Waianiwa School Term 2 2024

Our school pool has a new look with the new translucent cladding and roof being completed and the pool getting a fresh paint.

It is looking amazing and we were very excited to have it filled and heated for our school swimming with Southern Reap during Term 1.

We have also had a new pool cover made, with a huge thank you to the Otahuti Hall Committee for their donation that funded this and the pool painting.

The new cover will be fitted in time for the pool opening this summer.

A big thank you to BOT member Ross Fieten who spent many hours working away to get the pool going.

And another big thank you to the Wallacetown Volunteer Fire Brigade, who spent one of their training nights carting water back and forth to fill the pool.

We are very grateful to have such a fantastic community around us.

Athletics this year was a hot and sunny day.

It was great to see all our students participating in their events with perseverance and enthusiasm and representing our school with pride, demonstrating our school values.

Congratulations to the students who qualified and represented us at Central Athletics and a huge congratulations to Johann, Hanakura, Logan, Cohen, Lachie and Vivienne who qualified for Southland Athletics.

Well done to those who competed, you all gave it a great effort.

A special mention to Lachie, who was 5th in the 9 year old boys long jump and Cohen was 7th in the 9 year old boys discus - amazing work boys!

A huge effort was put in by all our students at Cross Country and they should be very proud of themselves, as we all are.

A large number of our students represented our Cluster at the Central Cross Country.

A big thanks to Callum Stuart for bringing the bales so we had some obstacles on the course, Friends of Waianiwa School for the BBQ and all the family and wider whānau who came to watch and support the runners, as well as Heddon Bush and Drummond Schools for joining us.

Our Room 3 Pals leaders stepped up this year and each morning worked with Room 1 getting them ready for cross country.

Room 3 enjoyed challenging themselves in their training with a ‘Tour of Western Southland’ with goals of running the distance from Waianiwa to Drummond to Otautau then Riverton and back to Waianiwa.

They measured the km between different places in Western Southland and worked out how many laps of the field they needed to achieve to ‘run’ the equivalent distance of the Western Southland loop.

Cohen and Logan chose to keep running at break times and were first to win the first stage of the challenge - the Waianiwa to Drummond run.

Well done!

At each ‘town’ everybody received a wee reward before carrying on to the next spot.

Some children added to their tallies by doing some extra running at home, we were so impressed with the dedication to their training.

Ka pai te mahi to Hunter who decided to do a Social Studies fair entry for his home learning challenge this term.

Hunter researched and presented the ‘history of lego’ and his work was on display at the Invercargill Social Studies fair.

Natasha, Hunter and some of his friends took a quick tour to town to see the fair in action.

The Room 1 children really enjoyed learning about Anzac Day at the end of last term and some of the learning activities included making a lovely wreath for the school Anzac Day celebration and Poppy Art.

Room 2 also enjoyed learning about Anzac Day and participating in our School ANZAC service.

Well done to Shameka and Mirco for reading the Anzac Ode.

Room 3 made beautiful poppies sewing felt and buttons

It took a lot of patience and perseverance, but they looked amazing.

They also made extra poppies to create their class wreath.

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