The year that was 2021
Whareama School
PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE Darren Kerr It has been great this year to get back into most of our activities, other than a little bump along the way for a mini home learning break. Our students and staff have done an amazing job in learning in an environment with such uncertainty. Whether it be inside or outside the classroom, the learning experiences that the students have been involved in, are a special feature of our school. We have many students achieve at a high level in many curriculum areas and are regularly chosen to represent Masterton and the Wairarapa in their area of talent.
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Celebrating the triumphs & experiences of education in Wairarapa
2022 will be another big year for us with continual development of the work we have done in the development of our localised curriculum, when we will be working alongside our hapu to create our cultural narrative. The continual development of our new forest school remains a focus for us and to ensure we continue to provide a high quality, engaging and fun learning environment. Editorial: Written by Charlee Halewood and Emily O’Neale (Year 8 students) Term 1 Term 1 was a busy start to the year when we had our beginning year programmes in our new classrooms. There have been a lot of building projects around our school and this has seen new learning spaces created around our school. We had our swimming programme, Pedal ready, a trip to Mataikona Beach to support our learning in class. There was also a Leadership Camp that selected students went on and the Wings Over Wairarapa STEM Day. What a busy start to 2021! Term 2 Term 2 seemed to come and go really quickly. First we had the start of a five week RURAL kids programme, then the Rural Cross country and some Enviroschools work that needed to be done. We had another couple of sessions of Pedal Ready and then the Take a Kid Fishing day. There was so many
A happy, engaging and safe learning place is what we pride ourselves on at Whareama. events on around and out of school that it kept us busy in learning in so many different activities. Term 3 Things didn’t slow down in term 3! In fact they seemed to speed up. This term we had our home learning programme start again, due to covid-19. Then we had a dress up day to support the Masterton Foodbank. We also had a visit from Harold and the Life Ed van to teach us about friendships, resilience and mental wellbeing. Term 3 flew by but it was great to just be back at school with our friends and teachers. This year we also got a metal shipping container called the Woolshed, we learnt about wool and the different things it does and what it is used for. We also started our work with planting at the dam across the road from school, this is going to be a huge project.
Support from outside providers ensures excellent learning opportunities for our students and valuable professional development for our staff.
Term 4 In the first week of Term 4 we have our annual Pets’ Day where everyone brings a pet to school and participates in class competitions. We do athletics with the Kia Hakinakina team and the Rural Cluster Athletics day. This year has been really fun and our school just gets more and more interesting! We are all looking forward to the last of this year’s activities. We wish you all a Merry Christmas and safe New Year.
Tuakana – teina is an important learning approach for us and ensuring students learn empathy, compassion and collaboration.
Our leadership camp for senior students is a highly successful programme to develop the leadership skills in our future leaders.
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