Newsletter Number 17 - Wairau Intermediate School

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Becroft Drive, Forrest Hill, North Shore City 0620 Ph 410 7805 Fax 410 7985
School email: [email protected] Board email: [email protected]
ear Parents and Caregivers
Our last newsletter for 2014! I would like to take
this opportunity to thank all of you for the wonderful assistance you have given the school during the last 12
months, in so many different ways. Your help with sports
teams, trips, camps and EOTC activities and a multitude of
other areas, is very much appreciated and is a very important part of how our school is organised. A big thank
you also to all the staff of Wairau Intermediate for all they
do to make our school a wonderful learning environment.
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IGH FLIERS
Next Tuesday our High Fliers winners will have
their scenic flight over Auckland. They will leave
the heliport in Rosedale Road at about 10.40 and land in the
school grounds at 11.00am. The lucky winners this year
are: Hyun Bin Yang, Pryansha Prasad, Zairamel Dimaun,
Katherine Kim and Marshall Lindsay.
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CHOOL RAFFLE
A big thank you to all of you who helped with the
selling of the tickets for our raffle. This was drawn
on November and the winning tickets were numbers:
4351, 4094, 2921, 6410, 4657, 2766, 6287
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014 YEAR BOOK
It is not too late to purchase a copy of our Year Book.
This book is a wonderful memento of the 2014
school year. The books are available at a subsidised price of
$5.00.
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USIC COMPETITION
Congratulations to The
Polyz and Up in Lights
(pictured below), two Wairau rock
bands who participated in the Stand
By Me anti-bullying music competition held in Browns Bay on Saturday.
The Polyz came first and Up in Lights
came third in the competition, winning $1,000 for the school to spend
on musical instruments as well as a
$50 voucher each. The prizes were
donated by Music Planet.
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ORE MUSIC SUCCESS
Our Rock Bands have been working for most of
this year on performance and composition and
four of the bands were chosen to record their original compositions with Jam Bus (a mobile recording studio). Bands
from all over Auckland were given the opportunity to compete for the chance to have a day recording their song at
Neil Finn’s recording studio. One of our bands was the
winner of this wonderful prize and we congratulate
Deshma Weerapperuma, Georgia Sheehan, Kaitlin Ruscoe and Teja Koligi with their song “Melody”.
Sample pages from the 2014 Yearbook
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UCK SHOP
The school tuckshop will be closed next week for
the remainder of the year and will reopen on the
first day of term 1, Thursday 29 January 2015.
USIC EDUCATION CENTRE AWARDS
Congratulations to Alyssa Yong, Breanna Gregory, Zoe Hayward, Hyun Sung Lim, Joy Lee
and Reece O’Sullivan who have received the Star Musician
Awards for excellence in developing their musical skills in
2014.
If you are interested in enrolling your child for individual
piano/keyboard, violin, guitar or drum lessons at school for
2015, enrolment forms will be available at the school office
in the first week of term 1 next year. Alternatively, contact
the Music Education Centre by emailing us at
[email protected]
F
INAL ASSEMBLY
This assembly celebrates the academic success of
our students and is an opportunity to recognise the
wonderful achievements of so many of our students during
2014. The assembly will be on Friday 12 December beginning at 9.30am. Parents are welcome to attend and should
arrive at approximately 9.15am in time for the 9.30am start.
At the conclusion of the assembly, students will return to
their home groups to receive their end of year academic
report and will then be dismissed.
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ARNELL BATHS
Next Thursday, 11 December, the whole school will be
travelling to Parnell Baths for the day. If you have not
already done so, please fill out and return the permission slip and
send it to school as soon as possible, along with the $7.00 bus and
entry fee.
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AIRAU ENROLMENTS
Enrolments are still being accepted for the 2015
school year. If you are enrolling your child and he/she
was not born in New Zealand and does not have a New Zealand
passport, we will require the following:
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Student’s residence permit/or returning residence visa
Parent’s work permit and student’s permit/visa
Student’s New Zealand citizenship certificate
11 Dec
12 Dec
School Picnic
Graduation/Prize Giving Assembly School finishes for the year
2015 Term Dates:
Term 1
29 Jan-2 Apr
Term 2
20 Apr-3 July
Term 3
20 July-25 Sept
Term 4
12 Oct-11 Dec
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THLETICS SUCCESS
The North Harbour Intermediate Schools’ Athletic Championship was held last week. Our team competed well and
had a number of placings. Well done to all the team and congratulations to:
Cody Fillmore:
Fir st - Year 7 boys 200m
Third - Year 7 boys 100m
Third - Year 7 boys high jump
Hayden Vermeulen: Thir d - Year 8 boys 800m
Third - Year 8 boys 1500m
Caleb Koko:
Thir d - Year 7 boys discus
These three students will represent North Harbour at the Auckland
Championships on Thursday 4 December.
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EAR 8 SOCIAL
Below are some photos of the Year 8 social held last
night in the school hall.
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SCHOOL HOLIDAY COMPUTER CLASSES
For ages 5-6. Minecraft, Create 3D Video Games,
Learn to Program, Web Design, Animations, Video
Editing or Build a PC. For more info call Ed
Brown on 488 0787 or www.grandtraining.co.nz
DISCOVERY LABS HOLIDAY PROGRAMMES use minecr aft, animation, 3D modelling, programming and more to engage and educate your children wile having fun and preparing
them for the future. Visit
www.discoverylabs.co.nz for more details.
NORTH SHORE AIR TRAINING CORPS
All Year 8s who are interested in learning about
and having experience in any of the following:
teamwork, leadership, bushcraft, aviation, firearm
safety and much more should consider joining No.
6 Squadron Air Training Corps next year. For
more information, please take an information flyer
from the Wairau Intermediate School office foyer.
All interested students and their parents can attend
one of the unit open days, held from 7pm on 4, 16
and 18 December. In the meantime, head to the
unit website on www.6sqnatc.org.nz or email [email protected] to find out more.
ERRY CHRISTMAS
The staff of Wairau Intermediate wish you all a very
merry Christmas and a safe holiday.
Grant Murray
Principal
BIRTHDAY GREETINGS to the following students who have birthdays between
11 December and 31 December 2014: Megan Nadi, Kaia Pola, Blake Fer nandes,
Clarisse Esguerra, Zachary Knight, Gareth Edwards, Iago Do Prado, Samara Kattan,
Aleisha Fraser, Chihiro Igarashi, Raeesah Surran

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