Hi Everybody

Wow, its almost at the end of the school year, as we are halfway through term 4! 

But towards the end of term 3 we were busy with Daffodil day Mufti day, where we raised $165.20 for the cancer Council!

School Camp – In week 9, the Year 5&6 campers along with Whaea Nish, Mrs Robinson and Miss C set off to Camp Columba.

A big thank you to our parents who joined them.

A lot of work goes in behind the scenes to plan a camp and the preparation starts a long time before departure day so thank you to Whaea Nish for having this all in hand.

They had loads of fun, faced up to challenges and got up to plenty of mischief!

Ella, Cayden, Billy & Natalie got to go to the Southland Charity Hospital open day, and found our School Brick!

Here they are with Missy Vining who was their tour guide on the day!

At the start of term 4 we welcomed 4 new Students!

Alex & Connor in Room 1

Sunny in Room 4

Zaedyn in Room 4

They had a great first week at school, and have settled in really well to their new classrooms!

Wallacetown School 160th Celebrations – Our Committee has been working very hard on planning the celebration over King’s Birthday weekend in 2025.

We now have signage up around Town and surrounding areas, and plans are soon to have a registration portal open!

Check out, like and follow the Facebook page that has been set up. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61563899440815

Principal for the Day – Monday 21 October was a big day!! 

As part of a the Jingo Fundraiser, Miss Clare McKenzie from Room 1 family won the raffle to nominate her to be the ‘Principal for the Day’ ( under the guidance of Miss Brady!)

It also was her 6th birthday, so a day not to forget!

She had a busy day on Monday, with duty, tasks, some shopping, a meeting with our BOT Chairperson, and even a Zoom call !

She declared it to be a mufti day for students to dress up (if they wanted) as princesses or superheroes, and for that day only there was to be no handwriting in the classrooms!

We wonder who might win this next year and what they might choose to do!!

School Pool -The swimming pool is now open!

We sell keys for this, so school families and the wider Wallacetown Community can use this outside of school hours, on the weekends and over the Summer holiday break.

If you are interested in getting a pool key for the season please see Annie at the office Monday – Friday 8:30-12:30pm.

Emergency Management Southland brought their Earthquake Simulator to school! It was great for the children (and staff) to feel how the jolts would feel!

                                    Alby, Jack, Cody  just dropping and getting ready to cover                                    

Jet, Cayden & Ms Mckenzie just checking in on each other!

The first Tuesday in November is a fun day for many!! – we like to have a horse themed mufti day to Fundraise for the Southland Riding for the Disabled.

This year we raised $115.50 .

We had some great outfits come galloping through the gate!

Week 5 we had Water Safety week, with teachers from REAP in the pool with the children!

It was great to see the children’s confidence grow with these lessons, and we are thankful that we are able offer these opportunities to them

Eden and Cody show off their skills in the pool as Water Safety with Vicky and Janet from REAP starts this week

That’s a wrap from us at Wallacetown School for 2024.

 We are looking forward to farewelling our year 6 class at their Graduation dinner on the Monday 9 December, and then we have our School Prize Giving Breakup  on the Thursday 12 December at the Wallacetown Community Centre, so hope to see you there!

Merry Christmas, and we will see you in 2025 …First day of school is the Tuesday 28 January 2025!!

Wallacetown School proudly supported by Pypers Produce