Author: Admin

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

Kia ora e te whānau
The end of term one is upon us tomorrow and by golly it has flown by! We welcome Tania Thomson, a registered teacher with wonderful experience to our teaching team as a permanent teacher. We are so excited for her to join us as she shares our child-led growth philosophy and has the most beautiful, unhurried way with our tamariki. Please help us make her feel welcome :o)
Country Kidz will be closed on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday next week for our teacher only days before reopening on Thursday and Friday and for the remainder of the school holidays. These days give us an opportunity to reflect as teachers on the term gone and plan for the coming term according to tamariki needs, aspirations, and urges. We have a lot happening in the term coming with a continuation of our growth in providing opportunities to nurture our develop kaitiakitanga. We are keen to bring our vegetable gardens into our learning environment further and to help this our expert gardener (thanks Serena) has suggested we use concrete troughs. If anyone has any concrete troughs that are no longer needed on the farm, please let us know as we would love to reinvigorate them as vegetable gardens here at Country Kidz. We will also be furthering our eco-knowledge and spending lots of the coming term learning about the impact bees have on not just honey making but also the role they play in pollination.
We had a wonderful turnout to our working bee and the mahi undertaken was incredible, what a difference it has made to our outside spaces which have once again been revitalised and prepared for an enjoyable and safe Winter. Our biggest gratitude to Brett Steeghs for organising the event and to the all the hard workers—Alex, Nikita, Arna, Matt S, Libby, Matt R, Sam K, Karena, Wendy, GG, Kirsty, Sophia, Ruth, Ashley W, Ashley T Adelle, Zac, Poppa Turtle, Gemma, Reece, Amy B, and Karl. Thanks also to Arna and Matt for organising Mercury to help deliver the sand refill on Friday (boy did the tamariki love this!) and Amy W for picking up the safety treads.
A reminder that our Annual General Meeting is on Tuesday 16th of April at Tirohanga Hall with nibbles and drinks from 6.30pm and the meeting scheduled to start at 7pm. We would love to welcome some of our new families into the committee - there are only four meetings a year to attend, which can be done by teams if you are unable to make them in person. Nomination forms are now in whānau pockets for everyone, please feel free to speak to staff or committee members if you are keen to be part of building the legacy of Country Kidz.
Our Easter Raffle raised $420, which will go towards our ball sports with a new hoop and balls being organised from this fundraising effort! Huge thanks to Wendy for organising such a successful fundraiser and our learning community for supporting it in such a brilliant way!
Our major fundraiser for the coming term is The Country Kidz Dance—mark the date in your dairies for 22 June as we celebrate our community coming together for a night of fun and festivities!!
For the many families that take the school holidays to share each other's company, enjoy the coming break as we know it has been a long term for many of our schooling whānau. For those travelling, may they be safe, fun, and adventurous! We are so looking forward to the coming term, thank you for all the support our teaching team enjoys—we are so passionate about what we do here and we love the time we have with you tamariki sharing in their learning journey.

Birthday honours for April include:
Caden Dudley
Jack Davison
Darby Steeghs
Mackenzie Brennan
Kip Law
Remember Mangi
Wishing all our whānau and community that also celebrated a birthday this month the warmest of wishes

15-17– Country Kidz Closed for Teacher Only Days
16 April—Country Kidz AGM 7pm
23 April—Bike Taupō
25 April—ANZAC Day (Country Kidz is closed for this commemorative day)
3 May—Marotiri School Visit
11 May— Mother’s Day
16 May—Monster Truck Day
17 May—Pink Shirt Day
All our Pump Track Excursions for age groups will be on the Events Page of our website along with all other important dates!

We say ‘farewell’ to some of our tamariki this month who are about to start their primary school learning journey,
Caden Dudley
Jack Davison
Haere mai, welcome to our new Country Kidz friends,
Gurnivaaz Singh
Navkeerat Kaur
Maddison Kidd
We are looking forward to getting to know you over the coming month!

Our Learning Community
Gives Thanks To:

Huge thanks to our committee for organising a lawn mowing and gardening roster as our outside environment is growing at a great rate! If anyone would like to help in this area, or join the roster we would be extremely grateful.
The very generous firewood donations from the Henare’s, the Steeghs, the Dillons, the Tracey’s, and the Davison’s—thank you so much we so pleased to have the best wood supply for the Winter!

Country Kidz MERCH now available and working so well!
$15 for a hat or wet bag

COUNTRY KIDZ
Our Annual General Meeting is on
9th 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 Kirsty a call to find out more. This is a great way to get involved and support the local community!

Our Excursion to Kinloch for a walk into the Fairy gardens for an Easter Hunt and spend time at the water wheel, before a enjoying the local park was made possible thanks to the generous and wonderful whānau participation we got! As a teaching team we wanted to thank everyone that helped make this day so enjoyable. We have a strong desire at Country Kidz to get out and explore our wider world and this is made achievable with such awesome whānau involvement —SO THANK YOU to our learning community, we love these times as much as your tamariki do!.

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 the Tamariki.

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