Kia ora Koutou,

A warm and sunny welcome to this weeks newsletter!! What a stunning day and week we are to have as we enter into spring!!

Newsletter focus:

• Daffodil Day
• Wai Factor Finals  
• Intermediate Information Evening
• Money – School Donation, Kindo, Fundraising, Sponsorship 
• Ag Day and Gala
• Working Bee – Special Project 
• Maori Consultation and Kapahaka Performance 
• Board Elections!!

We started our venture into spring with “Daffodil Day”! A wonderful effort was made by almost all of us to wear something yellow and contribute to the fundraising for this very real cause cancer support and help for families and whanau.  We raised a total of $298.50 for the Cancer Society, thank you everyone. It has been donated through the website see the link below. If you wish to donate as you forgot or wish to donate more please see the link below.

James, Emily and Capri with a beautiful bunch of daffodils!

Year 8’s ready to lead Daffodil Day Assembly.

https://daffodilday.org.nz/wainuischool

• Intermediate Information Evening – Wednesday 31st August at 5:30pm – Come and hear from myself, the teachers, Miss Stevenson, Mr. Wotton, and Mr Irvine about our programme, opportunities and development we give to these students in their intermediate years. We know there is choice, come and make your choice based on our proven examples of how well we prepare intermediate aged students giving them so many personalised opportunities to grow and develop.

• Wai Factor Auditions and Finals – The auditions are all over!! Congratulations to everyone who competed in the Wai Factor auditions. We wish everyone could be in the finals, all of the performances were amazing! You are all so talented.

  We had the very difficult task of deciding the finalists, we have added up the scores and have the finalists.

  Yr 1/2 Finalists:

• Murphy Mia, Leané Conradie & Heidi Pohl.

• Francesca Ellis & Chloe Epp.

• Adriana Magan.

  Yr 3-4 Finalists: 

• Elora Sothern.

• Daniel Bisht.

• Micky Scott.

• Taylah Hadley.

  Yr 5-6 Finalists: 

• Madison Freestone & Dunay Botha.

• Emilie Kerr, Charlotte Adlam & Ruby Rowley.

• Madison Murray.

  Yr 7-8 Finalists: 

• Pearl Glasgow, Eva Pengelly & Rebecca van Heerden.

• Oscar Price, Phoenix Sweetman-Jones, Harry Browne Hale.

  Congratulations to everyone who competed this year. We can’t wait to see all of the finalists on 16th September.

• Money – School Donation, Kindo, Fundraising, Sponsorship 

• School Donation CAN BE DONATED ON KINDO, THROUGH INTERNET BANKING OR EVEN AT THE OFFCIE BY EFTPOS OR CASH.

Your school donation is important to us, we are a high decile school, decile 9 this means as a school we get some of the least amounts of funding to use from the Government.

This means we must fundraise and rely on school donations to meet our operational costs and provide the extra’s we do, such as running a swimming pool, having bikes and a bike track, the list is endless.

Some of you may have either forgotten or found at the beginning of the year the OfficeMax site to pay through did not work easily as we have noticed our donations contributions are right down. Please think about donating this year, it is not too late for 2022.

It is $200 per child, or $375 maximum if you have 2 or more children. Thank you so much as the Wainui School Board will be very grateful.

Fundraising – This year the target to raise for the FOWS to be able to meet all our plans for 2022 was $35,000 the FOWS have made it to $34,000!! Congratulations Leslie Ann and the team of FOWS. With the rest of the fundraisers for the year; Ag Day and Gala, Calendars, Christmas in the Country we can start ticking off other things on our wish list. (see the school website for the wish list). Well done I can’t thank you all enough!!

Sponsorship – We have a brand new sponsorship document!! This is very exciting for us. If you or a family or friend have a business that is able to sponsor and would like to do so please have a look here at the opportunities. We have had a number of sponsorships in the past that have a made a massive difference to us!! Next move is to create a new sponsor board area!!

• Ag Day and Gala – The countdown is on to our Annual Ag Day & Gala. It’s on Friday 21st October 2022.Although the event is a little way off, planning is already well underway by a hardworking group of volunteers. There is however a way that you can help out now and over the upcoming weeks.Please find below a list of weekly donations that we would like you to make – if you’re able. Your very generous donations will then be used to make raffles, prizes, lolly bags, etc for our event. If you don’t have time to make a weekly donation, you’re more than welcome to make a $30 donation to the school and we will do the shopping on your behalf (you can make this donation via Kindo as well). You can either drop your items off on a weekly basis or else all at once – whatever is easiest for you!

THERE IS A COLLECTION BUCKET IN THE OFFICE WHERE YOU CAN PLACE YOUR DONATIONS – Thank you for supporting our school!

• Working Bee – Special Project – Big thank you to all the dads led by Chris Scott; Bryce Catchpole, Kane Kadlec, Joe Long, Chad Mexted, Ian Neely and Brenton Stannard for all your work in the weekend. They are reusing the fence that was taken down when the new building was put up to fence across the back of the courts and replaced the top plate timber on the retaining wall, great effort everyone. The timber for the top plate and fixings was donated by Sam Watt & family, Platinum Homes thank you so much!! A big thank you as well to Bella Browne Hale for the scones at morning tea and Jason Irvine for his help in tidying up on the day.

• Maori Consultation  and Kapa Haka Performance – Tuesday 27th September performance will be at 2:00pm followed by afternoon tea/ kai at 3:15.pm. Each year we need to report and also analyse what success for our Maori children looks like. This is very important to us at Wainui School and it is a requirement of the Ministry of Education. Our new Board will be in place by then and some of these elected people will join us as well. For more information do not hesitate to contact us.

FOR YOUR CALENDAR

• Wednesday 31st August – Wainui School Intermediate Information Evening – 5:30pm
• Friday 2nd September – Whole School Assembly – 2.00pm – Kiwi Team
• Wednesday 7th September – Board Election Day
• Friday 16th September – Wai Factor Final – 1:30pm
• 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 – Kapa Haka Performance – 2pm
• 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. Hoodies are $52 + $6 for the name on the back, total of $58. Please remember to place an order with our supplier we need at least 15 hoodies orders.

SPORTS RESULTS

– email your sports results to Miss Ludwig in the office, exo@wainui.school.nz 

Netball

Wainui Sapphires Yr 1 vs St Johns Blossoms Lost: 3 – 4.  POD: Christi Vorster.  Coaches Award: Murphy Mia.

Wainui Rockets Yr 2 vs Murray’s Bay Tactix.  Draw: 6 – 6.  POD: Lily Fincham & Kelsie Ibbett.

Wainui Jets Yr 3 vs Torbay Stars.  Won: 8-4.  POD: Emma Clough and Emma-Rose Waldrom.

Wainui Stars Yr 6 vs Pinehurst Falcons.  Won: 16 – 9.  POD: The Whole Team!!

Hockey

Wainui Wasps Yr 3/4 boys vs Gulf Harbour.  Lost: 2 – 4.  POD: The Whole Team.

Wainui Speed Cats Yr 3/4 girls vs Orewa Beach.  Won: 6 – 0.

Awesome win to end the season boys! It has been a pleasure to watch you play and see your development. You have played in the Intermediate Grade and came 3rd in your pool, even though half of your team was made up of Year 5/6s. We have struggled with low numbers because of covid and sickness but you have pulled off some wicked wins against all of the odds. Fantastic effort. A big thank you to coach Garret Pelser – I know he is so proud of you boys and also thank you to Marion Robinson who has been the Teacher in Charge of Hockey – your help and support throughout the season has been most appreciated.

Basketball

Wainui Warriors Yr 5/6 vs Stella Sonics.  Won: 16 – 6.

Wow boys – what a way to finish the season! We very nearly had our first win of the season and we scored more points than we have ever scored before. We’re so proud of the way you used your Wainui 5Rs throughout the season – especially your resilience! No matter how many points you were losing by, you never gave up and continued to hustle every single game right to the very end. A huge thank you to your student coaches Iziah Brown and Ty Browne Hale for giving up their time to coach the boys on Sundays and at the game. Also thank you to Halena Howard who has been the Teacher in Charge of Basketball and has supported the team throughout the season. Great mahi everyone!

Flippaball

Wainui Ripples Yr 3/4. Draw: 2 – 2.  POD: Millie Dunn.

Wainui Surges Yr 5/6.  Won: 6 – 4.  POD: Phoenix Sweetman-Jones.

COMMUNITY