tamariki and we like to make sure they are warm, toastie, and dry so they can truly enjoy their time exploring during this small group outings.
We know calving is coming soon and send our enthusiasm, hugs, and well wishes to all our whānau about to undertake their busiest time of the year. We will do everything we can to support you and if you do need extra days or extended hours, please let us know as soon as possible so we can try and accommodate.
Wishing everyone a happy start to Winter, the Teaching Team of CK

We say ‘farewell’ to our tamariki this month who are beginning their Primary School learning journey
Meila Russell
Emma Sargent
Haere mai, to our new Country Kidz friends,
Cobie Cox
Sehnoor Kaur
Penny Kidd
Aila Petersen
We are looking forward to getting to know you and your whānau!

7 June Nature Kidz
12 June Koru Kidz
15 June Nature Kidz
20 June Koru Kidz Excursion to Library, Museum, Wicked Weeders
21 June Nature Kidz
22 June Pākiki Kidz
26 June Koru Kidz
29 June Nature Kidz
30 June Last Day of Term Toru
1 July MATARIKI BALL FUNDRAISER
10 July First Day of Term Toru

Our Learning Community gives thanks to:
Brett and Ruth Steeghs, Dion Bicknell, Merv (Poppa Turtle), Gemma Kite, Matt Schultze, Matt Richardson, Libby Owen for donating an entire Sunday of labour and diggers and tractors to finish our softfall climbing area and clean up the outside of our Pump Track ready for planting in natives! Our tamariki are loving the new area and it has made a huge difference to their play and exploration opportunities. Serena’s original plan
Ash Tracey thank you for all the hand mowing of our new grass and tidying up the rest of the lawns. And then Reece Wine for the second cut– it looks so good!
The Waterworths for donating a huge number of native seedlings and garden mixes for our restoration project out on the Pump Track—thank you so much, our nature reserve is very lucky to have your support!
David Koster for the Last Milking Pick Ups Fundraiser—amazing to have our local community support this and we are very grateful to David for his contribution.
To our incredible community for supporting our Pink Shirt Day and Taupō Kids Go Greening raffle—these events were fabulously organaised by Wendy (PSD) and Briar (KGT) and would not have been possible without their mahi.
Without community grants, fundraising, and the support of local expertise generously donated our learning community would not be able to provide the extent of learning opportunities we do.
Thank you so much to all those that continue to give their time and skills to us, we really do appreciate you all.

Samoan Language Week has been another wonderful week for our tamariki to once again experience—we tasted, smelt, listened, tried, and participated in some wonderful learning opportunities with our tamariki. We were very lucky to have Woody’s grandma Fou come and help with our celebrations again this year bringing a wonderful array of Samoan food for us to enjoy for lunch on Monday —the Sapasui and Pani Popo where a huge hit with our tamariki.

Birthday honours for June
include:
Meila Russell,
Emma Sargent,
Kaliq Sutherland,
Ella Render,
Lucas Landicho,
Lucy Schultze
Wishing all our whānau and community that also celebrated a birthday this month the warmest of wishes

Any updates?
We need to keep our enrolment forms updated with relevant contact phone numbers, emergency and pick-up information. If your circumstances have changed, please come in so we can update your details

Babysitting available
Jasmin (Avis’ daughter) is looking for some part time babysitting work after school hours and on weekends. Feel free to message 022 681 4596—she is fab!

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If you are interested and would like further information, please contact us on 333 9111.
Relief Cleaner– if you enjoy cleaning and are flexible with regards to being on-call to clean when our permanent cleaner is unavailable, we would love to hear from you.
Relief Teachers—we want to add to our relieving team for 2023 with passionate and flexible teachers. We often need relief teachers to support our permanent teaching team throughout the year. Relief teachers ensure we are providing quality education every day we are open.