Sunny Odedra and Sanskruthi Gopinath in traditional Indian national costume.

Kia ora Koutou,

Four days is all that is left of term 3!! We have a very busy week ahead, lots of celebrating, consulting and finishing off this term, preparing for holidays and of course looking ahead and planning for Ag Day and Gala. It was great to be able to catch our breath with an extra day to honour the passing of Queen Elizabeth II and get used to daylight saving!!

Newsletter key focus:

Last week  

• Cultural Diversity Day and World Gratitude Day
• Disco 

This week:

• Maori Consultation Tues 27th September
• Board Meeting 
• FOWS Meeting
• Winter Sports Teams Prizegiving
• Whole School Assembly
• End of Term – Lost Property, Return of  Readers, Sports Gear

WHAT’S BEEN HAPPENING

• Cultural Diversity Day and World Gratitude Day Last Wednesday – What an absolutely amazing day we all had sharing the stories of our cultures, where we are from or have originated from, the costumes were wonderful. Each class had a map on which students could label where their family was from, this was on a table with children able to also share artefacts from their culture. Wainui School’s cultural diversity is fast expanding, congratulations to Sunny Odedra Year 8 counsellor for this day, we all loved it!! Thank you parents/ caregivers for the amazing food you provided for the shared lunches each classroom participated in a feast of special food. Sunny will share his thoughts in the next newsletter he is compiling a list of all the cultures we all represent and his reflections of the day. Our Gratitude jar is full we will keep sharing these at our school assemblies – very special, very humbling!
  

  The staff!! Dressed in their costumes.

Nikau Class, displaying the costumes and colours from China, Scotland, South Africa, Tonga Ireland and New Zealand.

• InterSchool Cross Country – Last Thursday a team of 20 students participated in the Hibiscus Coast InterSchool competition at Shakespear Park. Congratulations to everyone that participated, special mention to Hamish Allen 4th overall in the year 6 boys race. Big thank you to Mr Cochrane who not only organised our team but the whole day. Congratulations as there are close to 150 competitors from all the Hibiscus Coast schools.

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  Year 6 girls made such a great effort to dress for a royal occasion!!

• Disco – Last Friday a great night was had by all at the “Royal” school disco!! Huge thank you to Miss Stevenson and her team of year 8’s who decorated the hall and enabled our annual disco to happen again!! This is a fundraiser for the year 8’s for camp and Graduation. Big thank you to all the teachers for organising the music, supporting the events with supervision and ensuring everyone had food, drink and a fun safe night. Thank you parents once again for all the amazing costumes.

THIS WEEK  The Last 4 days of term 3 has some significant celebrations, we welcome you all!!

• Kapa Haka Performance Maori Consultation Tues 27th September – Each year it is a requirement of the Wainui School Board to consult with all Maori families on success for our Maori children and how we as a school are doing. Do join us for the kapa haka performance (2:00pm) and then afternoon kai and a korero at 3:15pm.

• Board Meeting Tuesday 27th September 6:30pm – Our new Board will meet for the first time and elect the Presiding Member for the next term of office.

• FOWS Meeting Wednesday 28th September at 7:00pm in the Staffroom – New members are always welcome, do come and join this vibrant productive fundraising group of parents.

• Winter Sports Teams Prizegiving Wednesday 28th September – Congratulations to all our teams that have played over winter, we wish to celebrate with you your development as a team and recognise all who have been involved. We have some teams whom have won their grades, all will have time to celebrate with us. Thank you to Miss Robinson and Mrs Howard for all your work and dedication in organising this celebration, the special guest speakers and ensuring the season finishes well.

• Whole School Assembly Friday 30th September at 2:00pm – Tui/ Takahe Team will lead and perform at this Assembly. As will Pform years 5-8 performance group.

• End of Term – Lost Property, Return of  Readers, Sports Gear – The pile of  clothing and shoes is huge outside the office. Please come and claim your mislaid belongings. If unclaimed this pile will go to a charity over the holidays. Remember to return any library books, readers, Netball uniforms if not playing in term 4, before the end of term.

COMING UP

FOR YOUR CALENDAR

• Tuesday 27th September – Kapa Haka Performance – 2pm
• Tuesday 27th September – Board Meeting – 6.30pm – Staffroom
• Wednesday 28th September – Winter Sports Prizegiving – Junior Yr 1-4 at 9.10am, Senior Yr 5-8 at 10:35am
• Wednesday 28th September – FOWS Meeting – 7pm – Staffroom
• Thursday 29th September – Young Farmer Heats
• 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

Juicie Fundraiser – Tomorrow, Wednesday 28th September during the lunch break, the Year 8’s will be selling juicies. This is a fundraiser for their year 8 graduation dinner. The cost of the juicies is $2.

Personalised Artwork Calendars, Cards, Diaries, Mouse Mats & Sketch Pads – A School Fundraiser

Over the last few weeks, your children have been busy working on a piece of art that can be printed on Calendars, Cards, Diaries, Mouse Mats and Sketch Pads. Your child’s teacher will be emailing you a copy of their art or else you can pop into your child’s class to view their amazing art!
This is a fundraiser from our school and the pricing is as follows:

– Calendars and Diaries $20 each

– Cards, Mouse Mats and Sketch Pads $16 each

To order, head to Kindo before the last day of term (Friday 30 September). There are also order forms in the office and you can pay by eftpos if you prefer. These make outstanding individual gifts for friends and family and are perfect for posting overseas. The turnaround time is somewhere between 4-8 weeks depending on how busy the printers are, but you will have your amazing art pieces prior to the end of Term 4.

Ag Day and Gala – Friday 21st October 2022 – Below is the suggested list for donations if you’re able to help out. 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). There is a collection bucket in the office to drop your donations off. Thank you for supporting our school!

Donations list:

4 Weeks to Ag Day.  26-30 September.  Bag of sweets, lollies, chocolates to make lolly bags.

School Holidays (Weeks 3 and 2) – If you haven’t donated yet, now would be a great time to get everything together to bring in the first week back at school! Or do you have/know a local business who would be willing to donate an item for our raffles or prize table?

1 Week to Ag Day.  17-21 October.  A cake box will be sent home to each family to fill with home baking. Cakes are the biggest seller, but any baking is very welcome.

Ag Day Animal Registration – If you are wanting to show your animal at Ag Day, calf, lamb, kid goat or chicken, you must register them by completing the form. Here is the link: https://forms.gle/ABxenQnHy8n3wb2E7

SPORTS RESULTS

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

Netball

Year 2 Wainui Gems receiving their trophy and medals and the Kidzplay Netball Prizegiving finishing second in the whole year 2 competition.

COMMUNITY