Author: Admin

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

Kia ora e te whānau
What a busy start to the March we have had and with so many things coming up that we are excited to share with our community!
Sincere thanks to our fundraising community who have put on the most awesome Horse Trek, and the feedback has been fabulous with calls asking for it to become an annual event. Events such as these are not possible without a great deal of people power and the help of sponsors. BNZ and Pak’n’Save were happy to support this experience which meant we were able to raise over $2000 for Tredsafe climbing equipment. Further thanks within to all the helpers and land owners.
Our current fundraiser is our ANNUAL AMAZING EASTER RAFFLE—further details inside but we are now accepting donations for our raffle and books of 12 tickets will go home with all whānau next week to help us sell. Hopefully you have seen the wonderful collection of raffle prizes growing at our front door! We are hoping to have three glorious prizes by the end of our collecting! Tickets will be $2 each or three for $5 :o)
We have permission slips out for our Kinloch Excursion on the 26th of March which will require parent helpers to go ahead. We are planning a ‘surprise’ Easter Hunt in the fairy gardens as part of the experience heading into Easter. All information and forms are in your whānau pockets located on the office wall. For our new community members, your tamariki have a named pocket where additional information, art, forms, and fundraising news goes in for you to collect.
It’s that time of year with the weather cooling, we need to start heating our inside spaces with gusto! We would love any firewood donations we can get from our community to help with this as our fireplaces are a huge part of our heating. Any donation of firewood would be greatly received and we have a team of people ready to unstack and stack—it’s one of our favourite jobs that our tamariki love helping with!
We are also organising our annual working bee for the 6th of April to make sure all our outside spaces are ready for the Winter. If you are able to help for the morning that would be amazing and we will provide morning tea and hot drinks to get us through a morning of mahi! It is with the wonderful support of our community that our environment continues to improve and blossom—and it certainly takes a village! As a teaching team we are forever grateful, as a charity it is hard to do improvements without the help of our whānau and we acknowledge and thank you for this.
Until the next month rolls around, take care and thank you for being a special part of our daily rhythms.

Birthday honours for March include:
Indie Karipa
Georgia Waterworth
Aila Petersen
Chloe Simmonds
Meila Bulter
Wishing all our whānau and community that also celebrated a birthday this month the warmest of wishes

11 March—Ramadan celebrations at Country Kidz
14 March— Pi Day
14 March—Taupō Dental Clinic
15 March—St Patrick’s Day celebrations at Country Kidz
20 March—Hearing and Vision with Annette
26 March—Kinloch Excursion
26 March– Easter Raffle DRAWN!
29 March—Good Friday (closed)
1 April—Easter Monday (closed)
9 April—Country Kidz AGM
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,
Georgia Waterworth
Indie Karipa
Haere mai, welcome to our new Country Kidz friends,
Kamania Ngamahanga-Cook
Tai Earley
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.

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 Easter RAFFLE is currently running to bring some festivity to the end of our first term! This will be drawn on our Kinloch excursion to ensure the three lucky winners can pick them up before the BIG WEEKEND!
If you would like to donate, there is still plenty of time to get our three baskets completely overflowing with Easter goodness.
Tickets are $2 each or three for $5

Country Kidz gives sincere thanks to the following for enabling the horse trek to be such a wonderful event:
Trek Organisers and Helpers—Ruth Steeghs, Adelle and Ash Tracey, Jenefer Waterworth, Natasha Cox, Libby Owen, Amy Wine, Briar Templeton, and Wendy Jones.
All the incredible BAKERS that provided the most delicious kai!
Land Owners - Dennis Guyton from Waipapa Trust, Jenefer and Bruce Waterworth, Marion Slagter and Lyall Ridge, Jo Bell and Geordie Bull, Julia and Shane Finlayson, Ashley and Serena Waterworth.
Trek Sponsors—BNZ Taupō and Pak’n’Save Taupō

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

We are after some loose parts to add to our Winter fun at Country Kidz—if any of our whanau have good but used sheets and blankets for fort making we would be grateful for any donations.
If anyone has any pinecones or wool (spun or unspun) we would love to add them to our loose parts collection. Even if you have pinecones that need collecting we would be happy to come on an excursion to fossick and collect bags of them!

Come help Country Kidz get ready for the cooler season with a working bee to help make sure we are ready for the Winter weather!

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