2018 Term Dates

Term 2 Week 2 Dear Parents and Caregivers 8 May 2018 2018 TERM DATES Term 2 2018 Monday 30 April - Friday 6 July Term 3 2018 Monday 23 July— Friday 28 September Term 4 Monday 15 October - 14 December at 12.30pm To help us take Waikanae School from great to even greater we are embarking on a journey to develop a new 'Strategy' for Waikanae School and we need YOUR help! Please visit the website where you will find information about how you can get involved. http://www.waikanae.school.nz/2191/pages/232-we-need-you The information includes a description and timeline of the events/actions that we will be undertaking as well as some documentation that you may wish to read. In order to get as much input from as many people as possible we will be using a number of strategies. These include... A Community Survey (paper and digital options available). (From 18 May) Facilitated Staff Meetings. (17 May) Facilitated Community Meetings. (30 or 31May TBC) 3 x Community Sessions with Staff and BoT Members, one of which will be in town. (6,7,8 June) Feedback opportunities on draft document. (From 18 June) Final Launch. (5 July) Help us develop our ‘Waikanae Strategy’ and create our future! You tell us! This Term’s Activity Fees will be emailed out to all families this week. Firstly, we send out an Invoice for each child. This means that larger families will get multiple Invoices (depending on the number of children attending Waikanae School). Secondly, the Invoices will be followed by a Family Statement (1 per family). The amounts for this Term’s Activity Fee per Syndicate are as follows Syndicate Description Amount Te Waharua Tahi Rooms 7,8,20 and 21 Basketball, Puppet Show, Mathletics, Discovery Time $24 Rooms 5,6 and 9 Basketball, Puppet Show, Discovery Time $16 Te Waharua Rua Rooms 1,2,3, and 4 Basketball, Puppet Show, Mathletics, $70 Swimming, Science Te Aramoana Rooms 10,11,18 and 19 Basketball, Puppet Show, Mathletics, Arbour $26 Day, Anzac Te Poutama Rooms 14,15 16 and 17 Basketball, Puppet Show, Wellington Trip, $63.00 Gymnastics, Musician The Activity Fee is a compulsory payment which the school is able to insist on payment for. • Participation by students in Activity Fee funded activities is voluntary. • Any parent that does not want their child to participate in any of the Activity Fee funded activities must withdraw their child by notifying the office (in writing). The easiest way to do this is to email the office at this address [email protected] Following notification of a student’s withdrawal, staff will ensure that an alternative programme is organised for the student or students concerned. The school fully understands that ‘cash flow’ is an issue for many families and as a result the school is completely willing and prepared for families to drip feed these accounts over time by setting up an Automatic Payment. The school suggests that something between $5 and $15 per week would resolve all debts owed and reduce the burden of larger payments on families. ASB 12-3157-0107950-00 Please use child’s name as a reference. Importantly we do not have an issue with families being in debt as long as a suitable Automatic Payment is in operation to cover the debt over time. A special welcome to Mrs Liz Gordon who will be teaching in our third New Entrant start up class for 2018. Liz will be working in a fulltime capacity having taught at various levels in schools in the Marton and Fielding areas. We are very pleased to have Liz on staff for the remainder of this year and we look forward to the contribution that she will make to our school. Our monthly Board meeting is being held next Monday 14 May at 7.30pm in the staffroom. All are welcome. Reports are available from the office after Friday 11 May. The Term 2 policy reviews for parents include, Reporting to Parents. Parents are invited to visit the school website and complete the relevant review. Note that you are only reviewing the actual policies, not the supporting policies and procedures, most of which are reviewed separately at another time. See the review instructions on website. Follow this link http://www.waikanae.school.nz/1814/pages/84-policies-and-procedures Once again we are using a web based booking system for our 3-Way Parent/Student/Teacher Interviews. You can make your bookings on the school website at… http://www.waikanae.school.nz/1/pages/79-mid-year-student-parent-teacher-meeting-booking-portal This year the interviews are being held in Week 6 of Term 2 over two consecutive days/nights: Interviews are 15 minutes in duration. Scheduled Interview times for Wednesday 6 June 3.30 - 7.15 (last appointment) Scheduled Interview times for Thursday 7 June 1.10 - 5.15 (last appointment) The school will close at the normal time on Wednesday 6 June. The school will close at 12.30pm on Thursday 7 June with buses leaving at 12.40pm. Please visit the school website to book your interviews. You will need the school code to enter the interview booking website. The code is xk8vh. Good luck, it is very easy. Bookings can be made at the office if you do not have access to the web, just ring or visit Jan at reception and make your bookings the old fashioned way. For parents with students in Room 15 your Interview dates will be Wednesday 30 and Thursday 31 May We will be trialling new times for morning tea and lunchtime next week. There is no overall reduction in either teaching hours or break times, we are just shifting things around a bit. We will trial this for 1 week only starting Monday 14 May The hours will be as follows 9.00 to 10.30am Teaching Session 1 10.30 to 11.00am Morning Tea (plus 10 minutes) 11.00am to 12.40pm Teaching Session 2 12.40 to 1.30pm Lunch (minus 10 minutes) 1.30 to 3.00pm Teaching Session 3 Movile: 021 124 9573 Email: [email protected] Call Free: 0800 663 243 Www.oneagencywellington.co.nz When: Thursday 31st May Where: Waikanae School top Field Starting 11am Order of races Year 3 and 4 Year 5 and 6 Year 7 and 8 Cross Country for Year 1 and 2 will be on Friday 1st June, starting at 11:45pm on the top field. There will be a parent race so please bring your running shoes! The following children have qualified for the Interschool Swimming Carnival to be held this Friday at the Paraparaumu Aquatic centre. Year 4-6: 9.30am - 12 noon Freestyle: Anthony Hart, Madison Benge, Lucy Houghton, Declan Davidson, Ethyn Robertson,Tyler Crooks, Jackson Carke, Jimmy Daniel, Daniel Bills, Ambar Fernandez - Durnhofer. Backstroke: Anthony Hart, Lucy Houghton, Madison Benge, Joshua Martin, Declan Davidson, Sarah McSkimming, Jimmy Daniel, Daniel Bills. Breaststroke: Madison Benge, Lucy Houghton, Tyla Crooks, Sarah McSkimming, Jackson Clarke, Amber Fernandez - Durnhofer. Relays - Freestyle: Daniel Bills, Jimmy Daniel, Ambar Fernandez, Sarah McSkimming Relays Medley: Daniel Bills (freestyle), Declan Davidson (backstroke), Jackson Clarke (breaststroke), Jimmy Daniel (butterfly) Year 7-8: 12 - 2.30pm Freestyle: Lily Duncan, Lily Beckman, Zoe Bailey, Joshua McSkimming, Tom Duncan, Thomas Phipps, Georgia Rooney, Indica Tangaroa, Paige Cranshaw, Lucas Daniel, John Barnett. Backstroke: Georgia Martin, Joshua McSkimming,Thomas Phipps, Georgia Rooney, Renee Grimstrup, Jade Morris, John Barnett. Breaststroke: Ella Shaw, Zoe Bailey, Lily Beckman, Tom Duncan, Paige Cranshaw, Georgia Cooper, Bailey Parkinson, Levi Baird. Butterfly: Lily Duncan, Ella Shaw, Indica Tangaroa. Relays Year 7- Freestyle: Lily Duncan, Lily Beckman, Joshua McSkimming, Tom Duncan. Year 8- Freestyle: Georgia Rooney, Indica Tangaroa, Lucas Daniel Relays Medley Year 7: Lily Duncan (freestyle), Joshua McSkimming (backstroke), Zoe Bailey (breaststroke), Tom Duncan (butterfly) Relays Medley Year 8: Georgia Rooney (freestyle), Indica Tangaroa (butterfly), Levi Baird (breaststroke), John Barnett (backstroke) Please can you return all sports uniforms that are not currently being used for winter sports to the office. Lost property will be displayed in front of the P.E. shed on Thursday 2.30-3.15pm. If items are named we do our best to return them. Waikanae School App is a great way to keep informed about what is happening in school. To make sure you only get the Alerts you want and not those that you don’t go into the Hamburger Menu, find ‘Alert Subscriptions’ and turn on the Alert groups that you want to receive messages from. Are you a Sports Coach? Would you like to push out Alerts to your Team? If you do, then contact the office so that we can give you the power’ 14 May Board of Trustees Meeting 7.30pm School Staffroom 25 May Fairy Tale Ball (Te Waharua Tahi) 31 May School Cross Country Yr 3-8 1 June School Cross Country New Entrants—Yr2 During the first ten days of the school holidays, 6 Waikanae staff travelled to China for a cultural/language experience. There were two separate trips. The first was funded through the Confucius Institute and was targeted at Principals from the lower North Island, while the second was coordinated through our Asian Languages in Schools Programme with 4 of our teachers attending and Elizabeth Couchman leading. All staff visited schools and associated organisations and during their visits they met with students, teachers and education officials. As part of the teachers’ experience teachers visited our first ‘sister school’ Changzhou Longcheng Primary School. Changzhou Longcheng has 1756 students, 44 teaching classrooms and 140 teachers.

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