HUNTLY PRIMARY SCHOOL NEWS  

Wednesday 4th March  Week 9 - Term 2 2020 Term 1 - 8/6/20 - 12/6/20 

School starts  9.00am Finishes 2.30pm 

 

ABSENTEES: TXT Stream Our school operates a system where you will receive a text message if your child is absent from school. Please respond with the reason by text to 3255, you must start your message with the following code: HunPrimary space then your message. We hope this will make communication easier. 

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A note from Whaea Peta Maree: Dear Parents & Caregivers  Welcome to the “new normal” and Level 1 of the COVID-19. It’s been a long journey of time away and online learning but it is awesome to have most of our students back and sitting in our classes, enjoying their class learning and spending time with their peers again. We have really appreciated your support and understanding during this pandemic and have tried to keep you well informed as it’s developed. A huge welcome to our new families and whanau that have recently joined us. Our Junior school numbers continue to grow and the Board of Trustees are very committed to maintaining smaller teacher / student ratios to enable the best learning environment and opportunities. We are opening a new junior room - Kakapo Whanau which will be in the Meeting room, between Room 5 and the staff room. This will be taught by Whaea Bri and 20 of her students from Room 2, plus those that were moved to Room 3 during Level 2. Mrs Robinson will continue to work in Room 2 with 15 students and Whaea Melissa will be teaching while she is doing her Reading Recovery. This is an exciting time for us while we try really hard to keep numbers down. The building / renovations of the Middle school - Rooms 6, 7 & 8 has been delayed by a few weeks although we have already re-housed them in the hall & library.    

Level 1: As you are aware the country has moved into Level 1. We are currently maintaining the procedures that we’ve implemented for level 2: 

● No whanau / parents in the school environment  

● Teachers are out meeting the students and sanitising hands.  

● No breakfast club ● No vans running  

These are getting reviewed as we continue to make progress. Our drinking fountains are now open The vans will definitely be operating in term 3 but it will no longer be a door-to-door service as this is not practical with our high number of users and problematic from a Health & Safety point of view. We will be implementing bus stops for all three vans to arrive at and shuttle back to school. We will communicate these to you over the next few weeks and will probably have a practice run in week 12 for the last week of term, so that we are all sorted for term 3. More information will be sent out as we make a definite plan of times and places.  Attendance;  Please keep letting us know if your child is not coming to school so that we can code the absenteeism correctly.     

 Easter Raffle We will be drawing the Easter Raffle on Wednesday 17th June. If you still have sold tickets at home, please return to the school office so they can be included in the draw. We will not be issuing any more tickets. Thank you to those who donated goods pre-lockdown.  

 School Photos Photolife will be here on 23rd of June to take our class photos. As usual prenamed envelopes will be sent home with your children for prepaying your order.  

LEARNING THROUGH PLAY 

  ROOM 3 ROOM 1 TALENTED ARTISTS 

ROOM 12 School Calendar 10th June  Raffle Draw 

23rd June  School Photos 

23rd June  Board of Trustee meeting 6pm 

3rd July  20th July 

End of Term  Start Term 3 

  Community News: Huntly Squash Club: Registration for the junior programme and new adults/families. When: 20th June 10am - 1pm at Huntly Squash Club, Wright Street. Spot Prizes. Contact: Rose 07-8289620