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Wānanga with Kōkā Rose Year 7 & 8 Girls

We are hoping to start our wānanga with Kōkā Rose about positive friendships over 5 weeks, 1 x workshop a week.

Koka Rose will be contacting all of you and you can also fill out this form directly.

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Week 7, Term 1, 2023

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Kohine Robotics Information for Friday 17th March

Kohine Robotics Team Apopo- Workshop
-The Robotics team will be having their 2nd Workshop on Friday 17th March 2023

The Venue is at WAIKANAE SURF CLUB – starting at 9:30am-2pm.
(Following girls: Kuraunuhia, Pyper, Kate, Mahinaaranga, Rhylee, Tennesse, Terai, Tina May, Waimihia, Awhina, Kiahn)
Girls who live in town- I am happy for them to go straight to Waikanae Surf Club between 9:00am-9:30am. Please arrange for them to be picked up from the Club at 2pm.
Girls living in Whangara/ –
Please come to school as usual and we will transport them to town, leaving school at 9:00am. School Van.
We will also pick them up at 2:00pm to return back to kura.
If you are picking them up from Waikanae Surf Club- PLEASE let me know.
 

Week 5 Update

Kia ora whānau,
Update for Week 5
Monday 13th March
Tuakana, Year 5, 6, 7 & 8 will be heading to pohiri at Whangara Marae to support Papa Derek Lardelli and his whanau for a pohiri for a tangihanga. One of his whānau members has passed away and is being returned back to Whāngara marae from Australia. The pohiri is at 10am – and can tamariki please wear Whāngara school t-shirts .
Wednesday 15th March
Te Kura Reo Rua o Waikirikiri Kura whanaungatanga-
11am -12pm Our whānau at Waikirikiri School, will be popping in to kura for a whanaungatanga; we will have a whakatau, games and a few waiata.

Thursday 16th March
School will be OPEN as kaiako will be exempt from strike action due to the impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle.

Friday 17th March
Kohine Robotics – our girls Robotic team will be heading off for their 2nd Workshop in Gisborne this week. (More information to come)
Possible Hikitai/ horses for some ākonga )to be confirmed this week and weather dependent.
Matua Jay will be out for the next few weeks as he heads to Auckland to complete his Skipper qualifications for Te Waka Tairāwhiti. We wish him all the best! Matua Roger will be in across the kura supporting the ākonga
We are looking forward to another settled week at kura.
Ngā mihi
Kōkā Lisa

School will be OPEN next Thursday 16th March 2023.

Morena whānau, this to update you that our kura will be OPEN on Thursday 16th March.
NZEI/PPTA/ Principals throughout NZ will be taking Strike Action, however due to our disruptions of late and impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle, our kaiako/ NZEI have decided to be exempt from Strike Action. Schools in Tairāwhiti have this option.
However whānau, we support the actions of our colleagues across the motu.

Our tamariki need a quality education. And we want to give that to them.
Unfortunately, the funding for our schools is not enough for us to give us the time we would like to support all our kids to thrive.
We need to attract and retain educators by ensuring that teaching is a valued and attractive profession.
Principals and teachers in primary and area schools have considered at length offers from the government to settle our respective collective agreements.
The offers did not meet our expectations, nor make sufficient steps towards the changes we need for our children to succeed.
You may have seen that we voted to take industrial action on 16 March.
It’s the last thing we wanted to do. And the decision was not taken lightly.
We felt that this was the only way the government would listen and recognise that when they support our children to learn and succeed, we are supporting whānau and communities to thrive.
We look forward to another great year in 2023 – and together with your support, building the case for better investment in our tamariki.

NZEI

Week 5 Pānui

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Please keep sending swimming gears to kura daily. When the sun comes out – we will be swimming!

Lytton Area/ Mangapapa area has surflace flooding so Go Bus will not be able to enter,

If you live in this area and are catching the bus, the bus may not be able to do any pick ups from this area, so please take to YMCA if you can.

School is OPEN today, Tuesday 28th Feb

School is open today, buses running as normal, but please whanau if you have been affected by surface flooding in your area, stay home if needed. Kia kaha whanau.

Morena, school is open today, Friday 24th Feb, buses will run as usual.

At this stage School is OPEN tomorrow, but if things change and roads are affected, we will let you know by 7am tomorrow.

Update for returning back to Kura

Kia ora whanau,

We look forward to welcoming your tamariki back to kura tomorrow. We thank you for your support and patience as we organise kura. Today kaiåwhina contacted all whanau who they could connect with and checking in on cell phones and landlines. It was also a reminder that some whanau have not updated cellphones, so please – email or let us know updated numbers as soon as possible.

Today, kaiako also spent time re-planning our kaupapa to connect with the real, authentic learning opportunities based around the impact of Cyclone Gabrielle. We also understand that our akonga will return with a wide range of experiences in the last week so our focus will be on hauora / well-being and whanaungatanga. Some important messages for whanau:
Our power is on and we are hoping that it remains stable. We rely on the power for our water/toilets etc.

We have tanks of water and the school pool is ready. Akonga need to bring a named water bottle.
Buses will be running as normal. Waiomoko/Panikau/Glenroy bus run is ok. Same times for buses.
At present there is no internet/wifi- so our connectivity is poor.
To contact the school – please ring 022 572 8803 or try the landline (but no guarantee it will work)
Kaiako/Koka Lisa can be contacted by emails but do not rely on these being checked during the day
Updates will be posted on facebook/ school Apps/emails – so please check.
If your tamariki are sick, a reminder to keep them at home untill they are well.
School Lunches will be provided for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week only – thanks to Pukuora.
Pack togs, towels and water bottles for kura.
We will some how tune in to Te Matatini tomorrow at 10am (TV2) to support and watch Whangara-mai-tawhiti Kapa Haka, with Koka Te Oranga and Koka Shaela performing.  Nga mihi, Koka Lisa

School Closure – Monday 13th and Tuesday 14th Feb due to Cyclone Gabrielle

Kia ora whanau,
Due to the significant warnings and impact that Cylcone Gabrielle will have in our area, we are making the decision now to close kura for Monday 13th Feb and Tuesday 14th Feb 2023.
We need whanau to use today to get prepared for their own whanau needs and pretty much hunker down safely for the next couple of days.
Take the time to get prepared. There will be no distance learning available as strong possibility power outages-but use this ‘real life’ opportunity to teach your tamariki about weather systems, read the weather maps, use the apps, emergency packs- (even do some drawing, take photos, and writing of the taiao, looking after their pets and whanau- so much..!)
Kia haumaru te noho whānau – we will keep in touch as much as we can!

 
 

 
 

 
 
 

 

Panui for Week 1

Panui for Week 1, Term 1 2023

Touch and Miniball pānui for Year 1- 6 tamariki.

Pānui coming home today for Tamariki Year 1- 6 interested in playing Touch and/or Miniball in Term One. These pānui are on our Facebook page, if you missed out, or you can contact lisac@whangara.school.nz if your tamariki are keen to take part.

Year 7 & 8 sports info will be out once competition details are confirmed.

Noho ora mai!

Update about tomorrow.

Te Timatanga 2023

Kia ora koutou,
Ngå mihi o te tau hou 2023.
Just a reminder whanau that our first day of kura is Tuesday 7th February 2023, so please enjoy this week.
We will begin our year with a pohiri at 10:30am. This week, kaiako will be on site getting organised involved in PLD (Professional Learning).
We will be sending our more information about the school year soon.
Nga mihi
Koka Lisa