ACTIONS AT A GLANCE
- Autahi and Tautoru - Visit to the Island Bay Marine Education Centre - Monday 23 and Tuesday 24 May - $10.00
- Drumming/Percussion Concert - Friday 27 May at 9.10am (Assembly time)
- Book your Reporting Progress Meetings:
Go to www.schoolinterviews.co.nz and enter the code: 98gcp
- The following payments are now due:
- Island Bay Marine Centre Visit - Autahi and Tautoru - $10.00
- Voluntary Contribution - $335.00 - Full year
- Voluntary Contribution by Installment - 2nd instalment is now due - $83.75 per term (or $71.25 if you made the first payment in Term 1.)
- Swimming Lessons - $60 - Whole School (or Pro Rata rate for those who have just started school)
- Camp - 3rd instalment of $50 is now due (for those paying by instalment)
- Next Lost Property Clearance - Thursday 2 June (Please ensure clothing, lunch boxes and drink bottles are named.)
- Sausage Sizzle Tuesdays
- Sushi Lunches Fridays (Remember not to order for Friday 3 June when school is closed for Queens Birthday Weekend.)
- Queens Birthday Weekend - School will be closed on Friday 3 June and Monday 6 June.
- Matariki - 17 June (morning).
- Matariki Programme at Te Papa - Friday 24 June (Years 3-6) and Monday 27 June (Years 1-2).
- Term Dates 2016 and 2017.
- Take a look at our Blogs! www.worserbay.school.nz/blogs
All payments via Wrap It Up please.
Autahi and Tautoru - Visit to the Island Bay Marine Education Centre
Autahi and Tautoru are going to visit the Island Bay Marine Education Centre on 23 and 24 May. This will link into our Inquiry about change and what we discovered about rock pools in Term 1.
When: Monday 23 May and Tuesday 24 May (You will have received an email informing you of which day your child is going.)
Time: 9.15am - 2.30pm. (The Marine visit is from 10.00am to 11.30am on each day and we hope to go for a walk/have lunch on the beach or in the playground in Island Bay, if the weather permits.)
Cost: $10.00 (Please pay and give permission via Wrap It Up.)
For those children who have ordered sausages on Tuesday, we will endeavour to give you a refund.
Please note that, if you haven't yet paid via Wrap It Up, you won't have ticked the permission box and your child will not have permission to go.
Reporting Progress Meetings
Bookings are now open for Reporting Progress Meetings to be held from Monday 13 June to Friday 1 July (inclusive). Bookings will close at midday Friday 10 June.
Please follow the instructions below:
Enter the Worser Bay School Code: 98gcp
A Note from the Office
Please note that school will be closed on Friday 3 June and Monday 6 June for Queen's Birthday Weekend.
Absences
Nits
Nits are doing the rounds again. Please check your child's hair and treat, if necessary. Your local pharmacist can advise, if necessary.
Keep collecting those Yummy Stickers!
Collect the Yummy cut-out labels from bags of apples (each cut-out label is worth 10 stickers) and individual Yummy apple stickers for our school’s share of the $200,000 free DG Sport sports gear prize pool. Yummy apples are available from New World, Pak'n Save and participating Four Square stores. The more you collect, the more sports gear Worser Bay School will receive. Pick up a collection sheet from the office, or print out the Collection Sheets at the bottom of this Newsletter.
Payments via Wrap It Up
Tip: To avoid doubling up on payments, you can check what you have already paid for on Wrap It Up by going to the "My Orders" tab on the menu below. This will list all the purchases you have made in date order.
Sushi Lunches
Matariki 2016Coming up in June is our annual Matariki Celebration. This year it will be slightly different again.
Matariki, as well as welcoming the New Year, has been a time to acknowledge Tupuna, the ancestors who have gone before us. Some Maori did this by flying kites as it was a way of connecting with the spiritual world. Some of the kites were enormous and very beautiful like the one shown.

Please set aside
Friday 17 June for kite making and flying with your children at Worser Bay Beach. We will be following this up with some sort of shared kai. More details on this will follow.
The other part of the Matariki programme this year will be run at Te Papa. This will be taking place the following week on
Friday 24 June (Years 3-6) and
Monday 27 June (Years 1-2). More information to follow.
Swimming
This term, the main focus for the PE curriculum is swimming. This involves every student having one weekly swimming lesson at the Kilbirnie Aquatic Centre for ten weeks. Because of numbers, students may be heading to the pools with different teachers from usual (see below). Lessons and times are as follows:
Thursdays - 5th May to 7th July - 10 lessons
Years 1 & 2 - 1pm to 2pm - Kath, Gillian, Chrissy and Shona
Buses leave at 12.35pm from WBS and 2.20pm from the Aquatic Centre.
Years 3 & 4 - 11am to 12noon - Nicola, Scott and GabrielleBuses leave at 10.30am from WBS and 12.20pm from the Aquatic Centre.
Years 5 & 6 - 12noon to 1pm - Hamish and JohnBuses leave at 11.30am from WBS and 1.20pm from the Aquatic Centre.
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s base group teacher.
The cost is
$60 per child.
Please pay online at www.wrapitup.co.nz. If your child started part way through Term 2, you can pay from the week you start (also on Wrap it Up under Pro Rata Swimming).Kia ora te whanau If you are one of the willing parent volunteers for swimming next term, please read the
Volunteer Guidelines and get back to the base group teacher via email and acknowledge that you have read this before the first swimming session. We need to keep everyone in the community 'safe', including our parent volunteers (who we rely on so heavily!)
Nga mihi
Jude
Community Notices...
The NZ School of Music presents Honk! Jr.
Starring Danielle, Natalie and Pieta (past and present WBS students).
Supporting success in your school
If you are a parent, staff member or member of the school community and draw down a new ASB home loan of $150,000 or more, ASB will donate to your chosen participating school $500. Visit www.asb.co.nz/schoolbanking for more information.
Brainwave
Seatoun and Bays Progressive Association
Eastern Cycle WayThe Wellington City Council, as part of the Eastern Cycle way, is proposing 2 possible routes - one that starts in Seatoun. The two routes and details on the development are on:
http://cycleways.wellington.govt.nz/.
Deadline 23rd May 2016.
CentrePort Harbour Deepening Project
Centre
Port is planning to dredge the harbour entrance to increase access for larger shipping
into Wellington Harbour. The resource consent is to remove 8.6 million cubic metres of
sediment and to be disposed of in Fitzroy Bay.
CentrePort has done technical assessments of the impact on Seatoun beach and bays.
Details of the project are on
www.centreportbigpicture.co.nz.
The next Public Open Day is being held in Seatoun RSA Clubhouse on:
Saturday 21st
May, 10am-3pm
If you live in Seatoun and Bays, look at the website, go to the open sessions on 12th or 21st
May and talk to your neighbours.
If you want to make a submission, you have until 27th May.