Hillsborough Primary School News

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

admin@hillsborough.school.nz 10th April 2019

New Students

Welcome to the following new students who

have started at HPS: Dhruvi Shivlal, Phoenix

Kopu-Lowerson, Noah Shepherd and Louis

Forrest.

Principal’s Voice:

Dear Parents and Caregivers

As this first term draws to a close I would like to thank all the teachers and support staff for all their hard work and making it a great start to the school year. It has been a busy term with lots of fantastic learning taking place throughout the school. I would like to add my thanks to all the children for all their hard work and know that they will be looking forward to a well earned break. A special thanks also to the parents and caregivers for all the support you give to your children and to us as a school. I do hope that you have an enjoyable and safe time over the holiday break and we look forward to seeing you all again at the beginning of term 2.

Many Thanks Nga Mihi Nui Mark Lewington

End of Term One

School closes this Friday 12th April at 3pm

for two weeks. We start back on

Monday 29th April.

Have a safe and enjoyable Holiday Break

Our vision for HPS. Grow learners & develop

citizens

Congratulations to the following students who received certificates on Friday 5th April at the School Assembly. Latrell Clarke R9 Always challenging himself with all his learning. Ka Pai! Isla Taylor R16 Always working hard to present her best work. Muhammad Hameedi R6 Brilliant story writing. You dig deep to make your writing interesting. Nabeeha Kamran R2 Consistently showing kindness and challenging herself everyday. Ka pai! Sophie Bacchus R14 Challenging yourself with your maths thinking. Well done! Mana Bavihal R17 Challenging herself to complete learning teaks to a high standard. Tom Taylor R12 Challenging himself to search right through unknown words – read them correctly and celebrate his successes! Jasreet Singh R11 Challenging himself by working very hard to learn his rocket words – Ka Pai! Shawaiz Khan R18 Brooke Gladstone R4 Impressive progress in his basic facts knowledge. Making positive choices in all areas. Ankush Kulkarni R1 Being a supportive team member during EOTC games. Ava Phelps R15 Georgia Taylor R Displaying a keen attitude towards all her learning. Digging deep and adding detail to her Story writing. Nikhil Prabhu R10 Challenging himself by writing longer stories and sounding out some tricky words. Oliver Collins R3 Challenging himself at Rocket Ropes during our EOTC week. Ayra Khan R8 Challenging herself in her writing – you should be very proud of yourself. Semon Negash R5 Being a helpful and sensible role model at the Rate Cultural lunch.

THURSDAY FRIDAY

SUNSHINE

READERS

We are going outside in

the sunshine to read a

book.

Where will your class

go?

BUDDY READING

Read your best story writing this year,

to your buddy reader.

I bet they will love it!

- Help your child find a

favourite book from

home to bring in to

school.

Ask your child what they read today.

BOOK WEEK 8TH – 12TH APRIL

On Friday 22nd March, we had a mufti and

iceblock day and money raised was donated to

the CHRISTCHURCH APPEAL.

We raised $823.60.

Well done and thankyou to the students at

Hillsborough Primary.

Term Events May June

7th Swim Zones 10TH Mother’s Day Bake Sale 3rd Queens Birthday 15th Parent Evening led by kidslink 4th Kauri MOTAT trip 21st Rata trip to MOTAT 5th Kauri MOTAT trip Orienteering zones 6th Kauri MOTAT trip 23rd Power chess competition 7th School Disco 27th School Photos 11th Koru MOTAT 28th School Photos 12th Koru MOTAT 30th BOT meeting 17th Safe Walking - Koru 18th Safe Walking - Koru 18th Hockey Zones 30th Movie Night at Hoytz Toy Story 4

Room 1: Room 2: Room 3: Eliana Patel Nabeha Kamran Paula Paliak Prashan Kumar Liesil Good Dalia Malic Milev Siddhraj Solanki Olivia Lin Kalin Liu

Connor Hodgson Geena Tesema Jack Van Houts Quinn Wratten-Stone Tim Bacchus Hayden Carpendale

Room 4: Lucy Donald Brooke Gladstone Tyleah Po’e-Tofaeono Tiana Baxter Theodore Jackson

PB4L

Positive Behaviour for

Learning at Hillsborough

Primary

Teaching and noticing great behaviour using our 3 school values.

Our focus for these 2 weeks has been:

When playing in the playground, we:

Make positive choices – stop and think.

Show kindness by taking turns.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING STUDENTS

WHO HAVE BEEN SELECTED AS

PEER MEDIATORS

Entertainment Books We at Hillsborough School are so excited to be

launching the NEW 2018/2019 Entertainment Books

soon!

We are raising as much as we can to support our school, and we

need your help! Order your NEW 2019 | 2020 Entertainment Book

or Entertainment Digital Membership now. You'll receive

hundreds of valuable offers for everything you love to do, and help our fundraising at the same time!

Control + Click on order now, this will take you to the booking website.

For further information you can contact:

Karina Wong

0211574844

karinaw@hotmail.co.nz

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

Assisting with Cultural Day we had wonderful helpers who helped to set up and serve the food and pack up after the occasion. We were very proud of the following students: Moazna, Kalin, Sarah, Semon, Jason and Aayan.

Thankyou to all those who purchased the Cookie Tins for the FoHPS fundraiser.

We raised $300.00.

RATA FOOD AND CULTURAL DRESS DAY

This term the children in Rata syndicate have been learning about the different ways people celebrate special occasions in our school community. They held a Cultural dress and food sharing day on Tuesday and it was great to see so many parents and grandparents coming along too. The children came dressed in their special clothes and they were able to sample different foods from a range of cultures.

JAMES RUSSELL - AUTHOR James Russell is the author of the best-

selling Dragon Brothers Trilogy, comprised

of The Dragon Hunters, The Dragon

Tamers and The Dragon Riders. The

Dragon Defenders is the first of the Dragon

Bros novel series.

These books can be ordered from the school office at

$20.00 each or you can contact him on:

contact@dragonbrothersbooks.com

to place your order for a signed copy.

Book Parade

On Monday students and teachers dressed up in their favourite book character. The students enjoyed having Winnie the Pooh and Eeyore come to visit to share in the excitement.

This year we were lucky enough to take 3 teams to the football zones at Eden Park. We were in for an extra treat as the Fifa Womens world

cup was there for us to see, we got lots of prizes and were able to speak to some of the international players. All of our teams did extremely well winning most games that were played.

We would like to acknowledge the Store Manager of Countdown Onehunga Alex who generously donated towards our last School BBQ and has donated bread for our school towards kid’s school lunches. We also appreciate Karina Wong’s hard work towards receiving this trolley load for our school. Thankyou.

FoHPS NEWS

HPS Football Zones

FOHPS NEWS

UPCOMING EVENTS

TERM 2 FUNDRAISERS

10th May - Mothers Day Bake Sale 7th June - School Disco: THEME – ‘Glow in the dark’ 30th June - HOYTZ Cinema Sylvia Park ‘Toy Story 4’ at 12.30pm 5th July - Friday Pie Day

We need helpers for all these fundraisers.

Notices will be coming out in Term 2.

Have a fantastic break. FoHPS TEAM.

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