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Week 2
Wednesday 18th October - Polyfest in Queenstown
Wednesday 18th October - Year 5 Camp Info Parent Evening 5.30 - 6pm - Pod 8
Thursday 19th October - AWE Festival Orchestra Performance
Friday 20th October - Pod 1 Assembly - 2.15pm - Hall
Week 3
Monday 23rd October - Labour Day - School Closed
Tuesday 24th October - School Photos
Wednesday 25th October - Strategic Directions Consultation Sessions 7-8pm
Thursday 26th October - Strategic Directions Consultation Sessions - 3.15-4.15pm
Tues 24 Oct - Fri 27 Oct - Year 4 Camp - Bannockburn
Week 4
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
Pod 2 Swimming Week
Wednesday 8th November - School Disco
Week 6
Tuesday 14th November - Netsafe Parents Workshop - 7pm - 8.30pm - Hall
Week 8
Friday 1st December - Pod 2 Assembly - 2.15pm - Hall
Week 10
Friday 15th December - Last day of school for 2023 - school closes 3pm
IMPORTANT NOTICES Student Consent Information An email has been sent home today as we are updating our student consent information. Could you please respond to the attached form by Friday 27th October. This will be required for all children currently attending WPS.
School Photos - Tuesday 24th October REMEMBER OUR SCHOOL PHOTOS are next Tuesday 24th October (the day after the Monday Labour Day holiday) so we want all children in their uniforms, looking absolutely gorgeous with a NAVY polo please, rather than their white.
Kelly and Anne's Year 4 students are off to camp at Bannockburn that day. Please send Kelly's and Anne's Year 4 students to school in uniform as we will take their class and sibling photos first. They can change into their casual clothes before heading off to camp. Watch out for more info re this from Kelly and Anne. A ping will also be sent to you the night before to remind you.
Netsafe Workshop for Parents Lost Property Effie in Pod 6 lost her turtle earring on the top field near the football posts and path to MAC. If anyone finds it could they please bring it to the office or Pod 6.
If you are missing any of the following items please come to the office. Mt Iron Roundabout Update As part of its Road to Zero Safe Infrastructure Programme, Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency is building a roundabout to keep everyone safe and improve access at the busy Mt Iron SH6/SH84 intersection near Wānaka. For the latest project update (October 23), please visit this link. |
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Crumbs and Confetti Fundraiser
www.crumbsandconfetti.co.nz |
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Board face to face Consultation around Strategic Directions for 2024-2026 Francis Jasper from the Board of Trustees will lead 2 consultation sessions for parents around the strategic goals and priorities for 2024. The Board and Leadership Team have pulled out the main points from the Term 3 parents survey feedback and these will be shared with you and discussed. We value your input and would love to see as many of you along as possible so we can be sure we are capturing our full parent voice. These sessions will be held in the staffroom on Wednesday 25th October at 7-8pm and on Thursday 26th October at 3.15-4.15pm. Supervision will be provided for children at the pirate ship playground for this afternoon session to enable parents to attend. |
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Class Organisation 2024 We are about to start considering classes for 2024. Organising classes for learning is a huge and complex task, as we consider a variety of information such as student friendships and clashes, student learning styles and teacher's teaching styles. We also endeavour to keep students with the same teacher, if we can for a second year, as this is a big indicator in the research for success for our learners. However this kind of decision is also made on an individual basis as well. If you wish to share any issues or considerations about your child's learning and friendships that you feel may impact on their class placement for 2024, now is the time to let us know - email our team leaders and have a chat with your child's teacher too. For children in Pod 2 and 4, please email jasonc@wanaka.school.nz. Pods 1 and 6 email jenniec@wanaka.school.nz and for Pods 7 and 8 email kerryg@wanaka.school.nz. If you have a request for more than one child, please send just one email and cc in the other team leaders as well. Please send your email in the next 2 weeks before we start the class organisation process. We put a lot of heart, soul, time and deep thinking into this process and always strive to make the best choice, based on our own observations and evidence, for each child for the upcoming new year.
Education Review Office (ERO) Our ERO review officer, Murray South is in school for a couple of days this week undertaking classroom observations, meeting with the leadership team to see where we are at in the current review process and to look at the revised ERO report templates and expectations now that we have been in the new process and ERO is ready to report on our goals we set for review. I will keep you informed of this process.
POLYFEST in Queenstown Fifty Year 5 and 6s in our senior Kapa Haka are heading off to Queenstown with Anne, Kerry and I on the bus to take part in the Polyfest which is held at the Queenstown Events Centre. We perform at around 10.30am and we are looking forward to sharing the hard work Anne, Mary Anne and our students have put in over the year to ensure a quality performance. A reminder for Kapa Haka students to be at school BY 7.45am as the bus leaving for Polyfest will be leaving the school gate sharp at 8am.
We are currently looking at designing and purchasing new Kapa Haka uniforms next year as our current outfits were designed and sewn by staff and parents over 15 years ago - time for something new, although we will keep parts of our original motif but incorporate aspects of our school logo as well.
Can you Sew? WE NEED SEWERS FOR OUR PANTOMIME COSTUMES
Please let Jennie or Wendy know if you have a machine and can undertake some sewing for us - nothing too complicated we promise.
Also if you have any props or costumes that we could use in our panto which is a take off of STAR WARS we would love to know. Anything that is along the lines of space or aliens is of interest. We will be asking for specific items as we get closer to performance dates.
Pod 1 Assembly is this Friday 20th October Everyone is welcome along to see the work the children have been working on in the last term or so. This is our last assembly for a while as Pod 2's final assembly is not being held until Friday 1st December, which is at the end of Week 8 of this term.
Year 4 Camps at Bannockburn School Camp Next week we have our Year 4s heading to an overnight camp, with 3 groups going each night from Tuesday through till Thursday night. The Year 4s spend either side of this overnight stay exploring the Bannockburn/Cromwell environment.
Our YEAR 5s head off to a 4 day camp at Camp Columba in Pukerau the following week (Tuesday 31st October through to Friday 3rd November).
REMINDER MONDAY 23rd is Labour Day and on TUESDAY 24th we have school photos here at school, so send your children along looking smart in their navy polo shirts and with tidy hair etc. |
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Scholastic Book Fair Term 4 is the time for our annual SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR. A percentage of the proceeds go straight back into our school library so it's a win win for everybody. This is a great opportunity to do some Christmas shopping.
This year it is on Monday 20th November - Friday 24th November. Mark the date on your calendars now. I will be calling out for parent help before and after school closer to the time.
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School Camps 2023
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 for camps difficult, please come in and see, ring or email Wendy (wendyb@wanaka.school.nz) or Lucy (office@wanaka.school.nz) as soon as possible. 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 listen, follow Instructions and speak and listen to each other appropriately'. |
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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.
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 3pm on Thursday 26th October. Quote of the Week
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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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Annual Upper Clutha Angling Club 'Take A Kid Fishing Day' Sunday 26th November 2023 Meet 9.45am, briefing, 10-noon fishing, free BBQ lunch, depart.
This event is organized by the Upper Clutha Angling Club
and supported by Otago Fish and Game.
Venue is a pond beside Mount Barker Road, that has recently been stocked
with hungry trout. To date we have always been able to catch fish!
Please click here for more information including how to enrol |
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New to MAC Information Evenings |
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Feedback on QLDC Speed Management Plan |
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Lucas Oil Hydrothunder
Aspiring Rotary are running catering and bar with proceeds
going to community networks No Child misses out fund. |
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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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