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Term 3
Week 7
Wednesday 7th September - Board Elections
Thursday 8th September - EOTC/Ski Day 4
Week 8
Monday 12th September - Board of Trustees Meeting - 5pm - Staffroom
Tuesday 13th September - UC Cross Country
Wednesday 14th September - Wanna Be a Star Finals - 11am
2pm - School Band perform and Wanna Be A Star winners announced
Thursday 15th September - EOTC/Ski Day 5
Week 9
Pod 5 Swimming Lessons
Talk Like a Pirate Week
Friday 23rd September - Dress Like a Pirate Day / Tribe Day
Friday 23rd September - PTA Sausage Sizzle Lunch
Week 10
Pod 4 Swimming Lessons
Thursday 29th September - Strike Drumming Performance
Friday 30th September - Last day of Term 3
Term 4
Week 1
Monday 17th October - First day of Term 4
Week 2
Monday 24th October - Labour Day - School Closed
Tuesday 25th October - SCHOOL PHOTOS
Week 3
Y5 Camp Columba
Week 4
Pod 1 Swimming Lessons
Y3 Camp - School
Monday 7th November - Board of Trustees Meeting - 5pm - Staffroom
Saturday 12th November - PTA Kiwiana Quiz - 7pm - Hall
Week 5
Y6 Camp - Dunedin - Waiora
Week 6
Y4 Camp - Bannockburn
Week 7
Monday 28th November - Teacher Only Day - School closed for instruction
Week 8
Monday 5th December - Board of Trustees Meeting - 5pm - Staffroom
Wednesday 7th December - Matinee performance of Pantomime 'Super Stan'
Thursday 8th December - 6pm evening performance of Pantomime 'Super Stan'
Friday 9th December - Final tribe afternoon - Water based fun!
Week 9
Monday 12th December - End of year students reports sent home
Wednesday 14th December - Year 6 Graduation Assembly - 1pm
Thursday 15th December - Last day of school 2022 - 3pm finish
First Day of Term 1 2023 - Wednesday 1st February IMPORTANT NOTICES
Scholastic NZ Brochure
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 3pm on Wednesday 14th September.
Leaving Wānaka Primary School? If your family is leaving WPS at the end of the term and you have not yet advised the office, can you please do so as soon as possible.
Also, if your family enrolled only for term 3 and your plans have changed, please also advise the office.
Lost Property We have lots of lost property so if you are missing anything please check in your child's Pods and at Reception. We have a fleece with a distinctive face mask in its pocket looking for its owner. The mask has a black background, with sparkly yellow and silver wasps on it. If this is your child's please message us, and we will return it to them. |
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School Camps 2022 - Term 4 Confirmed costs for Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 camps Payment is due Friday 30th September Payment details:
Online to Wānaka Primary School Account No: 02-0673-0023784-001
OR
Eftpos / cash at the office 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. Payment can be made by instalments. More information will follow about each individual camp.
Please regularly check your emails. |
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Calendars, Sketch Pads, Greeting Cards and Diaries Fundraiser We are again offering the chance for parents to purchase either calendars, sketch pads, greeting cards and diaries with your child’s artwork featured on them. There has been some amazing artwork produced which students are very proud of. We hope that you will support this school fundraiser. Print It Wanaka will be producing the products for us.
Products Available:
A4 Calendars: High quality A4 print of your child’s artwork or photo. Saddle stitched 12-month tear off calendar, includes public holidays and school terms.
Sketch Pads: Front cover features child’s artwork or photo, wire bound with 50 x A5 sized pages of blank art paper inside.
Greeting Cards: Display your child’s artwork or photo on a pack of 8 x A6 greeting cards with matching envelopes.
Diaries: Hard cover print of your child’s artwork or photo. A5 size, wire bound into a professional looking diary, includes week view and year planner.
This week an email will be sent with an online order form and photo attached of your child's classrooms artwork. Orders will need to be placed by Monday 19th September and completed products will be distributed to parents early in November.
There is also the opportunity to use your own photos if you wish. Photos will need to be emailed to lucyj@wanaka.school.nz with your order.
Cost of the products: - A4 Calendar - $20.00
- A5 Sketch Pad - $18.00
- Greeting Cards pack of 8 - $18.00
- A5 Diary - $23.00
Timeframe for ordering: - This week - detailed email to be sent out to parents with artwork and order form.
- Monday 19th September – last day for parents to make and pay for orders.
- Early November – finished products distributed to parents.
Parents are more than welcome to come into the office to view their child’s artwork, see the products available for purchase and place orders |
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2023 Mount Aspiring College Enrolments If your child will be attending Mount Aspiring College next year it is now time to let us know by completing an enrolment form. Please click here to access the online form.
All online enrolments will be checked and we will get back to you if we have any questions. An acknowledgement will be sent to you in due course and further information regarding term dates etc will be emailed to you during term 4. For all queries please email enrol@mtaspiring.school.nz |
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Board Elections Election Day –Tomorrow - Wednesday 7th September
At the close of nominations on Wednesday 3rd August, the following
nominations were received for parent vacancies on the School Board:
· Brendan Hearle
· Mitch Campbell
· Niamh Shaw
· Stephanie Welch
· Francis Jasper
Papers on how to vote electronically have been distributed by email - please check your spam filters - particularly for those who have a gmail address. For those without valid email addresses voting papers have been mailed for a paper vote.
Voting closes at 4pm tomorrow - Wednesday 7th September
Please take some time to read through our candidate statements here. We value your participation in this process.
Returning Officer, Wayne Jamieson, 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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School Uniform Please note that we expect children to be in school uniform every day and if there is a reason why a different colour is worn or a patterned jumper is worn, parents need to email the teacher. We do not want to see children in hot pink tights, or bright yellow socks or bandanas or hats on their heads. Please keep to our school colours. We want our children looking smart right up until the last day of the year, especially our Year 6 students so please support us with this.
Maths is Cool It is so heart warming to see smiles and excitement when students come in to show me the maths they have been working on. The work teachers have done to include their learning about the teaching of maths this year is definitely benefitting our students. Check out this group of Year 4s who shared their maths work with me...great solutions to a challenge to use 3 numbers and any operation to give totals for numbers from 1-100. The challenge is called 'Numble'. PTA Events Well done to the PTA for holding another great Fathers Day Breakfast and thanks to all the dads who turned up and made their kids' day. It is so nice having you back in school again. Our next PTA event is a sausage sizzle to be held on our 'Dress like a Pirate Day' on Friday 23rd September. All of that week, from Monday 19th through to Friday 23rd, we will be having a bit of literacy fun around our 'Talk Like a Pirate Week' theme, so pirate books, poems, sea shanties etc will be enjoyed and anything to do with pirates celebrated. (I bet Dave will come up with some pirate jokes for us all as well). Friday 23rd will also include a Tribe afternoon based on pirate team games of course.
The PTA, with the help of staff, are organising a Kiwiana Quiz evening for parents on Saturday 12th November. This will be held in our school hall starting from 7pm. Great questions, great people and great food, and not a child in sight - what more could you wish for on a Saturday night? Book this date into your diary now.
Week 3 EOTC - Year 4 Digi Group |
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Wanna Be A Star and Our School Band Performance At the moment pods are starting their semi-finals to arrive at the finalists for next week's Wanna Be A Star Final. Parents of course are invited along to the semi-finals and if your child reaches the finals we would love to see you along for that too. The finals are next Wednesday 14th September from 11am through to lunch time. Judging will take place at lunchtime, then at 2pm the band will perform with some of the songs they have been working on this year. If your child is in the band or a finalist come along and join us as after the band the Wanna Be A Star winners will be announced. |
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Pod 5 Planting at Domini Park  Pod 5 children planting natives with Te Kākano on Monday at Domini Park. |
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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 take care of our school and use spaces and equipment for their purpose'. |
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Fathers Day Breakfast Thank You The WPS PTA Committee would like to extend a huge thank you to all of our wonderful families who attended Fathers Day breakfast and to the incredible sponsors who made the day possible. It was so wonderful to all get together and for the children to experience this with their loved ones.
The next PTA meeting will be on Wednesday the 14th of September at 6:30pm at the Albert Town Tavern. Please feel free to come along and get involved with the planning of our next event.
Contact Adele McKenna on pta@wanaka.school.nz for further information.
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WPS Netball Committee 2022 / 2023 Meeting The Wānaka Primary Netball Committee are meeting to wrap up the 2022 year and discuss the 2023 season at 6pm Thursday 7th September at Alchemy. A few of our committee are leaving as their children are moving on from WPS next year, so we would love some new parents to join us for a drink and join the committee for the 2023 season! Any queries, please contact Portia at wpsnetballers@gmail.com |
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Library News Click the image below to view our wonderful Library Webapp.  I have been busy updating our library webapp. Click on the link to see how it looks. There are recommended books/series, information on Authors and lots more. I am adding new items weekly.
Under "Dashboards" at the top you can click in and view the new digital research I am working on to assist teachers and the children on topics they are working on. This is a process and the content will continue to grow as I work on it with the teachers and the National Library, collating good material. It's kind of like a school intranet. Feel free to email Melissa at any time if you have any questions. 
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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Seasons for Growth Parent Programme |
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UPPER CLUTHA SCHOOLS – SKI & SNOWBOARD RACE Tuesday 20th SEPTEMBER (postponement day Wednesday 21st) Registrations for this event are open NOW! Close STRICTLY Friday 16th Sep 4pm (NO late registrations can be accepted) IMPORTANT INFO – PLEASE READ Open to all Year 3 to Year 8 students of intermediate skiing/boarding ability, no racing experience required. Come and have FUN racing down a Giant Slalom course. Get a team of 3 or 4 together from your school. PRIMARY OR INTERMEDIATE - they will have to race in the category according to the corresponding school year of the eldest team member. Teams are either - all boys, all girls or mixed where the best 3 combined times count towards placings. NO MIXED DISCIPINES – EITHER SKI OR SNOWBOARD TEAMS ONLY. SEE LINK BELOW TO REGISTER & PLEASE READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY. |
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Repair Revolution at Wastebusters |
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Luggate Albion Junior Cricket 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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