Travis M travelled down to Gisborne for the ‘New Wave Primary Schools’ Surf Champs’ competing in the Boys heat 2 semi finals Travis placed 3rd. In the final of the boys division he took fifth and is in fifth in the overall  rankings in his division in Surf NZ competitions. Here is a video of Travis talking about the competition in Gisborne.

Here’s some video footage of the comp.

Here are some slides from the surf2surf.com website of the competition, three photos feature Travis.

We went down to the Waihi Skate Bowl as one of the activities on ‘Wheelie Day’ Cool Kids Afternoon. Thanks Mrs Steele and Mr McGougan for transporting and being with us at the bowl. Here are some slides of the action.

Click this East School Website link to take a look at our new draft school website. Our Deputy Principal Isobel Huggard and BOT Parents representative Bonnie Milne are working on this. Please add any comments or ideas about this draft site using the comments section at the bottom of this post, or send us an email with your feedback to our Principal Emily Hargreaves at ehargreaves@waihi-east.school.nz or ihuggard@waihi-east.school.nz

Drama Club will be held on Thursday after school next week due to Mrs. Huggard having to attend meetings on Wednesday.

Your children’s art is looking fantastic! Don’t miss out on your 2010 calendars. Orders close Friday November 20th. Art work calendar $10.50. Photo calendars $12.

This week’s Habits of Mind is Thinking About Thinking. “Successful people know what they know and what they need to find out. They can talk about their thinking”.

Kia ora

We have an exciting week planned for students. Today we celebrated Grandparents at a special Duffy Assembly, tomorrow all children are participating in athletics and Kool Kids afternoon to round off a great day. Over 95% of students received an invite to Kool Kids afternoon. We aim to have 100%  participation at the end of the year.

Information on the National Standards arrived at school this week. The National standards are the achievement expectation in reading, writing and math’s that the government has placed on schools from next year. Their aim is to improve student achievement. How are we addressing National Standards?Students are to be more aware of how they are achieving against the standards and set goals towards these. Year Book reflections will have a stronger ‘child voice’.

• Staff will use Year Books to report on student achievement against the standards in easy to read language e.g. working below/at or above the national standard. Next learning steps will be part of this feed back in Year Books.

• We aim to have a closer relationship between home and school to support children’s learning. In our Year Book samples we will include a tip that you may like to develop at home and interviews will become more regular.

In the table is an example of the National Standard in reading. The standard will be a reading target for children and will be celebrated once achieved. I will send out more information about how we will be developing the National Standards as I  develop them with staff.

Ka kite ano
Emily

Oct 15 Oct 22 Oct 29 Nov 5 Nov 12

Fri 13th Nov     Kool Kids afternoon
Wed 18th Nov    Waihi cluster athletics
Thurs 19th Nov  Room 5 assembly
Fri 20th Nov    Final day for calendar orders
Thurs 26th Nov  Room 6 assembly
Tues 1 Dec      Northern cluster athletics
Thurs 3 Dec     Duffy assembly
Fri 4 Dec       Year 6 visit to Waihi College
Tues 8 Dec      Parent information evening at College
Wed 9 Dec       WBOP Athletics
Thurs 10 Dec   Room 7 assembly and ‘Stars In Your Eyes’ Evening
Fri 11 Dec     Year books home
Tues 15 Dec    Prizegiving 11am/ Kool kids afternoon
Wed 16 Dec     Last day of school

This week’s Habits of Mind is responding

with Wonderment and Awe. WOW! Successful

people respond with awe to the world.

They want to learn and know more.