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Celebrations at Whītau School

Amy Collins — April 6th, 2022

Congratulations to the students who have received recognition this week.

Congratulations to these students who were awarded Principal's Awards for achievement in Literacy and Numeracy

Room 2: Avah Archbold for her excellent start to Writing

Room 3: Manahi Brown for his great effort in story writing

Room 4: Alfred Lavaiamat for showing improvement in his reading during his group lessons

Room 5: Ryder Manawatu for great sounding out letters in his writing

Room 6: Nico Carruth for organising his thinking when counting large collections

Room 8: Honey-Lee Nikora Henry-Tikao for her hard mahi in Maths

Room 9: Lennon Blake for his creative sculptures for his writing inspiration

Room 10: Ethan Lavaiamat for his amazing effort in Reading

Room 11: Priyanjali Dalai for her effort in expertly completing Seesaw activities at home

Room 12: Madi Flint for all her efforts in her Literacy learning

Room 13: Kyrel James-Mauhara for being a focused learner

Room 14: Jonty Cameron for perseverance and effort in Mathematics

Room 15: Loudaz Timo for being a conscientious and talented writer

Congratulations to these students who were 'Caught Being Good'

Room 2: Ava-Jane Rangiuia for being Responsible and keeping Room 2 clean and tidy

Room 3: Salman Shire for showing Respect and always being ready to learn

Room 4: Darci Teokotai for being an amazing and focused Learner during his Better Start Lessons

Room 5: Jareth Arps for being so kind and Respectful by helping set up the classroom every morning

Room 6: Thomas Chestnut-Wilson for being an amazing learner and always trying his best

Room 8: Ezra O'Grady for always having Respectful manners in class

Room 9: Logan Shannon-Groom for doing his best in class and catching up with his work

Room 10: James Daligdig for being a great friend to others

Room 11: Luekan Kennedy for growing his friendship circle and being inclusive of others

Room 12: Vrinda Sharma for all her happiness she sprinkles around Room 12

Room 13: Eli Sia for aiming for excellence in all learning areas

Room 14: Riley Smith for being a motivated and Responsible class member

Room 15: Tāne Norton for being inclusive and helping others

Attendance

In 2022 the Ministry of Education has a special project in the Tāmai Kahui Ako of schools to get all of our students to school each day and on time to class. We want to make a difference with our students learning and we need all of our students here each and every day at school to make this happen.

As an incentive for our students, we are announcing a weekly attendance and punctuality award to the class or classes with the highest attendance for the previous week. Classes that achieve 100% attendance each week will receive a special treat of an afternoon tea of biscuits to share together. Over the year we will track winning class information and we will have an overall winner. For the year please help each of the classes by ensuring your students are at school every day and before 9.00am.

The class with the highest attendance for Week 9 was Room 2 with 97% attendance and punctuality.

Well done to this class.

To advise absences, please contact 389 8112 or text only to 027 758 1467

Mathletics

Mathletics Results from Week 9

The School Board funds Mathletics for each child to access online in class and at home. This means that learning can be ubiquitous as learning can happen at home, at school or anywhere.

If your child does not have access to Mathletics, please see your child’s teacher for their login details.

The top Mathletics Classes were:

Kākano: Room 3

Kehakai: Room 5

Karawhā: Room 10

Kōrari: Room 13

The top Mathletics students were:

Kākano: Mia Ifopo-Togia (Room 3)

Kehakai: Malia Perrett (Room 6)

Karawhā: James Daligdig (Room 10)

Kōrari: Sadore Alemenah (Room 13)