Hillsborough Primary School News

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11th December 2019

Principal’s Voice:

Dear Parents and Caregivers Kia Ora

What another fantastic year of learning has taken place at Hillsborough.

We had a wonderful end of year prize giving last Friday with many children receiving certificates. This was a great opportunity to acknowledge these children for their efforts.

I also want to acknowledge all the children for a great year of learning no matter where they happen to be on their own learning journey.

Here are some of my thoughts from that day.

“Today I would like to talk to you about takeaways. Put your hand up if you like takeaways, some favourites are McDonalds, KFC, Pizza and many more. Do you know that we have an opportunity to have takeaways everyday. I am talking about learning takeaways. What could be some of your learning takeaways for this year? Put your hand up if you think you are better at reading, maths, writing, being friendly, trying harder things, being kind, being a friend? That is a lot of takeaways that you are taking away this year. If you think about today, I’m sure there will be some more takeaways for you. My takeaways are:

I am very proud to be the Principal of this school.

I am very proud of our wonderful teachers and support staff who are so dedicated to the teaching and learning at HPS.

And last but not least I am very proud of all of you, o For your hard work o For kindness to others o For your willingness to improve your learning daily o For being excellent HPS kids

So remember everyday whether at school or home there will always be a takeaway for you.” I have included this for those who may not have had the opportunity to attend the prizegiving. The learning that I am talking about cannot be achieved without a dedicated teaching team including the support staff, who put their very best into the teaching and learning programmes that support our learners. So many thanks to them. Lastly, a very special thanks to you as parents of these wonderful children, thanks for your support to us at HPS and I wish you a happy and safe summer break. Many thanks

Ngā mihi nui Mark Lewington Principal

Good bye to our Year 6’s

We farewell the following Year 6

Students and wish them all the best

for their Intermediate years.

Room 1

Ankush Kulkarni, Eliana Patel, Ella

Menzies, George Lin, Hamza Laxmidhar,

Hassib Azim, Ilma Ismail, Jessica Ryan,

Krisha Kumar, Moazna Mumtaz, Nikita

Patel, Prashan Kumar, Siddhraj Solanki,

Simer Aulakh, Taj Ibnul,

Room 2

Cailey Park, Connor Hodgson, Esther

Ngahe, Hasti Jalali, Helena Barr, Jack

Van Houts, Janie Lai, Liesl Good,

Nabeeha Kamran, Olivia Lin, Saiesha

Chhotu, Sam Bolton, Shiv Patel,

Timothy Bacchus, William Singh,

. Room 3

Abraham Chanwong, Allie O’Callaghan,

Aston Kennedy, Dalia Manic Milev,

Geena Tesema, Grishmika Manmary,

Hannah Mulipola, Hayden Carpendale,

Hunter Ballard, Jaedyn-Iszak Tuisaula,

Kalin Liu, Katherine Liu, Liam Rose,

Paula Paliak, Quinn Wratten-Stone

Room 4

Bailey Nagel, Brooke Gladstone,

Charlotte Arts, Fatima Muhumed, Lucy

Donald, Nilasha Khemani, Salvin Sunil,

Siddharth Kannan, Theodore Jackson,

Tiana Baxter, Tyleah Po’e-Tofaeono,

Varsha Sreeram Babu, Vitujan

Mathiyalagan,

The last day to order lunches from Ezilunch will be

this Friday 13th December.

Term Events

December 13th Year 6 Graduation Reports go home 18th Last day of school School closes – 12pm

FOHPS NEWS

UPCOMING EVENTS

Our next FoHPS meeting will be held next year on Wednesday 19th February 2020 at 7.30pm in the

School Staffroom. All Welcome

Donated Gifts

Thank you to all those who have donated Christmas gifts for the children in need.

These gifts will be donated to Odyssey House. They have gone to kids who are

living with their mothers inside the House. Odyssey House has very much

appreciated the kindness of Hillsborough Primary School.

The close off for donating gifts to these children is this

Friday 13th December.

School Closes on Wednesday 18th December at 12.00pm. The Skids After School Care will be open from 12.00pm.

Charges from 12.00pm to 3.00pm will be a cost of $18.00 for the two hours and standard prices after 3.00pm. Bookings can be made online.

School starts again on Monday 3rd February 2020

TEACHER STRUCTURE FOR 2020

Kauri Syndicate

Tui Hub Yr 5/6 Mrs Tawnee Sowman

Yr 5/6 Miss Georgina Thomas

Kiwi Hub

Yr 5/6 To be advised

Yr 5/6 Miss Jewels Kim

Yr 4/5 Mrs Abby Dunne

Mrs Bridget Bryant Kauri Syndicate Leader

Rata Syndicate

Room 13 Yr 3/4 Miss Katie Hunter

Room 14 Yr 3 Ms Patricia Carlyle

Room 15 Yr 2/3 Mrs Claire Cook

Room 16 Yr 4 Mrs Jenny Elston Rata Syndicate Leader

Room 17 Yr 4 Miss Sarah Baxter

Room 18 Yr 3 Mrs Carrie Leong

Koru Syndicate

Room 6 Yr 2 Ms Emma Horne

Room 7 Yr 2 Miss Sarah Quadros

Room 8 Yr 1 Miss Gabrielle Dancey

Room 9 Yr 1/2 Mrs Gita Sukha

Room 10 NE Miss Ellen Schwart Koru Syndicate Leader

Room 11 NE Mrs Laura Gladstone

Room 12 Yr 0/1 Mrs Griselda Goring-Johnston

2020 TERM DATES FOR HPS

Term One - Monday 3rd February - Thursday 9th April

Term Two - Tuesday 28th April - Friday 3rd July

Term Three - Monday 20th July - Friday 25th September

Term Four - Monday 12th October - Tuesday 15th December

PB4L Positive Behaviour for Learning at Hillsborough Primary

Teaching and noticing great behaviour using our 3 school values.

Our focus for the last two weeks was:

Make positive choices and use friendly words when talking to our buddies.

This week we are focused on:

Challenge yourself to keep following instructions fast

We welcome the following teacher who will be joining us in 2020.

Katie Hunter - Room 13 Rata Syndicate

Travelwise News

Next February 2020 it will be Bike Month. Attached is a website with information for our students to participate in our bike month.

https://www.lovetoride.net/nz/pages/info?locale=en-GB&page=7_share

2020 music lessons at school start the week of Monday 10 February!

We offer group or individual tuition on piano, keyboard, guitar, ukulele and more.

If you would like your child to learn music at school next year, please enrol online at

www.lewiseady.co.nz

by 20 December 2019.

New Stationery Provider

Our new Stationery Provider is now at:

Onehunga Books and Stationery 175a Onehunga Mall

(next to Westpac)

Stationery orders for 2020 will be available from 15th January 2020. All you need to ask for is your ‘child’s room number’

KINDO NEWS

Families leaving the school

School Leavers – notice re ezlunch / Kindo school shop

If your family is leaving our school and moving to another school that does not use ezlunch

or Kindo for school payments, you need to close your account. If you’re not sure about the

new school, log in, go to My Details and click on the list of schools, scrolling to find your

new school.

If your new school is NOT on the list, you will need to close your account. Send an email

to hello@mykindo.co.nz requesting to close your account. This request will need to:

1. Be emailed from your mykindo account email address

2. State the current balance on the account

3. Provide the bank account number for refunding the balance (or ask for it to be

forwarded to the school)

Refunds and account closures will be actioned during January/February.

Soccer with Billy Harris

The last day of soccer this term is Wednesday 18th December. We’ll start back again in 2020 on Wednesday 5th February. Please contact

me if you’d like to come along and try out a class.

Holiday Camp – I am running a camp from 9am – midday on the 19th, 20th, 23rd and 24th December at Orakei Basin in Okahu Bay. Come

along for one or all the days!

Happy Holidays - Billy

Contact Billy on 027 2799042 or billyharris2000@hotmail.com.

Last week the Chess Team competed in the Australasian Primary Schools Chess Championship, placing 5th out of the top 29 schools. Just one more win would have seen us in the top three! The team did outstandingly well. Congratulations to Tyleah, Hunter and Grayson Po’e Tofaeono, Ayaan Vasudeva, Abraham Chanwong, Nithya Anegondi, Varsha Sreeram Babu, Allie O’Callaghan, Xabi Jenkyn-Jones, Bailey Nagel and Daniel Stewart. The Hillsborough Chess Champion Trophies do not simply go to the best player, although they must be one of the best. They must also show a champion spirit, consistency and be part of a team. As part of our champion team of the last three years, the Boys Chess Champion Trophy goes to Ayaan Vasudeva! Congratulations. The Girls Chess Trophy goes to our best female player and one of the best players in the school. Congratulations to Tyleah Po’e Tofaeono. Once again we like to say a big thankyou to Mr Wayne McDougall for his excellent coaching and time spent with our chess team.

FROM US ALL AT HILLSBOROUGH PRIMARY SCHOOL

CHESS NEWS