Waihi East School Blog
Wheelie Day, Calendar Art, Attendance and Here Come the Holidays
September 22, 2016
Warm greetings to you all, as term 3 comes to an end I would personally like to thank the staff, students, parents and community that have welcomed my family and I with open arms. We are settling into the area [...]
Room 1 Koru Art
September 22, 2016
Room 1 Waihi East School students have been working on making 'Korus' using pastels on A3 paper, here are our key learning targets. [...]
Final Game of Hockey in Term 3
September 20, 2016
We played our final game of after school hockey on Thursday (14.09.16) against Waimata School and the players did some nice passing, spreading out and dribbling of the ball. Our PODs (players of the day) were Tyler T for skillful [...]
Judi Billcliff Talks Writing at East School
September 19, 2016
A huge thank you to Judi Billcliff, who visited us on Friday 9th September as a Duffy Book Role Model. She was outstanding: engaging, inspiring, funny and charismatic. So much so, we are hoping to get her back to run [...]
RIO Sailing Olympian Visits East School
September 18, 2016
Waihi East School students were treated to a visit by RIO Olympian Sam Meech who shared his experiences competing at the highest level in laser class sailing craft with our tamariki during week 7 of term 3. [...]
Sumdog Waikato Maths Competiton Sept 2016
September 16, 2016
Congratulations to all those who took part, 19 classes qualified, 416 students played, 145,122 questions answered and 120,534 correct answers were given. [...]
Hour of Code
September 15, 2016
oming up in December 2016 an opportunity to help this generations children be the next wave of creators in the digital world, Waihi East School will be running 'Hour of Code' classes from December 5-11th, we will have after school [...]
Author Visits, Duffy Books and Emergency Drills
September 14, 2016
Warm greetings to you all, another week has flown by in a flash! A huge THANK YOU to Judi Billcliff, who visited us last Friday as a Duffy Book Role Model. She was outstanding: engaging, inspiring, funny and charismatic. [...]
Road Safety Improvements, Agriculture Day and Staff Changes
September 7, 2016
Kia ora koutou, a huge thank you to parents and whanau that have taken notice of our push for safer roads around the school. Having cones on the road has certainly slowed things down at our main crossing. [...]
MTB Elective (2.09.16)
September 2, 2016
MTB Elective (2.09.16), our MTB elective group (made up of year 3-6 Waihi East School students) rode up a 4WD track on Friday 2nd September, it is called Reservoir Road and leads to the Old Waihi Water Supply Dam. [...]
Hockey Year 5-6's (31.08.16)
August 31, 2016
Hockey year 5-6's (31.08.16), during term 3 our year 5-6 students are playing hockey on Wednesdays after school at St Josephs, these photos show our game against Waihi Beach school from a few weeks ago (31.08.16) we won this game [...]
Digital Drawing Tools
August 26, 2016
Using a Google Chrome web store app called 'InspirARTion - Sketch & Draw' we are having a go at using a Wacom digitizer tablet and stylus so drawing on a computer can be similar to the ease with which a [...]
School Growing, Teachers Changing, Road Safety and Students
August 24, 2016
Kia ora koutou, as you may have noticed our school is growing! This has led to our class sizes in the junior room being higher than we would have liked. However, help is here! We have received great news from [...]
MTB Elective (19.08.16)
August 19, 2016
Here is some photo and video action from Fridays MTB elective (special thanks to Kori K and Fiona F for riding with us as parent helpers and keeping our ratio of adults to children in the right range) we rode [...]
Electives In Full swing
August 18, 2016
Here is some photo and video action from last Fridays MTB elective we rode most of the 'Riverdance' trail section in Ngamoutu Domain. [...]
KidsCan, Project Energize, Celebration Assembly and Chromebooks
August 17, 2016
Kia ora koutou, I trust everyone is staying warm this stunning, but very frosty, week. This cold snap is a perfect reminder that we have wind proof jackets, shoes and socks available from KidsCan, students can take these home and [...]
Hockey After School for Year 5-6's
August 17, 2016
During term 3 our year 5-6 students are playing hockey on Wednesdays after school at St Josephs, these photos and videos show today's play. We have a lot of players and can only enter one team so the first half [...]
Road Safety Improvements Investigated, Kapahaka Rehearsals, New Class Underway and Sports/Dance/Gym Day
August 13, 2016
Kia ora koutou, this week we have had a very positive meeting with the council and the police. The meeting was to discuss concerns and possible solutions for keeping students safe when travelling to and from school. [...]
Electives MTB Option
August 11, 2016
Electives for Kotuku (Waihi East senior school students) and Discovery for Piwakawaka (junior school pupils) started last Friday and will run throughout term three, here are some photos and video from the MTB elective. [...]
Year 5-6 Soccer Finals (5.08.16)
August 10, 2016
Soccer has ended for the year. Congratulations on a great season and well done to East Extreme for placing 2nd!! Check out the photos with this post from the finals soccer games last Friday (5.08.16). [...]
Class Programmes, Sports and Breakfast Club
August 10, 2016
Kia Ora te whanau, who can believe week 3 is here already! Its great to see our teaching staff enthusiastically delivering amazing programs across the school for your tamariki. [...]
Tapuwai Tournament
August 5, 2016
The Tapuwae tournament run as part of our Matariki celebrations for local primary schools near the end of term 2, completed their remaining games at Central School on Wednesday (3.08.16) after inclement weather had forced organisers to run remaining matches [...]
Preparation and the East School Hangi
August 4, 2016
On Wednesday 6th of July Waihi East School had a hangi, these photos and video include the day before when students helped prepare the food and of course photos from our hangi feast. [...]
Tapuwae Teams, Uniform and Celebration Assembly
August 3, 2016
Kia ora koutou,what we are up to week 2 already??? Well we have had a great start to the term with lots of fun and exciting things happening in the classrooms. Our fabulous Tapuwae teams competed at Central School today [...]
