Term 3 Update....

Hi again all,

Can I start with a sincere apology that the past few weeks have seen a total absence of blog updates.

Senior Camp:  Senior camp this year was a three day ski adventure to Porter Heights. What a fabulous experience it was for myself, Craig (class teacher) and out two support staff Kelly and Sue, to accompany our Year 7/8's on this trip.
We stayed at the Ski field Lodge right at the bottom of the mountain for the two nights and this meant it was only a 10 minute shuttle bus trip to the the slopes.
Three days of skiing, a lot of  great community time together and some very sore muscles latter... we headed back to school very proud of our achievements on the slopes.
For almost everyone it was their  first experience on a ski field (and for some the first time in snowy mountains).
Thank you so much to our wonderful senior class for sharing such a special time with me, and to our fantastic Board of Trustees who helped me ensure every child had the opportunity to attend the camp.

Some photos will follow shortly.


Swimming:  We are currently in the middle of our two week swim programme. All classes are busing to Pioneer Pool every day for a lesson with their great instructors. Thanks to everyone who is supporting this great annual initiative.

Welcome to Term 3

A warm greeting to all of you as we begin on a new term. I hope you were all able to squeeze a little bit of extra family time in to the last couple of weeks.

We have a busy and exciting period ahead as we look forward to the days becoming lighter and warmer as Spring approaches.

Our Year 7 and 8 students are planning and organising their up coming Ski Camp to Porter Heights, we have whole school swimming lessons at Pioneer Pool, Cultural Festival, Book Week, Maths-a-thon, and 'Computers in Homes Programme', just to name a few of the interesting things on our Term 3 calendar.

We have also just opened up our 8th classroom and are currently working with the Ministry of Education on plans to extend and upgrade our school buildings to accommodate our growing school and provide the best modern learning environments for our amazing kids.

Please keep in touch with us and remember we are always keen to chat about your children's hopes and dreams.

Gordon and all of the Waltham Team

Friday Sport at Hagley cancelled again!!! Friday 20th

Very sorry kids and supporters but the council have closed Hagley Park again today so the Primary Sports Association have had no choice but to cancel Friday sport for another week.
Fingers crossed for a dry week coming up!

Friday 13th June

Hi all,

There will be no news letter today so I thought a quick blog post was in order!

Senior Sport at Hagley Park in cancelled today due to City Council ground closures.

A huge thank you to everyone for their part in another great 'Waltham Week'.

Have a great weekend with your families,

Gordon

What a great night!

Thank you so much to all of you who made Friday night's disco such a great success. The behaviour and attitude of all our students was brilliant and this made it such a great event.

 Parent and community support was also amazing. Thank you so much to all those who helped bake, clean, supervise or just join in with dancing! I have never seen such a brilliant display of family and school joining together to have fun.

We raised enough money to enable our Room 7 'Dancing Like the Stars' group to have great costumes to help show case their talents.

Finally thank you so much to Rochelle Atherton for being the master planner behind this great event and to all the staff who joined together to make it such a successful team effort.

Friday 30th May

Looking forward to our Disco tonight.

Please remember that there are no door sales.

 Children stay in the hall until they are picked up by an adult.

All children must be picked up by 8pm.



Final reminder that school re-opens next Wednesday after the long weekend due to our cluster schools staff training day on Tuesday.

Long Weekend Coming Up

Just another reminder so no one gets caught out....

It's Queen's Birthday this weekend and Monday is a Public Holiday. Tuesday school is also closed with many local primary schools joining together for a training day. The After School Programme (WOOSH) have also advised us that they will be closed on Tuesday as well.
Once again I apologise for inconvenience to working families that this closure causes. We are very aware of this, and that is the reason that despite many schools having regular teacher only days this is our first one during term time for many years.

Kind Regards

Gordon Caddie