HAUTAPU SCHOOL PANUI
24 May 2024
Week 4, Term 2
Acting Assistant Principal's Message
It has been a very busy few weeks, and it seems the term is flying by, with next week marking the middle of Term 2 already!
Here at Hautapu School, we aim to nurture and grow the connections between our younger and older tamariki, fostering tuakana-teina relationships between the students in the junior and senior school. We have many opportunities throughout the week where our senior students support and build connections with our junior students.
Our classes enjoy coming together for weekly Buddy Reading sessions, where our seniors read books to our younger tamariki. This fosters these connections and builds our senior students' leadership skills, while also cultivating a love of reading in our younger students. We have noticed that often in the playground, our younger students will seek help from the seniors or just enjoy having a chat with their ‘big buddies’.
We also come together once a week for whole-school Jump Jam, a fun aerobics program. Our students (and teachers!) enjoy coming together to practice the aerobics routines and fit in some good cardio too! We also come together for whole-school Kapa Haka, where we further form connections between our younger and senior tamariki through waiata and the fostering of Te Reo Māori.
A fantastic collective effort was made last Friday by our whole school community as we supported Pink Shirt Day. Thank you to the Student Council and Brooke Phelan, who organized and coordinated this event. A huge thank you to our whānau for your kind donations; together, we have raised just over $250 for the Mental Health Foundation.
Another mention goes to our Student Council, who have been busy promoting the use of our Friendship Seat, which was given an amazing makeover by the Beveridge whānau. Our Friendship Seat has been very positive for those students who need support in finding a friend to play with during break times. Through the friendships built with our younger students, many of our senior students have been displaying leadership by assisting those who need a buddy to play with.
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and hopefully, we have a few more days of sunshine for our last weekend of autumn.
Ngā mihi nui,
Belinda Hoebergen
Certificates
Pink Shirt Day
Native Garden Project
Thank you so much to Restore Native, based in Te Miro, for donating 100 native plants to our school. This is the start of a very exciting project that Mrs Bennett and Mrs Hogarty are starting. We are going to create an interactive native garden area behind the school hall. We will be asking for whānau volunteers soon to help us get this project underway soon!
Hautapu Helping Hands
Join the Hautapu Helping Hands page on Facebook to keep up with school events.
Important Dates Term 2
Wednesday 29 May – NYLD (House Leaders Only)
Thursday 30 May – Structured Literacy Info Session 3pm in Library
Monday 3 June – No School, King’s Birthday
Friday 7 June – Senior Winter Sports Festival (Years 5 - 8 only) at Junior Football Club
Friday 7 June – Assembly 1:30pm (Kowhai class sharing)
Thursday 13 June – Junior Winter Sports Day (Years 0 - 4) @ 1.10pm on school field
Friday 14 June – No School, Teacher’s Only Day
Thursday 20 June – Tough Guy and Gal Challenge (for registered students)
Thursday 20 June – BOT Meeting 6pm
Friday 21 June – Assembly 1:30pm (Rata class sharing)
Thursday 27 June – Whānau Day to Celebrate Matariki
Friday 28 June – No School, Matariki
Thursday 4 July – Reports go home
Friday 5 July - Celebration Assembly 1:30pm, Last Day of Term (normal school day)
Your Lunch Box
Your Lunch Box
We are able to offer Your Lunch Box (https://www.yourlunchbox.co.nz/) at Hautapu School. This is a great, convenient way to have delicious & healthy lunches made fresh and delivered to your children at school at the click of a mouse. Orders will be delivered to school in the morning and children can collect their school lunch box from the office.
Kell Club Additional Session Time
Kell Club - New session for students who need afterschool care after winter sport training
SPONSORS
Kit-Markin Construction
Multi award winning Master Builders Kit-Markin Homes will donate $5000 to Hautapu School when friends and family of the school choose them to build their new home or commercial building. New decks from the community will result in a $500 donation to the school. Contact Josh on 0279355435 or josh@kmh.co.nz
COMMUNITY NOTICES
Springsheep Milking Company lamb giveaway
With lamb season fast approaching, Spring Sheep Milking Company and its associated supply farms will have a number of lambs available for adoption, be that for ag day, pets, or additions to a lifestyle block.
All lambs will have received full health check, have had navels dipped prior to giveaway and will be ready to go to new homes having had sufficient colostrum.
Click this link to go on a waiting list for a lamb:
Contact Us
Email: admin@hautapu.school.nz
Website: https://www.hautapu.school.nz/
Location: 5 Hana Lane, Cambridge 3493, New Zealand
Phone: +647827 7466