Hinuera School News ... TERM 2 Issue 3

1 June 2017

June Friday 2nd Room 5 Assembly 2.30pm Monday 5th Queen’s Birthday—School Closed Friday 9th Kiwanis Assembly 2.30pm School Disco—5.30—7.30 pm Friday 16th Teacher Only Day—School Closed

Winter nights are closing in, so here comes the annual Mr Mac reminder that board games are still a great family learning event! As well as encouraging literacy/numeracy and thinking skills, they are a wonderful way to learn how to be a good winner and/or loser! Make a date for the long weekend this weekend! Ngā mihi nui Dean.

A special Hinuera welcome to… Edward Jeffries Room 2 Lucas Reece-Eriepa Room 8

Matamata Community of Learning

It was lovely last Tuesday to welcome the

four “Across Schools” teachers who have

been appointed to support learning devel-

opments to see Hinuera School in action,

and get a feel for learning in local schools.

They loved seeing how our programmes

run.

Winter Bugs Just a reminder that with many winter

colds and tummy bugs now being about,

please keep children home if they are not

well. In particular, please remember that

we are not allowed to have children back

at school after vomiting bugs until they

have been clear of vomiting for 24 hours.

Many thanks for your support with this.

Cotter Cup Day

A much better weather day for Cotter Cup

Day this year! Well done to all the teams

for their excellent effort and behaviour.

We didn’t have any first places on the day,

but we were very close in several, with

second placings in rugby, netball and hock-

ey. With so many schools involved it isn’t

easy to win, but that just makes it all the

sweeter the times we do! In the meantime

it is great to see our Hinni Kids giving it

everything and representing the school so

well. True Hinni Kid resilience!

Below are a couple of pictures of our rugby lads,

the first obviously before the game given the

pristine nature of their uniforms!

Recent Staff Appointments The Board of Trustees are pleased to an-

nounce that Mrs Deborah Sadler has been

appointed to teach in R5 while Lisa War-

render is completing her study award for

her Masters in Education during terms 3

and 4. Lisa will return to finish off the year

on 27/11/17. We look forward to welcom-

ing Mrs Sadler to the Hinuera teaching

team for this period.

We also want to congratulate Marie

Whaley, who has been appointed to our

Community of Learning “Within School”

role. This means she will work with our

school leadership and staff to lead and co-

ordinate ways we can develop our own

classroom practice, work with our other

local schools to find ways we can be even

better at what we do, and share things

that are working well for us with others.

School Disco On Friday 9th June the PTA are organising

a school disco. Please check the Commu-

nity Notices on the opposite page for all

the details.

Upcoming Assemblies Tomorrow R5 are sharing at our weekly

assembly – 2.30pm. Then next week it is a

Kiwanis Club of Matamata certificate

presentation assembly, Friday 9th June,

2.30pm. All welcome to both. There will

likely be a short assembly on Thursday 15

June, 2.30pm. That is the day before

Teacher Only Day. No class sharing that

week

Dental Clinic Visit

The Mobile Dental Unit will be at Hinuera

School from Monday 19 June. If you would

like a family appointment please contact

the clinic on 888 5202 or phone 0800 825

583. These appointments are held at the

Community Dental Clinic in Matamata.

If you have pre-schoolers/other children at

school a family appointment reinforces the

oral health message as a family unit. Fami-

ly appointments are preferred for parental

support/child wellbeing.

If your child brings forms home saying they

require further treatment an appointment

is needed at the Community Dental Clinic.

Please contact the clinic promptly on 888

5202 or 0800 825 583 to ensure treatment

is completed in a timely manner.

Matamata Dental Team

School Closed A reminder that the school will be closed

Monday 5th June for Queen’s Birthday and

also on Friday 16th June for Field Days Fri-

day. Teachers will all be involved in a Com-

munity of Learning training day at Mata-

mata College on that day. We expect all

children at school on the Wednesday and

Thursday for normal programmes, and ask

that if you are taking children to Field

Days, that you do this on the Friday. Many

thanks for your support with this.

NEiTA Awards 2017

The National Excellence in Teaching

Awards run every second year. Community

members are able to nominate teachers

they believe do an amazing job with their

children, so that will probably be all of

ours! If you would like to nominate any of

our staff you can do this easily at

www.asg.com.au/nz/neita

Student Writing Room 2 students have been talking about autumn. They have created some won-derfully colourful leaf pictures along with some lovely descriptive writing. Here are a few little gems for you to enjoy … My leaf is amazing. It crunches like a crunchie bar. It crawled slowly to the ground like a beautiful little kitty cat. By Evie Collins

I found a brown leaf and it makes a crunchy sound. It flew down like a rocket ship and it felt rough. By Myla de Jong I have a spotty orange leaf. It twirled down to the ground like a ballerina. By Tilly Hopkins My leaf is brown. It makes a loud crunchy sound. It went fast like a motorbike. By Riley Lovett

Room 5 have been recalling their best-ever birthday parties. Sounds like our Hinni kids have had some magical mo-ments to remember ...

On the 26th of December I had the most amaz-ing birthday party ever! It was at home and my mum made the cake. It was an Elsa cake! Mum put on the Elsa song and we played pass the parcel .It was fun! I wore my favourite dress of all. The cake tasted super yummy and I had reddy, pinky, sparkly candles! When I opened my presents my Poppy got me a diary that you can lock with a special key and he bought me a sticker pony. By Honor-May Brewster

In 2016 when I was seven I had the most amazing birthday party. We went to Chip-munks. I took Kyle and Liam. Charlotte took Lucy and Olivia. I loved it because there were awesome guns and slides. I got hit by a ball. I

Community Notices ...

had a rugby birthday cake. We got some sticks and made a goal post. Then we got some dough and put some cocoa in to make a ball. We iced the cake green like grass. Then we had the cake. I got a race car set and a sky ripper from Kyle. That was the greatest birthday ever. By Corey Bell In January I woke up and I was very excited. My mum and dad were already up. I opened all my presents. I thought that was them all but there was another one. It was a bike. It was a stunt bike. It had both brakes and suspension. It was the best birthday ever. By Cameron Muller

Friday Sausage Sizzle Friday sausage sizzles are up and running again. If you have not pre-ordered you can bring your $2 to the office on the day. Helpers for the next few weeks are…. Friday 2 June Marie & Paul Hicks Friday 9 June Adrienne Polaschek & Kim Curran If you can’t make it please arrange a re-placement or phone Vicki 021 525 970

LOST Please can you look out for a pair

of Nike Roshe shoes ..Size 12c. Black with yellow highlights.

These have been mislaid at school over the last 2 weeks.

If your child has inadvertently taken them home could you please

bring them back to the school office and we will return them to

their owner. Many thanks

Wanted to Buy

Mrs Warrender would like to buy some pinecones. If anyone has some could they please get in touch with her at school.

School Disco

The school is holding a disco in the

school hall on

Friday 9th June 5.30—7.30.

Tickets are $5 each with a maxi-

mum of $10 per family.

Ticket purchase includes a drink,

nibbles and fruit.

Tickets will be sold on Tuesday 6th

and Thursday 8th outside Room 3

Dress up in BRIGHT colours.