18 Apr 2026

Fat Lamb Distribution Day Sunday 26th April

Start time: Midday
Location: Greg Shannon’s Woolshed 1720 Waituna-Tapuae Rd
Parking: The road is narrow and there is limited road parking, so if you don’t have a trailer can you please park on the drive that goes down to the woolshed. Everyone with a trailer can line up on the road.

Hi Everyone,

This is a long post as there is a bit of information to get out so please bear with. I hope the holidays have treated you all well and you have managed to have some
down time with family and friends.

The Fat Lamb Committee has been busy in the background coordinating the distribution day. For those of you have who have never been to one before here is a brief outline of how the day runs.
-Lambs are at Greg Shannon’s woolshed when we arrive.
-Lambs are crutched, drenched, vaccinated and ear tagged.
-Lambs are weighed and details are recorded.
-Lambs are corralled up the hill to loading ramp, loaded onto trailers and dipped once
loaded. Lambs depart for green pastures.

We have a few large trucks, which are transporting big numbers of lambs and making multiple stops. We need a co-driver for each of these trucks. If you could ride shot gun, please contact Richard Hare (027) 257 4848 and he will assign you to a truck

• Grant Ritchardson is in charge of all animal health, and he is running the wool shed. Grant will be in touch with people to assign them specific jobs related to this.
• Tim Hare and Kay Gallen will be up the top at the loading ramp.
• Rose Hare and Montie Hare are doing the weighing and recording.
• Richard Hare is our floating coordinator for the day.
• Everyone who comes to the day is a valued team member and everyone’s help is appreciated. If you don’t have a specific job assigned to you before the day, that’s okay because there will be lambs to chase around.

By the end of the weekend every transporter will be contacted via tx message by a committee member with the name, phone number, and area of who they are delivering lambs too. It is then the transporters responsibility to contact graziers directly, to get the specific delivery address and to let them know the approximate delivery time of mid to late afternoon, on Sunday.

It’s going to be a big weekend everyone, especially with the Playgroup’s Waituna Western the night before! There may be a few dusty people on Sunday, but we will soon blow the cobwebs out with some fresh air and farmwork…

Looking forward to it, any questions just reach out.

Rebekah O’Brien Ritchard Hare
Chair C&S            Lead Coordinator FL Committee
(021) 710 223      (027) 257 4848

18 Apr 2026

Hunterville Vet Club Thank you

Hi Everyone,

The Hunterville Vet Club is a long term, major sponsor of our Fat Lamb Fundraiser. They donate all the animal health products for our lambs and their donation makes a huge impact on our fundraising profit.

The FLC thought, as a sign of our appreciation it would be a nice gesture to put together a gift basket of morning and afternoon tea supplies which we will deliver to the clinic. Hence, we are putting out a call for contributions towards this. Home baking or purchased goods such as biscuits, crackers, relishes, tea, coffee, olives etc.

Any supplies would be greatly appreciated, please send contributions to the school office on the 22nd and 23rd of April.

Many thanks
Rebekah O’Brien
Chair C&S

2 Apr 2026

Happy Easter Everyone 

The kids had a great day today - House v House Tug of War competition followed by an Easter Egg Hunt ????

Wishing you all an awesome Easter and time with family.

See you back at school on Tuesday 21 April.

Thanks - Finn

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2 Apr 2026

STACK COVERING IS ON TODAY at 4pm

At 154 Barrow Rd, (opposite Haynes Line) go past the cow shed through double gates,
about 200m.

Thank you to Aria & John, Emily & Steve, Mrs Carter the piano teacher & Regan for coming
along. This stack is double the size of what we usually cover (we are receiving a larger
donation for this job) so if anyone feels inclined to swing by after work, feel free. I imagine
we'll be there for a while. If you're new to covering stacks, it's easy, you just throw tyres and
get really grubby. Old clothes mandatory & gardening gloves can be quite good to wear.

Thanks everyone and have a lovely Easter.

All best

Rebekah

Chair C&S

31 Mar 2026

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