This Thursday and Friday the Holy Trail is taking place.

One of the properties in the Holy Trail is located in Avery Road, which means there will be slightly more traffic around the area.  In light of this, we have arranged for the bus to drop children along Avery Road to their driveways this Thursday and Friday in the afternoons only. The morning bus run will not change.

If you have any questions please let me know.

Regards

Maree

Mōrena koutou,

Welcome to Week 5. For anyone wondering, it is now only 45 sleeps until Christmas, only 27 school days left in the term and for the &ear 8 students looking forward to their camp in Rotorua they only have 10 more school days to wait.     

Last week we had Tui Class leading the way with attendance, closely followed by Ruru and Kotare classes.

This week we have everyone onsite for the whole week - many continuing the PAT testing and on Friday we are joined by the Cricket Coaches coming in to take the different class cricket sessions.

SPORTS UNIFORMS

If your child has finished playing sport for 2026 and is not taking part in the Coastal Cluster Lit Quiz, now is the time to start hunting out all those sports uniforms and return them to the office in a named bag.  Please have them returned to the office before Wednesday of Week 9.  Any unreturned uniforms by this date will incur a replacement cost.

Have a great week.

Tristan

Good morning everyone,

Welcome to Week 4, Term 4.  The term is certainly racing along!  Attendance is back up where we need it with Kererū class being the top class last week followed closely by Weka and Toroa.

A big thank you to everyone who has already paid the school fees/donation.  This means we can get on with resourcing our school in a way that benefits all of our learners.  If you haven't paid these fees, please pay these along with the other payments due that would be awesome.  We are more than happy for families to set up automatic payment to clear the outstanding balances on student accounts.  

The infamous Eskdale School PTA Market Day will be upon us soon (Saturday, 28 November 2026).  This is easily the biggest fundraising event of the year for the School PTA. Please read on below to see how you can help.

Reminders for this week:

-  Wednesday - Year 5&6 Coastal Cluster Tabloids @ Twyford.  Leaving school at 10.00am.

-  Wednesday - Cape Sanctuary visit with Ruud Kleinpaste.

🥳 It’s officially Bay View Market Day Month! 🥳

Bay View Market Day is Eskdale School’s biggest fundraiser! This much-loved community event attracts thousands of visitors and features 160+ stalls.

This event is organised by the Eskdale School PTA, and we need your help to make it a success!

📣 SPREAD THE WORD

Head to our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/share/1C3FDkUGQr/?mibextid=wwXIfr ‘Bay View Market Day’ and FOLLOW us, LIKE our posts and SHARE, SHARE, SHARE! The more people who know about our amazing event, the better. 

Please also respond to our Facebook event and share it with your friends and family. 

If you’d like to help spread the word by putting up a poster at your workplace, local cafe, sports club or community noticeboard that would be amazing too! Just pop into the office and see Maree for a copy, or we can also email you a digital version to print yourself.

🧁 BAKE SALE

In the week leading up to our market day we’ll need plenty of delicious baking for the Bake Sale stall, see the flyer attached.

👩🏻‍🤝‍👨🏼 HELPERS ON THE DAY

We need volunteers to help with the car parking, bucket rattling, the Eftpos tent and more. Please get in touch with Maree if you are keen to help out and she will be able to find you a timeslot that suits to help in.

🎁 RAFFLE DONATIONS

Help us build an amazing raffle prize! Families and businesses who’d like to donate can contact Jess on 022 514 2894 or drop raffle donations to the school office. Once the prizes are ready, tickets will head home with students to sell far and wide!

💪 Bay View Market Day is powered by our Eskdale School community. Come on board and be part of the fun!

💙 Thank you in advance for your support. We can’t wait to see you there! 

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Ahi ahi Marie,

I hope you all managed to make the most of the glorious long weekend weather.  Welcome to Week 3 and another short school week.

We are starting swimming this week.  Each class will let parents know what day/s they are swimming so that you can send along togs and a towel.

Also coming up this week we have a group of children heading to the Chess tournament on Friday.  We wish them all the best.

Have a great week.

Tristan

Good morning everyone,

Welcome to Week 2.  This is a short week and may seem even shorter with the reminders coming out today instead of yesterday.  

Firstly, thank you for your support with the hats.  It has been awesome having all the children arriving at school with their hats ready to go.

Last week the attendance was back to record levels with Kea in third place, Tui in second and Weka in first place.  Both Tui and Weka had over 99% attendance across the week.

A reminder school is closed on Friday for HB Anniversary and on Monday for Labour Day.

Important: We have changed our prize giving night to Wednesday 9 December to avoid a clash with NGHS who have moved theirs to Thursday 10 December.

Coming up this term - Keep an eye out for your child's PAT test report summary which will be coming home in week 6 and the end of year written reports will be coming home on Friday 11 December.  (No seesaw reports this term)

The 4th term always seems to really accelerate between now and Christmas so please keep an eye on the calendar.  

Year 8 Camp Sponsorship - we are still looking for Year 8 camp sponsors, please see the attached flyer.  Thanks to those businesses who have already jumped on board.  

Enjoy the short week and long weekend.

Tristan 

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