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IMPORTANT DATES Week 11
Thursday 11th April - WPS Fun Run - wear tribe colours
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
Monday 13th May - Chess Tournament
Tuesday 14th May - Clued Up Kids Y5&Y6
Friday 17th May - Be Bright, Eat Right Performance
Week 4
Monday 20th May - Board of Trustees Meeting - 5pm - Staffroom
Friday 24th May - Wild Feeling Performance
Friday 24th May - Pod 2 Assembly - 2.15pm - Hall
Week 5
Thursday 30th May - Upper Clutha Rippa Rugby
Thursday 30th May - Reluctant Dragon Playhouse Performance
Friday 31st May - Teacher Only Day - SCHOOL CLOSED
IMPORTANT NOTICES Pod 4 Assembly Pod 4 have their assembly on Thursday 11th April at 2.15pm. Please note this change of day.
Reading Books and Reading Games Please remind your children to return any reading books or reading games you may have to their classroom before the end of this week.
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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Tribe Day Fun Run - This Thursday We are inviting children to gather sponsorship for their "Fun Run'. Sponsors can pledge per lap or make a single payment. Please pay by Friday 3rd May. 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. |
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Update You may have noticed that I am away. I am so missing welcoming you to school and being in my happy place, however my husband has suffered a heart attack so I have been on leave and will not start back until term 2. He is on the mend, I am pleased to say. I am working from home, so if you need to make contact please do so. Make sure you regularly ring your dads, mums, grandparents and anyone else you love to tell them you love them.
Some events to remember this week are the Fun Run on Thursday 10-1pm and Pod 4's assembly 2.15-3pm.
Term 1 finishes at 3pm, as usual on Friday 12th April and the first day of term 2 is Monday 29th April.
Next Term The first day of term is SCHOOL PHOTO DAY.
We will be starting at 9.00am with the senior classes so the One Day School students can head off as soon as their photo shoot is completed. Please send children along in their navy polo shirts (as they always look better in photos), with shining faces, well-groomed hair and full school uniform. They will be asked to take off their fleeces etc for the photos, as usual.
The first week back next term features the Year 5 and 6 EPro8 Central Otago Challenge with the grand final on Thursday 2nd May.
The first 2 weeks for our junior and middle school classes is all business as usual, with lots of learning in the literacies, maths and of course deep learning topics with minimal interruptions. Pod 3 assembly is at the end of Week 2, Friday 10th May. In week 3 we have the Aqua Van visiting for lots of science activities for our junior and middle school and on Friday 17th May we have a performance with a magician and comedian who promotes 'Healthy Eating' with his title of his show being Be Bright, Eat Right!
The makerspaces are now well underway so should all be in place by the middle of next term, if not sooner. They are smaller than we first envisaged (inflation from when we planned these 4-5 years ago has eaten away the allocated funding and hence size of these units!) but at least will allow us to store materials and equipment. We will be looking at putting in the plastic fold down screens/curtains you see in many preschools, to allow children to work outside in this space, during inclement weather. However that will be once these are finally up and in use. We already have some funds (thanks to the PTA cookbook funds raised 3-4 years ago) to purchase tools and equipment for our Maker Spaces programmes.
I hope you can get some time with your children over the break and that the weather goes back to being sunny, calm and settled. |
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Junior Run, Jump and Throw Junior sports was very successful, with the rain holding off long enough for us to complete all events. Everyone had lots of fun and experienced high jump, long jump, sprints, hurdles and throwing. |
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EPro8 Challenge Over the last two weeks, all Year 5 and 6 students have been competing in a series of EPro8 Technology Challenges which help the students develop engineering, mathematics, creativity and collaboration skills. The finalists from each class competed in a grand final on Thursday, with the following teams placing:
First Place: Team CPG (Zoe, Bethan, Isaac and Archie)
Second Place: The Capybaras (Rio, Patrick, Bruno and George)
Third Place: Team 6b (Lara, Tom, Amelia and Sam)
All 3 of these teams will go through to a Central Otago Inter-School event on Wednesday 1st May 09:30am - 12:30pm. This event will be held at our school.
Congratulations to these three teams as well as all other students who rose to the challenge and gave it their best shot. |
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GRIP Student Leadership Conference Last Friday, 20 of our awesome Year 6 student leaders went to Queenstown for a GRIP Leadership Conference. The day was spent discussing leadership - stepping up to be a leader, qualities of great leadership and moving forward with new ideas. Lots of fun was had by all - it was a fabulous learning opportunity! |
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Top Bike Wednesday 3rd April It was an early start in the school car park last Wednesday with 12 eager and excited bike enthusiasts representing WPS at the Top Bike Competition.
What a fantastic day they all had. They took the role of working together as a team seriously and were supportive of each other throughout the whole day. Dave, Matt, Owen and Portia were awesome supportive parents, and if it wasn't for them we could not have got 12 students and bikes, helmets and bags to the event.
A big thanks to Dave who took some fun drill sessions and gave excellent tips and tricks that the students all used throughout the day.
To the 12 WPS representatives - you embodied all the WPS school values and were just AMAZING! Thank you!
Once again - we know not every parent is able to help - but to those that could - a huge thanks from the teachers and the kids. |
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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 LAST WEEK to order tribe t-shirts for this year! Thanks to all those who have ordered and paid for tribe t-shirts! Please make payment to the WPS PTA account: 02-0673-0024330-00 if you still need to pay, so we can get the order in over the school holidays.
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 June 13th. Thanks for your support! The PTA crew. |
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Congratulations to Sam Morris Sam Morris broke 3 Otago Records over the weekend at the Otago Primary Schools Swimming Championships and the relay team got 2nd in the mixed relay. |
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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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QLDC Libraries Bookmark Contest |
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QLDC Libraries Festival of Authors |
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Repair Revolution at Wastebusters |
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Fun Stories and Activities for Children Under 6 |
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Autumn Dance Camps - Dance Wānaka |
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Hockey Camp
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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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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Watercolour Classes Jo is pleased to be able to offer after-school watercolour classes for the first six weeks of term two (starting on Monday 29th April) for ages 8 and up. Come and join the fun on a Monday after school at the Wanaka Arts Centre. Funding may be available, please enquire.
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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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