Hillsborough Primary School

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

admin@hillsborough.school.nz 28th June 2017

School Notices:

Congratulations to Sherine Chen R7 and Simon Gu Rm 11 for winning last week’s Kids Pita Voucher from Pita Pit.

School Disco

Friday 30th June 6pm – 8pm

$5 per ticket or $10 for a family (Door Sales only from 5.30pm)

DJ Gav will be back. A Parent/Guardian is required for all children Years 0-3. Children must stay inside the designated area, and all children must be picked up at the door by 8pm).

This will be a great night for the children

First Choice in the Hillsborough Community

Principal’s Note:

Dear Parents and Caregivers

As we draw closer to the end of term next week I would like to thank all the teachers and support staff for all their hard work over this term.

It has been a busy term with lots of fantastic learning taking place throughout the school.

I would like to add my thanks to the children for all their hard work and know that they will be looking forward to a well earned break.

A special thanks also to the parents and caregivers for all the support you give to your children and to us as a school.

This will be the last newsletter for this term, so have an enjoyable and safe time over the holiday break and we look forward to seeing you all again at the beginning of term 3.

Many thanks

Mark Lewington Principal

Hamburgers $4.50 Sausage Sizzle $2.00 Potato Chips $1.50 Water Bottles $1.50 Juice Boxes $2.00 Sparkling Juice $2.00 Frooze Balls $2.50 Magnums $2.50 Ice Cream tubs $1.50

Wig Wednesday

Wig Wednesday was enjoyed by many students and staff last Wednesday 21st June.

The colours and designs certainly brightened up the school that day. Altogether we

raised $530.00 to be donated to Kids with Cancer Association.

Well done Hillsborough Primary!

Congratulations to the following students who received certificates on 9th June 2017

at the School Assembly.

Kalin Liu R17 Demonstrating great perserverance and problem solving skills. Joshua Vossen-Chong R16 Consistently working hard to present his best work. Shiv Patel R15 Working hard during writing and writing some great stories. Prisha Wadhera R11 Being an enthusiastic learner in Room 11. Connor Naidoo R10 Reading his first story all by himself. Kei te Pai! Ava Bennett R3 Having a positive attitude towards learning and always completing her work to a high standard. Shalini Rawat R5 Being a motivated learner and working hard in Daily 5. Letizia Simmons R6 Her progress and enthusiasm in writing. Xavier Nakatsuji R7 His passion to know and understand new words. Serena Mathew R8 Her positive attitude in the class. Anastasia Mouravleva R18 Dylan Naran R14 Working hard in maths. Showing kindness in the classroom to support Learning in Rm 14. Rameen Faisal R12 Giving good instructins to a buddy Rushni De Silva R1 Aiming high and challenging herself. Henry Lai R Sharing his ideas and listening to others in his groups ‘Light’ inquiry. Robin Ding R9 His positive and enthusiastic attitudes towards everything. Khushi Pahuja R4 Making wonderful contributions to our classroom discussions.

Hillsborough Primary Spell-A-Thon Spell-a-thon is your chance to get involved. Every student at Hillsborough Primary will be given a personal

goal to work on their Spelling for the Spell-A-Thon on Wednesday the 26th of July. The spelling list will come

home with the students with a sponsorship form. They will get to practice their list of words over the next 2

weeks and the school holidays and will be tested on the first week back. We have awesome prizes for the top

fundraisers of each syndicate and for the top fundraising class of each syndicate as below:

Top fundraisers for Kauri and Rata will receive a $100 gift voucher

Koru will receive a $50 movie voucher and a family pass to Stardome.

Top fundraising classes from each syndicate will receive a pizza lunch.

Chess competition Last Monday our top 10 chess players took on the top Auckland Primary Schools. The competition was very fierce and we moved from 2nd to 5th place over the first six rounds with only fractions of points separating the contending schools, however perseverance and careful play saw us take first place at the end of the final game in the final round, defeating Kaurilands School and hosts Maungawhau School by 1/2 a point. Every game counted at every stage.

Congratulations to

Kevin Dai, Abraham Chanwong, Julius Hall, Rocco Gough, Daniel Stuart, Chantelle Vossen-Chong, Sreehari Muralidaran, Alan So and Khushi Pahuja.

An outstanding performance by Adam Ali - the only player to win all seven games and first place individual.

This Friday is the Auckland Girls' Chess Championship. We wish them all

the best

Hockey Zones

Congratulations to our Zone Hockey Team who came FIRST on Tuesday at the

Mt Roskill Cluster competition. They won 5 games and drew 1.

Well done to the team for their outstanding performance. They showed

perseverance, teamwork and excellent sportsmanship.

Mrs Sukha was a very proud coach on the day!

Term Events

June 29th Gymnastics Competition 29th Rata School Trip – Akld Live 29th BOT Meeting 30th Girls Chess Competiton

July 4th Waikowhai Intermediate Orientation morning 7th Reports go home 7th End of Term 2 24th Term 3 starts

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