Good evening Kauri whanau

I hope you all enjoyed the beautiful weather over the long weekend.

What a busy week we had last week! It was fantastic to see all our juniors trying their best and showing our school values at Athletics Sports. It was a great day.

We also had a fantastic day on Friday for Rural Day, with farm activities in the morning and a pet afternoon. Thank you to everyone who supported the day in some way.

Another busy week ahead. This week in maths, we’re learning to tell the time on analogue and digital clocks: o’clock, half past and quarter past. In phonics, we’re revising all the sounds we’ve learnt so far. For our topic, we’re continuing our learning about Antarctica. The Harold truck arrives at our school tomorrow with Kauri visiting it on Tuesday and Wednesday. We’ll also be making farm animals from paper plates tomorrow and Wednesday for the A&P Show next weekend.

The Indian Runner duck eggs from Harvey’s family are incubating well in our classroom. Last week, the children got to see the eggs being candled.

Please keep up the reading at home each night if you can, and practise the word cards too if your child has them.

Please remember to sunscreen your child before school and ensure their hat is in their bag each day. Children without one will need to play in the shade.

Have a great week!

Kind regards,

Karen Digby
 
 

Kia ora Kawakawa whanau,

I hope that you all had an enjoyable long weekend.   What a fabulous week we had last week!  It was great to see the class showing the school values so well during our athletics day.  Congratulations to anyone who got a placing in an event.  The Rural and Pet Day was amazing.  A thank you to any parents from the class who helped with the activities in the morning, the class had fun and loved doing these.  This week we have Harold at school and the class will be visiting him twice.  Our first session with Harold is tomorrow afternoon and then we visit again on Thursday.  I also have CRT tomorrow and Mrs Livingstone will be teaching the class.   Over the next 2 weeks I will be doing some "SMART" assessments with the class in reading, writing and maths.  We did these at the start of the year so the class will be familiar with what these are.    The Year 3s will be completing the grain/seed art that they have been doing by Wednesday, this is when the art work needs to be dropped in to be judged.  The Year 4s will also complete the interest project that they have been working on.

In reading the class will be looking at KiwiKids News tomorrow and the class will come home with an article from this.  This article will be a challenge to reread for some of the class so please help your child reread this if they need support.  I hope that it provokes some interesting discussion at home, ask your child what was the new law that they would create. In phonics we have the same word list again as we didn't get a chance to learn all we need to know about these spelling patterns in class time last week.  In maths Year 4 are continuing with their learning on multiplication and division mental methods and Year 3 are learning about problem solving.

I will be sending a loop out tomorrow about the Year 3/4 Big Day Out.

Have a fabulous week,

ngā mihi nui,

Julia

What a wonderful week we had last week! Athletics Day was fantastic, and our Rural & Pets Day was such a special event. I'm sure your children were all happily exhausted by the weekend after so much fun and excitement!

This week we're looking forward to welcoming Harold the Giraffe back to school. The children always get so excited when Harold comes to visit, and we're sure they'll have a wonderful time learning with him.

I am at a course on Wednesday for the day, and Mrs Livingstone will be teaching the class.

In maths, we'll be exploring measurement of time, and we'll also be beginning our Keeping Ourselves Safe unit. Reading will continue as usual, and tomorrow we'll be putting the finishing touches on our A&P Show artwork.

If you get the chance this weekend, be sure to pop along to the A&P Show and have a look at the wonderful artwork on display. 

Many thanks,

Gayle

Hi,

Please see message below from Mid-Canterbury Rugby for getting your child registered for Rippa.

We are so excited to have you child sign up to Term Four Rippa Rugby, to make sure we can run the event as smoothly as possible can you please follow this link.

https://myaccount.rugbyxplorer.com.au/choose-registration?name=Mid%20Canterbury%20RU

Please can you have this filled in by end of tomorrow (Tuesday 27th October)

Any questions please email admin@midcanterburyrugby.co.nz

Thanks

Agri Kids 2027        A paper form will also be sent home for anyone interested

Wakanui would like to enter some teams for our Agri Kids Regional Event which is on January 30th at Pleasant Point.

Having just experienced our School Rural Day, this may spark some interest! Agri Kids includes an extended version of this type of activity, including knowledge of aspects of farming.

For more details 

https://www.youngfarmers.co.nz/contest/agrikidsnz

Teams are made up of 3 students. Eligible Students must be aged 8-13 on January 1st 2027. 

This is a parent led event which I can support the initial coordination of. If your child/ children would be keen to be in a team please fill out the following information and return to me via email or on the sheet.

Ngā mihi

Trena

trena@wakanui.school.nz

Students Name:

 
 Age January 1st 2027:

 
 Would you be happy to coordinate this event with other parents?
 
Are you able to parent help with getting to the event and supporting them on the day?

 
 Parent name email/cell phone