Term 1: 2 February - 15 April

Term 2: 2 May - 8 July

Term 3: 25 July - 23 September

Term 4: 10 October - 9 December

The school day begins at 8.45am with Form Time (this MUST be attended each day)

Lunchtime 1.20 - 2.10pm School finishes at 3.10pm

“To make something happen,

we must first believe we can”

Stewart Smith

Kia ora koutou

A very warm greeting to families and friends of Waimea College.

The 2016 school year is well underway with many schoolwide activities having already taken place including the House Sports Day, Swimming Sports Day and Athletics Day. These events were fantastic displays of student leadership, school pride and house spirit. For photos and video coverage of these events head to our Waimea College Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/

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2015 NCEA Results Our students’ 2015 NCEA results are very pleasing. In particular, it is encouraging to see that Waimea College students, on average, performed well above the National Average across all levels.

It is particularly pleasing to note that the 2015 NCEA results represent the highest level of achievement for NCEA Levels 1

and 2 and the second highest level of achievement for NCEA Level 3 in the history of Waimea College. During 2015 90.8% of our students achieved NCEA Level 1, 92.9% of NCEA Level 2 students attained NCEA and 86.2% of NCEA Level 3 – an outstanding effort.

Within this overall set of very pleasing results, there are always areas to focus on improving. As a school community we won’t rest until all of our students are achieving. In addition, we are placing greater emphasis not just on the quantity of credits that our students are achieving, but also on the quality of the credits. Universities, Polytechnics and employers are giving priority to students with Merit and Excellence endorsements so it is important that we prepare our students for this reality.

Finally, a big congratulations go to the students who experienced success with gaining Scholarship last year.

Samara Arnold English Rhea du Fresne-Mann Drama Michelle Fridman Biology Sally Hodgson Physical Education Ben Karalus Physics Rebecca Meikle English Briar Smith-Waddell English Tegan van der Peet Physical Education

All the best for the balance of the term.

Semper Contendite

Scott Haines Principal

Our International students have quickly made their mark here at Waimea College. Even though many of our students had only just arrived the week before, they still got into the school spirit at House Sports Day, joining in with dressing up, chanting and fun and games alongside their Kiwi peers.

During the first school assembly, we were treated to a wonderful classical guitar solo by Samuel Frachebourg and Marla Baisch, Uli Rogalla and Arthur Dutra Moraes were on the stage taking part in word games.

We have been fortunate to receive visits from a few of our wonderful agents, old and new, in the last few weeks. Daniela from KulturLife, Linda Mueller, Marion from Study Nelson, Bettina from Abroad Connection and Rie and Midori from Kun-ei have all spent time with the International team and students. It is always lovely to meet our agents in person and to see our students so well supported.

The focus in the International Outdoor Education class has been on kayaking so far, with the students sea kayaking recently at Pepin Island and honing their skills with river trips.

Sixteen lucky students also took part in a joint venture with NMIT last week and spent the day rock climbing at Cable Bay under the supervision of the NMIT instructors.

An extra opportunity also came to our students when they were invited to join the College Tourism class trip into the Abel Tasman. As well as enjoying a boat trip with Wilsons, a small tramp and time on the beach, they learnt a little about how tourism operates in the National Park. We applaud the students who took this chance to drive their own learning, Mahi tō Mahi.

Our Rabbit Island picnic on 27 February was enjoyed by lots of our host families and their students. A warm summer’s day and a chance to mix with other families and get to know our new students in a beautiful setting always makes for a great start to the year.

Hana, Erika & Azusa on the Abel Tasman Tourism Trip

Team Detdecho at the fun relays at the Rabbit Island Picnic

Group shot on the Abel Tasman Tourism Trip

Midori & Rie visit Ami, Miyu & Erika

Welcome back to the start of a new year. It’s hard to believe that we are over half of the way through the first term already.

The Board of Trustees had its first meeting of the year on 15 February and the main item on the agenda was to approve the school charter for 2016 to 2018 and the annual plan for 2016. Mr Haines has had a busy summer ‘holiday’ preparing this document which include every comprehensive strategic aims and goals for Waimea College for the next three years, and I commend him for his work. We also reviewed the goals that we had set for 2015 against outcomes that had been achieved and were generally pleased with what was achieved in 2015.

At the board meeting we reviewed a summary of NCEA results for 2015 which were pleasing and generally continue to improve at most levels. Of particular note were the high percentage of Māori students who had achieved at Levels 1, 2 and 3 (as a percentage of those Māori students who had entered enough credits). Another matter we considered were the results of a Health and Safety systems site audit which had been conducted at the end of last year. Remedial work will be undertaken shortly to address the (mostly minor) issues raised by the audit.

As you can probably see, quite a bit of work was done on certain classrooms over the holidays, including the refurbishment of three classrooms in H Block and the exterior painting of H and B blocks. Significant work has started on D Block which includes the removal of walls to create new spaces. This project will be completed in three stages over the year.

On behalf of the Board, we wish the students at Waimea College all the best for 2016 and remember the theme for the year - “Mahia tō Mahi – Drive your own leaning.”

Sue Malthus Board of Trustees Parent Representative

The Special Education Department has 37 students enrolled this year and participating in a variety of Department, Mainstream and Work Experience programmes. Everyone is looking forward to Camp at Teapot Valley at the end of March and hoping this amazing weather is going to hold.

Staff News

Alison Browning was acknowledged recently in Auckland for her contributing chapter to “Autism Spectrum disorder in Aotearoa” an NZCER (New Zealand Centre for Educational Research) 2016 publication. The editors have been nominated for outstanding contribution to Autism in New Zealand”. Winners to be announced at the Autism conference August 2016.

Sarah Kennedy was privileged to have been granted a Fulbright Distinguished Award for Teaching which involves conducting a research project at a university in Indiana, USA, for five months August to December 2016.

Student Awards College Swimming Champs Results: Freestyle Girls (Final 1) 1st Sarah Ewers 2nd Katrina Chaplin 3rd Alice Robb Girls Kickboard 1st Emilia Beasley 2nd Amanda Wyllie 3rd Beau Prosser Freestyle Boys 1 length (Final 1) 1st Dan Wyllie 2nd Stephen Hounsell 3rd Jake Rasmussen Freestyle Boys 1 length (Final 2) 1st Isaac Armstrong 2nd Josh Stubbs 3rd Leo Lloyd Mixed Backstroke 1st Katrina Chaplin 2nd Dan Wyllie 3rd Alice Robb College Athletics Champs Results: 100m Boys 1st Kane Williams 2nd Dan Wyllie 3rd Jake Rasmussen 100m Girls 1st Summer Powell 2nd Katrina Chaplin 3rd Katie McMillan Shotput 1st Dan Wyllie 2nd Isaiah Withers 3rd Kane Williams Softball Throw 1st Jack Doocey 2nd Tyler Watson 3rd Jakob Fletcher Long Jump - Boys 1st Dan Wyllie 2nd William MacDonald 3rd Jake Rasmussen Long Jump - Girls 1st Summer Powell 2nd Sarah Ewers 3rd Katrina Chaplin Standing Long Jump 1st Tim van den Elzen 2nd Beau Prosser 3rd Amanda Wyllie

Training is continuing in earnest for the National NZSS Adventure Racing Champs. This is to be held in Kaiteriteri for 12 hours on Saturday 9 April after the GODZONE week long adventure race. Waimea have eight teams of four students entered and they are spending plenty of time practising navigation, mountain biking, running in the hills, orienteering and kayaking in double sea kayaks. We became the National Secondary Multisport Champions after our team of Cameron Jones, Finn Mitchell and Daniel Reid won the teams’ section of the Coast to Coast race in 13 hours and 3 minutes. Well done boys!

Upcoming Workshop – Alexander Technique, Managing Physical/Mental Stress

One Day Workshop Saturday 2 April 10 am – 4 pm

Learn how you can change pain producing habits to help relieve back pain, neck/

shoulder tension, headaches, poor balance and coordination, improving performance

in sports, dance and everyday activities. Read more about the Alexander Technique

on www.alexandertechnique.org.nz Tutor: Marjory Fern Fee $60

Please enquire/enrol by email to ace@waimea.school.nz or phone the Community Education Coordinator on 544-6099, ext 870.

MUSIC & PERFORMING ARTS

We are very excited to be staging “Thoroughly Modern Millie” as our school production this year. This fast paced musical is set in the early 1920s and includes lots of dancing and singing. Seventy plus students are involved in the cast, crew and orchestra. Performance dates will be Wednesday 29 June to Saturday 1 July. Tickets will be available from the beginning of Term 2.

SGCNZ UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO SHEILAH WINN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL Students are rehearsing furiously for the annual Sheilah Winn Regional Shakespeare Festival which will be held over the weekend of Friday 8 to Sunday 10 April. This is a much anticipated event for our students with Waimea College having great success over the years in this festival. From this competition, five Waimea College students have successfully gone on to be part of the Young Shakespeare Company that has gone to England to perform at the Globe Theatre. This year the festival will be held at Nayland College. More details will be in our next newsletter.

ITINERANT MUSIC LESSONS Itinerant music lessons are now well under way with 115 students having voice or instrument lessons. As well as having lessons, students also perform with our choir, orchestra, brass band or jazz band. We would like to remind you that if your student is unable to make a lesson, please contact beforehand our Arts Coordinator, Pauline Farley on 544 6099 ext 897 or the Music Tutor.

Term 1 Calendar Music & Performing Arts 1 - 3 April Orchestra Camp Bridge Valley 5 April NZ Army Band Concert 8 - 10 April Shakespeare Regional Festival - Nayland College

Friday 19 February saw 62 of the Year 10 Junior Leaders head to Bridge Valley Adventure Centre for a two-night leadership camp.

Camp consisted of three days of fun team building and problem solving activities to help us get to know each other and pre-pare us for the year ahead. A week before camp kicked off we organised ourselves into groups of seven and chose a country to represent. During our time on camp each person had opportunities to earn points for their country by showing leadership, par-ticipation, skill or responsibility. Our first responsibility was to gather supplies for the “Mini Olympics” and decorations for the table we would sit at during the formal dinner.

Our first big event, the Mini Olympics, was held on Friday night starting off with each country dressing up and presenting a chant that they had created earlier. Team points were given for the most enthusiastic, enjoyable chant with Jamaica coming out on top. Each person was then assigned an Olympic event to compete in for their country, with a few challenging twists along the way.

On Saturday evening, after another day of roughing it outside, we put on our formal attire and threw all our creativity into dec-orating our table to show our country’s culture and earn yet more points. With their hanging piñata and festive theme nobody was surprised when Mexico came out on top.

Following the delicious dinner each country performed a skit about leadership qualities that they had devised earlier. Australia showed us how to stand up to a bully and was awarded first place for their humour.

After the weekend concluded each person took home many valuable life lessons about taking responsibility for yourself and others and making the right decisions. Junior Leader camp was a fun, creative weekend with an amazing group of people that has left everyone in eager anticipation of our Wellington trip at the end of this year.

A huge thank you goes out to Mr Enoka, Mrs Book, Mr Proracki and all the senior leaders that made this possible for us.

Year 9 French language students were treated to a wonderful presenta-tion of French culture and language when they met Samuel and Faustine, the two French travellers who are on a mission to build a cultural bridge.

"Faustine works as a publisher of children's books and I am a translator of children's books, so we had this passion to share stories in different languages and we wanted to take French books to other countries," said Mr Loussouarn. Samuel and Faustine say the aim of their project is to get New Zealand students in Years 7-10 in touch with reading, as well as French language and culture. The reaction of our students was so positive and they thoroughly enjoyed the presentation of the book “Paris s’envole”.

We wish Samuel and Faustine all the best as they continue their travels around New Zealand and thank them for inspiring our students.

Hilary de Joux HOD Languages

Ki o Rahi Tournament Congratulations to the

Waimea College Ki o Rahi

team who competed at

the Regional Secondary

Schools Ki o Rahi tourna-

ment. The competition

was held on 2 March at

Golden Bay High School.

First up on the draw was Golden Bay High School’s number one

team. In the past they have been a very strong team and either

won or come a very close second in this tournament. Waimea

won by three points.

As the day went on the weather got hotter, however the team

still kept level headed and won all games, except against Nelson

College and Nelson College for Girls combined number one

team.

Coming second meant the team qualified for Nationals but due

to a short time frame (Nationals are held on 16/17 April) the

team will not be attending this year. Here’s hoping we have a

repeat performance next year.

Members are: Jamie Paenga, Maddi Springer, Demi Salton, Jess

Kelly, Karli Lawson, Amalia Lasplace-Climo, Logan Lawson, Ben

Thomas, Onyx Curtis, Sione Inisi, Sefeti Lama, Scott Green.

Referees: Enya Sharp and Mason Harper.

Uniform Reminder

Parents, please help us by sending your teenager to school in their correct uniform. Examples of acceptable footwear are on the uniform page of the web-site.

Not Permitted to be Worn:

Jewellery - students may wear plain studs or sleepers (1 per ear) in pierced ears. No other piercings are permitted.

No other jewellery is to be worn by students other than a watch and/or

taonga (worn inside clothing and not visible)

Track, brown or suede shoes, skater style shoes

Multi-coloured jackets

Visible, coloured under garments

Extreme hair colouring and styles (non-natural hair colours)

Facial hair

Visible make-up

Visible tattoos

Facial piercings

Waimea College Uniform Shop

Regular Hours During Term Time

Monday 2.45 pm - 3.45 pm Thursday 12.30 pm - 6.00 pm

Uniform Shop Phone: (03) 544 9614

LOCATION: Enter South Entrance, go to the right, follow hedge around and follow the signs, we are by the gymnasium.

PAYMENT: For clothing is by cash, cheque or EFTPOS (No credit cards). No uniform will be issued until payment is made (unless prior arrangements have been made). Laybys very welcome.

WEBSITE: For an up to date list of all items, view our website www.waimea.school.nz under “Enrolment.”

Plenty of stock is available in all regular sized items. If you need extra small or extra large sizes please contact us to order these items for you.

**Plenty of Bucket Hats in stock. **

Long sleeve white blouses for Winter Terms 2 and 3 will be available come in and order now.

Orders are being taken for woollen vests. Payment at time of order.

IMPORTANT: Please ensure we have current personal information

about you and your teenager. This information includes your contact

details: – address, emails, cell phones; caregiver and/or secondary

contacts and your teenager’s relevant medical information.

Stationery Shop Thanks to all those who supported the College by purchasing their start-of-year stationery from the College Stationery shop. Congratulations to Erica who discovered a voucher for a Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 amongst her stationery purchases and to Brodie who received a refund of his stationery purchased. There is still the great prize of the Ultimate Ears Boom Speakers to be won so please check your stationery carefully and if a voucher is found, return it to the Finance Centre to collect your prize.

New School Uniform Policy All students, even those with notes from home, will be given the correct uniform items to wear for the school day. They are asked to return them at the end of the day and a letter will be sent home for those without notes about their incorrect uniform. We ask for your support with encouraging your son/daughter to wear the correct uniform wherever possible. Thank you.

Heritage Photo Orders Please return your Heritage photo order to the Finance Centre before the end of term, Friday 15 April.

Term 1 Junior Parent Teacher Interviews will be held on Thursday 31 March and Tuesday 5 April.

Waimea Sports Report

The school swimming and athletics champs have both been held recently and both were great days with large numbers of students competing in the events and a number of records broken as well.

As we haven’t had the chance to present the age grade winners with their trophies at an assembly, the winners names will be included in the next newsletter.

Photos Waimea College Sport Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/WaimeaCollegeSport

Summer Tournament Week Preview

As usual we have teams travelling away to participate in summer tournament week which is to be held in Week 10. We have volleyball teams heading to Palmerston North for the NZSS champs. The Senior Boys Softball team is heading to Hastings for the NZSS Division 1 champs hoping to improve on their 3rd placing at the 2015 event and the Junior Boys Futsal team is heading to Wellington for the NZSS champs. We also have a sailing team competing here in Nelson and some athletes heading to Timaru for the SISS champs.

We wish you all well and hope your tournaments are enjoyable and successful.

Year 12 Resource students

will be taking part in a

Sexuality programme early

in Term 2. The programme

is designed to provide

students with the

knowledge, understanding

and skills to develop

appropriate attitudes

towards sexuality and to

take care of their sexual

health needs in the future.

Parent consultation

meetings showed strong

support for this

programme.

We recognise that the

family is the primary

educator of children in

matters to do with

sexuality; therefore, if you

wish to have your child

excluded from any

particular part of the

programme you may apply

to the Principal in writing to

request this.

For more highlights and photos on Waimea College sport,

visit www.facebook.com/waimeacollegesport

Volunteers

As is the case with all sporting organisations, we run on the goodwill of people who vol-unteer their time to coach, manage or just help with a sport or a team. If you are interested in volunteering please contact Daniel Hobbs.

Volleyball

The Senior A Boys and Girls Volleyball teams travelled to Christchurch to compete in the Mainland champs recently and at the conclu-sion of the tournament the boys ended up in 2nd place and the girls ended up in 3rd place. The boys played Riccarton High School in the final and this was an epic encounter that went for two and a half hours! Riccarton ended up taking the fifth set 16 – 14. The girls team had a good tournament, losing in the semi final stage to a very good Marlborough Girls College team.

Both these teams are busy preparing for the upcoming NZSS champs in tournament week.

Regional Events

Mr Wheeler took a team of boys and girls to Blenheim for the regional tennis champs and whilst the results didn’t go Waimea’s way, an enjoyable day was had.

We had a team competing in the regional triathlon champs at Rabbit Island last week. Maddie Mitchell lead the way with a first place in the U19 Girls, well done Maddie.

Other Results were:

Bree Anderson – 3rd U14 Girl Kane Smith – 5th U14 Boy Leila Challenger – 5th U14 Girl Moab Heynekemp and Luke Clatworthy – 2nd U14 team Johanna Harrison and James Twin – 4th U14 team Cameron Jones – 3rd U16 Boy Kendall Shuker – 7th U16 Girl Maggie McLean – 9th U16 Girl Emma Charles – 11th U16 Girl Jaime Young – 13th U16 Girl

Representative Trials for Boys Futsal Nelson Bays Football are again sending three rep teams to Futsal Nationals - 12th, 14th and 16th Grade. All boys in these grades are invited to trial on 3 April. A third trial will be held if needed. Trials will be held at Nelson College for Girls from 10.30am to 11.30am.

The tournament will be held in Palmerston North 15-17 July. Teams will travel on the 14 July and return on the 18 July.

Trades Academy 2016

The Top of the South Trades Academy is now into its 5th year and currently has 316 student enrolments from schools across the top of the South Island. The 2016 Trades year started with a formal Pōwhiri and welcome at NMIT for all students at the end of February. Fifty seven Year 12 and 13 students from Waimea College are taking part in the programme. Most will spend one day a week at NMIT participating in their selected Trades course, while those students taking part in the Adventure Lead-ership Block course are based at Whenua Iti Outdoor Education Centre. All students are working towards Level 2 Standards in their chosen vocational pathway. Students from Waimea are enrolled in the following courses: Mechanical Engineering, Automotive, Building & Construction, Hospitality, Hairdressing, Beauty, Primary Industries, Aquaculture & Maritime, Sport & Exercise, Adventure Leadership and Civil Engineering.

Careers Corner

Information and advice on future career paths and training opportunities is readily available for all parents and students from Careers staff. Resources are available on most career and job ideas, as well as publications (including Prospectus and Study Guides) from New Zealand Universities, Institutes of Technology and other training providers. Students can access information on job seeking skills and can be directed to appropriate websites for further information. All students and their parents are able to make individual ap-pointments with the Careers Advisers. Students are encouraged to use the Waimea College Careers Moodle site for career information on courses and events and links to websites. This webpage is regularly updated with invaluable links and information. Year 13 students are encouraged to use the link to access the givME website, which contains detailed information on scholarships available throughout New Zealand to fund future tertiary study. Year 13 Seminar sessions will continue to provide information to all Year 13 students to assist with their pathway/transition be-yond school. Lyn Guilliard, Tony Enoka Careers Advisors

Upcoming Events

Term 1 Tuesday 22 March Lincoln University Liaison Adviser Visit 1.20pm Tuesday 12 April Massey University Liaison Adviser Visit 1.20pm

Term 2 Tuesday 17 May Careers Road Show - Waimea College Tuesday 7 June Canterbury University Liaison Adviser Visit - Yr 12 7.00pm

University and Tertiary Provider Open Days Universities, polytechnics and tertiary providers usually hold Open Days and Information Sessions for prospective students. Year 13 students are encouraged to attend these if they are considering tertiary study in the future. It is important to check out the individual institutions’ websites for full information on when and where these events are being held. To date, the following universi-ties have publicised their 2016 Open Days as follows:

Dunedin Tertiary Information Day Monday 9 May (Otago University and Otago Polytechnic)

Canterbury University Open Day Thursday 14 July

Massey University Manawatu (Palmerston North) Open Day Wednesday 3 August

Massey University Albany (Auckland) Open Day Saturday 20 August

Victoria University Study @ Vic Open Day Friday 26 August

Massey University Wellington Open Day Friday 26 August

Auckland University Open Day Saturday 27 August

Mahia tō Mahi Drive Your Own Learning

Tertiary Information Evening

A Tertiary Information Evening was recently held at Waimea College and well attended by students and their families. For further follow up, please contact one of the Careers Advisors.

Careers Roadshow 2016

A highlight for the Careers calendar is the annual Careers Roadshow, showcasing a number of career and study opportunities beyond school. This year the Roadshow will be held on Tuesday 17 May in the Waimea College Hall. There will be approximately 35 tertiary providers represented, including universities, polytechnics, industry training organisations and private training providers. Year 12 and 13 students will attend the Roadshow during the school day. Year 11 students will have the opportunity to visit the Roadshow during break time. A parent and student evening will also be held at Waimea College on Tuesday 17 May from 5.00pm to 6.30pm.

On 24 February 2016, myself and Mr Dallimore went on a trip to the Air NZ hangars to look at what they do there. I have a strong interest in airplanes and even have my own Youtube channel which has videos of planes coming in and out of Nelson. As part of my planning of the trip, we filled out a trip pack with RAMS forms and got permission for me to go.

I had to email Aaron Lyttle who was going to take us around the hangars. Aaron works at Air New Zealand as a paint and panel expert on the planes. We meet him at the hangar recep-tion of the Air New Zealand offices. We had to sign in and put a high viz vest on and an ID card so they knew we were people from the public. Then we went through to where the managers of the Bombardier and the accountants were.

We went through to the old hangar and we saw what they do on the planes and saw some of the parts they use for the planes that need fixing. In the workshop out the back we saw some machinery where they cut steel, tubing and all the other stuff. I saw this plane in the hangar, there were about six people working on it. While we were looking at it, this guy Nigel came to see myself and Mr Dallimore about getting into the aircraft engineering career. He said a good way is to go to NMIT for 2 years then try and do one year at Air New Zealand.

We went into the paint and panel booth where Aaron works, and where they fix the tyres as well. Then we went through to the new hangar and saw them stripping the ATR for a C-Check. A C-Check is a full strip of the aircraft where everything is taken out and off the plane. We saw it when all of the seats and interior were gone. It was amaz-

ing to see just the shell of the plane. There were heaps of engineers working to strip the plane down.

I really enjoyed the trip and I liked having the opportunity to sit in the Bombardier Q300 cockpit and seeing the guys working on the plane. I am looking forward to getting the chance to see the All Black plane in there one day.

Josh Thomas (Learning Centre)

Year 9 Rotoiti Lodge Camps 2016

Year 9 students at Waimea College have the option to attend a five-day camp at Rotoiti Lodge in Nelson Lakes National Park. This year there are 5 camps happing on the dates scheduled below.

The camps are carried out in a challenging and safe outdoor environment, promoting good social relations and enabling staff and students to work together outside the classroom. The cost for each student for the camp is $230. This covers accommodation, food, transport, specialist instructors and use of specialist gear and equipment. This includes the cost of an offsite activity day of rafting. There is a small additional charge if gear needs to be hired from the Lodge. Full payment is due at least two weeks prior to camp.

A letter will be sent to advise you of more details and the dates of the camps at Rotoiti Lodge. We encourage students to take up this wonderful opportunity. If you have any queries at this stage, please contact me at school.

Pete Versey Rotoiti Lodge Liaison Teacher

TERM 1 TERM 2 TERM 4

Camp 1 Camp 2 Camp 3 Camp 4 Camp 5

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Week 6 7-11 March

Week 10 4-8 April

Week 4 23-27 May

Week 5 7-11 Nov

Week 7 21-25 Nov

A big thank you again to our sponsors for their continued support

Waimea College Issue 03, March 2016

PTA Annual General Meeting Monday 21 March

7.00pm

The Annual General Meeting of the Parent Teachers Association (PTA) will take place in the Waimea College Staffroom.

All parents/caregivers are invited to attend.

We encourage parents of Year 9 and 10 to join this enthusiastic group of volunteers who support our College.

ICE CREAM CONTAINERS NEEDED

The Science Department require ice cream containers. Please drop them off to the

College Reception. Thank you.

Did you know you can get the Kamar App on your phone or tablet? This can be used for accessing your student’s attendance, student notices, Events planner (calendar), student details, student timetable and results. iPhone https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/kamar/id336862723?mt=8 Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nz.co.KAMAR

To use after download go to ‘settings’ and enter the following:

Server Address: pastoral.waimea.school.nz Login Details: Use your Parent portal or Student Login ID Code.

If you have forgotten your login details please contact the office by emailing student.office@waimea.school.nz or phoning 544 6099.

For more student information go to our website and click on the parent portal.

Each Year group competes against their own Year group in Australasia. This is a multi-choice competition consisting of 30 questions. The first 20 questions will be familiar from classroom mathematics and the later problems are more difficult. Each student gets a personalised certificate and a report of how they did, question by question. This will be sat on:

Thursday 28 July 2016 Week 1, Term 3.

Cost: $6.50

Due: to the Finance Centre by Thursday 2 June, Week 5, Term 2.