COVID-19 UPDATES

Update on Covid @ South Mak

Evening family and whanau, The weather truly has made it very pleasant around school for all those able to attend.  Just as an update, alongside our current number of students and families isolating due to Covid we have been informed of a student who was at school today that has

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Principal's Vlogs

Update on Start of Year managing Covid:

Friday 28th January Dear Parents, Caregivers and Whānua, There are exciting times ahead. Come Tuesday the 1st of February we will enter another interesting year for education and for our whole community. I have waited to send information about how we will be starting the year until we have the

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Year 8 Crossing Postponed

Year 8 families:

As indicated yesterday we are now in the position that we need to postpone the Crossing planned for Monday. 
This event we want all to be able to experience as a group. 
 
I will work out another date that will suit and we will work from there. 
Sorry for the inconvenience but in light of the current covid situation it think it is best to give everyone the chance to complete the trek together.

New Appointment

Dear parents and caregivers,

 

It is exciting that we can announce we have been able to appoint TeeJay Campbell to the position of Deputy Principal and Classroom Teacher of Room 1. 

This position will start at the beginning of term 2. TeeJay comes to us from teaching for the past few years at Ross Intermediate, Palmerston North. He has a passion for Maths, Sport and Te Ah Māori and is looking forward to utlising our amazing environment to inspire learners. 

It is exciting that we can have this in place for the start of term 2 and we look forward to having Mr Campbell join our team.

 

Ngā mihi

 

Greg Allan

Covid Update

Hi all,

I would just like to keep you updated with how South Makirikiri School is going regarding Covid and the new guidelines that have just been issued.

Firstly:
We currently have one family isolating as two students from within that family have tested positive for COVID.  We are very fortunate that no staff members have been affected as yet. 
Please can we encourage you to call the office if your child is absent so that we know whether it is COVID related. In addition to this if you are at home isolating then please let us know if any students test positive. We are keeping a spreadsheet here at school and so would like to know when peoples Day 0 is in terms of them returning to school.
I would like to say a huge thank you to you all for the wonderful way that you are all dealing with this. We appreciate you keeping your child at home with a cough or a sneeze even when we know it isn’t COVID. We are very fortunate here – many schools seem riddled with it – yet we are not, and that is down to you and the way you are managing your households.
THANK YOU.

On Friday this week the rules around isolation are changing from 10 days to 7. This means that:

  • If you test positive that is your day 0 and you are free to leave isolation on day 8 providing you have no symptoms. If you have symptoms then you are to remain in isolation until 24 hours after having no symptoms.
  • If you are a household contact then you only need to isolate for 7 days and can leave home on day 8 providing you have no symptoms and have returned a negative test on day 7.
For household contacts only who are currently isolating: If your day 7 is Saturday 12th or after and you have no symptoms and a negative test you can return on Monday 14th.

If the person has COVID and their day 7 is on Saturday 12th or later then they can return to school on Monday 14th providing they have been symptom free for 24 hours. My understanding is that you do not have to provide the negative test as it is in your system but you are through the infectious stage.

If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact me tomorrow.

Keep up the good work.

Nga Mihi
Greg Allan

Reload of School App

Reload of School App

Over the past 12 months we have been working with KiwiSchools to fix some of the errors we are having with the school phone alerts system. 

We have been advised by KiwiSchools that you go to the App/Play store and update the app to get the most out of the latest functionality. An update should be all that is required, but if people are still facing any issues then they should uninstall and reinstall the app.

We apologise for any inconvenience and hopefully this will remedy any issues.

 

Regards

 

South Makirikiri Team

Rangitikei Hockey Association.

Rangitikei Hockey Association.
If you would like to support South Makirikiri on the Hockey Association there is a meeting on the 8th March @ 7:00pm at Marton School. We would love some support in assisting sport in 2022. This benefits our tamariki by being part of the running of the sport. If you are wanting to be part of this please come and see Mr Allan.