WHAT'S ON AT WINDWHISTLE?
Term 1 - Week 4
THE WEEK AHEAD:
Monday 18 February
- School Cuts
Tuesday 19 February
Wednesday 20 February
- Fundraising Meeting (See school notices section for more information)
Thursday 21 February
- Triathlon at Hororata Primary
Friday 22 February
THE TERM AHEAD:
- Wednesday 6 March - Resilience Workshop 2 3:30pm - All Welcome
- Thursday 14 March - Malvern Sport Spectacular (Year 3/4)
- Tuesday 19 March - Malvern Swimming Competition
- Wednesday 20 March - Christchurch Symphony Orchestra Visit
- Monday 25 March - Canterbury Duathlon
- Thursday 28 March - Malvern Sport Spectacular (Year 0-2)
- Monday 1 April - School Cuts
- Thursday 4 April - Canterbury Swimming Sports Competition
- Tuesday 9 April - Mobile Library
- Friday 12 April - Community ANZAC service and last day of Term 1
SCHOOL NOTICES:
MEET THE TEACHER - Today is our annual meet the teacher meeting and whānau picnic. This event starts at 5pm in our school library - all welcome! We understand that a few people are unable to make this event this year. If you have any questions about your child's class this year please contact the teacher directly.
SCHOOL CUTS - There are still a few appointments left for Monday. Please email principal@windwhistle.school.nz to grab one. Money raised will be put towards EOTC opportunities for our children including the PAL's Training and Top Team events held this week.
WINDWHISTLE POOL - Alida and Rebecca do an absolutely fantastic job of maintaining our pool as well as training up our pool users every year, we are all very grateful for the work they put in to creating a safe and healthy pool environment for us all to enjoy. Next year we will be looking to train up another parent as Alida will be handing over this responsibility when Max and Alex leave for Darfield High School. If you are interested in taking over this position please have a chat to Alida, Rebecca or myself about what this would involve. There is some initial training that the school would fund. As a bonus you do get a free pool key for you and your families use!
SNOWDON LAMB SALE - A massive thanks to Gee, Lucy, Nic, Sarah and Will for helping out at the sausage sizzle at this years lamb sale. A hot day but no wind so the gazebo went up easy peasy. Thanks again to Alida for sourcing the donated sausages. We raised a huge $1,139.23 for our school thanks, in large part, to the very kind donations from Snowdon Station, Bromleys Butchery, PGG Wrightson and HRL. This money will be put aside to go towards our whole school camp later in the year.
FUNDRAISING MEETING - Wednesday 20 Feb 9am
If you have any fundraising ideas or want to help out with fundraising for the school come along to the fundraising meeting next Wednesday 20 Feb at 9am at Tanias house. Contact Tania for more information at taniajjordan@gmail.com or 021 295 6520.
CURRENT POLICY REVIEW - We have two policies for review on School Docs this term. We really value your input on these reviews so please take the time to complete them. Remember both the username and password for the site in the word: windwhistle. Click each policy to access it's review form.
WINDWHISTLE GOLF CLASSIC - The date for our major fundraising event has been set for Thursday May 9th with a postponement of Friday May 10th. Please save this date.
BOT ELECTIONS - These are coming up later this year. If you are interested in joining our Windwhistle School Board of Trustees please have a chat to a current board member to find out more about what this responsibility entails. More information will follow later this term.
LINC-ED - We are currently updating the Reading Progressions and will let you know when these are up to date.
COMMUNITY NOTICES:
SOUTH MALVERN NETBALL CLUB - Invites you to attend our AGM
Date: 15 th March
Time: 7pm
Venue: Glentunnel Primary School
There will be light refreshments and a group of positive people looking forward to seeing you.
PHOTOS FROM THIS WEEK:
- A huge thanks to Kathy and Yvonne for organising such a relevant and practical swimming activity yesterday. The children are all now better equipped to survive if they are ever involved in a water emergency.
- Happy Birthday this week to Pippa and Esmae!
- The Top Team event today looks like a blast for our Year 5 & 6 students
- If you have any photos to add into our What's On from school events please sen them through to principal@windwhistle.school.nz
- Check out the photos to spark some discussions with your children.
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