Kia Ora Kevinians and Supporters of the College,
I have a mixed bag of news this week, so thought I would share this amazing picture of our College taken from the Redcastle Door by our Alternative Education Learning Assistant Lorena Marshall. Lorena has taken many of the pictures we have used in our marketing materials over the past few months and I think you will agree she has an extraordinary gift for capturing the beauty we are surrounded with here at the College. I would like to thank her for sharing her gifts and talents with us.
Covid has continued to spread through the College this week with our having ten students away as confirmed cases today and one staff member with the virus. Thank you for your vigilance in testing and for your communication around absences.
On Thursday 16th March, our staff members who are part of the PPTA union will be going on strike along with their primary school colleagues. This industrial action is in response to a breakdown in their collective bargaining for this round. The School Board has opted to remain 'open for supervision'. This means that we will be technically open if you need a place for your students to be on Thursday if they are under the age of 14 and do not have anyone to supervise them at home. There will not be any instruction provided, as we will only have a skeleton staff on board of teachers who are not in a union or members of other unions. If anything changes in this regard next week, we will let you know.
On Wednesday, we farewelled Father Wayne from our College as he moves into retirement. All of our students took the opportunity to express their gratitude to him for his service. We wish him all the best for the future.
We launched the 'Whānau Reading Initiative this week, keep a lookout for that on social media and in the notices to find out what it is all about.
God Bless
Jo.
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