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132nd EDITION
29 May 2009
Dear Parents, Caregivers and Friends of the
School.
Kia Ora
Welcome back to Term Two. These past few
weeks have been action packed. The biggest
highlight was the visit from the What Now
Team. Students got to meet the SLAM
presenter and were involved in many fun
activities. Three of our students (Jaykob Peel,
Suzanna Turner and Jack Bonnor) won
through to compete in Christchurch in mid June for the Grand Final of
Slam! Read the What Now article in this newsletter to find out more!
– Shannon Harrison (Student editor)
Pictured with Tumehe (Slam presenter) is from left: Ethan Lawrence, Taine
Pullen, Jordan Poulter, Jacob Ratima, Ryan Stewart & Tane Guiniven.
WHAT NOW TELEVISION COMES TO HUNTERVILLE!
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BOT NEWS BOT NEWS BOT NEWS BOT NEWS BOT NEWS
New Classrooms Here: Despite some frustrations and delays, the
relocatable building from the former Taihape Area School (which was
moved from Hunterville to Taihape in the mid eighties!), was duly cut in
half, moved back to us earlier this week, and placed on two different
sites. One half (a classroom with attached resource areas and withdrawal
space) has been placed near the end of the senior lunch area, and the
other (classroom with attached withdrawal space) has been placed in the
area beside the canteen. See photos next page.
Immediately planned is a makeover of the senior-lunch-area building.
This will include interior/exterior paint, new decking, Vertiface wall
linings, etc. New furniture has already been purchased in preparation for
this room being ready for Mrs Julie Taylor and her junior class from the
start of next term.
The canteen-area building will be piled and made tidy, and then
renovations and decking left until later in the year when further funding
will become available from the Ministry of Education.
Uniform Committee: This BOT appointed committee under the
chairmanship of Mrs Jacquie Harding has been working behind the
scenes to review all aspects of our current school uniform. Their
decision making will be influenced by parent comment as part of the
comprehensive 4 yearly parent survey being issued to all families soon
Whole Staff Visit to Napier / Hastings Schools: This BOT
commissioned initiative involved 18 staff plus BOT chair Mrs Fi
Dalgety visiting three schools in ‘the Bay’ just prior to Easter. It was
valuable seeing best practice in action which gave staff useful ideas to
implement at Hunterville, as well as validating and supporting our
existing classroom practices.
Policies Reviewed: Privacy, and Personal Grievance.
Future Direction of the School: Parents are soon to be surveyed on the
type and style of education they want/expect from Hunterville School, as
the school looks to position itself to implement the revised NZ
curriculum in 2010
Next Meeting: Wednesday 24 June, 7.30pm
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New Classrooms Arrive!
Thanks to Ben Hodgson (glare off forehead) and Chris
Price (right) giving two full days to prepare and assist
with things, our two buildings duly arrived and were sited
earlier this week. Thanks guys! The top two shots are of
the larger building making its way around behind the
adventure playground to the senior lunch area. (Smaller
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ANZAC Day Dawn Parade
It was 5:00 a.m. on Saturday the 25th of April. All the army, St John’s Cadets,
Penguins, our Returned Servicemen,
and more were there waiting for the
service to begin.
We marched down the main street, our
heads bowed in respect for dead soldiers
from ANZAC. We stopped at the
cenotaph. We listened to “Why we were
there” and a story from the battlefield.
People laid their wreaths with respect.
James Wilson and I laid Hunterville
School’s wreath too. After the wreath
laying, some of the Hunterville School
student’s sang the National Anthem in
Maori and English. During the service,
a big cannon went off and some people
jumped out of their skins in fright! It
was a special morning, to respect the
dead.
We will remember them.
By Pippa Dalgety (Y8)
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TV Programme What Now in Hunterville!!
The weather wasn’t looking too clever on the 4th of May 2009. But the day had
to go on! What Now started the day off visiting many local places with the
Head Boy, Head Girl and Missy Wells.
First they went to see the sheep statues in the middle of town. Second to see was
Hunterville’s statue of the Huntaway dog. Next they went to see the wicked
skate park of Hunterville. (If you’re in the Lions Club could you please do
something about the skate park?) Now it was time to go to Taylors,
Hunterville’s local shop, where they caught up with Mr Lionel Houltham, and
then last but not least, they went to Revive where they had an ice cream or two.
Back into the Slam Van and return to Hunterville School. Once they were back
the rest of the school got told what was going to happen, and then everyone got
changed into mufti. The students went off to the end of the field to cheer for
“Best Band in the Land” which was a group that Miss Jeynes had trained up to
do a song and dance routine from last year’s ‘Annie’ show. They were cool.
After hearing the wonderful performance, the school and the What Now team
gathered to see Master Hamish Berrett. Everyone was amazed; he poured a cup
of tea with a digger. It was epic!
Now for the real fun stuff, the obstacle course! The course was in three stages.
In the the first stage the whole school got split into three age groups: the 7 year
old and down, the 8-10 year olds and the 11 year olds plus. Tumehe (presenter)
stood up on top of the trailer with a bazooka that was going to fire all these
coloured, plastic balls. In your age group, you had to run and get the ball while
being sprayed with water from the fire brigade. If you where lucky enough to
get a ball you had to get into groups of the colour ball you had. We then sat
down in our lines, getting ready to be taught the next challenge.
For the next course each team had to pick a team leader. These leaders were
Trevior Owens (green), Hamish Berrett (yellow), Jack Bonnor (blue), Ryan
Stewart (red), and Kate Coley (purple). Then each team had to go to a spot
where they couldn’t see how good or bad the other teams were going. The
activity was to make a bridge. When it was each of the teams turn, the team’s
leader was issued a construction sheet on how to build the bridge. There was a
number of blocks and planks to make it with. Each block was two colours and
the same with the planks. You had to get from a point where we started to the
point where the mat was without out touching the grass!
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Each team had two minute to get from point a to b. Once each team had
finished, Tumehe announced the winning team which was the Blue team: Jack
Bonnor, Shannon Harrison, Suzanna Turner, Zodi Takurua, Jaykob Peel,
Makayla Parkinson, Henry Deans, Charlotte Berrett, Alix Munn, and Andre
Monks. Everyone in that team was now competing against each other with the
top three going on to the finals in Christchurch! We all got padded up with
kneepads, elbow pads, a helmet and some goggles. One at a time we did the
obstacle course.
First off we had to go under and over these blow-up logs while slipping on
gunge. Then we had to walk some way on stilts, then jump off them and run
down a slippery gunge way. There were bins down the side. Some had a bucket
of gunge in them and some didn’t. If one had a bucket of gunge in it, you had to
tip it over your head. Next we had to shoot hoops with some mini basketballs.
You had to score three goals, before you could continue. Next we stepped into a
kid’s paddling pool. You had to pull a lever and it would pour a trough full of
gunge onto you. On
the last part you had
to run across a slide
of gunge and then get
slammed at the end by
two rugby mats to
stop the clock.
The three fastest
times would win a trip
to Christchurch and
go into the semi
finals. The three lucky
winners were Jack
Bonnor, Jaykob Peel,
and Suzanna Turner.
At the end all the students jumped into the slide thingy and threw gunge at each
other. What Now day was a great day - everyone enjoyed it. Thanks to everyone
who helped, and to the What Now team.
We don’t know when it will be screened on tv but we’ll let everyone know as
soon as we hear.
By Jaykob Peel (Y8)
Above photo: From left, James Wilson, Pippa
Dalgety, Missy Wells and Tumehe ham it up for
the camera on their tiki tour of the town
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Hockey Coaching with the Black Sticks
A few weeks ago two awesome Black Sticks came to Hunterville
School, and they taught us really good hockey skills. I felt really
happy to be taught the skills again. My back got really sore bending
down so much. – Brooke Picken (Y5)
Our hockey coaches from the Black Sticks were Shea McAleese and
Caryn Paewai. They had competed in Beijing at the Olympics last
year! I thought that was pretty amazing. Caryn had recently retired
from the Black Sticks. – Georgie Dalgety (Y5)
Most of the time we played lots of hockey skill games. We played a
game called Granny, where one person would face the other way and
the other people would dribble a ball walking towards her back.
When she turned around we had to freeze with the ball until Granny
turned
back
round
again. It
was fun. –
Anna
Lambert
(Y5)
After we
learnt to
pass
on
the move,
we had to
run and pass the ball to our partner. They also taught us how to lose
our defender. - Kimberly Simpson (Y5)
Photo: The most capped NZ women’s player Caryn Paewai, works with
senior hockey players on the school’s turf recently
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New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Trip
Friday 9th of May … it was finally the day for fourteen students from
Hunterville School to see the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
The sound of music was filling our ears when we arrived at the Regent Theatre.
We were seated in the second row, near the front. We waited ten minutes while
people were coming in and the orchestra was warming up. Ten minutes later,
the orchestra played their first piece. Half way through the concert, the
conductor gave us a lesson on conducting. Two boys from different schools got
chosen to conduct the orchestra for about two minutes each.
The orchestra talked us through the instruments. They also played us another
three to four pieces. Once the pieces were finished, we left the building, not
wanting to leave! We hopped on the bus for another forty minute journey to get
back to school.
It was a great experience and I loved all the music. I hope they do the concert
again next year!
By Cassidy Cross (Y7)
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School Choir Performing at The Regent
The Kids 4 Kids concert is coming up and the Choir is in full swing, practising
twice a week. There are 27 students in the choir. We sing well known songs
such as “A Spoonful of Sugar” (from the Mary Poppins Movie), “I See Red”
and “American Hero.”
Our choir teacher is Mrs Marshall, who travels to us each time from the back of
Marton. She is helping us to learn the words of the songs. She is also teaching
us to project our voice. Choir is very enjoyable because of all the fun songs that
we are learning to sing. When the night of the concert comes around, we all get
to sing with Suzanne Prentice who is a well-known New Zealand singer.
The dates of the concert are 9th, 10th and the 11th of June. At each concert
Suzanne sings with choirs from about twelve schools and in total there will be
about five hundred people in the Choir at each concert. Each school choir only
does one show though, and ours is on the 9th.
We all agree that it will be a great experience for all of us to sing with Suzanne
Prentice. Pictured below is our choir at a recent practice
By Holly Ormond (Y8) and Zoë Smith (Y8)
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Young Leader’s Conference 2009
The time had finally come… for the YLC (Young Leaders’
Conference). Eleven students and eight adults left Hunterville at
10am on Sunday the 17th of May.
We were soon at Te Papa to have lunch. After roaming around Te
Papa for an hour checking out the colossal squid and the other
exhibits we went to the Monet exhibition.
Monet is a famous French painter and one
of his painting sold for over $70million!
At 3:30pm we checked in at the
Copthorne Hotel in Oriental Bay. We all
changed into mufti and some of us went
for a swim. For dinner we had Subway but
unfortunately they ran out of bread so
some of us had wraps instead. Our evening
was spent at the Circa Theatre where we
saw a really funny ‘Theatre Sports’ show.
Mr Lewis shouted us an ice cream before and at half time. YUMMY!
The conference the next day was
a great experience for everyone
with an audience of over 1500
young leaders. Guest speakers
included Barbara Kendall and
Judge Andrew Becroft and the
host was Charlie Panapa off What
Now. Even the adults had fun.
Our day was rounded off by a visit
to the Beehive to meet Simon Power and tour parliament.
Anyone who would enjoy such a wonderful opportunity as this should
try their best at school and maybe be selected as a whanau leader and have the same great ‘Young Leaders’ experience as us!
By Zoe Smith Y8
Photos: Top: Pippa Dalgety on stage making a presentation
to Minister of Education Anne Tolley. Above: With Simon
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HUNTERVILLE SENIOR A & B GRADE NETBALL RESULTS
Round 1 of competition got under way on the 9th May at Vaultier Park,
Palmerston North. Selected for the A Grade team is Angela Duxfield,
Linda Manunui, Selena Chase, Serena Hobson, T Parry, Tasha Mavor,
Tina Duxfield, and Vera Maraku.
Round 1 results for 9th May, Hunterville A’s v Players winning by 28 14. It was a great team effort by all, with outstanding goal shooting
from Angela Duxfield. Round 2 on the 16th May, Hunterville A’s
winning 28 – 18 to HSOG A2. Well done to all players
Selected for the Hunterville B Grade team are Bayley Perana, Louise
Harrison, Matangirei Paranihi, Nicole Deadman, Penny Paterson,
Shiloh Duffy, T Johnson, and Vicky Watson.
Round 1 results for the 9th May, Hunterville B’s v Kia Toa B4 winning
by 23 – 10. Good team effort by all. Round 2 on the 16th May
Hunterville B had a loss to Ash/Poh B2 30 – 16. A special mention goes
to Nicole Deadman for her dedication and hard work.
The teams would like to thank our supporters, especially Big Matty.
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Room 1, 2, 3, 4 Trip to Wanganui
At the Art Gallery, Room 4 sat down and listened to Sasha. When Sasha had
finished talking, we did some art. My Mum came and helped Holly and I make
butterflies, wetas, ladybirds and other creepy crawlies. When we had finished
we ran to the Wanganui Museum. – Karmen Jones (Y3)
Later on, we walked to the Museum. We went upstairs, we went to the bug
room, and learnt all about the weta. I learnt that a female weta has an ovipositor
on her bottom to lay her eggs with, and a male does not. He has little spikes on
his bottom. – Fiona Collie (Y3)
At the Art Gallery, Sasha showed us some pictures of insects. There were
Dragonflies, Ladybirds, Butterflies and much, much more. Later, we went to the
Museum. Margie gave us a piece of paper and a pen, and then we had to find all
the insects. – Nikita Hopewell (Y3)
At the Museum we crept up the stairs like giant, black beetles. When we got to
the bug room, there was an excessive amount of creepy crawlies. I drew a
picture of a Gum Emperor moth with its fluffy antennae. Then we walked to the
Art Gallery. I met a lady named Sasha, and she took us behind a wall. We did a
silhouette. My silhouettes were two Rhinoceros Beetles; they were blue, which
is my favourite colour. – Tsarnee Taniwha (Y3)
Last Thursday, Room 3 and 4 went to
Wanganui for the day to visit the
Museum and Art Gallery. I went over to
Wanganui with Mrs Kilmister and was
sick in her van so when I arrived at the
Museum I had to go back home! I learnt
it’s not that fun being sick! Since I
couldn’t go with my class I was allowed
to go on Tuesday with Room 1 and 2!
The trip was fun! We got to see the
humungous earth worms. They were
slimy! The trip was really really exciting!
– Caleb Taniwha (Y2)
Hayden Skou (left) and Zak Guiniven
getting close and personal with a mini
beast at the Wanganui Museum
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WILLIE AND FRIENDS VARIETY CONCERT
Sat 20th June – 7.30pm
Hunterville School Hall
This former Hunterville School pupil returns to Hunterville to
host a variety concert of talented young musicians and others,
before embarking on a scholarship to Nova Scotia in Canada.
Includes a variety of musical instruments, choral items and the
magic of the highland bagpipe played with traditional
instruments.
The evening opens with the Hunterville School Kapa Haka group
and finishes with a traditional Haggis ceremony and a light
supper.
See New Zealand’s solo piping champion, NZ’s highland dance
champion, and the top under 18 piper in NZ perform live!
Members of NZ’s highest ranked pipe corp will perform items of
their latest CD “Twelve thousand Miles” and the talented young
musicians from P.N.B.H.S will perform numerous instrumental
and choral items.
Tickets available at:
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• Hunterville School 063228210
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Children
Family
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The Ugly Monster
An ugly, smelly, alien landed on our front lawn from outer space.
Mouth: Harry the monster has yellow teeth, his breath stinks like rotten eggs
and his tongue is as bright red as the sun.
Eyes: The monster has big, bad eyes that
stick out like snails eyes, purple on the
outside
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Institute of Sport 2009
All eleven students were geared up to go. We were off to Wanganui for the
Institute of Sport lessons!
We arrived at the Union Boat Club and were taught how to skull properly. We
then went to Sport Wanganui where we learned about nutrition and what types
of food and drink to have before games or athletic sports. After lunch we drove
to the velodrome. One of the track bike riding teachers taught us how to ride a
track bike. Shortly after we went down under the velodrome. After, we were
finally allowed to ride on the track bikes. The man also showed us a DVD on
cycling and we followed what they did.
As it was too wet to row on the river we used the indoor rowing machines. That
was actually very exhausting!
We all look forward to the other Institute of Sport sessions, especially getting to
go skulling on the Wanganui River.
Stop Press: Yesterday the weather was great and we got on the water and
on the velodrome too! (Pictures below!)
By Kiriana Houltham (Y8) and Brendan Berquist (Y8)
Clockwise from above: 1. Kate Dawson &
Suzanna Turner. 2. Dakota Tipu. 3. Brendan
Berquist. 4. James Wilson & Jacob Ratima
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Science Extension Programme 2009
Jack Webb, Isaac Taylor, Ryan Stewart and Annalise Phillipson have
been chosen to be the mad scientists! The group is a Year 7 science
extension group that learns about science at Clifton school each
Friday this term as part of our cluster schools ‘explorers
programme.’ There are 20 students from eight cluster schools.
On the first week we made a “cabbage juice indicator” which is used
to see if a certain substance is a base or an acid. If a base is
indicated the substance turns blue, and if the substance contains
acid it will turn pink. The next week we made “Dragon’s Drool”. We
made it by putting corn starch and warm water in a bucket. It
started to stink and go gooey. It was like half liquid and half solid.
At the end of the programme we are going to visit Starlab at Te
Manawa . It is going to be a really great experience for us this term.
By Jack Webb (Y7) and Isaac Taylor (Y7)
Our extension group scientists. From
left: Jack Webb, Annalise Phillipson,
Ryan Stewart and Isaac Taylor
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Photography Extension 2009
Every Friday for the whole day, Paige Somerville, Ellen Carlyon, and
Jenny Collie, go to Marton School for a photography course.
For our first lesson, we learnt about the points of a camera. We had
to go out and take about 10 – 15 photos of the school. Afterwards
we came back into the computer room to download our photos onto
the computers. Mr Harvey, our tutor, taught us how to make a thirds
grid and stick it onto our camera and computer. It looked like a tictac-toe grid! We also had Tim Brooks come in and talk about little
aeroplanes with cameras on them that are launched by hand. Those
little camera–aeroplanes are used for the army.
At the second lesson we travelled to Ohakea. We had a tour around
the Photography Base. We also got to see a Helicopter take off and
land. We took many photos. When we went back to Marton school, we
downloaded the photos to the computer.
The extension group has been so fun and interesting; it will be great
learning some photography skills.
By Ellen Carlyn (Y5), Paige Sommerville (Y5) and Jenny Collie (Y5)
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Room 2 Mini Beast Stories
Clever Ants:
Ants are very clever. They scurry sometimes. They are very small,
black and very creepy crawly. Georgia and I found heaps of Ants. They
have sharp mandibles that they use for chewing. The antennae are for
smelling, feeling and talking. I wouldn’t want to be an ant.
By Rebecca Perry (Y2)
Clever Little Ants:
Ants are clever. The Queen Ant is not the only one that has wings.
They have three body parts. Ants have six legs. Some ants dig big
holes for a nest. The Queen Ant lays all of the eggs. They can carry
fifty times their own weight. They carry huge loads. I like ants because
they can be helpful.
By Sam Simpson (Y2)
Praying Mantis
The Praying Mantis is an insect carnivore. It eats flies, flesh and blood.
It catches them with its spiky, sharp spines and eats them alive. They
can be brown or green. Their antennae feels and smells. They cannot
wear clothes. The ladies can eat the boys. I think they are great
predators.
By Destiny Scott (Y2)
Clever Ants
Ants are very clever because they scurry around on the ground
together. They are tiny, black, creepy and crawling. There are three
body parts that make up the body. They are called the head, thorax and
abdomen. They have sharp mandibles. They have mandibles to use for
digging and chewing.
By Georgia Peeti (Y2)
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HOME and SCHOOL REPORT
The Home and School Association at its two meetings this year have been
pleased to allocate the following funds from the past year’s fundraising, in
response to the teachers’ wish list:
Inside games for the nine classrooms
Dictionaries
Library (($4,500 for books, plus misc.)
Kiwi Can
Fat mat trolley
Picnic tables (already purchased)
Smartboard / digital projectors
Maths equipment
Rippa Rugby sets Xs 4
Senior reading kit
Academic Competitions
$3000
$500
$5550
$3800
$1000
$1900
$10,000
$400
$400
$900
$500
Further funds are planned to be allocated at the next meeting. The majority of
funds released are from last year’s successful gardens’ tour.
Rachel Williams (President)
Rippa Rugby Coaching at School
It was all running and no stopping on the 13th of May. Each class in the school
had a session of Rippa Rugby, for at least thirty minutes with two rugby coaches
from Wanganui. Rippa rugby is where instead of actually tackling the
opposition, you rip off straps velcroed to people’s waists.
Room 8 was first and they then worked down the classrooms. They ended up
running the sessions in
the hall for all the other
classrooms except for
Room 8 because of the weather,
but that didn’t stop the
fun!
When we first started
we all put on a velcro belt and
were given two tags,
either red, blue, green or black.
We played games
where we had to try and pull off
other peoples coloured
tags. We then paired up and one
of the pairs had to
chase the other and put tags on
their belts instead of
trying to take them off.
We didn’t get a chance to play for real because it started raining. But it didn’t
matter; it was still great fun and we learnt a lot such as you can only rip one tag
off at a time and you can’t tackle the people!
By Lucy Marshall Yr8
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LOOKING BACK IN HISTORY…1922
February
1:
April
24:
July
31:
August
9:
September
19:
October
27:
December
20:
The Secondary Department’s prospects look better as
there are twelve on the roll and the promise of two or
three more this week.
Lessons today are all related to ANZAC – holiday
tomorrow. National Anthem was sung; flag saluted and
appropriate talks and readings given to the children.
School closed at 2pm to permit the children to attend
the lecture and moving geographical pictures by Miss
Louise Mack.
It was with regret that the passing of one of the little
pupils was noted – Jean Taylor passed away yesterday,
diphtheria being the cause of her death.
At the bulb show today several of the children gained
prizes for essays, drawing and writing, while flowers
from the school garden were awarded three seconds.
Proficiency examinations conducted by chief inspector
Mr Stuckey with 22 pupils present:
17 from Hunterville, 3 Rata, 1 Poukiore, 1 Silverhope.
Prizes and certificates were presented by the Chairman
& school was closed for the summer holidays.
Welcomes / Farewells
• Karly Sinclair-Carroll (Y7)
• Kavana Goldsbury (Y5)
• Haana Kilmister (Y1)
We hope you enjoy your
time
at
Hunterville
School!
Farewell to Gypsy-Rose Smith who has moved to Rangiwahia.
Our roll sits at 190 and we should end up at about 200 by the end of
the year.
By Kiriana Houltham (Y8)
GENEROUS DONATION MADE TO SCHOOL
Speaking of farewells, when Year 3 student Lydia McLean left at the end of
last term to return to Wellington (after two terms here), we were staggered
but extremely pleased to accept a $5000 donation to the school from Lydia’s
family, to be used for the provision of an electronic smart board for Room303!
ROOMS 1 – 4 MINI BEASTS TRIP to WANGANUI
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COMING EVENTS
June
1:
5:
5:
9:
12:
19:
20:
23-25:
24:
26:
30:
July
3:
20:
August 13:
19:
24-28:
Sept.
8:
10:
24:
25:
School closed. Queen’s Birthday
Mini Beasts Roadshow at school for the day
Electives (Yr 5 – 8) day one
Choir performing in Suzanne Prentice Concert,
Regent Theatre Palmerston North, 7.30pm
Electives day two
Electives day three
William & Friends Concert, school hall 7.30pm
Yr 6 Wellington trip
BOT meeting 7.30pm
Electives day four (Final day)
Students home 12.30pm. Parent / teacher
interviews 1.30 to 8pm
Final day term two
Day one, term three
School Spelling Bee finals
Cluster Spelling Bee finals, Marton
Life Education Trust Mobile Classroom at school
Y 5/6 cluster winter sports tournament, Marton
Y 7/8 cluster winter sports tournament, Marton
School mental maths competition finals
Final day term three
WHAT NOW TV SCREENING …
•
Regards
Stephen Lewis
Principal
We still cannot confirm just when the
Hunterville ‘What Now’ show will be screened
on tv. What Now promises to let us know, once
they themselves know. We’ll let as many people
as possible know when we hear from What Now!
• Good luck to Jaykob, Jack and Suzanna (and
their three mums) who fly to Christchurch for
the SLAM game semi finals on 9/10 June!
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Dan Griffiths Managing Director 06 3562330
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