Welcome to Term Two at Edendale! Everyone is settled back into school and we are looking forward to another busy and stimulating term for everyone. A special welcome goes to Toni Ross, a new teacher who has joined us as class teacher for Room 19. We do hope that you enjoy working here at Edendale.
Our special PTA meeting last week was very successful with twenty-two parents and staff combined in attendance. We now have a committee: Fiona Shirreffs (Chairperson), Gillian Roache (Secretary) Louise Sadler (Treasurer) and Bronwyn Ward (Staff Representative). PTA meetings are now on the 3rd Thursday of the month at 7.00pm with the next meeting being on 17 May.
We are delighted that our new phone system has just been installed. You will be able to leave voice mail messages for all teachers as well as administration staff very soon. For those of you who experienced problems with our previous system, we do hope that these will now be resolved.
We are receiving quite a few inquiries about our centenary, which falls in 2009. We hope to hold a celebration of this occasion at some point during the year. In order to be able to do this we need expressions of interest from past pupils of the school to form an Reunion Committee. Please email me if you are interested in being a part of a team to organise a weekend event or if you would like more information about what might be involved.
Our new Board of Trustees meets for their first meeting tomorrow evening, Tuesday 1 May at 7.15pm. We will let you know in the newsletter this week if there are to be any changes to the day or time of these meetings, which are open for members of the public to attend.
Tomorrow evening, JennyTong, Lyn Stanton and I attend the first session of the Gifted and Talented Programme which is part of Auckland University Continuing Education. Information from this may be of particular interest to families, particularly those who wish to participate in our review of programmes we provide for these students at Edendale. I will give a summary of key points raised, weekly on this blog. Please feel welcome to mail through your comments about this if you wish to do so.
