Today we had Stephen and his two dogs (Jake and Piccolo) walk to Tinwald School with his micro camper to share some information about what he is doing for the next year! We were amazed to hear how he is going to walk over 4500kms to raise awareness for animal welfare in New Zealand. If you want to learn more about the amazing journey Stephen, Jake and Piccolo are on, click on the link below, and feel free to spread the word!!
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https://thelongestwalknz.wordpress.com/about/ 

Welcome back to Tinwald School for another fantastic year!

There are a lot of things happening this term and there will be fortnightly newsletters keeping you up to date.
 
Some other events are listed below:
'Meet the Teacher' is organised through each syndicate.
Friday 3rd Feb – House Day (mufti)
Friday 17th Feb – Celebration Assembly (Student Council)
Friday 24th Feb – Y3-6 Triathlon
Tues 28th Feb - Fri 3rd March - Arrowsmith Camp
Friday 3rd March – Y1-2 Duathlon
Friday 10th March – Celebration Assembly (Rms 2 & 12)
Friday 31st March – Bible in Schools
Friday 31st March – Celebration Assembly (Rms 1 & 11)
Friday 7th April – Bible in Schools
Thursday 13th April – Bible in Schools
Thursday 13th April – Last Day of Term 1

There have also been some changes to staffing this year.
Hutt Syndicate
Room 1: Sue Wakefield
Room 2: Gill Cain/Nicky MacKenzie
Room 3: Sheree Tait
Room 4: Bridget Grant

Taylor Syndicate:
Room 6: Claire Tomkinson
Room 8: Catherine MacKenzie
Room 9: Wendy Hopwood

Arrowsmith Syndicate:
Room 10: Fiona Cameron/Katie Sullivan
Room 11: Louise Gorman
Room 12: Rennae Taylor

What a great night everyone had at the Halloween Disco! A big thank you to the PTA for putting it on. Everyone looked super scary. Here are a few photos of some of the costumes.

On Thursday 15 September, Tinwald School students participated in Keeping New Zealand Beautiful Week. We cleaned up not only inside our school but also the parks around us. We gathered lots of rubbish and we are keen to keep our school and country clean from now on!

Wow! What a fantastic turn out we had for the Tinwald B.E.S.T community night! A huge congratulations to the students who worked hard to learn the songs and help put the night together. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. Below is the powerpoint used on the night if you would like to revisit what was presented.

Well we had a wet start to the day today and unfortunately had to cancel the Forest Survivor programme.  We still went ahead with Adrenalin Forest and everyone had an awesome time.  There were so many who achieved better than they thought they could and all came away proud of their efforts.  We finished the day with a great camp fire, toasting marshmallows and eating them between chocolate biscuits - yum!

Arrowsmith are all tucked up in bed after their first day at Blue Skies Camp.  We managed to avoid the rain and got through most things on our programme.  Some highlights from today have been swimming, flying fox, nachos, chocolate mousse and BINGO.  Check out some photos below...