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Welcome back!
Our partnership with you We are committed to working with you in the aim of maximising your child(ren)'s progress in their learning. This means operating an open door policy, where we welcome and encourage you to speak with your child(ren)'s teacher about how they are getting on. Please feel free to get in touch with us.
New Staff Members
We are delighted to welcome Jenny, Georgia and Jenna to our teaching team this year. Jenny is teaching Year 5/6 in Ako 18, Georgia is teaching Year 0/1 in Ako 13 and Jenna is teaching Year 3/4 in Ako 15. They are fantastic additions to our kura and we look forward to working with them Our professional focus for 2025 This year, our staff will be engaged in professional development initiatives aimed at improving outcomes for our ākonga. We will be particularly concerned with embedding strong practices in our approach to Writing, and with implementing the new structured Mathematics curriculum across the school. The school has made very positive progress in both areas, and we have a strong footing, which is not common to all schools.
Contact Details: If you have moved over the school break, changed work places or phone numbers, or your emergency contacts have changed, please ring the office (476-6165) or email Tina or Nikki: office@kwns.school.nz with your updated details. It is essential these are up to date in case we need to contact you urgently.
Team building and creating 'loved' classroom environments in full effect this week
HERO App A gentle reminder that the HERO app is our school's main form of communication. On it you will find lots of useful information. This can be downloaded from the App store on your phone. We ask that you please do this - instructions are included in this newsletter.
Cycle lanes, parking and turning on South Karori Road. We are actively monitoring the impact that the new cycle lanes are having on parking availability at drop off and pick up times. If you wish to discuss this, please feel free to contact me (principal@kwns.school.nz).
We also ask that you refrain from turning your vehicle using the driveways on South Karori Road, and instead use the turning circle that is in place there. Thank you for your understanding as we play our part in being a good neighbour to those around us.
As always, if you have questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out.
Our next meeting is this Thursday (13 Feb) at 6:30pm in the staffroom.
New members are always welcome!
Leadership Programme 2025 - Year 7 & 8 students
We're excited to introduce our Year 7 & 8 Leadership Programme at Te Kura o Waipahihi! This initiative is all about nurturing essential leadership skills, fostering a sense of responsibility, and empowering our ākonga to become positive influencers within our community.
Our students will be recognised for their contributions across five key areas: Raraunga | Citizenship, Toi | Arts & Culture, Hākinakina | Sports, Mātauranga | Academic, and Mātāpono | Values. Throughout the year, each ākonga will track their achievements on their individual Leadership CV - a printed document to record their experiences.
As a student reaches certain milestones in each area, they'll earn a wristband and work towards the next tier of recognition, an Excellence Award. These contributions will play a crucial role in determining trophy winners at the end of the year for our Year 8 tamariki.
Download the HERO app
Dear Parents and Caregivers,
As you may be aware, this year we moved to HERO, a New Zealand owned and operated Student Management System. With Hero, you can:
read school notices sent to the class or groups your child is part of
see what learning has occurred in class
respond to school notices such as surveys and trip permission requests
view a school calendar of events and view school term dates
notify the school if your child is absent or late
navigate to the school website and Facebook page
select how you wish to receive notifications
Hero has a number of other features that we plan to introduce in the future. We want to move as quickly as we can to Hero so we aren’t duplicating our communications. However, we understand that it may take some time for all families to get set up. Because of this, we will continue to email you school notifications through to end of Term 1. After this time, all school communication will move to Hero.
How to access Hero
To download the app: scan the QR code (top right) or search ‘Hero by linc-ed’ in the app store.
UNDERWATER HOCKEY
We would like to invite anyone in years 6-8 who's keen to find out more about Underwater Hockey to the Have-a-Go Session – 1st March 2025 at Naenae pool. This is a great opportunity for students to try out Underwater Hockey before the league begins.
📅 Date: Saturday, 1st March 2025 🕟 Session options: 4:30 PM or 5:30 PM or 6:30 PM 📍 Location: Naenae Pool
The cost is $10 and gear can be borrowed for the night: fins and snorkels and masks or bring your own if you have it.
There will be ex-KWNS students helping out there on the night coaching the kids.
Our year 8 players: Georgia, Maddie, Chloe and Isla - can be found in akomangas 1 & 2 and are available to answer any of the kids questions at school or you can email me: Kyley on familykerse@gmail.com.
Important Dates
Mihi Whakatau
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Whānau Picnic
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Join us for a start of year community picnic :)
Lucky Book Club orders close at 3:00pm
All Day
Kauri Camp at Kaitoke
All Day
Community Notices
Girl Guiding
Do you want your daughter to have fun whilst trying new things, learning leadership skills, exploring the outdoors and much more? We have spaces available in Karori for Brownies on Thursday (aged 7-9 years) and Guides (aged 9-12).
Come dance with us! Join the fun at our Thorndon Quay studio, where we offer special ballet and jazz classes for 5, 6, and 7-year-olds. Choose from Mondays, Tuesdays, or Saturday mornings and watch your child grow in confidence. Prefer Khandallah? We now also have Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday morning classes there.
The Shooting Stars programme offers fun football for players aged 3 to those turning 6 during the year. Registrations are now open for a four week Term 1 programme starting Sunday 23rd February.
You can also register for free Open Days in March, the Term 2 programme, and programmes for all ages.
This term we're running Girls Smash as a six week, six a side inter school competition. We have two locations this term for your area: Wakefield Park (grass fields) for the Year 3/4 and 5/6 girls and Kelburn Park for the Year 7/8 girls.
Get together your team of six and register here, Or if you can't get a team of 6, we'll also take individual registrations and put you in a team:, register here.
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