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
 
 

19 Jul 2026

Kia ora Kawakawa whanau,

I hope that you all had an enjoyable holiday break, it was great to have some good weather over the last week.  I am looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow and hearing all about what everyone got up to.

This week I have a change for my CRT it will be  on Friday morning.  For topic this week we will be looking at the school values and in particular respect and responsibility.  We will be learning about what this looks like in the classroom and in the playground.  As part of this learning we have a new addition to our classroom - George the Bear.  We will be taking responsibility for him at school and from next week on some days he may go home with a class member.  If George comes home with your child please make sure that he is returned back to school the next day.  George will have a diary where we will keep a record of his adventures.  

In maths this week Year 3 are starting to learn about multiplication being repeated addition and Year 4 are looking at number structure and how family of facts can help them to solve addition and subtraction problems.  In writing we will be starting the process of  writing a speech.  Last term we started to do a brainstorm of ideas on a topic that we were interested in.  So we will finish this and then do a plan of how we will organise our ideas. In reading we are doing some whole class reading with stories that have a theme of respect and responsibility.  In phonics Year 3 are revisiting r controlled words and Year 4 are revisiting the long vowel ea. 

Next week the Year 4s have their swim week at EA Networks.  More details will be looped out about this during the week.

Have a fabulous week, please contact me if there is anything you need to discuss with me.

Ngā mihi nui,

Julia

19 Jul 2026

Kia ora Koutou Wakanui Whānau,

I hope you all had a lovely break and are ready for Term 3, here are some dates we have to put in your diary. These are also on the Skool Loop Calendar. Please look out for more details on Skool Loop Notices as well as other events that may be added during the term.

·      Monday 20 July- Term 3 Starts

·      Thursday 23 July- weekly Technology starts for Year 7/8’s

·      Monday 27 July – Friday 31 July- Swim Week at EA for Year 4-8 Students

·      Monday 3 August – Parent Support Meeting 7pm

·      Wednesday 5 August- School Assembly

·      Monday 10th-Tuesday 11th August- Parent /Teacher/ Student Interviews

·      Wednesday 12th August Board meeting 6:30pm

·      Tuesday 18th August- School Speech/Poem Finals

·      Wednesday 19th August- Year 7/8 Epro8 Grand Final- ChCh 4-7pm

·      Friday 21st August Winter Tournament Year 5-8

·      Monday 24th August- Teacher Only Day- School Closed 

·      Wednesday 26th August-School Assembly- Winter Tournament pp

·      Thursday 27th August- Small Schools Speech/Poem Final-Fairton School evening

·      Friday 28th August- Daffodil Day

·      Friday 11th September- Junior School Celebration of learning/ Assembly from 2pm

·      Wednesday 16th September No normal School Assembly, Board 6:30 pm

·      Thursday 17th September 150 Years of Growing the Future- whole school show at Events centre 7pm rehearsal during the day

·      Friday 18th September – 150 Years of Wakanui – open afternoon

·      Saturday 19th September-150 Years of Wakanui- celebrations day and evening

Please jump onto the 150 celebrations Facebook page for details and registration for this exciting event.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1873442649985590

·      Wednesday 23rd September – School Ski Day

·      Friday 25th September- Last Day of Term 3

We look forward to seeing you all tomorrow

Ngā mihi

Trena

 

3 Jul 2026

We have put all of the lost property out on the amphitheatre stage.  Please have a check to see if any of the items belong to your child.

WE WISH EVERYONE A HAPPY HOLIDAY BREAK.