We are less than two weeks away from one of the most exciting and well known sporting events for children around the country, the Weetbix Kids TRYathlon. If your athlete pack was being delivered to school you should have now received this, in the pack students have all their much needed gear and event information. West End School will have the school marquee on site to provide a base for West End students and their whanau. If you have any questions please contact gblack@westend.school.nz
Mt Biggs Tough Guy and Gal
We have a strong contingency of athletes traveling to Mt Biggs Tough Kid challenge on the 22nd of March. All students attending will travel via bus leaving West End at 8am sharp! Please try your best to be on time. PE tops will be provided for children to wear on the day. If you are available to provide whanau support please let Mrs Black know as soon as possible.
Girls in Football
We were very excited to host Mikaela Bouwmeester from Central Football Manawatu on Wednesday. Mikaela talked about the growing sport, encouraged the girls to give it ago and taught them some great football skills. We look forward to sending teams to compete in the first ever Primary Girls in Futsal tournament on the 28th of March at Massey Recreation Centre. Students keen on attending this should have come home with a permission slip (Year group requirement 4 - 6)
Tennis in Schools
As shared last week we are very excited to be having Tennis back in school. All year levels will be receiving six sessions with a trained coach of Manawatu Tennis over the remainder of the term. The children so far have been thrilled with the new experience and learning a new skill set. We have some rising tennis players!
Touch Rugby
What a great outing last Saturday our buddying Rugby stars had at the Manawatu Touch competition. We have two teams entered in the competition, a mixed under 10 team coached by Sarah Le and a mixed under 8 teams coached by Keran Wenman and Connor Willis. We are thankful for the support our West End whanau give to our sporting teams as without them it wouldn't be possible to attend so many competitions.
Rippa Rugby Competition Yr 5 -6
On the 4th of April there is a Manawatu Primary Inter School competition for Rippa Rugby, students who are interested in attending should have come home with a notice. If your child hasn’t but would like to play please contact Mrs Black.
School Swimming and Interschool Swimming Yrs 5-6
We are excited to be hosting our School Swimming competition next Monday at West End Pools, all senior students have entered an event or two of their choice. We have a mixture of both competitive and noncompetitive competition happening. If you would like to come and watch we will begin at 12:30pm.
Then the following fortnight we are hosting the Inter School competition at the West End pools where the best swimmers will be chosen to compete, more details to follow on this event.
It would be fantastic if children could bring in their own headphones for use with classroom ipads and chromebooks. We have some amazing educational resources available to help support learning within our kura, and it would be helpful if children were able to bring in named headphones to use when on a device.
Rūma 14 have been wondering about birthday parties. We counted all the balloons in a packet and talked about what we noticed. We noticed that there were no orange balloons even though they were on the packet! We also noticed that there were a lot of green balloons. We noticed that there were the same amount of pink and yellow balloons.
If your child is absent from school.
It is really important under the current circumstances you notify the school if your child is absent.
PLEASE DO NOT TXT OR EMAIL THE CLASSROOM TEACHER.
ALL ABSENCES SHOULD BE ADVISED VIA THE OFFICE.
Please remember to advise the office by 8.30am if your child is not attending school.
You can telephone 358-2465 and leave a message or txt 021 118 0156.
ABSENCES CAN ALSO BE SENT EASILY THROUGH OUR SCHOOL APP
In both cases please give a reason for absence.
Thank you.
It is very important that families register with Kindo, as this is now the only way to register your child for school sports, and ordering PTA lunches.
Below are the links to register.
If you require help please call the Kindo helpdesk on
0508 454 636
New users need this link
Existing users need this link
