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Week 10
Wednesday 6th July - Garden to Table Bake Sale - Pods 4 and 5
Thursday 7th July - Garden to Table Bake Sale - Pods 7 and 8
Friday 8th July - Last Day of Term
Term 3
Week 1
Dance Week with Dance Curriculum
Monday 25th July - First Day of Term 3
Week 3
Thursday 11th August - EOTC Day 1
Week 4
Monday 15th August - Board of Trustees Meeting
Thursday 18th August - EOTC Day 2
Week 5
Thursday 25th August - EOTC Day 3
Week 6
Thursday 1st September - EOTC Day 4
Week 7
Thursday 8th September - EOTC Day 5
Week 8
Monday 12th September - Board of Trustees Meeting
Tuesday 13th September - UC Cross Country
Thursday 15th September - EOTC Postponement Day
Week 9
Pod 5 Swimming Lessons
Week 10
Pod 4 Swimming Lessons
IMPORTANT NOTICES
Code Club
Code Club will be on tomorrow from 3:15pm to 4:15pm in Pod 7, Room 26.
Lost Property
We have a number of un-named fleeces, gloves and hats in the lost property. Please come and check for your belongings before the end of term, unclaimed items will be taken to Wastebusters in the holidays.
Leaving WPS?
If you and your family are leaving Wānaka Primary School at the end of term and you haven't notified the 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 this term. As a prize, all students who are in Piwakawaka tribe only are allowed to wear mufti to school this Friday.
The mufti is free and Piwakawaka students can wear their tribe colour or any school-appropriate clothing. No face paint please. |
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SchooI Board Parent Election 2022
Nomination round
Our school will be undertaking a parent election for 3 School Board vacancies. This
process will start with the issuing of nomination papers to our caregiver community by Friday 15th July 2022.
We have employed CES to undertake the election process on our behalf. This year with legislative change, our nomination form and full instruction on how to place your nomination into our own School’s Election website will be emailed to you, if we have your email address in our database, or you will receive it by post if we don’t have your email in our database.
Nomination papers will also be available at the school office. The school will send those onto CES for processing upon receipt from candidates.
Nominations close on Wednesday 3rd August at 12 noon. Election day is Wednesday 7th September 2022.
We look forward to your participation in this process.
Wayne Jamieson
Returning Officer
CES
89 Nazareth Avenue | Middleton | Christchurch | PO Box 414 | Christchurch 8140
P (03) 338 4444 | Cell 021 399 744 Web www.cessl.org.nz
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Student to Parent Reporting It was absolutely awesome to see so many families back in school and the campus was buzzing! I had goosebumps and felt quite emotional seeing children with their parents, heads bowed over children's evidence of their learning and a focused buzz of conversation going on, whilst classes were working all around them.
There was a fabulous turnout of mums, dads and grandparents - no less than 92% to 100% turnout in each class. Wow! And the feedback on the day (given spontaneously from many of our dads this time) has been that the experience has been very powerful and informative, with children presenting their learning, progress and achievement with passion, showing depth and understanding of what they are learning and their next steps. Thank you all for your positive feedback to teachers and to myself. These are proving to be a very valuable part of our reporting process.
Watch out for the mid-year written reports to hit your inbox on Thursday and remember that you can email your child's classroom teacher to book a face to face or online interview next term. There is no formal booking process, you can just make direct contact with classroom teachers. And of course as per our open door policy, you are welcome at any time to contact classroom teachers to arrange a time to talk about your child's learning at school.
School Holidays...then our annual Dance Week!
The school holidays start this Friday, with school finishing at 3pm as usual. School returns on Monday 25th July and all of that week every child will take part in our annual dance week. Students will learn a new dance with Dean or one of the crew (from the Dance company 'Dance Curriculum'...aka Ezra's dance from former years) and then on Friday parents are invited along to view these performances. We are all so looking forward to this as it is a great week we all love and such an energetic, fun way to start the term.
Parent Satisfaction Survey Post Covid...(we hope it's post!) A reminder that we would really appreciate as many families as possible completing this survey so we can find out how you felt the school has managed the difficult times of the last two and a half years with lockdowns and Covid. This will enable us to look at our processes and improve these to better serve the next time we are forced to face similar circumstances. The final day to complete this SURVEY is this Friday, 8th July.
Enjoy the Holidays Make sure you get a chance to enjoy some YOU time in the holidays as well as spending time with your children. Let's hope the holiday breaks the vicious cycle of bugs that seem to be causing so many absences from school.
Our Health and Education Ministries are highlighting the fact that other Covid/Omicron strains are on the way and we should be preparing for this. We have been sent lots of extra masks and we will be giving the whole school a good clean over the holidays. We have been warned that there may be times ahead where masks should be worn again and we must keep up our hygiene practices to keep bugs at bay.
Also a reminder to think carefully next term about taking too many days off school to go skiing etc. We are really concerned about some of the low attendance rates we are seeing and the impact that is having on children's learning, progress and achievement and in some cases their social well being as well. During the school week children should be at school - leave the skiing to the weekend. Any leave for skiing (apart from our school programme) is an unjustified absence and any absence does impact on your child's learning. |
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Internet Health and Wellbeing Presentation A reminder that this online presentation is tomorrow evening, Wednesday 6th July at 7.30pm. See the poster below and here is the link to access the zoom meeting:
If you are unable to get the time to join this webinar, then don't worry as we will get a recorded version which we will post on our website under the parent section, once it is emailed to us.
Staff have a teacher webinar with John Parsons at 3:30pm tomorrow and your children also get a chance to join a student webinar on online safety also presented by John Parsons. This is scheduled for tomorrow in school time, however classes too will have access to recorded versions if they are unable to link up tomorrow. I have heard that John is an excellent presenter and that we will all learn heaps.
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Wanted: Teacher Aide for High Needs Students We are looking to employ a further teacher aide to join our team. We require someone who is available to work a few hours most days. The successful applicant will work with children who have specific behavioural/social needs. Some experience in dealing with challenging behaviours in children is preferred. Further and specific training will be provided at school once employment begins. Please register interest or email any questions re the TA position to Leah at senco@wanaka.school.nz before Monday 18th July. |
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Mata Au Kapa Haka Festival On Friday the 1st of July our senior kapa haka group attended this fabulous festival. All the local schools in the area took part in a day of collaboration and celebration of kapa haka and reo. The tamariki attended three workshops on waiata, games and creating a haka for our community. We were joined by several ECE groups after lunch who performed for us and watched our school kapa haka performances. A fabulous day led beautifully by many MAC students.
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School Camps 2022 - Term 4 Approximate costs - these costs are yet to be finalised. Payment is not required until costs have been finalised. Further information will be sent out during term 3. If there are challenges that would make payment of camps difficult please come in and see, ring or email Wendy or Lucy as soon as possible. Once costs have been finalised payment can be made by instalments. |
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WPS Snow Sports School Programme - Term 3
Dates: - 11th August
- 18th August
- 25th August
- 1st September
- 8th September
- Weather day: 15th September
Programme options are: - Five Day Ski Programme at either TC or Cardrona
- Treble Cone for Intermediate and Advanced Lessons ONLY
- One day ski experience at Cardrona and four days in the School Programme
Students must register via: Wānaka Primary School Snow Sports Programme Signup Registrations close Thursday 28th July.
For further information about the snow programmes please visit our WPS webpage.
If you are not involved in the Snow Sports School Programme you will be placed in the At School Programme. |
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Wānaka Primary School Netball Two of our Wānaka Primary School netball teams competed in the Central Lakes Primary School Festival in Alexandra last Tuesday. Both teams played really well and had a great day competing against schools from Queenstown, Arrowtown, Cromwell, Roxburgh, Alexandra and Poolburn. Well done to all involved and thanks so much to our parent volunteers who help to make this tournament happen. |
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Library News 
Ebooks and Audio Books
The Wānaka Public Library has 2 fantastic Ebook Platforms which are highly recommended. All you need is a library membership which is free. Click on the image below to find out more and browse to see what is available: 
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Contact for our local Public Health Nurse Pip McLean is our local Public Health Nurse - should you wish to get in contact with Pip her contact details are: 03 440 4309 or 0272 839 395 or email Pip.McLean@southerndhb.govt.nz |
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Wānaka Coeliac Kids Club - Sushi Making |
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Calm Minds Parent Programme |
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Book Donations from The Next Chapter Bookshop |
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Junior Interfield Ski Race Series |
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Central Otago Children's Theatre Presents... |
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Mothers and Daughters Self Defence |
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Aspiring Basketball Academy |
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Kids Art and Craft Workshop |
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Queenstown Ice Hockey Club |
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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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