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The term has flown by and what a term it has been-camp, gala, Duffy books, daily swimming. It has been all go. Thank you for supporting all activities and your positive input into Waihi East School. Have a happy holiday and great family break.
The Year Books were sent home this week. It takes an [...]

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Happy New Year! Welcome back to school. I hope you have had a relaxing break and enjoyed spending time with friends and family. We have had a number of new enrolments this year. We welcome all new families to Waihi East School. Our current school roll is 123, a fabulous number. We require 127 [...]

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I hope you are ready to be entertained. Tomorrow night is STARS IN OUR EYES. We have worked hard on a fun performance that we look forward to sharing with you. The doors open at 6.30pm. Please have children at the Memorial Hall at this time. The show starts promptly at 7pm. Last time [...]

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Congratulations to Carol who spotted our intentional mistake in last weeks newsletter (start date 3rd January instead of 3rd February). A chocolate fish will be sent home to Carol. It is great to see people reading the newsletter. I must say staff did notice it too. I won’t use that trick again, there was [...]

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Thank you for your attendance at our special Grandparents Duffy assembly and your generous afternoon tea which we shared. Our children enjoyed performing to you. This year Nicola and Whiti sponsored the $2250 school proportion of the Duffy Contract. This has been an amazing donation and this initiative has made an impact on literacy [...]

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We have an exciting week planned for students. Today we celebrated Grandparents at a special Duffy Assembly, tomorrow all children are participating in athletics and Kool Kids afternoon to round off a great day. Over 95% of students received an invite to Kool Kids afternoon. We aim to have 100%  participation at the end [...]

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What a week of celebrations at Waihi East School. We are a very proud school. Congratulations to Connor, Keely, Jodi and Tia for their awesome efforts at the Waimata Calf Club Day. Talk about clean up all the prizes, what a delight. Getting an animal ready for showing takes many hours of work. I [...]

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Congratulations to Kalem and Sophie-Lee who were selected to attend a Gifted and Talented art workshop at Waihi Beach School. Blake, Kailala and Reid also attended this day as our camera/filming crew. It is great to see staff recognizing students strengths and finding new opportunities to develop their skills.
The fundraising team have been at [...]

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The sun is shining, long may it last. With the weather changing we are reminding children about taking care of their uniform. Sweat shirts are being left out on the field. These are collected daily by the senior school and placed in lost property. If you are missing a uniform item, please check out [...]

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Welcome back to the final term of 2009. It is an exciting term, especially for Year 6 students who are reflecting on their time at Waihi East School and the exciting possibilities of College. This term our focus is ‘Celebrations’. Individual classes have their own focus e.g. birthdays or what/how different cultures celebrate. We [...]