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ECS Update Term 1, Week 6 – Friday 8 March 2024
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This newsletter contains information on the following:
- Important Dates
- Mobility Parking
- Attendance Dues 2024
- Call for Help – Scholastic Book Fair
- Parent Fundraising Group
- Board of Trustees Election
- Free Cookie with Subway Order (Lunchonline)
- Sausage Sizzle
- Food Wrap Fundraiser Update (ready for pick up)
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Friday 29th March – Tuesday 2nd April – Easter
Friday 12th April – Last day of Term 1
Monday 29th April – First day of Term 2
(The School Calendar and full 2024 Term dates can be found here)
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Recently some families who need to use our Mobility parking spaces have found vehicles (with no permit displayed) parked in them while other parks remain vacant in the carpark. We do have several families with Mobility Parking Permits who need to use these two parks (located outside the Office).
Please could you ensure the Mobility parking spaces are left free for the families who need to use them.
Thank you.
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Dear Parents and Caregivers
As a Proprietors Trust we would like to welcome you to the 2024 school year.
This week you have been emailed your invoices and statement related to Attendance Dues and Special Character Donations for the new school year. Please read the attached letter which contains further information about these.
Ngā mihi
Emmanuel Proprietors Trust
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Call for Help – Scholastic Book Fair
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This year we are hoping to run a Scholastic Book Fair. We hope this will help to encourage the love of reading, help our students to have access to books at home and to raise funds to purchase new books for our school library. We have run these book fairs in the past and they’ve always been very popular.
This is where we need you!
Are you willing and capable to take on the task of organising the book fair for our school? It isn’t a small job so you will need some helpers. We have a contact at Scholastic who is very enthusiastic to help and guide you through the process.
Would you prayerfully consider serving our school in this way?
Please contact Melinda Kerkhoven if you have any questions or you would like to put your hand up to take on this task.
Melinda ph. 021 213 6841 or email: melinda@emmanuelchristian.school.nz
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Parent Fundraising Group – can you help?
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Another way you can serve our school community is to join our fundraising group.
We are a small group and are keen for the group to grow and for someone to take over the main organising from Michelle Posthuma who has been running this group for many years.
We try to aim for 1-2 sausage sizzles per term and 2 bigger fundraisers in the year (eg. Dr Bugs Popcorn, Baking Paper etc) but due to the lack of helpers we haven’t been able to run these as often as we would like.
Funds raised through our fundraising group over the past few years have gone toward: purchasing new library books, Cultural Day, EPro-8 challenge equipment, new musical instruments, repairing/refurbishing our school piano, sports team uniforms, sports equipment, kapahaka uniforms, art supplies, picnic tables, science lab equipment and boardgames for classrooms.
If this sounds like something you would be interested in please speak to Michelle Posthuma or Louise at the Office.
We are planning to run a sausage sizzle on Thursday 14th March and will need some helpers in the morning. Please email Michelle if you can help: amposthuma1@gmail.com
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Board of Trustees Election Update
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It is fantastic and really encouraging to have 7 really high caliber candidates for this election. Unfortunately there are only 2 vacancies as all of our candidates have so much to offer.
Voting will remain open until the 25th March at 4pm.
Can I encourage you to read the candidate statements carefully and pray about who you should vote for? A great way to honour these 7 candidates would be to have a really high number of you vote in this election. Voting information was sent by email on Monday 26th February
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Free Cookie with Subway Order (Lunchonline)
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Subway is giving away a free cookie with every ‘Sub order’ through Lunchonline for our Thursday 14th March delivery. See the notice below for more information.
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We also still have lots of $5 account credit vouchers for Lunchonline available for any families who have not yet opened a Lunchonline account. Just pop into the Office to collect a voucher or contact info@lunchonline.co.nz and let them know you have a voucher with the code NEWENTRANT2024 and they will open an account and credit the account with $5 so that you can start ordering lunches.
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On Thursday 14th March the Fundraising committee will be running a sausage sizzle.
The cost is $2 per sausage.
They will also be selling Small Lemonade Ice blocks for $1.
Order forms were sent home this week (also attached below).
Please complete one form for each child and return with payment to the Office
by 2.45pm Tuesday 12th March.
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Food Wrap Fundraiser Update (ready for pickup)
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Thank you for your support of the Food Wrap Fundraiser. We have raised $900 to go toward Sport Team Uniforms (basketball, netball)!
For those who placed orders – these have now arrived and can be picked up from the Office.
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