News and events for the week ending 17th August 2018 Friday 17th August 2018 Opening words from the Executive Principal由于校长身体不适,非常抱歉本周不能及时将校长的留言翻译成中文,但您们将会于下周阅读到校长的中文留言,希望得到大家的谅解。谢谢您们的宽容!再一次抱歉! 如需阅读重要事件日期,请点击此处 Kia ora tatou, good afternoon, 你好 I waved goodbye to our Year 7 and 8 rugby players as the rain fell and the thunder roared this morning. They were looking forward to spending some time getting muddy, I think, and I’m glad to see that the storm has passed. I’m not sure how they’ve been getting on, but I imagine I will hear soon enough! Continuing with sports: a huge congratulations to our Under 17A basketball team, who won their league with a magnificent performance last week, and to our Under 17 B team, who also did brilliantly to finish with a silver medal. Our senior football teams continue to go well - the First XI and our 14th grade teams both had emphatic wins at the weekend - and our boys’ First XI hockey had another good win last week too. It was also great to see our 2nd and 3rd senior netball teams doing so well last weekend. I’m hoping to see them play tomorrow if the fixtures line up. As we get close to the end of the winter sports season, it’s a good opportunity to say thank you to the coaches, managers and parent supporters of all of our teams: thank you! Your support makes everything we do possible. Thank you too for the support of so many Year 9 parents and students on Monday for the IGCSE Option Evening. It was very well-attended, and I hope everyone found it useful. If you have any additional questions, please contact Chris Wiggin, who will be very happy to help. The more we talk about this to get it right, the better it is for the students. On Wednesday, we had our Term 3 Open Day. This was also very well-attended, and it was, as always, a pleasure to welcome so many prospective students and parents to our school. It’s looking right now as if we still have a few places in Years 3 and 4 next year in Primary, and a few places in Years 9-11, but will otherwise be full next year. Having said that, places do come up every now and then as people move in and out of the area, so if you or anyone you know has any questions or wishes to find out more about the school, please do contact our Admissions Registrar, Stephanie Todd. I’m going to finish there, I think. (I’m trying to be more concise: a shorter newsletter!) Have a lovely weekend and enjoy what I’m hoping will again be a fine couple of days! Ngā mihi Alex Reed Alex Reed WEEK 5: Monday 20th August
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如需阅读重要事件日期,请点击此处 Kia Ora, This is the time of year when most of the winter sports draw to a conclusion. I’d like to congratulate all students who have regularly participated either individually or as a team member. Well done to our basketball players who achieved success last week. The boys Under 17A Team won league 2 and our Under 17B Team were runners up in their division. Pinehurst Girls competed in Auckland Secondary Schools Lacrosse tournament and finished in 6th place. Also congratulations must go to our 1st XI boys Hockey team. This week they won a tight semi final against Kingsway, good luck for next week’s final. Thank you to all the parents and students who attended last Monday’s IGCSE Option Evening. This event marks the beginning of subject selection decisions for Year 9 students. As I mentioned during the evening, the way we organise our subject groupings enables students to select a wide breadth of subjects at IGCSE Level. On Monday, 20th August at 6.30pm we will be hosting our A Level Options Evening. This meeting will focus on A level option choices and New Zealand University Entrance requirements. Though this meeting is primarily aimed at students and parents from Years 11 and 12, we welcome anyone who would like to know more about Cambridge A Level’s. This week we hosted another successful Open Day. It is always a pleasure to show visitors around Pinehurst and give them the opportunity to meet with our students. Visitors witness a calm environment where students of all ages are getting on with the task in hand. Good luck to all our Year 8 students who will be at ski camp next week. This is a highlight of the year for many students and teachers. I have no doubt that the fun, friendship and challenges experienced next week will be remembered long after leaving school. Whilst Year 8 students spend this weekend excitedly preparing for ski camp, our Year 11, 12 and 13 students are preparing for their mock examinations. By now all students know their examination timetable and should have a clear understanding of how the examinations are structured for each one of their subjects. This will be a busy weekend for these students. Year 11 students will begin their examinations on Thursday 23rd, with Year 12 and 13 examinations beginning on Monday 27th. All students will be expected to attend school as normal next week. Study leave will begin on Monday 27th. Ngā mihi, Chris Wiggin and Kieran Verryt Principals of College Year 10 Speech CompetitionThe Year 10 speech competition was held in the second to last week of Term 2. The topics were varied and engaging and the standard was high. The top three speeches were as follows: In third place was Angelica Morton with her speech entitled, Why it is good to believe in childhood myths. In second place was Danielle Bernacchi with her speech entitled, Why reality TV is good and finally in first place was Francesca Miller-Hard with a superb, thought provoking speech entitled , ‘Why we all need to laugh more’. Junior College Speech FinalsOn Wednesday 8th August we held our Junior College Speech finals in 'The Street'. Two students were selected from each Year 7 and Year 8 English classes to present to parents, teachers and their peers in the Junior College. Their speeches were of a high quality, very entertaining and thought provoking. It was a tough decision but in the end Yeonsoo Son, was awarded 1st place, Gryffon Flew 2nd and Tim Xie 3rd place. Well done to all the participants for competing so readily and making us proud. Thank you to Mrs Smith for organising the event and Mrs Cannan, Mrs Mackie and Mrs Hall for accepting the very difficult task of judging the winners. Finalists: (Back row) Thomas Moseby; Gryffon Flew; Yeonsoo Son; Dilan McKay; Breanna Lee; Olivia Frame and Hannh Lin (Front row) Tim Xie; Alana Addison; Danika Cuthell; Seina Murakami; Oscar Zhu; Ashleigh Bernacchi;) Year 9 Geography and FriendsAs an extension of their ecosystem management project earlier this year, Year 9 have been building penguin nesting boxes for the Little Blue Penguin. Year 12 geographer, Charlotte Thomas lead the workshop and students benefited from her knowledge of how the boxes will make a difference to the survival rate of the species. The materials for the boxes were generously donated by Wairau Park Placemakers and pre-cut by local builder Andrew O’Connell. The four successfully completed boxes, one with the help of Year 12 friends will be going to Tawharanui just in time for nesting season with messages of good will from the students written inside the lids. Massey Uni Engineering/Robotics/AI RoadshowThe Massey University Engineering/Robotics/AI Roadshow was a huge hit last Thursday. Our College students (and staff), loved the opportunity to find out about the Engineering programmes on offer up the road and then listen to a handful of their PhD students talk passionately about their current projects. One talked about how he was using Wi-Fi networks to track people in buildings, supermarkets and other businesses and the commercial and health and safety benefits of such technology. Other PhD students had built and programmed a range of different robotics equipment and AI to carry out human tasks. Our College students took a real interest in their projects and got the chance to experience first-hand how their technology worked. Our College IT and Robotics staff have already started looking into a multitude of ways Pinehurst can work together with Massey University to develop our Digital Technology programme in 2019 and beyond. Watch this space... Year 10 PEStudents have been exploring the idea of discrimination through a range of Paralympic sports. So far students have experienced what it is like to be a partially sighted/blind athlete and developed a range of skills to help them to be successful in blind cricket and goalball. As well as improving their own skills they have had to learn how to effectively communicate, support and guide each other through experiences which may be new or uncomfortable. Classes have also begun to learn how to play sitting volleyball where they are unable to use their legs to move around the court which has proved challenging for many! Pinehurst Prefects Giving to Those in NeedAs part of a new initiative to be more involved in the community and show those in need that we care, the Pinehurst prefects recently provided a foster home in Papatoetoe with ten much needed slow-cookers. Five representatives of the prefect team consisting of Daria Perevoztchikova, Louie Holgate-Simpson , Ethan Wood, Megan Gibbs and Ruby Abbott, accompanied by Mr. Verryt, travelled to the South Auckland community to deliver the cookers, which were purchased following fundraising by the prefect team. Upon arriving at the community for children living in foster care, the group was greeted by Dingwall director Tracie Shipton and introduced to many of the 75 young people and caregivers who live there. One very bright and spirited young girl was very proud to share the details of their ‘Garden to Table’ programme and show off their large vegetable garden, fruit trees, beehives and chicken coupe. She accepted the crockpots on behalf of the residents and was very grateful as she explained that these would enable the children to prepare news ways to cook hearty meals for each of the cottages from their garden produce! The rest of the afternoon was spent playing handball and enjoying a delicious afternoon tea prepared by the children. The reining handball champions of Dingwall were triumphant over the Pinehurst team who were super impressed by their skills, and a little embarrassed at their loss! Following the farewells from the children and caregivers of Dingwall, the group felt incredibly humbled by the experience and also very proud of their efforts. The opportunity to do something seemingly simple reminded the prefects that everyone can make a difference in our communities, no matter how big or small the gesture may seem because what really counts, is caring for one another. Sports Exchange Tournament 2018Pinehurst recently took part in the 2018 Sports Exchange Tournament hosted by Kristin School. This bi-annual tournament involved our Football Boys & Football Girls, Netball Girls, Basketball Boys and Hockey Boys & Girls. Running over 3 days, our teams competed against Northcross, Kristin, Albany Junior High and Scotch College (Australia). Our teams were outstanding, with some very good results across a number of codes (see below) Thank you to all the staff, parents and umpires who supported the teams over the week, and to Mrs Lindsay for organising teams to attend these events. Additional photos of the exchange can be found on the Pinehurst Sports Facebook page CLICK HERE Football Boys: Junior College DebatingReasoning, research and public speaking skills are just some of the positives behind learning how to be a great debater. From Cicero to Churchill, history’s great debaters have helped shape the world we live in and resolve many of society’s issues. Students in the Junior College Debating Club are learning to be critical thinkers, articulate their thoughts, think on their feet and grow in confidence. Congratulations to Sebastian, Gryffon and William, speakers of the affirmative team who won our recent debate. These boys presented well thought out arguments, supported by research, to convince their audience that school uniforms should be banned. Despite their persuasiveness, students at Pinehurst will continue to wear school uniforms with pride! ;-) Rescue Run for YouthlineWe are excited to have a team of six students (Hayden Neal-Brown, Dominic van der Steeg, Harry Townsend, Jade Imrie, Niamh Stuart and Charlie Thomas) from our school competing on the 8th September in the Youth Division of the Rescue Run for Youthline and raising money and awareness for Youthline's vital Helpline Services. It costs approximately $800,000 a year to run the Helpline Services. Last year, Youthline managed over 300,000 contacts to their nationwide hubs via phone calls, text messages and emails. They also supported over 50,000 young people across New Zealand and it’s a big part of Youthline’s expenses each year. That's a lot of young kiwi's reaching out in a time of need and crisis! Please follow the link HERE and support our students by giving a donation. Paper PlanesAt the end of Term 2, Year 8’s put their aerodynamic skills to the test in a light-hearted “America’s Cup” for paper planes. Each plane had to have a wing area of 150cm2 or less, and be made from one piece of A4 paper. Teams had to provide calculations to verify that their plane complied if they were to win a prize. The eventual winners were Michael Matti and Tim Xie, who won a packet of jet planes (of the jelly variety). Junior College Formal ConcertOn Wednesday the 15th of August, twelve incredibly talented Year 7 and 8 students wowed the audience with an impressive array of solo performances in the Arena from 4.30pm. A wide variety of instruments and performance skills was showcased, including a beautiful solo on the guzheng by Kitty Qu (Yr7), a funky drum performance of Uptown Funk by Dilan Singh (Yr 7) and some incredibly technically challenging pieces on the alto saxophone by Michael Ma (Yr 8), the violin by Chang Liu (Yr 8) and on the piano by Hannah Lin (Yr8). A special thank you to Shuan Liu (Yr 11) who accompanied a couple of the performances and to Alanna Addison (Yr7) who MC’d the event and opened it beautifully by singing Te Aroha. Year 7 TechnologyYear 7 students Maisie, Kalan, Bella, Savannah and John proudly displaying the result of a hard term's work designing and making a pewter cast identity tag/key ring. The design brief required the students to make an object that reflected their individuality that combined their initials, personal interests and Turangawaewae, the Maori concept of a place where they stand. Each design started with the students taking a letter from their initials and designing this so it reflected their personality (strong, serious, cute or wild). Combining this with an interest; pets to pizza, sport to study, and then shapes from where they live, originate. They then sculpted a clay pattern, heated pewter and poured it into the mold, finishing the project with lots of polishing. The results were a class load of amazingly creative key rings combined with lots of theory about metals.
Year 9 StudentsSome of the many diverse designs produced by the Year 9 Technology students speaker project. Students were given a brief to design a simple speaker that used a basic amplifier circuit and stereo speakers for use with a device at home. The project ran through the design process, identifying aspects of the problem from aesthetics to function materials to safety. The groups then researched existing designs and used these as inspiration for their designs. After drawing the ideas to scale, they headed into the workshop, used hand tools and machines to measure, mark, cut drill, glue, sand and assemble, solder and finish their speaker. What makes a game fair/unfair?Year 7 students have investigated three different versions of snakes and ladders- the conclusion? They were all fair it was just luck what numbers you roll on the dice. This did not stop many from crying “That’s not fair!!” when they landed on their second snake in a row. Football 1st XI BoysThe Football 1st XI boys have just completed a successful season, finishing off with a convincing 4-1 win against Parnell College. It’s been a season which started slowly, but with commitment and a great team spirit, the team managed to turn around results and finish up winning five out of our last six games. The team has been led superbly by Mitchell Donnell, and the other seniors in the team, who have been able to work together ensuring their last year in the team has been a success. As coach, it’s been a pleasure taking this team. They’ve represented Pinehurst School with pride, and should be proud of their achievements in winning the plate. To the Year 13’s, I thank you for your contribution to Pinehurst Football, and the dedication you have shown this year. I look forward to closely following your football endeavours in the future. WeightliftingThis week was the first session of our new weightlifting programme run by Olympic weightlifter Richie Patterson. The programme, funded by Kiwi Sport, will allow students to experience weightlifting and gain valuable advice and support from professional coaches. The sessions will take place first at school and then move after school down to Functional Strength 2 mins from school, where students will continue to develop their skills as well as have access to a range of lifting and gymnastics equipment. Not only is the programme aiming to find some talented weightlifters, it is also a great chance to develop strength, timing and co-ordination for other sports. There is still a chance to get involved – see Miss Murray for more details. Girls LacrosseOn the 9th of August the girl’s lacrosse team took part in the “Lacrosse Girls Championship”, one day tournament at the Avondale racecourse where the division 2 and 3 teams battled it out. The girls played well finishing 6 out of 12 teams in division 2. The last game was very close, only being decided by a goal in the last minute of play. This girls team was coached by Zoe Exon and Mikayla O’Brien, with support from Lucy Stuart, our own Year 13 students. It has been a good season for the girls with wins and losses, but lots of laughter, fun and good memories. World VisionThis year’s 23 World Vision leaders did an exceptional job organising events such as the 40km World Vision Walk, the Refugee Camp-Out as well as the afternoon of Survival Activities for the Junior College students. As a result of everyone’s efforts, a total of $15, 360.53 was raised by the Year 7-13 students. Special mention to our top three World Vision fundraisers, Gryffon Flew (who raised $625), Finn Rosoman (who raised $550) and Oscar Zhu (who raised $508). The money raised from this year’s World Vision 40 Hour Famine will go towards helping the children of South Sudan. Mathematics Competition SuccessCongratulations to Yong Yeon (Logan) Cho who placed in the top 15 in New Zealand of the Senior Mathematics Competition and will be (has been?) flown to Wellington on August 19 to take part in the finals of the competition against the others in the top 15. Congratulations also to Yuhan (Linda) Tang who placed in the top 30 in New Zealand in the highest grade of the Junior Mathematics Competition run by Otago University. Kia Ora, It is really hard to predict where society will be in the next 10 to 20 years. One thing is for sure it will look quite different to today. Technology is advancing at a rapid rate, bringing with it positives and negatives and we have the challenge of educating and guiding our young people through what is to come. A recent seminar on singularity and the advancement of artificial intelligence was both exciting and quite frankly terrifying with mankind needing to get its act together before the integration of A.I. according to the presenter. But in terms of preparing our students for whatever may come in their future we have been exploring ways to integrate technology so that it becomes a tool to support learning. Hannah Fisher has been running coding club this year for older Primary students but we are introducing coding for all Primary learners from next year. There has been a lot of coverage around the need for students to learn coding but not a lot of explanation of why, other than the world needing more programmers. Some of the main benefits are in the types of thinking and skills that coding helps to develop. It helps to build abstract concepts in Maths and to help give a real world context to solving problems. Coding helps kids develop creativity and build the confidence to problem solve as well as help them to develop better focus and organisation. Coding requires resilience as students must try out their ideas and then improve when things don’t go to plan and also a sense of logic through a need to work systematically. Of course we recognise that the future version of society will require people who can code and so developing those skills from an early age will become a necessary part of the curriculum but we know that as well as teaching our students valuable life skills they will also get a great deal of fun and enjoyment from using Beebots and Sphero and that the benefits to learning will encompass many areas of the curriculum not just I.T. Ngā mihi, Sian Coxon, Principal of Primary Mid Bays HockeyWell done to our Primary Mid Bays Hockey teams, who last week competed in the annual hockey tournament between Pinehurst, Murrays Bay, Browns Bay & Pinehill. Our boys team finished 2nd to Murrays Bay, after a very close final game. Our girls team finished in 3rd place. Overall our teams finished in 2nd for 2018 – well done! A big thank you to Mr Peebles for coaching the teams, to all the parents who supported us on the day and to our wonderful JC umpires (Brooke, Jaimie, Freddie & William) who once again did an outstanding job! Library NewsDuring the Year 3 - Year 6 classes' sessions in the library we've been reading the five shortlisted picture books from the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. All the students and teachers voted for the book they thought was the best. There was a lot of discussion about the books, and each book had its champions, with students re-reading and discussing them prior to voting. Blake Fitzgerald (Y6) thought that 'It was fun listening to all the books, but when it came to the deciding it was hard because all the books were great in their own way'. Isabel Ramdhari, Jessica French and Millie Wang (Y3) all voted for the same book because they thought it was 'interesting, and we love animals and friendship stories. The book made us feel good'. Voting closed last Wednesday, as the awards were going to be announced that evening. The judges for the awards thought that 'I am jellyfish' was the best book, awarding the prize to author and illustrator Ruth Paul. However, our students voted differently, and 'Granny McFlittter the champion knitter' was the winner for Pinehurst! News from P18Should we revive extinct species by recovering their ancient DNA? Should drugs be allowed in Sport? Why grown-ups are a strange species? These were just some of the persuasive subjects chosen by P18's Year 6 students for their speeches this year. Over the last few weeks, the students independently planned, researched and developed convincing arguments to convince an audience of their peers to agree with them. Congratulations to Allen Weng, Abby Wendelborn and Olivia Shine who were selected to represent P18 in the Year 6 Speech final this week. The standard of oral language skills was extremely high this year. Meanwhile in Art we have been finishing our Jo May inspired pieces using water-colour pencils. Eva and Emma have taken on a challenging New Zealand beach scene which involves lots of shading to create depth. Next in Art, we are moving onto print making. This time we are taking inspiration from Andy Warhol’s Endangered Species series. Before we begin with the process of layering ink, we have experimented with layering of coloured paper to create to the effect of movement. Maths Week!P6 have been enjoying a fun-filled week full of maths! Each day we have been challenging ourselves to complete problems. An important part of problem-solving involves being able to articulate the methods we have used, and we have had some deep discussions and debate with our partners. We have discovered that there is often more than one way to work! Earlier in the week, we also had fun using a website called ‘Kahoot’ which allows us to use technology to participate in a quiz. This would normally happen at the end of a unit of work to help assess our understanding…but we completed what is known as a ‘Blind Kahoot’ which takes place before a new unit. Taking part in the Kahoot helped us to learn how to tell the time and by the end of the lesson we could all read and write o’clock times. One of our favourite activities during Maths Week has been using the Bee-Bot app for simple programming. A lot of maths is required during this, in terms of using positional language and problem solving. We also had a go at creating our own Bee-Bot mats, with a pirate theme, to match our topic. ESOLIn ESOL this week, we have been using the present continuous tense correctly, writing and using determiners correctly and telling stories using picture prompts. Year 4 Councillors Donating to Yenderra SchoolPictured here with Mrs Jones-Hill are the Yr4 Councillors with the surplus biscuits from the Year 4 Camp earlier this year. The biscuits will be donated to Yendarra school along with the winter pyjamas that were donated or bought with the proceeds from our last mufti day. Yendarra School runs an “Aroha Shop” ('aroha' means love in Maori) and the children are able to go to the shop when they get a reward token. There are a variety of ways the students can earn these rewards and it is often a reward for attending school for the entire week. Yendarra are very appreciative of the links with Pinehurst and the gifts that are donated. Seussical updateWe’ve had a very productive couple of weeks, preparing for our Junior Primary Production – teachers, students and some parents are beginning to eat, sleep and breathe Dr Seuss! Thank you so much to the wonderful parent helpers who have come in these past two weeks to help with our costume creations. We could not have done this without you. The costumes are looking fantastic. If you feel that you would still like to get involved in anyway, please speak to one of the class teachers as there are still plenty of other jobs to do. Rehearsals are going well, lines have been learned and choreography has commenced. Once again, thank you to all our wonderful students for their hard work and dedication. The only problem so far, is finding someone who can let Mrs Jones-Hill down gently…how do we tell her she isn’t in the show? Tickets will be on sale from next Wednesday 22nd August. I Spy in the PrimaryI Spy....traditional Korean instruments being played for us! I Spy....the Year Two lunchtime writing club with Ruby! I Spy...plays being rehearsed in P12 and P16. I Spy....P4 discussion on which country we were born in? I Spy....P1 perfecting their skipping skills in the Arena! I Spy...reading in P1 and P7. Music at PinehurstThe KBB Competition Last week both the Pinehurst Orchestra and the Jazz band competed at the largest Musical competition in New Zealand that involved 45 schools. 50 Pinehurst students participated and walked away with some fantastic prizes. The Pinehurst Orchestra (34 students) held their own in the Symphonic Orchestra category despite being half the size of most of the other entrants and by far the youngest as a cohort. The judges loved the pop repertoire and enjoyed the musicianship skills of our students. As a result the KBB Orchestra was honoured with a Bronze Award and a Mentorship Award to continue developing their impressive skills. If you wish to view photos of the group please click here The 16 piece Jazz KBB Jazz Band wowed the judges with their repertoire of six pieces, in particular their rendition of Oh So Quiet by Bjork with Pearl Stretton as their vocalist. Click here to view the performance. They were awarded a Commendation Award and we look forward to seeing this group grow and develop. This is the final year for Gabriel Parkins-Craig (Yr 13, on the bass guitar) and Koa Nelson (Y13, drums) in the band. Their commitment and ability to hold the group together as part of the rhythm sections is incredibly appreciated and will be sorely missed. If you wish to view photos of the group, please click here Thank you to all the parents that supported both groups by ensuring the extra rehearsals were well attended and a special thank you to the parent helpers that came along to these events. Both groups have already started working on their new repertoire for next year. The Chamber Music Competition and the KBB Honours Symphonic Orchestra A big congratulations to Cindy Jia (Y13) whose string group, OCTOT entered the Chamber Music Competition Finals and was awarded a Gold award earlier in August. Cindy also was selected to be part of the Honours KBB Orchestra’s violin section and proudly represented the school at their Friday night free concert. The Oxford Piano Masterclass Series Shuan Liu (Y11) and Judy Lu (Yr9) both attended the Oxford Piano Master Class Series in week 1,2 and 3 this term and both enjoyed the experience immensely. It is impressive to see our Pinehurst students striving to meet international performance standards abroad. These students had the opportunity to have private lessons with some of the greatest names in the piano performance industry like Mario Papadopoulus from Greece. Welcome to Cameron McArthur, our new Bass Guitar Teacher Since graduating from the University of Auckland with a bachelor’s degree in jazz performance in 2012, Cameron has been contributing to the Auckland music scene, performing with artists such as Roger Manins, Ron Samsom, Nathan Haines, Kevin Field, Carolina Moon, and many more. As well as live performance, Cameron has recorded with New Zealand artists such as Anita Schwabe, Mark Donlon, Michal Martynuik as well as with the Auckland Jazz Orchestra, Sal Valentine and the Babyshakes and the Neutrino Funk Experience. Additionally, Cameron has been part of the pit orchestra in Michaels Hurst’s rendition of Chicago in 2013 as well as an original production entitled The Red Chair by Last Tape Productions in 2012. Yale Young Global Scholars ProgrammeLogan Cho (Year 12) recently attended the "Applied Science and Engineering (ASE) session of the Yale Young Global Scholars Programme" as he has a strong interest in pursuing a major in the stem field for university.
Parent Breakfast Meetings - Term 3
Venue: Caffe E Cuccina, 265 Albany Hwy Please RSVP: judy.wallace@pinehurst.school.nz Wine & Cheese EveningWe are holding another Wine & Cheese Evening for parents to mix and mingle. There will be light discussion around the following topics; new developments in the school in the areas of property, IT, and curriculum, along with leadership and overseas trips. Come along on Thursday 23rd August, 6pm - 7:30pm in the reception foyer. Please RSVP: judy.wallace@pinehurst.school.nz Kidzplay NetballKidzplay Netball are looking for sponsorship to replace the goal post protectors/padding. Please email your interest to: kidzplaynetball@gmail.com Tennis Coaching
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