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

Kia ora koutou

I am grateful, the teachers and support staff of Hāwera Primary School are joining with their colleagues all over the country on 9 August to call on the government to give primary and intermediate principals a fair deal. We need your support as we stand up for all principals.

Teachers recently won pay parity with their secondary colleagues, because a teacher is a teacher, regardless of the age of their students. But the government refused to give primary and intermediate principals parity with principals of comparably sized secondary schools, or any support for growing workloads.

Principals work hard for their schools and communities, they deserve a collective agreement offer that reflects their considerable skills and responsibilities. We need to value and support the role so teachers actually want to become principals-especially in our small and rural schools and kura.

In small schools, principals are doing a complex job but often without any extra support, and while teaching as well. These principals are often paid less than some teachers in large schools.

We’re calling on the Government to do the right thing by principals. It’s only fair.

On 9 August, we’ll be wearing green to show our solidarity.

Please support the principals of Aotearoa, who do such a vital job leading the teaching and learning in our schools.

'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

PJ Disco- Friday 9th August 5.30-7.30 pm in the hall, $2 entry

BOT Meeting- Monday 19th August 6.30 pm

Tatarakihi Kapa Haka Festival (New Plymouth)- Friday 23rd August, New Plymouth

St John's First Aid course (Yr 5 students)- Monday 9th September 8.50-3 pm

School Cross-country and Adventure Race- Wednesday 18th September 12pm (postponement Thursday 19th September) at Hawera Showgrounds.

Taranaki Cross-Country- Wednesday 25th September, 11am at Hawera Showgrounds (selected students only)

Thank you to everyone who attended last week. If you were unable to make please contact your child's teacher as soon as possible to arrange an alternative time.

The teachers really enjoyed and appreciated the opportunity to come together to share your child's learning journey and find out more about your aspirations for them.

Big thank you also to everyone who provided valuable feedback about our revised report format and new School Interviews digital booking system.

Ms O'Brien and the staff are busy compiling your input and forming our next steps in response. She will share this in a future newsletter. So far the responses have been overwhelmingly positive but there is always room for further improvements and we appreciate your suggestions.

Together we can achieve so much more.

Today Friday 9th August, school staff, whānau and communities all over Aotearoa are going to show their support for primary principals/tumuaki in their fight with the Ministry to receive parity with their secondary colleagues and a deal that addresses their workload and well being issues.

Principals are the backbone of our schools so let’s show our support for them this Friday by going green.

Doors open at 5.30pm tonight, we can't wait to get our dancing shoes on.

Thank you to one of our senior students Kayla who campaigned long and hard for this fun event. She has worked alongside the teachers to plan and prepare the food, music and decorations.

Well done Kayla, you have done a great job!

Due to continued roll growth we have decided that some Room 1 students will be moving through to Room 4 at the end of this term. We will contact the families of these students next week.

Any new entrants who start school from Week 9 of this term to the end of the year will go into Room 1 as Room 2 is filling up fast which is great for our school.

If you have a pre-schooler that is due to start school we encourage you to pop in and pick up an enrollment pack as soon as possible so we can arrange your school visits. The last school visitis for 2019 will be before and during week 6 of Term 4 as we are too busy at the end of the year.

From January 2020 cohort (group) entry becomes law. This means that there will be two dates per term which the Ministry decides. These will be the only dates your five year old will be able start, we will not accept four year olds as per the Ministry of Education's advice.

The 2020 cohort entry dates are as follows:

TERM 1 Monday 3rd February and Tuesday 9th March

TERM 2 Tuesday 28th April and Tuesday 2nd June

TERM 3 Monday 20th July and Monday 24th August

TERM 4 Monday 12th October and Monday 16th November

This law applies to all New Zealand primary schools, if you have any questions please come and see us.

Great to see our students making the most of a rare dry day to be outside enjoying the company of their friends and also choosing to play with someone new.

That's what 'Kotahitanga-Getting on Together' is all about! Nice one kids!

Earlier in the week we were highly entertained by a troupe of actors from NZ Playhouse. They presented their play The Tortoise and the Hare which was a modern take on the well-known Aesop's fable.

A very funny way of sharing some wise words to live by and a great warm-up for our own upcoming focus on The Arts over the rest of the term. So happy to see our students really enjoying the show! Thank you to the Board of Trustees for sponsoring this event.

Max our awesome caretaker has been working hard to freshen up this part of the school grounds. He has cut the back branches to open up the spaces and removed some dead trees in "the forest" (arboretum) .

He has also fixed the water damage from the bike track and it is now fully back in action. Our next steps are to put walkways through the area, relocate the monkey bars back into the playgrounds and label all the native trees. The passion projects the classes are working on will further enhance this space. We'll keep you updated as this space develops.

THANKS MAX! It looks great

Collect. Educate. Donate!

Welcome to Wattie’s Cans for Good! We’re back again for another year of our exciting national can ‘collection, creation, education and donation’ campaign run by The Salvation Army in partnership with Wattie’s for New Zealand schools.

Thanks to the incredible efforts of the 249 schools and kindergartens who participated in 2018, more than 95,000 cans were donated to Salvation Army foodbanks – restocking shelves in the high demand winter period.

Since Cans for Good began in 1994, nearly 1.5 million cans have been donated and this year through the support of New Zealand schools participating we hope to collect 110,000 cans taking us to a total of 1.6 million cans. With Wattie’s kick starting with 25,000 cans, this will make an incredible boost to local Salvation Army food banks at a critical time of year.

Please have your Wattie's cans to the office by TUESDAY 13th AUGUST. Thanks!!

Earlier in the term a child from each family was issued with a sheet of 10 raffle tickets for $2 each to sell. The important information is all on the back of the sheet.

If you do not wish to participate please return the sheet to the office as soon as possible. Also if you would like to sell extras please pop in and collect one of our extra sheets.

We would like all money and sheets returned on WEDNESDAY 28th AUGUST. The winners of the $100.00 petrol and $100.00 grocery vouchers will be drawn at assembly on Friday 30th August.

As we did not have a gala this year. All profits will go towards reducing the costs associated with our end of year/camp costs. Please see Ms O'Brien if you have any further questions. Thank you for your support.

We are looking to start up Fresh Food Fridays again in Term 3. We are hoping to offer options like sausage sizzle, nachos, soup, hamburgers and toasties etc. Nothing too elaborate. If you are able to volunteer your time for this role please let Ms O'Brien know.

Check out these cool cats from Room 4. Jasneet, Mia-Makaia, Arani and Danny have been consistently showing The KAHA Way! Ka rawe kids!

Mahi pai Katiee and Oscar, congratulations on doing your 'personal best' during writing time. Keep it up!

As you can see this is well underway. We will be out jogging on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday at 12.45pm. Please make sure your child has suitable running clothes and footwear on those days.

Our upcoming competitive Cross Country will be optional and followed by a fun Adventure Race on Wednesday 18th September (postponement Thursday 19th September) at the Hawera Showgrounds

Up until then all students will be pushing themselves to achieve their own personal best fitness goals because that's what it's all about.

Reminder parents can you please notify us if your child is medically unable to participate.

Please return any sports uniforms from last term ASAP (netball, basketball etc). Please ensure they are washed and bring them to Tina in the office. Thank you!

All permission slips should now be returned to the office. Teams will be made over the next week or so and children will receive a newsletter regarding what team they are in. Keep an eye out for this coming home in the next couple of weeks.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Cathy Rosser our former SWIS worker is now working at WellStop - to find out more pop down to the open day and say hi!