Welcome to Weymouth Primary!

Principal: Saane Faaofo-Oldehaver

Kia ora, Talofa lava, Kia orana, Malo e lelei, Bula vinaka, and warm worldly greetings to you all.

It is hard to believe half a year has gone by already. We have had some teacher only days in the holidays and a huge thank you to all our teachers who came in to undertake some professional development and learning in preparation for term 3. We have another busy term ahead and our focus for teaching & learning is Whanaungatanga: Embrace the Future through the arts; music, dance, drama and visual art. 'Greatness comes from preparing for what lies ahead and shaping a better tomorrow.

Hopefully you had time to go over the report your child brought home to see what they have been doing at school for the first half of the year. Our Learning Conversations are scheduled in week 2 on Wednesday 23rd of July from 2pm to 8pm. Please book in a time to come and chat with your child's teacher about: assessment data, looking at their books, seeing how they are progressing on their goals and how you can support at home. We appreciate all you do to support us with teaching our beautiful children.

ATTENDANCE - the ministry of education is doing a big push for all children to attend school every day because every day counts. Last term our attendance was: regular - 49%. irregular - 23%. moderate 11% and chronic - 16%. Let's work together for Term 3 to improve those numbers. What we are doing: weekly attendance trophies for the class in each team with the highest attendance for the week, weekly draws for one child from each team for the week with perfect attendance for the week and they receive; a box of chips, weetbix and milk, 100% for the term - all children go in the draw to win a bike. Congratulations to Joshua Nu'uhive from Room 14 who won last term's bike.

LATENESS - school starts at 9am. The last two weeks of term 2 were the worst for lateness. We had some days where over 100 children were coming late to school. It is important children get to school on time in order to prepare themselves for the day. Classes open at 8.30am if you want to drop them earlier but please can we work together to get children to school on time, every day.

LANGUAGE WEEKS THIS TERM - this term we will be celebrating; Cook Island Language Week 4-8 August, Tongan Language Week 18-22 August and Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori Language Week 15-19 September. If you are keen to help out please send me an email and put you in touch with the team.

MATHS WEEK - 11-15 August we will celebrate Maths week and have lots of fun activities for our children to go on as well as some amazing competitions.

Our MPSSA sporting events are also plentiful this term for our senior students with lots of tournaments organised. Watch out for when permission slips come home.

This term is also our board of trustees elections, so if you are keen to be a part of this kaupapa, pop in and see me.

I look forward to seeing you all this term. Let's all work together to ensure we give our children the opportunities they so deserve to achieve the successes too.

Faafetai tele lava

Saane Faaofo-Oldehaver

Principal

Term Dates 2025

Term 1 - Monday 3 February - Friday 11 April

Term 2 - Monday 28 April - Friday 27 June

Term 3 - Monday 14 July - Friday 19 September

Term 4 - Monday 6 October - Wednesday 17 December