Hillsborough Primary School

N E W S

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

admin@hillsborough.school.nz 19th September 2018

We would like to say a huge thank you to Stephen Brookbanks for his skill and generosity. Stephen has very kindly made and donated some scooter racks for the school.

New Students

Welcome to Jack Atkins, Rebecca Bahmani, Aqeel Ganief and Zac Kennankeril who have recently

started at Hillsborough Primary School

Rata Poetry Competition Finals

FRIDAY 21st SEPTEMBER

11.00am

We would like to invite you to attend our Poetry

Competition Finals. All the Children in Rata Syndicate

have worked really hard to learn and perform their poems.

Each of the class finalists in the competition will be

performing in the School Hall.

We would love you to join us

School term closes at 3pm on Friday 28th September.

Term four starts

Monday 15th October.

Happy Holidays to everyone!

Congratulations to the following students who received certificates on Friday 14th September at the School Assembly. Eli Eramiha Ardern R8 Showing kindness and consideration to others and always using good manners. Ilma Ismail R5 Consistently working hard and aiming to do her best. Apiran Pirabaharan R9 Always showing kindness to others and for his responsible attitude. Gavin Liu R18 Being a math wizard – cracking a math brainteaser before anyone in Room 18 could. Ka Pai! Maya Ali R3 Making a great effort to use descriptive language in her writing. Jhaeden Magcalas R10 Challenging herself to learn all the letters and the sounds. Janie Lai R4 Being a motivated independent and collaborative student. Well done Janie. Kayur Nathoo R16 Carlos Daniels R14 Being a conscientious and helpful class member. Challenging himself to learn and recite his poem. Millie Bolton R1 An excellent improvement in math’s knowledge. Justin Huang R7 Jack R12 Growing in confidence and skill with his learning. Challenging himself to listen to instructions and for making more Taj Ibnul R2 positive choices. Continuing to have a positive attitude towards his learning. Isla Taylor R17 Writing a great narrative. Sonia Naran R13 Continuing to challenge herself and complete tasks to the best of her ability. Keegan Tran R11 Trying really hard with his reading and for learning his rocket words. Eshaal Salman R15 Challenging herself with her learning and always doing her best. Elma Rajesh R6 – showing great improvement in her handwriting.

Art Calendar Fundraiser

Earlier in the term our children have been busy working on their piece

of artwork for our annual Art Calendar Fundraiser.

Artwork is now available to view in the classroom or digitally on

Seesaw. Order forms have gone home with your children.

These are a great way to display your child’s artwork and make

excellent presents.

This year we have:

Art Calendars

Cards

Diaries

Sketch Pads

Mouse Mats

Samples of these are available in the office for you to view.

Online Orders or manual order forms to office by

FRIDAY 28th SEPTEMBER

(Last day of Term 3)

New shirt pre-orders are now available on the School Uniform Centre website. Orders will be delivered Tuesday 23 October. There are both short sleeve and long sleeve

shirts available.

Click here for orders

Term Events September 19th Rata Scooter training 19th Music school concert In hall 21st Rata poetry competition 23rd Chinese language week 27th School market day 27th BOT meeting 30th Tuvalu Language week

October 7th Fiji Language week 14th Niue language week 17th Travelwise back to school Campaign 22nd Labour day 23rd Zone Kiwisport day

*** SCHOOL UNIFORM PRE-ORDERS ***

PaSifika Shared Lunch

(Tonga)

Malo e lelei.

A few weeks ago our Pasifika students celebrated Tongan Language Week with a

special Shared Lunch and special performances. The children learnt the popular Tongan Hymn - 'Eiki koe ofa a'au' and our girls

learnt a Tongan dance to the song 'Fakafiefia'. We were very fortunate to have Mele Latu perform a beautiful Tongan dance called a Tau'olunga in beautiful traditional

costume. Malo Aupito!

Speech Finals Congratulations to the following students who achieved placings in the School Speech finals.

1st Place: Dalia Manic Milev

Delivered her speech on: Stop Littering

2nd Place: Liezel Good

Delivered her speech on: Why we should be palm oil free.

3rd Place: Danne Kuruthukulangara Delivered his speech on: Social media and it’s influence on teenagers.

Gymnastic Champion of

Champions Day

Well done to the following teams who

competed in the Gymnastics Champion Day

last Thursday 13th September. They

performed amazingly! We are very proud of

the following Hillsborough teams:

Year 3 Girls: Year 3 Boys:

Mia Michael Krish Rawat Kloey Sun Keshi Kanagasabeshan Abby Greer Seth Menzies Fleur Donald Waide Walker

Year 4 Boys: Y5 Boys Individual Alan So Tyler Isobel

Daniel Gladstone Y6 Boys Individual Ishan Prabhu Noah Horgan Caleb Wong

CHESS COMPETITION

Last Wednesday we hosted the Roskill Zone Chess competition. 67 players from 6 schools competed in two divisions. Hillsborough won the Year 4 and Under Division, with first place taken by Daniel Stewart, 2nd= to Hunter Po'e-Tofaeono and Naitik Sharma and 4th to Grayson Po'e-Tofaeono. But in the Year 5/6 Division... Hillsborough also won! 1st place was shared by Hamish Thomson, Connor Stewart and Abraham Chanwong, with Alan So just 1/2 a point behind. Well done to all those who competed. Every game helped the school achieve an outstanding result. Even our weakest player finished with two wins out of six.

HILLSBOROUGH MARKET DAY

Thursday 27th September

11.00am to 12.30pm Please come and join us

All students will have the opportunity to buy and sell products. Students will need on the day between $8.00 - $10.00 in coins for the opportunity to buy products or participate in

activities.

CROSS COUNTRY ZONES

Congratulations to the following students who came in at the top 10 places for the school’s cross country events held on Tuesday 18th September. We are very proud of the whole school team who did brilliantly resulting in us coming 3rd place overall.

Nataliya Faisal Yr 4 girls - 10th place Mikayla Denny Yr 4 girls - 4th place Spencer Kemp Yr 4 boys - 6th place Caleb Wong Yr 4 boys - 7th place Daniel Gladstone Yr 4 boys - 8th place Hamish Thomson Y6 boys - 3rd place Geena Tesema Y5 girls - 9th place Bailey Nagel Y5 boys - 8th place Elliot Hobson Y6 girls - 8th place

The types of products and services for sale at Market Day:

Food stalls – jelly, lemonade, donuts, marshmallows cupcakes, biscuits

Arts and Crafts – slime, stress balls, origami, bag tags, playdough, bracelets,

notebooks

Services – mini movie, hair braiding, photo booth, hair chalk

Games and Plants

OVERALL HILLSBOROUGH PRIMARY CAME 3rd PLACE

*** WALKING SCHOOL BUS NEWS ***

A huge congratulations to all of our Walking School Bus kids and parents for winning a special visit from the Winter Wizard. Your perseverance through the wet and wild winter weather was well worthy of the magical visit. A special thank you must go to the parents who make our 4 Walking School Buses possible. They are Julia Wong, Michelle French, Nici Stirrup, Elizabeth Ryan, Kirsty Good, Andrijana Manic, Karina Wong, Kamlesh Nana, Marc Peretic-Wilson and Sonja Hansen-Knarhoi. If you are wanting your child to walk to school on one of our buses and if you’d like to volunteer to lead a bus please contact Celina Baker cbaker@hillsborough.school.nz

Congratulations to our prizes winners from the lucky draw at our Walking School Bus Milo morning. Mrs Hodgson drew out 3 names: Leila Peric-Wilson won 2 movie tickets, Olivia Lin and Joshua Baker won Stationery and a sports bag.

SCOOTER SAFETY TRAINING

This week Rata syndicate and Room 5 has Scooter Safety Training with Joni and Matt from Auckland Transport.

They were shown how to wear their helmets correctly, how to use their brake

properly and also how to emergency brake. They were also reminded to watch out for those sneaky driveways and to always walk their scooters across the

road.

We are very thankful for the fun and valuable training given by Joni and Matt.

THE FOHPS COMMITEE INVITES YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO: Our Hoyts cinema movie fundraiser to see the pre-release screening of

"WRECK IT RALPH 2" (Not in cinemas until Boxing Day)

SUNDAY 25TH NOVEMBER

12:30pm HOYTS, SYLVIA PARK (MOVIE STARTS 1PM)

Bring your family and friends or come along with your school friends. Limited tickets. Get in Quick!! It’ll be so much fun. Pre-register to secure your tickets NOW. (it will not be allocated

seating) All you need to do is go to: https://goo.gl/forms/att2mL2BsumHfKo32 OR email your

details to fohps@hillsborough.school.nz

NO payments needed until Term 4 - an email will be sent out. Tickets will be sent to your child’s class, closer to time of the event. TICKET PRICES SNACKS/TREATS

Standard Ticket $12 Choc Top Icecream $5*

Lux Tickets $15 Popcorn $5*

(only 44 seats, first in first served) Soft drink $5*

Combo (all 3 items) $12*

*Food MUST be pre-purchased with tickets in Term 4

*Food Vouchers will be issued with tickets,

Please collect your food at the cinema entrance on the day of the event.

SPOT PRIZES!!! – Be seated at 12:45pm for a chance to win a prize.

It will be great to see you all there

(More details to follow in Term 4)

HILLSBOROUGH ZONE RUGBY ZONES

Last Tuesday we sent 3 teams to the Roskill Cluster Rugby Tournament, an Under 50kg team, a Rippa Rugby team and two of our boys competed in the Barbarians team. All of our teams played well and displayed excellent sportsmanship. Thank you to all the parents and Miss S and Miss P that supported on the day and transported children.

Tena koutou. Last week the Maori Whanau celebrated Maori Language Week with a shared lunch and some beautiful performances at our School Assembly. The girls performed a Poi Dance to 'Aue Rona' and the Boys performed the Ka Mate Haka. We are very proud of our tamariki. Tino Pai Whanau!

HILLSBOROUGH MAORI LANGUAGE WEEK

Soccer with Billy Harris Billy will run his soccer classes in term four on Wednesday mornings before school. Great for kids of all ages. Come and try it out. Holiday soccer - Billy's also running an indoor soccer camp in the first week of the holidays from 1-4 October at the ASB Stadium in Kohimarama. It runs from 9am-midday. Contact Billy on 027 2799042 or billyharris2000@hotmail.com.

*** Community News ***

ROSKILL SOUTH KINDERGATEN

Pre-schoolers from age 2years are invited to join the Waiting list at Roskill South Kindergarten Actual starting age is generally after they have turned 3. Hours: 8:30 am to 2:30 pm 1327 Dominion Rd Extension. Queries - Phone 6205706 or email roskillsouth@aka.org.nz. Pop in or submit an application on the AKA website 20 hours ECE funding means no fees for 3 days per week.