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March, April & May 2022

It was an interesting few weeks late in term 1 on the Covid front at Wallacetown School.

Managing the Covid case numbers had been relatively simple.

With numbers we had away isolating it has been very quiet out and about on duty and in the playground.

Seeing children greeting each other and their excitement at being back at school after isolation was heart-warming.

Nixie, Lara, and Miss Brady went to drop off a card and some treats to Dave as a thank you for staining our Friendship seat.

We all got to have a look around his very impressive workshop and see how huge the logs of wood are, before he cuts it them down.

Best of all, he then needed some ‘girl power’ to move his little ponies and the sheep, Nixie and Lara were in their element!

Check out the pictures of the girls with Dave, Silvey and Jules.

Easter Craft Day!

We had planned a day with lots of different craft activities.

The classes completed them in rotations with each of the teachers.

Whaea Nish made bookmarks with her groups, Ms McKenzie painted, and decorated Easter trays and Mrs Pasco made stained glass Easter eggs.

We had lots of awesome entries for our colouring in competition (which was for adults too!!).

Isobel, Frank, Charlee, and Serena won Easter Treats for their efforts.

We ended our day with an Easter Egg Hunt with each class looking for a series of clues around the school!

Zane showing us Colouring in

Easter Crafting

Treasure hunters

Playground and Break time fun in the Sun



Term 2 started off with a few more Covid cases, but despite that, it was great to see everyone’s smiling faces in the morning as they came through the gate and catching up with how their holidays have been.

We welcomed Georgia and her family to Wallacetown School, Georgia is in Room 2.

Georgia

Anzac Day was also celebrated, again these celebrations were on a much smaller scale around Southland and the rest of the country.

The Wallacetown Memorial is none other than the main entrance to our school!

Our gates were very colourful with the wreaths that were laid by the community groups and the other wee treasures left.

Ko Taku Reo – ‘Hub Day’

We are really excited to be able to welcome Ko Taku Reo back to Wallacetown School in Term 2.

Ko Taku Reo are the education provider for Deaf and Hard of Hearing students and one day a week (a Thursday this year) they hold a ‘hub school day’ where Deaf or Hard of Hearing students who are enrolled at schools across Southland come to work and learn together using Room 1 as their classroom.  

Friday the 13 May was our first whole School Assembly in what felt like for ages.... and looking back in the calendar we worked out it had been ages!

The last time we had been altogether was on Friday 6th of August 2021.

It was really nice having an audience and being able to welcome and have parents/family member join us, we have missed this!

It seems since March 2020 the phrases ‘back to normal’ and the ‘new normal’ sum up just how much of a change we have all experienced and how much Covid has impacted on what we would say are the simple things.

As well as being a long weekend, Queen’s Birthday weekend is also a celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, with her having served 70 years as being Queen.

Back in February we wrote letters to congratulate the Queen on her achievement and wished her all the best for her big celebrations, and this week the classes got a reply to their letters!

Exciting!

We want to help her celebrate so have decided to have our very own ‘Platinum Jubilee Morning Tea’– Wednesday 1st June at 10:30am will be an opportunity to dress up in an outift ‘fit for the Queen’ and enjoy a good old fashioned cup of tea and some treats!

Letters from the Queen!! 

Letters to the Queen 

Class work with Room 3 Making some Mother’s day Crafts and presenting a play!

In Week 3 we held another ‘item’ mufti day.

Students wore what they liked and brought an item that went towards care packages for families who were at home isolating.

We are so grateful for our generous families, as these packages have been well received by everyone.

 In week 3 We also welcomed a new classmate to room 2! Welcome Lottie! 

Cross Country –Wednesday 25 May we headed off to Browns for Cross Country.

Although some of the photos showed sunshine, it definitely didn’t stay sunny the whole time so well done to our older students who ran in mostly wet and sideway rain conditions.

Lots of lovely feedback from the other teachers who commented on how supportive and encouraging our students were of each other.

Well done to the following students (21 J) who will represent Wallacetown School at the Central Cross Country on Friday 10th of June – Levi, Kage, Jackson, Ella, Jade, Rachel, Lara, Ritchie, Flynn, Zaria, Charlee, Jack B, Anton, Arthur, Rocco, Jack W, Grace, Myla, Lottie, Jimmy and Travis.

We wish them the best of luck.

Assembly

For the last two weeks Room 3 and Room 2 have hosted assembly, it’s been great to see how they’ve taken this challenge on and they’ve done a great job!

Friday (3rd of June) we are having a whole school assembly and this will be at the Community Centre starting at 2:20pm.

Our Year 6 Leaders will lead this, feel free to join us online or in person – plenty of parking!

Please remember to bring a mask to wear when indoors.

Golden time is every Second Friday – and the Children get to choose what activities they like to do.

We had swimming, mindfulness, Kahoot!, circle city drawings, garden crafts and baking with Mrs McKerchar.

Wallacetown School kindly supported by Wallacetown Motors