Keep New Zealand Beautiful

BEACH CLEAN UP

FRIDAY 15th SEPTEMBER

Next week is “Keep New Zealand Beautiful Week!” and our school is going to clean up our community

 – the beach frontage, on Friday 15th September.

 We will be ready to leave school 10.45 a.m. to walk in house based groups to allocated areas of the beach to clean up all the rubbish.

All children and collected rubbish will assemble back at school by 12.30 where we will take photos of our students and what has been collected to send into the local newspaper. Children will have lunchtime,

 class time and assembly to finish off the day and a very busy week.

All children will need to have shoes and their polar fleece / sweat shirt on the day.

Each group will be given a plastic gloves on the day and approximately 8 rubbish bags .

We need your support to make this important community event successful.

When we take children off site we require at minimum a ratio of 1 adult to every 8 children to make sure every child is safe BUT we would like to have as many parents as possible.

If you or friends or family are able to assist us with a couple of hours of your time in keeping our great community beautiful please complete the notice that has come home with your child today.

Due to Bad weather the School Cross Country has been postponed today.

Our postponement date is next Friday the 8th September.

Lets hope for good weather.

It was good to see many children dressed is the different shades of yellow last Friday to  support Daffodil Day and fundraise for The Cancer Society.

There were bumble bees, Hurricanes rugby players and daffodils.

We raised $200.00. Well done everyone.

Check the Gallery for some awesome photos.

Daffodil Day on FRIDAY 25th  AUGUST is one of the few fundraisers for charities during the year which we get behind and fully support so this coming Friday we are giving all the children something yellow and all children may dress or wear something yellow and we ask they bring a gold coin donation to school.

The money raised by schools in the past has helped to bring the Sun-Smart Accreditation programme to our region, support patients and families going through cancer as well as fund much needed research and cancer prevention programmes in our community. Westshore School has been a recipient of the special grants available. They have provided sports uniform, hats, a sunshade over the sandpit area, a sports marquee, a large umbrella and pohutukawa shade trees.

Westshore School is Sun-Smart Accredited School.

We;

-deliver programmes to our students about the importance of protection against the sun

-introduced the current uniform – shirts that cover the shoulders and have collars, wide brim hats

-supply students with sun cream during the summer months

-make sure those who don’t have hats keep in shaded areas when outside

Much of what we do at school has been due to the programmes and assistance given by the Cancer Foundation.

We do hope the Westshore School community gets behind this very important event this Friday and we look forward to seeing a sea of yellow around the playground.