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IMPORTANT DATES
Week 10
Friday 5th April - Mufti Day for Piwakawaka Tribe ONLY
Friday 5th April - Life Education Trust with Harold the Giraffe last day
Friday 5th April - GRIP Student Leadership Training
Week 11
Tuesday 9th April - Junior Athletics (Y1 & Y2)
Thursday 11th April - WPS Fun Run - wear tribe colours (see below)
Thursday 11th April - Pod 4 Assembly 2.15pm - Hall
Friday 12th April - Last Day of Term 1 - School finishes at 3pm
Term 2
Week 1
Monday 29th April - First Day of Term 2
Monday 29th April - School Photos
Tuesday 30th April - Thursday 2nd May - EPro8 Challenge
Week 2
Friday 10th May - Pod 3 Assembly 2.15pm - Hall
Week 3
Tuesday 14th May - Clued Up Kids Y5&Y6
IMPORTANT NOTICES Pod 4 Assembly Pod 4 have their assembly on Thursday 11th April at 2.15pm. Please note the change of day.
Lost Property We have a large amount of lost property in our pods and school office. Please come and claim your lost property before the end of term as we will be dropping off what is left at school to Wastebusters over the holiday break.
Leaving Wānaka Primary School? If you and your family are leaving Wānaka Primary School at the end of this term and you have not yet notified our office, can you please do so as soon as possible. Thank you. |
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PB4L Mufti Day - Congratulations Piwakawaka Tribe A big congratulations to Piwakawaka tribe for collecting the most PB4L tokens at the last count (runners up were Mohua and Kakariki). As a prize, all students who are in Piwakawaka tribe only are allowed to wear mufti to school this Friday, 5th April.
The mufti day is free and Piwakawaka students can wear their tribe colour or any school-appropriate clothing. No face paint please. |
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What's On? I hope you all had an amazing Easter and managed to enjoy the lovely weather and be with family. I know that many of you attended the Air Show and Wānaka was a busy place to be, as was Cromwell/Bannockburn I have to say. There were people everywhere. We have the rest of this short week and then 5 days next week and it is the school holidays. Where have the last 11 weeks gone? We have had busy, happy engaged learners and a real synergy about the school campus which is great to feel and see.
Today we had 12 of our Year 6 students attend the Top Bike competition in Alexandra; this is always a much enjoyed event. Our Year 5 and 6s are continuing their WPS EPro8 competition to find teams to go through to the Central Otago EPro8 Challenge we are hosting next term.
Harold and Roshelle have done an amazing job working with our tamariki on healthy eating topics and we will sadly farewell them and the mobile classroom this Friday, 5th April. Also on Friday 5th we have the dress up day for the winning tribe for this term, Piwakawaka.
Next week we have the Fun Run on Thursday 11th 10am - 1pm. Students have been sent home with a sponsorship form today - please check their bags. We are raising funds for our Garden to Table, Enviro and Maker Spaces programmes and equipment, whilst having a bit of fun at the same time. Thanks Anna for organising this event.
Pod 4 have their assembly on Thursday 11th April at 2.15pm. Please note the change of day.
School closes at 3pm as usual on the last day of term, Friday 12th April.
School Photos School Photos are on the first day back in Term 2, Monday 29th April. Our usual photo day conflicted with school camps so we had to change it and this was the only day we could arrange for this year. The children in the STAR programme will have their photos taken first thing in the morning so please send them to school in their uniforms and they can head off to One Day School after their class and individual photos.
EPro8 Challenge The EPro8 Challenge for Central Otago will take place in our school hall on Tuesday 30th April through to the evening of Thursday 2nd May.
Property Updates Fencing: This project is now all go as we have at last had Ministry funding released for this project. The fencer will start in the last week of the holidays (22nd April) and it will probably take most of the term for the fencing to be built. We will be glad to see the back of the temporary fencing put in whilst the bike park was constructed. We are still awaiting the final tidy up of the path, hopefully this will be sorted before we return to school in term 2.
Maker Spaces: These are currently being built off site and will be relocated into their position. We look forward to having these and being able to outfit them at last.
Pod 8 Repaint: This has been completed and different groups are now using this space for special programmes. |
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 FUN RUN
THURSDAY 11th April 2024
Y1 & 2 - 10.00am for 15 minutes
Y3 & 4 - 11.00am for 20 minutes
Y5 & 6 - 11.45am for 25 minutes
Students have been sent home with a sponsorship form today - please check their bags. We are raising funds for our Garden to Table, Enviro and Maker Spaces programmes and equipment, whilst having a bit of fun at the same time.
Thanks Anna for organising this event. |
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Positive Behaviour For Learning - PB4L PB4L School-Wide looks at behaviour and learning from a whole-of-school as well as an individual child perspective. The framework is based on international evidence and is helping New Zealand schools build a culture where positive behaviour and learning is a way of life. Each fortnight we focus on a school wide goal to encourage positive behaviours. The current goal is: 'We leave and enter areas in a respectful way'. |
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Tribe T-Shirts Orders are still open for tribe t-shirts until the end of term (12th April). Come in and have a look at the designs in the office and place your order or email through to the office. If you want to use the navy blue Wānaka Primary uniform top as a guideline, the body lengths are as follows:
WPS uniform
Size 8 - length 52cm
Size 10 - length 55.5cm
Size 12 - length 58cm
Tribe t-shirts
Size 6 - length 51cm
Size 8 - length 56cm
Size 10 - length 60cm
Size 12 - length 64cm
$30 per t-shirt. Sizes 6, 8, 10 & 12. The first batch will be ready in time for the cross country on 13th June. We have had lots of requests for a small design to be on the front as well as the back, so have updated the designs to include this. Thanks for your support.
PTA crew.
Payment to be made to WPS PTA Account: 02-0673-0024330-00 - please use surname as a reference. |
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Library News Click the image below to view our wonderful Library Webapp.  Feel free to email Melissa at any time if you have any questions. Digital and Audio Resources Borrow box is an amazing resource which you can have free access to for digital reading and audio resources for your children. Click on the image below to look at the amazing range. You need a QLDC library membership (which is free) to borrow. BookHub BookHub is an relatively new NZ based website where you can search for books you want to buy online from NZ based booksellers rather than from overseas sites. Obviously I support local booksellers as well but if you are an online shopper I fully support supporting NZ businesses before the likes of Amazon who charge exorbitant shipping fees. Click on the icon or this link : https://bookhub.co.nz/Quote of the Week |
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When to Keep Your Child at Home When your child: - Has signs of being unwell i.e. grizzly, unsettled, listless or tired
- Has a high temperature or appears very hot
- Is complaining of, or appears to have a sore tummy, throat or ears
- Has a continuous cough
- Should be at home if has had diarrhoea and vomiting within the last 48 hours
- Has weeping, red eyes and/or a yellow discharge around the eyes
- Has broken skin sores
- Has become ill with a communicable disease e.g. measles, chicken pox
If you are unsure, call your Doctor or Healthline for free health advice: 0800 611 116. Please inform school if your child is going to be kept home due to illness. |
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QLDC Libraries Bookmark Contest |
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Upcoming AGM for UC Historical Records Society
Upper Clutha Historical Records Society Annual General Meeting will be in late April, so this email is advance notice and the date will be announced shortly.
Committee and Volunteers sought
We also encourage anyone who would like to get more involved in local history to stand for the committee. Or if you’d like to get hands on; we have projects in digitising, oral history and various other tasks that volunteers can get involved in.
You may contact me at president@uppercluthahistory.org
or admin@uppercluthahistory.org if you’d like to know more.
Membership
We are hovering around 60 financial members and would be greatly appreciative of more. Our reach is quite wide in the community, despite a low membership. So if you’re not a member but appreciate our work please support us by joining: https://www.uppercluthahistory.org/membership/ |
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Repair Revolution at Wastebusters Wastebusters Repair Revolution happening again and looking for volunteers! It's time to dust off those beloved items awaiting a second chance at life because the Repair Revolution is back in action on 14th April and 5th May at the Community Workshop in Wānaka. Are you handy with a needle, a hammer, or a soldering iron? Are you an electrician or love to tinker? Whether you can darn a sock or perform intricate repairs, we'd love to have you join our team of volunteer repair superheroes. Every skill level is welcome! Email Celine.v@wastebusters.co.nz or fill out the form. |
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Sporting Edge Camp - Cromwell
Monday 22nd April
Year 1-4 9.30-10.30am (1 hour)
Year 5-8 10.30-12pm (1.5 hours)
Year 9-10 (U15) 12.30-2.30pm (2 hours)
Year 11-13 (U18) 2.30-4.30pm (2 hours)
Tuesday 23rd April
Year 1-4 9.30-10.30am (1 hour)
Year 5-8 10.30-12pm (1.5 hours)
Year 9-10 (U15) 12.30-2.30pm (2 hours)
Year 11-13 (U18) 2.30-4.30pm (2 hours)
Costings
Year 1-4: One Day (1 hour) $50, Both Days (2 hours) $80
Year 5-6: One Day (1.5 hours) $60, Both Days (3 hours) $100
Year 9-13: One Day (2 hours) $70, Both Days (4 hours) $120
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Autumn Dance Camps - Dance Wānaka |
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QLDC Libraries School Holiday Programme |
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Wild Dunedin Festival 19 - 28 April This year's Festival has 140 events and activities about nature for all ages all over the city. With discounted deals on albatross, penguin and boat trip, kids go free at Orokonui Ecosanctuary and Larnach Castle, films, crafts, scientific talks, garden tours, a walk around Sutton Salt Lake and guest Suzy Cato, there's a lot happening. Full programme and bookings here http://www.wilddunedin.nz |
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Wānaka Biathlon Club - Learn Biathlon |
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| Delicious, nutritious and popular with kids, Subway delivers school lunches every Friday. Order online at subwayexpress.co.nz by 9am. |
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