Week 3, Term 4, 2024
2025 School Term Dates
The school term dates for 2025 are as follows:
Term 1 Start date – Monday 3 February
Waitangi Day – Thursday 6 February
Teacher Only Day– Friday 7 February (School Closed)
Term 1 Ends – Friday 11 April
Term 2 Starts – Monday 28 April
King’s Birthday Monday 2 June (School Closed)
Matariki – Friday 20 June (School Closed)
Term 2 Ends – Friday 27 June
Term 3 Starts – Monday 14 July
Term 3 Ends – Friday 19 September
Term 4 Starts - Monday 6 October
Labour Day - Monday 27 October (School Closed)
Canterbury Anniversary - Friday 14 November (School Closed)
Term 4 Ends – Wednesday 17 December
School Grounds Closed
Our school grounds will be closed this Thursday afternoon and evening for our Year 4 campers. Please do not allow your child to return to school to play on Thursday afternoon.
Term 4 Teacher Only Day
School will be closed for instruction on Thursday 14 November for a Teacher Only Day. This day will be used to action the new English and Maths curricula. This the day before Canterbury Anniversary on Friday 15 November. We are aware that a large number of schools will be taking Teacher Only Day on this date as well.
Acceptable Footwear
Our uniform guidelines request sports or school shoes or closed toe sandles. Gumboots, jandals and crocs are not acceptable forms of footwear.
Results for Tinwald, Cluster and Counties Athletics
Attached are the results for the Tinwald School, the Cluster and the Counties Athletics. Congratulations to our Year 5 Girls Relay Team who were first at Counties are will represent Mid-Canterbury at the Canterbury Primary Zone Athletic Sports. Joining them will be Hunter Colyer-Lusty, Dana Singh-Pau, Braxton Goodfellow, Charlie Holland, and Leanna Augustin.
End of Year Prize Giving Assembly Changes
Parents,
Due to an increased roll we have made the decision to split our final prize giving assembly. The organisation now looks like this:
Tuesday 17 December
Hutt Syndicate (Rooms 1-5 & 14) Prize Giving Assembly - 1.30pm in the School Hall
Arrowsmith Syndicate (Rooms 6-12) Prize Giving Assembly - 7pm at the Ashburton Event Centre
Please take note of this change and we look forward to seeing you there