End of Year is Zooming up on us The countdown is on until the end of the 2022 school year. Check out the major events happening: - Wednesday 7th December: Super Stan performance 1pm matinee
- Thursday 8th December: Super Stan performance 6pm evening
- Thursday 8th December: Inflatable Playground fun day for Pods 4, 5, 7, 8
- Friday 9th December: Tribe Day - Water Fun activity sessions for EVERYONE - check out what you need to bring below
- Monday 12th December: Student Leaders Fun Day out
- Monday 12th December: Pod 3 at the Dinosaur Park
- Monday 12th December: Pod 1 Xmas Singalong at 2pm in the WPS hall
- Monday 12th December: 2.15pm Bus drivers/ traffic teams afternoon tea
- Monday 12th December: REPORTS AVAILABLE - check your emails
- Tuesday 13th December: We are holding a school assembly to farewell Katrina Kreft and Leeanne Preston who are moving onto to other paths in life, Markus Hermanns (who has gained a position at MAC next year), and also Carin Hetherington who is heading over to Bahrain. You are welcome to join us to farewell these valued members of our staff who will not be returning next year.
- Wednesday 14th December: Room 3 visit to the grebes 10am-2pm
- Wednesday 14th December: 1pm the Year 6 Graduation Ceremony is being held in our school hall.
- Thursday 15th December: The last day for 2022 school finishes at 3pm.
School Organisation for Next Year We are fortunate to have a stable staff and there are no further cuts to staff we need to make for next year, so things look pretty much the same as this year, apart from Coral moving to the senior school as that's where we have the bulge, it's that larger year 4 group moving to year 5. We start with the following 19 classes next year:
JUNIOR SCHOOL TEAM
DP/Team Leader - Jason Cowan POD 2 (Year 1) POD 3 (Year 2)
Sharon Pendlebury Jo Roberts
Jen Chandler Marj Cosgrove
Charlotte Baldwin Megan McConnell
Andrena Harvey Casey Adams
MIDDLE SCHOOL TEAM
DP/Team Leader - Jennie Croxford POD 4 (Year 3 & 4) POD 5 (Year 3 & 4)
Kylie Brown Lisa Thorne
Robyn Blennerhassett Anne Jenkins
Danielle Meyer-Budge Kelly Chadwick
SENIOR SCHOOL TEAM
DP/Team Leader - Kerry Guise
POD 7 (Year 5 & 6) POD 8 (Year 5 & 6)
Karina Sharpe Anna Speak
David Fitzgerald Kath Nicholson
Charlotte Lawrie Hannah Chisholm
Coral Potter
OTHER STAFF
Learning Support Co-ordinator (SENCO) - Leah Allison
Literacy Lift Teachers - Marg Grieve, Emma Stewart
Teacher Aides - Teresa Alexander, Debbie Kaye, Karen Hayward, Katherine Lam, Leisha Bell Librarian - Melissa Ashby
We will notify you of your child's class and teacher next week and the stationery lists will be placed on our school website and also sent to Paper Plus. The 2023 calendar will also be uploaded to our website by the end of next week.
As Katrina is retiring from her position at Wānaka Primary School we have been through the process of appointing a new administration assistant to our office team. We welcome Anna Hannah-Jones on board. She will join office manager, Lucy Jewel and office assistant Jo Murphy.
Due to our gardener resigning from the garden maintenance role we have been fortunate to secure the services of Simply Garden Care to keep our gardens weed free and looking like they are loved.
Over the upcoming holidays there is some work being done in the way of irrigation and landscaping by a MOE funded contractor to replace our sprawly untidy gardens - the courtyard area will be done first over the holidays and around the pods as each pod is reclad.
Recladding Cook Brothers have just about finished recladding Pod 2 and next week Pod 1 teachers will be moving furniture etc over to pod 2 ready to set up for the 2023 year. The builders have now fenced off the library end of the admin block ready to reclad this and then move onto the office end, which will be completed by the start of term 1, 2023. Please be aware that there will be building, landscaping, irrigation work, seat top installation and painting of our pirate ship playground over the holiday period - a real construction zone so be wary about sending your children to play at school unsupervised over the holidays.
Pod 1 and then Pod 6 will be reclad in term 1. Phew it's all go.
Garden to Table Well done to the Garden to Table team of students, teachers and parents led by the amazing Debbie Kaye and Jo Roberts who have done a fabulous job of this whole garden and kitchen project. We had a small but enthusiastic group of supporters and sponsors turn up to the opening last week where Darren Rewa welcomed our guests, the Kapahaka group performed and Skye McFarlane from the Garden to Table programme officially opened our project. Following the formal part of the afternoon we all headed up to the kitchen where the Garden to Table student group offered tantalising nibbles and refreshments made from Garden to Table recipes. Thanks for a fabulous afternoon and how lucky are we to have such a wonderful area to work and learn in.
Reporting to Parents It was great to have a continued majority of parents turn up to Deep Dive into their child's learning. Children were excited and so proud to present artifacts of their learning, progress and achievement and lots of positive chatter and discussion was to be heard. Please don't hesitate to arrange a catch up with your child's teacher for more information or to answer any questions or wonderings you may have. Written reports for all children, except Kirsty's and Andrena's classes, will be sent home on Monday of next week at the latest. Thank you for your support of your children's learning and of our 3 tiered reporting process. | 
