GET MOVING THESE HOLIDAYS!

Be active during the April holidays. The ECHO Walking Festival provides a series of guided walks – many of which are aimed at families and / or children at no cost. One walk that could appeal to the whole family is the “Tunnels by Torch-light, Karangahake Night Walk”. Further enquiries contact Julie through our form below; or go to the website www.echowalkfest.org.nz

SCHOOL PHOTOS

The Photo Life Studios photographers will be here on Wednesday 16th April and children will be bring home prepaid envelopes [more on this at a later date].

Our Support Group are supplying breakfast every Friday this month. A small charge of $1 per person. Commences at 8.15am. Any queries to Nicki. Use our contact form below and Nicki will email a reply to any questions you may have.

STATIONERY

Thanks to all those families who are fully paid up. There are a few families who have not paid in full, please have this all tidied up before the end of the term. Thanks.

SCHOOL UNIFORMS

Carisma, our supplier of Polo Tee Shirts, has been sold to another supplier. This supplier has informed us that the price of the new shirts will increase from $18 to $22 for the short sleeve Tee Shirts and from $21 to $25 for the long sleeve Tee Shirts from our next order. As the school makes no profit from uniform sales, this increase needs to be passed on to parents. We still have a supply of old stock in some sizes at the old price so get in now if you need uniforms. A reminder to parents / caregivers that from the
1st day of Term 2, the school uniform becomes compulsory for all students.

SCHOOL GOAL

The goal for this week is Personal Respect – making positive comments, encouraging our friends.

DONATIONS / LEVIES

A reminder that there is a discount, if school donations / levies are paid before the end of the term. The levy is used to provide classroom consumables and resources, as well as subsidising photocopying costs. The discounted levies are:
•      1 child family – $50 – [$15 per Term]
•      2 child family – $90 per family [$30 per Term]
•      3 child family – $120 per family [$40 per Term]
Those families who enrol part way through the year will pay the appropriate term amounts and discount.

Congratulations to all the children who competed in the North Cluster Inter-School Swimming Championships. Well done. Also a big congratulations to Hadleigh M for getting through to the WBOP Finals. He was the only one from Waihi to qualify.

The Goal for this week is respecting people’s space and belongings.
The Raffle Results from our Gala are: $60 petrol voucher—Sandra; girls raffle– Heather J; boys raffle—Alex C; groceries—Coral L; groceries—Nichol; Karyn W Voucher—Anne P; Rainbows End Passes—Leann B; Easter Raffle—Julie T; Firewood Raffle—Anne P. Thanks to everyone who supported these raffles.

Click in the ‘Room 3 Files’ box on the lower right side of this page to hear Room 3 pupils talk about their camp experiences. The voice recording was engineered by Abbey and Jordy.

Snippets from our experience at Waitawheta Camp – edited by Tayla and Jordy. A longer version of the Waitawheta Camp video has just been completed by Wyatt and Regan and includes a slideshow as well as a twenty eight minute video, this is available on DVD now. To order a copy of the DVD fill in the ‘Contact Form’ below, please include whether you would like the DVD in standard screen format or widescreen. The $5.00 for a copy of the DVD can be paid for at the East School Office.

This week we are working on being responsible for our own actions.

ARTWORK
The children have made beautiful Placemat Art Work these can be viewed in your child’s classroom. We can laminate these for you at a small cost of $1.00. Pick-up times for these is after 3.00pm in the Office.