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Welcome Back Welcome back to another term of school. It was so lovely coming back to so many refreshed and cheerful faces on Monday morning. This is a shorter term than last term, with 9 weeks of learning and of course, aMonday off on Monday 2 June for Queen's birthday. Classes are already beginning their enviro focus learning. Mana have been supported by Matua Steve to learn about kaitiakitanga, Thunderbolts are investigating if lizards could live at our school, Kea are looking at composting with worms, Karaka are learning about growing food that will lead to health and my Superheroes will be learning about what we can do to attract native birds to our school. Added to this, our middle school class, Thunderbolts, went with DOC to do some re-planting on the hill area between Z and the Army Museum. We have been working with DOC and Horizons to plant this area out for recreational use and eventually we hope that there will be walking and orienteering tracks there. I am hoping that on Sunday morning, all mothers in the community will be celebrated. I have copied this little snippet fromwww.theparentingplace.com It is particularly scientific source, but it's certainly entertaining) 1. In the first year of a baby's life, a mother loses 44 days of sleep. 2. By the time her baby turns two, a mother will have changed an average of 7,300 nappies, taking an average time of two minutes and five seconds each. 3. Preschoolers require their Mum's attention once every four minutes. 4. There are two billion mothers in the world and 4.3 babies are born every second. 5. According to The Modern Mum Report, one in seven mums said they felt stressed 10 or more times a day with 8.01am, 11.56am and 5.30pm being the most demanding times of day. 6. Chocolate, flowers and jewellery are amongst the top choices for Mother's Day gifts, but in view of the above, we did a straw poll of mothers in the office and found the most popular gift is time - Ko te Mana te Mea Nui – Honour Above All Ph 06-3876860 Fax 06-3876129 Email [email protected] Web www.waiouru.school.nz Ruapehu Road, Waiouru Term 2 Issue 1 May 8th 2014
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Welcome Back
Welcome back to another term of school. It was so lovely coming back to so many refreshed and cheerful faces on Monday morning. This is a shorter term than last term, with 9 weeks of learning and of course, aMonday off on Monday 2 June for Queen's birthday.
Classes are already beginning their enviro focus learning. Mana have been supported by Matua Steve to learn about kaitiakitanga, Thunderbolts are investigating if lizards could live at our school, Kea are looking at composting with worms, Karaka are learning about growing food that will lead to health and my Superheroes will be learning about what we can do to attract native birds to our school. Added to this, our middle school class, Thunderbolts, went with DOC to do some re-planting on the hill area between Z and the Army Museum. We have been working with DOC and Horizons to plant this area out for recreational use and eventually we hope that there will be walking and orienteering tracks there.
I am hoping that on Sunday morning, all mothers in the community will be celebrated. I have copied this little snippet fromwww.theparentingplace.com It is particularly scientific source, but it's certainly entertaining)
1. In the first year of a baby's life, a mother loses 44 days of sleep.
2. By the time her baby turns two, a mother will have changed an average of 7,300 nappies, taking an average time of two minutes and five seconds each. 3. Preschoolers require their Mum's attention once every four minutes. 4. There are two billion mothers in the world and 4.3 babies are born every second. 5. According to The Modern Mum Report, one in seven mums said they felt stressed 10 or more times a day with 8.01am, 11.56am and 5.30pm being the most demanding times of day. 6. Chocolate, flowers and jewellery are amongst the top choices for Mother's Day gifts, but in view of the above, we did a straw poll of mothers in the office and found the most popular gift is time -
Ko te Mana te Mea Nui – Honour Above All
Ph 06-3876860 Fax 06-3876129 Email [email protected] Web www.waiouru.school.nz
Ruapehu Road, Waiouru Term 2 Issue 1 May 8th 2014
time to sleep in, time to do an activity of her choice and time to chill out away from the stresses of a job they love, but which is all consuming.
Please feel free to join us for our special reading of the bools entered in the NZ Post Bool Awards. This will take place in all classrooms between 2 - 3 pm on 15 May.
Have a good week (especially Sunday if you are a mum),
Petra
Winter's coming Even though hot food is a great idea on cold days, please remember that staff do not heat lunches for students. This includes adding boiling water to dry noodles.
School Triathlon Next Friday 16th May down at the Waiouru camp pool. Races start at 10.45am. Full details will be sent home with all children tomorrow. Parent help on the day would be appreciated. We also need parent help to cook/sell sausage sizzles. If you can help out in any way please let Stacey (Miss B) or Kerry know.
Dates for Term 2 School Triathlon 16th May Y7 - 8 Karen Boyes 26th May Queen's birthday 2nd June Winter Tournament (seniors) 20th June Parent interviews for senior students - Week 8. Day & times tbc.
Assembly Term 2 These will be held on Thursday 12.15 - 12.45 pm in the school hall. Week 4 - Mana Week 5 - Karaka Week 6 - Thunderbolts Week 7 - Kea Week 8 - Superheroes Week 9 - Click card assembly (date to be confirmed).
Help us to help the environment. Please collect all used Confectionery Wrapper: Chocolate wrappers, lolly bags, large or multi-size lolly bags, multi-pack lolly bags. Check out what we are doing with them – http://www.terracycle.co.nz/en-NZ/brigades/confectionery-wrapper-brigade.html
to our school Blake Sayers, Peyton Sayers, Zahara Barry, Zvannah Barry.
