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Celebrations at Whītau School

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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 1: Carson Gardiner for awesome story writing about his fruit kebab

Room 2: Cassidy Hammill for her great writing about the Witch's Kitchen

Room 3: Arvir Sidhu for confidently sharing three different ways of showing half

Room 4: Nelson Latu for showing improvement in his Reading 

Room 5: Kyra Toluono-Nicholson for her amazing independent writing this week

Room 6: Savannah Christian for her amazing effort in Reading 

Room 8: Angela Koekemoer for her thoughtful contributions to her Reading group 

Room 9: Riley van der Horst for her brilliant ideas for her Writing 

Room 10: Enzo Donnelly for his great effort in Writing 

Room 11: Ashton Lewis for his effort in Maths learning about Fractions 

Room 12: Jacob Ship for being a reading buddy for a younger student 

Room 13: Nariaya Eveleigh-Lynn for awesome independent Writing!

Room 14: Brianna Weller for being a focused and motivated creative writer

Room 15: Kayden Manawatu for his concentration and effort in his maths group


Congratulations to these students who were 'Caught Being Good'

Room 1: Arona Vaatiuola for trying hard to be a learner at school 

Room 2: Keon Connell for using his WITS in the classroom

Room 3: Abdi Alawi for being a kind person to others

Room 4: Maxwell Smith for showing Respect to his classmates

Room 5: William Latu for his positive attitude at school 

Room 6: Monti Masiu for showing thoughtfulness and kindness to his classmates

Room 8: Female student for always keeping our room clean and tidy 

Room 9: Billie Elsworth for always being kind and friendly to others

Room 10: Ethan Lavaiamat for always volunteering to help others in class

Room 11: Luane Tauati for her kindness to all of her classmates

Room 12: Emily McGrath for being a kind and helpful Room 12 class member

Room 13: Charlotte Hoogervorst for being a focused learner

Room 14: Rome Fanene for being a positive role model and motivated class member

Room 15: Anna Kumar for her positive attitude towards her learning 

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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 for class.  We want to make a difference in 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 2 was Room 4 with 94% and attendance and punctuality.

Well done to this class.

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


Mathletics

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Mathletics Results from Week 2

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 11

Kōrari: Room 15

The top Mathletics students were:

Kākano: Scarlett McDonald-Fisher (Room 3)

Kehakai: Malia Perrett (Room 6)

Karawhā: Blake Mortimer (Room 11)

Kōrari: Sadore  Alemeneh (Room 13)

Haere mai ki te kura o Whītau

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Ra Whānau ngā Tamariki - Happy Birthday to these Students

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Winning House For The Week

The winning house from last week was Woodham House. Congratulations to Woodham House!


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