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Houghton Valley School INSPIRATION, CHALLENGE and ACHIEVEMENT
HIRINGA, WERO, WHAKATUTUKITANGA
NEWSLETTER Wednesday, 27th July 2016 Week 1 of Term 3
Term 3 Calendar Week 2 Mon 1st Aug Wk 2-9 Swimming every Monday
Tues 2nd Aug ICAS English
Week 3 Tues 9 th Aug 9-12.30 Year 6 visit to EBIS
Thurs 11 th Aug 7pm Home & School Meeting
Week 4 Mon 15th Aug ICAS Maths
Tues 16th Aug All day Regional SportFest - Year 5/6
Tues 16th Aug 6pm Board Meeting - Everyone is welcome to attend Board Meetings. At
this meeting the Trustees will decide to co-opt Anna Ririnui onto the board for a specific period to manage the bike track project
ASB Banking days is Thursday • Bee Healthy Dental – 0800 825 583
Sushi available Thursdays – go online to www.wrapitup.co.nz before 9am on Thursday to order
Kelly Club After School Care – Phillipa - Cell 022 010 9981 or email [email protected]
HVS SWIMMING will be Term 3 Week 2-9 on Mondays
HV School Fair - Term 4 2016 – Saturday 29th October 2016
Kia ora koutou,
Dear Parents, Caregivers and Children
Firstly, a sincere apology for not e-mailing the newsletter in the last week of term. Without Denise here, Jo and I both thought each other had sent it! We had no reminders either so only realised today when someone asked about the 100th day celebration.
What a fabulous day we had to mark the 100th
day of school. The day started with children sharing anything they’d done to represent 100 in their classes. They were then able to visit other classes to see each others creations and ideas. Math was based around 100 and the afternoon was activities in whanau groups.
We’ve started talking about kids crafts for the fair already so if you have any good ideas for the children to make that are easy and likely to be popular let us know. There are also a few ideas flying around for adult craft sessions so please sign up for any you think you can contribute to. It’s amazing what can be achieved with a bunch of keen volunteers.
We’ve been lucky enough to now be granted the status of Fruit Tree Guardians from the Wellington City Council. We’ve been given 2 feijoa Trees to start our orchard. Thanks to Siobahn and the WCC team for their fantastic blackberry clearing. We still need help clearing more of their nasty roots so please join the working bee from 10 -12 this coming Saturday. Please confirm with Jill if you can help. We’ve also received a supply of native trees from WCC to continue our regeneration project in the rainforest so Jill and Matt are planning their planting with the students coming up next week.
Nga mihi nui Raewyn Watson, Tumuaki
Hello from the new Board of Trustees! We are; Anya Satyanand, Sarah Graydon, Karen Parr, Phil Walker, Jos Abernethy, Andrew Downes and Raewyn. The chair is appointed at the first meeting and we are really pleased to announce that Sarah
Graydon is the new chair of the Houghton Valley School Board of Trustees. Being a Trustee is a great way to support the school and we are really looking forward to helping the children at Houghton Valley to be ‘Confident, collaborative and learners for life’! We will be putting up some information and the official mug shots of ourselves on the school website in the near future, so look out for that. As you may have read in an earlier newsletter, Anna Ririnui has taken on the project to build the bike park. At the next Board of Trustee meeting on the 16
th of August we will aim to co-opt Anna onto the Board so that this project gets the
focus it needs.
PRINCIPAL’S BREAKFAST – Ma Whanau Group
If you have a child in MA Whanau Group, you and your children are invited to join me on Friday 12th
August at 8am in the school library. I’ll provide a light breakfast of tea/coffee and muffins - or similar (and something suitable for the children to drink as well!). Please RSVP indicating the number of adults and children attending and any dietary restrictions.
A BIG WELCOME TO:
Dash McCall in Kowhai Class
BoT Spot!
DAYS OF SCHOOL What a fun day! We had lots of activities based around
100 throughout the day. Some of the students brought their creations and activities they completed at home for the celebration. We were really impressed by some of the great ideas – Jos turned up as an impressively fit 100 year old and Brendan’s 100 ingredient cake was especially impressive!
100 letter true stories
100 ingredient
cake
Please continue to take special care around the school driveway. It’s ok to pull up alongside the carpark entrance briefly for drop off but please do not drive in over the footpath – this is not safe for children or other pedestrians!
SPORTS NEWS SWIMMING LESSONS Start Term 2 Week 2 for eight weeks. You should have received your detailed notice about the swimming programme yesterday. Spare notices are in the office foyer if you can’t find yours. Please help your children remember to bring their togs every MONDAY. Please name all your children’s clothing AND their goggles if they use them!
BASKETBALL HVS Heat won the Term 2 Year 3/4 Basketball comp 17-10 In an exciting game against the Kilbirnie Breakers. Well done the HEAT!!!!!!
YUMMY STICKERS Remember bring fruit for your fruit break! We will be collecting these until the end of September Every year Yummy! Fruit Company offers a fruit sticker/labels for Sports Equipment promotion. This enables Houghton Valley School to provide PE equipment for each classroom. All you have to do is eat fruit and collect the Yummy Stickers. You can find the sticker sheets in front of the school office
DATES TO DIARY FOR TERM THREE
Tuesday 2 August Year 5/6 Netball Tournament ASB Centre
Tuesday 16 August Year 5/6: We are competing in MiniPolo at WRAC and Netball at Haitaitai Courts
Friday 19 August Southern Zone Swimming WRAC
Friday 16 September Interzone Swimming WRAC
If you have any stories or photos of sports-related events that we can use in the newsletters and are happy to share them with everyone else, please e-mail them to [email protected].
Home and School Information A HUGE Thank you to all those that came along and helped to make the HVS quiz night great fun and a grand success!
Overall we made just over $2,800.00 which is more than enough to keep our Flying Fox safe for another year. We are very lucky to live in a community where our local businesses are willing to donate so generously to our fundraising efforts.
Congratulations to those who won an auction package – we are still waiting for a couple of payments to come through. If you have yet to pay could you please do so by the end of this week.
Payments to be made to: 12-3481-0049991-00 and use your name as reference. Once again thank you all so much! Ande
School Fair – Saturday October 29th Craft Night - There will be a very informal and fun drop-in craft night on Wednesday August 10
th. Come and learn how to
make cool crafty items for the fair. Materials and refreshments provided, no skill required. 7-9pm, school library. Friends and relatives also welcome.
Lemons - We are looking for lemons to make homemade lemon concentrate, which we will freeze and make up into lemonade for the Fair. If you have any spare lemons, please drop them at the school office, or let us know for pick up. Donations
It is time to start amassing used but tidy books, toys and clothes. If you have items to donate you can either contact the books/clothes or toys coordinators (list in the school foyer), contact Karen, or just drop off at school. There’s no rush, we still have 12 weeks to go, but we are happy to relieve you of your boxes and bags of goodies now . If you could separate items into different bags for books/toys/clothes, you will save us a lot of time and head-scratching later on.
Offers of vouchers, services or goods for the silent auction are very gratefully received. Also, if you have a trade/skill/passion and might donate some time, eg 3 hours gardening, 2 hours painting, an hour’s piano lesson, etc, etc, it makes for fun bidding at the auction.
For fair-related enquiries, you can contact any of the coordinators, or contact Karen on 027 209 4832 or [email protected]
$3 Healthy BBQ Burgers – Friday $3 Ordering: Between 8:30am and 9am, children to line-up outside the Library with cash to place their burger orders. Cash only.
URGENT: TERM 3 BURGER Roster Thanks to the people who have signed up to help so far. We’re pretty desperate for more helpers though, so burgers are still touch and go for this term. Kids LOVE the burgers on Fridays so we’d be really sad to call off this popular lunch choice. What do I do as a burger volunteer? It’s seriously simple and it only takes a couple of hours of your time. Two parent helpers share the tasks with the help of a couple of students
PLEASE, please, please add your name to the list in the foyer. Thanks!
NEXT Home and School Meeting Thursday 11th August at 7.00pm in the staffroom.
Community Notices PETER PAN Kids4Drama, a local drama group, is putting on a performance of Peter Pan this week! Thursday 7pm, Friday 12pm and 7pm, Saturday 2.30pm and 7pm, Newtown Community Centre. Tickets $15 waged and $12 unwaged ($5 for the Friday matinee). To book, email [email protected]. Cash sales available on the door Bessie from Karaka is in the show. If you come, please mention Bessie when you buy your ticket, as there is a prize for the kid who sells the most tickets.
COFFEE MORNING AT THE HALL ON SATURDAY PLUS HOW TO MAKE A MAGIC TREE As well as the usual coffee, cake, table tennis and scintillating conversation, there is another fun activity at the hall this Saturday. When you have had a coffee and caught up with everybody, you may wish to make some cardboard trees, which through an chemical process transform into something like the images shown. Andrea Selwood,a local artist and Iris, a visiting artist from Taiwan, will show us the easy steps from cardboard to magic. Children especially love making these. This activity is part of Andrea and Iris' larger project to bring awareness to the effect of sea level rise on trees. Coffee morning starts at 11.
INVERLOCHY ART SCHOOL - TERM 3 STARTS MONDAY 1ST AUGUST We have Children's After School art classes Monday to Thursdays including Creative Sewing for teens. Please see our website here: or go to: www.inverlochy.org.nz or Please Call Mark on: 04 9392177.
HAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO SING? BEAT-BOX? DANCE ON STAGE? Do you want a new exciting challenge and to get out of the house on a Monday Evening? We are the Wellington City Chorus and we are a women’s award winning group with Sweet Adelines New Zealand. Come and see what singing barbershop a cappella harmony is all about and have fun while doing it! All ages, all voice ranges and all closet-divas welcome! The ability to read music is not necessary. Open Night Monday 1 Aug 7pm-9.30pm followed by supper :) or come any other Monday night. Our Rehearsal Rooms, Wellington Bridge Club, 17 Tinakori Road, Thorndon, Wellington. If you have any questions please email us on [email protected] or check us out onfacebook.com/WellingtonCityChorus/
MIRAMAR BALLET CLASSES from Tippy Toes for 2yr olds through to RAD Grade 2. I also run a Friday lunchtime adults 'Ballet Body’ class. Interested? It’s free to trial! Please contact : Hannah Scott-McNeill ARAD RTS ex RNZB p: 021 207 6757 e: [email protected]
INSTEP DANCE STUDIO - Based in the Houghton Valley Hall, we offer dance classes in ballet, jazz and contemporary for ages 3yrs to adult. Offering trial classes and enrolments this term in ballet ages 3-8 years and jazz ages 5-8 years. As well as adult jazz on Thursday evenings. Contact Lesley on 973-STEP or email [email protected]. For more information visit www.instepdancestudio.co.nz
SCOTS COLLEGE CENTENARY - Fri 26 – Sun 28 August 2016 Join us to celebrate 100 years of Scots College at our centenary weekend next month. We have a huge range of events planned including the ‘Ladies Long Lunch’ with celebrity chef Nadia Lim on Sunday 28 August. For more information go to www.scots100.co.nz
HATO PĀORA COLLEGE INFORMATION & PERFORMANCE AFTERNOON. - Hato Pāora College is holding an information afternoon and Kapa Haka Performance in Wellington on Sunday 7th August 1.30pm at Pipitea Marae Thorndon. You will have the opportunity to meet with the Principle Debi Marshall-Lobb, senior students and staff. The college senior Kapa Haka Group will be performing & afternoon tea is available. Hato Pāora has achieved excellent academic, sporting and cultural results and this is your opportunity to find out if it is an option for your son, nephew or grandson. Hato Pāora takes good boys and grows them into great men. Any queries please contact Vanessa Broughton 0211124648 or email [email protected]
School Contact Details: Phone: 939-3318 Office Email: [email protected] Website: www.houghton.school.nz Principal Email: [email protected]