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Welcome to Palmerston School



Welcome to our school's wiki space. We are a semi-rural school in the South Island of New Zealand. We are on the East Coast - half way between Oamaru and Dunedin on State Highway 1. We have wonderful grounds and resources and love learning. We have a hard working and enthusiastic team - staff children and families,

Did you know that 2008 is the year of the Potato?? It is also the year for the Summer Olympics. We are ready to have a fantastic year and plan to "go for gold".

We are all involved in Inquiry units again this year. All classes are beginning with inquiring into how they learn, what we need to learn and ways to help us learn even better. In Term 2 we are going to explore Recycling. In Term 3 we are Going for Gold with the Olympics. Mrs Kensington will be our Acting Principal as Miss Cleverley is leaving us to take up the job of Principal at Silverstrem in Mosgiel. Congratulations and we wish you well. We welcome Mrs Alison Nimmo to our New Entrants class. In Term 4 we are welcoming our new Principal, Mr Dan Dilkes who comes to us from Concord School.

Our school motto is 'Aim High'. We are inspired to do this when we look at Puketapu - the hill that stands right behind our school. We have been looking at aiming high by showing ** care ** and ** respect ** and by showing ** respnsibility **. We are doing this by ** thinking ** before we act so that we can make good decisions.