Hāwera Primary School

Email: admin@haweraprimary.school.nz
Website: https://sites.google.com/haweraprimary.school.nz/haweraprimaryschool
Location: 261 South Road, Hawera, New Zealand
Phone: 06 2787709
Facebook: facebook.com/haweraprimaryschool

Kia ora koutou

Happy Friday everyone! We've had a big week with several of our staff away with illness. The remaining staff have worked hard to keep these disruptions to a minimum. Unfortunately there is a serious shortage of relief teachers in our area and finding suitable cover can be a real challenge especially at this time of year. Thank you for your understanding and patience with this, we are looking forward to having everyone back next week. To help us out if your child is sick please keep them at home until they are fully well, do not send them to school as this can often add to the problem.

Last week I spent a couple of great days visiting schools in Nelson with principals from other South Taranaki schools. It was a wonderful experience, I appreciated the opportunity to learn from others, gather more ideas, problem-solve some of our challenges and affirm the great progress we've made with relationship-based learning professional development over the last few years. It reinforced the importance of establishing a family-like context and focusing on fostering positive relationships through high quality teaching strategies and interactions to improve the achievement of all learners.

Our community consultation about possible cohort entry for 5 year olds concluded this week. We appreciate the input of everyone who took the time to complete the survey, both sides raised some valid and interesting points. The BOT will now consider all the results, decide where to go from here and report back in the near future.

Please keep an eye out for our upcoming community survey that we are aiming to send out next week, we want to hear your valuable feedback to further inform our school's direction.

Today I had the pleasure of listening to the senior speech finals judged by Mrs Sullivan. It was great to see the wide mix of topics, great delivery and courage to stand in front of their peers. Congratulations to the winners, we wish you all the best as you go up against the other schools at the Lion's Speech Competition next week.

Our Cross-country/ Adventure Race is coming up soon. A notice will be sent home in the next couple of days. Please discuss with your child and decide whether they are going to do the optional competitive cross-county (in their age group as at 25/9/19) or the fun adventure race (in houses) or BOTH! Once you've decided please return the slip to the office as soon as possible so we can get the events organised.

Have a great weekend everyone! Wrap up warm and recharge those batteries ready for a great last few weeks of term.

'Ma te huruhuru ka rere te manu-Adorn the bird with feathers so it can fly!'

Ngā mihi nui

Shevaun O'Brien

PRINCIPAL

COMING EVENTS

School Speech Finals- Friday 6th September (selected students)

St John's First Aid Course- Monday 9th September (Year 5 only)

Puffer Fish Play- Tuesday 10th September (all students, free)

Touch starts- Thursday 12th September, Turuturu Soccer Grounds

Lions Speechmaker Contest- Thursday 12th September 7pm, St Joseph's Parish Hall (selected students)

Roald Dahl Quiz- Friday 13th September (selected students)

School Cross-country and Adventure Race- Wednesday 18th September

Junior Drama Festival- Thursday 19th September (selected students)

Taranaki Cross Country- Wednesday 25th September (selected students)

We are pleased to announce the confirmed staffing for next term:

Room 1- Miss Anna Thomson

Room 2-Miss Annalyse Burgess (Mon, Tues,Thurs & Fri) & Mrs Abi Bridgeman (Weds)

Room 4-Miss Justine Clark

Room 5- Whaea Jude Cornelius (Mon, Weds,Thurs & Fri) & Mrs Abi Bridgeman (Tues)

Room 6-Whaea Paula Frearson (Mon, Weds, Thurs & Fri) & Miss Theresa Gale (Tues)

Pod 1A- Mrs Tash Coulson (Mon, Weds, Thurs & Fri) & Miss Felicity Cameron (Tues)

Pod 1B- Mrs Nazli Jeftha (Deputy Principal)

Pod 2A-Mrs Jessica Dunlop (Senior Team Leader)

Pod 2B- Miss April Baylis (Acting Junior Team Leader)

Miss Rheannah Clarke will continue as Junior Team Leader until Week 3

Mrs Bev Landers & Miss Theresa Gale will cover release along with relief teachers as required.

Please see Ms O'Brien if you require any further information.

Congratulations to everyone who was selected to participate in this year's speech finals. Once again the standard was really high. Everyone was very impressed by the quality of the content and confidence in the delivery.

This year's placings were:

1st= Lachlan Pick

2nd= Lucas Hunt

3rd= Sam Maulder

4th=Franky Wallis

Special thank you to our wonderful judge Mrs Sullivan, it was great to have you back with us. Keep practicing hard for the Lion's Speech Competition next week, good luck!

Kaha has had a refresh so we can use his image in lots more ways. Please let us know what you think, we think he looks pretty cool.

A huge thanks goes out to Colleen McLeod and the knitting group with a mixture of Hawera and New Plymouth ladies. These wonderful hard workers knitted a pair of slippers for every senior student to wear in the pods. With the left over wool Colleen knitted a stunningly colourful warm blanket for our sickbay. Thank you so much for all your hard work and kindness we will treasure them.

PRE-ENROLMENTS

We are aware that starting school is a very big step. Therefore we aim to make the transition as smooth as possible for your child and whanau.

We encourage the parents of all new entrants to pre-enroll their child prior to their fifth birthday, where possible. To enroll you can come in to the school office or enroll online by clicking on the following link.

https://www.haweraprimary.school.nz/school-i…/new-enrolments

CONGRATULATIONS to Richard Frearson who won the $100 Petrol Voucher - Im sure that will come in handy and to Shannan Griffin who won the $100 Countdown Voucher!

Thanks to all that brought tickets - we raised $1,034.50 all the raised money will go towards our end of year activities.

Wow Josh you amazed us with your awesome writing and excellent use of an app to share your ideas. Very impressive!

Tino pai Marley you have been consistently showing The KAHA Way, keep it up!

Tu meke Sjhasia, you are an absolute star who always shows The KAHA Way - keep shining!

This term we begin preparing for the optional competitive cross-country and fun adventure races. This event will be held at the A&P Showgrounds.

All students will begin training on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Our goal is to have everyone participating. Please make sure your child has appropriate running clothes and footwear at school.More details will follow later in the term

See below for any important reminders. Please contact or call in if you have any further questions.

The Taranaki District Health Board has put our a information notice for parents around the recent measles outbreak. Please click on the following link for access to the notice.

Measles Information for Parents - STDHB

As parents we sometimes need to get messages to our children during school hours. I'm sure you all can appreciate how hectic the office becomes in the afternoon. Please could you try to call the office BEFORE 2.45pm (as a runner will be coming then to pass on the messages). Any messages that come in AFTER 2.45pm we cannot guarantee the message will reach them.

Hi everyone, as a school we have several methods of communication

NEWSLETTER-

emailed out and linked to the school website, apps etc every fortnight on a Friday

SCHOOL APPS-

subscribe to this app to get quick reminders and notifications. Don't forget to customise your settings to make sure, you stay in the loop.

FACEBOOK-

great source of information and celebration of all things HPS!

SEESAW-

A wonderful app that let's you share in your child's learning journey and find out class specific information.

EDGE-

This app allows staff to email you directly and vice versa

CLASSROOM NOTICEBOARD-

Outside the classrooms you will find physical copies of newsletters etc.

If you are unsure about any of these app or are having trouble downloading any of them please see you class teacher, we want you to be informed.

We are now able to order school lunches from Subway on a Wednesday. Envelopes are available from the office. Mini Subs $3.50 - 6 inch $4 - Cookies $1 - Water $2.

Orders need to be place BEFORE 9am Wednesday (no late orders accepted as Subway collects the money)

Please provide correct money -

Hawera Primary will NOT be able to change money for the children.

Some exciting news at Hawera Primary - We have teamed up with Lunch Shack!

From this Friday 6th Sept we will be doing Friday Piedays (as well as some other delicious treats)!

Never fear we will still have our Subs on a Wednesday.

Envelopes and order forms are available from the student side of the office, as per our subway order please ensure correct change is put into the envelope. All orders in by 9am Friday.

Any questions just ask Mel at the office.

Remember if you take some amazing photos at events and you would like to share them with our community in the school newsletter you can send them to Mel via Facebook messenger, email on a USB stick or pop into the office and she can take them off your phone for you.

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Starting out with PORSE

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