March 23rd 2017

Waihi East Primary School Newsletter Term ONE Week 8 23 March 2017

Congratulations to Alyssa A and Victoria E-J. Both have qualified for the Western Bay of Plenty Swimming Champs to be held on 12th April.

GOOD LUCK !

Mar 24 Mar 27 Mar 29 Mar 30 Mar 31 Apr 3 Apr 4 Apr 10 Apr 13 May 1 May 6 May 13

UPCOMING DATES

East School Triathlon.

Assembly Rooms 1 & 4. 9am.

Best Start programme. 1.30pm.

Duffy Role Model Assembly.

Triathlon Postponement.

Assembly Rooms 2 & 3. 9am.

Thames Valley triathlon @ Cooks Beach.

Photolife class & individual photos Last day of term 1.

Cool kids afternoon.

Caught Behaving Intelligently $100 draw.

Term 2 starts.

Saturday Netball starts.

Future Ferns starts.

FROM ZAC Together As A Community Of Schools Social media is now a very powerful tool. It has the power to bring people and schools closer together or to tear people and schools down.

This year we have been working very hard at a management level to improve relationships and partnerships with other schools in the town. It was disappointing to see that recently some people in the area have used social media to portray another local school in a bad way.

I am so pleased that our school families refrained from expressing negative thoughts and opinions towards our surrounding schools! Thanks and well done.

As always, if there are areas or things that you are not happy about or would like to talk about, we would love for you to share them with us first, the class teacher or management team, this will give us a chance to address these before you make the problem bigger by sharing with others.

WEEKLY NOTICES AND REMINDERS WAIHI EAST SCHOOL TRIATHLON Friday 24th March at our school - 12noon –2.30pm.

Year 1/2 distances — Mini Machines Swim: 25m (2 lengths of school pool) Bike: 600m (2 laps of bike track) Run: 500m (round front of school on footpath) Y3/4 distances — Go Getters Swim: 50m (4 lengths of school pool) Bike: 2km (6 laps of bike track) Run: 1km (2 laps-round front of school, up Kitchener St & return) Y5/6 distances — Hard Nuts Swim: 100m (8 lengths of school pool) Bike: 3km (9 laps of bike track) Run: 1.5km (round front of school, up Kitchener St & return) We still need more parent helpers to assist with marshalling, counting laps, helping with helmets and bikes, etc.

Please let Rachael know if you can help on the day, either phone the school office 8638693 or text 021 555542.

Postponement date for triathlon is Friday the 31st March and a text will be sent out if we postpone tomorrow morning.

CELEBRATION ASSEMBLIES Because of swimming we have not been holding any afternoon assemblies. Classes will be sharing their work at Monday morning assemblies this term.

27 March—Rooms 1 & 4 3 April—Rooms 2 & 3

BEST START WAIHI EAST SCHOOL We would love to invite you to attend our Best Start workshops, here at Waihi East School, aimed at delivering successful transitions to school for all New Entrant children entering our Junior School.

Our programme will look at 3 aspects of starting school, over 3 workshops/sessions.

We invite you to attend the session in our staff room, whilst your child enjoys some time getting to know their teacher and classroom.

SESSION 3: WEDNESDAY 29TH MARCH 2017 - Numeracy. 1.45pm-2.45pm

Scholastic Bookclub Issue No. 2 has been given out and are due back to school before April 13th. All orders with payment to the office please.

STUDENT ILLNESS Unfortunately we have had a few cases of tummy bug in our school this week. If your child is complaining of a sore tummy please keep them home for the day.

We also have a case of chicken pox in room 5.

ELECTIVES Louise’s ‘Build a business’ Group is planning lots of activities for the next few weeks.

March 23—Car wash at school for $5. 9.15am– 10.45am.

Bring down your cars for a clean!

April 6 — Market. 3pm at the front school gate.

Fresh produce, original artwork, baking, hand made Kawakawa ointment and reusable lunch wraps made with beeswax.

Thanks for your continued support for electives.

PHOTOLIFE PHOTOS Monday 10th April The photographers will be here in week 11 to take class, individual and sibling photos. Named envelopes for class and individual photos have gone home today. This is a pre-pay system only. If you would like to order a photo please fill in the envelope and return to school with you payment. Photos will be back around the middle of term 2 and will be handed to the students to bring home on their return. Sibling envelopes are available at the office.

DUFFY ROLE MODEL ASSEMBLY Sharon Holt is our role model. She is form Te Aroha and is an author, 2 of her books have been made into home readers and big books ... No Skipper and Skipper’s Happy Tail, ... they are about a big collie dog. She will be at school at 11.30 to talk to the pupils and will present each class with their box of Duffy books. The children will get 2 books each and hopefully will get their first and second choice.

THAMES VALLEY TRIATHLON Thames Valley Primary Schools Year 5 & 6 Triathlon Date: Tuesday 4th April 2017 Where: Cooks Beach Reserve, Banks St/Marine Parade.

Distances: Swim - 80m , Bike - 5.5km Run - 2km Register at: Cooks Beach Reserve 9am-9.45am Briefing at: 9.45am, starting time: 10am Please get your registrations into Mrs Coll ASAP.

Year 3 & 4 Surf n Turf Hamilton Zoo visit.

Left & above; Kindy Opening Below; Swimming Sports. Waihi College and Katikati North Cluster

Waihi Cluster Swimming Results Congratulations to the following for qualifying for the North Cluster Swimming that was held on Tuesday.

Victoria E-J, 1,2 & 3 length freestyle, 1 length butterfly, 1& 2 length backstroke, 1 & 2 length breaststroke, 4 length medley.

Alyssa A, 1, 2 & 3 lengths freestyle, 1 length backstroke, Callum M, 1, 2 & 3 lengths freestyle, 1 length butterfly, 1 & 2 length breaststroke, Alex E-J, 1 length butterfly, 1& 2 length breaststroke, 4 length medley.

Laine T, 1 length butterfly, 1 & 2 length breaststroke, 4 length medley, 2 length backstroke Jayda B, 1 length backstroke Sabine R, 1 length backstroke Thomas L, 1 & 2 length breaststroke Druss M, 1 length breaststroke.

LOST PROPERTY

Check out the Lost Property Box. It is overflowing!!

SCHOOL BUS The school bus is not getting to East School until around 3pm from now on. Please DO NOT park in the Bus bay in the afternoons. Thank You for your cooperation in this matter.

CHOCOLATE BAR FUNDRAISER Chocolate sales are going well. Chocolate Easter eggs $1.50 each and chocolate bars $2.50.This is a fundraiser to help with offsetting camp costs. Please return any money and unsold bars or eggs (if you are having trouble selling them) to the office.

KIDS’ WORK

BEACH HOP CARS I saw the Hot rods and Mum came with me and the class. They were good cars because they were very cool. My favourite cool car was the black one with the black and red flames.

By Callum M, age 5, room 8.

Dad came with us to see the Hot Rod cars.

By Ritchie S, age 5, room 8.

I was looking at all the cars. I liked it. I really want to see it again.

By Chris U, age 5, room 8.

There were lots of different cars. They were cool. My favourite ones were the ones that had the funny honk!

By Aubree, age 5, room 8.

FOUND A Slazenger digital watch found by the new playground.

A BOP IT! Similar to the one in the picture.(left) An orange fly buys card with no name.

COMMUNITY NOTICES WAIHI DRAMA SOCIETY Waihi Drama is about to perform 'The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe' March 31 - April 9 at 'The Theatre', Boyd Road, Waihi.

March 31 - April 9 at 'The Theatre', Boyd Road, Waihi. $15 Adults, $10 Schoolchildren Tickets available from WaihiDrama.co.nz.

A family of 4 is looking for a rental in the East End asap. References are available. Please call the school to pass on details if you can help.

Waihi Youth Rugby Club We've still got spaces in youth rugby teams for this season.

Grades: Rippa, Under 8s, Under 9s, Under 11s (with an Under 10s team in this grade), Under 13s.

Please register at http://www.sporty.co.nz/viewform/35684 If you have any questions, please call Matt Walker on 021438758 FREE EAR CLINIC SERIVICE FOR CHILDREN The caravan will be at Waihi Central School, Moresby Avenue on Friday 7th April 2017. 9.30-12 and12.45-1.30pm. Visit the ear nurse for advice on Glue ear assessment and management, Wax/ foreign body removal, Grommet checks and treatment of discharging ears.

All children must be accompanied by a caregiver. For enquiries regarding this service please contact 07 838 3565.

Do you want to make a difference in a child’s life?

Child, Youth and Family are currently looking for people in this area who can offer safe, caring, stable homes for young people in need of short term care, time out over weekends and/or holidays, or a home for life.

Our team will support you to understand and manage the challenges of fostering a young person, and we will be there with you to celebrate the successes.

You may be surprised; you could be just the right person to offer your care to a young person who needs you!

If you are interested in finding out more, or know someone who may be interested, or if you think you might be able to help in some other way then we would love to hear from you!

Please call Johnson Taoho, Care Services Manager, on 07 957 4740 or email johnson.taoho001@cyf.govt.nz

Growlink aka The Onion Place in Katikati delivers Fresh quality veges, fruit, eggs and pickles etc. to the school every Wednesday.

Order online at www.growlink.co.nz Use the code WAIHI EAST to get free delivery to school or $5 delivery to your home.

THANKS TO OUR GREAT SUPPORTERS We are selling Advertising for this page again this year. Solid ads (no changes) will be $180 for the whole year and editable ads will be $200. Income from the ads will be used to support the Duffy Books in homes programme that we have at Waihi East school. Please see the office if you are interested in placing an ad on the back of our weekly newsletter.

YOUR BUSINESS COULD BE ADVERTISING HERE!

Principal: Zac Taylor Ph:07 863 8693 Mob: 021 0258 4817 Email: principal@east.school.nz www.waihieast.school.nz Our mailing address is:

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