| | | | | | IMPORTANT DATES Term 1 2024
Week 7
Thursday 14th March - Little Heart Day - wear red and bring a gold coin donation
Thursday 14th March - Pod 4 Lagoon Visit
Friday 15th March - Pod 7 Assembly 2.15pm - Hall
Week 8
Monday 18th March - Life Education Trust with Harold the Giraffe here until 5th April
Monday 18th March - Board of Trustees Meeting - 5pm - Staffroom
Tuesday 19th March - Presentation Assembly for UC Athletics - 12.25pm - Hall
Wednesday 20th March - Author Visit for Y4, 5 and 6 - Steve Mushin - 1.30pm
Wednesday 20th March - Pod 1 at LWC to watch Katie Bee
Friday 22nd March - Paid Union Meeting for teachers 2-3pm. School remains open
Week 9
Monday 25th March - Otago Anniversary - School Closed
Wednesday 27th March - COPSSA Athletics (Years 5&6)
Friday 29th March - Good Friday - School Closed
Week 10
Monday 1st April - Easter Monday - School Closed
Tuesday 2nd April - Easter Tuesday - School Closed
Wednesday 3rd April - Top Bike (Year 6)
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)
Friday 12th 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
IMPORTANT NOTICES Little Heart Day  Come to school dressed in red for Little Heart Day! Who: Everyone! When: Thursday 14th March 2024 What: Raising money for Heart Kids NZ How: Bring a gold coin and dress in red for the day :)
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      TOTAL PACKAGE PRICE = $415 inc GST  Lost Property We have lots of lost property in the office. Please come and have a look if you are missing anything. |
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Teacher Paid Union Meetings (PUM) Teachers are attending a PUM (Paid Union Meeting) on Friday 22nd March and will be leaving school at 1.45pm to attend this offsite. To save any disruption for parents, the leadership team will remain at school to supervise students from 1.45pm to 3.00pm, along with other staff members who are either not part of the union or opted to do the online option.
This is a long weekend as well so if you wish to pick your child up from school early on Friday, please collect them and sign them out from their own classroom at 1.30pm and no later than 1.45pm. We are not allowed to close school for this Union Meeting, however any children who head home for the afternoon (i.e. after 1.30pm) will be counted as 'present' for the whole day.
If you are unable to pick your child up before then, please sign them out at the office and they will be found in the hall until 2pm and then they will be out in the playground.
The day will look like this:
09.00 - 10.30 am: In class as usual
10.30 - 11.00 am: Interval as usual
11.00 - 12.00 pm: In class
12.00 - 12.30 pm: Lunchtime - eating lunch, toilet, handwashing and a brief play
12.30 - 01.45 pm: In class and children being picked up are signed out from their classrooms
01.45 - 2.15 pm: Students head to the hall. Parents picking up children report to the office to sign their children out
02.15 - 2.45 pm: Play time (as per lunch break earlier)
02.45 - 3.00 pm: Students back in the hall. Bell rings as usual at 3.00pm for end of school
Murray Gadd - our writing facilitator from last year has written a book And one of our very own teachers has appeared in a photo with a blurb, armed with her writing apron - see a scan of the page below.
Property Updates - The Pod 8 exterior paint job, to prevent further sun damage of the shadowclad began yesterday.
- The makerspaces storage hubs are starting to be built by Cooks, behind the school hall, in the next week or so and once each unit is constructed they will be lifted into the space on one side of each pod.
- The bike path behind the Kids Club classroom and Pods 3, 4 and 5 is completed.
Tutus on Tour We were so fortunate to have this wonderful dance company perform dance and lead workshops last week as they were fabulous. The emotive and very well executed dances were powerful in their storytelling. Our year 3 and 4 children who took part in the dance workshops engaged fully and enjoyed their experience as well. Many thanks to the Royal NZ Ballet for bringing their art to us here in Wānaka.
COVID and other viruses are hitting our school staff We continue to have staff unwell and testing positive for Covid and also there is a nasty virus with cold/flu like symptoms as well. Please bear with us if your children have a couple of different relievers within a few days at the moment, as we are trying to juggle a limited pool of our wonderful relievers with covering staff for school events as well as illness.
Random Reminders - Pod 4 is off to their Lagoon Visit on Thursday 14th March.
- Pod 7's School Assembly this week, on Friday 15th March, is our first assembly for the year due to cancellations and other events. Parents and friends of the school are welcome to attend.
- Please remember to send your children along in correct school uniform each day, in particular plain socks, appropriate underwear, full brimmed hats, no caps, and sensible shoes so they can run around and do PE and sport activities.
- Life Education Trust mobile classroom arrives next week for 3 weeks. Harold and Roshelle will be working with all classes on aspects of healthy eating.
- Wednesday 20th March - Pod 1 are off to the LWC to watch Katie Bee, who is a bee fan and writes and performs to share her love of these wonderful creatures.
- Wednesday 20th March - Melissa our amazing librarian has arranged for author, Steve Mushin, to share his books and work with Years 4, 5 and 6.
- Monday 25th March - OTAGO ANNIVERSARY DAY holiday - yay a long weekend and a sleep in! And then a 3 day week!
- Friday 29th March - EASTER FRIDAY holiday, Monday 1st April and Tuesday 2nd April - EASTER HOLIDAYS. Back to school on Wednesday 3rd April. And then it's another 3 day week followed by a full week before the end of Term 1. The last day of term 1 is Friday 12th April. Term 2 starts on Monday 29th April.
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Congratulations Josh Josh Henton competed in the Dunedin Go Kart Club Champs in the weekend. He achieved fifth place and was awarded driver of the day for good racing and obeying the racing rules. He got a trophy and some treats for this, and did a wonderful acceptance speech. |
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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 are prepared, organised and on task'. |
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Tribe T-Shirts We had an amazing response to the Tribe t-shirts at Athletics Day! We have had lots of orders already and prompt payments. Thank you! Come into the office before the end of term to see the t-shirts, try on samples and place an order, $30 per t-shirt. The first batch will be ready to wear at the Cross Country. Another order will be made early next year.
We have had requests for adult sizes too, so will sort some samples and keep you posted! Thanks, The PTA Crew. |
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Upper Clutha Athletics The wind settled down and the sun provided perfect, warm conditions for the Upper Clutha Athletics last Friday. We had 63 year five and six athletes qualify to represent our school across eight events. Our athletes should be super proud of their efforts and the fairplay and supportive behaviour they demonstrated throughout the day.
Congratulations to everyone, and to the placegetters listed below:
Upper Clutha Athletics Results - Top 3
Students who have qualified for the Central Otago event will be told tomorrow and parents will be contacted on Thursday with information about the event.
Presentation Assembly To make presentations to the placegetters from our school athletics (yrs 3-6) we are holding an assembly on Tuesday 19th March - 12.25pm in the Hall.
Parents are invited along to help congratulate the students. Students will be informed if they will be receiving an award, but if you would like to check, please email kathn@wanaka.school.nz. |
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WPS Netball 2024 - Last Chance! This is the last chance to register for the netball season - registrations close this Thursday, 14th March. All children Y3-Y6 are welcome, from beginners to the more experienced. It would be especially great to see some more Y3 players this season! Please email wpsnetballers@gmail.com if you have any questions. |
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Busy Little Bees Children safely enjoying lunch sat on the firmly concreted in posts thanks to Matt, Derek, Jono and Jason.
A new beehive has been installed behind an acrylic screen so the children can watch the bees come and go collecting pollen.
This hive has been sponsored by the Cervelli and Welch families. Claire Harper donated the acryllic viewing screen. |
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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/  Scholastic Loop  The latest Scholastic NZ Brochure is available from classrooms. If you wish to place an order, please follow the instructions on the inside back cover using Option 1 – Credit Card / LOOP. No cash / orders are accepted at school.
If your order is a gift, please tick the ‘GIFT’ option, otherwise all orders are handed out to the children.
Orders will close at 9am on Monday 18th March.
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Colouring Contest - win tickets to Warbirds Over Wānaka |
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Tākaro - Upper Clutha Festival of Sport, Rec and Play |
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Wānaka Preschool Sustainable Gala |
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Food For Love Charity Auction |
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Public Meeting - Healthcare Services Healthcare in the Upper Clutha is under strain, especially after hours care. We need to let decision makers know this is of utmost concern to us.
The Community Board is facilitating a panel discussion with a range of medical experts. Please join us in this call to action.
To RSVP and pose a question to the panel please click here. |
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Free Online Zoom Sessions on Individualised Funding |
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Wai Wānaka - Lakefront Cleanup |
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Upper Clutha Hockey The UC Hockey Club 2024 season registrations are now open! (until Monday 25th March) It was worth the wait, season fees have been reduced this year! There is also a 50% deduction in annual fees for coaches and managers of teams. |
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Upper Clutha Rugby Registrations |
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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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