Welcome back to Wallacetown School, Term 4 2023

The 23^rd of August, we were on stage at Polyfest.

A big thank you to Whaea Nish in her work behind the scenes in getting us ready for Polyfest and for the opportunity of Myla, Emily, Pippa and Lotti being able to join her on Thursday and Friday volunteering and being able to give back.

Thank you to our fundraising group that cover the cost of the buses on the day, this is a considerable cost and we are grateful for your support.

You can watch our performance on our school website.

At the end of August, we welcomed another new entrant into room 2 – welcome to Kobe.

Kobe joins his big brother and Sister here at Wallacetown school.

 Daffodil Day—another great reason to dress up for a great cause.

Our families made very generous donations, and we raised $177.30 for the Cancer Society.

 At the start of term 4 we had 4 new students start !

Howie joined room 4 



and his brother Alby joined room 3

In Room 2 we also had 2 new entrants.

Welcome to Trixie and Kruz.

We hope everyone enjoys their time here at Wallacetown school.

 The first week back of term 4, we had a ‘bring your tea to school’ night! ]

This was a great chance to catch-up, meet some of our new families and a really nice way to end the first week of term.

Thank you to everyone that left some feedback for us on our strategic questions/posters up in Room 1.

This is great to have and will be helpful as we sit down in the coming weeks to map out our strategic goals and curriculum aims moving forward.

On Monday 16^th October our pool officially opened for the 2023/2024 season.

Keys for this season are $80.00.

Keys are available for school families and the wider Wallacetown Community, these are available from Annie at the office.

Annie is in the office 8:30-12:30pm Monday to Friday.

We are hoping our new heat pump will all be ready to be installed at the beginning of November, this does mean that we will close the pool for 2-3 days while this is done.

An email will be sent out to all keyholders as well as updates via our Facebook page.

And while you are at the pool, check out our Garden – there has been a lot of hard work by our gardeners in getting the beds ready, and planting veggies!!

On the 19^th October we took part in Shake Out Day.

This was a good opportunity to practice our earthquake drill and what to do and where to meet.

We also had John Parsons also with us on that day, and he spent time with each class sharing how students can keep themselves safe online and once again some great messaging around devices, playing games online and holding back of sharing personal information online.

Our seed fundraiser with Daisy Maple is well underway!

The best bit about this fundraiser is we can do ‘rolling orders’ so there is no set return date - so when families have some orders, they can just send in the sheet in and we pass these on!

The best bit about rolling orders is no one misses out because they’ve missed a cut off date!

At the start of week 3 We have welcomed another 2 students This now brings our role to 84!!

 Clare started in Room 2 

Ashtyn joined Room 3.

Friday the 27^th October was World Teachers Day.

We celebrated our teachers and the amazing mahi they are doing in their classrooms at Wallacetown School.

We thanked them all for everything they do both in and out of the classroom.

( and had a Yummy morning tea for them!)

As we are going to press, planning is underway for our School Pet Day.

This will be held Wednesday 29^th November.

We are looking forward to seeing who the children bring along, or if they don’t have a pet who would enjoy pet day, then there are plenty of other activities that they can do!

Thank you everyone for Supporting our School, Keep in touch with us on our Facebook page, or on our Website, and we will see you all in 2024!

Wallacetown School proudly supported by Pypers Produce