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Wairarapa College
Wairarapa College is the largest secondary school in the Wairarapa, located in Masterton, Wairarapa College provides a dynamic learning environment blending tradition with innovation to assist each student in realising their full potential.
Set in spacious and beautiful grounds, the College contains a mixture of old and new buildings, presenting an attractive learning environment for students.
We invite you to explore the site and discover the many unique benefits of Waicol life, and we hope you will want to visit us in person. We look forward to hearing from you...
Message from the Board Chair
Athletics Day 2011
By the time you get this newsletter, the school year for 2011 will be all over and all the student and staff will be looking forward to a well earned break. Hopefully everyone will be confident that they have applied themselves to learning and teaching as best they could and that their results will accurately reflect their effort.
I was very proud of the achievements that were celebrated in the Senior Prizegiving in November and I am sure that the same high standards will be on show at the Junior Prizegiving which is happening on the 9th December. But as I said at the senior event, the college is proud of all of our students provided that they have done their best to achieve in both academic and non-academic areas.
2012 is looking like a challenging year for the school as we adjust to a slightly lower roll while maintaining the full range of opportunities for our students. This range of opportunity is a major positive characteristic of Wairarapa College and over the summer break we, as parents and caregiver, should spend some time helping our children make the best choices they can in terms of subjects and extra-curricular activity
Along with this newsletter is a mid-term report on how we think we are going against our strategic goals. It has pointed out a few areas where we could do better and these will become the focus for the remaining 18 months or so of the Board term. We would welcome feedback from you on how we could address some of these issues and so please get in touch via our email below.
Lastly, on behalf of the Board I wish everyone a happy, safe and restful festive season and look forward to seeing everyone back refreshed in 2012.
For any queries to the board our email is bot@waicol.co.nz
Geoff Copps, Chairperson
ERO “Community Report” here for you to view.
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Waicol News
Senior Prizegiving List
Congratulations to all Prize winners
Year 9 2012 Enrolments
Enrolments for Yr 9 2012 closed on Friday 26thAugust 2011. If you are still wanting to enrol a Year 9 student please pick up an enrolment form asap
2012 Start of Year
Mon 30th January. 9 am Year 13 arrive. 10 am Year 9 and other new students.
Tues 31 January Years 10, 11, 12 arrive at 9am.
Course Confirmation Year 12/13 Wed 25th January.
Year 11 Thurs 26 January (if you want to make changes to your course)
NCEA exams
Start 10th November
Junior Prizegiving
Friday 9 December at 11am in Hall. Reports and magazines issued after prizegiving.
Last day of term.
Senior Reports
Senior Reports and Newsletter mailed home 9th December