Thankyou for your support over recent weeks on a number of OSG activities, including  the provision of having your children bringing hats to school. We have had an excellent uptake of our students wearing hats and seeking shade during these hot summer days in Westport and Greymouth. Our challenge now becomes making this behaviour a habit and minimising teacher reminders around this. 

We have also begun work around ensuring that all of our OSG stakeholders have a sound understanding of the Learning to Learn framework, focusing on the Assignment, Lesson and Study. Our staff and students are practicing their "elevator pitches" (a short, less than one minute pitch on the L2L framework) and I challenge you to test your children at home with their pitch. We will be practicing these during Whanau times and ensuring we can perform them with confidence at a moments notice.

I am very appreciative of the effort being put in by parents getting your children to school in advance of 8:40am. Please continue to make this a priority, it is really important for us to get our days started right with an effective Whanau time and coaching opportunities to track goals and achievement.

Enjoy these beautiful summer days while they are still here, it won't be long before the daylight starts to disappear earlier and we look towards Autumn.