WAIKOWHAI PRIMARY SCHOOL NEWSLETTER 9 : 14th June 2016 Ko te Tamaiti te Po te Kaupapa

Ole tamaitiiti o le fatu o le faamoemoe The Child – the Heart of the Matter

Kia ora, Talofa lava, Namaste, Kia orana, Malo e lelei, hello everyone. Welcome back to Term 2 and a special welcome to our new student and their family: Koleka Mataafa.

     

ASSEMBLIES THIS TERM Week 7 Room 9

Week 8 Room 6

Week 9 Room 7

Week 10 Room 5

SCHOOL PRODUCTION Our school production this year is Alice In Wonderland and will take place

at Waikowhai Intermediate on the following dates:

Week 4 of Term 4 • Wednesday 2nd November (EVENING PERFORMANCE) • Thursday 3rd November (EVENING PERFORMANCE) • Friday 4th November (DAYTIME PERFORMANCE)

Our school productions are lots of fun and ALL students take part in the shows,

so please put the above dates in your diary. Further information regarding tickets will be sent home next term. We will also be sending out a form within the next few weeks, to see if any parents are able to support us with making

costumes and props.  

Keeping Ourselves Safe Programme We run this programme every two years and all teachers will be taking students through a series of lessons in the last three weeks of

this term. A parent information meeting about the programme will be held tomorrow 15th June in the hall from 2.30 – 3pm. Our

school’s Police Education Officer, Cyrus Warwick-Ching, will lead the meeting.

‘STRIKE’ SHOW This outstanding percussion group will perform for our

students at school on Tuesday 21st June. The cost of the show is $5.00 per student.

If you haven’t done so already please pay this to the class teacher as soon as possible.

WIG WEDNESDAY

On Wednesday 22nd June we will hold a gold coin mufti and wig day to raise money for the

Child Cancer Foundation.

 

Fr iends of the School The FOTs parent group will meet in the school staffroom tonight at 7.30pm. The main purpose of the meeting will be to look at ways to help with the school Art

Festival in Term 3 and the school production in Term 4. We would love to see some new faces at this meeting so

please come along if you can.  

COMMUNITY NEWS Congratulations to Michael Wood, our Board Chairperson, who has been selected as the Labour candidate for the Mt

Roskill electorate.  

Kapahaka Group Performance As part of this year’s Matariki Kite Day celebrations, our Kapahaka Group will

perform at the Domain at the top of Mt Roskill next Sunday 26th June at 1.00pm. Thanks to Mrs Jones and Te Ao Frandi for training the group. We

know you will all be outstanding!  

 

PUNCTUALITY There are a growing number of students arriving at school late.

School starts promptly at 9.00am and students need to be here

before the bell so that they can organise themselves for the day. As previously advised we are obliged to

inform The Truancy Service if a pattern of lateness develops.  

 

 

 

 

             

                                 

 

PUBLISHED WRITERS…By Room 4 Fantails are small birds and they have small wings with a long brown fan shaped tail. They love gardens. The fantail eat small bugs. Sometimes they enter houses in summer. Piwakawaka is the Maori name for the fantail. BY ATREYU MCSHEFFREY

A kea is a nat ive bird from New Zea land . Keas have co lourfu l co lours on their feathers . Keas have pointy beaks . A keas has big b lack eyes . They are big birds . Keas have sharp c laws . They l ive in high mounta ins . BY RAEL NOA

A pukeko is a New Zealand native bird. A pukeko has long legs on its body. They have colourful feathers on their body. Pukeko has long claws. They have have shiny eyes and a red beak.. Sometimes they have red eyes. Pukeko live in swamps and ponds. They eat vegetables, duck eggs, spiders, young birds worms, frogs, fish and insects. The pukeko can fly but mostly pukeko walk. Pukekos are pesky and cheeky birds. BY BRITTANY PULETAHA

 

MERIT CERTIFICATES Classroom teachers award merit certificates to students who have made an exceptional effort or have improved in a particular curriculum area. We would like to congratulate the following students who have received merit certificates in the last two weeks: Bella Brown, Maddy Brown, Santanna Alfred-Ngata, Frank Bremmer, Ethan Cossey, Logan Liang, Peityn Fa’atea, Amara Mahmood, Fadlan Sazli, Grace Halaufia, Lily Mao, Claire Willem, Max Munro, Ricky Li, Joshua Symon, Tau Longopoa, Tyson de Boer, Ishaan Greenwood, Rain Yu, Jaeda Alfred-Wood, Ofa Tupou, Mahdi Omeri, Masi Koshani, Naweed Sakha, Caja Su’a, JD Fuimaono, Grace Halaufia, Nethya Weerasinghe, Faidhi Sazli, Jeremiah Uaisele, Kyana Teihotua-Gates, Rico Ahitapu, Sadie Caffery, Chimay Johnson, Te Mana Ahitapu, Faith Cagiaceva, Rain Yu. DUFFY CERTIFICATES Duffy certificates are values based and are awarded by classroom teachers to students who have demonstrated a key value such as kindness, respect, responsibility, empathy or honesty towards others. We would like to congratulate the following students who received Duffy certificates in the last two weeks: Eloise Brown, Dalton Craig, Rael Noa, Jacob Uaisele, Jamie Nagle, Kiana Wihapi, Lily Wilkings, Caitlin Niva, Fili Longopoa, Tipiloma Aloua, Noah Naseir-Talaia, Daniel Fairey, Callum Tavita, Stevie-Lee Webster, Jack Reeve, Hilary Ge, Walid Sakha, Torian Rawiri.

STUDENT OF THE WEEK Congratulations also go to JAMES PAU from Room 11 and

ZION LEVAO from Room 10 for being selected as Students of the Week……..Well done!

   

JUNIOR TRIP Our junior students visited the Maritime Museum last week as part of their Science Inquiry about Floating and Sinking. They took

part in experiments, a treasure hunt and explored the museum. Rooms 4 and 5 were also able to take a boat ride around the harbour!

 

Soccer zones Three soccer teams represented our school in the B Grade at the recent zone competition. The teams did extremely well with the top team winning their grade, and the other two teams coming 4th and 5th. A big thank you to Dave McKee and Mrs Jones for coaching the teams.

 

 

 

 

Keeping Ourselves Safe Parent Meeting Wednesday 15th June 2.30pm in the hall Strike Show Tuesday 21st June Hockey Zones Tuesday 21st June Wig Wednesday Wednesday 22nd June Kapa Haka Performance Sunday 26th June Year 6students to Waikowhai Intermediate Monday 27th June Junior Story Teller Monday 4th July BOT Meeting Tuesday 5th July Reports and Portfolios go Home Thursday 7th July Last Day of Term 2 Friday 8th July First Day of Term 3 Monday 24th July

20 17 TERM DATES First Day

Last Day

Term 1 Thursday 2nd February Thursday 13th April

Term 2 Monday 1st May Friday 7th July Term 3 Monday 24th July Friday 29th September

Term 4 Monday 16th October Tuesday 19th December

…Community Notices…

         

FOR SALE  :  near new uniform items for sale  Size  10…….  

• School  Polar  Fleece  Jumper   $28.00  • Navy  track  pants  (Never  been  worn)   $15.00  • Navy  shorts   $12.00  • School  Polo  Shirt   $12.00  

All  items  only  worn  for  7  weeks  Contact  the  school  office  if  you  are  interested.  

FOUND Drivers Licence

A male driver’s licence was found on the school

driveway, it can be collected from the

school office.

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