Term 4 Week 6 18th November 2016 Achievement Awards

Rūma Tahi (1) Hohepa Excellent karakia reading. From the Principal Katelyn For always being a great friend to others! Alistair Striving to be the best he can be. Brenna For awesome writing work! Katie For positive progress with your reading. Varvara For always being in the right place at the right 0pm Amelia For clever maths thinking.. time! Zoe For progress in reading, you are noticing words Dear Parents/Caregivers Rūma Rua (2) which need to be self-corrected. Kia Ora Koutou, Nga mihi kia koutou Annie For great perseverance when dress making. Chase You are reading fluently and show excellent Olivia For excellent reading. understanding when asked questions Cooper For this week’s friendship award. Te Kete Aronui Everyone is busy preparing for next week’s athletic sports. Weather permitting, the first rotations will be underway by 10.30am next Congratulations to all children who attended marble jar day last Friday. Tuesday morning (22nd November) and the sports will be completed by 12.40. The PTA is offering a fundraising sausage sizzle and Rūma Toru (3) Great behaviour is rewarded with great rewards!!! Harvey For showing confidence and giving everything juicie lunch - parents/supporters are welcome to stay and join us for lunch. Thank you to the parents who kindly supplied some treats for our shared lunch a go! today. If the weather makes it impossible for the athletics to go ahead, the sausage sizzle lunch will still be held. The athletics sports Jai For excellent throwing distance. Eli and whanau, enjoy the move to Raglan. Remember, always STRIVE to be the rd postponement day is the following day - Wednesday 23 at the same time. Look out for up to date information on the school app! Lena For excellent improvement in number knowledge. very best you can be :)

Looking ahead: Rūma Wha (4) Well-being Hauora Week - week 8 COMMUNITY CONSULTATION FEEDBACK Jessica You are able to work out new words in your Bubble-ball Thursday 8th December - end of year celebration 1. Methods of Reporting - More than 80% of respondents have a positive view of both learning conferences and our current Reading by yourself – TINO PAI RAWA! Free-pass day for 15 hard working high-rollers in T.K.A - December 9th progressive\ reports. Uheina You know so many words now in your reading Marble jar shared lunch day - Wednesday 14th December - themed 'Bring your and writing – malie! Wheels Day' 2. Communicating School News - the paper newsletter remains the most preferrednd means of receiving news, the schoolth app is a clear - Cross country running times – Thursday 2 June – PP – Wednesday 8 June Alex You are reading like a SUPERSTAR – great Globe Theatre visit - Thursday 15th (Keep an eye out for further info) second, and then email came in ahead of Facebook. progress Alex! Rūma Rima (5) 3. School donation - 3% of respondents thought the parent donation too little and 73% thought it about right. Te Kete Tangaroa Lily For very creative art work. RACE TIMES: Shama For making some fantastic progress with her reading. How are we responding to this feedback? Koby For improved work appearance. Yu Jet For making some fantastic progress with his reading. Following Note a recentthese stafftimes review from 11:05on reporting are approximate, to parents, we they already may have run some2-3 minutes improvements early inor the late pipeline. depending We are on currently the runners. working Anaru For making some fantastic progress with his reading. Te Kete Pounamu with our StudentBEGIN 11:05Management SystemYear (eTap) 1 girls to update our report template and this will streamline our reporting to parents. From Daniel B For working hard and showing respect by listening and Wairehu, Lexie, Te Ariki using his manners 2017 we will report to you in each term of the year. Elsa, Haeatatanga, Devika For a super week in TKP. 11:10 Year 1 boys Ji For consistently setting high standards. Terms 1 and 3 will be Learning Conferences and Terms 2 and 4 will be a written report. The National Standards result will be Mia, Kaelyn, Brooklyn Jack S For being a supportive and understanding class mate and reported closer to the 40, 80, 120 week anniversary of your child starting school. 11:15 Year 2 girls Te Kete Manawa friend. Isla, Tyler, Jacob STRIVE Award. Miracle For showing courage at the Ross Open Day by asking questions. We will maintain11:20 our weekly Friday Yearnewsletter 2 boys and keep you updated on reminders and events via the school app. If you don’t already Ruby W, Elijah Great reading. have this app, it is easily downloaded from your smartphone app store - Hokowhitu School. 11:25 Year 3 girls Celebrating Learning Sports News The BoT has resolved11:30 to keep the 2017Year parent 3 boys donation at its current level ($160 per annum per child, or $120 for those with a The Earthquake by Lenny Hockey Results community services card, with the maximum being $240 per family per year). How do we spend the parent donation? Everyone hugely Last night there was an amazing earthquake. It was 7.5! "Wow!" I didn't Hokowhitu Huias vs West End 11:35 Year 4 girls feel the earthquake but my family did and my dad said, "Get out of bed We drew 3-3. Fantastic game! First goal of the season was scored by Olivia. values the place of Learning Coaches (we used to call them Teacher Aides) at our school, and your parent donations allow us to have bro!". I said, "What the heck dad. There's nothing happening." The lights Well done! Player of the day was Kodi. more Learning11:40 Coaches than the government’sYear 4 boys operational grant would allow us to have. In other words, we spend your donation on went on and off two times. "Scary!" When I woke up my whole family, was in Hokowhitu Hooligans vs ‘people’ to assist with children’s learning. my room. The reason why they came into my room is because it is the Score was 3-0 to Aokautere. Thanks to all the players who turned up and 11:45 Year 5 girls safest room in the house. Our house is two storied. "So it is were our extra “helpers” – Juan, Baxter, Lenny, Aiden and Mila. DANGEROUS!" Nothing fell down OPEN SESSIONS 11:55 Year 5 boys th Touch Rugby Results We hope many of you will take the opportunity to come to one of our upcoming open sessions. The first is NEXT Thursday 24 Hokowhitu Bombers th Community Notices November 9 - 10am, and the second is 29 November 11.30am - 12.30pm. Everyone is welcome - meet Lin in the staffroom for The Hokowhitu Bombers played well on Friday to have a 6-6 draw and an explanations and directions first. This is an opportunity for you to lookPTA through classes that you may not have had reason to go into Hokowhitu Village Farmers Market impressive 15-2 win! Congratulations. over the year, and/or it could be a chance for you to see your child in action in their current room. This Sunday 20th November 9am-1pm and held every 3rd Sunday of the [Type a quote from the document or the summary of an interesting point. You can position th Indoor Netball Results month (with a bonus market to be held on Sunday 4 December also). For more information, contact Robin 027 283 6853 Hokowhitu Red Ferns SCHOOLthe BANKINGtext box APPLICATIONS anywhere in the document. Use the Drawing Tools tab to change the The Red Ferns had a 0-20 loss this week. Pleaseformatting return completed of applicationsthe pull quoteto the school text office box.] if you wish your child to become a ‘school banker’. We will be sending Intermediate School Hokowhitu Blue Ferns another batch away for processing early next week. Secondhand Uniform – Sale Day - Friday 16 December 2016 in the The Blue Ferns played Summerhill winning 18-1. Player of the day was Jenson.

School Staffroom - 4.00 to 6.00pm. The doors will not be opened before 4.00pm. PTA NEWS New School Uniforms

Juicies are on sale at the athletic sports next week INSTEAD of next Friday. Orders for the sausage sizzle lunch have closed. The School Uniform is available from Gillespies Value House, 769 Main th Planning is underway for our prizegiving and Christmas Carnival in the evening on the 13 December. Last year we were able to offer a Street, . scrumptious range of food for dinner that represented some of the many cultures we are lucky enough to have here at Hokowhitu Open Mon – Fri 9:00am – 5:30pm and Saturday 9:30am – 12:30pm School. Can you help us? Would you like your unique culture represented? Just let one of us in the office know and we will pass on the Physical Education/Sports Uniform The Physical Education Uniform is also available from Gillespies Value good news! House, 769 Main Street, Terrace End. The Year 6 graduation celebration will follow the Carnival that night. School Jacket (Recommended / but optional) The school jacket is available from Academy Apparel Ltd, 306 Broadway Ave, Palmerston North. Open Mon – Fri 9:00am – 5pm. Nga mihi 2017 Manawatu Voices Choir Lin Dixon Applications are now open to voices aged 8-14 year olds. For more Principal information and to apply online, visit www.saturdaymusic.org.nz or email [email protected] TKA – Wearable Arts