21 Jul 2026

Swim Week – Monday 27 July to Friday 31 July

A reminder that our Senior Swim Week (Yrs 4-8) is coming up next week (Monday 27 July – Friday 31 July).
Students will be leaving school early each day as lessons begin at 1:00pm. The final lesson finishes at 2:00pm, and students will return to school by bus afterwards.

Please note: There will be no hot food available during Swim Week for Yrs 4-8.

For our Year 7/8 students, Thursday will look a little different. They can choose whether they attend their usual Technology session or take part in the swimming lesson. We would recommend that students attend Technology; however, if they choose to swim, they will need to make their own way to the pool with a parent/caregiver.
If you are planning to pick your child up from EA rather than have them return to school, please email us by midday (if possible) on the day. We may not be able to check emails while we are at EA.

Thanks for your support, and we are looking forward to a great week in the pool!

21 Jul 2026

Kia ora Koutou,

Woolworths currently have an 'ooshies' promotion and some children have been bringing them along to school.  Please be aware that like any 'toy' that comes to school there is always a chance of them being lost. We realise that they are designed for pencils but that is not ideal in the school setting. Definately no more than one ooshie is to be bought to school.

If anyone is wanting to do swaps can this please be done at home and not at school. Past experience has taught us that any type of swapping doesn't always end well for all concerned.

Ngā mihi

Trena

20 Jul 2026

Last day to enter is this Thursday 23 July

 

Please see attached information regarding ICAS ( International Competitions and Assessments for Schools) exams which can be co ordinated to be sat at school if you would like your child to participate. They are for those who would really like to add a challenge when operating at a higher academic level. They come at a cost to the family.  If wanting to know more please have a look on line as well as discuss with either me or the classroom teacher.

Ngā mihi

Trena

trena@wakanui.school.nz

ICAS-enrol-26-1.pdf

19 Jul 2026

Welcome back, everyone! I hope your child is excited about coming back to school tomorrow.

Tomorrow we welcome Luca, Bonnie, Cooper, and Abdullah to our Kōwhai Whānau. A big welcome from us all!

We will get straight into our learning tomorrow with Reading, Phonics, and Maths. Throughout the first week, we will also be revisiting our school values: Respect, Resilience, Responsibility, and Excellence.

In Phonics this term, our groups will be split. Our older children will be learning about adding suffixes to words and when to use -s and -es. Our newer children will be learning the sounds that M and S make this week.

In Maths, our older children will be focusing on addition, while our newer children will be learning about the numbers 1–10.

Reading books will come home tomorrow. Please remember to sign your child's notebook if they have read at home.

We are looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow!

Mrs Busch

19 Jul 2026

Kia ora Kauri whānau,

I hope you all had a fabulous holiday and are feeling refreshed and ready for Term 3.

On Monday in Writing, we will be doing holiday writing. After that, we will begin reading the chapter book George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl as a class. Over the next few weeks, our writing will be based on the book, chapter by chapter. This will include writing to entertain, inform, and persuade. We will also be looking at sentence structure, grammar, and punctuation within these genres.

In Phonics, some students are learning about double letters and when to use them: ff, ss, ll, zz. Others are learning about the suffixes -ing, -s, -ed, -es.

In Maths, the Year 1 students will be learning about teen numbers, and more than/less than. The Year 2 students are learning about equal shares.

In Topic, for the first week we are learning about our school values, especially respect. In Week 2, we will begin Food and Nutrition. We will also be looking at and having a go with musical instruments.

The school poem and speech competition is in Week 5, so the juniors will begin their competition with just Kowhai and Kauri in Week 4. In Week 2, we will look at which poems each child would like to do.

On Thursday, Mrs Livingstone will be teaching until lunchtime. Friday is Library and Sport with Claudia.

Have a great week!

Ngā mihi,
Karen