Waimata School “Whāia te iti kahurangi…To be the best that I can be” August 27th 2019

Jnr Tough Guy & Gal Challenge What an awesome display of ‘can do attitudes’ from our Y3-6 students who took part in the Jnr Tough Guy & Gal Challenge in Rotorua last Thursday! It’s always a pleasure to see our tauira take part in activities that push them outside their comfort zones! All of our tamariki can be proud of their efforts, being outstanding ambassadors for our kura! A big mihi to our parent helpers that took transport and looked after our athletes for us! Bring on the 2020 challenge!!!

(Below: Our little superstars at the finishing zone!)

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School Lunches Fundraising

Order forms went out yesterday for this Friday’s lunch orders;

Nachos & Juicies

Please remember to get these order forms in by Thursday morning at the latest as the

ingredients are purchased by the students on Thursday. Thanks for

your ongoing support of these lunches, with all profits going

directly to our EOTC activities.

Lost Property The never ending saga of clothes

without homes continues… All unclaimed items will be donated to local charity stores at the end of the week so please encourage your

children to check before then!

School Camp Fees We still have fees and/or

unconfirmed payment plans outstanding for Snr Camp. It is

less than 2 weeks until we depart so please sort these promptly!

Signing In & Out Please remember it is a Health &

Safety requirement to always sign students in and out of school via the office during school hours!

Waimata school Week 6 Term 3 2019

Upcoming Events

☞Monday

9th-12th Sep Mt Ruapehu Snr

Camp

Tuesday 10th September Duffy Role Model

Assembly

Thursday 26th September

Opoutere Adventure Race

Friday 27th September Last Day of Term

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Health Notification A recent notification sent to us regarding Measles…

Measles Imminent, public health advice With large number of measles cases, particularly in South Auckland, Waikato Public Health is providing the following advice.

Check your immunisation register is up-to-date All early learning centres, kōhanga reo, primary schools and kura are required to maintain an immunisation register. You should consider the implications for running your primary school should significant numbers of susceptible (not known to be immune) children, young people and staff be in quarantine for several days or weeks at the same time, or should cases of measles be in home isolation. “Quarantine” is when people susceptible to measles are exposed to measles and are required to stay at home for the period when they might become infectious. In education settings it is sometimes referred to as “exclusion”.

We recommend that you: 1. Check that your immunisation register is up-to-date and urgently update it if required. 2. Inform your community that those not known to be immune may be quarantined and excluded should measles occur in your school.

What will happen if you have measles case(s)? You may be contacted by us to inform you of a confirmed case or you may be informed by a member of the school community. If we contact you we will require appropriate action: •ensure exclusion of the case while infectious – we will advise on safe return date •quarantine/exclude the susceptible contacts – we will advise on exclusion period.

If someone else informs you of measles in your school we recommend you ensure that person is isolated at home and then check with us before taking any further action. You do not need to undertake any action unless the case is confirmed by Public Health. If there is a suspect case (for example, someone calls to say a child is being investigated or has measles), the suspect case will need to stay at home while investigations are underway.

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SPCA Donations Thanks to all those that donated

items, our students were delighted to be able to take along our

collection to the very appreciative SPCA recently!

Circle of Growth Basketball

Term 4 marks the start of our cluster basketball activities. For

years 1-6 there is the opportunity to take part in the Circle of Growth program on Monday afternoons. This is run by the Waihi College

players & coaches. Please register your interest with Tracey at the school office. Y5&6 also have a Thursday night summer league

school competition which Mr Phillips will be organising at school 🏀

Whakatauke o Te Wiki “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the

things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” -Mark Twain

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School Lunches FundraisingLost PropertySchool Camp FeesSigning In & OutSPCA DonationsCircle of Growth Basketball