Together We Grow – Ka Tupu Kotāhi ai Tātou- Week 9
As we come to the end of a busy and rewarding term, I’d like to take a moment to sincerely thank all of our OVS parents, staff, and students for your ongoing support and contributions. Your amazing involvement is what makes our OVS community so special.
A huge thank you also to everyone who joined us for our Matariki evening — it was wonderful to see such a strong community turnout and to come together to celebrate this important time in our calendar.
Congratulations to our kapa haka group for their fantastic performance at the Morningside Kapa Haka Festival. You made us all very proud! Special thanks to Miss Lynch and Darcie for their dedication and outstanding coaching in preparing our OVS roopu.
Next term, Miss Keogh will be on sabbatical, and we wish her all the very best for her study. We warmly welcome Mrs Spearpoint, who will be relieving in Room 1 during this time.
A big thank you also to our wonderful PTA (Kate, Nikki and Sam in particular) for adding some fun and colour to our courts with their beautifully painted hopscotch and 4-square games — they are certainly being well enjoyed by our tamariki.
Wishing everyone a safe and relaxing holiday. We look forward to welcoming you all back for an exciting Term 3.
Will my child’s ‘achievement level ‘ change under the new curriculum?
This means a child who was previously reported as ‘At Expected Level’ under the old curriculum may now appear ‘Below Expectation’ — we must stress that, this is not because of a lack of progress, but because:
- The academic expectations at each year level have now increased
- Students have not had the full content of the ‘new curriculum’ learning in prior years
As an OVS staff we are professionally erring on the side of caution this mid year until the appropriate assessment tools are available to us for the end of the year reporting cycle. This cycle will provide much more reliable benchmarks.
These interviews will take place over 2 days during Week 3 of Term 3 (dates below). Please note, school will be closing early at 12:00pm on Tuesday 29th July.
After School Care will not be available on these days as all classrooms are in use with our current building programme.
Dates:
- Tuesday 29th July 12:15pm to 6:45pm
- Wednesday 30th July 3:15pm to 5:00 pm
Booking
Either book online https://www.schoolinterviews.co.nz/code Enter the code: nw27z
or you can contact the office directly.
Online bookings will close on Monday 28th of July at 3:00pm for Tuesday bookings, and Tuesday 3.00pm for Wednesday bookings
End of term OUTSTANDING ATTENDANCE
It is with absolute pleasure that we acknowledge our OUTSTANDING attendance students. These students will all be joining Mr Sayer for their well deserved ‘special party’ to acknowledge their fantastic attendance. Well done everybody!
The OVS Kindness Cup
We would like to introduce whanau to our new OVS KINDNESS CUP . This is a new award to recognise students who show excellent use of our RURU values across the entire term, particularly RESPECT with a displaying Kindness focus. This award is presented to 3 students each term. There is an overall winner who receives a trophy, and a junior and senior student runner up award. All students receive amazing lego prize to support their award. This terms winners are…
Star Spot – Student Learning @ OVS
RURU Awards
Every week at assembly we celebrate super OVS students, and this week’s shout out is to say a huge congratulations to our R.U.R.U award winner from today’s assembly .
Week 9: Jnr – Jethro
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Student Work Spot!
Room 1 has been busy using their ‘5 year old’ creative writing skills. Well done Bo and Kiannah!
1912 comes to OVS – Room 5
You would be forgiven for thinking that you had stepped back in time this Thursday because there were frocks, strings of pearls and bowler hats a-plenty! Room 5 has spent this term learning how technology was different in 1912. To wrap up their study and the term, they celebrated with a 1912 Tea Party. They dressed up in their best 1912 party clothes and enjoyed cups of tea (hot chocolate) and dainty finger food. As well as that, they had their morning lessons with ‘Miss Strict’ – desks were in rows, eyes to the front, sitting up straight! It was an invaluable, authentic experience and the children enjoyed their day of life in 1912 immensely.
Property Developments at OVS school
Dates for your diary
Year 7, 2026 Open Evening – 16th July
Term Dates
| Terms | Start | Finish |
| Term 1: | 4 Feb | 11 April |
| Term 2: | 28 April | 27 June |
| Term 3: | 14 July | 19 Sept |
| term 4: | 6 Oct | 16 Dec |
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