15 WPS Newsletter 7 September · Ask a few simple questions as well. Reading begins with decoding but asking questions helps develop higher level thinking and comprehension. For maths

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CHOCOLATE WINNERS Our last winners of a ball each were: Heron family, Pether family and Wigram family Our major prizes went to: $100 –most boxes sold (11) – Heron Family $100 – lucky draw – Heron Family $50 – lucky draw – Sophie Wheeler $25 – lucky draw – Milly Robertson Winning class –this was taken on an average sold per student – Room 1 Around $5000 was raised –thank you for your efforts.

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Waipu Primary School Ph 4320135 Fax 4320809 email: [email protected] Txt absences to 0273930218 Website: www.wps.school.nz Bank details: School – 123099 0833144-00 Oscar – 12 3099 0833144 01 Tena Koutou Katoa Dear Parents, In this newsletter I am going to talk about the dreaded word homework. There are plenty of studies to show that homework is an essential part of learning and just as many that say it is a waste of time. At Waipu we like our students to do a little bit of homework to help establish a habit for high school but more to practice their reading skills and learn their basic facts for maths. Your child only spends about 13% of their time at school so there is a need to consolidate some of this basic work at home. Over the years we have found students who spend a bit of time with their parents 4 nights a week practicing reading or basic facts do better than those that don’t. When your child comes home from school make sure they have a bit of a run around and do things outside before homework gets a mention. Have a quiet time and place where they can sit down and do their work. It might be a sit down on the couch to do some reading or the kitchen table to write out some basic facts or spelling words. Fifteen to twenty minutes should be long enough. With reading have a chat about what the story might be about before you start reading. Ask a few simple questions as well. Reading begins with decoding but asking questions helps develop higher level thinking and comprehension. For maths and spelling there is a simple technique for learning words and facts called copy, copy, cover. Write down the word or fact saying it in your head (make sure it is right). Copy it again saying it in your head. Cover it and see if you can write it accurately. If you can, move on to the next one. If you can’t, repeat the copy, copy, cover process. If homework turns into a battle simply write a note to the teacher in the homework book. ERO VISIT The ERO team spent 4 days here last month. Their review looks at how children are educated in the school. Before they left they reported back to the Board of Trustees in a very positive manner. ERO now spend some time looking at all the information and data they have gathered. In about a month we will receive a draft report. We are able to ask them to change any factual errors. After that the draft report is returned to ERO who revise the report and release it in a final draft. This is a slow process but we should have the final draft early in Term 4. We will make sure copies are available for our parent community once they arrive. THANK YOU Crombie Mackay and Mike Leech have worked away and built a fence up the driveway that is now used by the buses. We supplied the timber and they did the work for nothing. This means we can now use the new concrete path into the school and be separated from the drive. Many thanks to Crombie and Mike for their work on this. DAFFODIL DAY Thank you for supporting Daffodil Day. $271 was raised. Half of this will be used to supply sunscreen for your children. The

other half will be sent to the Cancer Society to further research into cancer. SCHOOL VEGETABLE GARDEN Many thanks to our wonderful parents who have cleaned up the veggie gardens. They look amazing! This dedicated group of parents are asking if anyone has pea straw or hay for the garden, also for large clear plastic sheets to cover the beds. Any spare veggie seeds would also be helpful. If you are interested in joining the Parent Vege Group and be on a 'Maintenance' roster, please contact Zeralda on 0212057548. MID YEAR RESULTS Teachers have been doing a lot of testing recently and you would have heard how your child was doing at the interviews. In Reading 71% of our students are at or above the standard (66% in 2016) at the moment. This result is affected by the Year 1 results. (Most Year 1’s have not been at school a full year). If we look at Y2 and above the percentage at or above is 83% (78% last year). Last year 90% of our students were at or above the National Standard in November and as we have quite a bit of learning time left current levels will improve. Good levels have been reached which indicates our programmes are working well. We are required by the Ministry of Education to report on gender and ethnicity so: For Boys this is 77 (78)%, Girls 84 (84)% and Maori 77 (70)%, European 83 (79)% . Our Maori students are currently doing almost as well as our European students. There is a small disparity below as Pasifika students are not included in the data. We only have 3 so separate data would possibly reveal their identity. I believe we are well on track to achieve around 90% at or above by the end of the year. Overall in Numeracy we found: In addition and subtraction 76% (69% in 2016) are at or above the expectation. In multiplication and division 53% (65%) are at or above the expectation In proportions and ratios 56% (44%) are at or above the expectation. In basic facts 67% are at or above the level expected. The lower score in multiplying and dividing could be linked to the lower basic fact result which means more practice at home would help. Proportions and ratios are yet to be formally taught this year. There is not a lot of difference between genders and ethnicity in these results. We expect all of these results to improve to around 85-90% by late November. Keep up that practice at home!

PRINCIPAL’S SPECIAL AWARDSPRINCIPAL’S SPECIAL AWARDSPRINCIPAL’S SPECIAL AWARDSPRINCIPAL’S SPECIAL AWARDS Week 5 – Chloe Robertson, Jaylen Carson, Rico Tonga, Ciaran Metcalf, Luke Callander, Samuel Papworth, Tyler Stolwerk, Levi Tate, Jazmin McCamley, Ely Cotterill, Tegan Pitcher, Joel McGlone. Week 6 – Audrey MacShane, Dreyden Abraham-Marsh, Matthew Laurence-Goss, Lucas Urlich, Sasha Campbell, Rebecca Keating, Haydon Fraser, Amber Ardern, Ethan Pether, Phoenix Lemon, Brayden Neame

Please make sure you return all notices on time so you can be included in photos, interviews, trips etc. It is essential we have things back by the date due as it makes life difficult for our staff at this end organising the various events. If your child is absent please check with school to see if you have missed anything. Check newsletters, the website, parent app or Facebook first.

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THREE WAY INTERVIEWS Well done to all those parents who made an effort to attend Three Way Interviews. Making the link between home and school is really important to help your child progress. 76% of parents attended the evening. Many thanks to those who filled in the parent survey (112) for the BOT. Great to see lots of people enjoying the sausages put on by the BOT. Thank you to those who manned the BBQ. CALF CLUB – Wednesday 18 October We have a good number of animals entered already (80+) but it is not too late to join them. On the day judging will start at 9am. Following this there will be activities to raise funds for the Year 6 trip to Rotorua. There is a cost of $5 for these activities and students will get a bracelet entitling them to have as many turns at a variety of activities until prize giving (around 90 minutes). Food will be available so extra money will be needed for this. After prize giving everyone who has an animal and those with parent’s present may go home. Remaining students can bus home as per normal. Activities for the Year 6 fundraising include the usual ones plus some from the day organized by the PTA last year. Tickets for this will be available before the holidays but the bracelets won’t be given out until the morning of Calf Club.

ENROLMENT ZONE Just to clarify the Ruakaka enrolment zone I sent out by email won’t affect where your child goes to school at the moment. It may affect bus routes if it goes ahead as we won’t be able to run our buses through their zone. It could affect enrolments here if you live in the area the Waipu side of the swamp by Doctors Hill Road in the future. INTERSCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY

On Wednesday 23rd August a team of 30 runners headed over to the Maungaturoto Country Club for the Interschool Cross Country. It was a fantastic morning with some amazing results! The morning was filled with cheering, chants, mud, sunshine and great team spirit! The children did Waipu Primary School very proud with their amazing efforts! All the children gave it their best and special mention to these runners who earned themselves top 5 placings on the day: Rory Doherty - 1st place in the 8-year-old boys race Rosie Wigram - 1st place in the 9-year-old girls race Jessica Cowpland - 2nd place in the 8-year-old girls race Ty Amsterdam - 2nd place in the 9-year-old boys race Harris Lymburn - 2nd place in the 10/11-year-old boys race Joseph Patterson-Devine - 4th place in the 8-year-old boys race Zara Gordon - 5th place in the 8-year-old girls race Rhyder Harrington - 4th place in the 9-year-old boys race Jaime Grace - 5th place in the 9-year-old boys race Waipu also placed in all the team’s events; 1st place in the 8-year-old boys and girls and the 9-year-old boys event. 2nd place in the 9-year-old girl’s events 3rd place in the 10/11-year-old boys and girl’s events. FRIDAY NIGHT FEVER 5-7pm September 15th This term will be our last disco at the Coronation Hall as we will have our own hall next year. Come dressed in 60s and 70s clothes as we will be having a real old fashioned disco. $2 entry. Food and other goodies availableA wide range of food, drink and prizes available. Children must have a parent with them. BOOK WEEK 25-29 September - Theme - Happy Campers Open every day in the library from 8.00am

All classes will have guest readers visit their room. Monday - Classes will visit the Fair with their Wish List sheet. Tuesday - Book Fair will be open from 5.30-7pm. Rms 6,7,8,10 in Auckland

Wednesday - Junior classes/Senior classes will swap Teachers, to read a favourite story. Fishing stories can be read to other rooms by children. Thursday - PE Skipping day. Parents invited to watch Skipping and visit Book Fair at the same time. Friday - Book character dress-up day. Parade 9.a.m. COMPUTERS IN HOMES Thank you to those responded to this. Unfortunately, the contact I had can no longer supply these. I will keep looking for alternatives. GOT A QUERY? – Phone or email school and ask your question.

COMING EVENTS SEPTEMBER 11 – Puss in Boots show 15 – Disco 19 – R11,9, 4 and 5 to Akld 22 – Northland Cross Country 26 – R6,7,8and 10 to Akld 26-29 – Book Week 27 – BOT meeting 1.10pm 28 – Skipping Day 11am -12.30 29 – End of Term 3 29 – Book character Dress up day

OCTOBER 16 – Term 4 begins 18 – Calf Club Day 20 – Teacher Only Day 23 – Labour Day NOVEMBER 1 – BOT meeting 1pm 6 – 10 – Y5/6 Camp week

UNIFORM SALES Second hand uniforms are available from Kylie Jacoby. Phone Kylie on 02102693876 to see what she has available. If you have a uniform, you do not need consider giving it to Kylie as money from second hand clothing comes back to the school. The uniforms are held at school but you need to arrange a time with Kylie to view on Wednesday between 8am and 9.30am.

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