FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK
Kia ora Koutou,
Wow all of a sudden we are planning all the end of year events, teachers have almost finished writing their end of year reports. The Athletics is on and we are planning Christmas celebrations!!!
Newsletter focus:
- Board Elections
- Takahe Team Camp
- Athletics
- Whole School Assembly
- PTA Fundraising
WHAT’S BEEN HAPPENING
Board Elections – Thank you to all eight candidates; Josh Aperahama, Greg Bailey, Corey Baxter, Blake Callaghan, Tim Carr, Matt Jones, Sarah McCathie and Laura Watt, who have put their names forward to be on the School Board. Our school needs you all, this is a very heartening and a great outcome for our school!! But we can only sadly have 4 of you!! Thank you to our Returning Officer Mel Ludwig who has now distributed all the voting papers. So please now vote!! There is a Ballot Box in the office for you to drop your voting paper into. Votes must be delivered before 4pm on 16th December 2024. If posting, please send as early as possible as it must be received by the Returning Officer no later than 5 days after the date of the election. I look forward to having a new Board and really thank each and every one of you for putting your name forward.
Takahe Team Camp – I have heard nothing but the words “amazing, awesome, fun and brilliant”!! Camp was a big success this year at a new camp for our school in Mangawhai, Moirs Camp. The weather was awesome at the beginning of the week, some of the photos and video looked like a tropical island and was a bit wet at the latter end of the camp!! Spirits were never disheartened!!
Big thank you to Mr Wotton for all the planning and organisation of this camp and teachers Mrs Blackburn and Miss Jenkins for going to camp and being such a great support. To all the parents that went as helpers, a huge thank you to you, we cannot do camp without you!!! Thank you to Joseph Andrell, Stephen Austen, Rachelle Croft, Marcus Dixon, Kate Doherty, Garry Elliot, Jenni Fincham, Marisia Inger, Keagan Lehmann, Damian Lodge, Steve Macer, Diana Maties, Cindy McDonald, Andrea Mexted, and Steve Oswald.
THIS WEEK
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Athletics – This week is all about Athletics, Run, Jump, Throw!! In Athletics there is usually an event for everyone, some of us can throw, some of us just love jumping over the bar or as far as we can, others of us love running!!!
Tuesday 19th November is the year 5-8 Athletics and Wednesday 2oth November is the year 3&4 Athletics. The juniors is not until 3rd December and is combined with their end of year picnic.
Come and join us, we love an audience and support at our Sports Days!
Whole School Assembly – This is led and featuring Pukeko Team this Friday 22nd November at 2pm. At this Assembly we will celebrate the value of Relational in our certificates and the last Hellyer Cups for the juniors will be awarded.
COMING UP
End of year events, please check the dates we have in this newsletter and join us as at the end of the year. We love to celebrate with our annual events and Assembly’s.
FINALLY
PTA Fundraising – Wow, what an amazing outcome!!! $ 16,500 total raised from Ag Day adds to our total fundraising this year of $57,000. Our budget we set was 50,000, we have surpassed the total and still have one more event to come – Christmas in the Country. Raising these funds ensures our school is financially in a good place but able to achieve some of the dreams and wishes we have. Huge thank you to Leslie Ann and the growing team of the PTA – come and join them and contribute to making our school even better!! We are all thrilled!!!
Ka kite ano,
Gillian Bray
FOR YOUR CALENDAR
- Monday 18th November – Friday 6th December – Dental Van at school.
- Wednesday 20th November – Kiwi Team Athletics & Picnic.
- Friday 22nd November – Pukeko Assembly – 2pm.
- Wednesday 27th November – Music Concert – Time TBC.
- Wednesday 27th November – Helpers Morning Tea – 10:10am.
- Friday 29th November – MasterChef Yrs 5-8.
- Friday 29th November – Tui & Takahe Assembly – 2pm.
- Tuesday 3rd December – Pukeko Team Athletics & Picnic.
- Friday 6th December – Prizegiving Yrs 5-8.
- Tuesday 10th December – Yr 8 Graduation Dinner.
- Thursday 12th December – Christmas in the Country.
- Friday 13th December – Special Farewell – 2pm.
- Monday 16th December – Board By-Election Day – Voting Closes at 4pm.
- Tuesday 17th December – Last Day of the Year – Finish at 1pm, buses will run at this time.
OTHER
Netball Dress Return – Please return all Netball dresses to the office asap. Please name your dress. This excludes spring Netball players, these will be collected at the end of their season. Thank you, Mrs Halena Howard, Sports Coordinator.
Caterer Needed – Is there anyone in our community that is a caterer and is able to help us out with an end of the year function and more catering next year? Please contact the office on [email protected] Thank you.
Dental Van – The Dental Van is here for the next 3 weeks. They are only going to see the students for whom they have parental consent for, starting with the students who were due their dental checks around 2019/20. They will be performing dental check-ups, any further treatment needed eg: fillings etc will only be done for students whose parents have signed a further written consent form. For any queries please email them on [email protected] or pop in and see the friendly nurses in the Dental Van, mornings are best.
SPORTS RESULTS
– email your sports results to Miss Ludwig in the office, exo@wainui.school.nz
Netball
Wainui Diamonds Yr 0/1 vs CBS Pulse. Lost: 1-2. POD: Emily Lyth. Sportsmanship: Charlotte Baxter.
