Term 4, Week 2, 13/10/2025 - 17/10/2025
From the Principal's Desk
Kia ora koutou katoa, Parents and Caregivers
LOUD SHIRT Day
Today we celebrated "LOUD SHIRT DAY" - This was a fundraiser for the Deaf House
Loud Shirt Day is the boldest, brightest, most feel-good fundraiser across Australia and New Zealand – and it’s all for a seriously good cause. Each year, workplaces, schools, families and friends throw on their loudest shirts to raise funds and awareness for children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Funds raised help provide life-changing services like speech therapy, audiology, early intervention and family support – giving kids with hearing loss the tools they need to thrive.
Loud Shirt Day is proudly coordinated and celebrated by First Voice member centres across Australia and New Zealand.
Camp
Room 6 and 7 go to camp at Lakewood Lodge from November 10th - 14th of November. The new cost at the moment, after fundraising in term 3, is about $375. We have organised a camp meeting for Wednesday, 29th October - 3.15 -4pm. This will be to go over final costings, the plan of the camp, and expectations/responsibilities on camp.
Maths Quiz Update
As of today we have fundraised over $4,000 to go towards Camps and trips. Well done to all the students, families and businesses that have supported us with getting kids to camp and trips.
House Achievements
Link to Kotare - Kowhai (Yellow House) $1,010
Link to Kauri - Kereu (Green House) - $985
Link to Tui - Harakeke (Blue House) - $820
Link to Pohutukawa - Piwakawaka (Red House) - $435
House challenge - Maths Quiz! This will have incentives for individuals and House groups. Some of the incentives will be a movie at school, in school disco , pizza party, BBQ lunch, ice blocks for the winning Houses. Money raised goes back to EOTC - Education Outside The Classroom events, trips and camp costs.
Draw for week one (sign up and go in the draw) – Winners this week are Mariah and Ari - most sponsors week 1.
Draw for week two (sign up and get at least one donation) –This will be a special lucky draw at the Assembly. Congratulations to Awana top senior school fundraiser.
Draw for week three (sign up and have 5 donations) –This will be a special lucky draw at the Assembly
Thanks, Nga mihi, Gary Veysi - Principal
BoT
Meeting in Room 1 – On Wednesday, 22nd of October, start time 3.30pm.
The community/parents are welcome to attend.
Attendance & Protocol
1.1 Welcomes and Apologies, 1.2 Speaking Rights, 1.3 Declarations of Interest (PLD - NZSTA)
Strategic Decisions
2.1 Co–Opting a member onto the Board for property projects, 2.2 Staffing Entitlement and funding 2026 2.3 Camps/trips 2026 - 2028 planning, consultation and engagement with families.
Strategic Discussions
3.1 Induction Pack for BOT members, 3.2 Term 4 Overview – Dates and times, 3.3 Budget 2026 preparation
Monitoring/Review Portfolio Reports - sub-committees
4.1 Principal 4.2 Finance 4.3 Property 4.4 Compliance/legislation 4.5 Personnel 4.6 Community Engagement 4.7 Policy Review – up to date
Administration
5.1 Confirmation of previous minutes 5.2 Correspondence - Inwards/outwards
In Committee Discussions
6.1 Nil
Items for next meeting
7.1 PLD for the BOT
7.2 Draft Budget 2026
Meeting dates - Wednesday 26th November. (December holidays)
Maths Quiz
2025 Whenukite School Maths Quiz – Online Fundraiser
Our Maths Quiz is giving students a fun and rewarding opportunity to build their numeracy skills, while also raising essential funds to support Education Outside the Classroom programme – trips and camps!
How will this fundraiser work? We have partnered with online fundraising company Go Raise It. Collecting sponsorship online makes it super easy for everyone - no more door knocking, your child can collect more donations from further afield (friends & family living overseas, work colleagues etc) and no need to worry about handling cash!
How do I sign my child up to fundraise online? Each child can sign up for their very own fundraising web page to send out to collect online sponsorship from anyone, anywhere! Just go to our Fundraising Hub page at: https://whenuakitemathsquiz.raiseit.co.nz/ Or use the QR Code to visit the hub page:
Prizes: We have a great range of fundraising prizes available, including spot prizes and overall fundraising prizes for classes/individuals. Please see the Prizes page linked on the Fundraising Hub page of our fundraising website.
Event Details: The Maths Quiz event will be on Wednesday, 29th of October 2025 from 11.30am - 1pm! Yes a whole 90 minutes of fun!. The aim is to make it fun and enjoyable for all students, and we will practice the questions prior to the event. On the day, each class will have sets of questions, puzzles and games to do. It will be about giving everything a go! We are happy for parents to come in and we will have our Special Maths Wizards _ invited guests and some senior students helping with the activities and events.
Rooms 1 – 5 are fundraising as a group to help cover costs for the day trips and events.
Rooms 6 - 7 will be fundraising individually for their camp to Lakewood Lodge and what they raise will come off their camp costs first. If students fundraise more than what is needed, this will be used to help cover costs involved with trips and camps. Our AIM is to try get all students to camp!
Kindest regards, Mr Veysi, Whenuakite team and Fundraiser Organiser
Production
Classes are busy with their practices. A huge thanks to the teachers and especially Shona for her dedication to the performing arts. Its going to be a special show. Tickets on sale from Monday.
Being a K.I.T.E Kid Awards
Certificates presented to: -
Room 1 -Elias Cooney, Mabel Drewitt-Fisher, Maddie Spyve
Room 2 - Charlotte Hayes, Ryder Coombe
Room 3 - Kaan Oztekin, Fleur Palmer
Room 4 - Florence Probett, Verity Bowen
Room 5 -Jake Brockett, Olivia Goldsworthy, Hugo Popadich
Room 6 - Noa Jensen, Emerson Orbell
Room 7 - Harsimrat Kaur, Karwyn Bahr
Principal Awards - Ruby Bougen for showing leadership and stepping up as a senior with activities around the school.
Spring Festival
Jar Throw
Disco
Athletics
Junior Athletics
WOW - So impressed with our learners! Some great athletes and amazing sports people.
Up and coming events
Term 4
We have some amazing events planned, and we have finalised some of the trips for everyone and the camp for the seniors. It is critical if you would like to be involved with trips and especially camp, we do need you to complete a police vet. These are taking about 6 weeks to complete. Please see Donna asap if you need to get this done.
Key dates
Week 3
Monday 20th of October - Year 7/8 Cake Day
Tuesday 21st of October - Spring Festival
Wednesday 22nd of October - BOT meeting in Room 1
Thursday 23rd of October - Strike Day (No School)
Friday 24th of October - TOD (No School) Maths learning for the teachers with Jo Matthews - Cognition Education based around Planning, Explicit Acts of teaching and a Focus on Measurement
Week 4
Monday 27th of October - Labour Day (No School)
Wednesday 29th of October - MATHS QUIZ DAY - 11.30am - 1pm!
