For Parents

ESSENTIAL INFORMATION FOR PARENTS

Absent Notification

Reporting an Absence at Orewa Beach School

There are a number of reasons why a child may not be able to attend school on a particular day.

It is very important that the school office knows if your child is not coming to school and what the reason is.

Use our School App:

to call the office and/or leave a message, or
email using the school app.

Please include these details with your message:

the child’s name
the child’s area or teacher’s name
the reason why they are not attending school

Please let the school office know this information by 9:00 am on each day your child is not attending school.

Early Pickups

If you need to pick your child/children up early from school, you must report to the main office.

If you need to pick your child/children up early from school, you must report to the main office. Parents and caregivers are not permitted to go straight to classrooms without reporting to the school office first.

You will be required to sign your child/children out and a staff member will organise for your child to come to the office to meet you.

Please be mindful of morning tea times (11 am- 11.20 am) and lunchtimes (12.50 pm – 1.45 pm) when picking up early and plan your pick-up time around break times.

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Stationery and Online Learning Subscriptions

Back-to-School Requirements for 2023

We’ve teamed up with Qizzle to make Back to School easy!

All your child’s school stationery list requirements are uploaded online at qizzle.co.nz to make it easy for you to purchase your child’s back-to-school requirements. Simply search for our school, select your child’s
class, and follow the instructions on the website.

Qizzle makes Back to School easy for you with these great benefits:

Shop Your Way – https://schoolpacks.co.nz/orewa-beach-school/, freephone 0800 600 123.
Free Delivery – for orders over $60. Choose delivery to home or work at a time that suits you.
Save valuable holiday time – avoid busy shopping malls and traffic queues by shopping online from
the comfort of your home so your child starts the year with the correct stationery supplies.

Online Subscriptions

The following online subscriptions are required to support learning;

Maths-Whizz $37.00 for the following Teams Tui (Areas 16, 17, 18, and 19), Kea (Areas 15, 16, and 11), and Weka (Areas 10, 12, 13, and 14)
$20 for our Resilience project 2023 for all students.

School t-shirt and Hat

School T-shirt and Hat

School t-shirts are available to purchase from our school office. Our school t-shirt should be worn on school trips and for sporting events, they are $20 each and come in the following sizes; 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, S, M, and L.

Bucket hats are also available to purchase from the school office. Bucket hats must be worn in terms 1 and 4, they are $12 each and come in the following sizes; 50cm, 54cm, and 58cm.

Lunch Orders

Ordering a School Lunch

At our school we work with EzLunch, they provide warm and cold lunches to order. Parents pre-pay on-line and order to have a freshly prepared lunch delivered to the school office before our lunch break begins at 12:50pm. Children can pick up their lunch from the office when the lunch break starts.

EzLunch has a good range of meal and drink options on their menu, and the lunches are popular with the children. A copy of the menu is available on their website.

To order a school lunch you first need to join:

Go to the website and open an account.

VISIT THE EZLUNCH WEBSITE

You can prepay money into the account to cover lunch orders for multiple days.

Please remember: Lunches must be paid for and received before 9:00 am for same day delivery.

Dental Service

Dental Service
The dental van visits our school for 5 to 6 weeks. Over the last few years this has occurred in November, where all children are seen by the dental therapist.

The closest dental clinic in an emergency is located at Silverdale School, their phone number is 09 426 8470.

Parent Teachers Association (PTA)

The 2023 PTA members are Emma Botherway – PTA Chairperson, Kelly Fearon- PTA Secretary.

The PTA usually meets on Thursdays of weeks 2 and 7 of each School Term, when aspects of the School programme are reported on by the Principal.

This is an excellent opportunity to meet other parents and find out about the school. Meetings are advertised through the School Newsletter.

Through the excellent activities organised by the PTA the school is able to raise funds that increase the range of facilities and resources within the school. Without this excellent work the school would not be able to offer the same high level of educational opportunities that they do. It is important that we have a good level of parent support for these activities.

Raffles, the selling of various products, an annual BBQ and other activities really help fill the school coffers!

If you like to find out more, please contact the school office.