13 Dec 2024

We still have over 100 library books out, please check at home for any books and return to office.

Thanks in advance.

13 Dec 2024

Hello and Happy Summer Holidays to our lovely Waitākere Primary School Community!

We hope you have all had a good year despite the economic challenges many of us have experienced, we are all hoping for a more prosperous 2025.  This year we have loved being able to hold some wonderful school activities with you and your families, like the school production, the summer picnic, Kapa Haka performance for Marariki, Beats by Bingo, numerous camps and outdoor education activities.

Sport activities have been a particular highlight at Waitākere Primary School this year. The Basketball and Netball teams have played their socks off, and WPS teams have competed in Zones for cricket, football, T-ball, basketball, netball, cross country and swimming.

We are so grateful to all the whānau and teachers who make these events possible.

We have great news to share. Waitākere Primary has recently welcomed the Education Review Office, Te Tari Arotake Mātauranga  (ERO) into the school. ERO are responsible for regularly evaluating and reporting on the education and care of learners in schools. We have received the ERO report, and it is a hugely positive reflection of the work our teachers and children do. The key findings of the Review Officer include:

·       Achievement outcomes for students, including Māori learners, are increasingly excellent and equitable.

·       Strategic, collaborative leadership fosters a culture committed to high quality teaching to improve outcomes for students that are increasingly equitable and excellent

·       Teachers and leaders continually adapt and sharpen consistency of teaching practice to raise student outcomes

The full report will be available on the WPS website and the ERO website in due course.

Over the Christmas holidays we have a lot of much needed construction and maintenance work taking place across the school including painting the entire exterior of the school and the interior of the hall admin and library spaces too. We will be replacing all the interior wall coverings in 7 classrooms, there is also some drainage work and some concreting to complete.  Contractors will be working every day over the holidays to get the work finished for the start of the school year on 3rd February 2025.  This means that the school will be a construction zone for the whole of the summer holidays and most of the school grounds will be fenced off to meet Health and Safety requirements.  This will include the basketball court areas, so please use Swanson, Massey or Westgate courts during the summer period as alternative options to train or play.

We know this is disappointing to those families who use the school grounds in the holidays, and we thank you for bearing with us while we get this work done. The school have been able to negotiate with the contractors to ensure pedestrian access to the school pool (for key holders).  If you would like a pool key, pop into the office before school closes on the 18th December at 12.40.

We wish you and your whānau a wonderful festive season and we hope you all have an enjoyable summer break.

Meri Kirihimete

Waitakere Primary Board of Trustees

12 Dec 2024

We are looking for U9 players born 2016/17 to create a brand new team.

Game day is Wednesday at Massey YMCA

Please contact andreamnicol@outlook.com if you are interested