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TAURANGA OPEN CROSS COUNTRY - 2025 Saturday 24 May - Rain or Shine Meet at 12:15pm Waipuna Park, Kaitemako Road, Welcome Bay Entries close: Thursday 22 May - late entries can be taken on the day. The Tauranga Open Cross Country is held at Waipuna Park, Welcome Bay on Saturday 24 May - rain or shine. We would love to have many year 1 to year 6 children be part of our school points team. Selwyn Ridge has held the title x14 times since 2009. Boys and girls races run together and are calculated when they go across the finish line. It would be great to have a range of ages entered whether they are top runners or just enjoy running and would like to represent Selwyn Ridge. School Prizes - 1st $300, 2nd $200, 3rd $100 prize vouchers for equipment for Sports Distributors. There will be spot prizes too! Julie Taylor will be at Waipuna Park to meet the parents and runners at 12:15pm. We will take a team photo before the first race at 12:30pm. Runners have the option of leaving after their race or they are welcome to stay until the prize giving at 1:40pm. Your child will need to be at the prize giving for the chance to win a spot prizes. To Enter and pay online please go to: www.athleticstauranga.co.nz - click Tauranga Open XCountry 2025 On the Day: The team meets Julie Taylor at Waipuna Park at the clubrooms by 12:00pm. A school team photo will be taken at 12:15pm. Once they run their race they are allowed to leave or they are welcome to stay until the prize giving. Children are to wear our school Pe shirt or school uniform shirt, shoes are optional but recommended for races. If you have any questions please contact me. Kind Regards Julie Taylor Sports Co ordinator Ph: 027 6992741

Ahiahi pai koutou, Te Wiki Haumaru Rori / Road Safety Week. What an awesome sunny yellow day we have had at SRP today! Well done to all those who dressed up with yellow hair today to show support for all our Road Safety Heroes - we appreciate them all! 3 of our classes took part in a special visit from Brake the Road - all about road safety. We were lucky to have some key people come in and talk with us all about a range of road safety areas from planning, to organising, road traffic and making road works safe too! A huge ngā mihi to: our very own Jolene from Travel Safe, Alex & Myles from BECA (engineers who plan, design & make roads), Yvonne & Anthony from NZ Transport Agency / Waka Kotahi and Linden, Baedyn, Toia & Kendra from HEB Traffic Management. We thoroughly enjoyed learning about different roles in Road Safety, getting active with using a traffic stop/go on our cycle track and the hands on mahi learning about the in's and out's of a traffic safety vehicle - tino hauhautanga! We all play an important role in keeping our ākonga safe on and around the roads! #RoadSafetyWeek #roadsafetyhero

We have had a fantastic start to Week 3 at SRP. We started off yesterday at our Monday Message introducing Road Safety Week - Ngā mihi to our 3 road safety heroes, Emily, Mylee & Mila - from our travel safe team. They shared our SRP competitions & challenges for this week. We are especially looking forward to our 'Yellow Hair Day' tomorrow:) Congratulations to our top Wednesday Challenge classes who both achieved 100% active travel - ka rawe tō mahi! And to finish off a great hui we celebrated our weekly Bookmark award winners. We love seeing all the amazing mahi, outstanding SRP values and sharing how our ākonga are soaring high within and across the curriculum.

Room 5 are connecting their learning through science, literacy and health and PE. Learning about how lungs work, and making a replica. Tino pai to mahi!

Tomorrow we have our competitive year 4, 5 and 6 cross country at Waipuna Park. Racing starts at 12:30pm. Tamariki will be bussed to and from the park. If you are going to take your child home from the park after the event please let the following teachers know : Year 4 - Erin Neilson, Year 5 - Katie McKenzie, Year 6 - Alicia Crompton. Looking forward to a great afternoon. If you are able to help with set up, marshalling or pack down, please contact sports co-ordinator Julie Taylor - j.taylor@selwynridge.school.nz or phone school 544 1088. Ngā mihi

Mōrena koutou whānau, This week we are taking part in 'Road Safety Week'. #Roadsafetyweek