HUKANUI SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

8 December 2016

Dear Parents/Caregivers SPEECH FINALS NIGHT Nga mihi kia koutou katoa. Congratulations to the following people who have been selected for the Hukanui SCHOOL CLOSING 1 pm LAST DAY Speech Finals. Everyone is welcome to A reminder that school finishes at the earlier this special night which is always enter- time of 1 pm on Friday 16 December. The taining. It is on tonight, Thursday 8 De- office will also close earlier at 1.30 pm. cember, at 6.30 pm in the School Hall. Fi- Please make arrangements for your child be nalists are as follows - Year 6: Thomas Cil- picked up on time, as there will be no su- liers, Lillie Harris, Olivia Lockwood, Jessica pervision of children after this time. Licht, Alex Liu, Sophie Penwarden and Marina Aleksic. Year 5: Ryan Whatley, YEAR 6 OPTIONS FINISHES Seonyeong Lee, Elise Paki, Cooper Next Monday 12 December is the last O.E. Townsend, Ashleigh Smith, Ava Germaine option for 2016 with and Tyler Lee. the final horse Year 4: Cooper Wirth, Daniel Thirtle, riding group. We Esmee Hearfield, Henry Pirihi and Chloe had two groups Housley. of children enjoy Our Year 3 Poem recitation winners are: the challenge of Cameron Bainbridge-Smith, Dylan Lee, yachting this Ben Ward and Isabella Penwarden. w e e k w i t h a whole day on YEAR 6 GRADUATION . Our Year 6 Graduation evening will take They overcame place in our school hall next Wednesday some initial 14 December at 7 pm. The focus of this nerves and had night is on celebrating the achievements a great time. of our graduating Year 6 students. All year 6 children are expected to attend. This is a formal night and is one night that it is not appropriate for pre schoolers or younger Hukanui children to attend. Hukanui children will be invited to watch the performing groups at rehearsals dur- ing the week. There will be no charge for entry this year as we don’t have to hire seats or equipment.

WESTPAC TRIP Our top year 5 and 6 mathematicians made the most of a fantastic opportunity yesterday visiting the Westpac Foreign

Hukanui School HUKANUI VALUES: Pickering Cres Phone: 07 8556037 P.O. Box 12002 www.hukanui.school.nz Respect, Excellence, Co-operation, Chartwell - HAMILTON offi[email protected] Integrity, Individuality.

VISION STATEMENT: “ A LEADING LEARNING ENVIRONMENT MAXIMISING PEOPLE’S POTENTIAL “ HUKANUI SCHOOL Exchange floor in Auckland. They got to Bring a can if you can! see some amazing things. Thanks To Matt Christmas is fast approaching and what a fun Hansen, our Westpac Chartwell Manager, time this can be for families. It is also a time for helping make this happen. where we reflect on all the things that we can be thankful for. To acknowledge that there are some families in our Hamilton community that find this a stressful time, we are collecting cans of food (or other non perishable food items) to donate to the Salvation Army. Cans can be dropped off under the Christmas tree in the school office up until the close of school on Friday 16 December. 2016 STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT RESULTS Let's see if we can spread The Board wish to share the end of year some Christmas cheer to student achievement results from their last others. meeting as results are something the whole Thank you so much for community can celebrate. Writing results your support and best have sustained across the school after rising wishes to you all for the greatly last year. This has been positively holiday season. helped by the focus we have had on spell- ing and the three extra writing support teachers funded by the Board. These strategies will be continued next year be- SPORTS NEWS cause of this success. All children including our 42 English second language learners MINIBALL and special needs children have been in- Tigers 10 Knighton 24. Rosa Braun cluded in all results. A full copy of all results Heat 14 Forest Lake 8. Talia Davidson and Maddy will be able to be viewed in the foyer and Cross online when school returns next year. A Breakers 35 Hamilton West 35. Dylan Stout and summary of results are: Yi Zhi Weng Reading - 93% of our children are at or CRICKET above the national standard for reading. Sixers won vs Hillcrest. Shivansh Pandey Turbos. POD’s Harrison Fenwick, Cameron O’- (92% Maori, 86% Asian). Connor and Hunter McGowan Writing - 82% of our children are at or Blasters 30 Morrinsville 69. Hayden Cook and above the national standard for writing. Ryan Leslie (81% Maori, 80% Asian). Shooters lost to Cambridge. Carl Knox Mathematics - 89% of our children are at or Arrows lost to Hillcrest. Ben Rowland above the national standard for math TOUCH ematics. (85% Maori, 92% Asian). Gold 7 Endeavour 5. Tina Guo and Quinn Hadley White 4 3. Tyson Te Tai Silver 9 Rototuna 7. Jana Hendrikse and Ryan Leslie 2017 YEAR 4-6 CAMPS Bronze 4 St Josephs 3. Billy Finnie and Julian Just a reminder that the fee for the 2017 Year Goble 4 camp is $76 per child and the Year 5 and 6 SPRING NETBALL camp fee is $240 per child. These fees have Hotshots won by Default. POD The Whole Team been heavily subsidised by the Board and can Flames 13 Woodstock 12. Lillie Harris be prepaid now if you wish. Dates for these Flyers 24 1. Paris Dalby camps are on our online calendar. If your sport has finished for the year please return your sports uniform to the office, washed and in a plastic bag with your name and sport played.

VISION STATEMENT: “ A LEADING LEARNING ENVIRONMENT MAXIMISING PEOPLE’S POTENTIAL “ HUKANUI SCHOOL TOP MOVERS IN SPELLING

Congratulations to these students who have made the biggest jumps in spelling progress this year in their class.

Room 1 Jake Park Dylan Stout Hannah Holdsworth Room 2 Lachlan Cluff Tyler Lee Caleb Ellen Room 3 Izaak Redley Daniel Kong Damon Walsh Room 4 Zach Houlihan Guilherme Barizon Abdirahman Noor Room 5 Joshua Hall Kaea Waudby-Teao Kurtis McCarthy Room 6 Kelly Bell Joel Hawkings Jake Walters Room 7 Harriet Cooper Julianna Wang Rico Kira Room 8 Abubakar Noor Richard Chen Callan Fraser Room 9 Letian Deng Hayley Rong Ava Prenter Room 10 Jack Strange Almaaz Jones Katelin Roberts Room 11 Henry Han Olivia Blewman James McDonald Room 12 Brody Sutcliffe Nicholas Kirton Mikaylah Wright Room 13 Zackary Hayhurst Ranveer Singh Rebecca Mitchell Room 14 Finn Cartmill Ryan Chhin Zoe Laing Room 15 Liam Bell Izabella Warren Mateo Keller Room 16 Taine Manihera Holly Anderson Noah van Tongeren Room 17 Gavin Guo Arie Moran Cormac Cluff Room 18 Jermaine Holifield Zach Miller Marisa Feitoza Room 19 Brooklyn Strange Luca Vink Kaizen Harris Room 20 Claudia Crombie Zachary Cooper Shelby Betts Room 21 Renata Jones Ania August Amelia Hamilton Room 22 Janelle Tieku Miller Cook Joe Tubridy Room 24 Toby Bowling Sariah Kenna Isla Ellwood Room 25 Seerat Dhaliwal Osiris Pairama Connor Dinnington Room 26 Maliya Oung Stella Jiang Tommy van Jaarsveld

CHILDREN’S WRITING Hats Today Mrs Ward said “Hats are Dumb”, but I think that she is very wrong! Plus Mrs Ward is always wanting us to wear them so she must be fooling us. There is a heatwave today. Our brains could cook like they were on a frying pan. No Hat! No athletics! Don’t want that do you? Or do you? By Daniel Stokes, Room 21

VISION STATEMENT: “ A LEADING LEARNING ENVIRONMENT MAXIMISING PEOPLE’S POTENTIAL “ HUKANUI SCHOOL

COMMUNITY NOTICES Calendar of Events 8 Dec Speech and Drama classes at Hukanui School. Classes start February - School Speech Finals, - spaces are limited so be in quick to secure your place for next year. 6.30 pm in our Hall For further informaon and enrolments, please contact Gaylene Lon- ergan - [email protected] before 20 December. 9 Dec Wonky Donkey Man, Craig Smith, will be performing at Chartwell - Year 3 & 4 Assembly, 9.15 am Library on Saturday 10 December, 10 am. Free event. Hamilton City Council is keen to hear from school students interested 12 Dec in skateable spaces in Hamilton. We have created an online five- - Year 6 Horse Riding Opon minute survey for skatepark users or parents/guardians to complete - PTA Meeng, 7.30 on behalf of a child. Help us plan for the future of skang in the city by compleng the survey. The survey is open unl 14 December 2016. hps://www.surveymonkey.com/r/skatehamilton 13 Dec Christmas in the Park, Enderley Community Centre, Satur- - Leaving Parents morning day 10 December at 12 pm. Rides, food, kids acvies, stalls, sports, tea, 10.15 am in our staffroom free bbq, free raffles and live entertainment. Santa is vising too! sKids Holiday programme, 19- 21 Dec and Summer Holiday Pro- 14 Dec gramme from 9 January – 3 February at St Peter Chanel School, 5 - Senior Graduaon & Awards Vardon Road, . 8 am - 6 pm Monday to Friday. For informa- evening, 7 - 9 pm in our Hall on email: waikatoenquiries.co.nz Christmas Pantomime Show. The Last Christmas, 16, 17 & 18 De- 15 Dec cember, 7 pm at Acvate Church, 11 Bisley Road. Gold coin donaon - School Reports go home per family. www.acvatechristmas.co.nz Artz on Show School holiday performing workshop. For children aged 16 Dec 5 - 15. Held at Southwell School, 16 - 20 January, 9 am - 4 pm daily. - Last day of School. Finishes www.artzonshow.co.nz or contact Hayley 0800 667 469. early at 1 pm. The school office will close at 1.30 pm.

26/27 Jan - Teacher only days - Our school office will be open 9 am - 3 pm on both days for enrolments.

31 Jan - Term 1 Commences for 2017, 9 am start.

1 Feb - Year 4 Camp helpers meeng, 5.30 - 6.30 pm, Staffroom

3 Feb - PTA Secondhand uniform Kind regards sale in the classrooms in our David Mossop Hukanui Road carpark Tumuaki PRINCIPAL For our full school calendar of events go to our website www.hukanui.school.nz

VISION STATEMENT: “ A LEADING LEARNING ENVIRONMENT MAXIMISING PEOPLE’S POTENTIAL “