Hillsborough Primary School

Belfast Street, Hillsborough, Auckland 1042 www.hps.school.nz Ph: (09) 625 7307

admin@hillsborough.school.nz 28th November 2018

CHILDREN’S GIFTS

We like to at this time of the year collect gifts to donate to

children in need.

A box will be held in the Office for wrapped gifts. If you could

please label whether it is for a ‘boy’ or ‘girl’ or for both indicating

approximately an age.

Please no secondhand gifts. Your generosity would be very much appreciated.

These gifts will be donated to the City Mission.

Final day for drop off will be Wednesday 12th December

WRECK IT RALPH 2 MOVIE

For those who attended the movie, FoHPS hope you enjoyed it, because we certainly

did, despite the weather and lack of parking. A big thankyou to FoHPS and especially

Keri Van Houts for all your hard work with organizing the event and Alex Beattie for

printing the fantastic movie tickets.

Thankyou also to Kara Hodgson for being MC on the day

New Students

Welcome to the following students who have recently started at Hillsborough Primary School – Delfina Simmons, Aanya Hannon-Anand, Anon Fukushita, Aashi Pratap and Sara Michael

Congratulations to the following students who received certificates on Friday 23rd November at the School Assembly. Dora Shi R12 Always showing kindness to others and making positive choices. Mahnoor Khan R15 Making fantastic progress and always challenging herself. Ava Phelps R7 Displaying great leadership skills on Athletics Day. Kiarah Hayward R20 Being such a responsible helper in Room 20 Siobhan Wong R16 Always giving her best and working well with others. Taanish Vasudeva R1 Brooklyn Daniels R10 Making consistent improvements in maths. Challenging himself by writing longer stories. Precious Chen R18 Amazing effort! Always having a positive attitude towards learning. Charlotte Cammell R13 Excellent effort and progress in reading and writing. Bella Huang R8 Showing good understanding of fractions in her maths. Siddharth Kannan R2 Consistently working hard and for your imnpressive progress in reading. Well done! Varsha Sreeram Babu R5 Having a positive and hardworking attitude towards her learning. Seth Menzies R14 Justin Su R17 Challenging yourself to always do your best. Making good progress with his maths and reading. Nataliya Faisal R4 Challenging herself in her maths learning and making good progress. Ella Donald R11 Challenging herself and working really hard to improve her writing. Darren Lin R6 Challenging himself to kick and break and board during Taekwondo. Brooklyn Keen R9 Lola Croucher R9 His enthusiastic and positive approach to all activities. Taking responsibility of your learning and making good choices! Quinn Wratten-Stone R3 Fantastic progress across all curriculum areas.

Chess

The last day for the chess club was Tuesday 27th November. There will be no chess club during the month of December.

SCHOLASTIC BOOK ORDERS

The Scholastic books are online only. The last day to order is Friday 30th December.

Our Solomon Island children gave an

amazing performance at our school

assembly last week. Their pride for their

culture shone through their smiles and

brightened everyone’s day

Please remember that there is no

stopping on the western side of

Belfast Street before and after school.

We also kindly ask that you do not

pull into the neighbours driveways or

up onto their berms to drop off or pick

up your children.

WSB Colouring Competition

We had so many entries for our Walking School Bus

Colouring competition and the Travelwise Student

Leaders had a difficult job choosing the winner. So a

big congratulations goes to:

Koru 1st place - Prisha Wadhera, 2nd place – Arushe

Savadi Avity Room 11, 3rd place – Max Mischefski

Rata

1st place – Ojasvi Mogre, 2nd place – Inayat Arora,

3rd place – Mikayla Denny

Kauri

1st place – Elliott Hobson, 2nd place – Anika Wong, 3rd

place – Bethany Morgan

TRAVELWISE

Our Travelwise Student Leaders have once again done an amazing job this year promoting

road safety for our students and their families. Such a great job in fact that they have been awarded with Gold in recognition of their hard work at the Travelwise Celebration Awards

at the Cloud in the city. Thank you Jack van Houts, Esther Ngahe, Ella Menzies, Connor Stewart, Casey Ogilvy, Esther Henderson and Iszak Tuisala.

Travelwise Students for 2019

Congratulations to our new Travelwise Student Leaders for 2019.

Ojasvi Mogre, Lily Cameron, Liam Baker

and Caleb Wong

Yummy Stickers Awards Our new yummy sticker gear has arrived. New soccer balls, Ki O Rahi balls, hula hoops, tennis balls, and skipping ropes. Thankyou everyone for all your support.

Term Events

November

29th Athletics zones 30th Waikowhai

intermediate Open morning – Year 6 School Disco

December 3rd Whole School Beach

Walk 7th School Prize Giving 13th Meet 2019 teacher Reports go home Year 6 Graduation 14th Year 6 Trip 18th Final Assembly 18th SCHOOL FINISHES TODAY – 1.00pm

SCHOOL APP

We have just introduced our new school mobile app. Here you can send messages to the school, receive alerts and keep updated with what's happening around the school with the

school newsletter. Simply scroll over link, then Ctrl click on link and follow instructions.

http://hillsboroughprimary.apps.school.nz/share/

SCHOOL DISCO

FRIDAY 30TH NOVEMBER

DJ Gavan is back.

6.00pm – 7.30pm - Full School

7.30pm – 8.30pm - Years 5 & 6 only

Door sales only (from 5.30pm)

$5.00 per ticket or $10.00 for a family Sausage sizzle, hamburgers, drinks and ice creams available for purchase.

A parent/guardian is required for all children Years 0-3. Children must stay inside the designated area at all times. All children must be picked up at the door by 7.30pm (Yrs 0-4) by 8.30pm (Yrs 5-6)

'Kids for Kids' Choirs

On Tuesday 13 November, 21 members of the Rata Choir performed with 600 other children at the Vodafone Events Centre at Manukau. On Thursday 15 November, it was the turn of the 44 children in the Kauri Choir. They sang 16 New Zealand songs which they had been practising since May and learnt the actions for these at the morning rehearsal. They were led by well known singers Jackie Clarke

and Nathan King. We were very proud that one of our pupils, Theodore Jackson, was chosen to perform a solo on stage, singing the song 'Language'. The lively and fun concerts were thoroughly enjoyed by the children performing and by the audience. A special thankyou to Mrs Coralie McIntyre-Robinson for all her hard work, effort

and time to make this evening for the children successful.

Ezi Lunch The final day to order lunches will be Friday 14th December.

Lunches will resume back on the 1st day of school - 4th February 2019.

sKids Afterschool Programme

To register for sKids you will need to use AIMY PLUS – this is the online parent portal and

booking system.

To do this, go to AIMY PLUS by either clicking on the Parent Login box on the sKids website

www.skids.co.nz – this will redirect you to http://skids.aimy.co.nz or you can go straight to

http://skids.aimy.co.nz

2019 Term Dates for Hillsborough Primary School

Term One: Monday 4th February – Friday 12th April

Term Two: Monday 29th April – Friday 5th July

Term Three: Monday 22nd July – Friday 27th September

Term Four: Monday 14th October – Wednesday 18th December