FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK
Kia ora Koutou,
With the days warming up and the rain easing it feels as if we are on the other side of winter!! Planning is well underway for Ag Day, this week the “chicks” arrive for pick-up!!
Focus this week:
- Wai Factor Auditions
- InterSchool Hockey Year 5&6
- Daffodil Day
- Wainui Information Evening Year 7&8
- Driveway Safety
- SCHOOL DONATION
THIS WEEK
- Wai Factor Auditions –Began with the year 5&6 team on Monday!! Thank you student leaders Violet, Samantha and all the year 8’s for your organisation and enthusiasm!! Well done to everyone who is entering. “The first round ran smoothly and everyone enjoyed it” (Violet Clayton).
Year 1 &2 Auditions – Thursday 25th August, 12:15pm – 1:25pm Block 3. Year 3&4 Auditions – Friday 26th August, 10:35am – 11:45am Block 2 ,
All welcome to support our participants.
- InterSchool Hockey Year 5&6 – Tuesday 22nd August at Metro Park, this was the competition that was originally set for last Thursday.
Daffodil Day – Is this Friday 26th August, wear as much yellow as you can find or dress up as a character in yellow!! The House Captains will be running a parade for allclasses to participate in to celebrate Te Ra o Kowhai (Daffodil Day). There will be small prizes for the best dressed in each classroom. It would be fantastic if all students could bring a gold coin donation, the collected donations will be given to the Cancer Society. Daffodil Day symbolises hope for all New Zealanders impacted by cancer. https://daffodilday.org.nz/wainuischool
NEXT WEEK
- Wainui Information Evening Year 7&8. Wednesday 31st August come and meet with us; myself, Jason DP, Leanne Stevenson and Nick Wotton and hear about the programme the opportunities our intermediate age students participate in.
OTHER
School Donation – As a decile 9 school the overall funds allotted to our school by the Ministry need support from you. Our School Donation is vital to enable many things to happen, get upgraded or completed; ongoing replacement of iPads and Chromebooks, Bike Track and bikes maintained, sports gear, running of the pool, the extras that enable our school to have such wonderful opportunities and places to play.
Many of our school community it seems many have forgotten to contribute the school donation, or awhile back Kindo was not working. Please contribute, we do need this to meet our years budget. You can contribute on Kindo, via Internet banking, in the office on eftpos or with cash.
Internet Banking: ASB Bank – 12 3046 0155685 00. Please reference Surname and “Donation”.
You can donate a little each term if this helps as well.
Board Elections – Don’t forget to get your votes in for the Board Election by 4pm on Election Day, 7th September. There is a ballot box in the office to drop your votes into or you can post your voting paper using the self-addressed envelope you received with your voting papers.
FINALLY
Today the year 8’s and Wainui School were visited by a group of year 11- 13 students from the BLAKE Foundation. The 45 “future leaders” from this group had been selected from different NZ schools, to take part in the “BLAKE Inspire week”. This is a week-long residential leadership development programme in partnership with the Ministry for the Environment. They visited Wainui School to help dig some trenches for our bokashi scraps. This was also an opportunity for them to meet the year 8’s and look at the bokashi programme they have implemented at Wainui School. They spoke to the year 8’s about how this system works at Wainui School and how successful it has been. Thanks so much to Samantha Neely for her fantastic welcome speech – a very challenging task to do in front of 40 odd people. We also took the opportunity to show them our Garden to Table gardens and speak to them about the wicking bed gardens. The session was completed with a triple haka performed by the year 7 and 8’s with some help from a few year 6’s.
The next two weeks value is Resilience!!
Ka kite ano,
Gillian Bray
FOR YOUR CALENDAR
- Wednesday 24th August – Pick up day for Ag Day Chicks – Staffroom
- Thursday 25th August – Wai Factor Auditions Yr 0-2 – 12:15 – 1:25pm
- Friday 26th August – Daffodil Day
- Friday 26th August – Wai Factor Auditions Yr 3/4 – 10:35 – 11:45am
- Wednesday 31st August – Wainui School Intermediate Information Evening
- Friday 2nd September – Whole School Assembly – 2.00pm – Kiwi Team
- Wednesday 7th September – Board Election Day
- Friday 16th September – Wai Factor Final – 1:30pm – NOTE change of date
- Friday 16th September – Tu Maia Festival – CANCELLED
- Wednesday 21st September – World Gratitude and Cultural Diversity Day
- Thursday 22nd September – Yr 5/6 Interschool Cross Country – Shakespear Park
- Friday 23rd September – School Disco
- Monday 26th September – Tui/Takahe Team – Whale Rider Trip
- Tuesday 27th September – Board Meeting – 6.30pm – Staffroom
- Wednesday 28th September – Winter Sports Prizegiving
- Wednesday 28th September – FOWS Meeting – 7pm – Staffroom
- Friday 30th September – Whole School Assembly – 2.00pm – Tui/Takahe Team
- Friday 30th September – Last Day of Term 3
- Monday 17th October – First day of Term 4
- Friday 21st October – Ag Day and Gala
- Tuesday 1st November – Board Meeting – 6.30pm – Staffroom
- Wednesday 2nd November – FOWS Meeting – 7pm – Staffroom
- Friday 4th November – Group Day
- Tuesday 29th November – Board Meeting – 6.30pm – Staffroom
OTHER
Hoodies – If you are wanting a school hoodie, please email your order to the office on [email protected] including the size and what name you would like on the back. Pricing of hoodies to be confirmed. Please remember to place an order with our supplier we need at least 15 hoodies orders.
Ag Day Chicks Pick-Up – The one-day old chicks arrive on Wednesday 24th August and will be available for pick-up from 2.30pm in staffroom. Remember to bring a suitable box to take them home in eg: a shoe box with bedding. They will need to be kept warm on your trip home. Chick here for information on how to care for your chick. Looking After Chickens 2022
SPORTS RESULTS
– email your sports results to Miss Ludwig in the office, exo@wainui.school.nz
Netball
Wainui Sapphires Yr 1 vs Pinehurst Bells. Won: 5 – 3. POD: Leanne Conradie. Coaches Award: Aimee Clough.
Wainui Rockets Yr 2 vs Glamorgan Super Stars. Won: 3 – 0. POD: Poppy Mexted & O’Rylee Greening.
Wainui Jets Yr 3 vs Sherwood Spaniels. Draw: 3 – 3. POD: Karla Vorster and Maya Russell.
Wainui Astroids Yr 4 vs Bayfield Lollipops. Won 6 – 3. POD: Olivia Maddox.
Wainui Galaxy Yr 5 vs HPPS Redwings. Lost: 15 – 6. POD: Dylan Catchpole. Coaches Award: Scarlett Thew.
Wainui Stars Yr 6 vs HHPS. Won: 11 – 10. POD: Pippa Heaton and Ruby Rowley.
Hockey
Wainui Wasps Yr 3/4 vs Red Beach Ninjas. Draw: 2 – 2. POD: George Jarvie and Kieran Miners.
Wainui Speed Cats Yr 3/4 vs Waitoki Sweepers. Won: 6 – 1. POD: Tiana Sweeney.
CERTIFICATES
At the last assembly, the following students received certificates for “Relational”.
- Puriri: Oliver Gill, Albert Graystone, Mary Gaitau (Respect).
- Karaka: Tilly Drinkwater, Avalon Wyatt, Remi Hollier (Respect).
- Pukatea: Leané Conradie, Fushsia Harris Vail, Cooper Semenoff.
- Kohekohe: Evianna Kadlec, Vogue Whittaker, Olivia Wood (Respect).
- Rimu: Charlotte Andrell, Thomas Pengelly, Harley Gaitau (Resilience).
- Matai: Poppy Mexted, Ewan Scott, Harvey O’Neill (Respect).
- Koromiko: Jackson Ledger, Jake Robertson, Mikaela Scott.
- Kawakawa: Kenzie Banton, Tavana McCulluch, Romi van Loggerenberg.
- Pohutukawa: Skyla Flavell, George Jarvie, Jett Robertson.
- Kowhai: Ayla Lodge, Reece McDermid-Venter, Charlotte Gooding (Resilience).
- Nikau: Emilie Kerr, Zoe Thomas, Madison Murray (Resourceful).
- Totara: Kristina Sulo, Tyler Robertson, Lucian Allen (Resilience).
- Kahikatea: Cade Mumby, Eva Pengelly, Alfie Patel (Respect).
- Kauri: Alyssa Linton, Sebastian Oswald, Rebecca van Heerden.
- Our amazing Hellyer Cup Winners were Poppy Matafeo (Puriri), Genevieve Watt (Karaka), Murphy Mia (Pukatea), Sophia Rowntree (Kohekohe), Adriana Magan (Rimu) and Bill Coghlan (Matai).
COMMUNITY
The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
