Waihi East Primary School Newsletter Term THREE Week 3

UPCOMING DATES Aug 10 Celebration Assembly. Rooms TBA. Aug 11 Get a Little Crazy for KidsCan Day. Aug 17 Celebration Assembly. Rooms TBA. Aug 21 Waihi College visiting Year 6 students. Aug 22 Student Led Conferences. Aug 23 Best Start Workshop. 9.30am. Aug 23 Student Led Conferences. Aug 31 Celebration Assembly. Rooms TBA. Sept 4-8 Zero Waste Education. Sept 6 Best Start Workshop.11.30am. Sept 11-15 Life Education caravan. Sept 12 Duffy Theatre. 1.30pm. Sept 14 Gymnastics Give it a go day. Sept 18 Waihi College Open Morning for year 6 students.

Congratulations to

East Extreme

Winners of the

Friday night year 5/6 Soccer

competition.

A thrilling final

that went to a

penalty shoot out.

WEEKLY NOTICES AND REMINDERS

WELCOME We would like to extend a very warm welcome to Annelies resink who is team

teaching in Room 9 for the rest of the term and then teaching full time in room 9 in term. Please feel free to pop in to say hello.

MATARIKI SHOWCASE

What an AMAZING night at the Matariki Showcase last week. The children presented a top quality show. Well done children!

THANK YOU

A HUGE Thank you to the Waihi Women's Institute for their kind donation to help towards the cost of our 2016 Year 5 & 6 camp.

KOTUKU STUDENT LED CONFERENCES

Rooms 1, 2, 3 & 4 have booked their student-led conferences this term on Tues-day 22nd August and Wednesday 23rd August, between 3pm and 6pm.

Whanau are invited to join us to share in their student’s learning. We are trialling a new format of Student-Led Conferences, whereby you visit with

your child in a half hour timeslot. Your student-led conference may take 5 minutes, or 30 minutes (up to you!). There may be other families present in the room (maximum of 4 at any one time), but the teacher will be present to interact and assist with your child’s conference. If you would like a separate time to meet

one on one with the teacher, you will be given a chance to book this in, on a different night. We will be asking for your thoughts and feedback on this new

approach. Remember, you’re always welcome to book a time with your child’s teacher to dis-

cuss any matters.

Y6 College Transition Our Y6 students will be visited by Waihi College on Monday 21st August at

9.30am, where our ex-East students will give a presentation to them. Our Y6 visit to Waihi College is later in the term, on Monday 18th September.

More details to come.

SCHOOL DESKS FOR SALE We have a selection of Blue school desks with tray included. $10 per desk.

Please see Ross if you would like to purchase any.

NITS Nits have been spotted again in some classes. Please check your child’s hair fre-

quently. We have a small supply of KidsCan products available if you need it.

EAST SCHOOL TIMETABLE

TRIAL

8.30am Staff on Site.

9.00am-11.00am

Learning Programme.

11.00am-11.20am

Play Break.

11.20am-11.30am In Class

Eating Break.

11.20am-12.40pm Learning

Programme.

12.40pm-1.15pm Play Break.

1.15pm-1.30pm

In Class Eating Break.

1.30pm-3.00pm

Learning Programme.

AGRICULTURE DAY Ag Day is coming!

MONDAY 30th October 2017 Entry forms are available at the office.

Please return all forms to the office by August 31st.

BEST START TERM 3 We will be running another Best Start Workshop this term.

Week 5, Wednesday 23rd August, 9.30-10.30am Week 7, Wednesday 6th September 11.30-12.30pm. Week 10, Wednesday 27th September 1.45-2.45pm.

Our programme looks at 3 aspects of starting school over 3 workshop sessions. Please confirm your attendance by contacting Briar Frew.

email; bfrew@east.school.nz

CAUGHT SHINING

Congratulations to Rooms 1, 2, 4 & 6 for achieving their target for being Caught Shining.

Caught

Shining

NETBALL DRAW Saturday 12thAugust 2017 9.00 Court 4 East Galaxy v Waikino 9.45 Court 5 East Stars v Whanga Dynamite 10.35 Court 4 East Shine v Whanga Mini ferns

SUBS are now overdue.

Subs for the East Shine and Galaxy is $33 per player. Please pay to the East School office. Closing Day is August 19th.

SPORTS NOTICES

Get Set Go After School Year 1 and 2 Children only. Fundamen-tal movement skill games with Athletics NZ coach and Energizer. 6 x Tuesdays from Aug 8

th (week 3). 3.30-

4.15pm. Cost is $2 per child, per ses-sion ($12 total). Waihi College top field, Rata St. Registrations essential as it is limited to a group of 20 children. Con-tact Louise Young from Athletics NZ email louise.townsend.pt@gmail.com Ph. 021 125 4228

Get a little CRAZY KidsCan Day Friday 11th August - From a little crazy to totally out there! It may be as simple as a funny hat, a wacky shirt or sparkly socks. Chuck on your craziest wig, wear your most colourful and out there clothes or get a bit crazy with your baking - however you want to get crazy on 'Get a little crazy for KidsCan' Day’ is totally up to you. The best part is anyone can get a little crazy! What really matters is that you will be fundraising for Kiwi kids in need, helping us to provide them with food to eat at school, ade-quate clothing and health care products.

There's prizes up for grabs too. Everyone who sends us a photo or video of themselves getting crazy on Friday, August 11th is in the draw to win a Fujifilm Instax Mini 8 Camera! Don't forget to tag us with #GetCrazy and #KidsCan. Gold coin donation to raise money for KidsCan who sponsor our school in a number of ways, in-

KAPAHAKA UPCOMING DATES

Noho Friday 8th September night until Saturday 9th September Noho Thursday 21st September night until Friday 22nd September Performance at: Waipa Kapahaka Festival (Te Awamutu) in Week 10 Thursday 28th September, please fill out the permis-sion forms and how you can help - coming out tomorrow.

THANKS TO OUR GREAT SUPPORTERS

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