Warrington Wheel-being Way!

         Sun, sun sun, lets hope this weather holds for our WaWa challenge next week. 

We are just about finished the formal assessments of students as part of national standards reporting. For most students this is a non-issue, but for a few the twice yearly assessment reinforces feelings of inadequacy. Teachers now have 9 months to teach and build up the self worth of students to manage another bout of testing in November. It seems children up to the age of 5 and adults both manage to learn without testing. Our ability to learn is based around how we feel about a subject, so with this year's school goals focused on science and writing we have conducted a student attitudinal survey of writing. We are hopeful this survey will give us a greater understanding of why some children do better in writing than others and what we can do about this.

NZ education is going through changing times, standing for the school board is an opportunity to help shape these changes at Warrington. Board meetings can be fun!

WaWa helpers needed to hold a buoy (wetsuit required) for the swimmers or to stand by a cone for the runners and cyclists.

We have received many favourable comments on how good the school is finally looking but we have some finishing off to do around the court and still some areas needing a general tidy up. We are holding a working bee on Saturday the 16th March 9am – 1pm. If you can assist, please let us know or just turn up on the day with wheelbarrows, spades, forks and brooms!

Room 1 students begin their archaeological dig this week and are on the hunt for a garden sieve and pointing trowels. Please let us know if you have any of these.