All children need support and encouragement to learn resilience and it is well worth using these challenging times as an opportunity teach this valuable life skill. The benefits for our children are both now, and in their future.

We are still waiting for a few basketball tops to be returned to school. If your child has used a basketball top for the season, can they please drop it into the school office asap?

It has been a very exciting week in Room 13. We have been working on some art to do with our learning this term and we finally received letters from our Pen pals in Wilmington North Carolina.

During the first week of the school holidays, Twizel Area School students Lily and Louie took part in the very first Area Schools Music Camp.

The prize winners from last term's Science Fair were finally able to receive their recognition after our in-school event was cut short due to lockdown.

Room 9 student Henry W dazzled his teacher, Mrs LM, with his writing and accompanying drawing. Awesome work Henry! You can read Henry's writing here:

The school has been contacted by the Ministry of Education with information from the Ministry of Health over how the school should go about collating the vaccination register information for our students aged 12 and over.

How can we grow great minds and great people? Find out more about children's brain development.

Kaydin Ryan and Blossom-Kate Garbutt have both been awarded the University of Otago Māori Entrance Scholarship, worth $13,000! The scholarship will give them both an extra boost for next year and their endeavours.

Netsafe has worked with Voices of HOPE, a mental health charity, on their new campaign, You Wouldn’t Say It To Their Face. This campaign highlights mental health issues stemming from online abuse and bullying. It involves a series of videos including lived experience interviews and a social experiment that shows the impact online harm can have on someone’s wellbeing.

Year 10 learners early in Term 3 were challenged with building an Escape Room. These learners, who were not attending snow club, were split into teams and assigned differently themed rooms – the catch – each room had to be connected to the others in some way so an end phrase would be decoded.

Mask guidelines have changed for schools since the government announcements over the holidays. So, when do you need to wear a mask and socially distance in and around school?

With NCEA exams just around the corner, here are some tips and links for our Year 11-13 rangatahi to make the most of their study period in preparation.

The Board of Trustees are reviewing the following Policies in Term 4.

As we enter Term 4, here are a few reminders surrounding Alert Level 2 restrictions at school.

Two of our Year 12 music students Lily Brophy and Louie Skinner, are off to Christchurch, to the inaugural Area Schools Association Music Camp in the first week of the holidays. There, they will meet up with music students from other Area schools, to korero, compose, play instruments and sing...ie form bands and make music.

We were offered an amazing opportunity to Zoom with Black Cap Henry Nicholls this morning while he is in MIQ. All of our students that play cricket from Years 2- 10 took part in this amazing opportunity.

YMCA South & Mid Canterbury today released the results report from its 2021 youth survey, which aims to take the pulse of the region’s youth aged 12-24 years on a range of topics. A record number of young people participated in the comprehensive survey.

There are still a few spots free for the 6-9 year-old junior football group, running Saturday mornings 9:00-9:45 from Saturday 23rd of October.

The school holidays are almost here so we've gathered a few ideas together to keep your tamariki busy and you, the parents, sane!