Author: Admin

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

We are well into the swing of Term Tahi, the last seven weeks have flown by and we are now looking forward to our Kinloch excursion in two weeks time. We are off for a full Country Kidz outing on the 16th of March to Kinloch and the Whangamata Stream Trail.
We have noticed that our emergency evacuations have become so familiar with our tamariki, they are now showing wonderful calm reactions when we do fire, earthquake, intruder, and lockdown drills. Being a safe ‘turtle’ during an earthquake drill is still a learning concept for our tamariki, which we will continue to nurture but this skill would also be meaningful to practice at home as well. Evacuations are becoming all too common around our motu so practicing what your whānau would do during relevant emergency situations at home is something we are keen to promote for our community’s safety.
Our Nature Kidz (4 Year Olds), Koru Kidz (3 Year Olds), and Pākiki Kidz (Under 3 Year Olds) all begin participating in excursions to the Pump Track for the second half of this term. These excursions will be appropriate in time and nature for the tamariki that are participating. Nature Kidz begin their regular weekly excursions this Wednesday and they will alternate with Thursdays to ensure all our four year olds can participate. Koru Kidz have their first excursion on 6 March and these will take place on Mondays from 1130am-1230pm to allow a weekly lunchtime picnic. Pākiki Kidz have an excursion on 22 March which will take place in the morning. Please ask our teaching team if you have any queries about these regular excursions to the Pump Track. We are so excited to have Nature Kidz expanding into the different development groups and these excursions will grow and adapt as the year unfolds.
Our traditional Easter Hot Cross Bun fundraiser will be running again through March, with all funds raised being used to add to our outdoor climbing equipment—our tamariki love exploring on this equipment and we are excited to add more elements to this to keep extending their gross motor development.
Wishing everyone a fabulous start to Autumn, can you believe it is the third month of the year already!
The Country Kidz Teaching Team

We say ‘farewell’ to one of our tamariki this month who start their primary school learning journey
Austin Styles
Haere mai, welcome our Country Kidz friends
Ernie Richardson
Lucas Landicho
Arthur Oliver
Prius Walker
Mila Bennett
We are looking forward to welcoming you and your whānau!

Birthday honours for March include:
Georgia Waterworth
Chloe Simmonds
Wishing all our community who celebrate birthday’s this month, the warmest of wishes for the coming year.

To Reece Wine and Ash Tracey massive thanks for continuing to upkeep our lawns—amazing effort and without you both, we would be a jungle! If anyone else would like to help with our lawns, we would love to spread the mowing around!
To Arna Schultz for getting rid of our less than operational couch!
To Ashley Waterworth, Matt Walker, Amy Wine, Mark Seymour, and Craig Render for helping Country Kidz during and after the cyclone—we are very appreciative of our community support during this time.
We are forever grateful for the support of our community

9 March—Tirohanga School Visit
13 March– Marotiri School Visit
16 March—Kinloch Excursion
17 March—St Patrick’s Day
6 April—Last Day of Term Tahi

Please remember to like our Facebook page, Country Kidz ECE. Please share and encourage family and friends to like our page and follow the adventures and achievements we make here with our tamariki.

COUNTRY KIDZ
Our Annual General Meeting is on
4th April at Tirohanga Hall.
There will be drinks and nibbles from 6.30pm, with the meeting to start at 7pm. We are looking for new committee members to join our wonderful team. If this is something that you could be interested in, please give Hayley a call to find out more. This is a great way to get involved and support the local community!

Hot Cross Bun
Fundraiser
We are currently selling Coupland Hot Cross Buns to raise funds for further outdoor climbing equipment which our tamariki are loving exploring and risk taking on!
We have 3 delicious varieties all selling for $5 a packet of 6, so great value!
Order forms in all whānau pockets, or contact Kirsty for further details.
countrykidz@xtra.co.nz

MISFIT FRUIT AND VEGETABLE BOXES HAVE BEEN HUGELY POPULAR WITH OUR COMMUNITY!
Check out their website for the selection of boxes that you can pre-order www.misfitgarden.co.nz. Deliveries can be made to the Country Kidz address (1452 Forest Road, Mokai, 3377). All boxes are delivered for collection at 3pm every Wednesday.
With every box sold Country Kidz will receive a koha towards relocation costs 😊

We have our very own ‘Mary Poppins’ at Country Kidz and this year Briar is making herself available to our community as a babysitter! Should you find yourselves needing a night out, attending a Country Kidz committee meeting, or an urgent road trip to find eggs, send the lovely Briar a message on ….. 022 328 2492.

Any updates?
Can we please have up-to-date information on file with regards to the immunisation status of your tamariki—we require this legally should there be a health-related outbreak.
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

If you are interested and would like further information, please contact us on 333 9111.
Permanent Gardener and Maintenance Person—we have two hours a week for a grounds and maintenance person to help care for our learning environment. This is a position we are happy to be flexible with regards to time and day and can be done during or after hours.
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.