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What's Coming Up
Kaipara Triathlon - Friday 10 May
Triathletes will be leaving at 8:30am and returning at 2pm.
Whanau Hui - Monday 13 May
All welcome at 7pm in the staffroom.
Chess Tournament - Tuesday 14 May
Permission slips on Kindo. Parents are welcome to come and watch.
Tarawera Running Practice - Tuesday 14 May
Year 1 & 2 are practising at Glasgow Park for the cross country and need sensible clothes for running, jandals or shoes and a change of clothes and towel in a plastic bag.
Writer's Festival - Tuesday 14 May
School Photos - Wednesday 15 May
Individual and sibling photos. If you want a sibling photo taken please pick up a form from the office.
Last Day for Book Club Orders - Wednesday 15 May
Ruapehu Running Practice - Thursday 16 May
Year 3 & 4 are practising at Glasgow Park for the cross country and need sensible clothes for running, jandals or shoes and a change of clothes and towel in a plastic bag.
Massey High School Visit - Friday 17 May
Tarawera Running Practice - Friday 17 May
Year 1 & 2 are practising at Glasgow Park for the cross country and need sensible clothes for running, jandals or shoes and a change of clothes and towel in a plastic bag.
Disco - Friday 17 May
Junior Disco 5:30-6:45pm, Senior Disco 7-8:45pm. Tickets and sausage sizzle orders available now on Kindo. Cash sales on Wednesday 15 May 8:15am to 9am by Room 1.
Tarawera Running Practice - Monday 20 May
Year 1 & 2 are practising at Glasgow Park for the cross country and need sensible clothes for running, jandals or shoes and a change of clothes and towel in a plastic bag.
Tarawera Cross Country - Thursday 23 May
Running starts at 1:50pm at Glasgow Park and will be finished by 3pm. All parents are welcome to come along and support the runners. Students need sensible clothes for running, jandals and a change of clothes and towel in a plastic bag.
Ruapehu Running Practice - Thursday 23 May
Year 3 & 4 are practising at Glasgow Park for the cross country and need sensible clothes for running, jandals or shoes and a change of clothes and towel in a plastic bag.
Ruapehu Cross Country - Monday 27 May
Running starts at 11:30am at Glasgow Park and will finish by 1pm. All parents are welcome to come along and support the runners. Students need sensible clothes for running, jandals and a change of clothes and towel in a plastic bag.
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Waimauku School Board of Trustee Elections
Nominations are invited for the election of 5 parent representatives to the Board of Trustees. A nomination form and an explanation notice will be posted to all eligible voters by Friday 10 May 2019. You can nominate another person to stand as a candidate or you can nominate yourself. Both parts of the form must be signed. Additional nomination forms can be obtained from the school office.
Nominations close at noon on Friday 24 May. These may be accompanied by a signed candidate's statement.
The voting roll will be open for inspection from noon on the 8th May at the school office and can be viewed during normal school hours. There will also be a list of candidates' names displayed in the office as they come to hand.
Voting closes at noon on 7 June 2019.
If you happen to be at school before 9am on Thursday 9 May, I will be in the office foyer, should you wish to collect your nomination forms personally from me. No obligation at all, uncollected forms will be mailed out on the same day.
Maggie Reynolds, Returning Officer
School Photos
Individual and sibling photos will be taken by Photolife on 15 May, as well as every student's profile photo for our student management system. Your child will bring home their unique access code so you can view and order the photos online. If you place your order within three weeks of receiving your access code your photos will be delivered to school for free. Any orders placed after this will be sent directly to your specified delivery address and will incur a $6 postage charge. If you would like sibling photos taken please pick up a form from the office.
Pool Keys
All pool keys need to be returned now. If you return your key before Friday 10 May you will receive a $20 refund.
Massey High School Open Night & Enrolments
The open night is on Monday 20 May 3:30 to 5:30pm and 6:30 to 8:30pm. This is to share what the school has to offer, all are welcome including Year 7s. Meet in the Bruce Ritchie Performing Arts Centre.
Massey High School’s In-Zone Applications for 2020 are now online. Parents/Caregivers can now follow the link below and complete the Application for Enrolment. Please note that completion of the Online Application does not complete the enrolment of the Student. The parent/caregiver will be prompted at the end of the application to select a date and time to come in for an interview.
http://bit.ly/MasseyHighInZoneEnrol
Yummy Apple Stickers
Once again Waimauku School is collecting Yummy Apple stickers for our school’s share of the $200,000 free DG Sport sports gear prize pool. In the past few years that we have participated in this programme, the school has received over $2000.00 worth of free sports gear.
From now until the end of term three, we will be collecting the Yummy cut-out labels from bags (each cut-out label is worth 10 stickers) and individual Yummy apple stickers. Yummy apples are available from New World, PAK’nSAVE and participating Four Square stores. Each class will have a collection sheet; however if it is easier for families to collect them at home, any piece of A4 paper is acceptable. Once the paper is full, send it to school with your child and they can hand it in their teacher.
The more we collect, the more sports gear we get, so get going and start collecting your Yummy cut-out labels and stickers now!
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Pedestrian Crossing Safety for Drivers
At a pedestrian crossing if there is a person waiting to cross on either side you must stop. This is the law and applies to all pedestrian crossings including ones like ours with a road patrol crew.
Entertainment Books
Entertainment Books have now been given to students to bring home. Please have a look, there are ways that you can purchase, or you may wish to have a digital copy, and details are included. If you wish to get a digital copy, the book copy must be returned, and if you don't wish to have the book please return this and it is important that it is in the ENVELOPE, as they are scanned to ensure that we do have a track of the book. Thank you to the 21 people who had already purchased, it is a great way to support the school, while you treat yourself. To those of you who can sell more, please help us out, and we will obtain book copies, or you can order further digital copies. Enjoy looking at what is on offer, and returned books, can come to the big marked box in the office. We appreciate your support!
Book Club
Scholastic Book Club brochures are now available from the library if your child has not yet brought one home. The last day for orders is Wednesday 15 May. Orders can be done on scholastic.co.nz/loop, or download the app, or bring the paper form into the library with cash or cheque (cheques payable to Scholastic NZ).
Do come in and have a look around our wonderful library - we have an awesome selection of books which has been significantly funded by all our parents who have purchased from book club over the years.
Waimauku School Ski Team
Each year the school enters a school ski team into the North Island Primary School Ski Championship (NIPS). This year the year 1-6 is being held 2-5 September. The entry requirement is that each child needs to be skiing at an intermediate level, and be able to get on and off the T-Bar by themselves. The Races are held at Whakapapa up in the Valley (very top under the Pinnacles) and is accessible by Chair and then T-bar. Children in years 1-4 race a separate course to the 5 and 6. The first day is two runs, the second day is a dual race (where you race the child who has the closest time). Points are given for the placing and the overall results. The school is then placed based on the total points.
It is a great week, and a really nice atmosphere with all children cheering each other on. The Waimauku team is a friendly team with all parents pitching in with various duties and helping out.
If your child would like to be part of the team or if you have any questions, please contact Claire Arkell on claire@cloudcents.co.nz or 021773771 before 20 May.
Found Property
Rose gold and pink Skechers and a number of watches and items of jewellery, please come claim them from the office.
Cockatiels
We are looking for someone who could come and talk to one of our junior classes about raising cockatiels. If this is something you could help us with please contact the office.
Scholastic Book Fair
Venue: School library
When: Tuesday 4 June 8am - 7pm
Wednesday 5 June 8am - 7pm
Thursday 6 June 8am - 4pm
Friday 7 June 8 am - 4pm
All welcome!
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Young Guns Skate School starts on Thursday at lunchtimes. Last week we had an exciting demo with some really impressive tricks!
If your child is interested in enrolling please email simon@younggunsskateschool.co.nz
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These are our buckets. Everybody has an invisible bucket. We can be bucket fillers by saying and doing kind things to others. We ( Room 9) sculpted our buckets out of chicken wire. Then we did paper mache over the top. Finally, we designed and painted them.
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Incredible Fungi
Our seniors have been growing some amazing oyster mushrooms as part of their science programme.
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This week the PTA has Disco fever!!
Waimauku School Disco 17th May 2019
Junior Disco (Y1-4) from 5.30-6.45pm
Senior Disco (Y5-8) from 7.00-8.45pm
Tickets on sale on KINDO, with a CASH ONLY sale on Wednesday morning from 8.15-9.00 outside Rm 1– look out for your flyer coming home with students this week. DJ Mike Steffan’s will rock the hall and there’ll be Sausages, Ice Blocks, Drinks and Chips for sale on the night plus Glowsticks and a photobooth for the kids to enjoy.
For the night to run successfully we do need your help and support, so if you can lend a hand please let us know via KINDO.
It's been great seeing the kids enjoy the new spinning playground equipment outside Classes 7 and 8. We are currently looking at a few more playground updates so watch this space.
Next PTA meeting is June 10 at 9.00am in the staffroom – all welcome.
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For rent in Waimauku:
Furnished 1 bedroom cottage in rural setting. Would suit 1 person or couple, no pets. For more information, text 027 490 4321
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French and Spanish language classes at Waimauku school.
Learn French or Spanish in our fun after school language classes.
Students learn the target language through songs, games and play, classes are open to all students. Language tutors are native speakers and classes have small numbers which makes this a great learning environment.
Spanish is on Tuesday after school and French is on Wednesday after school from 3.15 to 4 pm. Book now for Term 2 – 2019 for bookings and information www.abclanguage.co.nz
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Kia ora,
Term two at Parenting Place is full of exciting events and we want to let you know what’s going on. We’d love for you to share the following events with people in your community.
Featured events – with nibbles and hot drinks
6 June – Behind the screens
Nathaniel Kandregula will help you to navigate the ups and downs of supporting your young person in the digital world. This presentation will cover social media, gaming, online safety, and supporting a healthy sense of self amidst it all.
3 July – Big feelings
Join Joy Sluiters and Jenny Hale as they take a look at what’s going on beneath big emotions, and share ways to support our children when they're struggling. Jenny Palmer, author of 'Feel a Little' will also join us as our special guest.
Courses
9 May to 20 June – Circle of Security
This will equip you with what you need to help your little one manage their emotions and grow their self-esteem. This seven week course is for parents of children zero to six years old.
Workshops
9 May — Mums and sons with John Cowan
5 June — The highly sensitive child with Jenny Hale
19 June — Mums and daughters with Jenny Hale
For more information on all the events we have on offer, you can head to our website here.
Ngā mihi,
Parenting Place
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MARRZIPAN
Is your child shy? Do they feel intimidated by the idea of public speaking and performance? Do they sometimes find it difficult to make eye contact? Do they just need dedicated time per week to just be CRAZY?!
Come and join the revolutionary self-confidence programme - Marrzipan! We run awesome classes at schools, which focus on key life skills and public speaking ability. We play fun engaging games and perform at the end of term once to parents and once to the school. All scripts are original, engaging, educational and HILARIOUS.
You can sign your child up for a Trial Lesson via our website www.marrzipandrama.co.nz (we have contact numbers on there too, should you prefer to talk to a human!)
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Thank you to those parents who have nominated our school when purchasing bulk fuel deliveries from Northfuels. For every 100 litres of fuel purchased, 50c is donated to our school, which can go towards sponsorship funds for a sports equipment package or a technology package. We would appreciate any other parents nominating our school too if they also purchase from Northfuel. For more information, please visit www.northfuels.co.nz or call 0800 4 THE KIDS (0800 484 3543). Many thanks for supporting Waimauku School!
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PIANO LESSONSDuring school hours at Waimauku School; or at Muriwai Studio. All ages and levels; for fun, for skills and/or for exams. Qualified (DipMus, DipPerformArts, ExecCertMus, LTCL, AIRMTNZ).
Experienced and Registered Teacher.
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BOOK FAIRThe Lions Club of Huapai/Kumeu are holding their Book Fair to raise funds for local Community Projects, so please help us.
When: Saturday & Sunday 25-26 May 2019
From: 9am to 2pm
Where: Kumeu Community Centre, Access Road, Kumeu
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