Welcome back to term 3!

Nearly two thirds of the way through Winter. We hope you've had a great break and we look forward to seeing our kids again on Monday

Welcome Back Mr Langlands

We welcome back Mr Langlands into Te Ngahere after his surgery recovery. Te Ngahere has missed him, but his pakeke has been in great hands with Miss Ford who we now farewell to join Te Kete in the new entrants year.

Swimming

What an excellent time we had at swimming. The two-week programme showed massive gains in confidence and skill for our swimmers, essential water skills, and a bit of free swimming as well.

Debating

Miss Loose held her annual debate for her Maggie Literacy group. There were some very persuasive arguments, and her students made us proud with the amount of research, maturity, courage, and confidence they showed while delivering their debate on whether 'Technology is harmful or helpful.'

Epro8 Challenge

After our classroom challenge, we had some students represent our school in the Inter Schools Challenge at Kaiapoi North. Mr Langlands took a team to participate in the difficult challenge where are students competed under pressure to complete S.T.E.M tasks.

Choir

Our Choir made us proud at the Annual North Canterbury Choir Festival. Our item we performed was Brooke Fraser's 'something in the water'. We look forward to learning some new songs to perform at assemblies later in the term.

Upcoming Dates

Week 1 -

Food For Thought

We have educators 'Food For Thought' coming in to educate our kids on nutrition and healthy eating.

Week 3 -

Matific week - Over this week, we are in a nationwide competition to earn as many stars as possible through the Matific maths app. While we will be spending time during the week in class on the app, we encourage students to spend a little time at home sharpening up on their maths and earning stars for Woodend.

Winter Tournament - On Tuesday 6th of August, select students will be participating in our annual winter sports tournament - These students and families will be given more detail through hero. Students not participating will have a normal programme back at school.

Home Learning

For families wishing to engage in Home Learning - A reminder, we provide access to the following meaningful and engaging apps.

Timestable Rockstar - Practice, memorization, and mastery of multiplication.

Matific - A variety of activities across all mathematics.

Stepsweb - Recognition and retention of spelling patterns

Email m.crawford@woodend.school.nz if your child has forgotten their username or password.

He wake eke noa,

Mike, Caitlin, Terence, Katrina, and Rachael.

Teacher's emails

m.Crawford@woodend.school.nz

c.loose@woodend.school.nz

k.houston@woodend.school.nz

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