Wakari School

Newsletter

11 June 2015 Issue: 8

www.wakari.school.nz @Wakari_School Phone: 476 3140

Wakari School Code of Conduct: Common Sense: “Making sensible choices”

Welcome

We welcome the following pupils and their families to Wakari. We hope you will enjoy being part of

Team Wakari and our learning environment.

Carson Thorburn Kyle Wilson Verity Healy

Dear Parents/Caregivers It was fabulous to celebrate Support Staff Day yesterday. Our school is a living entity and at the heart of it are our great support staff that fill many roles across the school. I thank you for your hard work and our community thanks you for all the things you undertake to help Wakari remain the great place for children that it is. Great to see several of our classes sharing their experiences and work through class Blogs and Storypark. If you flick onto our website and go to the Blog tab you can see and comment upon what is happening in the listed rooms. Thanks to those parents who attended the Uniform Information Evening last night. The vote will take place at the end of the term and a note explaining the process moving forward will also be sent home soon. The Board of Trustees wish Mrs Lou Maguire all the best for her upcoming sabbatical for Term 3. Miss Brittany Laing will take over the reins in Room 10 as Miss Benwell will be returning from her

Science Fellowship and heading back into Room 15. Mrs Stacey Gribben will act as Middle Syndicate leader in term three. We hope Mrs Anna Ollerenshaw has a successful overseas foray for Terms 3 and 4. Anna’s position of release teaching will be taken over by Anne Lucas. Kind regards

Chris Smith

Calendar

17 June Board Meeting at 7pm

17 June Life Education starts

19 June School assembly at 2pm

29 June Parent Interviews

30 June Parent Interviews

3 July END OF TERM TWO

20 July Start of term three

29 July Board Meeting at 7pm

Pictured right:

Congratulations to Alyssa for competing in

the annual Golden Guitar Awards in Gore

recently. Alyssa won the Duet category with

her brother Campbell.

Campbell won the Junior Overall title and will

be competing in Australia in January.

Health tip: Diarrhoea or vomiting? Please stay at home for up to 48 hours after it finishes.

Kids Corner

“Caught In The Act”

Once again there have been a lot of children caught in the act.

Well done! Award winners from May 28—June 11

5 tickets = 1 ice block!

Anya Clark Charli Fahey Liam Gillies Liliya Ushakov-Colling Grace Pedersen Maddix Duff Tyler Kelk Emma Grindlay Hala Taha Flynn Daggar Olivia Thorn Lara McCulloch Bradley Swan Jacob Crowl John Pupualii Josh Harris Emma Dawson Dawson Porthouse Max Robbie Riley Fitzgerald (R4) Fletcher Key Lexie Clark Hayley Chronican Katelyn Vogel Emmy Kena Tui Adams Kara Pullar Felipe Green-Santos Joey Annison Charlotte Presnall Caitlin Oliver Thomas Moyle Noah Smith Sophie Mosley April Kerr Miki Russell Tom Pryor Jack Watters Chihiro Graham Jay Houston-Hynd Kaylea Phillips Islay Garden Sam Cikamanta Jordan Matapo-Beel Olivia Davies Aliyah Epere Omea Fitzgerald Lucas Gibson Zia Scott Roree Latimer Lily Sime Daniel Crowl Tom Rasmussen Jake Ward

Junior Syndicate News In the Junior Syndicate we have been having such fun learning all about pirates! The super writers in Room 9 have been created some amazing pirate stories! We hope you enjoy a sample of our wonderful writing!

Locusts can eat their own weight in food in a day. A person eats his own body weight in about half a year.

Middle Syndicate Scientists Last week Room 10 and 11 spent the morning at Portobello Aquarium. We have been learning about the skills scientists use especially observing, and then how to interpret and organise the information that is gathered. We studied one square metre at the rocky shore and recorded our findings. We have now added our information to a national website and made pie graphs to show what we found.

Mobile dental clinic phone: 0800 67 25 43 (free call from mobile phones)

IMPORTANT NEWS School Donations Thank you to those that have paid their school donation so far. We encourage as many as pos-sible to think about paying as this is the best way to support your school. All donations made to the school are eligible for a tax rebate. Once your payment has been ac-tioned, you will receive a receipt. This will come home with your child, usually within 5 days of payment. For more information on school donations, go to our website and click on Information—School Donations. Here you can see FAQ and links to Inland Revenue and tax claim forms. Lunch Ordering When ordering lunches, please use the correct change, as the school does not hold much change. Thank you. Managing Your Child’s Cold Symptoms Resting at home and drinking plenty of fluid is the best way for your child to get well when they are sick with a bad cold or cough. Often the illness is caused by viruses, so antibi-otics won’t help, and many of the expensive cold and flu products have been shown to have little effect on the duration and severity of the illness. Some throat lozenges contain a local anaesthet-ic which will numb a sore throat for a while, but the same effect may be had from a warm drink. Give your child paracetamol as per GP instruc-tions if required, and take your child to the GP if the symptoms get worse (such as a high fever).

HOME & SCHOOL NEWS

Toilet Paper Thanks to those that have supported this fund-raiser. There are still a limited number of toilet rolls left. If you wish to avail yourself of this great deal, call into the office. Each pack of 45 rolls costs $20. Get in quick! School Fair This year we will be holding a Fair on 20 Sep-tember. If you wish to donate goods for the Fair, you can drop them off to the container (on top field) on these dates: Sunday 21 June, 26 July, 9 Aug, 23 Aug, 6 Sep and 13 Sep between 1 and 2pm.

COMMUNITY NEWS

SUPAKids SUPAkidz club has not been able to start this year so far due to commitments of several lead-ers BUT …. SUPAkidz will be returning in TERM FOUR with a lunchtime programme of games, stories, crafts and fun. Watch out for notices at the beginning of Term four. Basketball Holiday Camps Ages 7-13 years, no experience necessary. Basketball Otago is proud to offer another school holidays program that will include basket-ball skills & other fun activities. Dates: Camp 1; Monday 6th July – Friday 10th July Camp 2: Monday 13th July – Friday 17th July Time: 9am-1pm Venue: Edgar Centre Cost: $110 per child per camp ($184 per camp for two children from same family). Daily rate $30 per child Email admin@otagobball.kiwi.nz for a registra-tion form or print a form from the Basketball Ota-go website. Any queries call the Basketball Ota-go office on 456 4063

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Room 10 News For book week In Room 10 we read 'Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak. We chose a mask and then with our little buddies we coloured it in. Then we had to cut it out, the eyes were tricky to cut out. We measured elastic around our heads and tied the elastic onto the mask! Here we are "roaring our terrible roars and gnashing our terrible teeth, and rolling our terrible eyes and showing our terrible claws". Let the rumpus start! It was a great afternoon. We can't wait for dress up day tomorrow. By Aliyah and Poppy