13 Oct 2026

Rural Day: Pets

Our Rural Day will be held on Friday, 23rd October, with Tuesday, 27th October as the postponement date. This notice is about the afternoon pet activities. If your child can’t bring a pet, they may be able to help a friend with theirs.

A paper form will come home tomorrow. It will ask whether your child is bringing a pet and if so, for a short description of the pet to be read to the audience. Please return the form to Mrs Digby in Kauri, by Friday, 16th October.

Animals may arrive from 1.00 pm. Your child or a senior student will show you where to take your pet. The afternoon will begin with the formal pet parade, which has several categories. After the formal parade, there will be an optional dress-up parade. You can get ready for this once your part in the formal parade is finished.

All pets must enter through the main school gate. Animals arriving in a trailer or float may be taken to the grass area beside the hall, then walked through. Please do not drive any vehicles onto the school field.

Please take responsibility for caring for your animal while it is on school grounds. Bring a lead for your dog, and food and water to help keep your pet calm and comfortable.

Places will be awarded to two lambs and two calves to attend the Ashburton A&P Show. If you are bringing a lamb or calf and would like it to be considered, please make sure you can handle and lead it safely. The judges may ask questions about your lamb or calf and how it is cared for.

To qualify for the Primary Schools competition, lambs and calves must have been born on or after 1 July.

If you have any questions, please come and see me or email me at karen@wakanui.school.nz.

Karen Digby

13 Oct 2026

The call has been made - Our Athletics Day with St Joseph's has been postponed and will not take place tomorrow as planned. It will now be next Monday October 19th, all arrangements are the same.

12 Oct 2026

Oops I made a big mistake, in the permission slip!  It is due back next Monday the 19th of October not the 12th of November. Sorry about the mistake.

Antarctic-Centre-permission-slipdocx.pdf

12 Oct 2026

Hi all,

Wednesday is our Athletics Day with St Joseph's School at the Domain Oval. Some reminders below.

You will find attached again the planned timetable for the day and the running of events.

• We will station ourselves in our usual spot (opposite side of the track to the long jump pits). We will have a staff member stationed there for the day who you can check in with for any questions etc.
• Please drop your child off to the Domain Oval at 9am (Year 3-8) and 9.50am-10.15am (Year 0-2).
• The day will be finished by 2pm to please arrange pick up at this time. 
• Please make sure your child has appropriate footwear for events, food and drink for the day, sunhats and sunscreen.

Weather: at this stage Wednesday is looking a bit dodgy, a call will be made and we will let you know. The postponement day for Athletics is Monday 19th October (ignore postponement date on attachment).

Thanks,

Ross Smith

 

 

 

Athletics-Day-2026-1.pdf

11 Oct 2026

Kia ora Kauri whanau

I hope you all had a fabulous holiday break. I’m looking forward to hearing all about it from the children tomorrow morning.

A few reminders and updates:

-The hot food box service has stopped for the year.
-Please make sure your child brings their sunhat to school each day. To help prevent it from getting lost, please keep it in their school bag.
-Athletics Day is on Wednesday. Please refer to the previous Loop for details.
-Permission forms for the Year 0–2 Big Day Out to the Antarctic Centre will come home tomorrow. Please complete and return it to school as soon as possible, as the Antarctic Centre needs to confirm our numbers.

Learning this week:

-In maths, both year groups are learning about number structure. 
-In handwriting, we’re practising the letters c, a and d, which all begin with the “c” formation. This term, we’ll be working hard on forming all letters and numbers correctly.
-In story writing, we’re learning to write more in depth recounts. We’ll focus on planning our writing and checking whether we’ve included when, who, where, why and what happened. The children will also be working on their individual writing goals.

Have a great first week back!
 
 Kind regards,

Karen Digby