It is always fantastic to start the week (and the newsletter) off celebrating the achievements of our ākonga (learners). Our Tournament of Minds teams have been working hard with Mrs Zhou preparing for their tournament, and it shone through on Saturday where they placed FIRST in their year levels! Charlotte Burt, Olivia Persson, Hannah McClean, Ella Michie, Prya Simon, Louis Crawford and Lejla Arnautovic-Wootton represented our Year 5 / 6 TOM team. They showed perseverance, collaboration, creativity and panekiretanga (excellence) and came out on top! It will be a busy couple of weeks preparing for the National competition to be held in Wellington. Kia Kaha koutou - we are all behind you!
Congratulations also to our Year 6 representatives for the Super 10 competition held last week. They remained undefeated throughout the tournament - look out next year teams!
Learning Conference’s are running in Week 9 from Monday to Thursday. Bookings are now available online. It is great to see so many parents have already booked in a time to come and celebrate their tamaiti’s (child’s) learning. Please visit the School Interviews website (www.schoolinterviews.co.nz ) and input the code tzzvp to make a booking. If you have any problems booking online, please contact your Pouako.
This week for our Conceptual Curriculum topic, Technological Advances, we are designing our own parachute and safety devices to keep our ‘precious cargo’ safe when dropped from a height. Keep your eyes peeled on Seesaw this week for some fun innovations!
As part of our unit on Technological Advances, we are hoping to visit Te Manawa Museum’s old school - and have a look at how the lives of our tamariki at school have changed over time. There will be a small charge for this visit - we will advise you of this as soon as we finalise costs. We do require parent help for this to go ahead so we are hoping to twist some arms, and have some volunteers for this! The visits will rotate in Hapu’s as follows.
Wednesday 19th September
Hapu 18 - 10 am - 11:30 am (Bus to leave WS at 9:30 am and return 12:00 pm)
Hapu 19 - 1 pm - 2:30 pm (Bus to leave WS at 12:30 am and return 3:00 pm)
Thursday 20th September
Hapu 20 - 10 am - 11:30 am (Bus to leave WS at 9:30 am and return 12:00 pm)
Please contact your tamaiti’s (child’s) pouako (homeroom teachers) to let them know if you are available to assist on the day. This will be a wonderful outside the classroom experience for all so thank you in advance!
The Whakarongo School Intermediate Years Open Night will be held on Wednesday, 5th September from 5:30-7pm in the Navigator Centre.
Senior Winter House Sports will be held on Tuesday 11th September from 9:30am-2:30pm.
It contains fun activities such as quizzes, fun facts, word finds and creative writing ideas! Book Character Dress Up Day is a chance to dress up and celebrate some of the fantastic Roald Dahl stories we all love. There is no collection of donations so leave the gold coins at home! Those not dressing in character costumes will be required to come in full school uniform.
We can’t wait to see what wonderful costumes our ākonga (learners) come up with!
Ngā Mihi,
Kahurangi Pouako
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