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Sebastian Room 4 & Jan Hill - Thank you so much for the donation of the book Maungati Mouse & EQ Rescue
Christchurch My Heart is Here - Thank you very much for the generous gifts for our families. Much appreciated!
Centre for Conscious Awareness - thank you for the very kind gift of all of the yummy fruit for our students to enjoy! What a treat!
Fendalton Parish, St Barnabas Church - thank you for the generous donation to our school. We will be purchasing some amazing ICT resources for the children and this money will be going towards the purchases.
Wairakei Budget Botique - how kind of you to think of our staff. We will be using the Principal's Discretionary fund to provide something positive for our hardworking teachers.
Mt View School, Hurapaki School, Churchill Primary School - Australia - thank you for your generous donations to our school. We are excited by the experiences and/or resources we will be able to provide our students.
Blogg Charitable Trust - we would like to acknowledge your kind assistance of $1000.00 in supporting our school. We look forward to reporting back on how we have been able to benefit our students through utilising these funds.
Craig Johnson & Family - thank you for your generous donation of $150 to our school.
Salvation Army & Lego - thank you so much for the wonderful gift of a Toy Story Lego for our children to take home and enjoy.
Hornby High School - Year 13 students at Hornby High have put their cooking talents to use and given our staff a lovely surprise for morning tea on the last day of term. Students baked lots of treats and these were delivered by the Principal, Mr Edmundson and his team, to our school. Our hardworking staff greatly appreciated the goodies. Thank you so much!
Room 3, Manawaru School - The book 'The Littlest Caterpillar' that you wrote, illustrated and published is wonderful. It is a happy story and it is great to see that 20 of your class contributed your ideas and creative writing skills. Thank you for caring about us and sending us a copy so we can enjoy it in our classes.
Westpac Canterbury Care - We were delighted to receive a phone call from Suzy Kofoed, Westpac - Business Manager Education, who informed us that we are the lucky recipients of $500. The school applied for this earthquake fund so we could continue to provide exciting education opportunities for our students and give them a treat at school. This takes some pressure away from families who may be struggling given recent events. Thanks Westpac!
Vulcan Steel, Peter and team -
Words cannot express the gratitude our school community feels for your company Vulcan Steele's outstandingly generous gift of $80 worth of thermal clothing to our students.
The delight on the children's faces yesterday when they opened their Postie Plus bags and saw all their new clothing was so genuine.
It is wonderful for our school to have such generous community support and to be assured our students can be warmly dresses this Winter.
We have lots of wonderful photos to share with you.
Once again, our heartfelt thanks from everyone at Linwood North School.
Please look at our News Centre section to read more...
Havelock North Intermediate, Havelock North - Miss Wick, Miss Hawtin, Mr Stove, Summer, Isabella, Billy-Ray, Madelleine, Devon, Matthew and Cadell. Thank you so much for sending us some furry friends! Every student at LNS has their very own 'pet.' We loved the eyes and uniqueness of each of our wee friends. Some have been named! They are very comforting to snuggle and we love the way they move when you pat them! Our classes would love to say thank you and will be in touch via your wikispaces.
   
Grandma Ann Leov, Jane McInnes & friends, Blenheim - Thank you so much for the warm jerseys, jackets and other clothing sent with love. You've certainly made our children toasty warm and happy! Many thanks to you all and your friends for thinking of us. Please have a look through our gallery to see the children wrapped up warm in your gifted clothing!
Eatons Hill State School, Queensland - Australia Thank you so much to your school council and staff for your donation. We will be putting the funds towards a project for our children. You are wonderful 'neighbours!'
Helen, St Chads and the people of St Alban's Neighbourhood Trust, Halswell Anglican Parish, St Oswald's Parish (Wanganui) Dulcie Tester & Melvina White of Halswell - Every student in our school has been very lucky to receive a hot water bottle with handmade cozy covers! We wish to thank Revd. Helen who coordinated the gifting from the St Alban's Neighborhood Trust and Anglican Parish. The cool covers were made by the people of St Oswald's parish near Wanganui and the talented Dulcie Tester & Melvina White of Halswell. Gifted with love, thank you so much!
Room 19, Havelock North Intermediate School - After a very tough night of yet more aftershocks in Christchurch, a package arrived on our doorstep the following morning, filled to the brim with baking! What a lovely surprise! It was sent by a group of students who organised for their class to bake goodies for our students to enjoy. We held a special assembly, the letters from these concerned students in Room 19 were read to the whole school by our Head Boy and Girl, then everyone enjoyed afternoon tea together. We captured this special assembly on camera and the Pegasus Post will be running an article. Our students are going to share their gratitude, via a movie that will be posted on this website soon.
'Mrs Milo' Liz - you are a gem! You have provdied our students and families with beautiful hand-knitted beanies, clothing of all descriptions, blankets and bread. So generous was your donation, Claire our wonderful Social Worker in Schools, has been able to help distribute to people in need. You are a wonderful friend of the school, thank you so much.
Tauranga Writers Group - Thank you for the kind gesture of sending our children some wonderful books for the school library. I am sure that the books will be well read and enjoyed by our students. We are encouraging our children to read, as it offers them an opportunity to escape a little bit from the reality of our current situation.
St Chads Anglican Church together with support from St Barnabas & an Australian Mother's Union Group Reverend Helen
These wonderful people have donated to every child a beanie and small soft toy. These are being treasured by the children. Thank you so much for your kind gifts.
Christchurch City Mission
Toffee pops and beautiful bread...thank you for providing our staff and students with delicious pick me ups.
Marion Wilson & Friends - Taupo
Marion recently celebrated her 70th Birthday. Happy Birthday! Her wonderful friends donated a children's books, instead of personal gifts at Marion's request, to go to children in Christchurch. We were very fortunate to receive a wonderful selection of books for our children to enjoy, they are in our library for students to take home and read. At the rate they are flying off the shelves they are proving to be very popular. Thank you for thinking of us, very much appreciated!
Kristin School, Albany - Auckland
We have been overwhelmed with the generosity and kindness shown by your Kristin students. We received special boxes filled with amazing toys, clothes and goodies that were gifted by Kristin School families. The spirit in which these special boxes have been put together has touched our hearts, as careful consideration was clearly made decisions were made about what treats would bring happiness into our lives. Such empathy and generosity is amazing! Room 4 has made a special video to voice their appreciation at receiving the presents. Please listen to the children on our galleries page - 'EQ Thanks Everyone!' section.
Tauriko Primary School
Thank you so much for our wonderful Easter gifts. Our Reception room loved their little Easter chickens! Also, our teachers were very happy with the lovely treats that you gave to us: lots of chocolate and coffee. Yum!
Lincoln Primary School
A huge amount of thanks to Viv Butcher, the teachers and students of Lincoln Primary School for hosting us on a bright and beautiful day. We thoroughly enjoyed all of the activities that you planned for us and the kindness that was shown. We have made friends and look forward to continuing this relationship into the future. Take a look at our gallery to see pictures from the day.
EasiYo
Thank you so much for the generous donation of EasiYo yogurt makers for our children and families to enjoy. yum!
Room 4, St Mary's School in Tauranga
Thank you for your bright and colourful card and your message of concern and well-wishes. Click here to listen to Presgott saying thank you in a video in our gallery. (Thank you everyone - video page)
Homai Primary School, Auckland
The school held a Red and Black day and fundraised the amazing amount of $576.50 This money has been donated to the students at Linwood North School to use for a fun day. It was gifted on behalf of the school by our student Azmir who went there for a few weeks after the earthquake! We are going to brainstorm ideas, and plan a day that will put smiles on our faces! Thank you so much for your generosity!
Azmir gifts the cheque to Mrs Smith on behalf of Homai Primary
Salvation Army
Thanks for organising for us bottled mineral water, apples and choccy slice. Thanks to the drivers from the Ibis Hotel for delivering the goods and the RSA for donating the food.
Annette Rose
Thanks for gifting masks kits from Maskworx to Room 9. The students will use their creativity to visually show what we are experiencing with the earthquake and these will be proudly displayed in the administration foyer.
Flossie the Balloon Lady & Kath Bee
Thank you for coming in an entertaining the students with their amazing balloon making talents and singing on our Red & Black Day. www.flossieballoons.co.nz
Marlborough District Council, Marlborough Radio, Marlborough Express, Blenheim Schools and of course the fine people of Blenheim
Many thanks for all of your efforts, energies and good-will in supporting the Great Gumboot drive for our school. We can't thank you enough!
Bettina - our fantastic neighbour, for connecting our Christchurch community with Marlborough and coming up with this fantastic practical idea.
Riverlands Primary School - to the Principal, David Parsons and his wife Angela, for transforming your garage into a gumboots drop-off point!
CARE Marlborough - to the people for your hard-work in collecting the gumboots, sorting and bagging them up for delivery.
Golden Micro Solutions, Blenheim - Allan Udy for his part in utilizing social networking in getting the word out about the gumboot initiative!
NZ Fire Service
Thanks to Paul Woodhalland and his team for sharing their fresh drinking water with us. Thanks guys!
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