Wesley Primary School Principal's Blog

Kia ora e te whanau,  I would like to share an awesome trip that our year 4s and 5s went on, based at the Viaduct on Wednesday this week. Our students were  the first school invited to the Emirates Team New Zealand schools experience in partnership with Genesis School-gen and Spark.  Check out the fun learning they experienced through STEM, gaming, robotics and also learning how the new ETNZ America's cup boat can fly over the water.  A huge thanks to the sponsors specially - Jenny from Genesis Energy and Michelle from Spark for supporting our school with this free trip, including the buses and cool bags, t-shirts and hats.   Our students had an awesome time and learned so much while having fun!! Nga mihi to Miss Bound for organising the logistics, also our kaiako and whanau that came on the trip to awhi our students.  Check out the video here  of our trip. 

Last Friday, on the 16th of October our school was lucky enough to have over 100 volunteers from The Icebreaker company come to volunteer at our school and celebrate our community. One of the main reasons we needed support was that we are a small, low decile school in one of the most impoverished socio-economic areas of Mt Roskill, Auckland. We have a big heart though as our community courageously got through its' own pandemic crisis as we had a mini COVID cluster, just down the road in Term 3. Also we had decided to partner with Icebreaker earlier than Term 3 but we were delayed and had to wait to do something together until we got to level 1. Together they worked with happy hearts and smiles, while they set up the hall with free clothing and kai, painted our garden boxes/entire fence, built a barbecue, cooked sausages, pulled out weeds, cleaned our garden beds, fixed broken frames, planted trees, painted everything, made kai to give away, removed 2 skip bi...