Tuia Burnside Primary School

Our friends at Full Bellies are after paper bags. If you have any to spare, you can drop them at our office and we will arrange drop off. Alternatively, the address for drop off is in the linked post. Thank you.

🙏 Unfortunately we have run severely low on paper bags for our lunches - we would be so grateful if you could come to our rescue!

We use rectangle paper bags, around 30cm wide and 23cm tall. Supermarket bags are perfect and we don't mind logos.

👉 Please drop them to 55 Mays Road - we are in desperate need of as many as possible as soon as possible, any amount is greatly appreciated!

There will be some tired young people we are sure after all that dancing, singing and candyfloss eating! They were all looking fabulous and had all the moves!

Thank you to all our volunteers who provided awesome security, selling and cleaning skills. You made our event a very easy one to provide for our community.

Thank you also to our staff who came out and helped ensure all children arrived and left safely with their collection person. We are sorry if any of their dance moves weren't quite as current as they thought.

Our DJ, Mr Perriam, has secured his position for the next disco event seeing as so many of you enjoyed some of his more dubious choices! The playlist was definitely one for all ages and may have even taken some people back to their youth. Thanks for keeping the vibe top notch!

Thanks to 0800candyfloss for once again providing an extra special end to our disco. What a fabulously decorated caravan and superb, bright, colourful candyfloss. We are so lucky to have you as part of our school community!

To our amazing disco attendees. We have loved hearing from our volunteers that you brought our school values to the Village Church. We loved watching your enthusiasm and dancing in your amazing outfits this evening. You used your manners and showed respect to the volunteers and the venue! Thank you!

We would love to know what you liked most about the event and what other events you might like us to organise.
LINK Team

Evelyn is one of our fantastic Tuia whānau. This is her story. Aren't we lucky to have such amazing people in our community.

"Originally, we came from Colombia, but we moved to Ecuador for about three years, and then we came from Ecuador to New Zealand in 2018. We moved to Nelson first.

I used to work with a big immigration organization. They offered a job here and an opportunity for my daughters and my son. I couldn't see it myself, but they said, ‘No, you must have this opportunity to go into New Zealand, because we need people like you on it’. Okay, done. They got me the interview, and I received all the paper forms. I had to learn English, but I'm happy now because it's good to have a chance for good communication with people and involve more in the communities as well.

I’m studying for a Diploma in Psychology. For a long time I see how hard it is for Spanish people in the community. No one in Spanish is coming to receive any treatment or counseling support, I need to do something. I chose to study there to support all people, not only Colombia, you know, all Latin Americans. It's not about money, it's about supporting other people. We just want to bring something that's a gift, we care, we have a purpose.

My mom is a chef, she supported us with education through cooking. That's why I finished school. My mom gave me a lot of values. She taught me how you need to survive and I learned a lot of skills from her.

I have a hair braiding business. It's not easy to find some products when you live in a small town, but in Christchurch, we have everything that we need.

I never knew New Zealand existed in the world, honestly. I only hear about Australia, but not New Zealand. I'm happy, I'm grateful, we found lovely people, kindness.
I like to do some walking, have a picnic.
My son is more like an explorer…"

- Evelyn

"I love going on hikes. Me and my friends, we go on adventures. I love caving as well, I do a lot of caving in my free time. I studied hospitality because my main goal is to become a chef, and at the moment, I'm planning on studying at the New Zealand School of tourism, to do a tourism course for my level four, because I completed NCEA level three in Nelson.

When I first arrived in New Zealand, I had no clue what I was doing. I couldn't speak or communicate with anyone. I always had to use the translator. The teachers were very nice. The treatment was beautiful, it was very welcoming.

My mom has worked very hard to get us here. Yeah, very proud of her. My mom has gone through some struggles, because that was one of the main reasons why we left Colombia. She worked so hard while having me at such a young age.

One of the biggest struggles for her, because English is the barrier, there was always a lot of misunderstanding in those areas. She wants to help our community. She wants to - not just help Colombians - any Latino that comes because we can understand each other a lot more, And she knows how it feels to be put at the bottom. She wants to help those who are at the bottom.

I always tell my friends, you guys live in a bubble. New Zealand is a bubble. Protected.

I can say I'm very open minded because I've lived here for the rest of my young years, but I know what it was like living in various other countries. We can help so many people. I mean like culture, we come with experiences that people here don't have.”

- Jordan

Tomorrow is ANZAC Day when we remember those who have served, fought or died in conflict or peacekeeping missions. Because this falls on a Saturday, we have Monday as a day of remembrance. This means NO school on Monday 27th April. See you all on Tuesday.

The NBL, in partnership with LINK Tuia Burnside Primary School, have partnered for a unique fundraising opportunity.

If you use the code

GLOBETROTTERS6

when purchasing tickets to the Harlem Globetrotters at

Christchurch

Wolfbrook Arena

14th July at 7:00pm

you will be raising funds for LINK Tuia Burnside Primary School!

Get your tickets now - it’s The 100 Year Tour and not something you’re going to want to miss. See you there!

https://www.ticketmaster.co.nz/event/24006389EDA94899?did=specialoffer

Please use the dedicated link provided above. This will ensure that you pop in our special code which will unlock access to the tickets, ensuring the offer is applied correctly.

We will receive 10% of the ticket price for every ticket purchased using the above code.

Kia ora whānau,

It seems we have a mystery on our hands… sometime around 12:30am this morning, a very determined individual decided they simply had to have two of our shoe racks — and came to collect them under the cover of darkness!

If you happen to know who might have been in urgent need of late-night shoe storage solutions, we’d love to hear from you. No judgement… just keen to reunite our racks with their rightful home 😊