MEET THE TEACHER

All students are invited to come to school on Wednesday, January 31st, 2024, to meet their new teacher. Meet the Teacher will run from 9am - midday.  You can call in anytime during the morning to do this. Once you have been greeted at the office, you will be escorted over to your new class, where you will have the opportunity to meet the teacher, drop off stationery, and ask any questions you may have.

2024 TERM DATES

  • Term 1 - Thursday 1st February - Friday 12th April
  • Term 2 - Monday 29th April - Friday 5th July
  • Term 3 - Monday 22nd  July - Friday 27th September
  • Term 4 - Monday 14th October -  Wednesday 18th December

SCHOOL HOURS

DONATIONS AND FEES

  • School donation- NO school donations for 2024
  • Technology fee - $50 per student 
  • Sports Fee- will be charged as per individual sport

The technology fee covers the cost of the take-home materials from hard materials, food and fabric technology. 

Payment of fees can be made through cash or EFTPOS at the school office. We encourage families to set up weekly or fortnightly automatic payments to pay accounts, as this makes it easier to spread the costs out.  Alternatively, you can pay via internet banking to the school bank account (bank details are below). 

All extra curricular activities are to be paid for prior to the start of the activity.  School camps are to be paid as per the camp letters sent out prior to each camp.

BANK DETAILS

BANK: ASB

ACCOUNT NAME: Feilding Intermediate School BOT

ACCOUNT NUMBER: 12 3143 0104409 00

REFERENCE: Child’s Name

ABSENTEEISM AND LATENESS

Please contact the school office via phone or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if your child will be absent or late.  A text message or email will be sent if you have not made contact. If we have no contact from home, your child will be recorded as truant.  If your child is away for more than 3 days, we ask that you provide a medical certificate.  If your child is late, they need to report to the office and sign in using the Ipad at the front desk.

COMMUNICATION

School event information and communication will be on the school facebook page. Please check this regularly for updates.  Our newsletter is emailed out regularly and is also posted on Facebook.  Please keep your details and email address up to date by notifying our school office of any changes. Our policies and procedures are available on SchoolDocs. 

We have a strong commitment to working in partnership with whānau - so please do not hesitate to contact us.

STAFF CONTACT DETAILS

To contact staff or our school office the format for all emails is the first initial followed by surname then @fis.school.nz For example This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..  

Contact for the principal or office is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

UNIFORM EXPECTATIONS

For safety reasons, we request that jewellery of cultural significance be worn under the school shirts.  Long hair must be tied up.  Children are able to wear a single pair of plain, small studs or small circular sleepers, in the lower ear lobe. No other piercings are permitted - this includes, but is not limited to, upper ear piercings, nose rings, tongue rings, and belly rings.

At Feilding Intermediate, students are expected to adhere to the following additional uniform expectations:

  • Make-up is not permitted at school.
  • Nails are to be natural and trimmed. Artificial nails of any kind are not allowed.
  • Lash extensions of any kind are not allowed. 
  • Long hair must be tied up for school.
  • Covered shoes are required for technology.

 We have nail polish and make-up remover in the office for students that do not meet our uniform expectations.

 I.C.T

We are an optional BYOD school which means that children are able to bring devices from home to use in the classroom.   All children will be issued with a school email account.  It is their responsibility to keep their password secure.  All computer use during school time, and/or with school accounts, must be in accordance with our ICT use policies and agreements. 

I.C.T

Click here to download - STATIONERY LIST 2024 

UNIFORMS

Our school uniform is available from NZ School Uniforms - 589B Tremaine Avenue, Palmerston North, 4410

Students are required to wear full school uniform to and from school and jackets must be the regulation school jacket.

FOOTWEAR

Students can wear EITHER plain black shoes and plain black socks or plain black sandals.  Any black socks are fine - they do not have to be from the uniform shop.  They must be plain with no labels or emblems.  Black stockings are also permitted.  Winter shoes must be plain black lace up shoes - we allow leather pull on shoes (see photo provided), but not canvas pull up shoes. Students are permitted to wear leather look black sport shoes - provided they are completely black. They cannot have any other colour - this includes the sole. 

Sandals must be plain leather, without decorations and must not extend up over the ankle or up the leg.  They must also have a heel strap. No form of jandals or scuffs are acceptable. Sandals are not to be worn with socks.

For technology classes, children require shoes that cover their entire foot.  Children are able to bring sneakers on technology days to change into.  

ACCEPTABLE SCHOOL SHOES