Welcome to Term 4, the final term for the year.  We are looking forward to longer days and some summer sports kicking off. The first of these is our Fun Run and Year 4-8 Athletics.

Term 4 always brings with it challenges with the weather getting warmer.  Please remember that Term 4 is a sun hat term. Named sun hats are to be worn outside at break times and to be used when outside for sport.  As it gets warmer, students will need named drink bottles at school in the classroom.  

There is also a large amount of lost property. This is a reminder to name your uniform, including items like sun hats and lunchboxes.

I am looking forward to awarding more WAKA badges this term. The students are becoming more aware of tracking their progress and seeing if they are close to earning a badge or not. 

Our big topic this term is Survival; this may look quite different across our junior school. Some classes may look at survival in the wild, and some may look at endangered species in Te Manahuna and how they survive. 

For the first four weeks of the term in Maths, our focus is on Algebra. In the second half of the term, we will focus on Statistics. This means our Year 0-8 students will participate in statistical investigations.  

Melissa McLellan
Assistant Principal

Important Dates

• Friday, 20th October   - School Fun Run 
• Monday, 23rd October - Labour Day 
• Friday, 27th October - Year 4-8 Athletics at Twizel Area School
• Thursday, 2nd November - New Entrants Transition Afternoon 
• Friday, 3rd November - Year 1-3 Athletics at Kurow

Junior Assemblies 

Thank you for completing the survey about Junior Assembly times.  The time that was most popular was Wednesday at 2:30 pm.  We will change our Assembly time to this new time for Term 4 to see how this goes. We will begin our junior assemblies from week 2. Attached is the new timetable for this term through to week 7.