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TERM FOUR 2014 (BEGAN) Monday 13 October 2014

YEAR 4-6 CAMP MEETING Thursday 23 October

LABOUR DAY & PARISH OF ST JOHN SPRING FAIR (No school)

Monday 27 October

MALVERN ZONE ATHLETICS Friday 31 October

BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING Thursday 6 November

HORORATA SPRING FESTIVAL Pet Day/Grandparents Day/Assembly/

and Cake Auction Friday 7 November

HORORATA HIGHLAND GAMES Saturday 8 November

TEACHER-ONLY-DAY (No School) Thursday 13 November

CANTERBURY ANNIVERSARY DAY Christchurch Show Day (No School) Friday 14 November

MALVERN ATHLETICS Monday 17 November

PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION Tuesday 2 December

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Thursday 4 December

YEAR 4-6 CAMP (KAIKOURA) Wednesday 10 - Friday 12 December

CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS Thursday 18 December (Evening)

END OF TERM FOUR Friday 19 December 2014

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HORORATA SWIMMING CLUB Pool Cleaning:

Thursday 23 October 2014

3.30pm onwards.

Lots of jobs to do!!!

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Teachers are enthusiastically encouraging children to be fully prepared for the upcoming Athletics. Miss Stewart is in charge of the Discus training and it is amazing how far the children can throw. Reminder Athletics Greendale Friday 31 October.

Run, Jump, ThrowRun, Jump, Throw

Great training with sprinting techniques by Miss Raybould. Mr G spent time in the October holidays to measure and mark out the running lanes. Children appreciate his hard work as they enjoy the challenge!

Hobby TimeHobby Time Children all had the opportunity to choose the

activity that they wished to be part of. An enormous

thank you to Sarah-Jane Serra who worked in the

Library with an energetic motivated group. The

music was superb as it wafted over the playground.

Kid’s Garden ClubKid’s Garden Club

Another big thank you to our Principal Mr G who also managed to find time to organise the tunnel house for our Gardening Group. The funds to purchase this tunnel house were obtained through the Rural Women’s Group. Plantings will soon be underway. Christmas strawberries perhaps!

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A group of future builders and engineers work on their latest creations in the Block Heads Technology Group run as part of the Hobby Time session on Fridays.

The Hororata FlyerThe Hororata Flyer Hororata Primary School’s Official Newsletter (22.10.14)

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PPARENTARENT TTEACHEREACHER AASSOCIATIONSSOCIATION

Friday Lunches:

Choice of a Pie or American Hot-Dog (Both $2.00)

Chocolate Chip Cookie $ 1.00.

Juicie $ 1.00

PPAYMENTAYMENT OFOF AACCOUNTSCCOUNTS Any monies owing to the school e.g. Donations/Levies may be paid directly into our school bank account which is: ASB Hororata School Board of Trustees 12-3441-0019878-00 (everyday account)

Activity Fees are $ 7.50 per term per child.

Could all ski racing money please also be paid. ($29 per skier).

BBUSUS DDRIVERSRIVERS Bus drivers are urgently needed for Torlesse Travel Ltd. Please contact Tony on 31 88187 or 027 448 0117. Tony can help you arrange your Bus Licence requirements.

DDESES EELLERYLLERY (S(SCHOOLCHOOL PPHOTOSHOTOS))

Reminder all photos to be in by week’s end or at the latest next Tuesday. Please check your classroom for a copy of the class photo.

HHEADEAD LLICEICE These annoying vermin are still around! Please check your child/children’s hair daily. Combing with a fine toothed comb helps dislodge any eggs, but treatment, available through your pharmacist should also be applied. Could girls please have their hair tied up and back. Also all bed linen e.g. pillow slips, sheets and towels to be laundered.

SSCHOLASTICCHOLASTIC BBOOKOOK CCLUBLUB Please return order forms and send back to school with payment. This order closes with our school next Wednesday 29 October.

RREDED CCROSSROSS GGARDENARDEN PARTYPARTY When: Saturday 1 November Time: 1.30 - 4.00pm Where: ‘Pauri’22 Lambs Road Greendale Greendale Hall if wet What: Tea, Cakes, Plants Entry: $10 More: eventfinder.co.nz

DDARFIELDARFIELD PPRESCHOOLRESCHOOL & N& NURSERYURSERY Jack ‘n’ Jill Professional Photographers to take photos of children, family and friends. Darfield preschool & Nursery 1D Cardale Street Sunday 2 November Contact Clare on 3188 836 during centre hours to arrange a time.

SSPRINGPRING (C(CHURCHHURCH) F) FAIRAIR IISS OONLYNLY A FA FEWEW DDAYSAYS AAWAYWAY

Make sure you come along on Monday 27th October (Labour Day) from 9.30am—2pm. FREE ENTRY and help up raise funds for Hororata Parish.

Buy your vege plants, do your Christmas shopping, grab a bargain in the auction or white elephant stalls, find some night time reading at the second-hand book stall and have fun on the rides and catching

up with friends in the sun!

Any donations of baking, plants, second hand items much appreciated and can be bought on the day or delivered to the domain between 2 and 3pm on Sunday 26th October. Contact Lucy Cookson 318 0718 for collection.

HHORORATAORORATA HHIGHLANDIGHLAND GGAMESAMES PTA are again selling bacon butties at the Highland Games. We are lucky enough to secure a new site over in the food area so are hoping that we can make a reasonable amount of money this year. No one else is selling bacon butties so we should be busy!

I have all supplies sorted (or will do once the Fair is over – make sure you come next week please people!!) but really need help on the day. I will need about 3/4 people on at one time and think we will have 3 shifts. 9am-11, 11-1 and 1-3/4pm. I will be there most of the day and setting up and packing up as well so if you would rather come and do that then let me know also.

I would really appreciate you help and will be doing a roster up soon. Sorry I don’t think we get any free passes into the games so we are hoping you are coming anyway. If you were not intending on coming but will to help let me know and I am sure we can come to some arrangement about getting you in.

Let me know if you can help and if so which shift you would like to do (more than one shift is allowed if you can spare the time!) Also feel free to nominate your husband or older children to help and pass onto anyone who you think may be available. It will be a fun day I am sure if we can get a few on board and it a good base to have for children/family going to the games.

Thanks for your support and see you at the fair

Lucy Cookson (Ph. 0272 047563)

Principal’s CornerPrincipal’s Corner

Kia ora

Quote of the week… ‘Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today’ - Malcolm X

Welcome back to another very busy term at Hororata Primary School. Buckle in for an action packed nine weeks of Learning, laughter and tears in the classrooms and on the sports fields of Canterbury.

School Athletics Day… Students from Hororata Primary School will participate in a combined school Athletics Day at the Greendale Domain on Friday 31 October 2014. The day involving students from Hororata, Greendale, ‘Windwhistle and Kirwee schools, will provide children from 5-11 years of age with the opportunity to develop their athletic skills and compete with students from other neighbouring schools. The sports are also a great tool to select Hororata students to progress onto the Malvern Athletic Sports to be held at Darfield High School on Monday 17 (PP18) November 2014.

As a representative of Hororata Primary School, we expect all students to wear the school top, sun hats and footwear appropriate to the activity. Students will need their lunch and a drink for the day.

Children will be transported to Greendale by school bus. The bus will depart school at 9.00am and will return to school prior to 2.45pm. Parent vehicles will be used to transport the overflow of students, parents and staff.

Haere mai... I would like to welcome Isaac Williamson (Piwakawaka) to our school. I am confident that your time at Hororata will be both enjoyable and rewarding… welcome Isaac!

Finally, children feel a sense of pride and accomplishment when they know that people in their extended family and community are interested in their education. To reinforce this Hororata Primary School will be opening its doors on Friday 7 November 2014 for families and friends of the school to come in and work alongside children in classes, take part in our annual Spring Festival.

The day marries our traditional Grands’ Day and Pet Show with an opportunity to work alongside children in classes. Parents, Grand Friends and members of our community are invited to take part in any or all, of the following programme:

9.00am Visual Arts… children will be working on a variety of art projects (no special skills required… just time and patience). Visitors are invited to provide a helping hand with fun make & do tasks alongside the children.

10.15am Morning Break… enjoy a coffee or tea and get out and about with the kids in playground... the Sandpit is a popular spot!

10.30am Celebration Assembly… Enjoy performance from each of the classes; sing along with the kids and take part in the presentation of awards and certificates.

11.45am Best in Show Cake Auction… In addition to the above programme we will be running the “Best in Show Cake Competition” again this year for young and old. Cakes will be judged on size, appearance and smell (strictly no tasting). All cakes will be auctioned as a fundraiser for our Education Outside the Classroom Programme.

12.15am Lunch Time… enjoy a picnic lunch (bring own)

1.00pm Pet Show… watch as our school yard transforms into a farm yard for the afternoon.

Entry forms for the Pet Show and Best in Show Cake Competition have been attached to this newsletter.

Thanks for supporting our school

Marty Gameson (Principal)

Teacher’s CornerTeacher’s Corner

Piwakawaka (Miss Raybould)

Hi everyone We are all enjoying our athletics practise the school is currently taking part in. The children are practising their running throwing and jumping and luckily the weather has worked with us. Next Friday is our Athletics Day at Greendale where everyone will showcase what they have learned. Hope to see many of you there. This week most children will bring home a Basic Facts chart for their year level. The facts they are learning this term will be highlighted so the children are able to practise these at home as well as at school. They are in sequence so previous facts not highlighted will already be known, however continued practise would be helpful as we are trying to be as fast as we can. Good Luck. Regards. Julia

Kea (Miss Stewart)

Hello all,

Welcome back to the last and busiest term of the year! Pet day is just around the corner. That means pet day projects. I recently e-mailed out the list of what needs to be covered. If you have any questions please ask. Pictures of pets and information can be e-mailed to me or brought to school on a usb. We will be publishing the projects at school. All research and draft copies must be done at home. Great to see so many children logging on at home and doing some maths with Maths Buddy! Check out the tasks on fractions! Visit this great site for more maths games http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math.htm My favourite is Math Man!

Megan

Tui (Mrs Foster)

Welcome back to school everyone for what is going to be a very action packed term, the last at Hororata for year 6’s. Athletic sports are looming and most afternoons the children are out practicing. As you all know we have shifted from our old classroom over to admin block and are now situated beside Kea, we are very lucky to have new carpet, new desks, new chairs and new ICT equipment – the class looks fantastic, please feel free to come in and have a look. Homework as usual is sent home every fortnight but the children all have reading and spelling to do weekly. Finally unfortunately the dreaded nits are going around again and we have them in Tui, please ensure that you check your child’s head just in case and make sure if they have long hair that it is tied up. Remember raffle items are due in this week. Jenni

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Hanmer Springs

We went biking along a bumpy motorbike track and it had whirly bits in

the middle. As I tried to go around a muddy puddle I splashed into it and

I fell off my bike. The worst bit was getting my shoes all muddy. Jessie

I played with Jake in the holidays. We played with the monster trucks

and Jake kept going faster than me. Logan

I watched the Crudes. They went to a big hill and met a tiger. Isaac

In the holidays I went to Akaroa and the grass was so high it was up to

my neck. I liked playing in the long grass and I built a big hut. Poppy

In my holiday were good because I went to my grandmas. We made a

little hut out of sheets and I liked it. I played Go Fish in the hut with

Grandma and my sister. Jasmine

I went to the pools and I splashed in the pool. I liked jumping in the

Rolleston pools. Emily

I went to my Uncle Wayne’s house in the holidays. He has a cat called

Rumsy. Rumsy had some toys and I liked playing with him. He had a

purple octopus on a pole and he liked to chase it. I wiggled the pole so

Rumsy could catch it. Jackson

In the holidays I played with Dad. We played tag and dad kept on tag-

ging me because he was being silly. Then dad ran inside and hid under

the bed so I couldn’t tag him. I didn’t know where he was but I found

him and I gave him fright. Skyla

In the holidays I had boating lessons. I went in a little boat and I went

around in circles by using the paddles. It was fun because I could play in

it for a long time. Miles

In the holidays I played hide and seek with Dad and Aunty Sharon. Dad

and I hid under the bed and Aunty Sharon sat on it. She felt it was lumpy

so she looked under the bed and saw it was us. Josh T

In the holidays I played Minecraft on the tablet. The game is about sur-

viving the zombie attack. Sometimes the zombie farmers went to attack

the friends in their houses. The friends were eaten by the zombies. I had

fun killing the zombies. Charles

In the holidays I went to the Antarctic Centre with Seth. We went down

the icy slide and it was very slippery. Dad had to help us stand up be-

cause it was so icy. But when dad went down the slide we had to help

him, too. Toby

In the holidays I was playing Minecraft with Charles. We built a brick

house for us to hide in. However a villager came along and Charles tried

to kill it but it was too strong. We found a cave and the best thing was

finding the diamonds because then we made a powerful diamond

sword. We had good time. Xavier

I went to Gran Chris’ house and I made a witch out of craft. The magic

wand was very hard to make. We used a tomato stake and shiny tinfoil.

That made it look like magic. The cloak was just a bit of material. We

bought the hat. I thought it was very very cool. Dustin

I went to the Warehouse and my brother got a paper book. He wrote in

it and coloured in the pictures. It was a yellow troll. Alex

I went on a motorbike ride with my friend Toby. We were zoomed down

a track four times and crashed into a fence. We broke the fence. We

rang Dad and he came down to fix the fence. Seth

In the holiday I went to the Moeraki boulders. There were some rocks

in a circle and you could sit on some of them. My father sat on a big

one. When he picked me up the wind pushed some sand into my eyes.

It was funny. Connie

I made a house with bricks. I put wood on the ground in my bedroom

and I put carpet on the wood. I couldn’t fit a bed in so I thought I would

make it bigger. I wanted to have a sink in the kitchen and some food but

I didn’t have enough money. Brodie

Harry and I played Minecraft on the PlayStation. We were searching for

a ship but we couldn’t find it. It was fun. Josh S

I found a black pocket knife in the paddock by the house. I had to reach

into the hole to get it out. I cleaned it up and then Mum sharpened it.

Robert

Extra Extra…Extra Extra… Children look rather smart in their zip ups and polo tops.

Please check your zip up tops daily to ensure your child is

wearing their own zip up. Also please name them as it would

save a lot of searching when they go missing or if a child is

wearing the incorrect top.

HiVis Safety vests—Reminder these are not bullet proof and

when crossing the road please look both ways and walk

smartly across. Thank you again to our sponsors for supply-

ing these vests. Central Plains Water, Downer, and Fulton

Hogan John Holland Joint Venture

Our hard workers preparing the tyres for planting. Thank you to Blake, William, Simon and Miles!