Waihi East Primary School
Rise Above and Shine
Kia ora
Congratulations to Kalem and Sophie-Lee who were selected to attend a Gifted and Talented art workshop at Waihi Beach School. Blake, Kailala and Reid also attended this day as our camera/filming crew. It is great to see staff recognizing students strengths and finding new opportunities to develop their skills.
The fundraising team have been at it again. Our thanks to Leona Moore who organized Mike Hill to take family portraits in his studio and at the beach. Approximately $840 has been raised. Mike is donating his time and materials to our school-all money received goes straight to the Bring Back Phil account.
Next week you can get a sneak preview of these photos on Mike’s website– www.mikehill.co.nz Check out the gallery-our password is East School. Anne-Marie and Denise have started organizing our school gala for March 2010. I appreciate the fundraising teams enthusiasm and dedication to our school.
Last week Mini Ball kicked off at Waihi Beach. It was great to see our children in action. My thanks to Paul, Kookie and Clarke for coaching our teams. It is great to have your skills and expertise supporting our children.
Its hard to believe Ross Cooper, Year 7 Dean from Waihi College was at school this week to talk to our year 6 students about College next year. Some acted with ‘wonderment and awe’, others with nervous smiles. A number of important dates are coming up for these students. I recommend that a family member accompanies students on the tour of the College. This way you get to ask questions and see the College in action for yourself. A note will go home next week seeking help with transport on this day.
Bring on the sunshine, and thanks for your help making sure your child has a school hat.
Ka kite ano
Emily
Charlie has been trying some live streaming TV with Ustream, unfortunately our school’s upload bandwidth is not really fast enough for streaming video content. We need to upgrade our internet account for this to allow upload speeds of least 700 kbs or higher.
Derek Weymouth was a keynote presenter at the ICT conference ULEARN 2009 in Christchurch, below is his Slideshare presentation on the way the new curriculum’s key competencies integrate with ICT.
Kia ora
The sun is shining, long may it last. With the weather changing we are reminding children about taking care of their uniform. Sweat shirts are being left out on the field. These are collected daily by the senior school and placed in lost property. If you are missing a uniform item, please check out this place.
Congratulations to Regan, Monique, Travis M, Reid, Tegan P, Beau, Blake and Hamish P who have been selected to compete in the BP Technology Challenge at Beach School this Friday. We look forward to hearing about your creative thinking with the challenges on your return.
My thanks to Sharon who successfully applied and received financial support from Pub Charities to purchase new sports uniforms. Our children are going to look amazing next year. The rugby uniforms that have been donated are now on order. We would love someone to donate the screen printing of these shirts. All fundraising money for 2009/2010 has been set aside for the bring back Phil campaign. Any financial support would be appreciated.
At our Board of Trustees meeting we resolved to pursue the Newmont Gold drilling proposal. Newmont will be on site from the 21st of November until early next year. A significant contribution will be received from Newmont in recognition for using school grounds in school time.
Robbie is in the process of organizing school camp for 2010. Camp will be for Year 5 and 6 students, at Papamoa between the 15-19th of February (week 3). The cost is $100 per child. Next year camp fees must be paid in full before children can attend. With this in mind, you may like to start paying it off from now. Some camp fees for 2009 are still outstanding, sadly this is being paid for out of school fundraising. Robbie and Phil’s classes will attend camp together next year with 6 adults supporting them in a supervisory role. Its going to be great.
Term four is going to be very busy. Check out our term date overview!! Before you know it, it will be Christmas. We hope your children enjoy the activities on offer.
Ka kite ano
Emily
This week’s Habits of Mind continues to be
“Applying Past Knowledge to new situations.”
Successful people learn from past experience.
They use what they know on new challenges.
Kia ora
Welcome back to the final term of 2009. It is an exciting term, especially for Year 6 students who are reflecting on their time at Waihi East School and the exciting possibilities of College. This term our focus is ‘Celebrations’. Individual classes have their own focus e.g. birthdays or what/how different cultures celebrate. We would love your input into our learning. Let us know if you have ideas we could incorporate.
During the holidays, Bianca co-ordinated our On and On BBQ fundraiser outside the Memorial Hall. My thanks to Bianca, Annette, Shona and Sandra for running the fundraiser. Shona and Sandra continued fundraising over the holidays at an auction. Our Team raised approximately $500, a mighty effort.
Newmont Gold has approached Waihi East School about the possibility of having a drilling rig at school from mid term four to early February. The Board of Trustees are meeting next Tuesday and this will be an item on our agenda. Nicola McNeil, our Chairperson will not take part in discussions as it is a conflict of interest (Nicola is employed by Newmont). The rig was last on site in 2004/2005. If you have any concerns please give me a call or drop into the office. If this opportunity goes ahead, the Newmont donation will go towards our ‘bring back Phil’ campaign.
This term to encourage positive choices at school, we are running two Cool Kids days-week five and the final week of term. Children who follow school rules and show respectful, caring relationships to others will be invited to take part. Our Cool Kids day last term was fantastic. Children enjoyed having bike ramps, and the opportunity to bike out at the beach.Thank you for your continued support. The staff look forward to an exciting term of teaching and learning.
Ka kite ano
Emily
