Saying farewell to our beautiful Zair

Have you ever heard the saying “The only constant thing in life is change”, well that is what has been happening at Mairtown Kindergarten as we say farewell to our beautiful head teacher Zair. 

Recently Zair has been doing a lot of thinking and decided to take a big brave step to resign and spend more time with her lovely young family, a decision I personally don’t think she will ever regret.  We all know how important it is to spend time with loved ones, it is precious.

We understand this wasn’t an easy choice for her to make, especially since we know how passionate and dedicated she was to her role.  It’s the kind of decision that takes great courage and bravery to step out outside of your personal comfort zone.  Just like at kindergarten when working with our children we talk about risk taking a great deal, and this decision we would refer to as emotional risk taking.  It is about making a choice we know is a bit scary and challenging but also know it will be rewarding.

Nearly nine years ago Zair started as a teacher at Mairtown kindergarten.  Plenty has happened for her over this period of time, she got married, had maternity leave twice to have her beautiful daughters, then during 2015 she stepped up into the Head Teacher role when Kim left to take on the PPM role.

Zair is such a special person I feel blessed to have had the opportunity to have worked alongside her.  She is so inspirational, passionate, dedicated and a truly professional teacher, with the funniest sense of humour and her laugh is just the best it makes us all giggle.  I love how she is so super kind, thoughtful and caring with the biggest heart.  

Honestly you can feel her love for this place and everyone in it, it is so special that it is hard to put into words.  Over the years I have heard many comments from our  kindergarten whānau about how welcoming Zair is, kindness and respect definitely underpins her way of being.  Working with Zair is truly amazing, she has such a sunny disposition that beams positivity where ever she goes. 

Anyone who knows Zair knows that she loves a good laugh at crazy funny stuff and dancing, so we thought we would surprize her with a ‘dazzling disco’ as our farewell celebration.  It was a day of bright sparkling fun dress ups, colourful lighting, disco balls and plenty of dancing.  It certainly was a wonderful way to celebrate Zair and her time with us.

On behalf of the teaching team and kindergarten community I would like to say a massive thank you to Zair.  Thank you for everything you have done and accomplished at Mairtown kindergarten, and for being such a wonderful teacher and friend.  And most of all thank you for being you. 

Zair we wish you all the best, enjoy this wonderful opportunity to spend more time with your lovely family and keep on being true to yourself and being you.  Words can’t explain how much we are all going to miss you.

"If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello"  (Paulo Coehlo)

Arohanui