PUKEKOHE HILL FAMILY NEWSLETTER Phone 092386374 e.mail: admin@pukekohehill.school.nz www.pukekohehill.school.nz

No 25/14 27 August 2014

WELCOME TO HILL

Congratulations to Hill’s

youngest students who have

celebrated their 5th birthday and

begun their learning adventure

at Hill in Room 11 or 27.

Welcome to: Nathaniel de

Clerk, Jade Beattie, Jacob Stelts,

Eva Reynolds, Tama Fakalangi,

Elijah Wrigley, Jaydah

Koroheke, Jordon Hollard,

Devon Pirret, Sadie Tou, Adam

Robinson and Psalm Rewa.

Welcome also to older students

Saimone Nau, Skye Fraser,

Devaine Murphy, Aki Otuvai

and Tayler Bryant who have

joined us from other schools or

from overseas.

STAFF IN THE NEWS

Nau mai, haere mai! Welcome

to Sylvia Patu who has joined

the Support Staff team in the

Enrichment class with Mrs

Chamberlain and our tamariki.

DAFFODIL DAY THIS

FRIDAY

Each year, Hill School

supports the Cancer

Society’s Daffodil day

appeal. This Friday,

29 August, children are

encouraged to bring a gold

coin donation to school for a

class coin trail. Each child who

makes a donation will receive a

daffodil in appreciation.

PARENT ROAD PATROL

SUPERVISOR NEEDED

Can you be a Road Patrol hero?

A parent road patrol supervisor

is urgently needed to help our

Ward St student patrollers on

Friday afternoons. Please see

us if you can help.

NEW VIRTUE IS HONESTY

The virtue being promoted for

the rest of term is “Honesty”.

Teachers will discuss with

children that when we are

honest we:

Say what we mean and

mean what we say.

Make promises that we

can keep.

Are able to admit our

mistakes.

Refuse to lie, cheat or

steal.

Tell the truth tactfully.

Parents are encouraged to

discuss with children what the

virtue of honesty means for your

family.

BOARD MEETING

TONIGHT

The August meeting of your

Board of Trustees is tonight,

Wednesday 27 August at

7.00pm in the staffroom.

Meetings are open to the public

and you are welcome to come

along and observe the wide

range of items that make up the

agenda.

TROPHIES AND CUPS

RETURNED PLEASE

Calling all families who had

students who were awarded

cups and trophies at

Prizegivings at the end of 2013.

These are now needed back at

school as we prepare for

Prizegiving 2014.

So, please give them a clean and

polish and send them back to

Mrs Hari in the office as soon as

possible.

SCHOOL CROSS

COUNTRY CHAMPIONS

Terrific running everybody!

Well done to the fast running

and determined Y3 – 6 students

who participated in the school

cross country champs last week.

After we trained hard to

improve our fitness (well, most

of us did!) in some cold and

muddy conditions, this year’s

race was run in great weather.

We wish our 32 Hill runners all

the best at Group Day. Morgan

and Bradley, Sports Reporters

Top 3 placegetters in their

races were:

Year 3 Boys: Jack Shaw, Kane

Johnston, Liam Mould

Year 3 Girls: Emerson Dalziel,

Ella Temu, Ripeka Navunicagi

Year 4 Boys: Aiden Hall,

Cameron Richards, Justin

Lockerbie.

Year 4 Girls: Bella Earl, Perri

de Jonge, Riley Jenkins.

Year 5 Boys: Mason Johnson,

Ethan Rive, Asahi Smith.

Year 5 Girls: Niamh Baxter,

Arianne Bell, Kerryn Walters.

Year 6 Boys: Bradley

Morrison, Tory Jones-Bruce,

Cameron Baxter

Year 6 Girls: Georgia Carter,

Sarah Carpenter, Genevieve

Hemi.

PIZZA THURSDAY NEXT

WEEK

Something different! The PTA

is trialling a Pizza Thursday

next week instead of our

traditional sausage sizzle. Slices

of pizza will be $1.00 each and

drinks will also be a dollar.

Look out for a pizza order form

coming home on Monday.

WORM TEA FOR SALE

Be in quick! Worm Tea is for

sale outside Room 1 on Fridays

from 2.30 – 3.10pm. It’s not for

drinking! It’s for your garden,

ideal for fertilising roots of

indoor and outdoor plants.

1 litre $2 and 2 litre $4.

Made by our EFS students.

Seth, Blake and Manroz

INTERMEDIATE

ORIENTATION YEAR 6’s

There is an Orientation evening

at Intermediate next week on

Tuesday 5 September from 6 –

7.30pm for our Year 6 students

and their families.

CLASSROOM

HIGHLIGHTS

Each month, several teachers

and classes present Highlights

reports to the Board of Trustees

and parts of these are shared in

Family Newsletters.

Room 13: Kia ora, Bula, Talofa,

Gidday and welcome to Room

13.We are a Y1 classroom of 11

boys and 9 girls. Our Classroom

is a learning zone. We know we

come to school to learn and we

are responsible for our own

learning. We are enthusiastic

learners who are focussed and

we consistently try our best. In

our learning zone we have

rockets. Our rockets take us on

our learning journey to the stars.

We always try to stay in our

learning rockets but sometimes

asteroids try to intercept our

journey and we can go off

course. So we try to avoid those

asteroids.

We are progressing well in our

learning and there is always

exciting things to see and

experience.

This term we are learning about

our own culture as well as other

cultures. It is so interesting

learning about other people’s

cultures and trying and

experiencing new things. We

have a cultural rotation with

Room 10 and 27. Each week we

celebrate a different culture. In

our first rotation we celebrated

the Maori culture. We heard the

legend of the “Fish of Maui”

and how Maui caught a big fish

that became the North Island of

New Zealand. We made Maori

headbands and sang waiata’s.

We made Maori bread which

was yummy. We also learned E

Papa with rakau.

This past week we learned all

about Kiwiana. New Zealand

has so many unique things to

celebrate. We have a special

bird the “Kiwi”, we did some

cool Kiwi artwork and we

learned about a drink called ”L

& P” which is world famous in

New Zealand because it comes

from a small place called

“Paeroa”. We made L & P

scones, which were yummy. In

our next cultural rotation we

will be learning about the Indian

culture.

We welcome visitors to our

classroom, please come and

visit anytime. We would like to

thank the Board for all the

support they give our school,

Yours warmly,

Mrs Sara Olsen and the lovely

children of Room 13.

COMMUNITY NEWS

Pukekohe Metro Cricket:

Registration at the Bledisloe

Park clubrooms for new and

existing members is next week

on Wednesday 3 September

5.30-7.30, Saturday and Sunday

6-7 Sept 10am-1pm. For ages 5

year and up. Contact Amanda at

238 8099 or 021 879 737

Mauku Cricket Club: Based in

Patumahoe. Registrations now

open for Years 1-9 students for

the 2014/15 season. You can

register online at

www.sportsground.co.nz/mauku

cricket/18144/ or phone

Jason on 021 717 314.

Pregnancy Information

Sessions: For young

pregnant women 21

years and under at

Whanau Resource

Centre, 17 McNally Rd,

starting this Friday 29

August. Phone 238 6233

or call in to Family

Support Centre 2 King

St. A free food parcel for

those who attend all sessions.

Garage Sale: This Sunday 31

August at the Tuakau Districts

Sea Scout hall, River Rd

Tuakau. Open from 8am to help

raise funds for national regatta.

Phone Donna at 027 420 0048

to donate goods.

Graeme Rix

Principal