| | | | | | IMPORTANT DATES Term 3
Week 9
Pod 6 Swimming Week
Year 6 Camp Week
Thursday 14th September - COPSSA Cross Country
Week 10
Pod 1 Swimming Week
Wednesday 20th September - Creatives Project Showcase - 1.30-3.00pm
Friday 22nd September - Last Day of Term
Term 4
Week 1
Monday 9th October - First day of Term 4
Week 2
Wednesday 18th October - Polyfest in Queenstown
Week 3
Monday 23rd October - Labour Day - School Closed
Tuesday 24th October - School Photos
Tues 24 Oct - Fri 27 Oct - Year 4 Camp - Bannockburn
Week 4
Pod 2 Swimming Week
Monday 30th October - Board of Trustees Meeting - 5pm - Staffroom
Tues 31 Oct - Fri 3 Nov - Year 5 Camp - Camp Columba
Wed 1 Nov - Tues 2 Nov - Year 3 Camp
Week 5
Wednesday 8th November - School Disco
IMPORTANT NOTICES 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.
Lost Property We have heaps of lost property in the office including a number of unnamed down jackets. All unnamed lost property will be taken to Waste Busters in the holidays so please come and check in the office if you are missing anything.
Construction of Roundabout on Aubrey-Anderson Road Temporary traffic lights will be in place from 18th September for 7 weeks.
Stage 2 of the Roundabout Construction Works will start in early November. There will be no road closures in Stage 2. |
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Creatives Art Project Showcase |
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Calendars, Sketch Pads, Greeting Cards and Diaries Fundraiser We are again offering the chance for parents to purchase either calendar, sketch pads, greeting cards and diaries with your child’s artwork featured on them. There is some amazing artwork being 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 (months will be printed on each page).
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 Wednesday 20th 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 - $20.00
Greeting Cards pack of 8 - $20.00
A5 Diary - $25.00
Timeframe for ordering:
This week - detailed email to be sent out to parents with artwork and order form.
Wednesday 20th 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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School Board Parent Mid Term Election 2023
Nomination Round
Our school will be undertaking a mid term parent election for 2 School Board vacancies. This process will start with the issuing of nomination papers to our caregiver community by Friday 22nd September 2023.
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 on to CES for processing upon receipt from candidates.
Nominations close on Wednesday 11th October at 12 noon. Election day is Wednesday 15th November.
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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UC Kapahaka Performance Today the 550 principals at the Principals Conference in Queenstown watched the 30 children in our UC Kapahaka group perform a waiata written for our area by Mary-Ann Westhead and a haka developed also for our UC area by Raihania Chadwick. For our group to perform original waiata and haka was a real delight and this showed in the passion with which they performed.
Thanks to the Year 6 students in this group who after the performance headed to camp and thanks to the wonderful parents who volunteered to drive them from Queenstown to camp in Dunedin.
COPSSA Cross Country Good luck to those senior students taking part in the COPSSA Cross Country in Cromwell on Thursday this week.
Would you like to catch up with your child's teacher A reminder to all parents that if you wish to have a catch up with your child's teacher regarding their learning over the term please don't hesitate to contact the teacher directly as there are no formal interviews or reporting at the end of term 3. As always you are encouraged to contact classroom teachers at any time re your child. |
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Pod 2 Visit to the Emergency Services Stations Yesterday Pod 2 children visited the Fire, Police and Search and Rescue Stations. We learnt about how these organisations help people in emergency situations and had a look around the stations. At the Fire Station we looked at all the equipment that is carried on the Fire Engines. We looked at the cells at the Police Station and learnt about what happens when people have been arrested. At Search and Rescue we learnt how to lift and carry an injured person on a stretcher and carried out a Search and Rescue exercise on the hill behind the station. What a fabulous experience for everyone!
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Mohua Day Thank you for supporting our Mohua Day. We raised $443 to help Forest and Bird try to save the endangered Mohua from predators. |
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Year 6 Camp  Year 6 are having a great time at their camp in Dunedin. Here are some photos from the first couple of days. |
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School Camps 2023 Confirmed Costs for Year 5 & 6 Camps
Payment details:
Online to Wānaka Primary School Account No: 02-0673-0023784-001 OR Eftpos / cash at the office Payment can be made in instalments. More information will follow about each individual camp.
Please regularly check your emails. |
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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 eat in the right area, keep all areas tidy and pick up rubbish'. |
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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.  Quote of the Week  |
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Head Lice Head lice are (an unwelcome) part of life, and are easily spread between people, particularly children. The key to managing head lice is early detection: look through your child’s hair on a regular basis – nominate a certain night of the week so it becomes routine. - Use your fingers or a head lice comb, and look for little brown insects on the scalp. The eggs are almost invisible before they hatch, so by the time you spot the little white eggs on the hair shaft they are already hatched.
- Do not treat your child unless you see live lice.
- The best treatment is thorough combing with a head lice comb and lots of conditioner in the hair. This should be done every 2nd day for 10 days.
- If you choose to use a head lice shampoo, you should still do the wet combing as described above. Shampoos do not kill eggs, and do not always kill all the live lice.
- Do not use animal products on your child’s scalp. They are harmful to humans.
- Tying hair up, especially long hair, is beneficial when trying to avoid catching headlice or spreading it.
For more information: www.healthed.govt.nz/resources/headlice-facts.
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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2023 Upper Clutha Schools – Ski & Snowboard Race |
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At the World's Edge Music Festival |
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Volunteer Connections Event |
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Dunedin Brick Show 2023
The Dunedin Brick Show is a very popular event for children of all ages. We would love to see children of all ages enjoying themselves creating with LEGO, admiring the fantastic LEGO displays and entering the competitions linked below. The show is a charity event and proceeds from the show this year will be donated to The Otago Youth Wellness Trust.
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Junior Golf Have-A-Go Day |
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Youth Basketball Skills Camp |
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Wānaka Kids Club - Spring Holiday Programme |
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Kahu Youth Spring Holiday Programme |
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NZ Marine Studies Centre Tours |
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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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