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June 15, 2021

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Week 7 Term 2, 2021

Issue Contents:

Principal's News
Latest News
Upcoming Events
Classroom Learning
Sponsors

Principal's News

Week 7 - Where is the term going?

I seem to start each newsletter with - we have had a busy two weeks - and this is true again and now we are also starting to look ahead towards the end of the term and a number of events to celebrate our learning.

We celebrated our annual 'Tree for Every Child' planting day on Thursday June 3, 2021. It seems that every planting day is foggy and cold - well as many as I can remember in my short time at Wairakei Primary School anyway.

It certainly didn’t deter our Enviro students and Kids Greening Taupo Rangers from getting stuck in and helping our new students plant their trees around the school.

We also celebrated this with a ‘wear green’ day. Our themed mufti days are always very popular and this was no exception.

A highlight for me was being shown the lunchbox of one of our new entrant students, Zoey - her lunch was all green. That was true dedication from home.

We raised $338 towards Kids Greening Taupo to help them to continue the great work they do around our local environment.

The PTA are all go this week preparing for the school discos. Te Mihi and Aratiatia will be dancing the afternoon away on Wednesday, Ohaaki on Thursday and Poihipi and Te Huka on Friday. These will be held in the school hall from 1.45p.m. to 3p.m. The theme is 'Sports'. Entry is a gold coin and there will be a selection of disco toys and lollies for sale for $1 and sausages for $2. We will be introducing disco tokens for these days to help students manage their money and hopefully avoid losing any money. The teachers will collect the money at the start of the day and allocate named tokens. If you are able to help out on any of these days don’t hesitate to get in touch with the PTA at pta@wairakeitaupo.school.nz.

Keep an eye out next week for an order form for the upcoming PTA Butter Chicken Lunch on Thursday July 1, 2021. Cost is $10 for each meal. Payment with your order needs to be at school by Thursday, June 24, 2021. Your order can be paid by Eftpos or correct cash.

The end of term is fast approaching and the last week of term is looking to be a busy one. We will be celebrating Matariki throughout the week. Our 'Celebration of Learning' will be an Oral Language Festival on Thursday July 8, 2021. A selection of students across the school will be speaking around the topic - 'Our People'. Make sure you check the Community Calendar and put these key dates in your diary. There will be more details about these in the next newsletter.

We were lucky enough to have the dental van at Wairakei Primary School towards the end of 2020 and again in Term 1 this year. The dental services want us to remind parents and caregivers that students at any school can access care for the relief of tooth and gum pain by contacting the Taupo Hospital Clinic on 07 3789470 or 0800525378. They would also like to remind parents and caregivers that brushing twice a day with a soft brush and fluoride toothpaste, avoiding sugary drinks & sticky sugary snacks are the most effective ways to keep teeth healthy in between dental visits.

The school has a policy for you to look at and review this term.
Please follow these steps:
1. Visit the website https://wairakeitaupo.schooldocs.co.nz/1893.htm
2. Enter the username (wairakeitaupo) and password (wairakei).
3. Follow the link to the relevant policy as listed.
4. Read the policy.
5. Click the red Policy Review button at the top right-hand corner of the page.
6. Select the reviewer type 'parent'.
7. Enter your name (optional).
8. Submit your ratings and comments.
9. If you don't have internet access, school office staff can provide you with printed copies of the policy and a review form.

Is your child in Year 5 or Year 6?
ICAS exams are run by the University of New South Wales. They recognise academic excellence and assess the student's ability to apply classroom learning to new contexts using higher-order thinking and problem-solving skills. These are offered to our Year 5 and Year 6 students who wish to sit them.
Please complete the following form if you wish your child to complete the ICAS 2021 Exams.
https://forms.gle/3WuDC8AJyUns98wH6. The exams cost $20 each to sit. This would need to be paid into the school bank account by July 9, 2021.

Our teachers and students have been busy in their classrooms. Have a look at these blog posts to appreciate the wide variety of learning that is happening at school.

Room 1 - T his way, that way, which way next?
Room 12 - Vocabulary
Room 14 - Autumn (Ngahuru) Sensory Poems

We look forward to seeing the students enjoying themselves at the discos this week - burning off some energy on the dance floor.

Have a great week, stay warm and dry.

Jenna Foley
Acting Principal

Latest News

POWER Award Recipients

Congratulations to the following students who received an award in Weeks 6 and 7.

Week 6
Room 1 Ihaka
Room 2 Gnapika
Room 3 Aiden
Room 4 Credynse
Room 5 Jackson - Self, Environment, Others
Room 7 Holly
Room 8 Jeremy
Room 9 Bowie
Room 10 Alun - Self
Room 11 Taylor S
Room 12 Seth - Self, Others
Room 13 Luke - Self, Others
Room 14Thomas
Room 15 Koha
Room 16 Jayden
Penny - Brooke Room 7

Week 7
Room 1 Juno
Room 2 Tiarni-Jade
Room 3 Molly
Room 4 Te Ramaroa
Room 5 Kyesha
Room 7 Zaara
Room 8 Darrius
Room 9 Heath
Room 10 Emma
Room 11 Arkayzhia
Room 12 Lila
Room 13 Sienna
Room 14 Miley
Room 15 Zoey
Room 16 Tomas
Penny - May Room 5

Calendar Art 2021

Calendar Art order forms and samples will be sent home with your child this week. Payment with order forms must be returned to the school office by Monday 5 July 12, 2021. If you do an online payment the order form must come back to school. There is some amazing artwork and is a fundraiser for our school. This money goes towards resources in your child's classroom. Thank you.

Collections

We collect the following items which our school receives rewards for Yummy Fruit Stickers/Bag Labels and Old Mobile Phones. The Enviro Group also collects and recycles plant pots. Please bring any of these items to the school office. Thank you.

Thank You

On behalf of the staff and PTA we would like say a huge thank you to WATTS Construction Limited, Tauppo for the use of their scaffolding to help in the setup of our school disco this week.

P4L Assembly Recipients

Congratulations to the following students who received an award in our P4L Assembly held on Friday June 11, 2021.

Room 3 India
Room 3 Jack
Room 5 Max
Room 7 Poppy
Room 8 Zara
Room 9 Liam
Room 11 Daniel
Room 12 Lucy
Room 13 Aaliyana
Room 14 Angus
Room 15 Eilidh

Kidscan Coats

We are waiting on supplies to arrive and will then issue coats to fill the orders. We apologise for the delay.

Thank You

We would like to acknowledge and say a big thank you to our parents who run the Breakfast Club each school day and to those families who have donated supplies.

There is still a huge amount of polar fleeces, hoodies, tops, footwear and non-uniform items in our lost property. If your child is missing any of these items please come and look. If these items are not claimed they will be donated to charity in the next few days.

Youthtown Holiday & After-School Programmes

School holidays are coming up and Youthtown has families from your school attend a school holiday programme at our Waipahihi and Mountview School locations. Click on the link to find out what is happening at Youthtown which will take you straight to our website https://youthtown.org.nz/taupo. If you do this you will have all the information you need about holiday programmes and after-school care. Bookings for 2021 have been opened for Youthtown’s term-time After-School Programmes, so if you have any enquiries about this, do get in touch. Emma Helmich, Programmes Project Specialist - mobile +64 27 225 5973; email Emma.Helmich@youthtown.org.nz

Upcoming Events

Wednesday June 16, 2021
1.45p.m. to 2.45p.m. in Room 16

Steaming Into School

Wednesday June 16, 2021
1.45p.m. to 3p.m.

Te Mihi and Aratiatia Teams PTA Disco

Theme: Dress in your favourite sports gear.
Entry: Gold Coin donation.
Lollies, Sausages and disco toys available to purchase.

Thursday June 17, 2021
1.45p.m. to 3p.m.

Ohaaki Team PTA Disco

Theme: Dress in your favourite sports gear.
Entry: Gold Coin donation.
Lollies, Sausages and disco toys available to purchase.

Friday June 18, 2021
1.45p.m. to 3p.m.

Te Huka and Poihipi Teams PTA Disco

Theme: Dress in your favourite sports gear.
Entry: Gold Coin donation.
Lollies, Sausages and disco toys available to purchase.

Wednesday June 23, 2021
1.45p.m. to 2.45p.m. in Room 16

Steaming Into School

View our upcoming calendar events

This issue Room 3 presents

Compliment Clouds

“A kind word is free, easy to give and everybody has something to offer.”

“Research shows that kindness and giving evokes gratitude, makes us happier, strengthens our connections with others and is contagious!” https://sparklers.org.nz/

Kind and sporty Avery shares her cloud with all the amazing things others said about her.

Jack with a lovely smile compliment cloud is ready to go.

Room 3 practised giving each other compliments and then made compliment clouds to share the nice things others had said about them.

Learning to build positive relationships with others is an important social skill that comes under the key competency of relating to others and the Health and Physical Education Curriculum achievement objective of building positive relationships.

Learning to say nice things to each other helps students build positive relationships by filling each other's buckets and contributes to a positive classroom environment. Individuals' self-esteem can also be raised when others point out their positive attributes.

After a circle time session around compliments, students were given the challenge to write as many positive comments about each other as they could. It was amazing to see how many positive comments were written and that no one got left out.

Next, students followed instructions to make a kindness cloud. Finally, students choose their five favourite compliments that they received. Students copied their favourite compliments on the coloured paper strips to hang down from their cloud in a rainbow.

Students carefully copied their compliments from their books to the coloured strips.

Henry who is great at being Henry is hard at work making his cloud.

Willow who is an amazing artist cutting out her cloud.

The kindness clouds are displayed in the classroom to remind students to say nice things and be kind. They are also a nice reminder when someone is having a bad day to look at all the cool things others think about them.

Hiding behind that cloud is a good friend called Aiden.

Student Voice

"My classmates said I was cool and happy. This made me feel good, like a good day." Donte

"Jake said that I was small but smart and good at drawing." Ryker

"I liked when people said I was smart." Grayson

"Some people wrote smart on my cloud but they didn’t spell it right so I fixed it." Reid

"My favourite compliment was that I am friendly." Zoey

"My friends said BFF - best friends forever on my cloud." Vaanya

"Kindness is free so you can give lots of it away." Aiden

Curriculum Links: Health and Physical Education: Relationships with other people
Key Competencies: Relating to Others
Key Words: Compliments, positive relationships, social skills, self-esteem, circle time, kindness
Attributed to: Room 3, blogs.glowscotland.org.uk sparklers.org.nz