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Kia Ora Koutou Katoa
I’m incredibly proud to have joined the team at Greytown School this year as the new Tumuaki. What a fantastic place to learn and play! Our students engage in fantastic learning programmes that challenge and excite them and we have an excellent sta that is committed to bringing out the best in the students. In 2022, we sent our rst team to the AIMs games in Tauranga and we had our chess team represent at the National tournament in Rotorua. We have a huge number of highly talented sporty and artistic kids who make the most of the opportunities to get involved in school life.
We are eagerly anticipating moving into our brand new intermediate block for the start of 2023.
Paula Weston
Although this year has been a bit of a jumble with covid having a big e ect on teachers and students; Greytown School has overcome it and accomplished a lot this year. There’s been many events and activities that the school has participated in and had success in. This includes Dance Splash, Battle of the Bands, Chess Competitions, EPro-8, Pet Day, Cross Country and various sporting events which were all wonderful opportunities for some of our students to shine. Enviroschools have always been a big part of Greytown School. Since the start of this year this group has done a River Clean up in the North Creek, where trees have been planted and bridges being built. In the future they will plant 50 Manuka Trees around the school bike track. All this being run by Mrs Mudgeway and her studenthelper Octavian Isaac. Also this year we participated in the Matharapa Challenge, with the Year 8 team winning rst place. This team consisted of Finn-Oskar Mikkelsen, Keiran Downs and Heath Dunnet. Along with Finn-Oskar winning a separate award for the best Individual Test results from the rst round.
In Term 3 the senior school students ran a Market Day. In teams of three or four people each group came up with an original idea; something not seen before. It had to amaze the “sharks” or teachers. The groups also had to make advertisements, buy their own materials and make a target demographic. This year was di erent because groups were able to split any of the pro t. In September the Pokemon Club ran a Pokemon Tournament, which was hosted by Heath Dunnet and Oscar Preston. It was a competitive tournament that lasted the whole day with Owen Wos winning rst place. Also a mention to Matua Miu for supplying the cards. This was truly an innovative event, with something like this never seen before at Greytown School. But this year is not over yet, there are still things to come. Including Athletics, Camps, Book Character Day and many more fun activities for the amazing Greytown School. By Tyler Hay and Rachel Pope
Enviro schools team weeding the Orchard. Happy smiles at Cross-Country day.
Our winning Miniball Team.
Room 5 having some hula hoop fun. We were able to have a Pet Day again.
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