Waiwhare School 1968 Log Book

1968

PRESENT PUPILS
Jeremy Smith
Brian Boyd
Stuart Tolley
Richard Hoy
Warren Sculpher
Russell Tolley
Patrick Ward
Stuart Comrie
Grant Tolley
Lance Tolley
Anthony Sculpher
Neville Moult
Bernard Ward
Allan Janes
Andrew Ward
Stephanie Hoy
Susan Richards
Angela Botzen
Lynda Comrie
Robyn Drummond
Paula Tolley
Barbara Ward
Sandra Dampney
Helen Richards
Kay Lawrence
Sally Smith
Janice Moult
Wendy Kyle
Jane Redman
Allison McPhail
Kirsten Smith
Robyn McDonald
Sandra McDonald
Kirsty McPhail
Vanessa Whatarau
Dawn Botzen
Maree Ward

NEW PUPILS
Andrew Ward
Allan Janes
Jane Redman
Vanessa Whatarau

LEAVING PUPILS
Stephanie Hoy
Susan Richards
Sandra Dampney
Jeremy Smith
Brian Boyd

HEAD TEACHER
Mr WR Taylor

ASSISTANT MISTRESS
Miss Christine Boyden.
Resigned end of year.

COMMITTEE
LH Smith, Chairman
RH Dampney, Secretary/Treasurer
Mrs B Dampney
KW Lawrence

THE YEAR’S ACTIVITIES AND GENERAL INFORMATION

FEBRUARY   Miss C Boyden appointed Assistant Mistress. Staying with Mr & Mrs Bernie Ward.
Very high temperatures recorded over a period of several weeks.
Stuart and Clifford Tolley left.

MARCH   Swimming Sports. School performed well.
Mr H Tolley resigned from Committee.

APRIL   D&A Day at Matapiro.
Teresa Ward, a former pupil, spent short study section at school from Ardmore Training College.
Children sold six dollars worth of Anzac emblems to relatives and friends.
Mr B Sanderson, Senior Adviser in arts and crafts, visited to view and photograph mediaeval tapestry made by pupils.

JUNE   The Governor General awarded a day’s holiday. School visited Hastings and he spoke to many of our pupils. Children tested by Physical Education adviser for fitness on standard tests. Results very good.
Committee approved library expenditure.
Purchase of balance beam for PE work.
Voluntary donations total $195.

JULY   Children’s tapestries on view at local art show.
Children raised $14 for Braille week appeal.
Children purchased $9.75 worth of Health stamps.

SEPTEMBER   Second term sewing project netted thirty garments completed for Red Cross. Assistance provided by Mesdames Hoy and D Tolley, and directed by Miss Boyden. Members of Barnardo Helpers’ League raised $8.13 this year.

OCTOBER   Exceptionally high absence rate, due to influenza.
16th: Snowfall in early morning left school covered with a 2”-3”: fall. Children made snowmen, etc.
16th: Afternoon – Craft and Flower show. Successful, good attendance.

NOVEMBER   Miss Norma Bennett, Barnardo Helpers’ League representative, visited and showed slides to children. Several more enrolled in the group.
Pupils presented “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” at the Red Cross Garden Party in Hastings. All children participated.
Archdeacon Weymouth [Waymouth] ended a long association with the school when he conducted his last church service. Presentation made on behalf of past and present pupils of the school in recognition of the years of service he had given in conducting school scripture.
Children raised $10 for new softball equipment. Children performed “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” at Queenswood School garden party. Presented with $10 towards library.
Fluorescent lighting installed in senior classroom.

DECEMBER   Baths reedy [ready] for swimming after considerable work by Committee including provision of new inlet at dam.
Breakup afternoon. Children performed three puppet plays. Juniors presented songs, accompanied by Miss Boyd [Boyden] on guitar.

SWIMMING SHIELD:   Warren Sculpher

BOOKS PRESENTED BY:   Mrs B Dampney

WR Taylor, Head Teacher. Miss C Boyden, Assistant Mistress

BACK ROW: Barbara Ward, Richard Hoy, Susan Richards, Lynda Comrie, Angela Botzen, Stephanie Hoy, Robyn Drummond, Jeremy Smith, Kay Lawrence, Brian Boyd, Stuart Comrie.

MIDDLE ROW: Jane Redman, Grant Tolley, Janice Moult, Helen Richards, Patrick Ward, Sally Smith, Paula Tolley, Sandra Dampney, Russell Tolley, Lance Tolley, Warren Sculpher, Kirsten Smith.

FRONT ROW: Andrew Ward, Bernard Ward, Sidney Sculpher, Maree Ward, Dawn Botzen, Wendy Kyle, Anthony Sculpher, Neville Moult, Robyn McDonald, Sandra McDonald, Allan Janes, Vanessa Whatarau.

Infants in sandpit, March 1968
Neville Moult, Wendy Kyle, Allison McPhail, Kirsty Smith, Tony Sculpher and others.

Angela Botzen, Barbara Ward, Susan and Helen Richards, Robyn Drummond

Gardening: Grant Tolley, Richard Hoy, Russell Tolley, Janice Moult, Stuart Comrie, Lance Tolley

October 1968

November: “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” performed at Queenswood School Garden Party, Hastings. A donation of $10 was made to the Waiwhare School library fund.

THE LAMBING BEAT – written by pupils of Waiwhare School.

It was half past five when I was aroused from my bed. I heard the tractor. It meant I was going on the lambing beat. Dad said, “No breakfast.” I didn’t mind. I was used to this. In a few minutes we were off. Golly, it was cold and it was wet. The rain poured down my neck. It had been wet for a long time and there would most likely be some white-washed lambs. The first gate came up. My turn to open it. I jumped right into a muddy puddle. Everybody laughed but then there was a cry of “Hurry up. It’s cold and we’ll have to get a move on. There’ll be a lot of work.” Then Dad spotted a ewe having trouble with her lamb. We got off and ran over. She was not moving. My job was to get the lambing bag. Dad had started when I got there. We had to move her for she was in a boggy place. After a time the head came but no legs. Dad and I pulled and pulled and then, with an extra big pull, we made it. While Dad was trying to revive the lamb I injected some penicillin into her. She was a two tooth. I felt sorry for her. What a way to start. She was panting and I didn’t blame her. Dad said the lamb was dead, and she wouldn’t be any good to mother up because it would be too much strain on her. On our way again, Dad said that she had been a tough one. Just as he said that, the sum [sun] shone. All of a sudden, everything came to life. The lambs sprang around. No more lambing so far, but a few stuck tails. There were three, one was a dear wee fellow. Look at that ewe. She had a new lamb, and oh, look, there it is, way over there. “Get a tethering peg, we’ll have to tie her up,” said Dad. I went and got the lamb. It was slimy and wet. I picked it up and it slipped but I caught it. It was a wriggly thing. Then I heard it make a noise. The ewe was a wild one. Eventually we got her. One more paddock. The smallest, and I was pleased it was seven o’clock. We whizzed through the paddock, no trouble at all. I was pleased to be home and have my breakfast. Although I should have been wide awake, I yawned. Tomorrow would be another hectic day.
Sandra Dampney (10)

It is a wet day. We drag ourselves out of bed, get dressed and have a wash. After we’ve had breakfast we put on our coats and leggings and then untie the dog. We have a Land Rover which is nearly always in four-wheel drive and low induction. It is muddy and wet but it does not stop us. We have turns at opening gates, that is David, Tony, Chris and I.  We are driving through, the “long paddock”. There does not seem to be very much trouble until Dad picks up the binoculars and spots a cast sheep. When we get there we find it is going to lamb. Suddenly it jumps up and starts to run away. We all tear after it and in about half a minute it’s on the ground. We test its teat to see if there is any milk there. One teat is blind so we put the sheep in the Land Rover with her lamb. Next we go into the “creek paddock”. There is nothing wrong, so we go into the next paddock. I do not know its name but it has very green grass. We come to a sheep that is trying to lamb. This one does not run away. I pull up my sleeve and put a liquid on my hand. I rub it up my arm and on my hand. I put my hand in the sheep. It groans, it is in pain. I pull one lamb out. I open its mouth so it can breath[e]. I feel to see if there are any more lambs there. We give it a penicillin injection so it will not get blood poisoning. We go full speed up the hill and then we look around. We see no trouble but we know there must be. We go down the other side of the hill and sure enough, there is some trouble. There is a sheep stuck in the bog trying to lamb! We all hop out and try to pull it out. We are tugging and tugging until it gets out. After we lamb the ewe, we find the lamb is dead. The milk that is in the sheep’s udder will keep on being made and after a while the udder will get a lot bigger. So we will have to take it home and try to get another lamb for it. Our hands and feet are always frozen after a lambing beat.
Patrick Ward (9)

I go out on the lambing beat with Dad on the tractor and Paula comes too. Sometimes I see Dad lamb a sheep. You put your hand in and pull out the legs, then the head, then you have got the whole body out. Some times it is hard to catch the mothers with lambs. When it is wet I do not go with Dad. I have not lambed a ewe. Paula goes out with Dad in the wet. Sometimes. Paula goes out with Dad in the hay in the wet. I go out only in the warm. We have had over a hundred lambs. We have one black lamb.
Grant Tolley (8)

December: Three puppet plays performed as part of the breakup ceremonies. Puppets and scenery, costuming, etc., manufactured by senior pupils.

PRESENTATIONS AT THE BREAK-UP CEREMONY IN DECEMBER MADE BY MRS BARBARA DAMPNEY.
Mrs Dampney, Mr LH Smith (Chairman of the School Committee), Mr WR Taylor (Head Teacher)

Mrs Dampney, Mr Smith, Miss Christine Boyden (resigning Assistant Mistress), Mr Taylor.

September: Rear – Lynda Comrie, Angela Botzen; front – Robyn Drummond, Barbara Ward, Susan Richards, Paula Tolley
Showing an assortment of garments made for the Red Cross during sewing week, when some three dozen articles were finally produced.

September/October – papier maché work for the Red Cross

October – soft toys produced by pupils for Craft and Flower Show. Many of the toys were later donated to the Red Cross for shipment to the New Zealand hospital in South Vietnam.