Ensuring the safety of our ākonga/students and kaiako/kaimahi/staff is our top priority at WSCW. We work with Harrison Tew who specialise in structured emergency management systems for schools. To prepare for potential emergencies, we conduct two types of drills each…
Currently we have around 200 students away sick each day. This equates to 11% of our current roll and normally at this time of the year I would expect absences of 10% so we are not too far away from…
Scooter accidents are occurring at an alarming frequency. The nursing team are seeing students with injuries on weekly basis, including a student walking to school who sustained a severe injury after being knocked over by someone on an eScooter. PLEASE…
Springs - Waiōrea are experiencing ongoing challenges with driving behaviour at the beginning and end of school. We are partnering with Auckland Transport to help us improve the safety at the gate from the beginning of term 3. This means…
MOTAT management have asked us to request that parents do not park on the driveway leading to MOTAT 2 and the carpark. They are concerned that the interface between incoming and outgoing vehicles along with the large number of students…
SAFETY REMINDERS MOTAT staff have asked us to remind parents & whānau waiting for their child/children: PLEASE DO NOT PARK ON THE YELLOW LINES, THE GRASS, OR THE GRAVEL AREA IN THE ENTRANCE DRIVEWAY nearest the school. MOTAT has…
There is now measles in Northland, Auckland, Manawatu, Nelson and Wellington, and we expect further cases across New Zealand. Please do not send students to school with any of these symptoms – fever, cough, runny nose, sore eyes, and a…
Work on the MOTAT tram tracks is currently going on outside our main front school gate (Gate 3), which will be closed until Thursday 6th March. 1. Access to our school grounds from the Motions Road side must…
For more than a decade restorative work has been carried out at the Waitītiko awa (Meola Creek) by Waiōrea and Springs students, kaiako and whānau. The work is driven by the Kaitiakitanga rōpū, Tikanga a Iwi classes, Wastewise, the Trapping…
Parents' cars waiting in MOTAT 2 driveway to collect students MOTAT staff have asked us to request that parents waiting for their children do so in the MOTAT 2 carpark rather than parking in the entrance driveway nearest the school…